How Did Zwingli Reformed The Swiss Church

1.) Throughout the 16th century Huldrych Zwingli founded and reformed the Swiss Church. He was born on 1 January 1483. Zwingli reformed the Swiss Church by teaching what Martin Luther thought to the church in Germany several years before. In the beginning of forming the Swiss Reformed Church, un- Biblical challenges faced them. The Swiss Reformed Church faced sensuality, which caused challenges within the church (Shelton). This sensuality that spread throughout the church caused great enjoyment and delight to the people within it. Although on the surface this issue seemed to be a good thing, the delight and pleasure that the people were getting was actually from promiscuity and immoral actions (Shelton). Zwingli sought out to end this within
“That to set up picturesand to adore them is also contrary to scripture, and that images and pictures ought to be destroyed where there is dangerin giving the adoration.” (Zwingli) In this quote from Zwingli’s teachings to the Swiss Chruch, he was addressing their issues with pornography. Zwingli also taught of the importance of Baptism, which was becoming increasingly uncommon for children in the Swiss Church. “The children of Christians are no less sons of God than the parents, just as in the Old Testament. Hence, since they are the sond of God who will forbid this baptism?”(Zwingli) Other practices that were considered as un-Biblical were also issues that needed to be reformed to in the Swiss Church. Upon the coming of the reformation of the Swiss Church, public amusements such as dancing had begun to be more widely tolerated in the Catholic churches. The morals and behaviors of the people of the Swiss Church living in the region were more strictly
One issue that they faced that was clearly unbiblical was the issue of promiscuously. “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexualy, sins against their own body.”(1Corinthians 6:18 NIV) The people in the church, accoriding to this verse, were sinning against their own bodies, which clearly violated the Bible’s teachings, making their joy of sensuality clearly unbiblical. “Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” (2 Timothy 2:22 NIV) Another issue that the church faced, however, was their issue of dancing. In this time, dancing was often looked dpown upon and considered a sin. This is an issue that today could be a matter of interpretation. The Bible does not directly say that dacing is wrong, it actually says in many places that we should praise the Lord through singing and dacing. The type of dancing that was being practiced in the chruchwas not this type of dancing, which is why it was being considered a sin. Matthew 18:6 explains that any action that could cause another person to stumble is a sin. Dancing could easily cause another person of the opposite gender to stumble and could lead to the obviously