A Brief Introduction to the Formation of Protestant Denominations

After much study, I have compiled this work as an examination of how Protestant denominations determine dogma and doctrine. Where did the rather interesting ideas of absolute predestination (God chooses who goes to heaven and who goes to hell) or Dispensationalism (parts of the Bible are on valid at certain dispensations, or times) come from?

At first, one starts with the Catholic Church, it being the only Church from which to start. A reformer examines the Church and chooses that which does not belong. He picks out purgatory, the True Presence, and the Sacrament of Penance. He now has a Christian dogma with a couple very large holes in it, something that is not very presentable. So he shakes it around a little and the dogma settles. As it does, it of course looses its former shape and many given truths are either lost or no longer fit into the sheme and are thus disposed of.

Of course, this process is repeated with the reformers of the new church, and so on, each picking out what they don't like, shaking the truth, and scrying what settles. Occasionally, truths lost in a prior settling are rediscovered and reinserted, but someone later inevitable removes them again, creating a vicious cycle of re-creation, the invention of the thousand denominations, all born out a little settling of the Truth.