The Holy Spirit began to awaken the Church during the Reformation.   He used men with a Love Of The Truth to study the Scriptures and revealed to them that the Gospel is about how God has provided Grace Through Faith as the means for men to be Saved.   

What happened next was some of Satan`s finest work - he turned Christians against each other.   

And I am not just talking about Catholics against Protestants and Protestants against Catholics.   

He turned Protestants against Protestants.   How did he do this?   

The same way the Holy Spirit did - with men.   And what is most amazing is that he used the SAME men.   

Yes, those men who received Revelation and Boldly broke with Catholicism under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit in short order gave themselves over to Pride.   

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Holy Spirit Father, but is of the world. 1Jn 2:16 Man is a spirit with a soul navigating in a body.      The body is the vehicle by which man navigates and it is the sensory mechanism by which the man experiences the Physical Realm.      The soul is the mind, will and emotions of the man by which he is able to process the inputs from his body about the Physical Realm.     It is that which imagines, opines, and orders the body to move and to speak.      The spirit is the essence of the man involving his consciousness and his core value system and nature.      Because of Original Sin the spirit of man died, leaving his soul and body to determine his life.     The soul of man readily gives in to the body of man because his spirit is dead.     As a result, man in his natural state is Carnal Minded dominated by    ➛ lust of the flesh    ➛ lust of the eye    ➛ Pride Of Life.      For this reason Christ Jesus came to cleanse us of the dead spirit and replace it with a New Spirit by which we could not only know Him but fellowship with Him.      Having this New Spirit we have an authority over our soul to shape it to the Mind Of Christ so that we no longer have a soul/mind dominated by our body, but a soul that is Spiritual Minded.

Now, in their defense these great men of the Reformation had no experience other than the heavy-handed, dogmatic, burn-at-the-stake, stranglehold of Catholicism

So, it was `natural` for them to emulate the Catholic church in indoctrinating their followers to see non-followers as Heretics.   

When I say `natural` I mean Carnal - not Spiritual.   

And so, we ended up with Denominations - the product of Ignorance and Pride.   

This is a prime example of how Satan used the Pride of men to Pervert the purpose of the Holy Spirit.   

What is the purpose of the Holy Spirit?   

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of the Holy Spirit, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Eph 4:13 The Unity Of The Faith is necessary for us to experience the Unity Of The Spirit.      Knowledge Of The Son is knowing who Jesus is.      We are perfect in the New Spirit but we are not perfect in our souls.     That perfection comes through the ministry of the Holy Spirit by the Five Fold Ministry.      The objective being that we come to grasp the Measure Of The Stature of our Lord and begin manifesting the Fulness Of Christ.

To make it perfectly clear:
Unity is Good
Denominationalism is Evil.   

Here we are 400 years later having learned nothing from the Holy Spirit about Unity.   As a result the Church is Weak and Satan has placed his minions at the top of the Seven Mountains of Influence.   

Does is really matter whether we sprinkle or dunk?   
Does it really matter whether we sleep or wake when we pass away?   
Does it really matter how we interpret Revelation?   
Does it really matter whether we Worship Physically with Emotions or not?   
Does it really matter whether we observe Saturday or Sunday as the Sabbath?   

I could go on pointing out issues that Divide us into Denominations but the answer will always be NO!   they are not justified by the Holy Spirit - only by men.   

Such men need to give up control of `their people` and let the Holy Spirit Unify the Church.   A unified Church will storm the Gates Of Hell.   

If you take the intersection of all declarations of Faith from non-cult Denominations you will find that Christ Jesus the Son Of God is Saviour and Lord.   

And that is what Jesus said His Church would be built upon.   

And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living Holy Spirit. Mat 16:16 Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit.     Jesus is the Son of the Holy Spirit.     the Lord is just the generic name for deity.     We should cease using the term the Lord and make a point of using the name of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, which is Jesus.     the Lord the Holy Spirit wants to be called by the name, Jesus, whom He declared to be His Son.     Mat 3:17

And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Mat 16:18 The rock is the Testimony Of Jesus Christ.     It is what saves us and enables us to overcome.     Rev 12:11 The church is the Body Of Christ made up of people with the Testimony Of Jesus Christ.      The Gates Of Hell are those things which keep people in bondage Joh 8:36 Mat 10:8 The Gates Of Hell will not withstand the church when the church wields the Testimony Of Jesus Christ.