 Therefore, although these groups believe that errors can and have come into the church, they deny that there has ever been a time when the truth was entirely lost.The Historicist biblical interpretation was the viewpoint of most major Protestant Reformers, beginning with the accusations of Martin Luther.Refuting these claims was accordingly a major objective of the Counter-Reformation, both in the Church's initial response to Luther and especially in the aftermath of the Council of Trent.