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This is likely to be my last post on this forum. It was prompted by another thread asking " what is the hardest question about Christianity" but I did not want to hijack that thread, and this topic deserves its own.
The hardest question for me, is also the reason I came to this forum - and I have asked it a dozen different times, in a dozen different ways.
If There was any merit to Protestant or reformation theology, why can Protestants not agree on a single piece of material doctrine? Why are there many different theologies of salvation, Eucharist, baptism, clergy or not, liturgy or not, predestination, and a myriad of other issues like prolife or pro choice, contraception or not... The list is endless and there are as many combinations of those, seemingly as those expounding the views, resulting in denominations numbering at least 5 digits, tens of thousands. You seemingly cannot even agree what action it is that defines when you are saved.
Since most of these doctrines are mutually exclusive statistically very few if any are preaching the truth , the rest all false teachers.
Can you all really choose what you believe, and still have any credibility left as holding true doctrine?How can a house so divided stand? Indeed is it actually standing?
The only thing you seem all to agree on is anti RCC, and I suspect that is more to give a joint identity, because of differences on everything else, but like any identity built on a negative it is phony agreement, and cannot last
That is what I felt as a Protestant, also what I felt later as an evangelical, and the bickering is done with such very bad grace
I came here hoping to find credible alternatives to the verses that define Catholicism. I leave none the wiser, not even feeling the warmth of evangelical Christianity and that is sad.
My thought is you should get together and decide what you stand for, because at present I see no agreement on anything except the the things RCC stands for as well, as seen in the nicene creed.
So are all of you false teachers, or just most of you? Will the real Christians please stand up?
The hardest question for me, is also the reason I came to this forum - and I have asked it a dozen different times, in a dozen different ways.
If There was any merit to Protestant or reformation theology, why can Protestants not agree on a single piece of material doctrine? Why are there many different theologies of salvation, Eucharist, baptism, clergy or not, liturgy or not, predestination, and a myriad of other issues like prolife or pro choice, contraception or not... The list is endless and there are as many combinations of those, seemingly as those expounding the views, resulting in denominations numbering at least 5 digits, tens of thousands. You seemingly cannot even agree what action it is that defines when you are saved.
Since most of these doctrines are mutually exclusive statistically very few if any are preaching the truth , the rest all false teachers.
Can you all really choose what you believe, and still have any credibility left as holding true doctrine?How can a house so divided stand? Indeed is it actually standing?
The only thing you seem all to agree on is anti RCC, and I suspect that is more to give a joint identity, because of differences on everything else, but like any identity built on a negative it is phony agreement, and cannot last
That is what I felt as a Protestant, also what I felt later as an evangelical, and the bickering is done with such very bad grace
I came here hoping to find credible alternatives to the verses that define Catholicism. I leave none the wiser, not even feeling the warmth of evangelical Christianity and that is sad.
My thought is you should get together and decide what you stand for, because at present I see no agreement on anything except the the things RCC stands for as well, as seen in the nicene creed.
So are all of you false teachers, or just most of you? Will the real Christians please stand up?