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How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? [vanity]

Posted on 11/13/2014 6:49:41 PM PST by Heart-Rest

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To: Heart-Rest

Excellent thread with Excellent research!


61 posted on 11/13/2014 8:44:51 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: freedumb2003; IncPen; null and void
That story is humorous (all three versions of it)!

From a Catholic viewpoint, I would see it more as just a matter of trying to tell the truth (as best you understand it), both "in season and out of season", to anyone who will listen.

This contentious thread may not be the right place or time to ask this, but "freedumb2003", do you mind my asking how your wife is doing?

62 posted on 11/13/2014 8:46:24 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Salvation

and that Catholic Church should divest itself of the biggest porn publisher in Germany too.

Don’t know why the Roman Catholic Church wants to sell porn.


63 posted on 11/13/2014 8:46:39 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Heart-Rest

I pray to Jesus.

Not to Mary, Luke, Mathew, Josephus, Harold or any of the other 10,000 “saints” you guys think are needed to do God’s job for him.


64 posted on 11/13/2014 8:48:00 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Catholics pray TO Jesus.

We ask Mary and the Saints to pray FOR US.


65 posted on 11/13/2014 8:49:38 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Boogieman
"Of course, that is not true for the vast majority of Protestant churches, despite Catholic confusion over the matter. In fact, the Catholic church’s insistence on a strict adherence to its hierarchy’s doctrinal interpretation is closer to the practice of the cults than the mainline Protestant churches are."

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No, what the Church does today in regard to doctrines on "faith and morals" is exactly what the Apostle Paul did too, over and over again.

If you took away Paul's exhortations in his epistles to the Church in various locations to get back to strictly adhering to the Church's (the Holy Spirit's) teachings on faith and morals, you would lose most of the New Testament.

66 posted on 11/13/2014 8:57:46 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Heart-Rest

Paul was basically saying “Why ask me? Read it for yourself”

almost “protestant” that way


67 posted on 11/13/2014 8:59:09 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Salvation
Thanks.

My initial posts for this thread really just did two things -- posted pictures of some Protestant denomination founders, and tell the simple truth that there are many, many Protestant denominations.

Some people here either don't like the pictures, or they don't like the truth.

68 posted on 11/13/2014 9:04:19 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Heart-Rest

Probably a little of both.


70 posted on 11/13/2014 9:06:21 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Heart-Rest

Jesus told the truth — and the Pharisees hated him.

Hmmmm.


71 posted on 11/13/2014 9:06:54 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Heart-Rest

“He asked Saul, “Saul, why do you persecute Me?””

He also said to “beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing”.

And, “by their fruit shall ye know them.”


72 posted on 11/13/2014 9:07:08 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Salvation

dead people who have no power, do you also pray to your ancestors and hold séances at cemeteries?


75 posted on 11/13/2014 9:18:29 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Boogieman; NKP_Vet; vladimir998
"Now, what is interesting to me about this line of attack is how self-contradictory it is with other anti-protestant attack points. After all, we are constantly told that a weakness of protestantism is “everyone is allowed to personally interpret scripture”, and that this is bad because it causes us to have no uniformity of belief. It simply can’t be true that protestants are all freely interpreting Scripture on a whim, while we are also slavishly following the interpretations of some dead guy or another at the same time. I wish the anti-protestant brigade would clear up these conflicts among themselves, so I wouldn’t have to point them out for them."

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(Just wanted to respond to this point too.)

There is no conflict.

All Calvinists pretty much rigidly adhere to Calvin's teachings, while all Methodists (for example), or Adventists, do not.    All Seventh Day Adventists, for example, pretty much adhere to the teachings of Ellen G. White (which are directly opposed to Calvinism), as Adventists -- and Methodists -- believe one can lose one's salvation.

When you have thousands of different denominations, they can all be rigidly adhering to their own beliefs, while those beliefs widely diverge between the different denominations.

There is no conflict with that.

When someone starts interpreting everything for themselves, and believe they understand it better than the founder of their denomination, they go off and start another denomination.    That's why there are so many of them.

(Pinging a couple folks who may be able to explain that a bit more clearly than I have, if they have the time.)

76 posted on 11/13/2014 9:23:48 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Heart-Rest

Smug and divisive.


77 posted on 11/13/2014 9:29:57 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Salvation
Excellent thread with Excellent research!

Bwahahahaha!!
The group that trolls together rolls together, eh?

78 posted on 11/13/2014 9:37:02 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Salvation
We ask Mary and the Saints to pray FOR US.

Because God won't listen to you? Is God deaf? What was Jesus' example? What dead person did he ask to pray for Him?

79 posted on 11/13/2014 9:40:22 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: CynicalBear

“That is the One True Church, that is the church founded by Jesus Christ.”

The stupiest statement of the year. Give that man a cigar.


80 posted on 11/13/2014 9:42:50 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("PRO FIDE, PRO UTILITATE HOMINUM")
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