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To: Albion Wilde

The UMC is not “99” per cent of Protestantism was my original issue!


29 posted on 06/13/2015 10:19:41 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (No white, no black,no slave or free,just washed in the red that Messiah bled!)
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To: mdmathis6
The UMC is not “99” per cent of Protestantism was my original issue!

I think the term "Protestantism" is the issue, since it may be widely interpreted to mean any church that is not expressly Catholic or Orthodox, or narrowly interpreted to mean the 20th-century mainstream Protestant churches, namely Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran, and some of the smaller sects that merged with them (such as Evangelical United Brethren, which merged with Methodist Episcopal to form the UMC). Those old-time "mainstream" churches have gone down the slippery slope with feminism and homosexuality.

"Protestant" has old-time associations with "protesting" Catholicism. Many of the later-forming "evangelical" or "pentacostal" denominations in the U.S., as well as the SBC, are striving to remain Biblically traditional; although many of them also have corruptions of the Word or what I would call insufficient scholarship of the intentions of the Apostles and the early church.

31 posted on 06/13/2015 10:34:21 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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