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To: daniel1212
It includes any who basically do as i described, from Calvary chapels to most SBC and Reformed to many holiness Pentecostals. But Catholic does not work well.
    The 1500 Year Gap
  1. Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, was founded by Chuck Smith in 1965. In 1968 he split from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Santa Ana, California. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, commonly referred to as the Foursquare Church, is a Protestant evangelical Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1923 by preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. As of 2000, it had a worldwide membership of over 8,000,000, with almost 60,000 churches in 144 countries. In 2006, membership in the United States was 353,995 in 1,875 churches.[1] While congregations are concentrated along the West Coast, the denomination is well distributed across the United States.[2] The states with the highest membership rates are Oregon, Hawaii, Montana, Washington, and California.[2] The church maintains its headquarters in Los Angeles, California.
  2. The Reformation dates to the Sixteenth Century, with various denominations, sects, and branches.

215 posted on 07/30/2015 8:03:30 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
You ignored or could not comprehend post 212

It remains that what you failed to answer is your premise"that unless one cannot show formal descent from the historical magisterium but dissents from it, then such necessarily cannot have validity? And that being the historical instruments and stewards of Divine revelation (oral and written) means that such is that assuredly infallible magisterium. Thus any who knowingly dissent from the latter must be in rebellion to God."

Since that must be your argument, you might as well make that clear.

219 posted on 07/30/2015 3:51:13 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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