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To: k2blader

Yeah? Do you believe in the Baptism? How about Faith Healing? How about Name it and Claim it? Protestants have their own mystical faith traditions. Why knock somebody elses?


53 posted on 02/28/2005 3:30:54 PM PST by johnb838 (Need some wood?)
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To: johnb838
Protestants have their own mystical faith traditions. Why knock somebody elses?

The Protestant mystical traditions you reference are relatively recent traditions, mainly among Pentecostals. They are not universal to all Protestants, and among many Protestants are just as controversial as this so-called Catholic mysticism.

Protestants, generally, are willing consider whatever can be supported by scripture.

58 posted on 02/28/2005 3:37:35 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: johnb838

"How about Faith Healing? How about Name it and Claim it? Protestants have their own mystical faith traditions."

Those are not genuine Protestants, but aberrations and heresies just as Rome has their own subversives that are not representative of the Church's teaching. Besides, many within the charismatic extremes (and I am a Classical Pentecostal and am not throwing stones) of evangelicalism receive tacit support and encouragement from Rome.


103 posted on 02/28/2005 10:30:13 PM PST by streetpreacher (There will be no Trolls in heaven.)
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To: johnb838

The baptism? You mean Jesus' baptism? That's in the Bible.

Faith healing? Surely you have read what Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17:20 NIV)

Name it and claim it? I have no idea what that is.

And believe me, I don't doubt Protestants somewhere have "mystical faith traditions" as well. But if it can't be backed up biblically, of course it should be rejected: "Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1 NIV)


112 posted on 02/28/2005 10:51:34 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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