I haven't met a Protestant who doesn't celebrate Christmas. What are you, a JW?
” haven’t met a Protestant who doesn’t celebrate Christmas. What are you, a JW?”
Go ahead and accuse me of things like “mocking” (which I have not done) but I will explain without cnnodescending (which you also accuse me of) the difference between Protestant and Christian.
The first century Christians were sold out to Jesus Christ whom they knew, after his resurrection, by the spoken words of eyewitnesses to His glory, and by epistles written by these witnesses.
As the Cgristian Church became legal in Rome, the pagans flocked to it, bringing their statues, prayer beads and tons of other pagan stuff with them.
The Christians going by The Word Of God (which you call “Sola Scriptura”) were horrified, and so they left.
They subsequently hid in the hills and wherever the Popes legions couldn’t find them, and continued in The Word. Meanwhile the Catholic Church got more and more corrupt, adding to its bulls and dictums century by century, until, when John the Revelator saw her, he was aghast at the church without spot or wrinkle, painted up like a whore. And whore she was, because she was in bed with every king who could something for her (like slaughter Christians).
The Christians, meanwhile got on as best they could, some exeedingly well and in large numbers, until the Pope’s troops caught them and slaughtered men, women and children without mercy, and certainly without “Christian charity”.
These hill people of the hidden church survived to nouirsh and advise the Reformation, which begat “Protestants” or protestors against the Papal abuses.
You might think the Catholic Church is different today. It’s lying low. All the bulls and bloody edicts are in full force, largely written in the Council of Trent proceedings, which your browser can easily find on the ‘net.
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” haven’t met a Protestant who doesn’t celebrate Christmas. What are you, a JW?”
Go ahead and accuse me of things like “mocking” (which I have not done) but I will explain without condescending (which you also accuse me of) the difference between Protestant and Christian.
The first century Christians were sold out to Jesus Christ whom they knew, after his resurrection, by the spoken words of eyewitnesses to His glory, and by epistles written by these witnesses.
As the Christian Church became legal in Rome, the pagans flocked to it, bringing their statues, prayer beads and tons of other pagan stuff with them.
The Christians going by The Word Of God (which you call “Sola Scriptura”) were horrified, and so they left.
They subsequently hid in the hills and wherever the Popes legions couldn’t find them, and continued in The Word. Meanwhile the Catholic Church got more and more corrupt, adding to its bulls and dictums century by century, until, when John the Revelator saw her, he was aghast at the church without spot or wrinkle, painted up like a whore. And whore she was, because she was in bed with every king who could something for her (like slaughter Christians).
The Christians, meanwhile got on as best they could, some exceedingly well and in large numbers, until the Pope’s troops caught them and slaughtered men, women and children without mercy, and certainly without “Christian charity”.
These hill people of the hidden church survived to nourish and advise the Reformation, which begat “Protestants” or protestors against the Papal abuses.
You might think the Catholic Church is different today. It’s lying low. All the bulls and bloody edicts are in full force, largely written in the Council of Trent proceedings, which your browser can easily find on the ‘net.