But you see God doesn't need an origin -- he's above Creation. And therefore, the rules of Creation do not apply, much less than the rules I make for the world of a video game apply to me -- the Creator of that world.
And as for Protestantism -- to me it was a movement to restore what the Reformers felt were the ORIGINAL teachings of the Church as we find in the writings of the Apostles.
I would also say that salvation being up to the individual is a selfish thing if you yourself knew the keys to salvation.
But you know -- we can go around and around in our arguments. Since I have some work to do that doesn't involve religion, I'm going to leave with this humorous image:
But you see God doesn't need an origin... Thanks for posting that!
You see, this is the equivalent stumbling block for Theists, as is the one that stumps Atheists: What is our origin?
Theists merely created this imaginary idol of God so that they can give a stop-gap filler of an answer to the riddle, albeit the wrong one.