I thought that's what you had been telling us - that Protestants agree in core belief. But from this statement of yours I guess you are saying they don't. So what Protestant "unity" are you talking about if it is not in belief?
Tell you what ... if the differences in Protestant belief are too much for you ... simply consider such as a point in disagreement in the Nicene Creed (though Protestants don't).
There is still the remainder of those creeds (the Apostolic and Nicene) that Protestants agree upon.
Correction to post #138
I thought that's what you had been telling us - that Protestants agree in core belief. But from this statement of yours I guess you are saying they don't. So what Protestant "unity" are you talking about if it is not in belief?
Tell you what ... if the differences in Protestant belief regarding baptism are too much for you ... simply consider such as a point in disagreement in the Nicene Creed (though Protestants don't).
There is still the remainder of those creeds (the Apostolic and Nicene) that Protestants agree upon.
Now that you've determined it is not important to Protestants what the words in the creeds actually mean, in order to establish unity, then you really aren't just talking about Protestant unity. The Catholic and Orthodox churches believe the creeds, too, even though we think they mean something different from you. Therefore, the unity you speak of is meaningless to distinguish Protestantism from Catholicism and Orthodoxy.