In other words, they acknowledge their dissent and disobedience from Church teaching. This is different from claiming, as you do, that there is no Church teaching that is knowable.
Contrast that with the Protestant, who lives and dies by his own reading of Scripture. Barring insanity, there is no possiblity of dissent from your own internal authority. There is also no acknowledged doctrinal unity, beyond bromides.
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Contrast that with the Protestant, who lives and dies by his own reading of Scripture. Barring insanity, there is no possiblity of dissent from your own internal authority. There is also no acknowledged doctrinal unity, beyond bromides.
Of course there is.
For Protestants, those who do not accept core essential scriptural belief exclude themselves from scripturally-based Christianity.
For instance, an individual who concludes from his/her scriptural study that Jesus' only distinguishing quality was that he was a great moral teacher would not be considered to be Christian, let alone Protestant.
The question of whether Protestants are united in belief as to the Apostles' and Nicene creeds is, at this moment, being surveyed.
We're currently holding this discussion on another thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1108870/posts?page=42
Contrast that with the Protestant, who lives and dies by his own reading of Scripture. Barring insanity, there is no possiblity of dissent from your own internal authority. There is also no acknowledged doctrinal unity, beyond bromides.
Names?