[SoothingDave]

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.

What if one's reading of Scripture causes him to question whether Jesus was divine or not? Would such a person not be a "Christian" or "Protestant" in your estimation?

SD

[Quester]

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.

What if one's reading of Scripture causes him to question whether Jesus was divine or not? Would such a person not be a "Christian" or "Protestant" in your estimation?

All other things being equal, I could believe them to be Christian, ... though not Protestant (they would likely reject Protestantism, themselves, as well).

[OLD REGGIE]

What if one's reading of Scripture causes him to question whether Jesus was divine or not? Would such a person not be a "Christian" or "Protestant" in your estimation?

What if one were baptized as a Catholic, and was for a period of time a practicing Catholic, and his reading of Scripture caused him to abandon Catholicism, to deny the Real Presence, Immaculate Conception. Bodily Assumption, Papal Infallibility, etc. Would this person be a "Catholic" in your estimation?