To: Vicomte13
Furthermore, I would consider the term "protestant" to be so overstretched as to have no meaning at all anymore.
Some sects like the Anglican were purely political while the Lutheran and Calvin and Presbyterian and Methodist were dogmatic differences -- note my usage of the past tense as I consider these organisations mostly dead. The political and anti-corruption reasons put forth by Luther did have an effect on the Church and DID cleanse the church of some corruption -- thanks mainly to the counter-reformation by the Jesuits.
Baptists and other pentecostal groups seem quite true, but I do not know their dogma or what they teach
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. I do not consider Christians
Oriental Churchs such as the Assyrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, I'm still wondering about their validity and won't venture an opinion on something I'm not sure about
138 posted on
10/03/2004 9:32:12 AM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Cronos
Oriental Churches were offshoots from the one true Church - what happened is as ecumenical councils were held they did not agree with them and thus fell away from the Church. They would not be as Protestants who created their dogma out of whole cloth anew.
140 posted on
10/03/2004 9:47:02 AM PDT by
Destro
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