[TomSmedley]

What difference does that make? What does a Protestant base his faith on? His own interpretation of the Scriptures. Whether he is an AOG or a Baptist, you are relying on yourself to figure out what God wants ans what He said, rather then listening to what HE said.

You omit the Reformed part of the family. Calvinists have always had a reverence for brain sweat, for the calling of the Christian scholar. When I backed reluctantly into the Calvinist camp, it was because of the array of real-world answers available therein. Like Catholics, Calvinists believe that God's Kingdom is bigger than the zone between our ears. That God's Kingdom is worth the best thinking, reading, and writing, that we can bring to the subject.

[jo kus]

Calvinists have always had a reverence for brain sweat, for the calling of the Christian scholar.

That is probably quite true. However, it still relies on the self and one's own rationale. Protestantism has taken the mystery out of the faith - everything must be rationalized and reasoned - otherwise, it isn't so. At least that is the feeling I get when discussing with Protestants. Don't get me wrong, there are a number of fine Protestant Christians, here on this forum, many who appear much more to be walking with Christ than some Catholics that I know. But the point is the same.

Brother in Christ