[Sam the Sham]

What a wonderful article !

If Sola Scriptura were valid, why are there so many Protestant sects ? Was the Holy Spirit napping until John Wesley or Charles Taze Russell showed up ?

[JohnRoss]

That's why I gave up on being Protestant. Of course the Evangelicals and the Lutherans don't like each other very much either. Both believe in Sola Scriptura.

[Gamecock]

why are there so many Protestant sects ?

Why are there so many Catholic sectlets?

[bondserv]

The former Protestant who wrote this article never grasped the significance of Protestantism. He probably should not write articles criticizing that which he never embraced or understood. Protestantism has always protested the traditions of men that are derived outside of a Biblical framework. It is to risky. History shows the dangers of the church engaging in unbiblical traditions. Christ warned us many times on this exact topic. We must take heed to something the New Testament says over and over again. To ignore it is perilous.

Luther was appalled by the unbiblical traditions that had become the focus of the church. Jesus was just as appalled by the religious leaders of His day basing traditions on something other than the Word of God.

Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.

Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Mat 15:3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Mat 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Mat 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,

Mat 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

Mar 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

Mar 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Luk 6:3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.