[P-Marlowe]

The article is not bashing Protestants.

The intention of the thread was to bash protestants. Just read posts 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, & 11 and you can see that this thread started out as flame bait. If a protestant were to post a similar article about the Catholic Church and a bunch of other protestants jumped on the bandwagon, I suspect the article would have been moved to the smokey back room or yanked before you could say "Two Babylons."

[ByGraceThroughFaith]

"The intention of the thread was to bash protestants."

I do not know what the intention of the thread was, but it's clearly an interesting OP, and has much to say about the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. The author is an Evangelical Christian who converted to the Orthodox faith, and has written a critique of a Christian doctrine. The questions his essay raises are valid questions.

The hundreds of disagreeing denominations that claim to be based upon the bible are an elephant in the living room. Nobody wants to talk about it, but it's there, and it is a scandal to the gospel. The author claims that sola scriptura is to blame, and has written a very readable critique of this doctrine. The author is not Roman Catholic, and is in fact critical of the Roman Catholic Church. A quick look at the link makes that clear to anyone who has bothered to read it before offering their opinions on it. It raises many good questions, one of which is the following:

If scripture alone as a sole rule of faith is sufficient to establish the truth of Christianity, why are there hundreds of disagreeing sects based upon the bible?