You must have missed my previous post. The denominations you cite: Presbyterian, Baptist, and Lutheran were all central groups in the Protestant reformation.
I have been speaking of those groups that have come into existence in the last 200 years or so...especially the more recent. They cannot rightly be called protestant, and they are not protesting anything similar to the reformation issues.
Now, I could make an excellent case that many Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Baptists are themselves no longer focused on those issues that led to the reformation break with the Roman Catholics.
Oh, OK. I guess I must have. And, yes, particularly with the Lutherans, I would agree that there have been some very positive signs in recent years.
I have been speaking of those groups that have come into existence in the last 200 years or so...especially the more recent. They cannot rightly be called protestant, and they are not protesting anything similar to the reformation issues.
You are correct, but only insofar as their ignorance of the issues that sparked the Reformation to begin with. Most of those groups came about as a protest to Protestant doctrines, and nearly every one of them is anti-creedal and almost purposefully ignorant of church history and historical doctrine.
Now, I could make an excellent case that many Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Baptists are themselves no longer focused on those issues that led to the reformation break with the Roman Catholics.
Yes. Some of these denominations, such as the PCUSA, have fallen prey to modernist liberalism. And some of them have been able to successfully recapture their denomination from the liberals (see SBC).