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To: Gamecock

Lutheran. I always found it interesting how there is only one God and how all Protestants essentially believe in Sola Scriptura, yet accuse each other of being unbiblical.

Confessional Protestants, whether they like it or not, rely upon the commentaries of their founders as their Tradition to understand the Bible. Calvinists say only their interpretation is the right one and that extra scriptural practices are forbidden, while Lutherans believe things adaiaphora can be retained without violating scripture.

Lutherans believe by the Bible alone that Christ is physically present in the Eucharist, while Calvinists say he is spiritually present and the Radicals (Baptists, Pentacostals,etc.)say it is symbolic. Calvinists believe in Double Predestination, Lutherans don't. The Lutheran Confessions based upon Sola Scriptura also reject Millenialism, while other Sola Scriptura types believe in dispensationalism.

God is a God of unity, not of division.
1Co 1:10 - [In Context|Read Chapter]
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Hardly, a verse Protestant sectarians take seriously from my experience.

I left Protestantism after I started studying the Church Fathers to see how the earliest Christians understood the Bible. I found Protestant Christianity HAD NOTHING in common with the primitive Christianity, it purported to be a restoration of.


49 posted on 04/01/2006 9:48:00 AM PST by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christus Vincit)
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To: pravknight

***God is a God of unity, not of division.***

And why are there so many sectlets inside the RC church?


50 posted on 04/01/2006 9:53:13 AM PST by Gamecock (I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. (Machen on his deathbed.)
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