A relative term. Which Protestant thinks he is NOT a "Bible-believing" person? If there is any unity among Protestants, it would be that each person believes that the Bible is the sole source of Christian doctrine. They freely interpret it as they see fit. Thus, even the most liberal of Protestants will fall back on "I am getting my interpretations from the Bible" and refute the more conservative Protestant who disagrees with them - even about homosexuality or women priests. (GACK!) And so disunity multiplies, as doctrines multiply as the number of heads increase in Protestantism...
Ask an Anglican if they believe the Bible. While Calvinists may disagree with their answer, it has no bearing, because we have now entered the realm of interpreting that book - and we fall back on why the Catholic Church is superior.
Regards
FWIW, if I learned anything as an Episcopal priest it's that if you asked most of what was then "us" and is now "them" if they believed in the Bible they'd start by saying that it depended on what you meant by "believe," and go on to say that Anglicanism was supported on the three-legged stool of Scripture, Reason, and Tradition. To this, while I was in seminary people who knew neither that four legs will usually wobble or what "reason" means were trying to add the fourth leg of "experience".
JK: "A relative term. Which Protestant thinks he is NOT a "Bible-believing" person?"
But you have been showed a relatively consistent faith on these boards. Yes, I freely admit the synergist-monergist problem and I freely admit the disagreement on baptism. But at the core, from the vast majority of us you are getting the same message.
If there is any unity among Protestants, it would be that each person believes that the Bible is the sole source of Christian doctrine.
Yes, and you have seen that.
They freely interpret it as they see fit.
That is your personal interpretation of our interpretation. :) We believe the Spirit leads us.
Thus, even the most liberal of Protestants will fall back on "I am getting my interpretations from the Bible" and refute the more conservative Protestant who disagrees with them - even about homosexuality or women priests. (GACK!) And so disunity multiplies, as doctrines multiply as the number of heads increase in Protestantism...
I could start listing wayward Catholics but there are bandwidth concerns. :) I don't think you want to criticize Protestantism just for the fact that there are liberals who claim to be Protestants. I would say that we are all in the same boat on that one. You know the one faith I represent and you know of many others here on FR who share in it. You have to admit that if you read a certain theological comment from the blind you would have no idea if it was authored by me or any of a large number of people here.