That's a pretty funny post, really, no sarcasm or other lie here. I got a good chuckle out of it.
Indeed, I do tend to cringe a bit when others say, "There's over 30,000 Protestant denominations that have grown out of the Reformation", as I haven't really been able to find a website that lists all 30,000 (or 20,000 or even 10,000) denominations.
The main point though is, if I may chime in regarding this point, that there are at least 10 independent, completely incompatible (doctrinally speaking, not talking about differences in worship, or hair styles, or anything trivial, I'm talking about whether or not Modalism or the Trinity is true, or whether or not Jesus is even God) denominations.
10 incompatible denominations, I'm sure this number no one would disagree with. And this is really the point: Did God ever intend such confusion, such heights of discord and disunity, in His Church, even if we allow for the possibility of an "invisible church"? IOW, even if the number of doctrinally divided denominations was only TWO, isn't that enough to make the point that there CAN'T be an "invisible church"?
Speaking for myself, I cannot see God, who is NOT the author of confusion, allowing members of His Church to wonder whether or not His Son is God, much less all the other doctrines that clearly divide at LEAST 10 Protestant denominations from another.
Oh, I'll disagree with it myself, if only for clarification. You'll have to define at a minimum what these doctrines are that you claim incompatibly divide these hypothetically still-Protestant denominations, before I'll even entertain accepting your premise.
And this is really the point: Did God ever intend such confusion, such heights of discord and disunity, in His Church, even if we allow for the possibility of an "invisible church"? IOW, even if the number of doctrinally divided denominations was only TWO, isn't that enough to make the point that there CAN'T be an "invisible church"?
Speaking for myself, I cannot see God, who is NOT the author of confusion, allowing members of His Church to wonder whether or not His Son is God, much less all the other doctrines that clearly divide at LEAST 10 Protestant denominations from another.
And while you're having trouble imagining it, try to imagine why He permitted the Catholics and the Orthodox to fall out of communion with each other as well...