Wrong, but thanks for playing anyway.
In response to an off the cuff rhetorical question:
Perhaps things are different at your church - one of the, what, million protestant sects?
You responded:
Now this is excellent news - thank you for sharing this with us, AlaninSA! I had no idea that Protestantism held your interest to this degree! For the rest of you, it’s worth noting that in the last week of January 2007, we achieved a dramatic 33% growth rate as Protestant denominations jumped from 30,000 to 40,000 denominations. And now, without even having finished the first quarter of 2007, we’re told (thanks, Alan!) that our numbers have literally exploded into the millions, growing by an astronomical 2500%!
Yes, you read that right - the number of Protestant sects grew by twenty-five thousand percent, in just a scant five week period! And that growth rate is even larger - over thirty-three thousand percent - if you factor in that now-tiny-looking jump we enjoyed last January.
Congratulations, one and all! Your hard work has paid off!
280 posted on 03/10/2007 4:19:32 PM CST by Alex Murphy
You were the one who seized on this and expanded on it. And the emphasis of this idea is intended to be on the fact that Protestant denominations e.g. opposed doctrines are expanding. Further evidence that Protestant claims that the Holy Spirit inspires each individual to opposing beliefs is wrong.
If the Holy Spirit is truly inspirational of the Word of God, it cannot give the millions of Protestant individuals a different belief system. It does not follow. It is irrational to believe this.