I have noticed that Protestants are much more likely to fall prey to heresy because they often lack the historical context to refute them.
This is a shame because a vibrant, evangelical, orthodox Protestant Christianity is essential to the survival of Western Civilization.
You wrote:
“I have noticed that Protestants are much more likely to fall prey to heresy because they often lack the historical context to refute them.”
True. We see it here all the time.
“This is a shame because a vibrant, evangelical, orthodox Protestant Christianity is essential to the survival of Western Civilization.”
I’m not so sure about that. I know plenty of fine Protestants who are wonderful, Christ loving people. Yet, I don’t doubt for a second that the West would have been better off united in Christ’s Church and faith rather than fragmented in 30,000 sects.
“I have noticed that Protestants are much more likely to fall prey to heresy because they often lack the historical context to refute them.”
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I’m not a Protestant, so I’m just asking for them.
Does this mean that, in the view of Catholics, Protestant Christians do not have the Holy Spirit in them, Whose job it is to guide them into all truth? (John 16:13)
Does this mean that Catholics are more proficient readers than Protestants, and Catholics are always better historical researchers than non-Catholics?
Your statements just seem to indicate that non-Catholics are all totally without God and fairly daft, too. What about non-Catholics who are regenerated, have the indwelling Holy Spirit, and know it?