So what if it isn't 30,000, or even 8,196. What if the number is only 800, or 500, or 100? If the number is anything greater than one (1), then your whole charade of Protestant solidarity falls apart and someone is lying about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Once you concede fallibility your entire dogma and doctrine is open to personal interpretation making the number somewhere in the millions, one for each Protestant.
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> “So what if it isn’t 30,000, or even 8,196. What if the number is only 800, or 500, or 100?”
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Its 5, which is better than the Catholics that have literally hundreds of thousands of different sects.
There is less doctrinal friction between the 5 main branches of “Prostantism” than there is between any two average dioceases of the Roman circus. And they are all one on the main point: Salvation is by Grace, through Faith, and that not of our selves, but as a gift of God (lest any man should boast as the Catholics do)
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