annalex wrote:
“Protestantism is a crude system of cheap slogans. It takes time and patience to break through the fog. Most people don’t have the time.”
Uh huh, I see. What then is Roman Catholicism? A cleverly constructed system of mixed truth and error that took time and patience to make into the fog it truly is. Most people don’t have the time to do such a thing, but hundreds of popes, cardinals, bishops and assorted other princes of the “church” conspiring together over the years had plenty of time.
Liek for example your five solas are that, slogans. They are not theology. TULIP is a set of slogans. Now, some of these slogans are quite good, — there is nothing wrong for example with Grace Alone. But the Protestant method all revolves about such bumper sticker rhetoric. Mention the role of works in salvation and what do you guys roll out? “Aha you want to save yourself without Christ.” It is hard to argue against such childishness.
Your interest in the scripture is phoney too. There are too many prooftexts that work against you, so despite all the chest-beating about the Word of God, your actual arguments are all vague paraphrases, that break as soon as the actual scriptural text is examined.