Which of the thousands of Protestant denominations are you talking about? Some are better than others, the majority of Protestants are earnestly seeking the Lord, and the majority of Protestants change the denomination they belong to multiple times over the years. That doesn't sound like what Christ prayed for when he asked the Father to keep his church as one just as He and the Father are one nor does an invisible Church make a lot of sense or have a basis in the Word unless you're desperate to avoid the existing Church (which is exactly how that doctrine started).
Protestantism is built on the premise that each individual is their own final authority regarding theological truth. That sounds a lot like, “... your eyes shall be opened; and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.” At least enough like it to be appealing to the same urge intrinsic to fallen mankind and at least enough like it that it should give any honest Christians pause.
I spent over thirty years a faithful Lutheran so I'm not hostile to Protestants, I'm upset that people can be so intent on following Christ and so easily channeled into shallow imitations of his Church by the sizzle and salesmanship related to stuff like Rapture theology or Health and Wealth theology. An awful lot of people are on the wide highway to destruction because Protestantism puts far more value on individual independence than it does on truth.
Well where do you go? Protestantism is no less corrupt than the Catholic Church and the sale of indulgences, the infallibility of the Pope and finally (after several hundred years) deciding Galileo was correct! Power corrupts. I think in our heart of hearts we know what is right and if we could do it on our own then we would not have needed Christ redeeming works! I don’t think that the Great Lutheran Bonhoeffer choose the easy course. Tell me one perfect institution in this world? Once you or I join it it will no longer be perfect!
Posted on 02/05/2011 5:22:32 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)