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To: Albion Wilde
There are technically no more real Protestants any more. The term is defunct/dead imho. Let me explain. The first and second generation of reformation groups included Lutherans, Presbyterians, Reformed and Anglicans

Most are sadly destroyed by Satan's attacks and if we look at the largest denominations within these, they are already pagan -- the ECUSA leading the pack (and the CoE not far behind) with the ELCA, PCUSA following

Newer groups such as Baptists, Evangelicals, Pentecostals are break-aways from the first so are not technically Protestant as they did not break away from orthodoxy

They are also varyingly different in theology and beliefs from orthodoxy -- some close, some extremely far (for example the Oneness Pentecostals reject the Trinity, a basic Christian belief and the Seventh Day Adventists have concepts as strange as "Satan taking on the sins of the world" etc.)

39 posted on 12/09/2012 10:12:13 PM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos; xzins
There are technically no more real Protestants any more...

Your post is a refreshing observation. The term "Protestant" has always contained the root of rebellion anyway; but it was a sharp cultural distinction during my long-ago youth. I have identified as "evangelical" since leaving the UMC ten years ago, and have subsisted primarily on house churches centered on prayer.

Currently I am commuting 130 miles roundtrip once a week to go to a class on the schism at a small Lutheran church where the pastor, age 30, is a committed Bible-believing purist and social conservative. That alone is a cultural phenomenon worth the gasoline; and the class is excellent as well. A small group of Christians in a small, musty basement of a tiny church out in the mountains, studying the Lutheran reformation, Luther's small catechism, the Creeds and so on.

Like old times, but for the lions (so far).

53 posted on 12/10/2012 9:05:19 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Government can't redistribute talent, willpower, or intelligence, except through dictatorship.)
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