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To: ansel12; daniel1212
What is a non-denomination Christian category that isn’t Protestant?

Evangelical?

A believer?

Why does a Christian have to be labeled? What exactly is Protestant anyway?

40 posted on 01/24/2013 5:37:43 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
Why does a Christian have to be labeled? What exactly is Protestant anyway?

Darn good question. Protestant is a label which originates in the protests which led to the reformation in the era of Martin Luther, John Calvin and thereafter. Luther was not the first reformer, just the first who was successful.

Jan Hus, who proceeded him by about a century, is revered by many originalists who consider him the greatest of the reformers. I once attended a very originalist Baptist church who did not consider themselves Protestants because the original Anabaptists of whom Hus was considered a leader, never signed on with the State Church in Rome which was launched with the Nicean Creed in the 4th century. Some of them even consider modern Baptists to be sell-outs and other Protestants to be rebel branches of the Catholic church, which doctrines they also reject.

44 posted on 01/24/2013 6:13:13 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: metmom

I don’t know, but no one here seems to know either, yet this thread says that 13% of Christians who aren’t members of a church, are whatever it is.


47 posted on 01/24/2013 6:16:09 PM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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