Does this include the protestant practices of snake handling, priestesses, and homosexual wedding ceremonies? (Baptists: http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2013-01/iowa-baptist-church-open-gay-weddings)
(Methodists: http://www.mindny.org/2011/10/methodist-group-to-perform-gay-weddings/)
(Anglican: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2130668/Male-priests-marry-in-Anglican-churchs-first-gay-wedding.html)
“Does this include the protestant practices of snake handling, priestesses, and homosexual wedding ceremonies?”
Admittedly, there are a few hundred snake handlers out there. Fewer each year :-)
All I can say in their defense is at least they have a passage of holy scripture to base their belief upon...
priestesses? Got me there. Most of us don’t allow women to teach men and don’t have individual priests, since we are all called priests in Scripture.
Are you referring to liberal protestant denominations? The shrinking ones? I don’t know much about them.
The larger point is that none of those things, except snake handling, is Biblical. Each of the others contradicts what I advocated.