Other people are better qualified than you to explain what your faith is? I thought that that was a major beef of the Reformation - that Luther's every milkmaid could then become her own Pope and discard the teachings of any church. But at any rate, if you cannot explain your faith, then one wonders just how strong it is, or even how close it is to Christianity.
You may not agree with me, or these pastors and theologians, but at least you’ll come away with a better understanding than you have at the moment.
These three pastors all have a sufficiently divergent theology that I do not have any greater understanding of your faith than I did several posts ago.
I am unfamiliar with gnosticism.
Perhaps you don't know the name, but your posts certainly are full of the practices.
>> Other people are better qualified than you to explain what your faith is?
My failure to explain is less attributable to my lack of understanding than to my inability to get it across to you. This may very well be due to your overarching aim to ignore, belittle and discredit Baptists and/or Protestants generally, rather than engage in honest inquiry. I was being gracious in continuing take the blame for your lack of understanding.
>> I thought that that was a major beef of the Reformation - that Luther’s every milkmaid could then become her own Pope and discard the teachings of any church.
We discarded the teachings of the Catholic church as the contrivances of men, not the Word of God. They are. We hold fast to the divinely-inspired teachings of Scripture, not the words and edicts of corrupt men.
>> These three pastors all have a sufficiently divergent theology that I do not have any greater understanding of your faith than I did several posts ago.
These pastors disagree on some peripheral points, but their theology is not significantly divergent. Again, your aim is clearly to belittle Protestant Christianity. I see little purpose in continuing this conversation.
>> But at any rate, if you cannot explain your faith, then one wonders just how strong it is, or even how close it is to Christianity.
Luckily for me, I need not prove myself to you.
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