>> 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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Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
How do you know what my overarching aim is?
We discarded the teachings of the Catholic church as the contrivances of men, not the Word of God.
That is one of the stated reasons of the Reformation, correct. It is not the predominant one or even a major one that contributed to the success of the Reformation.
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.
As you wish. I can see little convergence in their theologies, but if you can reconcile them, so be it.
Luckily for me, I need not prove myself to you.
Certainly. But please understand when making unproven statements regarding Christianity, this Christian will consider them fair game for challenging.