Post 9: How should we "lump" them? If the "Five Sola" were valid principles they WOULD all be lumped together.
Post 20: How could I? It’s impossible, YOPIOS has allowed the Reformation to wander down whatever road any given sinner wants to take it down.
Either they're "lumped together" or they've wandered down "whatever road". Either they still adhere to the Five Solas (which you claimed is what lumps them together) or they've wandered away. What defines "Protestant" for you, wagglebee? The last time this question came up between us, you asked "Do you have a suggestion for a term to use for non-Catholic, non-Orthodox, non-Protestant Christians?" Let me remind you of how I answered your question back in 2007:
IMO it's bigotry to assume that all of us non-Catholic/Orthodox types are all alike, that we're all "Protestants", or that the sins of a few can be blamed on all who look like them. Such beliefs I would label as "Anti-Protestantism".Are you an anti-Protestant, wagglebee?
Actually, I claimed nothing of the sort. I said that IF the "five solas" were valid they WOULD be lumped together.
However, when these 16th century heresies were introduced, it caused Protestants to embrace them and follow them down whatever road their sin took them.
What defines "Protestant" for you, wagglebee?
Christians that trace their theology to the Reformation.
Are you an anti-Protestant, wagglebee?
Not at all.
I know of dozens of husbands and wives who were raised RC and who left, initially, because Rome's various prohibitions were capricious. In time, those same couples came to understand the truth found in their Protestant church and they became solid, Biblically-literate Christians.
Contraception is not equitable to the murder of abortion. Rome just wants more bodies in the pews so it (theoretically) outlaws contraception, and RCs are catching on.