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> “So what if it isn’t 30,000, or even 8,196. What if the number is only 800, or 500, or 100?”
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Its 5, which is better than the Catholics that have literally hundreds of thousands of different sects.
There is less doctrinal friction between the 5 main branches of “Prostantism” than there is between any two average dioceases of the Roman circus. And they are all one on the main point: Salvation is by Grace, through Faith, and that not of our selves, but as a gift of God (lest any man should boast as the Catholics do)
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Five??? That’s funny. Just open your phone book and you tell me how many different denominations there are. There are more than five different major categories of Protestants, not to mention the endless schisms within each of them; Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Calvinist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Reformed, Baptist, Anabaptist, Zwingalian, Adventist, Quakers, Amish, Pietists, Evangelical, Unitarians, Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah Witness, Episcopalians, Shakers, and that doesn’t include the hundreds of independent, non-aligned “store front” entities.