metmom wrote:
“Since they were true Christians, the writers of the NT were obviously Protestant Christians since they taught salvation by grace through faith.”
Please, hyper-partisanship from whichever side serves no good purpose. In this case it is also anachronistic.
Um, I was not being serious....
If her hyper-partizanship were true it would serve a good purpose of disseminating the truth. The trouble with her statement is not that it is expressed in a partizan manner, and not even that it is blatantly anachronistic, but that it is false in essence. There is no trace of Protestant distinctives (faith alone, Bible alone) in any patristic writing, including the Holy Scripture itself.