[Cronos]

Hoss -- do you get the burning in the bosom to help you decipher scripture?

then tell me

1. does your individual interpretation say one should believe in something as basic as Jesus was always God (Trinitarian position) or that Jesus Christ was man made God (Oneness PENTECOSTAL Protestant position) or the Angel Michael (Seventh Day Adventist Ellen G White teaching)
2. does your individual interpretation say that there is the REAL Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (Lutheran, some Anglicans, maybe even Methodists), or is it just a symbol (Calvinists)
3. does your individual interpretation say that one MUST talk in tongues (Oneness Pentecostal) to display faith or not?
4. does your individual interpretation say that there should be an episcopate (Lutheran, Anglican) or not (Presbyterians)?
5. does your individual interpretation say that apostolic succession is important (Anglican) or not (others)?
7. does your individual interpretation say that Baptism is for infants and sufficient (Presbyterian etc.) or not (Baptists)?
8. does your individual interpretation say that God pre-damns people to hell (Calvinism) or not (others)?
9. does your individual interpretation say that vestements are ok (or in the silly words of one poster allowing men in dresses and silly hats) (Anglicans, Lutherans, some Methodists, Presbyterians, even Baptists and Pentecostals) or not?
10. does your individual interpretation say that Jesus came only for the salvation of a few (Calvinists) or he was Savior of the world (everyone else)?
11. does your individual interpretation agree or disagree with soul sleep? (Calvin: "As long as (the soul) is in the body it exerts its own powers; but when it quits this prison-house it returns to God, whose presence, it meanwhile enjoys while it rests in the hope of a blessed Resurrection. This rest is its paradise. On the other hand, the spirit of the reprobate, while it waits for the dreadful judgment, is tortured by that anticipation. . .", Psychopannychia,
12. does your individual interpretation agree or disagree with worshipping on a Sunday (Presbyterians, Pentecostals etc.) or not (Seventh Day Adventists)
13. does your individual interpretation agree with the Adventists that one should follow kosher laws or not?
14. does your individual interpretation believe that we still have spiritual gifts like prophecy amongst us (Pentecostals) or not (Presbyterians)
15. does your individual interpretation agree with being "slain in the spirit" (Pentecostalism) or not (Presbyterianism, Lutheranism etc)
16. does your individual interpretation say that Regeneration comes through Baptism (Lutheranism) or not (Baptists)
17. does your individual interpretation say that grace can be resisted (Pentecostalism, Lutheranism, Methodism) or not (Calvinism)
18. does your individual interpretation say that baptism is three-fold (Mennonites) or not?
19. does your individual interpretation say that there is no free will (Calvinism) or that man has free will (Mennonites)
20. does your individual interpretation say that it is faith + works (Mennonites: Menno Simons told the followers of Luther and Calvin: “If you wish to be saved, you must walk in the way of the Lord, hear His Word, and obey it. For nothing avails in heaven nor on earth unto salvation, … not even Christ with His grace, merit, blood, and death, if we are not born of God, … if we do not believe His Word sincerely, and if we do not walk in the light and do right. As John says: …>If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie.’” (Complete Writings of Menno Simons, p. 208)) or not?
21. does your individual interpretation say that there is imputed righteousness (Calvinism) or not (Mennonites)

[HossB86]

Hoss -- do you get the burning in the bosom to help you decipher scripture?

Wha...what? Huh? Still can't make out the question for the noise. Keep trying and do try to find some accurate information concerning Protestantism. Oh, wait; I forgot it's you.

Hoss