[Titanites]

I’ve got to ask, do you realize that we Protestants don’t have a single, unified doctrine

Yes, I realize it and it's a contradiction of Scripture:

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Cor 1:10

If you’re going to speak to us about the “sins” of our denominations, at least have the intellectual honesty to get our beliefs right.

Go back through my posts. I never mentioned "sins" of other denomimations. I mentioned changing Protestant doctrine in response to an accusation of taking the Living Word way too lightly. Please try to keep the discussion straight in your head.

Do you deny there are Protestant denominations who accept female ordination, homosexual marriage. They don't consider it a sin. Have a look at this chart for example:

	Denomination	Ordains Women	Abortion	Homo- sexuality	Scripture	Trinity	Salvation by Grace
1	American Baptist	1964		2000
2	Anglican	1974
3	Christian Science	1881				Denies	Denies
4	Church of England	1992
5	Church of the Nazarene	1908
6	Disciples of Christ	1888
7	Episcopal Church	1976	1973	1996
8	Evangelical Lutheran Church	1970	1991	2006
9	First Congregational Church	1853
10	Foursquare	1927
11	Free Methodist
12	National Baptist convention	1895
13	Presbyterian Church USA	1930 -elder 1956 - Minister	1973	1987
14	Salvation Army	1865, 1870
15	Unitarian Universalist Association	1863	1973	1980
16	United Church of Canada	1936	1990?	1988
17	United Church of Christ			2005
18	United Presbyterian Church	1955	1973	Against
19	United Methodist Church	1956	1973
20	Universalist Church of America	1863
21	Wesleyan Methodist Church	1856

[paladin1_dcs]

Listen, I realize that this may come as a shock to you, but combining liberal and fundamentalist church denominations like that is going to skew your results and invalidate any conclusion you draw from them.

A better example would be to review those denominations which hold a fundamentalist view of Scripture. It’s no great secret that a group of churches who have turned their back on the idea of the inerrancy of Scripture would have fallen away from those same Scriptures. The same could be said for those Priests who are abusing young boys, we both know that kind of behavior is abhorant and absolutely unacceptable, so why is it no surprise when these same priests compromise on other critical doctrines of Scripture?

And while I would agree that the Scripture you quoted does indeed call for a Unity of Spirit, I also remind you that not every denomination is equally mature. Just as believers have different maturity levels, so do different Churches have different maturity levels. The reason I point that out is because most of the differences in doctrine which are not directly related to a departure from Scriptural inerrancy are related to either a misunderstanding of Scripture or a misapplication of Scripture. That unity which you’re looking for is something that comes with maturity, not by Papist decree.

Furthermore, I mentioned “sins” of Protestant doctrine because to you Roman Catholics, anything that isn’t handed down from your Latin Overlords is, by definition, an error and therefore sin. I’ve already pointed out that I don’t consider it unusual for a church that has abandoned the Scriptures to have equally abandoned following those same Scriptures, so really, what’s your gripe here? I mean, other than the fact that we Protestants have the nerve to say that we answer to God and God alone and not some Roman in a funny looking hat. We all know that, so what is really your point here? That those who have abandoned the faith and went after unChristian doctrines have, *gasp*, abandoned the faith? Color me shocked!

[Augustinian monk]

Theres not much “Protestant” theology going on in those churches these days.