The term ‘Protestant’ signifies the amorphous mass of non-Roman Catholic heresies formed since the 16th century in the West in contradiction or retaliation to the Roman Catholic Church.
OOPS. They count YOU In that group, too, ya know. The Eastern Orthodox do not call themselves Roman Catholic, do they?
Whereas the one dogma that binds all Roman Catholics past and present together is submission to the Pope as sole authority (thereby abolishing every other authority), the one dogma that all Protestants have in common is the rejection of the need for submission to any rule for salvation, other than one’s own private opinion (about everything).
Wow, second paragraph condemns your group again, not just us. How's that make you feel? I would hope you at least agree that ANYONE who calls themselves a Christian should be in submission to the Holy Spirit and the same doctrines revealed to all mankind through the Bible. Unlike the assumed definition this prejudiced writer uses, just because someone rejects the Pope as their leader, doesn't mean they aren't still submitted to Christ as their head and chief shepherd.
Undoubtably, within Protestantism there are many opinions and contrary beliefs, but they all base their religion ultimately in a rejection of external authority as needed for salvation. What Rome began with rejection of all authority save that of the Pope, Protestantism finished by rejecting the authority of the Pope as well. This results in an indifference to and a severance from the Body of Christ, the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, the sole Church founded by Him and His Apostles.
I don't know about you, but I can't bring myself to read anymore of this obviously BIASED and UNSCRIPTURAL hogwash. It sounds like this writer dumps ALL Christians into the same bucket and it doesn't matter if they hold to EVERY single belief expressed in the Nicene Creed. If you don't accept the Pope as your head, they refuse to accept you as belonging to the universal body of Christ. As for me, I will trust in what Holy Scripture says over what fallible men - power-hungry men - declare. Scripture, instead states:
I Corinthians 6:17 "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
I Corinthians 12:12-13 "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."
Ephesians 2:18 "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father."
Ephesians 4:4-6 "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."
Philippians 1:27 "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel"
Did you read that? With one mind STRIVING together for the faith of what? - the Roman Catholic Pope? - or the faith of the GOSPEL. THAT is what counts with God.
Dude. I am Eastern Orthodox. Not ROMAN Catholic. I have only said that about ten times. I wish you would READ. This was written by one of my Bishops.