We prefer unencumbered by a lot of useless ritual and venertaion of non-gods.
1 Corinthians 2:1-2 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:11-16 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
....Protestants are indeed Christian, just incomplete.I believe what is meant is that Protestants...what Catholics call everyone that is not Catholic (kinda like Jews classifying all not Jews as Gentiles)-- are not complete Catholic.We prefer unencumbered by a lot of useless ritual and veneration of non-gods.
They believe that being "complete" is being a Catholic.
The Bible makes it clear that "completeness" can only be achieved by being brought into the Kingdom of God by Jesus via the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, it comes full circle.
Catholic are complete Catholics.
But incomplete Christians.
They seem to reject the simple salvation offered in the Bible in favor of rituals and The Other Gospel they call Traditions. It trumps scripture, like the BOM, it is more "accurate" than scriptures.
You would have thought they would have made the Bible perfect when they compiled it!