[CynicalBear]

>> That is what we've heard.<<

It’s not what I’ve heard. Not once from anyone here.

>> That should make one think - I would hope.<<

It sure does make me think. Makes me think that the focus on the label of “protestant” or “Calvinist” or whatever is taking the focus off of Christ.

Once again, Christ didn’t set up “denominations” or divisions. He called all believers worldwide the “body of Christ”. No “organization” or man between the believer and Christ. If “confessions” were needed or believed necessary by Christ or the apostles why were there none included by the Holy Spirit in scripture?

[HarleyD]

If “confessions” were needed or believed necessary by Christ or the apostles why were there none included by the Holy Spirit in scripture?

Doctrine is nothing more than teachings. How many times did Christ refer to "teachings"? The confessions are nothing more than teachings of scriptures.

Pro_9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Act 18:24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

Act 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

Act 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.