Ok, let me be more specific and too the point. Are you
1)Lutheran
2)Calvinist-Reformed or some related to Calvin like the Presbyterians’.
3)Pentecostal of some stripe
4)Baptist of some stripe, Free Will, Missionary, Independent, Reformed, Southern, etc.
5)Joel Osteen Health and Welfare Mega Church Protestant type, etc.
Or if there is one that does not fit into the categories above that I have missed?
Does that make my question clear enough. Again, in the spirit of transparency, I make no bones, I am a Catholic in communion with the Bishop of Rome, where Pope Francis currently presides in Charity [to quote St. Ignatius of Antioch and his Letter to the Romans in 107AD circa]. It is very easy for anyone to know what I believe as the Official Catechism of the Catholic Church can be obtained and read on-line [So the Catholic Church does not hide what it professes, it is all there]. So what Protestant tradition do you belong to.
You keep citing all the NT but those Churches were in the Mediterranean Roman world, those people looked and were culturally more like me [I am 100% of Sicilian ancestry], St. Paul preached in my ancestral homeland [Sicily] and like St. Peter, was martyred in Rome Italy. So how is it that you think that your American form of Protestantism, in all its worship, church order, practice, prayer life, devotions, music, theological interpretation of scripture, no Creed or have a Creed [Some prots say the Creed, some do not], how are members brought into your Church [some baptize infants, some do not, some baptize in the Trinity, many Pentecostals, for example, do not], heck, I can go on, and on, till the New years kicks in, but I do want to watch some football with my father tomorrow
So again, to summarize, what American Evangelical Protestant tradition do you go to Church in?
“Ok, let me be more specific and too the point. Are you
1)Lutheran
2)Calvinist-Reformed or some related to Calvin like the Presbyterians’.
3)Pentecostal of some stripe
4)Baptist of some stripe, Free Will, Missionary, Independent, Reformed, Southern, etc.
5)Joel Osteen Health and Welfare Mega Church Protestant type, etc.
Or if there is one that does not fit into the categories above that I have missed?”
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Love it! No not a member of those listed groups. Were you thinking I was here representing the beliefs of a particular denomination? I am not. I am here to talk about Biblical Christianity. If you feel a need to pigeonhole me as the basis of a conversation, I’m afraid you will be disappointed. I clearly identified the only church that counts as the one I’ve been baptized into by the Holy Spirit. I’ve clearly communicated to you that I believe in the inspiration and authority of God’s inspired Word. That is the single basis that means anything in evaluating Christian Truth. If you do not wish to discuss truth as revealed in Scripture, I will not force you. That is why I am here. It is also why I’ve not accepted your rabbit trails that diverge from that discussion.
“You keep citing all the NT but those Churches were in the Mediterranean Roman world, those people looked and were culturally more like me [I am 100% of Sicilian ancestry]”
I mentioned earlier that I am half Sicilian. Church membership is not based on race, thankfully.
“St. Paul preached in my ancestral homeland [Sicily]”
Coincidence! Mine too!
“So how is it that you think that your American form of Protestantism, in all its worship, church order, practice, prayer life, devotions, music, theological interpretation of scripture, no Creed or have a Creed [Some prots say the Creed, some do not], how are members brought into your Church [some baptize infants, some do not, some baptize in the Trinity, many Pentecostals, for example, do not], heck, I can go on, and on, till the New years kicks in, but I do want to watch some football with my father tomorrow”
OK, you lost me in that run on sentence that never seemed to resolve into a question. Perhaps something got cut out?
“So again, to summarize, what American Evangelical Protestant tradition do you go to Church in?”
Big assumption there!