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To: terycarl
that’s what protestantism is all about

Not so fast -- the anglicans are the closest thing protestants have to catholics. This guy is on your page, not ours. He is on Mother Teresa's page about the Dark Night of the Soul.

Anglicans, like catholics, reject the idea of the priesthood of every believer; protestants affirm it.

Protestants understand that the heart is desperately wicked; that man has free choice at the present time and often chooses tyranny and debauchery.

Protestants affirm that every believer is to study to show one's self approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth. Catholics think that is the job of the magisterium. Protestants agree with Peter that it is the job of every believer to be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks about the hope that we have. Catholics think that is the job of the clergy.

So, not so fast.

27 posted on 09/17/2014 7:57:56 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Migraine

They also believe in Lesbian Priests.


32 posted on 09/17/2014 8:04:53 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Migraine
not quite -- anglicans were divided into low church (calvinists) and high church (anglo-catholics and methodists)

the Anglo-Catholics all converted to Catholicism in the 19th century and the calvinists died out while the Methodists went their own way

Also, neither Anglicans nor Catholics (nor for that matter Lutherans who also have apostolic succession) say anything about rejecting the priesthood of all believers

As per orthodoxy, all Christians are part of the universal priesthood -- just as all Israelites were a nation of priests with some ministerial priests with them

44 posted on 09/19/2014 1:46:01 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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