The jihadis don't care whether you are a Southern Baptist or Greek Orthodox. You're a Christian, ripe for crucifixion or beheading.
Speaking of everybody's problem, The Virgin Mary: there are even Muslim cults that honor Her, as did Martin Luther. What? He's not Protestant enough for you? Mariolatry? Get over it.
Sola Scriptura? Well, the Catholics know just as much as the Protestants about stretching a text to the breaking point. And if anyone can interpret scripture for himself, why have any church at all?
Northern European Christianity is a Father religion. Mediterranean Christianity is a Mother religion. So what? Frankly, this kid's "conversion" makes me itch. I just know he'll finally wind up as a Unity Church pastor.
But I'll settle for small gains. The Romans, The Anglicans, The Orthodoxes, and The Lutherans ought to get together and then deal gently with the "sola scriptura" people.
“By Grace you have been saved through Faith (in Jesus alone), and this not of yourselves, it is a gift of God that no man may boast”. This one passage answers all your objections. If you brake this down (among other passages in the Bible), you’ll find that all we need is Jesus. It is The Holy Spirit that draws a person to Christ through the preaching of His Word. I don’t need a church- and frankly though sad... Many “churchgoers” do not know Christ.
>> “And if anyone can interpret scripture for himself, why have any church at all?” <<
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We do not have the “church” that you imagine here.
Scripture is not permitted to be interpreted.
It all was written plain and open to prevent the apostasy of interpretation.
All scripture is self interpreting “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”
Nowhere does it say faith cometh by listening to a nicolaitan.
>> “Northern European Christianity is a Father religion. Mediterranean Christianity is a Mother religion. So what?” <<
Yeshua didn’t come to bring any “religion.”
Religion is entirely man made, and was rejected by Yeshua (Matthew 15, 23) completely.
The Way of Yeshua has no communion with religion, which is what every organized ‘church’ clearly is.
We have been called out from these pits, the Harlot (RCC), and her daughters (Reformed).
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Non-apostate Lutherans are Sola Scriptura. The same issues remain for Confessional Lutherans regarding communion with Catholicism and Catholicism lite.
And just what is "sola scriptura?" And does it make them the more liberal people?
Would you agree that that Scripture was the transcendent supreme standard for obedience and testing and establishing truth claims as the wholly Divinely inspired and assured, Word of God? As is abundantly evidenced
And which testifies (Lk. 24:27,44, etc.) to writings of God being recognized and established as being so (essentially due to their unique and enduring heavenly qualities and attestation), and thus they materially provide for a canon of Scripture (as well as for reason, the church, etc.)