Actually, most protestants give very little thought to the inner workings of the roman catholic church. Despite the imaginary socratic exchange, mostly we hear in the news of a big chunk of the church battling against the words of the pope and think to ourselves, “hmmm, I thought they had to accept what he said”, then we go on with what we were doing.
I think the RCC would be happier if it stopped thinking about we protestants much. This whole article would be better aimed at educating fellow catholics why its ok to oppose francis, or why he isn’t infallible, or whatever.
And yes, all protestants see Benny Hinn just the way Catholicism holds the pope. Moronic logic. Utterly moronic.
Yeah, I get a feeling this is a bit like a liberal setting up an imaginary argument with a conservative, but as we read the conservative arguments, they are a caricature of what a conservative would really ask.
My wife was raised Catholic and her whole family is still catholic. Some of them still go to mass every day. They are an interesting group, spiritually. We disagree with them on a couple of key points but, hey, I disagree with most protestants on a key point (I believe the lost are annihilated and do not suffer for eternity).
So I care about this pope thing as much as I care about shakeups in any other church that is not the one I go to: Not really my business.
And how do we do this? We compare Hinn's teaching/actions to the Word and find him falling short.
The Word is the only standard that doesn't change.