[Catholicguy]

<> All protestant doctrine, save what they retained when they walked the plank of self-will off the Ark of Salvation, is based upon the oral traditions of the original revolters of the 16th Century.

Folks read into the Bible the oral traditions of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melancthon etc and they ignore the painful truth these 16th Century revolters disagreed with one another despite the fact that each was a Bible-believing Christian guided by the Holy Spirit in his Bible study.

I guess we just have to acknowledge the fact the Holy Spirit was feelin impish and led each of these reveolters to conclude different things, based upon their Bible Studies, and that is perfectly fine because there is some larger, numinous "Unity" that superceeds such Doctrinal disunity, I guess

The one constatnt touchstone of Unity is their opposition to the consistent Teaching of ALL 16 Centuries that preceeded these men. I guess the Holy Spiirt was lying to all those Bible-belivers prior to the 16 Century, either that or there were no real Bible believers prior to Luther, I guess

BTW, why no women? I mean, I see no reason why Rnmom doesn't have the same authority to start a church as does the_doc, or Calvin, or Luther, or Zwingli.

Is there any objection to Rnmom starting her own church? <>

[Aquinasfan]

there were no real Bible believers prior to Luther, I guess

If true Christians believe the doctrine of "Bible only," then one can only conclude that there weren't any prior to Luther's time.

One thing that always struck me as humorous about Luther's doctrine is whether he ever wondered how Bibles could have been distributed to all Christians prior to the invention of the printing press.