<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <<a href="mailto:mcbeth@broggs.org">mcbeth@broggs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Disclaimer, I am a Mormon. I also am skipping the context of the<br>
> above paragraph, as it isn't relevant to the information below.<br>
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Jeffrey: Equal disclaimer - I hold no grudge against Mormons in general<br>
or the CoJCoLDS. I picked Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses as two<br>
examples of Protestant groups whom "mainline" Protestants often think<br>
have "gone too far" and are "not really Christians." My point is that the<br>
basis of Protestantism is logically inconsistent with making those<br>
judgements.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>I don't think that's quite fair to Protestantism. There are still plenty of Protestants whose creedal orthodoxy is as sound as any Catholic's. Most of them aren't mainline Protestants, though, but members of traditionalist groups that have split from the main line : the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod vs. the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church in America vs. Presbyterian Church (USA), the various Anglican continuing churches vs The Episcopal Church (at least semi-Protestant), etc.<br>
<br>I agree that Reformed Christianity is problematic, but that's chiefly due to the innovative nature of its theory of authority (and its rejection of, or indifference to, traditional Christian polity and ecclesiology--which springs from the same defective theory of authority).<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>I came, I saw, I conquered.<br> Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), From SUETONIUS, Lives of the Caesars, Julius, sec. 37<br>