30,000 Protestant Denominations?

The American Spectator reports Kerry's shopping around for a diocese that will deny him communion, so he can try to triangulate off of his own Church.

Didn't someone in the Vatican already raise some questions about Kerry? And what is with this guy, is he trying for force a fight with the RCC?

Well, if protestant means "not a Catholic" then I am. However if it means something more specific, I probably am not. I do not align with titles other than Christian. Some may call me other things because my beliefs are in line with certain theologies, but I do not like titles as "Pentacostal, Calvinist, Reformed, etc."

I believe my beliefs come from the scripture of the protestant Bible.

God Bless
Nate

Thank you. "Protestant" is a broad brush term which is frequently used to lump all non-Catholic "Christians" into one group.

"Protestant" is a broad brush term which is frequently used to lump all non-Catholic "Christians" into one group.

I know, which is why I asked nate for clarification.

There is still the remainder of those creeds (the Apostolic and Nicene) that Protestants agree upon.

Now that you've determined it is not important to Protestants what the words in the creeds actually mean, in order to establish unity, then you really aren't just talking about Protestant unity. The Catholic and Orthodox churches believe the creeds, too, even though we think they mean something different from you. Therefore, the unity you speak of is meaningless to distinguish Protestantism from Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

There is still the remainder of those creeds (the Apostolic and Nicene) that Protestants agree upon.

Now that you've determined it is not important to Protestants what the words in the creeds actually mean, in order to establish unity, then you really aren't just talking about Protestant unity. The Catholic and Orthodox churches believe the creeds, too, even though we think they mean something different from you. Therefore, the unity you speak of is meaningless to distinguish Protestantism from Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

My task here was to demonstrate that there exits a core unity of belief for Protestants.

And I believe that I have demonstrated that Protestants have such a core set of beliefs, in part represented by the Apostolic and Nicene creeds.

What I have also concluded is that as long as Catholics and Protestants interpret the creeds somewhat differently, it is a pratical impossibility to demonstrate such a Protestant unity to Catholics.

Thankfully, such is not a necessity.

What I have also concluded is that as long as Catholics and Protestants interpret the creeds somewhat differently, it is a pratical impossibility to demonstrate such a Protestant unity to Catholics.

The problem is, it's been demonstrated that the Protestants themselves interpret the creeds differently.

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