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To: Rashputin
Rashputin -- I dispute with you calling these people "Protestants"

actually the "Protestants" are those belonging to the original 3 groups that broke away from the Western Church -- namely Lutherans, Calvinists (Presbyterians, Reformed) and the Anglicans

The other groups broke away from them -- like the 3rd generation of reformatters included the Unitarians (in the 16th century) and the Wesleyans (in the 18th century) and the anabaptists (in the 16th century)

the Baptists broke away from the Anabaptists in the 17th, making them 4th generation reformatters

The fifth generation include the radical reformatters like the Christian Scientists and then the really weird groups like the Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons -- arguably, even though the latter 3 came from this 5th generation mileieu they are arguably not Christian

The 6th generation included the pentecostals

And now the 7th are the Word of Faith pentecostals and the Oneness pentecostals (those who deny the Trinity)

only the Lutherans, Presybterians, Reformed and Anglicans are really the "Protestants". All others are simply their own traditions or splits from those 3 traditions

269 posted on 12/04/2012 3:51:01 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos
All others are simply their own traditions or splits from those 3 traditions

So I am now a Catholic!

WESLEYAN by choice; of the Methodist tradtion; protesting against the first protesters brings us full circle; doesn't it!

280 posted on 12/04/2012 5:06:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cronos
". . . only the Lutherans, Presybterians, Reformed and Anglicans are really the "Protestants"."

These folks migrated back to the original three groups whatever they call themselves because they tell the same lies and half-truths and place more importance on being anti-Catholic than on being Christian.

287 posted on 12/04/2012 5:34:25 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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