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To: wagglebee
many who consider themselves evangelical try to escape the fact that they are part of Protestantism.

Yes, and it appears, to this outsider, that some who consider themselves "Protestant" say the "Evangelicals" are something totally different - even though each one follows nothing but the Bible.

16 posted on 06/09/2010 7:06:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Be nice to venomous snakes. They only want to eat a mouse!)
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To: Tax-chick

The essence of the Protestant Reformation was “sola scriptura” and Evangelicals and Protestants both claim to adhere to that. It appears to me that they want to use these labels to exclude whoever disagrees with their interpretation of the Bible.

All the time on these threads I see people say things like, “Protestants don’t believe Mary remained a virgin,” or “Protestants don’t believe in the Real Presence,” or any number of other things and it’s nonsense. As best I can tell, the ONLY thing that they seem to be in agreement on is their denial of papal primacy.


17 posted on 06/09/2010 7:15:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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