But then they wouldn't have anything to stand on. I have noticed that they seldom if ever post or use the official positions of any of the Protestant denominations but only use their misrepresentations or what they would like to portray Protestants to believe. (CynicalBear)
Ah, begging your pardon, but I think each of you may be a little off base. In truth, every Christian denomination or independent church is organized with a written statement of faith, chiefly because anyone that intends to get involved with them needs to have a precise statement of what they believe (including they themselves in passage of time). That is never hard to find out.
Here is a fairly typical one:
Doctrinal Statement of Victory Baptist Church, New Lenox, IL (click here)
(And, by the way, Baptists have been around way before the Roman Catholic denomination was contrived. The church at Jerusalem were all Baptists, practicing immersion of the confessed and repentant believer on the basis of remitted sins and a new birth in Christ, into membership. The doctrine of the Apostles was essentially what you see in the above Statement, save church polity.)
http://reformation.com/CSA/baptistsabuse.html
Tinley Park, IL. For the second time in two weeks, a Baptist pastor from New Lenox has been charged with molesting a child — and prosecutors said they are looking for more victims. Dennis Larry Shaw, 53, of the 2100 block of Sanford Drive, New Lenox, was charged Monday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, according to the Will County state’s attorney’s office. On Jan. 31, Shaw was arrested on similar charges after a parishioner’s 12-year-old daughter alleged she was fondled by the pastor inside the church between October and December, prosecutors said. (Daily Southtown, February 11, 2003)
Minister again charged with molestation
The issue isn’t about whether other denominations HAVE a statement of faith.
What the comment was that Catholic critics of Protestantism never use them the way they use the worn out old canards that are passed around Catholicism like the urban legends that they are.
What Catholics state are nothing more than misrepresentations of Evangelical or Protestant positions and strawmen they construct about non-Catholic belief, not actual positions that those denominations hold based on their statements of faith.
I think you missed the meaning of my post. It’s Catholics who post conjecture of what Protestants believe rather than post the actual beliefs from sites you just mentioned. It was not that those beliefs of Protestant denominations are not available.