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Next question:   Who Founded All These Protestant Denominations?
It is quite instructive and enlightening for all of us to take a closer look at some of the more prominent heroes and other major figures who founded or extensively developed some of the countless Protestant denominations which currently exist, all of which were invented many centuries (about 1,500 years or longer) after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.    (Some of those Protestant denomination founders and leaders are shown here, each of whom, as a founder/developer of a brand new denomination, is still held by many of their followers today to be the final, ultimate, infallible, supreme authority for the correct interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, the "Bible".) The best way to profit from this exercise is to first take a quick look at some of the "images and likenesses" of these individuals, then search for their names on the internet to find a link where you can read a little bit about them and what they've done, or what denomination they founded or helped develop.    All of these individuals studied the Bible, then came up with their own unique, contradictory, mutually-exclusive, incompatible biblical interpretations, and their resultant conflicting teachings and doctrines, all claiming to be interpreting the Holy Scriptures under the infallible inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Philip Melanchthon is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Martin Luther is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.    (This is a reproduction of his face based on his actual death mask.)		Charles Finney is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
John Smyth is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Mary Baker Eddy is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Goodloe Harper Bell is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
Ann Lee is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		William Booth is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Ellen Gould White is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
John Calvin is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Roger Williams is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Jacobus Arminius is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
John Wesley is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Charles Wesley is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Ulrich Zwingli is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
Frank W. Sandford is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Aimee Semple McPherson is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		George Fox is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
B. B. Warfield is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Charles Taze Russell is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		William Miller is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.
John Knox is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		Gijsbert Haan is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.		King Henry VIII is the final biblical interpretive authority for many Protestants.

[Elsie]

narses is off somewhere; pouting...

[GreyFriar]

Perhaps the question ought to be formed as: How many variations of Christianity are there? Just as there are many variations of the rose, there are variations of Christianity. As one says that each variation is still a rose, so we as Christians are still Christians.