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I'd say that most of the non-Catholics here do NOT identify as Protestant.

Those denominations which have been historically labeled as Protestant have become so liberal and strayed so far from Scriptural teachings that they can hardly be called churches any more. They have abandoned the authority of Scripture, even to the point of claiming they are fables or mythology. They don't recognize or accept the authority of Scripture, so as a whole, we do not affiliate or associate with them. That is primarily the mainline Protestant denominations.

What is most often labeled as Evangelical is what most of the Bible believing churches identify as and that includes non-denominational churches.

One branch I do not identify with is Pentecostalism. There are some things about it that have been good for the church, and primarily that is more freedom in worship as far as people feeling free to raise their hands if they feel like it.

However, there is way to much that is either off base or out and out wrong. I have *NO* use at all for televangelists.

There are a few evangelists, like Billy Graham, who have integrity and preach a solid message, but the rest, they're just a bunch of money grubbing shysters, IMO.

You said it perfectly. I agree exactly.

I was raised a Roman Catholic and stopped going after my mother died (because my dad didn’t go to any church). Then I became a born-again Christian, and have thereafter attended various churches (or none), denominational & non-denominational.

I believe what the Scriptures say and if what ‘man’ says contradicts what the Word says, then there’s a problem with either the pastor or the denomination (if it’s coming down as a directive therefrom).

Period.

As an aside, I am now studying Isaiah, and am into chapter 32. This passage is relevant to the conversation, I believe:

5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

Those denominations which have been historically labeled as Protestant have become so liberal and strayed so far from Scriptural teachings that they can hardly be called churches any more.

Those 7 darn Catholic churches in Asia must have fouled the water!!