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No, xzins, two of those links in my post #2604 are to major Methodist links, maintained by Methodists. If you disagree with them, you are disagreeing with Methodists (including the largest Methodist organization in the United States, the "United Methodist Church" on their main web site). If anyone is in error about that, it is those Methodists (but they are not in error about that -- they are actually correct).
I am a United Methodist pastor. Ordained, from a major seminary, with 35 years of service including a career as a United Methodist endorsed active duty chaplain. I know what they’re saying. They’re using protestant in the vernacular.
They cannot change history. Methodism did NOT exist for 200 years after the Reformation. That’s fact.
Nor did Wesley intend a ‘methodist’ denomination. He intended a renewal movement with a moribund Anglican church, but an American Revolution moved it out of his hands and onto an entirely different continent. After that, the “Methodist” denomination arose.