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Protestant
Scriptures
If one
is Protestant there are certain scriptures he cannot fulfill. This is not
because he doesn't understand them, or is not morally or spiritually fit
enough to fulfill them, but simply because he is Protestant. The first one
is when the Apostle Paul tells us to be of one mind with each other. (1Cor.
1:10 + 2Cor. 13:11) How in the world with all of the various denominations,
and all of their various doctrinal statements, can Protestants be of one
mind with one another?
When confronted with this Protestants will normally resort to claiming that
there are primary doctrines which affect our salvation and secondary ones
which do not. They then say that they are of one mind on the primary ones
and so fulfill the scriptural command. The problem is that there is no
scripture in the New Testament which says that there is such a thing as
primary and secondary doctrines. So in an attempt to follow one scriptural
command, they invent that which is not scriptural, all the while claiming to
be a religion based on the scriptures.
Another scripture which one cannot fulfill if one is Protestant is 2Thess.
2:15 which tells us to follow an oral tradition that has come down from the
Apostles. Most Protestants reject tradition all together, much less an oral
one. They cite the telephone game as evidence that it is sure to become
corrupted over time. A combination of this unbelief, and the fact that
Protestantism didn't begin until the 1500's, precludes them from having an
Apostolic oral tradition, and therefore prohibits them from fulfilling this
scripture.
Finally 1Tim. 3:15 says that the Church is the pillar and ground of truth.
This gives every indication that we should be able to look to the Church for
the truth. The question one must answer if one is Protestant is which church
does one look to for this truth? There are so many different churches with
so many different doctrinal statements, that the idea of having something
called "the Church" in Protestantism is ludicrous, much less obtaining one
consistent truth from it.
To counter this, Protestants have declared the scriptures to be the pillar
and ground of truth, while they believe that the church is profitable for
various things. The problem is that the Bible actually says the opposite. It
says that the scriptures are profitable ( 2Tim. 3:15-17) and the Church is
the pillar and ground of truth. In this case Protestants actually reverse
the scriptures in order to justify remaining Protestant.
The mere presence of denominations is the most obviously unscriptural aspect
of Protestantism. One will search the New Testament in vain trying to find
anything that justifies Christianity breaking up into many different sects
with many different doctrinal statements. Of course there were heretics from
the beginning, but they were able to be combated by the Church because no
matter where it went in the world it took the same doctrinal statements with
it. Peter, Paul John, Matthew etc. all preached the same thing. Can modern
day Protestants say the same?
If one is Protestant and wants to remain so, he must ignore some scriptures
while inventing others, somehow justify unscripturally dividing into many
different sects, all the while claiming to be the expression of Christianity
which is the most scriptural. This seems like a lot of mental gymnastics
just to remain Protestant.
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