Being Protestant

Major said:
A Protestant believer is someone who disagrees with the teachings of the Catholic Church and dates back to the 16th century.

The Protestant Reformation began on 19-31-1517 when a young German monk named Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Wittenburg Church. Luther wrote his theses to propose a public debate about the moral and theological abuses he had witnessed with the Roman Catholic Church’s popular (and lucrative) practice of selling indulgences, which were certificates that released one from having to perform a certain amount of penitence for sin, including reducing time in purgatory.

I am a Protestant because I believe the Bible emphasizes salvation as a free gift of God which is received by faith alone, and as such I believe we appeal to the authority of the Bible as the ultimate rule for Christian living, rather than deferring to tradition or the proclamations of a Pope. While each Protestant sect has developed its own distinctive set of beliefs and practices, they are united by a common commitment to the centrality of faith for salvation and a regard for Scripture as the supreme authority for the Christian faith.
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I came from the Catholic Church and now attend a Baptist church. Never have I labelled myself Protestant. I am a follower of Jesus. The term is outdated and infers Protestant as opposed to Catholic as most of you have stated.
Why stop with the Catholic church? Why not include Mormons Jehovah Witnesses etc etc ?
I am in no way decrying the term 'Protestant' at the time of the reformation, but to label myself as one now in
 
vision1 said:
I came from the Catholic Church and now attend a Baptist church. Never have I labelled myself Protestant. I am a follower of Jesus. The term is outdated and infers Protestant as opposed to Catholic as most of you have stated.
Why stop with the Catholic church? Why not include Mormons Jehovah Witnesses etc etc ?
I am in no way decrying the term 'Protestant' at the time of the reformation, but now the word has many different connotations and I'm pretty sure we've all attended ' Protestant ' churches at some time which have been no more than social hubs where the true Gospel is neve preached
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vision1 said:
I came from the Catholic Church and now attend a Baptist church. Never have I labelled myself Protestant. I am a follower of Jesus. The term is outdated and infers Protestant as opposed to Catholic as most of you have stated.
Why stop with the Catholic church? Why not include Mormons Jehovah Witnesses etc etc ?
I am in no way decrying the term 'Protestant' at the time of the reformation, but to label myself as one now in
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to be honest mankind loves labels. in the Bible there is only 2 kind of people Lost or saved .. you either are or are not .i will share this again a old time preacher man once said your name tag will either fall off going up. or burn off going down. my screen name says it all forgiven
 
vision1 said:
I came from the Catholic Church and now attend a Baptist church. Never have I labelled myself Protestant. I am a follower of Jesus. The term is outdated and infers Protestant as opposed to Catholic as most of you have stated.
Why stop with the Catholic church? Why not include Mormons Jehovah Witnesses etc etc ?
I am in no way decrying the term 'Protestant' at the time of the reformation, but to label myself as one now in
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Hi vision1 ... I know I said I was finished with my comments.. .but since I am the one who started the thread in the first place...
allow me to say WELCOME back.

I think in one of my first posts... I chose to declare that I call myself protestant for the sole purpose of REMOVING myself from the Catholic Church. In reality... I do not consider myself or dwell upon the title. I too am a follower of JESUS. I don't think in labels... I use them when talking to others for the sake of clarification.
 
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