An End to Protestantism?????????

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Graceismine

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SilenceInMotion said:
Are you drunk or something? I haven't seen any atheists have Peter as their avatar and a quote by John Paul II as their signature.
drunk in the spirit maybe. :D

A reminder of what Protestantism is about (from wiki)

Historic Protestantism (both Lutheran and Reformed) has held to sola-fide justification in opposition to Roman Catholicism especially, but also in opposition to significant aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy. Protestants exclude all human works (except the works of Jesus Christ, which form the basis of justification) from the legal verdict / pardon of justification. In the General Council of Trent the Catholic Church stated in canon XIV on justification that "If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins and justified, because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who believes himself justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him be anathema(excommunicated)." Thus, "faith alone" is foundational to Protestantism, and distinguishes it from otherChristian denominations. According to Martin Luther, justification by faith alone is the article on which thechurch stands or falls.
The Catholic Church through ecumenism seeks to stamp this out. The irony of it is that the Protestants are cooperating in it because they generally have become bereft of any historical teaching on it and mainly a lack of Scriptural knowledge due to the growth of the Emergent Church/Seeker Sensitive Movement.

In spite of that, the truth will prevail because in amongst all the confusion there is the true body of Christ made up of the born again ones, these being alive and well and against whom the "gates of Hell will not prevail".