Denominations Staying Consistent

[SJP]

This is getting interesting

In the "Do Budge and Eutychus agree on Theology" thread,

Euthychus stated:

"[b]it has been my personal experience { I get around for various time and project reasons } that 90% agreement is the norm for most normal Christians[/b]. Where we tend to disagree is on the non-essentials, like eschatological timings, spiritual gifts, and the like, on the biggies the differences are almost inconsequential"

Now in this thread Eutychus states:

"Essentially ALL of the massive growth in non liturgical/sacramental churches is in the [b]Pentecostal and Independent streams [/b] and that holds true for most of the world today. [b]Essentially all of them have pretty much the same understanding of the basics[/b], all practice believers baptism, they are not cessationist, they are not replacement proponents, and most are premillenialists."

Well this is most interesting!

Eutychus,
At this point I'm led to assume that by "normal Christians" you really mean "Pentecostal Christians"

So you concur that there is not an agreement on "essentials" between most Christian denominations (as evidenced by the article above) yet you escape that fact by saying basically that "we Pentecostals agree on essentials"

The catch is that you provide [b]no evidence[/b] to demonstrate that the Pentecostal interpretation of scripture is the correct one. Instead you cite the growth of your church as if that is some how evidence for it being a "True Church".

The fact that mainline Protestant churches have declining attendance does not prove that their interpretation of scripture is incorrect!

You, just like countless other Christian denominations rely on the Bible as your sole source of authority.

The fact remains the same, without an authority beyond scripture there is no way to know who is correct about scripture.

off to school,
God Bless.

[Budge]

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The fact that mainline Protestant churches have declining attendance does not prove that their interpretation of scripture is incorrect![/quote]

1. Mainline churches are infested with interfaithism and liberalism, around here the United Methodists and Presbyterians worship the goddess....

2. Mainliners have departed from Gods Word, and thusly have lost the Holy Spirit.

3. Mainliners have made the mistake of following men over God.

4. Egghead theology, where vain philosophies, traditions and ECFs as well, took root over the teaching and commandments and Word of God.

5. the MAJORITY of mainliners have joined hands with Rome.

[Mary-Kathryn]

[quote name='Budge' post='1062339' date='Sep 14 2006, 12:38 AM']
Im not a Protestant...


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Catholic? :

Hey, I can always hope and pray for you to come home can't I?

Mary-Kathryn

[Eutychus]

[quote]Hey, I can always hope and pray for you to come home can't I?

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[b]NO. [/b][/size]

I believed Peter in 2 Peter 2:22