Ever notice how Protestant evangelical communities take on these names why is that?

Question

Ever notice how Protestant communities take on these names which do not necessarily accentuate what they are or claim to be but what they claim other Christians are not such a bible believing church, a reform religion, a bible church, "true Christian", "born again believers", etc, etc... please feel free to add others

Answer 1

Protestantism is a series of religious sects and cults that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church (which broke away from the Orthodox Church when it didn't accept the pope as a monarch). They have to do it, because of this. They all base their doctrines on the Bible, but the Bible is their "sole authority." They can't claim to have been founded by Christ. In fact, that is an embarrassing detail when they try to converse with a learned Orthodox or Roman Catholic. It goes something like this:

"So, when did your church start?" "Oh, it started five hundred years ago when Martin Luther broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. When did yours start?" "It started two thousand years ago when Jesus taught the Apostles, whereupon they wrote the New Testament and taught the people as Christ taught them. Who started yours and with what authority?" "Well, it was Martin Luther. He thought he was right..."

When you have conversations like that, you have to spread disinformation about your opponents (look at all the evil things the Roman Catholics did but never did), call yourselves grandiose titles like "Bible-based," and so on. Since it's a religion of schismatics and sectarians, they can't get along long, before someone says "I don't think that's true" (usually with the accusation that they're quenching the Spirit with their evil traditions, because we all know tradition is bad), and then goes off and forms a new church that may, or may not, get along with its parent church.

That's just Protestantism, and if it didn't try to set itself apart this way, it would die very quickly. Even now, it is already dieing. Protestantism cared a lot for doctrine, but now just to get along, these sects are emphasizing it less and less, and they're becoming still something even newer (and the changes and permutations will go on forever).

Answer 2

You're sweatin the small stuff.

Answer 3

Yep, sure have.