Perhaps you better forward this onto ppm because they apparently feel we shouldn't rely on "a" Book (the Bible) only, with regards to or the likes of this to disciple term, because it would seem they don't want to hear it from me.
wotsup, I'll let your founding father Luther,who is responsible for this predicament you find yourself in along with all protestants answer you.
He realised he was wrong in breaking up with the catholic church.
And your caught up in that mess he's created 500 years later.
That’s why even Luther spoke of those who had swallowed the Holy Spirit feathers and all. He saw the writing on the wall even during his lifetime—think of how distressed he would be today if he saw the train wreck he caused.
“There is no smearer;” [Luther] said, “but when he has heard a sermon or can read a chapter in German, makes a doctor of himself and crowns his ass and convinces himself that he knows everything better than all who teach him:” (Walch V. 1652). “When we have heard or learned a few things about Holy Scripture, we think we are already doctors and have swallowed the Holy Ghost, feathers and all:’ (Walch V. 472). . . . “This one;’ he says, “will not hear of Baptism, that one denies the Sacrament, another puts a world between this and the last day: some teach that Christ is not God, some say this, some say that: there are about as many sects and creeds as there are heads. No yokel is so rude but when he has dreams and fancies, he thinks himself inspired by the Holy Ghost and must be a prophet.” (De Wette III, 61). Seeing his power and authority to control the masses gone, he now in a spirit of disappointment sarcastically remarks: “Noblemen, townsmen, peasants, all classes understand the Evangelium better than I or St. Paul; they are now wise and think themselves more learned than all the ministers.” (Walch XIV, 1360). Thus Luther himself testifies to the utter failure of the cardinal principle of his so-called Reformation (The Facts about Luther quoted in full below).
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