Ubique, semper et ab omnibus  |||  Everywhere, always and by all

Questions Every Protestant Should Contemplate

1. Why do you see faithful, Jesus-seeking, heart-committed practicing Roman Catholics or Eastern Orthodox believers as somehow second-rate Christians?
2. Why is our current experience of Evangelicalism missing 1500-years of connection with the rest Church history?
3. Why do Protestants reject the Apocrypha when 75% of Christendom (The Roman Catholic Church and The Eastern Orthodox Church) accept the Apocrypha as Scripture?
4. Do you know that the New Testament refers to events described in the Apocrypha (e.g. Hebrews 11:35 with 2 Maccabees 7:12)?
5. Do you know that Early Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria accepted all the Apocrypha as Scripture?
6. Do you know that early Christian catacomb scenes depict episodes from the Apocrypha?
7. Do you know that the early church councils that first spoke about which books should be in the Bible accepted the Apocrypha as Scripture: Rome (382), Hippo (393), and Carthage (397)?
8. Do you know that the Apocrypha continued to be included in the Protestant Bible (though not viewed as Scripture) as late as the nineteenth-century?
9. What does the authority of the Church really mean and look like?
10. Do you know that in the early church Apostolic oral tradition was seen as equally authoritative with the New Testament writings?
11. Do you know what the Reformers (John Calvin, Martin Luther, Zwingli, Martin Bucer, Ursinus, etc.) really taught?
12. Do you know that the early church was built on the idea of Apostolic Succession?
13. Why has the Reformation resulted into thousands of denominations and disunity?
14. Can we really know what the Bible says when every different Protestant denomination claims their own peculiar belief based on the Bible?
15. Can the Bible be interpreted correctly when it was written thousands of years ago?
16. How can the Bible be authoritative for us when it was written in a completely different time and culture?
17. Who and what makes up the visible Church?
18. Do you know that the prevailing view among Protestants up until the late 19th Century was to view Roman Catholic baptism as valid? Some of the Protestant theologian pedigree that held to this are: John Calvin, John Knox, Theodore Beza, William Perkins, Samuel Rutherford, Richard Baxter, Francis Turretin, Charles Hodge, and A.A. Hodge.
19. Do you know that Martin Luther and Augustine, both considered heroes by Protestants believed in baptismal regeneration in the same sacramental sense that Roman Catholics profess?
20. Do you know that Protestantism is split regarding its view of the Gospel with one position (held by famous Protestant theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, John Calvin, A.A. Hodge, etc.) being in more agreement with Roman Catholicism than the other Protestant counter-part?