{"id":118,"date":"2024-11-16T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/16\/orthodox-vs-protestantism\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:54:00","slug":"orthodox-vs-protestantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/16\/orthodox-vs-protestantism\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox vs Protestantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Background<\/h2>\n<p>My faith background was as an Evangelical Protestant. I attended two Evangelical seminaries and got a Master of Theology degree and a Master of Divinity degree. I was an Evangelical church pastor for a few years. It didn&#8217;t end well.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Good Things about being an Evangelical<\/h2>\n<p>One thing I am thankful about being an Evangelical is the love for the Bible that I got from Evangelicals. Many know chapter and verse and even if they don&#8217;t, they can find something in the Bible that relates to any particular subject.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals are so good at spreading the Gospel that they are all around. They&#8217;ve even penetrated Central and South America. Countries that were once Catholic are now around 1\/3 Evangelicals. You can probably find a half dozen of them a short drive from where you live.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals have all sorts of theological understandings of Scripture to suit any interpretation of the Bible.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Weaknesses in the Evangelical Approach<\/h2>\n<p>One problem is it leads to a &#8220;My Bible and Me&#8221; view of the faith. The church gets viewed almost an accessory to the faith. If you don&#8217;t like your church, you can jump down the street to another church that suits you better.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no accepted and standard way of reading the Bible. This has resulted in a wide fragmentation of the Evangelical church into hundreds or more denominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background My faith background was as an Evangelical Protestant. I attended two Evangelical seminaries and got a Master of Theology degree and a Master of Divinity degree. I was an Evangelical church pastor for a few years. It didn&#8217;t end well. Good Things about being an Evangelical One thing I am thankful about being an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoc","category-history","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}