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"To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant."John Henry Cardinal Newman

To justify its break from the Catholic Church, Protestantism has adopted the strategy of pitting the Holy Scripture against the Church. The result is a false dilemma whereby one is to chose between Holy Scripture and the "traditions of men"...the Catholic Church. Fifteen hundred years of Christianity and the working of the Holy Spirit were swept away with the cavalier and unbiblical charge that it is merely the "traditions of men."

This article will not address the issue of whether the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church is merely the "traditions of men." Rather, this article will examine the Protestant view of itself.

The Protestant inference, and outright claim, is that they follow only the Bible...not the traditions of men.

Only blindness resulting from the centuries long propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church could result in such a claim.

Protestantism is the best example of following the "traditions of men." Virtually every Protestant church, denomination, sect and cult can be traced to some human founder(s) within the past 500 years. Whether it is Luther, Calvin, King Henry VIII, Wesley, Knox, Joseph Smith (Mormon), Russell (JW), Eddy (Christian Scientist) or any number cropping up to this very day, all Protestants follow the "traditions of men." Some, such as Lutherans, use the very name of their founder in their denomination name. Others closely identify with their founders, such as those who call themselves "Calvinists." All approach the Bible and interpret it in accordance with the "traditions of men" they have inherited

The following links will set forth the various "traditions of men" within Protestantism as the links are discovered.

The Origin of your Church (A "in-house" link)

January 26, 1999

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