When will Protestantism dissapear?

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How many more years do you give Protestantism before it essentially collapses, vanishes from the world (save a crazed intellectual here and there)? It took a few hundred years for Arianism to dissapear, and just a few less for Cathars to fade away. The Montanists lasted a few centuries, before the last remnants were restored to the Church (by St. Augustine if I remember correctly). Gnosticism lasted for a long while in the West before being controled.

Any prophesies on the fall of Protestantism are most welcome 😃
 
Okay, Mickey the guru will take a stab. 😃

Not until the second coming.
If protestantism as we know it today disappears, it will be replaced by something as divisive if not more so. This is the nature of the father of lies. People will continue to be blinded and deceived until Jesus sets it all straight.
 
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Madaglan:
How many more years do you give Protestantism before it essentially collapses, vanishes from the world (save a crazed intellectual here and there)? It took a few hundred years for Arianism to dissapear, and just a few less for Cathars to fade away. The Montanists lasted a few centuries, before the last remnants were restored to the Church (by St. Augustine if I remember correctly). Gnosticism lasted for a long while in the West before being controled.

Any prophesies on the fall of Protestantism are most welcome 😃
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The truth will never disappear
 
I think the original protestant denominations may dissapear,

like lutheran church, but there will always be new denominations until the second coming methinks.
 
I personally don’t think it can disappear. Whenever we get willful and want to invent truth, a new Protestant religion is born. It happens ever day with fallen away Catholics. I would be shocked if it would ever end, until the end of the world.
 
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Fitz:
I personally don’t think it can disappear. Whenever we get willful and want to invent truth, a new Protestant religion is born. It happens ever day with fallen away Catholics. I would be shocked if it would ever end, until the end of the world.
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Agreed. I voted no… without the “muhahahaha.”

Wha tI believe wil happen is that the Protestant spirit will survive wthin a Universalist form of Christianity which is already emerging within Episcopaliansm, Mainline Protestants, and some from the Emerging Church. The rest might turn to the Catholic faith for orthododoxy… maybe.
 
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Fitz:
I personally don’t think it can disappear. Whenever we get willful and want to invent truth, a new Protestant religion is born. It happens ever day with fallen away Catholics. I would be shocked if it would ever end, until the end of the world.
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Isn’t that the truth! Protestants don’t have an ultimate authority to which they are accountable, save themselves… Protestantism, while the word is fairly new, is as old as the Church herself. As long as the Church exists, it will exist, because the Church herself is what they are protesting against.
 
In a way, protestantism has always existed, even in the Old Testament in the way that Israelis sometimes turned away from God and His plan.

Then, in another way, protestantism is in a way already gone. I don’t think (but I may be wrong) that any protestant churches really follow what their own founding fathers really preached. Read some of Luther and then compare it to modern Lutheran confessions and you can see that they took the idea to rebel against the Church, the sola fide and sola scriptura and then cleaned up Luther’s crude theology to fit their own more refined ideas. If Luther could come back today and see the present Lutheran church, I don’t think he would be too happy with all their changes to his own theology.

However, regardless of what they believe or don’t etc. etc. ad naseum, protestantism in theory will always be around, tempting True Believers with false and erronous, but good sounding doctrine.
 
protestantism in theory will always be around
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True… Mainline protestant Churches, are slowing disappearing, however, they are replaced by “Bible-Believing-Sola-Scriptura-Do-Your-Own-Thing-Catholics-Are Wrong-Christians” and they dont consider themself Protestants, which in reality they still are protestants.
 
you guys are hilarious.

maybe the protestants are connected with the anti-christ and how, like, he’s supposed to, like, make us all believe that all religions are the same n stuff.
 
I think it was Peter Kreeft who first made the point that the big divide in Christianity is no longer between the Protestants and Catholics but between the Modernists and orthodox in every faith community.
The fundamentalist end of the evangelical camp is in this view an over-reaction to liberalism in Protestantism.
My observation leads me to agree with that view, and also think that ultra-traditionalist Catholics are the Catholic counterparts of the fundamentalist evangelicals. I find I have a lot more in common with classical Protestants I know than with either liberal-to-groovy Catholics, ultra-trad Catholics, liberal Protestants or fundamentalist Protestants.
We don’t need to worry about Protestantism disappearing. We need to worry about Modernism.
I always say better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.

Pax et bonum
Murdoch sfo
 
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MacleodOFS:
I think it was Peter Kreeft who first made the point that the big divide in Christianity is no longer between the Protestants and Catholics but between the Modernists and orthodox in every faith community.
The fundamentalist end of the evangelical camp is in this view an over-reaction to liberalism in Protestantism.
My observation leads me to agree with that view, and also think that ultra-traditionalist Catholics are the Catholic counterparts of the fundamentalist evangelicals. I find I have a lot more in common with classical Protestants I know than with either liberal-to-groovy Catholics, ultra-trad Catholics, liberal Protestants or fundamentalist Protestants.
We don’t need to worry about Protestantism disappearing. We need to worry about Modernism.
I always say better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.

Pax et bonum
Murdoch sfo
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and, perchance, better a bad catholic than a good modernist?
 
Depends on how long it takes Bush and Co. and the “Christian Right” to get their way. If they do, everything else BUT Protestantism will go away, and we will be living in a glorious, intolerant, repressive, theocratic hxxxhole. I can’t wait…

Peace.
 
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MacleodOFS:
My observation leads me to agree with that view, and also think that ultra-traditionalist Catholics are the Catholic counterparts of the fundamentalist evangelicals. I find I have a lot more in common with classical Protestants I know than with either liberal-to-groovy Catholics, ultra-trad Catholics, liberal Protestants or fundamentalist Protestants.
We don’t need to worry about Protestantism disappearing. We need to worry about Modernism.
I always say better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.
Hmm… good point.
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As someone who has associated with both fundamentalist evangelicals and ultra-trad Catholics, I’m surprised I never noticed it before.
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Fundamentalism, in any form, can be a dangerous thing. I’m not saying that we should be anything-goes, but there has to be balance. Unfortunately, balance is exactly what this world is missing.
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I am not too sure if the world won’t perish by 2050;
at any rate, most of us might.
 
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MacleodOFS:
I think it was Peter Kreeft who first made the point that the big divide in Christianity is no longer between the Protestants and Catholics but between the Modernists and orthodox in every faith community.
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**The fundamentalist end of the evangelical camp is in this view an over-reaction to liberalism in Protestantism. **
**My observation leads me to agree with that view, and also think that ultra-traditionalist Catholics are the Catholic counterparts of the fundamentalist evangelicals. I find I have a lot more in common with classical Protestants I know than with either liberal-to-groovy Catholics, ultra-trad Catholics, liberal Protestants or fundamentalist Protestants. **
**We don’t need to worry about Protestantism disappearing. We need to worry about Modernism. **
I always say better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.
Pax et bonum
Murdoch sfo**
I agree with Murdoch.
Personally, I think we should be less worried about Christian groups, whether they be Catholic or Protestant, and be more concerned about those people who have turned away from Christianity altogether; whatever guise that be in.
Whilst we profess our faith in the Triune God, we stand a chance of obtaining heaven, but deny Him, and well, we are up the creek without a paddle…Once upon a time invincible ignorance may have had a sporting chance, but in our enlightened age, it is harder to profess ignorance of Christianity. We need to focus more on getting them to convert to Christianity, than worry about the comparitively minor ecumenical differences of Christianity.
Might I venture to say, Better a bad Catholic / Protestant than a good Non-Christian?
Just my thoughts…
Peace and Love to all.🙂
 
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Madaglan:
How many more years do you give Protestantism before it essentially collapses, vanishes from the world (save a crazed intellectual here and there)? It took a few hundred years for Arianism to dissapear, and just a few less for Cathars to fade away. The Montanists lasted a few centuries, before the last remnants were restored to the Church (by St. Augustine if I remember correctly). Gnosticism lasted for a long while in the West before being controled.

Any prophesies on the fall of Protestantism are most welcome 😃
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I voted “never” and I was shocked to see how many others did as well. I think many of the present the present Protestant denominations will disappear but others will be strengthened and some new ones will arise.

I remember reading a quote somewhere ages ago, “As Catholicism becomes protestantised, so does Protestantism.” It sounded stupid to me at the time but I think this may be what has happened to some of the mainstream Protestant denominations like the Episcopalians.
 
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