Why I Changed My Faith Icon From Protestant To Christian

As some of you readers might have noticed, my faith icon has changed from Protestant to Christian. Why is that? I'll explain.

Modern-day Protestantism has essentially became was it was trying to protest against. Protestantism did not do away with extrabiblical dogmas, it only replaced them with new ones. Protestantism is willy to label certain theologies heresy even if they seem to be a face-value reading of the text. For example, in Romans 6 Paul talks about the saving power of baptism. When some Christians who exegete this verse and say baptism saves, they are often labeled as heretics. Protestants say this refers to "spiritual baptism." The problem is that this is NOT in the text. That is something that is read into the text (eisegesis) rather than read out of the text (exegesis). Baptism, without further context, should refer to actual baptism. Another example is in Luke 10 where Jesus literally states that salvation can be found by obedience to God. Jesus then gives the example of the good Samaritan and says go do the same. Now, I think the relationship between works and salvation is complex and cannot be comprehensively explained in a single sentence. But there is no reason for Protestants to label those who think works are necessary in any meaningful sense as complete heretics when we have pretty straightforward statements from Jesus in Luke. I have come to understand the New Testament contains a variety of views on who Jesus is. Rather than let each author speak for himself give his own perspective on Jesus, it seem Protestants view everything through the lens of Paul.

Another thing I noticed wrong with Protestantism is some of its ardent anti-intellectualism. Some will automatically reject contemporary interpretations amongst biblical scholars simply because they go against Protestant theology (which they call "the historic Christian faith™") If it wasn't for questioning traditional interpretations of the Bible, we wouldn't have the Protestant Reformation!
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