{"id":116,"date":"2019-02-17T02:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherbasil.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2019-02-17T02:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T02:04:48","slug":"the-protestant-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherbasil.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/the-protestant-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Protestant Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Protestant Problem &#8211; February 16, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a great many issues with the protestant milieu, though two matters stand out to me above all others, and I think are the single greatest contributors to their fractured state. The first issue I believe I have mentioned in past ramblings, and that is their almost complete lack of ecclesiology, the failure to understand the Church, which has led to an equal failure in many other areas. The other issue is their poor handling and treatment of the scriptures. It would seem that men would rather use scriptures to defend their own ideas, to defend their preferred lifestyle, to defend their own status quo, than to give their lives in defense of the faith the scriptures describe,and the subsequent act of living out that faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Protestant Problem &#8211; February 16, 2019 I have a great many issues with the protestant milieu, though two matters stand out to me above all others, and I think are the single greatest contributors to their fractured state. 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