NetDoc said:
Those who have ears to hear let them hear. No one has put forth a compelling argument that the churches of Christ or the churches of God are indeed "Protestant". Neither have they shown from Scriptures that the Catholic Church was the first century church. Have a great night all. This discussion has ceased being civil and I want no part of it.
From
The Ecyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, Eerdman's 2004:
When Alexander Campbell began his
Christian Baptist series titled "A Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things" in February 1825, he acknowledged the debt that Christians had to all past reformers, including those of the Protestant Reformation...Nevertheless, Campbell saw his own reform efforts in some sense as a continuation of the Protestant Reformation -- perhaps a completion of it...He believed that too often, however, the Reformation had substituted one set of human opinions for another instead of actualizing Luther's principle of "The Bible alone" as the sole source of authority. The current efforts of his Movement were aimed at doing just that.
Though some in the Movement have been reluctant to label themselves Protestants, the Stone-Campbell Movement is in the direct lineage of the Protestant Reformation. Especially shaped by Reformed theology through its Presbyterian roots, the Movement also shares historical and theological traits with Anglican and Anabaptist forebears."
