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Covenant,

Thank you for clearing up the hierarchy. I assure you I want to respect the rules and the governing authorities in this forum.

I have a question though. You said:


Which again gives me the impression that the prevailing opinion here is the Reformation was entirely subscribed to Perseverence (since you link the Reformation with Perseverence too) when history doesn't bear that out. Why is this such an important doctrine? Is it because it opposes what the RCC teaches? I only ask this because E.G. White condemned Sunday worship because the RCC taught it, so there is a precident for this sort of reasoning (setting aside that I'm sure everyone here agrees that EGW was, to put it kindly, mentally unstable).

As I read the history of the Reformation, Luther made every effort not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Calvin also maintained certain points of orthodoxy, such as affirming the perpetual virginity of Mary using Biblical exegesis. (If you want to discuss this further, we can open another thread) The Armenians constituted a substantial part of the Reformation. Although this board's doctrines seem to be from the school of the Huguenots, the Huguenots were not the entire Reformation movement.

This is a point I wish to clarify.