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We have the Creeds, Saints’ Days, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion. These things guarantee that we are true Christians.

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Some Protestants have those things, at least theoretically. Others have some of them. Others have none of them. But in any case they would not prove Protestants to be true Christians. At most they prove that some Protestants are attempting to do some Christian things. But a true Christian accepts the complete teaching of Christ, and does all that He commands. And all is accepted on the authority of Christ, not on the authority of one’s own human judgment. A self-made religion built upon a personally approved selection from the teaching of Christ does not give us the Christian religion.

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