Basic Protestant Christian Beliefs

In this video we put aside the things Protestants differ on and try to cover some basic beliefs that are core to their teachings.

[mylesdedman]

Bro, I was just googling this topic to try and summarize the beliefs to explain to someone, and I had a difficult time finding a comprehensive and definitive answer. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS!

[tylerjornov]

This may not have been your intention (or maybe it was 🧐) but I love how you basically just presented the gospel in this video while also giving a good basis for explaining what Protestants believe. So what’s interesting about this video, as opposed to most of what you make, is that it’s likely that someone may watch it and be saved. So thank you!

[HolyKhaaaaan]

Happy birthday of the Church - Happy Pentecost!

[ProductBasement]

I'm Baptist and have attended 3 different Baptist churches in 3 different geographical regions and I'm pretty sure each has been comfortable with the label "Protestant", although it's not something that came up very often. We just look at the Bible and believe what it says and nothing else. If our Catholic friends want to call us "Protestant" because of this, so be it

[quintonlaughman]

Your listing of the basic Protestant beliefs followed the Nicene Creed for some time and I found myself saying it along with the video.

[RepublicofE]

For the purposes of clarity when explaining the Protestant landscape to people I prefer to group Protestants into 6 groups according to who you're most likely to actually encounter in your day to day life:

Lutherans

Presbyterians and other reformed

Anglican/Episcopalian

Methodists

Baptists

Pentecostals, Charismatics, and all other groups originating in the Great Awakenings and revival movements, including the so-called "non-denominational" churches

It may not be academically precise, especially when it comes to that last group, but in terms of looking at the intersection between religion and cultural blocs rather than strict academic distinctions, I think it's a useful system.

[youtubeaccount]

I would be very interested in a video about what Unitarians, Jehovah’s Witness, and Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) believe and how those beliefs differ from the accepted Christian beliefs like what you discuss in this video.

[robertmcvicar]

Justification by faith alone is what we're about.

[rhenzvlog]

I'm born again christian, just now I know that protestant belief is same to what we believed also..👍♥️

[adamwilson]

Your videos, and this one in particular has shown me how much more we Christians have in common compared to how much we disagree on. While I hold to my set of doctrine concerning the particulars of those things, I'd gladly call anyone who holds to these simple beliefs you laid out as my brother in Christ.

[dorkmessenger]

this exposition was a good one...like most people I'm aware of my disagreements but they bare nuts and bolts of it all was exacting enough ..thank You!

[JDsVarietyChannel]

Generalizing for the sake of overall clarity can be an extremely useful teaching tool, as long as that generalization is for the sole purpose of better understanding, and not used to marginalize or to distort other beliefs in elevation of your own. IE: One of the core definitions of bias is misrepresenting the position of the opposing view in order to amplify your own. It's one of the repulsive shortcuts (straw man arguments) that I find many people taking in our hyper connected world (even among conservatives) and I have been guilty of this myself. It's as if discourse itself in our fast paced world beckons us to engage in this polarizing, ungodly, behavior. Anyhow, you are able to pack more information into a 5 minute video than anyone I know. It's very useful for subjects that need to be looked at with a very broad lens for understanding history, trends, and human nature overall.

I grew up in AOG, but distanced myself from that doctrinal leaning about 10 years ago, as I believe it was truth mixed with error (though that's irrelevant to my point here). I take on the label of Christian, or follower/disciple of Christ. The bare minimum to explain my allegiance to Christ. But take no other identifier, because I personally believe that leads to the endless splintering of sects and idolatry, in which Paul warned about, starting in 1 Corinthians 3:4. It promotes disunity and confusion, especially among unbelievers when they look at proposed Christianity as a whole. And no, I'm not Catholic. Until I found your channel, I didn't even know that was a popular, pro catholic talking point.

This is also why I don't identify as non-denominational. Should a dog identify as a non-cat? I think it's playing into the reaction game when we identify by what we're not. I believe all the core doctrines of Protestantism in their most zoomed out view as you presented here, though I do not consider myself protestant. It's where identifiers get quirky too. Many people do not realize that the historical meaning of a Protestant was someone who was protesting the Catholic church (It's literally in the name). So they are identifying by what they are not. Being stripped from it's historical context. We technically now have some non-protestant, protestants. This is the absurdity of titles for the sake of distancing ourselves from others. They lose/change meaning over time, and don't truly identify what we are, but what we are not.

My advice is to put the focus back on Christ alone, and not endless identifiers. Though I'm just a guy in the comments, you should read the Word of God to see if what I say has any validity, and not just take my word for it. :)

I find many conservatives are just as guilty for what they call out liberals out on. Where one may find pride in their identity as a black, minority, female, bisexual, and be endlessly ridiculed for their focus on race, social status an sexual identity. Another may find pride in their identity as a straight, protestant, evangelical, Christian, conservative. I wonder what God sees when he looks down at all of our collective nonsense? How can we be an example to the world for righteous living if we're following traditions for the sake of tradition?

[negf]

Love these, so informative. Thanks so much!😎

[jackiemathis]

Thank you for you answer. I am a oneness apostolic minister of 53 years. When I was young we had fellowship with the fundamental Baptists. I preached and sang in their churches as well as they did ours. We grew up with them and knew them. I even attended some classes at Tenn. Temple. As far as the Godhead I don't think anyone fully understands it completely. I don't agree with all oneness doctrine. I say we are both non-creedal. They went without the Holy Spirit in the Godhead from 325 to 381.
I just wanted to say within myself I know what God has done in my life and I know his power.

[iagoofdraiggwyn]

This is perfect! Thank you! God Bless✝️

[kafisher]

This is very helpful, and I'm protestant.

[trafledrakel]

please make a video comparing Anglican and Catholic, I don’t believe you did it already

[shayneshinkai]

Your videos are outstanding, so informative and no judgement.

[cheesenip]

Do you plan to cover the Methodist split now that it's official? I'm very interested in it even though I am not a Methodist myself. I was made aware of it from a movie titled "Enemies within the Church"

[RepublicofE]

Videos like this are important because the average non-Christian American today knows about as much about Christianity as Americans did about Islam before 9/11.

We're talking about at least two generations now that saw The Da Vinci Code and thought it was history.

Joshua is doing the Lord's work by helping to even make it possible to talk to such people.