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    in the protestant religion what does the term reformation confessions mean?

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    The following is an excerpt from WIKIPEDIA:
    Reformed confessions of faith are the confessions of faith of various Reformed churches. These documents express consensus on doctrine for the church adopting the confession. A few confessions are shared as subordinate standards (i.e. authorities subordinate to the Bible) by many denominations, which have made their choices from among the various creeds for primarily historical reasons.


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    There's no such thing as " The Protestant Religion "   Protestants are a part of Christianity.......so is Catholosism. They are both the Christian religion.  By reformation, you are refering to the time when a Catholic monk named Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic church..... and started the Protestant movement. I never heard of " reformation confessons "  Verbal confessions is something only Catholics do to a priest  . Protestants only confess to the Lord  Jesus when they've done something wrong.They don't use a middle man.

       The Protestant reformation did not retain the Roman Catholic doctine or practice of auricular (private, spoken, into the ear) confession to a priest for absolution of sins. However St. Augustine was a key figure in the thinking of the Reformers, like Luther. One of Augustine's most significant writings is titled Confessions. See the website for additional explanation.                  


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    C Don, We're lucky to have you on this site, b/c you're educated in Christianity . You can clear up a lot of this confusion that we've been arguing and debating about.


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