Christians

[Statler Waldorf]

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Point taken.
However, regarding your non-denom school - I never said you couldn't get along with each other. My father is an uber-fundy baptist - he get's along ok with several catholics, but they are always in standard disagreement mode. Also, the similarities you mentioned; although several of those items are dogmatic in the religion, many of them could not be considered as such because they are so subject to interpolation. predestination, corporate worship, hell, the holy spirits roles, the flood, OT stories, family, divorce and marriage ... all of those things are debated heavily within the church (remember I use to be one of you).

I'm not saying I don't see your point. I do, but I'm going to have to disagree with you about the amount of agreement you seem to think exists. I don't think it's anywhere near as great as you would make claim ..... but we come from two different camps, so that should not be a surprise.

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Yes you are right, the similarities there are not dogmatic issues, they are just similarities between two of the older protestant denominations. If you compared those two denominations with Catholics for instance you would for sure have far more differences than similarities. I actually hate having discussions with Catholics because they treat the papacy as having the same divine authority as scripture, so you really can't get anywhere with them because from a pre-suppositional perspective they are just very different than Protestants. I am not saying many of them don't have a saving faith in Christ, I just think they focus on the wrong issues sometimes.