[zebrafish]

Most of the time, religious people don’t bother with actual theology. If you care to look, there is a lot of critical thinking that went into the Reformation. Both of these examples go against mainline reformed theology in America. Reformed Covenant Theology says God doesn’t punish us with earthly catastrophes and God doesn’t make people sinners. Many times, Christians just make up or guess at their own theology because they haven’t bothered to read the Bible or haven’t consulted with ministers on matters like these.

[jawns]

Concerning the Reformation and the two big doctrines that came out of it -- sola scriptura (Bible alone) and sola fide (faith alone) -- there was a Pew Research poll done a few years ago, asking U.S. Protestants about whether they ascribed to those beliefs.

Turns out, only 30 percent of U.S. Protestants believe in both sola fide and sola scriptura.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/31/poll-most-p...