Cool. I'll ask you, then (if I may, and I think I can, here), the question I asked Reformed Baptist apologist James White almost 30 years ago on his "Sola Scriptura list" (that came to one's email in those days). He never answered (the usual routine with him); perhaps you will. He wrote, "I believe it is vitally important to believe in what the Apostles taught. . . . In fact, it is fidelity to the apostolic message that is the strongest argument against the innovations of Rome over time, Dave."

So I wrote back:

Why not boldly tell us, then, James, precisely WHAT “the Apostles taught”? In particular, . . . for example:

1.TULIP

2. Baptism

3. The Eucharist

4. Church Government

5. Regeneration

6. Sanctification

7. The Place of Tradition

8. Women Clergy

9. Divorce

10. Feminism

11. Abortion

12. The Utility of Reason

13. Natural Theology

14. The Charismatic Gifts

15. Alcohol

16. Sabbatarianism

17. Whether Catholics are Christians

18. Civil Disobedience

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You refer to "the doctrine of the prophets and the apostles." So what did they teach on the above 18 points? Although this will no doubt be regarded as "provocative" or "polemical" I intended it as a perfectly serious, relevant question, then, and I do now as well.