re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?

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Your pride and arrogance is palpable; and as obvious as your poorly disguised ulterior motives that drive your unhealthy obsession. You obviously take great pleasure in pointing out the speck in your brother’s eyes, while neglecting the plank in your own. It really is sad that you get so much satisfaction from the failings of the Protestant denominations that stray from sound biblical teachings. But, let me be absolutely clear- these failures are not the result of Sola Scriptura, but rather a glaring consequence of the abandonment thereof.

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I'm subjecting Protestant theology to rigorous analysis. I maintain that when this happens, we can see the flaws in this theology. It has nothing to do with pride or arrogance.

I'm not attacking any individual person. I will engage in argument, but that's not an attack.

I'm glad that you are being absolutely clear that, according to your version of Bible Alone, the Methodists have strayed from "sound biblical teachings". Guess what? There's a huge mainline Protestant denomination who will tell you the same thing - that you have interpreted the Bible incorrectly and that THEY are the ones implementing "sound biblical teachings".

Both cannot be true at the same time. Two Bible Alone denominations claim that the Holy Spirit led them to two opposite interpretations. This is a problem. There's something broken about this system of Bible Alone/Faith Alone. We know that something's wrong because Protestantism keeps branching off into tens if not hundreds of different denominations.

Now we come to the point in the history of the Protestant Reformation where two mainline Protestant denominations have completely opposite Biblical Truths about this very important topic involving God's Plan for Human Sexuality. Both sides utilize the Bible Alone/Faith Alone system for forming doctrine.

Is it arrogant to question whether this Bible Alone/Faith Alone system invented by men living in the 1500s is broken?

Weren't there serious arguments and divisions among Protestants even back then when the Reformation was new? Indeed yes. And this process of constant disagreement and branching off continues now over 500 years later.

As early as 1529, leading Protestants had already disagreed on what the Bible says and were branching off. The doctrine that they themselves invented: Bible Alone/Faith Alone, was demonstrating even back then that it might be broken and flawed.

The Marburg Colloquy that happened in 1529 is an interesting example.

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