Are Protestant Evangelicals Christians?
So apparently, Protestant Evangelicals believe that one billion Catholics (the largest Christian denomination) are “Christians” only inasmuch as they agree with Protestant Evangelical doctrines and interpretations of scripture. Let’s look at the converse. Do Catholics believe that Protestants, including Evangelicals, are “saved” by virtue of their innovations on Christian doctrine? Speaking of the Protestant denominations that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church since the Protestant Reformation, the Vatican II Council declared in 1964: “It follows that the separated Churches and Communities as such, though we believe them to be deficient in some respects, have been by no means deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation. For the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Church.” “Nevertheless, our separated brethren, whether considered as i
