Breaking News: JFK Jr Speaks.
My family history is the same. Genealogy is all Quakers until my Dad's Great-Grandfather and then it changes to Free Methodist, Nazarene, Wesleyan, Pilgrim Holiness, and Church of God.
Same M.O. though…
My siblings and I could take on an entire Adult Bible study class by the time we were 9 or 10…
Reading and studying the Bible for ourselves is just ingrained into our DNA, I guess.
Catholics? Not really. I know 2 ex-Catholics who are now studying and reading scripture, and they both say that they were discouraged from doing that by their Priests when they first began asking questions about the differences between Church Doctrine and what the Bible actually says.
> If you Protestants are all so learned in Bible study, why are there so many denominations?
Maybe because we don't just follow our spiritual leaders blindly, and check things in the Bible out for ourselves?