What are some Protestant positions on the verses about apostasy?
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How do the different Protestant denominations interpret these verses? Is it in the light of apostasy that happened in the 1st Century? Right before Luther? A general principle of being aware to no fall away presently?
**Acts 20:29-30**
>29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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>30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
**2 Thessalonians 2:1-4**
>1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
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>2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
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>3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
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>4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
**2 Timothy 4:3-4**
>3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
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>4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
**2 Peter 2:1-3**
>1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
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>2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
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>3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Are these verses seen as not general apostasy? These seem to teach of immediate apostasy in the 1st Century, but I am curious about the differing views in Protestantism. I understand that there may even be different interpretations for each reference here.
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