Protestant Beliefs

Protestant Beliefs questions and answers

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Q: What Protestant beliefs prevent Catholics from allowing them to take communion? Is it really worth the schism?


A: If they do not believe that they are truly receiving Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist then they should not be receiving Him at all. Yes it is worth the Schism, they are not in Communion with the Holy Father in Rome and therefore are not in full Communion with Christ either.

Q: What are some examples of Protestants persecuting other Protestant denominations b/c of their beliefs?
dates and specifics helpfull and it doesn't have to be physical persecution ( but that would be best)

A: They don't really, but can unfortunately be cold towards each other, and not work together very much ! Where I grew up they tried to work together, but it would be more unusual for say a pentecostal church to work with a C of E church than the C of E to work with the methodists. Back in 17C UK some protestant groups who wanted to take the Reformation ideas all the way were persecuted by the standard Anglicans. The sanctions imposed were probably more of the gaol sentence/fines variety - you'd have to check. E.g I think John Bunyan who wrote Pilgrim's Progress may have been imprisoned because he was an unlicensed preacher, but you'd have to check. The Pilgrim Father's left for America to flee some repression in UK, not sure how bad it was, but they were more free in Massachusetts to practice their faith as they felt was best. In late 18C the traditional Church of England didn't help the new evangelical preachers like Charles Wesley and George Whitfield. It was more saying hard deprecating and mocking things against them than taking any action, I think. They got called 'enthousiasts', which was a derogatory term then.

Q: What were the doctrinal beliefs of the Protestant denomination in Spain?


A: The Catholic killed all of them, didn't they? I do know a group that took some tracts into the country in the rural areas and the priest rang the bells and gathered the town people agianst the evangelistic youths. That was just a few years ago.

Q: Protestant beliefs? predestination?
does the protestant religion believe in predestination?

A: Some Protestant believe that God has chosen some out of the human race to be saved through the finished work of Christ, thus inheriting eternal life. Others of the same human race are not chosen to eternal life and therefore foreordained to everlasting punishment. In other words, God sovereignty ordains the eternal destiny of every human being—the lost as well as the saved. All Protestant believe in Sola Scripture ("Scripture alone"), i.e the Bible alone is intended by God to be the source of doctrinal truth (2 Tim. 3:16). All Protestant believe in Sola fide ("faith alone"), i.e. we are saved by faith alone by trusting in Christ alone.

Q: What are the differences in Protestant, Methodist, and Baptist beliefs?
please be as simple as possible, I don't care where they originated or who started it. I just want to know if they think differently of God, Jesus, Mary, that kind of thing. What is the difference between Protestant and Catholic then? Is it like a tree? Then what is the difference between Methodist and Babtist? Is there any other branches of church than Catholic and Protestant? What makes them different?

A: Methodists do a sprinkle baptism -- rather than full immersion. i've never witnessed a Baptist baptism, but rather expect it might be full immersion (ala John the Baptist). There is a range of beliefs in both denominations (with more liberal-tolerant, more conservative-intolerant-of-others divisions within the denominations). There are "Free Methodists" in Methodism who are more conservative, more literalistic in their interpretation of the Bible compared to the United Methodists. In all my years of attending a Methodist church, we were *never* told we (or anyone else -- to the best of my memory) were going to "hell." Methodists don't claim they're "saved" -- nor do they believe the "once saved - always saved" doctrine of Southern Baptists. (A Southern Baptist neighbor, a half a mile up the road, once told dad, "I'm *saved*! If I steal, murder, rape... I'm still going to heaven -- because God would never break his promise to me of eternal life... because I accepted His Son as my Savior!") The Book of Revelations was *not* discussed (nor did any minister talk upon it) in the (maybe 20) years i went to Methodist churches. My impression is that Methodists, overall, don't give much credence to it, in any prophetic sense. The tendency is to believe it "gave hope" to Early Christians while they were being persecuted -- but is irrelevant to the real world, now. Methodists (to my experience) don't believe they're the *only* ones going to heaven & everybody else is going to hell. They believe Christians from *all* Christian denominations will hake it into heaven. i suspect that a large percentage of Methodists don't really *believe* in any "hell"; the nature of the God they believe in would never be so evil as to beget eternal damnation. Many Baptists believe *only* Baptists will go to heaven, just as (to my understanding) Roman Catholics & Islamics & Mormons believe *they're* the only ones going to heaven. My sister's father-in-law believed only the Baptists that went to the specific Baptist church in the town *he* attended would go to heaven -- & that every other religion & denomination & every other Baptist that went to a different church than *he* did was going to hell! Overall, to my impression, Methodists are more tolerant of others... Baptists are more literalistic in their interpretation of scriptures & more condemnatory of others. Methodists -- within the range of my experience -- believe the Bible was *inspired* by God -- but (in large part) are not of the belief that absolutely *every* word in the Bible *came* directly from God. Many of them are aware that much, in the Bible, is fallible human *opinion*. Baptists (again, within the range of my experience) will claim there are no contradictions in the Bible; at least many Methodists have the intelligence (& lack of that degree of dogmatism) to see that there *are* contradictions. These are impressions gleaned between 1956 thru 1990. i have had next-to-nothing to do with the Christian Churches since then. i've never had a Methodist (or a Roman Catholic, for that matter) knock at my door trying to convert me. i've had several Southern Baptists & Jehovah's Witnesses try to convert me. Protestants don't recognize the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope (nor does the Orthodox Church -- which includes Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox -- a division of Christianity with large membership that is neither Protestant nor Roman Catholic). Protestant Episcopalians are pretty close to Roman Catholicism in the ritualistic way in which their services are conducted. i've read that in having too *few* priests, Roman Catholicism *has* recruited some Episcopalian priests into their own priesthood, with not very much extra training. They've even allowed the Episcopalian priests' marriages to *continue* -- tho, if unmarried, they are not allowed to marry when they become Catholic priests. Protestants read & study the Bible. Roman Catholicism, throughout *most* of its history, has *discouraged* its membership from reading the Bible! Traditionally, Roman Catholicism has believed in heaven, hell, purgatory & limbo. Relatively recently they've decided limbo doesn't exist, afterall -- from what i've read. Protestants don't tend to believe in the existence of purgatory or limbo. Methodists, Baptists, Protestants-in-general don't have the devotional focus on Mother Mary like Catholics do. In 2000, United Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, and Presbyterian women attended a Reimaging Conference -- devoted to the Divine Feminine, Sophia -- which stirred a lot of uproar in those denominations. So *some* members in those congregations (& among Roman Catholics, too) *do* believe in the Christian Goddess.

Q: If Protestants are going to quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church, can they find Protestant beliefs?
This protestant has an honest reason. He sees the heresy and contradiction in the CCC. He quotes Paragraph 868, to him it is a truth. Paragraph 819, the Protestant knows, is something he knows Novus Ordo catholics are not supposed to believe but there it is, in all its Apostolic glory. He knows that they don't hold it to be true, and it is against their new doctrine of Vatican II, but there it is. The Protestant remembers when Catholics respected Pope Pius XII. And all the popes before him. It isn't his thinking, but he knows that no one would call those people uncatholic. What about today? Do they even know about popes before Vatican II? The Protestant knows the CCC where contradicts itself. It states the opposite in Par. 868, which IS their new doctrine, one of false ecumenism and religious liberty, he, the Protestant, holds to be true, and THIS is against the Doctrine of Christ in Par. 819. The Protestant knows which doctrine can be found in any Manual of Apologetics, the kind of book these CCC people will never dare pick up and read. He has studied Patristics, and he knows. Christ's Doctrine puts an anathema on the false ecumenism and religious liberty. It is to the Protestant's credit that he can point to the real doctrine, which for him is heresy, but for the True Church it is not. This Protestant knows the Doctrine of the Catholic Church and he is obviously smarter than the Novus Ordo who are reading the words in Paragraph 819 and don't understand them. Protestants claim that popes can become heretics. Catholic Doctrine agrees. It is the Novus Ordo of Vatican II who deny it. No one ever claimed that a pope cannot become a heretic. In fact, the Canons of the Church provide the punishment for such a pope should he happen to commit heresy. It is that he is removed from office, and the chair is vacant. Sede Vacante, chair empty. This has now happened five times since 1958. There have been no legitimate popes since Pope Pius XII, a sainted pope. Is there anything in the bible that can tell us how many more of these imposters we have to endure before they are all kicked out? Protestants, you probably have the insight to know. Can you tell them? Protestants! Help these Novus Ordo to return to Catholicism. As it is, they don't even make it as Protestants. They are Roman Protestants, with a mixture of any doctrine. No Salvation Outside the Church. This is a de fide dogma, established by the previous popes of the past to which the Novus Ordo heretical church no longer obeys. Paragraph 819 is a perfect example of the heresy of the pope who wrote the encyclical on "Ecumenism" and "Religious Liberty," both heresies against the True Church. Many Catholics are still alive, raising their children to be True Catholics, in an era when there is no present Vicar of Christ. Catholics belong to that Catholic Church of Pope Pius XII. Do any of you dare to not call them Catholic? The Church in hiding is found in private chapels around the world, not SSPX or any other such anagrams, but by individual valid priests who would not have anything to do with the heresy of Vatican II and the heretical church it spawned. If anyone wants to know the REAL Catechism of the Church, the one that the Protestant KNOWS says what it is supposed to say, and is what Catholics believe, it is the Catechism of Trent, or of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, the Baltimore Catechism. Vatican II will have nothing to do with THESE catechisms. The devil will get the faithful in “gates” on earth. They will fail. The Church can & will disappear on earth in the Latter Days & Christ shall not barely be able to find it. SS.Thomas, Augustine, Ireneus, Ignatius & Christ offered the Sacrifice "pro multis." It cannot be offered with any other words! David states that the "Evening Sacrifice, Body and Blood) shall fail." St. John says that the "evening sacrifice shall end." This is loss twice:1. valid Ordination Rite altered by Montini in 1967 invalidated it; 2. the substitution of "for all, pro omnibus," in 1967 cannot be found in scripture or in Patristic writings, not in Trent, nor in the Summa. Scripture says "Pro multis-for many." All Early Fathers are in agreement to all that "boring doctrine." One little word, the difference between heaven & hell. Heresy is had in one word, one drop of poison, not a truckload! You deny changes? It is not heresy to observe that a pope who does so has defected. Christ's Word stays same To those who say they were "duly" elected as popes. Elections themselves do not prove validity of the candidates qualities. These are two different venues. While the election followed the "rules,” the candidate was unqualified. His open heresies were printed in the Bulgarian newspapers, he supported what he said, never recanted, was proud to align himself with Communists and atheists, calling them "christians" and "brothers" and openly blessed their beliefs as equal to Christ's teaching. Go and read. To those who are bored with Catholicism. It is a glorious Faith, and its demise has been a hundred years coming, not of a mere recent 50 years. Pope Pius IX warned us at Vatican Council. Pope Pius X spoke of the coming "remodernizing" of doctrine. They condemned it. We are not surprised at the demise, only that it is in our day. There will not be "two" Latter Days. There will not be "two" evening sacrifices to "fail." It will only happen once. To those who do not read well. A plural of any word does not mean "all." It seems you understand a universal term when you want to. Why can't you understand that "for many" cannot mean "for all?" To those who quote Titus. Get a Douay Rheims. Then use a Haydock to understand your text. It would be quite a feat to call someone uncatholic who holds with the full Dogma of the Catholic Church, every Council, every de fide encyclical, and who has lived and believed as a Catholic for ?? years! Try and do it with some dogmatic proof. Find me a doctrine that I do not believe! Then get a Baltimore or Douay or Trent catechism and begin your knowledge. Isaiah: "My people are lost for want of knowledge." To those who whine about doctrine and doctrine. The Baltimore Catechism is a mere whisp of a book, understood clearly by third graders. Buck up. You can do it. To the person who was able to perceive that in order to be Catholic, one is forced to the position due to the evidence, that the chair is empty. This may be shocking to you, because you have BEEN TOLD such a thing is shocking. Who told that to you? It is not shocking in the Enchiridion Symbolorum or in the Canon Law of 1917. Is it shocking? Why should it be? Even scripture shows that Christ said to Peter "get thee behind Me." These words were the removal of Peter from the papacy because Peter spoke heresy, "This, shall not happen to thee!" Crucifixion, however, was a belief, a de fide belief, which Peter denied. In the next moment Peter repented his heresy. We know he did, for he became the first head bishop of the Church. A heretic can be reformed. There is a cure for the sin of heresy. It is to repent the heresy. Are you all listening? Out there in Steubenville? And EWTN?

A: My wife and I belong to Pius X. We do not subscribe to the Novus Ordo. We used the Catechism of Trent. The Mass has been changed in that the words of Consecration have been changed from: Hoc est enim corpus meum. This is my Body. At the Consecration of the Blood: This is the challis of my blood, which is shed for many Pro Multis. To: Which is shed for all men Pro Omnibus. Forgive my Latin, I have not used it in years.

Q: Im starting to lose my "Protestant" beliefs...?
"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." Im very confused at this moment. I see all these different Protestant churches with different traditions and doctrines. It only took 500 years for Protestantism to disintegrate into Thousands of denominations. Imagine if the Protestant model had existed for 2,000 years. Which one holds the Truth? The Early Christians did Not sound like they were "Protestant" They sounded more like they were Catholic or Orthodox. Who are they (Protestants) to pick and choose now what all Christendom had previously agreed upon? Isn't it like the Teenage Son (Protestants) who thinks he knows more than his Parents (Catholic; Orthodox)? "jc": No, this is a serious question.

A: Are you having fun yet? I know from the answer you posted to a question of mine, that you claim to be "neither Catholic nor Protestant." Of course, you clearly believe that Protestants are just another branch of the Catholic Church, and that both are equally invalid. I'm guessing you're a Baptist Successionist--am I right?

Q: what are the major differences between Catholic beliefs and Protestant beliefs?


A: "What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII) Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians. Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006): By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works. There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much. A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor. With love in Christ.

Q: What are the main beliefs of a Protestant and what separates them from Catholics.?
I'm doing a little searching and trying to find myself a religion. I am currently Catholic but lately I've been looking at other religions that I agree with, unlike Catholicism. Protestant is one religion I've been very confident with so give me some information please. Also I believe in God our heavenly father, Jesus Christ as our savior, and in the holy spirit. Do Protestants comply with this or not?

A: Stay Catholic! Only Roman Catholics can root their beginning by tracing thier bishops and Popes all the way back to the apostles themselves! Sadly, Protestants don't understand and accept the Papacy, because they don't understand the Old Testament. Let my try to explain...In the Old Testament, The Davidic Kings would set up Prime Ministers (stewards) to execute their power for them. Such as in Isaiah 22:15, in which the "shedna" is the office of prime minister, who has the authority to arrest or pardon crimes. The King would also allow the Prime Minister to rule the Kingdom for them in their absence and such. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ, The King, gives St. Peter the office of Prime Minister, in order to rule the kingdom of God on earth (The Church), until Jesus returns. We can see this in Matthew 16:18. Jesus gives the keys of the Kingdom to Peter, in order for Peter (The Pope) to have full authority on behalf of the King, Jesus Christ.

Q: What do Catholics think of Protestant beliefs?
i'm Protestant. ohh nnnnoes who will pray for me in purgatory? to me i think catholics are missing the point. they are all hierarchy and human kings and unfallable. church worshipers. i am a worshiper of Christ, not a church. to me i see it as corrupt and the biggest deceit from Satan. and catholics aren't the original church anyways. anyways catholics what do you think of protestants. are we safe from whatever you think we will end up? i also criticize that they feel they have to work, or earn the way to heaven. or actually they think it's a requirement. it's faith alone. i also don't believe in the physical baptism. seems to be another work. i believe in spiritual baptism. and that the physical baptism is just something you do to show people. doesn't mean anything.

A: I think it is interesting that Christians who claim to take the Bible literally pick and choose so much. For example: I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. (John 16:12-13) Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours. (2 Thessalonians 2:15) We instruct you, brothers, in the name of (our) Lord Jesus Christ,to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us. (2 Thessalonians 3:6) I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you. (1 Corinthians 11:2) The Catholic Church does not use Holy Scripture as the only basis of doctrine. It could not. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time that the New Testament was written. There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about 400 C.E. Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is guiding the church today) to make the correct choices about things like: • The Holy Trinity (which is also only hinted at in the Bible) • Going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments) • The Communion of Saints • Which writings include in the New Testament? Things that are even more modern like • Slavery is bad. Slavery is never declared evil in the Bible. This was one of the justifications for slavery in the Confederate States. • Democracy is good. The Bible states that either God should be the leader of the nation like Israel before the kings or kings should be the leader, "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's." This was talked about a lot during the American Revolution. This second source of doctrine is called Apostolic Tradition. Do Christians who do not allow the continuing guiding force of the Holy Spirit to make their beliefs more and more perfect, still endorse slavery as Colossians 3:22 commands, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything"? For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 80 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt2.htm#80 With love in Christ.

Q: does anyone know the beliefs of a protestant when it comes to infertility treatments?
are protestants allowed to undergo infertility treatments? is it against their beliefs, or does their faith allow them to do this extensive treatment if the husband and wife cannot conceive a child on their own.. im not sure, im guessing just protestant in general. call me ignorant but isn't it protestant a form of christianity? p.s..its for a philosophy paper..nothing to do with my moral beliefs :) thanx guys.

A: All Protestant religions that I am aware of allow such. .

Q: the protestant reformation challenged both the religious beliefs of the Catholic Church?
and the political beliefs of the divine rights rulers of Great Britain. Explain the details of all this and discuss why any of it mattered to American History!?

A: lemme guess, essay question due tomorrow??Some key issues relating to politics would be 1) the importance of the concience of the individual. Religiously this plays out as 'the priesthood of all believers' 2) the importance of the three realms of human authority being sperately accountable to God for different things: the family has the rod for bringing up children, the state has coersive authority such as the sword and jail for civil laws and the church has the keys of the kindgon for salvation and the preaching of the gospel 3) Many claim countries which had heightened effect of the bible in society such as ENgland had far less violent revolutions that those which did such as the french revolution 4) scholarship was greater under the reformation than before and paved the way for the scientific reformation since the cosmos was seen as orderly and discoverable and it was man's duty to see how God worked in His creation and give HIm glory for it How did this affect the Catholic CHurch... indirecily. The practice of paying for indulgences was toned way down. Although Catholics opposed the Biblie in the language of the common people after burning WIlliam Tyndale, the Bible in ENglish owuld become available for both Protestants and as a reaction to Catholics as well