What is the difference between Catholic / Protestant Gnostics and is more popular?
CATHOLIC - Its original meaning of "general" or "universal" has acquired a variety of applications in the course of Christian history. First used by St. Ignatius of Antioch (AD 35-107) (Letter to Smyrneans, 8, 2), now used mainly recognized in five ways: 1. the Catholic Church, unlike the Christian church bodies that do not recognize the papal primacy; 2. the Catholic faith as the belief in the universal body of believers, ie believed to be "everywhere, always and by all" (Vincentian Canon), 3. orthodoxy to what is heretical or schismatical 4. the undivided Church of the East before the Schism of 1054 and thereafter, the Eastern Church has called itself orthodox, in contrast with the Christian organizations that do not accept the definitions of Ephesus and Chalcedon on the divinity of Christ.
In general, today the term "Catholic" refers to Christians who profess a continued tradition of faith and worship and who hold to the apostolic succession of bishops and priests since the time of Christ. (Etym. Latin catholicus, universal katholikos Greek, universal.)
Protestantism - the system of faith, worship and practice of the principles derived from the Reformation in the sixteenth century. As a name, it is the protest of the reformers at the Diet of Speyer (1529) against the decisions of the Catholic majority who were not more religious innovations are introduced. Though now divided into hundreds of denominations, the family's home only five were Protestants: Lutheran, Calvinist and Zwingli on the continent, and the Anglican Church and Freedom in Congregational or United Kingdom. Three local Protestantism has remained fairly constant, namely the Bible as the only rule of faith, with the exception of tradition and authority of the Church, justification by faith alone to the exclusion of supernatural merit and good works, and the universal priesthood of believers, with the exception of a priesthood or episcopate divinely empowered through the coordination of teaching, governing and sanctifying the people of God. (Latin Etym. protest, profess a belief in r against something, to testify.)
Gnosticism - The theory of salvation by knowledge. Already in the first century of the Christian era there were Gnostics who claimed to know the mysteries of the universe. They were disciples of the various pantheistic cults that existed before Christ. The Gnostics as appropriate given the purpose of the Gospels, wrote their own gospels again and, in general, proposes a dual system of belief. Question was said to be hostile to the spirit and the universe was considered a deity of depravity. Although extinct as organized religion, Gnosticism is the invariable in every major Christian heresy, for its denial of the revelation that an objective was completed in the apostolic age and the disclaimer that Christ established in the teaching of the church an authority to interpret the meaning of the decision, the revealed word of God.
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I do not think that is cooler because I'm an ex-Catholic for MANY MANY reasons that I will not go into here, are all negative. It was considered a "sin" for us Catholics, even to enter a Protestant church, so we do not know what happens in one of their churches. I am a Christian, non-denominational, the only way to go, in my opinion. I have my own Bible KJV companion, a matching strongs, blacksmiths and a dictionary of the Bible and learn for myself. I can learn something on my own. I do not have to sit and listen to some "one verse charlie'giving hours a long talk on a verse from the Bible. Is well established that in the Catholic church, a person who never finished reading the Bible in life if there was only what the priest said to them. The Bible tells us to read the Bible online and online precept on precept, that is, chapter by chapter and verse by verse … I've already studied this way, I learned 100 times as much as I learned in my entire childhood was raised in a Catholic church. Well, enough about the Catholic church, you need to send to others on the Protestants, because I know nothing about them. Amen:)
Largest Catholic and Protestant are a bunch of branches of the Catholic religion disorganized. Jesus was a Gnostic and hung from it. Jesus said that knowledge (gnosis) is the key.
Catholic is the largest and the main differences is the belief of the confession to a priest instead of directly to God.
Catholicism is the largest denomination, with more than one sixth of the world's population is Catholic.
The Catholic Church is the largest denomination.
Same shit, different names!
All the best people are Catholics.
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