Catholic and Protestant?
I've heard very similar, but I know there (Protestant) religion is very strict, since I'm friends with people who are protesant. How are they similar? Are they more alike than different?
I've heard very similar, but I know there (Protestant) religion is very strict, since I'm friends with people who are protesant. How are they similar? Are they more alike than different?
Faith has different meanings to a Catholic and evangelical Protestant. For Protestants, faith means trusting a man's self-surrender completely to God who reveals. For a Catholic, however, this cordial ceremony called faith, hope and charity.
For a Catholic, faith word conveys the idea of an intellectual assent to the contents of the revelation as true because of assurance of God's authority. The Catholic Church understands the faith, intellectual and supernatural. Faith is the Catholic response to an intellectual message sent by God.
But for Catholics, God reveals Himself through the teaching of holy living community called the Church. A Christian of the Reformation tradition believes that God makes himself and his truth known through a series of books called the Bible.
This book is the teacher, and all teaching is another comment, good or bad. The divine message itself is limited to the Reserve. In reality, the Holy Spirit is the teacher who uses his instrument, the book inspired. Moreover, this is only true of the evangelical tradition of the Reformation, because liberals have a much more subjective.
We can see the difference between the Catholic and Protestant conceptions of God-encounter. For Catholics, the meeting place is the Church which, in its task of bringing men to God uses many means:
• Teaching teachers allowed, ie, bishops and primates: the Pope, the liturgy, books written by men of the Church under the divine inspiration of Scripture, the common beliefs and practices of lay Catholics in the time and space.
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• The inspired books, which have God as their author, therefore, of his inspiration, are tools to Church teaching, construction and calls. There are more than the Church, but rather a part of the panoply of the Church, for use in their work of carrying out the task of uniting man with God.
It is the Church, the Church teaches, sanctifies the Church, which builds and energizes. The Church is not a result of the Fed, but rather the book is the fruit of the Church.
Hence the Catholic Church says in the first case, "What do you mean the book? Rather, he asks, "What does the teaching of the Church"? The Church and the book say the same, and since the book is in a peculiar sense of the word of God, will return to the Reserve.
However, this is not your last resort. Just a last resort, the Church itself, and the book from his hand and accepted his explanation. The book is not proof, but only a divine expression in human language of Church teaching.
About the book is the Church, while according to the conception of the Reformation, the Church is on the Reserve. This fundamental vision of the Catholic Church does that look to the bishops of the doctrine, because the bishops are the authentic exponents of God's message to the world.
The Church is a visible communion organized. Because the institution is divine and dynamism, the Holy Spirit dwells in him, keep him alive, keeping truth and make it grow. The Spirit is the source of the life of the Church, but that life is the life of a body.
The body is composed of many members who are distinguished from each other by the functions they have a fixed structure. In the body, the bishops have the role of education and guidance, and this task being carried out through the power of the Spirit who transfused the whole body, making each member effective in their function.
The Council is one, and so that the episcopate is one, and unity of the episcopate is achieved through solidarity with the primary energy source Episcopal Bishop of Rome. In the Catholic view shows the Pope on behalf of the bishops and the bishops teach on behalf of the Church and the Church teaches on behalf of Christ, and Christ taught in the name of God.
Both are Christians. Both are celebrated the baptism, but they are celebrated differently. Catholicism is larger and has more of a traditional Sabbath.
I like to think of them as similar because I kept an open mind.
Both have a Christian Bible, except the traditional Catholic Bible contains twelve books.
I've been told, but I have no source, that Catholicism is the predominant religion for charities worldwide.
There's a long story behind the gap between Protestants and Catholics, but the gap is best defined in terms of denomenation of the other religion.
Hope I helped. The grace and peace.
From my understanding of any religion that is not Catholic, Protestant, derived from the word protest. There are many Christian religions are very different from Catholicism. Many Christians, for example, do not believe in the Trinity, or believe in confessing their sins to priests. But of course, all Christian religions believe in Christ.
A person can write a long time about the Catholic and Protestant, the differences and similarities. I suggest you read about Martin Luther and why he left the Catholic faith. This event is a central issue between the Catholic and Protestant division.
They are more similar than different, and they all have the most important beliefs in common. Catholics worship the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to Protestants. Do not worship the pope, Mary, or any of the other saints. Both believe in the necessity of the death of Christ to achieve salvation. Both believe in baptism. Both belong to the Church of Christ. There are some differences between Catholicism and the Protestant sects, however. Here are the main ones:
1. Santos. Catholics pray to saints, asking them to intercede on their behalf. Protestants do not, and I do not have saints. Also, Catholics believe that Mary was born without sin (the "Immaculate Conception"). Protestants do not.
2. Structure. Catholicism has a hierarchical structure with the Pope at the top, then the cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, other religious, and laity. This does not mean that Catholics follow the Pope unconsciously or above God, he only acts as a father and a guide for the Church. Protestants do not have this structure, but are based on self-government small communities.
3. The Bible. Protestant Bibles have 7 fewer books than Catholic Bibles addition, Protestants believe that God's will for us is expressed only in the Bible. Catholics believe in the Bible and Sacred Tradition of the Apostles transmitted.
4. Priests. Catholics have a celibate male priesthood in which one of the duties of a priest is to hear the confession. Depending on the denomination, the Protestant pastors may be married or female. Protestants do not believe the confession of a minister.
5. The Eucharist. Catholics say the Eucharist is the essence of Christ present with them. They worship Christ and the Eucharist. Protestants (in general) that the Eucharist is bread, symbol of Christ, but not really for Christ.
6. Salvation. In general, Protestants believe that salvation can only come to accept Christ as their savior. In essence, no matter how good a person is on their own because they are not perfect, it would not be able to do it to heaven if not for the sacrifice of Chirst. Catholics believe that this is true, but they also have to "walk the path, not just talk the talk." Salvation is based on the acceptance of Christ as Savior in combination with good works.
I've heard, I think Catholics are more strict than Protestants. For example, take abortion. Catholics only allow this if the mother's life is at risk, where Protestants are more exceptions.
They are just similar. The only significant difference is that only have a different direction. The leader of Catholics is the Pope, while Protestants have many different leaderes.
In principle, Protestansts are Catholics and all Christians. Services and customs are different. Some beliefs are different.
Some differences are that Catholics believe in the intercession of the saints, confessing sins to priests and something called transubstantiation which is a fancy word for the belief that the wafer is the literal body of Christ, not just a symbolic commemoration of the last supper.
Wow. After reading all these responses are probably more confused than they were before. Let (TRY) and simplify for you. There was no such thing as the Protestants until Martin Luther left the Catholic Church (at that time, the only Christian church that the figure) in 1500. Protestantism is any branch of Christianity that is not Catholic. Protestantism is divided into sects or denominations. All Christians, Protestants and Catholics believe in salvation through acceptance of Jesus Christ, but beyond that, there are plenty of small variations in the way of interpreting the Bible, which usually determines which partner with the denomination. So when asked if Protestantism and Catholicism are more alike than different, that's difficult to answer, because according to what type of Protestants is, can be very similar to Catholics, or almost completely unrelated. I, for one, am Pentecostal, and my name is very different from Catholicism. Other names, however, as Episcopal or Anglican general are quite similar.
In general, a couple of important diffences between Catholics and Protestants are:
* Protestants do not confirm the Pope as a source of doctrine (ie, Protestants believe only in the Bible and I think the Pope is a good guy with a funny hat, while Catholics believe the Pope is divinely by God and is infallible)
* Protestants do not believe in purgatory and believe in justification by faith alone (ie, just accept Jesus and live by the Bible in general, while Catholics believe in the necessity of the sacraments (outward expressions of faith as Baptism, Communion and Confirmation) or doing good works to earn his place in heaven, or at least get less time in Purgatory)
* Catholics believe that at least some of the seven sacraments are necessary for salvation. Protestant varies greatly opinion. Some believe that none of the sacraments are necessary to enter Heaven, while others believe that at least some of them (usually the baptism or communion) are, while others are not.
As I said in shape, these are all generalizations, not what every Protestant or Catholic in these stereotypes.
And BTW, most people usually consider the strict Catholicism of the two branches. People know they are only a very strict Protestant denomination. But I bet if you ask around, you see you know a lot of Protestants who are not so strict.
Umm, this is much longer and more complicated than I expected to do so. Sorry if it confused or too long. I hope I helped at least a little imagination.
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Simple:
Catholics were the first who followed Jesus and follow the way and asked the command.
The Protestants were founded by a man named Luther Martin horrible.
He launched the idea that the Church was the "pillar of fire and truth" as it says in the Bible, and decided to make their own little "religion"
In the Bible Jesus said the world would know his followers, because they were "one" or "universal" (Catholic means universal)
There are over 38,000 different Protestant sects - doesn't sound like one to me!