Protestant
Protestant questions and answers
Find more information on the Protestant Denominations @ The Adherents Religion Website.
Q: Protestant?
What was the area most protestant after the Reformation?
A: northern Europe--the Netherlands, eastern Germany, and especially Scandinavia. A bit later, England and Scotland.
Q: What's the difference between protestant religion and roman catholic?
Sorry, I'm not really sure..I'm just wondering because one of my best friends is Protestant and I'm pretty sure she believes in Jesus like I do and because my boyfriend is Protestant too. So what's the real difference or whats Protestant?
A: two things mostly:
1. sola scriptura - or, the bible is subject to your own interpretation. hence the 20,000 protestant sects with their own unique and correct interpretations.
2. sola fide - you are saved by faith alone.
heresies of course. theyare either oblivious to these verses or just ignorant.
james 2:20-22
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?
phil. 2:12
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence,) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.
with fear and trembling!! the protestants i bump into asking if i think i'm saved and who claim to be saved must know something paul and james did not.
Q: What's the difference between protestant and Catholic people?
Ive just been christened but I don't really now alot about the difference between Christians and Protestant. Help!
A: Catholics have the fullness of Christian truth and are members of the original Christian Church founded by Christ for all mankind. Protestants have rejected much of original Christianity, replacing many truths with new traditions of men, and belong to unauthorized churches founded by men in open defiance of the stated will of God, 'that they all may be one".
Q: What are ways that the protestant or reform religions were different than Catholicism?
Discuss ways that the protestant or reform religions were different than Catholicism? .
Its really confusing .
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.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html
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.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm
With love in Christ.
Q: What's the difference between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion?
And are you protestant or catholic? Or other?
A: Protestantism began as a protest against the practices of the late medieval and early Renaissance Catholic Church. It was a protest against the excesses and corruption going on, as well as some blatantly unChristian methods the Church was using to finance itself.
Protestantism includes the following faiths: Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Episcopalianism, Puritans, Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mormons, and Baptists. It does not include Greek Orthodoxy.
In general, Protestantism was meant to be more austere than Catholicism, with far less ritual and ceremony. Its Bibles were printed in the vernacular languages of the countries whee worshippers lived, rather than all being printed in Latin, as the Catholic Bibles were. The Protestants also rejected the idea of the Pope and allegiance to him, favoring instead a more explicitly administrative leader. The Pope was/is said to be divinely-inspired, especially when speaking from the papal seat. Many Protestant faiths also reject the concept of sainthood.
Protestants also believe that their worshippers could and should have access to the Bible on their own, without needing a priest to intercede and interpret it for them (thus the Bible being written in the vernacular). Protestants also do not believe in the Rite of Reconciliation (Confession).
Some Protestant sects have even gone so far as to deny that the Catholic Church is even Christian...which strikes me as a weird sort of religious dissociative personality disorder.
Q: How did protestant Politicians explain the social, economic etc differences between catholics and protestants?
How did protestant Politicians explain the social, economic etc differences between catholics and protestants?
I know some things about Ian Paisley and O'Neill, but i would love to know a bit more :]
Thanks.
A: They were inferiors because they were catholics. That was a mindset built since Cromwell, when the lands were taken from them and given to protestants and they became officially inferior people.
Q: How did the Protestant reformation affect Shakespeare's longest play, Hamlet?
I just need to know how it affected the play, and whether the play makes references to the Protestant reformation that went on in England.
Thanks.
A: Protestants believed that by "Faith Alone" people would be saved, whereas, before the Protestant reformation, Catholics followed the "Chain of Beling". Within this chain, everyone had their role and were not able to step out of this role. If you were born a peasent, you would remain a peasant. To step outside of that role, would be to question God's place for you. In order to speak to God, you had to go up the chain to the top, where he was. I think that the way that Hamlet takes everything in to his own hands throughout almost the entire play, shows that he isn't a catholic hero, but a protestant hero. It isn't until he says "what will be will be" to Horatio, that he is demonstrating that of a Catholic hero?? (I think)
Q: Contributions that Protestant Christiantity has made to mankind or the society in general?
Im not a big church go-er and I have to do this religious report on protestant contributions. I've tried looking it up on the internet, but i keep getting these science contributions (which will not really help in a religous report). But please for someone who knows christianty real well and goes to church alot, could you please tell me?
P.S. Im a Christian too, if you were just wondering!
A: ...
That about sums them up.
Q: What effect did the Protestant Reformation have on literacy?
I'm studying Humanities at the moment and I try to list the impact of the Reformation on various issues and I couldn't conclude the effect of the protestant reformation on literacy.
Help me please....
A: they printed bibles...the church had never enchoraged reading the bible before..now books were available to everyone...so reading became much more popular
Q: What is the difference between Protestant and Roman Catholic?
I have been reading up on the Tudor era in history and I was just reading about how Mary the first restored England back to Roman Catholicism and got rid of the Protestant faith. What are the differences in those two? The beliefs?? How are they the same and how are they alike?
A: As far as I am concerned Christianity is Christianity. I see no reason why there should be so many different sectors of Christianity when the core beliefs are the same. To answer your question though I don't really know the difference.
Q: How come Protestant religions allow individual interpretations on the Bible?
There is one Catholic Church (albeit differences in Western and Eastern Orthodoxy) and Catholics believe that the Bible has been given meaning through the Catholic Church's traditions, practices, and doctrines that have been "passed down in history."
Now, there are thousands of Protestant religions and Protestant Churches. Most of these religions don't have an authoratative body who interprets the Bible for them; this means that each Protestant religion has their own interpretation of the Bible that they deem "correct."
Even more problematic, every person in the same Protestant religion may read and interpret the Bible in a different way. How can different people of the same faith have different interpretation of the Bible - do they not see the flaws in this? Why do Protestants allow this to go on?
A: Good point, but they won't get it. They'll say the Holy Spirit leads them. The fact that the Holy Spirit leads to the truth, and there is only one truth, hence the Holy Spirit would never lead them in thousands of different directions...will be lost on them.
Imagine if we were to all be able to personally interpret the laws of our own government. How about traffic laws? We'd have chaos...which is what we have with Protestantism.
Q: What is the history of the "Protestant work ethic" starting from the Restoration of the 18th Century?
Recently, in my college literature class, I have been hearing about the "Protestant work ethic" that came about around the Restoration period in the 18th Century. In lieu of researching this because of the time it would consume, does anyone know how this "ethic" developed?
A: When the Prots celebrate the 'fruits of our [their] labor' is the basis of the admirable Protestant work ethic.
By the way, the Protestant Work Ethic is why capitalism works so well in White Anglo Saxon Protestant countries, and fails elsewhere. Capitalism is cultural specific.
Q: Why is there a decrease in Protestant churches, and an increase in Evangelical?
I would like to know why more people chose the new testament over the old, and why Evangelic churches have been increasing over the last couple of decades? whats the reason for the decline in Protestant?
A: That which is right is not always popular,
and that which is popular is not necessarily right.
Q: What were 3 specific movements of the Protestant reformation?
I am doing a paper about the Protestant Reformation. My Professor wants us to name and detail the 3 specific movements. I looked online and am having trouble identifying them.
A: I would say the Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther, John Calvin, the English Reformation - King Henry VIII, Anne Bolyn, and the Catholic Reformation- Ignatious of Loyola, the reforming popes. I'm not exactly sure, but that sounds right to me.
Q: Why did my protestant baptism count when I was confirmed into the Catholic Church?
I was confirmed into the Catholic Church in April of this year, but was not baptized Catholic because they said that since I was baptized Methodist when I was a baby, that counted for my baptism. Why is a protestant baptism legitimate in the Catholic faith? I was also baptized Mormon several years ago, but that did not count. I appreciate any input anyone has. Thanks!
A: My Catholic Utah,
Thank you for your email! In the Catholic Church, baptism is the only sacrament that can be performed by someone who is not ordained (has not received the sacrament of Holy Orders). A lay person can perform the baptism of a baby if they believe as required and perform the baptism according to the proper formula as Misty mentioned above. The Catholic Church only allows for one Christian baptism (the Church does not recognize LDS baptisms as Chrisian baptisms, since they do not share the Christian view of the Trinity). The Catholic Church holds that there is One Triune God comprised of Three Distinct but Equal Persons.. Since the Methodist and Catholic religions are in agreement in their concept of the Trinity, the Catholic Church recognizes the Methodist baptism as valid.
Even though lay people can perform baptisms, most people still have the sacrament performed by a priest or deacon. However, one who believes accordingly and uses the correct formula, can baptize an aborted baby, or a child who died without being baptized into the Catholic faith, so that the child may enter into the Beatific Vision of God (the higher heaven, where people are thousands of times happier than in the lower heaven).
God bless!
Rob