They both believe in the New Testament and in God, etc etc, but they must be radically different in some way because they seem to dislike each other.
2006-07-09 13:17:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Small differences =Huge arguments and bad feelings.
Big differences are often more tolerated.
Watch some of the answers that come up, like Catholics pray to saints instead of God. Catholics pray to saints to ask for help, not in place of God. No religion has cornered the market on intolerance.
How many people of all religions visit grave sites and talk to dead relatives. Is this heresy also?
2006-07-09 13:20:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many of the differences are more about culture and politics than they are about theology (sometimes people just have a hard time with differences). That said, there are some important differences in their beliefs. Mostly, they differ on the role of the church in the lives of the believers and on how exactly a person becomes forgiven.
I thought this Wikipedia entry gave a good overview of why Martin Luther originally broke away from the Catholic church, and how the church responded:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Theology_of_grace
I'm interested to hear how others would answer this question.
2006-07-09 13:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by Dave C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics pray to Mary and to Saints. In the Bible we are told to pray to GOD. That's only one thing Protestants dislike about Catholics. Catholics also have a lot of man-made ritualism in their churches. They consider the pope holy, Protestants don't.
Protestants like to think they're different (better) than Catholics, but the vast majority of Protestant churches still hold onto a lot of Catholic ideas that they should have lost in the Reformation. Like Sunday worship, pagan holidays, things like that.
2006-07-09 13:29:04 · answer #3 · answered by married_so_leave_me_alone1999 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The major reason Protestantism came to be was that people like Martin Luther weren't afraid to publicize the fallacies of the Catholic Church.
Henry the 8th wasn't afraid to throw out Catholicism from England.
Trouble is Protestantism only got rid of the Pope, they kept alot of the fallacies.
2006-07-09 13:23:31 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Catholic's the connection to God is the Pope. For Protestant they can go directly to God.
2006-07-09 13:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by jdnmsedsacrasac1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary. Catholics center most of their worship around these. Not to mention that Catholics believe the Pope is the supreme power of their church, while Protistants (Anglican ones that is) believe their Monach is the supreme ruler of their church.
The Catholics believe they are the ONLY ones who recieve the body and blood of Christ, but I used to attend Lutheran services with some friends when I was a kid and we recieved holy communion there too.
2006-07-09 13:20:57 · answer #6 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being raised in a specific 'Protestant' congregation (although they would have told one they are part of the Biblical congregation, which I do not believe), there are, to my current knowledge, five 'tests, that tend to separate the different 'christian' faiths.
2006-07-09 13:29:19 · answer #7 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics actually receive the actual body and blood of Christ at their masses. People in other denominations don't do that. I'm not sure why.
2006-07-09 13:22:04 · answer #8 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, there are not many churches with really good doctrine. I believe the "God is one, and there is a conjunction of charity and faith" like Swedenborg said.
http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org
2006-07-09 13:26:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋