What's the difference between Catholicism and Protestants?

Question

Why do some Protestants leave out some books of the Bible?

Answer 1

Protestantism is actually a modern day revival of the Babylon Mystery Religion.

In an attempt to divert attention away from their 20,000 different denominations, none of which have been able to agree on a common creed, they have the gall to call the Catholic church the whore of Babylon.

They worship a book, instead of the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ.

They act without divine authority.

They constantly disrespect the blessed mother of God.

They follow the false traditions of men.

They rely on pastors and preachers who only claim to cure sick people for money, and who say and do other very strange things.

In spite of what you may have thought, or have been told by others, the Catholic faith is the original and most complete faith on the face of the earth. We have the Bible. We have God the Father. We have Jesus Christ. We have the Holy Spirit. We have valid sacraments that truly dispense grace. We have the Mass and Holy Communion. We have the sacred traditions of the apostles. We have Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the communion of all the saints. We have an earthly leader, the pope, who wields the God given authority to settle arguments between various members of the worlwide church. We have our own country, the Vatican. We have a complete body of both dedicated religious scholarship and divine revelation that goes back 2,000 years, all the way back to Jesus Christ himself, and then spans the old testament, all the way back to creation. We also have the great commission, and the irrevocable promises of Christ.

Mat 28:18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Mat 28:19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

None of this happened by chance.

Answer 2

Those who claim the Catholic Church added extra books are part of the conspiracy of censorship that has deceived many Christians. They deny historical facts.

Anyone can read the early Councils of the Church when the 27 books of the New Testament was put together. The books that Martin Luther threw out are listed with those 27 books of the New Testament.

The Protestants attempt to defend their rejection of the deuterocanonicals on the ground that the early Jews rejected them. However, the Jewish councils that rejected them (e.g., School of Javneh (also called “Jamnia” in 90 - 100 A.D.) were the same councils that rejected the entire New Testatment canon. Thus, Protestants who reject the Catholic Bible are following a Jewish council that rejected Christ and the Revelation of the New Testament.



Some Christians actually LIE about how the New Testament was compiled.

The Council of Trent merely AFFIRMED the books that had ALWAYS BEEN THERE as part of the bible. They did that because it was not just Protestants who questioned their authenticity as inspired, but some Catholic theologians too. That is why the issue had to be settled.

DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/deuterocanon.html

Answer 3

You are referring to the canon of scripture. The canon that we have is based on the original Jewish canon (what we call the Old Testament), which I think had Macabees 1 & 2, Songs of Songs, Wisdom, Tobit, and a few others (if I'm correct). Around the end of the 1st century, the Jewish leaders decided to shorten the Old Testament and took out those books. However, the apostles that followed Jesus were Jews themselves, and had followed the original Jewish bible. When the Jews made the change to the shorter version, the apostles stayed with the older one. However, the protestants went with the shorter version, which is why today they have about 7 less books than we Catholics do.

As far as when did Protestants come into existence? That didn't happen until about the year 1500. That means that protestantism has only been around for 500 years. The Catholic Church, however, has been around for 2,000 years, and was founded by Jesus Christ.

Note: The Catholic Church teaches that protestants are our brothers and sisters in Christ, and that we are to love them no less no matter what our differences, because Christ loves all of us.

God bless.

Answer 4

Actually its the other way around. Catholicism adds 14 books to the Protestant Bible. The books which you refer to, the Apocrypha, are not in the Protestant Bible because they did not meet the requirements to be in the Bible. Books in the Protestant Bible were required to meet the following: Was it divinely inspired? Was it written by a prophet or spokesman for God? Is it genuine, and can it be traced back to the time and place as well as the writer? "They (the Apocrypha) contain fanciful stories and contradictory statements that immediately reveal that they are not on the same par as Scripture" "Jesus and the apostles quoted from the Old Testament over 600 times, indicating their approval of the selected texts." The Apocrypha was written before Christ was born so they would be "Old Testament". First the Jews do not recognize them as inspired writ, they were not quoted by Jesus or the apostles, and they were not recognized by the early church. They were not even introduced until the 4th century.

Just as a side note the New Testament was was completed by the 2nd century- it can be traced back within 100 years or less of the apostles, and even the book of Revelations writen by John on Patmos in AD 95 was given instant acceptance by the early church. Which underwent the same scrutiny as the Old Testament and was formally ratified in 397 AD the Apocrypha was not recognized until the Catholic church recognized them at the Council of Trent in 1546. The Protestant church has never accepted them.

Answer 5

Protestants don't leave out some book Catholics add some books...

The major different is Catholics believe that you earn your way into heaven and Protestants believe that Faith and trust in Christ is enough...

Many other differences also like Catholics have to go through the Priest to confess sins... Protestants can pray directly to God...

Catholice pray to Mary Protestents don't...

Both believe that Mary was a virgin though... I don't know what Carol R is talking about...

Answer 6

Protestants protested against Catholicism once they were able to read the Bible for themselves. Some Protestant religions are still a lot like Catholicism, like Lutheran and Episcopalian. Catholics are lead by the Pope, Protestant religions are not and most Protestant religions follow scipture only (Sola Scriptura) where Catholicism follows teachings from Popes, Bishops and Priests throughout the centuries.

Answer 7

CAROL R. you're WRONG. I'm a Protestant, United Pentecostal and have been a member of just about every other religion and ALL TRUE protestant church's believe Mary was a virgin, where in the world did you get that idea?

Anyway, the difference is Catholics made up their own Bible and added a bunch of stuff to it to suit them, Catholics ARE NOT, never have been and never will be Christians. You don't worship a man on earth and bow before ANYONE but Jesus. You don't pray to Mary to interceed because she's DEAD! The Bible CLEARLY states there is only ONE mediator between man and God and that is through His Son, Jesus Christ. Praying to dead saints and all that stuff makes me feel so sorry for the souls of this people. And yes, I studied the Catholic church and even took classes to become Catholic, I've also been Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Mormon, wiccan, etc., and am now a devil stompin, tongue talkin Pentecostal. Praise the Lord.

Answer 8

Catholics were the original Christians. Protestant means just what it says" protest". This branch of the christian faith came about because some people were not satified with the catholic church and protested against it and formed their own branch.
Martin Luther was one such person highly responsible for creating the protestant branch which includes all sects of christianity not catholic. Many of them do not recongize this and claim to have a religion before the cahtolics.
A friend at work claims baptist have been here forever or 450 years before the catholic church was created. He based this on john the baptist's baptizing people. But John the baptist was called that because he did baptist them even though he was of the jewish faith. many people (most all baptist) refuse to consider that all of jesus's principle disciples were jews. Jesus was not interested in establishing a new religion but being known as the son of god, and removing sin from the church and peoples of his time frame. His was jewish in actual faith.

I got an email that said it all.
Muslims don't recognize jews, jews don't recongize catholics, catholics don't recongize baptist, and in "hooters" baptists don't recognize each other.:):) .

Answer 9

1) Catholicism is a religion while Protestants are members of a religion.

2) Answering the question I think you thought you asked: It depends on your point of view. To a Muslim there is no difference between a protestant and a catholic. To A Hindu there is no difference between any of the religions of the Book (Judaism,Christianity, Islam). To God there is no difference between any human beings, He loves us all.

Answer 10

Catholics contain 7 extra old test. books known as the deuterocanonicals> these books were orignially accepted as inspired scripture by the early church "fathers" by the 400 a.d.> yet martin luther rejected them inorder to fit his beliefs of No papacy, etc. I would trust w/ what the church agreed w/ along time ago before the protestants, and that is the Catholic Bible which has remained unchanged for over 1500 years!

Answer 11

Is your question asking for the difference only in regards to the books of the Bible they consider as canon? Or about Catholicism and Protestantism in general?