Protestant Religion?

Question

Can someone explain it to me.. im Baptist and have a friend who says hes Protestant, but he doesnt really practice it and doesnt know much about it
any help

Really? learn something new everyday... then wats the difference between the two?

Answer 1

sweetie, if you're a Baptist, then you're a protestant, too

Answer 2

Are you telling me that you are a Baptist and know nothing about the history of your religion?

Jesus founded the Catholic Church. In the early centuries, the church split off into two divisions -- Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic. Both claim to be the true church founded by Jesus. Both are orthodox religions. The main difference is that the Eastern Rite churches do not recognize the Pope as their leader.

Other Christian religions are founded by men who had some problem with the Church that Jesus founded.

In the early 1500s, Martin Luther decided to edit the Bible -- throwing out several books -- and founded his own religion. Soon others pretested the Catholic Church -- choosing to use Martin Luther's Bible -- rather than the one that the Catholic Church had been using since the Council of Rome in the fourth century.

A hundred years later, the British King commissioned a translation of the Bible into English. It has several notable translation problems and is now missing several books, yet English Speaking Christians other than Catholics claim that it is the only Bible that is the Holy Word of God. This is true despite the fact that most of them are not Lutherans.

Most Baptists are in the US. Some are offshoots of the Presbyterian movement -- but others are not. There is a lack of coehesian among the Baptist Church -- where each church seems to make up its own rules.

I'm amazed that so many Christians know nothing about this. I'm an agnostic and seem to have much more knowledge of the foundations of your religions than you do.

Of course -- that is why I am an agnostic.

Answer 3

Being a Baptist, you yourself are a Protestant.

There are three major splits in Christianity... Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestantism. Originally there were RC and Ortho, then in Europe in the 16th century, Martin Luther lead the Protestant Reformation. Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation

Basically, if you're a mainstreadm Christian and not a RC or Ortho, you're a Protestant. Examples are: Baptist (and there are several splits even within the Baptist category), Methodist, Seventh Day Adventist, Pentecostal, and I'm sure there are lots more.

Overall, Christianity has more than 25 thousand sects.

Answer 4

Traditionally the difference is often just a matter of style and preference. Being a Protestant just differentiates them from being a Catholic, some may use this as a way of describing themselves as Charismatic as well which reflects on the type music they sing which is more energetic and the focus on the gifts of the Spirit, namely speaking in tongues. There are many different types of Protestant denominations and well as Baptist, the term doesn't really say a whole lot about them.

Answer 5

As a Baptist, you are a Protestant.

A Protestant comes from the word "protest" which was started by Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingley, and John Calvin as a rejection of some practices of Catholicism, particularly that of making people pay for forgiveness during confession. Other Protestant churches include but are not limited to Lutherans (obviously taking their name from Martin Luther), Methodists, Baptists, Unitarians, Episcopalians, and Congregationalists.

Answer 6

Baptists are protestants.
There are 3 big general groups of Christians
Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Eastern, etc.)
Roman Catholic
Protestant (Methodist, Baptist, Mennonite, Church of Christ, Pentecostals, and a million other denominations)

Orthodox and Roman Catholic split in the early centuries of the church.
Protestants split off from the Roman Catholic church beginning at the time of Martin Luther.

If your friend says he's Protestant.......most likely he doesn't have a strong affiliation with a local church and is not active. Most likely he identifies with the Christian religion and agrees with it but is not active in a church enough to know which specific type he prefers.

Answer 7

Christians are either 1) Catholic, or 2) Protestant. Protestants are 1) Baptist, 2) Methodist, 3) Presbyterian, 4) Pentecostal, 5) Brethren, 6) Lutheran, 7) etc, etc, etc.

Hope this helps. GOD bless.

Answer 8

Protestant is really a catch all catergory for religions which severed from the Catholic church hundreds of years ago. Since the original schisim pioneered by Martin Luther (Not King Jr. a different one) it has split into any number of different sects some of which have less than 100 members (they're really only practiced in one community)

It makes sense that your friend would just say protestant if he doesn't really go to his church.

Answer 9

Protestant: 1. a member or adherent of one of the Christian churches deriving from the Reformation 2. a Christian not of a Catholic or Orthodox church 3. one who makes a protest

I hope this might help a bit.

Answer 10

Protestants are the peoples who SPLIT from the Roman church Cult many years ago.

Baptists (or Anabaptists) NEVER EVER were part of the Roman catholic Cult so did not have to separate from any other group.

Original Anabaptist groups still survive in Switzerland, France, and in Italy. They were originally taught by one of the 12 Apostles and even survive the terrible hunt for them -- the catholic crusades!

Answer 11

Cokierae,
I have the best book for you to use in order to understand the difference between Protestant and Roman Catholic.

Foxes Book of Martyrs.

It's about the persecutions that the Roman Catholic Church pursued, especially against Protestants. It's an invalubale history of unequaled quality.

You are by definition a Protestant. But after reading Foxes Book of Martyrs you might even claim to being a Protestant with the realization of being honored to be one. So much has happened over the years.

Here's an excerpt:
CHAPTER VI
An Account of the Persecutions in Italy, Under the Papacy (Continued)

Further Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont, in the Seventeenth Century

Giovanni Pelanchion, for refusing to turn papist, was tied by one leg to the tail of a mule, and dragged through the streets of Lucerne, amidst the acclamations of an inhuman mob, who kept stoning him, and crying out, "He is possessed with the devil, so that, neither stoning, nor dragging him through the streets, will kill him, for the devil keeps him alive." They then took him to the river side, chopped off his head, and left that and his body unburied, upon the bank of the stream.

Magdalen, the daughter of Peter Fontaine, a beautiful child of ten years of age, was ravished and murdered by the soldiers. Another girl of about the same age, they roasted alive at Villa Nova; and a poor woman, hearing that the soldiers were coming toward her house, snatched up the cradle in which her infant son was asleep, and fled toward the woods. The soldiers, however, saw and pursued her; when she lightened herself by putting down the cradle and child, which the soldiers no sooner came to, than they murdered the infant, and continuing the pursuit, found the mother in a cave, where they first ravished, and then cut her to pieces.

Jacob Michelino, chief elder of the church of Bobbio, and several other Protestants, were hung up by means of hooks fixed in their bellies, and left to expire in the most excruciating tortures.

Giovanni Rostagnal, a venerable Protestant, upwards of fourscore years of age, had his nose and ears cut off, and slices cut from the fleshy parts of his body, until he bled to death.

Seven persons, viz. Daniel Seleagio and his wife, Giovanni Durant, Lodwich Durant, Bartholomew Durant, Daniel Revel, and Paul Reynaud, had their mouths stuffed with gunpowder, which being set fire to, their heads were blown to pieces.

The violent history of the Roman Catholic Church was long. They of course are no longer doing these things, but the difference was plain to them, between Protestant and Catholic. So much so that they mudered coountless people because they wouldn't do what that state church wanted them to.