Is Lutheran a form of Catholic?

Answer 1

Every Christian church is a form of Catholic.

There was no other Christian church existant in the world for 1500 years after Christ.

The Catholic church was personally founded by Jesus Christ, and was established by the grace of God and the work of Peter and the other apostles. The Catholic church still belongs solely to Jesus, and Jesus remains the CEO.

Martin Luther, along with a few German nobleman, founded the Lutheran church.

The world wouldn't even know of Jesus Christ if it wasn't for the Catholic church, nor would there be a Bible. No other church posesses the complete deposit of faith, or the divine authority that was entrusted by God to the Catholic church alone.

Martin Luther added words to scripture that were never there, and discarded those books of the Bible with which he didn't personally agree. The Lutheran church has no direct authority from God to do what it does.

No other church posesses the unity that the Catholic church alone enjoys. One church, one creed, one sacred book, one priesthood, one hierarchy, one earthly leader, the pope, one heavenly leader, God.

The Lutheran church is composed of several different groups or synods, who disagree on key matters of the faith, and who follow different leaders.

So, except for unity, authority, complete revelation, holiness, the apostles, valid Eucharist, and God ordained leadership, the Lutheran church is just like the Catholic church.

Answer 2

Nope. Lutherans and Catholics are both Christians and share many core values, but Lutheran is not a form of Catholicism, nor is Catholicsm a form of Lutheran. (Lutheranism? ugh, you know what I mean!)

(and Black K isn't quite right there; it all depends on from where you make that statement. Up until the Reformation, the people who became known as Lutherans followed the Pope and Rome just as much as those who stayed in the Catholic Church. And all of Christianity holds "truths" that are man-made teachings. We just have different ideas on who should be considered to be "inspired by God.")

Answer 3

Catholic means common or universal or general and of course the Lutheran church is for every one. Martin Luther was one in a long row of men who have made protests against the Roman Catholic Church two three hundred years before him.
He translated the Bible from Latin or Greek I do not remember into the German language so that every one could read the Bible.
This was a sever crime, now the ordinary people could read the Bible and secondly the messes were held in the German language. There is more - just for short.

Answer 4

Catholics are actually former Lutherans.

How is this so you ask?

Lutherans take the teachings that originated from the times of Jesus and the Apostles and leave it at that. The Catholic once taught this way as well until they began changing it with the onset of the Pope and other man made doctrines not found in Scripture.

Answer 5

Lutheran is Protestantism - Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, was a "first wave" Protestant and was eventually excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

However, Luther did carry over some of the rituals and practices from Catholicism - particularly "communion" (which Luther called "the Lord's Supper"). But he also made many significant changes, including providing the mass in German and translating the Bible into German so that more people could have access to it (the official Bible of the Catholic Church was/is the Vulgate Bible, translated by St. Jerome into Latin).

Answer 6

Black K is 100% accurate on that!!!

To "reform" means to "remove defects" as the dictionary puts it.

That is exactly what Luther did. He removed the defective doctrines that were not found in Scripture.

Lutherans are not "protestant", they did not protest against the Catholic church as Zwingli and Calvin did, these men rejected (protested) the many of the teachings of the historic Christian church as well as the - then modern - Catholic church.

Luther took the church doctrines back to their original teachings and is "catholic" in the truest sense of the term.

Answer 7

Lutherans and Catholics don't think so. But to other Christians, they seem very much alike

Answer 8

my mom said i was baptised in a Lutheran church. that she was raised a lutheran .grand ma was a school teacher but any way she said that we where one step down from catholic may G-D forgive us

Answer 9

no

the original christian church was the catholic church. During the protestant reformation in the 16th (?) century...the first 2 main breakaway groups were the Lutherans (Martin Luthr) and the Calvinists (John Calvin) They objected to the veneration of saints, and focus on Mary, as well as the pope.

Answer 10

No.

In the 1500s Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church, edited the Bible (throwing out several books) and created his own religion