Difference of Protestant and Catholic?

Question

I don't know really any at all about Christianity but when I grow up I want become one. I know it sounds awkward but first of all I don't know which I should go in? what are some Pros and Cons?

Answer 1

Praise God! Why wait to be a Christian? In John 3:16 the Bible says, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

and in Romans 10: 9. "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved..."

Do you believe that? If so, say this prayer and mean it :

“Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.”

Guess what? You're a Christian if you've said this prayer. No need to wait. Read the Bible to know what is sin and what is right. Get Christian friends to hang out with.

Catholics have a head of all their churches called the Pope, who's supposed to be right under God. They pray to saints who've died and gone to heaven. There are other differences that I don't believe are right according to the Bible.

I go to a nondenominatinal church. Wherever you go, attend a church that teaches from the Bible.

Email me anytime!

Answer 2

The primary differences are:

Protestants read the bible and make up their OWN minds on things, yeah often with help from a minister, but nothing is law. You can believe differently than the minister.

Protestants can get divorced for many reasons.

Protestanats can have women clergy or ministers.

Protestatns don't hold the Virgin Mary to a high position.

Protestants read a slightly different bible (maybe a 2% to 5% difference).

Protestants are not as heavily into rituals such as holy water, making signs of the cross, doing stations at the cross, kneeling, lighting candles.

PRotestants are, however, splintered into hundreds of sects with different "belief" concepts.

Catholics don't allow divorce (but do annul under certain terms), they beleive in confession and pennace for the forgiveness of sins, they beleive in specific rituals.

Catholics MUST follow the central Church in Rome, which interprets God. To go against this is to be sent to hell by excommunication.

Catholics can't practice artificial birth control, have abortions.

Women are not allowed to hold high office in the church.

Preists are not allowed to marry.

Catholics are also advised not to read certain books, see certain movies or listen to certain music, but this is not an order or law, just an advisory.

Such as not going to the current Madonna concert, because of her crusifixtion staging.

I should also point out that Jesus was Jewish, not Catholic nor Proestant. The Catholic Religion was created a year or two after his death and the Proestant movement happened around 1500.

Jesus was a Practicing Jew, who was out to reform the Jewish "church."

No Christian organization practices Judaism as JEsus pratcised it.

Jesus kept the sabbath on Friday Night to Saturday Night. The Christians made this Sunday to coincide with his resurrection.

Jesus part taked in Pesach (Passover) and probably all the other Jewish holidays. That Last Supper was the day before Passover and was a somewhat traditional meal of lamb, wine, unleaveed bread, bitter herbs and scripture reading from the old testament.

Jesus wanted this tradition to continue. The Catholics have reduced it to little wafers of cracker dough and often just the Priest drinking wine (although some churches pass the cup to the flock).

Protestants use grape juice as a general rule (also acceptable to the Jews) and little crackers.

Both do it, generally, in the daytime not at night.

None of them offer a full meal, which Jesus and the Disciples had.

The Last Supper is a tradition Jesus wanted everyone to continue.

Christians, do say "grace" before meals.

In the last supper a big loaf of unleavened (probalby, although on that day regular bread could still be eaten) was broken and passed from man to man. This is where the term "breaking bread" came from.

NO Christian religion basically practices this.

Jesus also said, except for adultery no divorce should occur.

Jesus also said "love your enemy the most" and many christians harbor ill will towards Jews, heathens, homosexuals and others.

Read the bible and draw your own conclusions (although remember, doing this THIS WAY will make you a PROTESTANT)!

Answer 3

First, the two groups tend to use different Bibles. The Catholic Bible has more books in it than a Protestant Bibles do.

Second, is the application of the '2 or more witnesses' principle. (Matt 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1) for Christians; also given to the Jews (Deut. 10-20 mentions it at least 3 times). The application of that principle leads to the conclusion (in my opinion, that the old testament is not Genesis-Malachi,but the law of Moses. However, I will let you form your own conclusion.
There are other matters, but this part should get one started.

Answer 4

I was once a Catholic now I am a born again Christian and Protestant.

Attending Catholic college, I learned the main differences is that Protestants believe in the Bible exclusively, while Catholics believe the Bible and sacred tradition are equal.

Also Protestants believe you are saved by faith and grace and not works while Catholics believe that you are saved by both faith and works.

This is what my discussions with a professor who was a deacon told me.

At the higher levels of Catholicism (i.e.--priests and up, nuns, seminaries they are taught that the Bible is mostly myths and allegories particularly the old testament. A nun teaching an old testament class to me--an older, nontraditional student who was no longer a Catholic taught that the reason Moses and the Israelites could cross the Red Sea was it was 3 inches deep, the blood in the pots and rivers during Moses' plagues was caused by algae, the manna in the desert was grasshopper spittle, the first two book of the Bible who written by an unknown scribe and other such nonsense.

Some Christians including myself believe in a literal translation of the Bible and not myths and allegories. I told her in class that what she was teaching was a theory and that other people had different theories. I held up the book by Josh McDowell called "answers to tough questions sceptics ask about the Christian faith" and recommended they read it.

I said you know Jesus believed in the Bible being literal as he believed the story of Johna and the whale for He said "as Jonah was in the belly of the whale 3 days so shall I be in the tomb." Since I don't feel Jesus is a liar or a delusional, crazy person, if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me."

Although I said it in a respectful tone, she, this 70 year old nun became so angry, she dismissed the class immediately, 15 minutes early...and always wrote tons of things in the margins of my papers disagreeing with things I said in a very angry way....taking it out on my grades during subjective tests like essay tests..oh, well...

I still ended up with a 3.9 GPAS after nearly 6 years of college

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Although I tried to stay in the Catholic church, I left it 3 years after I became saved as it was so contrary to what I had come to believe that I couldn't grow.

Answer 5

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.

There are some 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 2,000 year old 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.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Depends on what Protestat Church you are talking about.

There are 1000's of various Protestant groups. Some are almost exactly like the Catholic Church and other are not.

You need to ask alot more specific question. All of them are Christain but the main difference is the type of service they do.

Answer 7

i am a christian but sorry , i dnt knw the difference between the cath n the pro cz i am an orthodox but i knw the difference between Orthodox n cath cz my mum is a cath , so if u want me to tell u the difference between orth n cath ok i will return to the question again n if u say so i will edit my answer .

but all iknw is cath r like orth they believe virgin mary is a saint n she is holy but oro thik she is just a women virgin yes but she is not holy she was just a way so jesus can come to earth
also there is divorce in pro but not in cath .

any way let me say that the Christ is the way of salvation , u r an orth or cath or pro , u still a christian , n all u need is faith , once u have faith , everything will be ok , u will peace in ur life , so b4 asking ppl , just go to a priest n let him guide u , just do it ,
good bless u .

Answer 8

There are only about three out of a hundred doctrines that are different between Protestants and Catholics.
And we waste too much time and energy arguing with each other about those three
The thing to remember is that Jesus is Lord.
Anything else is commentary.

Answer 9

Roman Catholic-basic chrisitian beliefs based on our interputation of the Bible. We believe in the communion of the saints, which is praying to the saints in heaven-so they can pray for us on Earth. We believe in the bible, as God's word-written by man, and some traditions.

We don't believe in birth control, cheap grace, the rapture. We believe in celebant preists that take a vow of povery, stay unmarried like Jesus. We've were established in 33 AD, and have been around for 2000 years, unlike all protestant religions founded by man. The oldest protestant faith is only 550 years old! We are led by the Pope, who controls from the seat of St. Peter.

May God bless you in your search for truth.
http://catholic.com

Answer 10

According to Swedenborg, both can be wrong in their doctrine.

God is one and there is a conjunction of charity and faith is Swedenborg's condensed theology.

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit is like the soul, the body and the works in a single person.

Charity is never apart from faith since God is a marriage of good and truth