Who is considered a Protestant? Is it those of the Lutheran faith?

Answer 1

Any non-Catholic Christian is considered a Protestant

Peace!

Answer 2

I believe the Lutheran faith was the first Protestant faith, which
literally means to PROTEST against the established order, which was the Catholic faith at that time.

Answer 3

Wordnet defines protestant as 'making a protest'

In theology it refers to those who support the protest led by Martin Luther, which sprang from a desire to reform the church and cleanse it of corruption, such as the selling of indulgences.

Protestants hold a great variety of beliefs, but they are united in rejecting the authority of the pope.

Protestant groups include the Amish, the Anglican Communion, the Assemblies of God, the Baptists, Christian Science, the Congregationalists, the Lutheran Church, the Mennonites, the Methodists, the Presbyterian Church, and the Quakers

Answer 4

Since am living in todays time and not the time of Martin Luther why would I adopt a cynical nickname passed around directly during the last years of Martin Luther? Most of the 'Christians ' today do not proscribe to religions that were around during Martins last year! Plus the once mighty catholic venue is not in any shape to defend the Vatican let alone from a muslim onslaught! The followers of GOD are HIS Royal Children and should not claim any other title!

Answer 5

Protestants are protesters of the Catholic faith. Martin Luther certainly was that. So, yes, Lutherans are Protestant, as is any other church that "protests" the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Answer 6

Lutherans were the original Protestants, but the label has been attached to any Christian denomination NOT belonging to any "Catholic" persuasion. "Catholic" churches generally practice "Apostolic succession"; they can trace the uppermost leadership in their churches back to one of the 12 Apostles. Therefore, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Syrian Churches of the East, for example, are considered "catholic" and not "protestant", even though they are not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church (they are in schizm, another topic altogether).

Answer 7

Protestants are non-Roman Catholic Christians.

I have been a Protestant all of my life. However I grew up in a Congregational church and in the past few years joined a Bible-believing Baptist church.

The Lutheran Church is one of the many Protestant denominations.

F.Y.I. - the word catholic actually means "universal".

Answer 8

Nearly all the Protestant churches subscribe to the same creeds—the Nicene, Athanasian, and Apostles’ creeds—and these profess some of the very doctrines that Catholicism has been teaching for centuries, such as the Trinity, immortal soul, and hellfire. Such unscriptural teachings gave the people a distorted picture of God and his purpose. Rather than aid them in their search for the true God, the numerous sects and denominations that came into existence as a result of the free spirit of the Protestant Reformation have only steered people in many diverse directions. In fact, the diversity and confusion have caused many to question the very existence of God. The result? In the 19th century there came a rising tide of atheism and agnosticism.

Most Protestant churches deny the need for private confession to a priest. They hold that confession to God is sufficient for the forgiveness of sins, but some favor general confession and absolution at the “Communion service.” Many Protestants believe that faith alone is necessary to be justified before God.

In the 16th century, such Protestant reformers as Martin Luther and John Calvin understood the fiery torment of hell to be figurative of spending eternity separated from God. However, the idea of hell as a place of torment returned in the following two centuries. Protestant preacher Jonathan Edwards used to strike fear in the hearts of 18th-century Colonial Americans with graphic portrayals of hell.

Augustine was undoubtedly the Church Father who did the most to fuse Greek philosophy with what was by his time only a semblance of Christianity. Initially an ardent advocate of millenarianism, he eventually rejected any idea of a future Millennial Reign of Christ over the earth. He gave Revelation chapter 20 an allegorical twist.

The Catholic Encyclopedia says: “Augustine finally held to the conviction that there will be no millennium. . . . The first resurrection, of which this chapter treats, he tells us, refers to the spiritual rebirth in baptism; the sabbath of one thousand years after the six thousand years of history, is the whole of eternal life.” The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “Augustine’s allegorical millennialism became the official doctrine of the church . . . The Protestant Reformers of the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions . . . remained firmly attached to the views of Augustine.” Thus, the members of Christendom’s churches were deprived of the millennial hope.

The foremost Protestant proponent of predestination was the 16th-century French Reformer John Calvin. He defined predestination as “the eternal decree of God, by which he determined what he wanted to do with each man. Not all are created in the same condition, but eternal life is foreordained for some and eternal damnation for others.” Calvin also asserted: “God not only foresaw the fall of the first man, and in him the ruin of his posterity; but also at his own pleasure arranged it.”

Apart from their rejection of the primacy of the pope, some Protestant churches are not much different from Catholicism in church structure, and they retain unscriptural doctrines, such as the Trinity, immortality of the soul, and eternal torment.

Answer 9

Any non-Catholic religion would be considered a Protestant religion. Protestant comes from the word protest, since Luther nailed his protests to the cathedral door, in essence saying, nope, I don' t believe that.

A true protestant would be one who eschews all religion, trusting solely in the person of Jesus.

Answer 10

To expound on Kate's reply, all non-Catholic Christians are Protestants except for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church, nicknamed the Mormons, is a truly restored church having all the ordinances and priesthood authority that Jesus had established in His primitive church.

Answer 11

generally speaking any non - Catholic is considered such. however am not certain if the Greek Orthodox Church is considered to be Protestant or not.