protestant means evangelical pentecostal charismatic and traditionals like anglicans lutherans baptists etc..survey shows pentecostal and charismatics are growing at the rate of 10% annualy,while others show only little growth rate.pentecostal evangelicals worldwide is 400million and is growing at around 9% while traditionals and charismatics are growing at about 4% and they number around 500 million .roman catholic growth rate is 1.5%there are around 30000 protestant churches worldwide.
2006-12-20 01:00:58 · 8 answers · asked by rockzamba 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Probably not since most protestant denominations believe it's okay to use things like hormonal contraception, condoms and effective family planning (unlike NFP) or even to choose not to breed at all!
2006-12-20 01:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we assume that worldwide Protestant growth rate is 10% per annum and if Catholic growth rate is 1.5% per annum and also assuming this growth rate is the same year after year, then eventually there will be more Protestants than Catholics. When this occurs depends how many Protestants there are on earth right now compared to how many Catholics there are.
According to the link I have provided below there are 968,000,000 Catholics in the world and 395,867,000 Protestants. We will assume your growth rate is correct, that Catholic population grows at 1.5% and Protestant population grows at 10% and we will also assume that there are no deaths. To find out how long it will take for Protestantism to overtake Catholicism we solve the following:
968,000,000*1.015^t = 395867000*1.1^t
for t.
Rearranging,
986,000,000/395,867,000 = (1.1/1.015)^t
t = log(9968,000,000/395,867,000)/log(1.1/1.015)
Therefore, t = 11.1183
In 11 years Protestant population will overtake Catholic population.
Of course all this depends on your growth rates being correct.
2006-12-20 01:38:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they will join the Catholics one day in some form or another. Since I have seen where they are practicing a lot of the customs of the Catholic church which I must add too that is not Biblical at all.
2006-12-20 01:03:58 · answer #3 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an evangelical Christian, I do not even think of converting Catholics because most of them that I have known believe in God and in His Son whom He sent.
That is the definition of eternal life according to Jesus. John 17:3.
I am more interested in the unsaved than converting the saved to my beliefs.
BTW: Most Baptists that I know consider themselves evangelical, because they are all evangelists with a commission to teach and baptize in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit.
2006-12-20 01:12:54 · answer #4 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics have a much higher birthrate world wide than Protestants.
I think that will make it hard
2006-12-20 01:17:02 · answer #5 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That will lead to creation of another protestant group!
2006-12-20 01:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it really matter if we replace one instrument of oppression with another.
2006-12-20 01:01:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not a chance
2006-12-20 01:04:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋