Protestants do you want to learn about the Catholic church?

Question

OR just answer this question with assumptions and predjudices?

You know, telling people about Catholicism is like talking to a whole bunch of Seventh Day Adventists, everything is wrong and unreasonable, no matter how reasonable it is...

And yes, I care enough to have learned about most of your churches by the way...

Dave P: Destruction of selfish predjudices. Destruction of disrespect and the indignance it creates, which so often leads to conflict.

Answer 1

It is interesting to me that some (not all) Christians can't be happy unless everybody in the world believes exactly as they do. What is really weird for us outsiders is that some (again not all) Christians don't even respect each other's beliefs.

Answer 2

Actually I think most Protestants don't care what the Romans believe any more than the Romans care what the Protestants believe. As one who was raised Presbyterian (and was ordained as a ruling elder in that church), converted to Anglicanism, married a Roman, and eventually lost what faith I had, I find the find the whole cult thing amusing.

I can only assume it is all about money and power. What, besides that, would cause so many of the cults to deny the basic validity of the other cults? Saying that you must not only accept Jesus as your savior but worship him in a particular church using particular words seems to be a major perversion of his teachings. Then again, rational arguments make little difference to cults.

I guess my basic question would be why do you feel the need to explain your Jesus cult to members of other Jesus cults?

Answer 3

Can you see what you are doing?!

You are preaching Catholicism. When did the Gospel of Jesus Christ take a back seat to Catholicism?

I don't need the church to be saved. The Bible that I read says that the Just shall live by Faith. Not Catholicism, or Protestantism, or anything else. Jesus saves, not the church. The church is to be in focus to Christ, not a bunch of rituals ordained by man. The Roman Catholic church has been burdened by many rituals and beliefs that are not a part of what the Bible says to do.

So yes, I still have more to learn about the Roman Catholic Church. But from what I already know, it's not very attractive! I did not base my opinion on unscholarly rumor, but on scholarly information provided to me by the Bible, and by the works of men that may have been a part of the RCC at one point in time. John Fox being one.

So the focus of your question seems to fall short of the message of Jesus Christ, who died to save those that God chooses. The ones who He gives the ability to recieve salvation by faith.

I do not need the 'statues,' the saints, the church, the rituals, transsubstantiation, Popes, Nicea, unmarried priests, repititious prayer, rosaries, Mass, candles, two fingers in the air, paintings, visions of Mary, rings to kiss, incense, or the church's ordination.

Thank you anyways. ( ;

Answer 4

I'm not Protestant, but I know that Protestant history is 75% Catholic history. I think people tend to forget that all of those religions, including Islam and Judaism, all started with Abraham/Ibrahim.

Answer 5

Atheist, I'll just stick with assumptions and prejudice because I can be much more tormenting that way.

Anything I really want to know I can find out,
http://forums.catholic.com/
or the Anglicans will tell me.

Answer 6

We came out of it because we believe it is wrong, why would we want to learn about it? That battle has already been fought.

Answer 7

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0071/0071_01.asp
Check this link out. Its called Are Catholics Christian.