Can someone explain to me the doctrines of Methodist, Lutheran and Calvary Baptist religions?

Question

I have moved to a new area, and these are the churches that are most plentiful here. I have been attending Catholic church for a long time (though I was never confirmed a Catholic), but the closest church is almost 20 miles away.

I am open to exploring new faiths who have houses of worship in my local community.

Answer 1

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Calvary Baptist refer to is an independent Baptist church. Thus, really can't be defined by a systematic theological stance. Even side the Southern Baptist Convention the entire SBC can not be defined by one theology. Some churches have a mish-mash of theologies.

Lutherans follow their own systematic theology. Unless you are talking about the ELCA and other liberal Lutheran synods, then it is a mix of Lutheran theology and other theologies (feminist, liberation...)

Methodists typically follow an Arminian-Wesleyan systematic theology. Like the ELCA, the United Methodist church also embraces theological stances outside that of Wesleyan.

I know this doesn't answer your question, since we don't have the time nor facilities to discuss the theologies of all three churches. Can I make a suggestion? Look for a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod/Evangelical Lutheran Synod church in your area and talk with the Pastor.

http://welslocator.locatorsearch.com/

Answer 2

I am glad I converted to Catholicism.

I am always seeking knowledge.

I found this info online as 'additional readings" :


Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

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Additional Reading
Against the Reformers

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Answer 3

All three of them are denominations of Christianity. It will vary from individual church to church just exactly what they teach. If it is important to you to attend a Bible believing church, ask the pastor what they believe. Do they regard the Bible as the inspired inerrant word of God? A few such questions will tell you a lot in a hurry. If you like the answers, attend the service a few times to see if it is right for you.