Christians: Are you a Protestant or Catholic?

Question

Serious question.


*For a bonus point, say why :) you are one and not the other.


Thanks.

Answer 1

I am Catholic because Jesus entrusted His flock to Peter (John 21:15-17) and "Where Peter is, there is the Church" (St. Ambrose of Milan). History shows that all other Christian bodies broke away from the Catholic Church (or broke away from a break-away).

Answer 2

I am a Christian, but I am neither Protestant nor Catholic.

Why is it that if you are NOT Catholic you are then Protestant?

1. I am not a protestant because of the major perception that I see when I look at tele-evangelists and the type. MOST Protestants are confused, money-hungry, act irrational and crazy, and therefore I want nothin g to do with them.

2. I am not Catholic because they bow to idols (oh, sorry, I mean saints)ppppphhhhhhh! They pray to dead people (oh, yeah, SAINTS again) and they are repetative in prayer like the pagans.

I guess I'm just a 33 A.D. Christian.

I beleive soley what the Bible says, and I try my best to follow the principles that Jesus Christ left us to live with.

Established "religion" doesn't mean anything to me.

I beleive in Jesus Christ, the great God who visited us in the flesh, taught us how we should live, and died upon the cross so that we could be redeemed.

Peace to you.

Answer 3

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.

Source(s):

Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Additional Reading

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

Answer 4

I am neither.

Roman Catholics have a rich history of dogmatism that relates them with Babylonianism, paganism, and general theology that does not stem from the bible or the following of Christ.

Protestants have that same history only at the time of Luther, Calvin, etc...they broke off into sects that seperated themselves from Roman Catholics doctrinally.

I on the other hand was raised by Fundamental Baptists that come from a sect of Anabaptist's that come from the Waldensians. There has always been a remnant of the New Testament church that has been outside the mainstream and that has concerned itself more with following God and the bible more than religion and church.

I am currently in a Post-Modern Latter Rain church. Also not really protestant or Roman Catholic.

Answer 5

Protestant. Catholic doctrine has been away from Jesus' teachings for a very long time. I don't even consider Catholics in the same class as Christians. Don't mistake this for hate. I believe Catholics can be Christian, but the organized Catholic church has long since departed. I differentiate them because whenever someone speaks of the Inquisition, they always refer to Christians doing it..it was the Catholics.

Answer 6

Neither. I am a Biblical follower of Jesus Christ who attends a Bible following Baptist church. (Which is NOT PROTESTANT, BTW).

I was raised a catholic, studied their traditions from their own books, and they convinced me they were ridiculous. Transubstantiation? Hocus pocus! I started reading the Bible after I met up with some Christians, and God convinced me, for the FIRST time in my life, that I was hearing the truth. I didn't need to be told twice. I repented of my sins, God gave me a new heart, and I've never been the same since!

Answer 7

I am neither Protestant or Catholic but I am a Christian because I obeyed Christ's commands to be saved. Only Christianity will produce Christians.If you follow Christ, you will only be a Christian, not anything else just a Christian.

Answer 8

Peace!
I was born and raised a Presbyterian Protestant. I converted to Catholicism when I was 23. I studied, very thoroughly, all Christian denominations before I embraced Catholicism. Why?
Because it is the Church founded by Jesus Christ and all her teachings are true. I was surprised to find out that Catholicism is the most biblical of all Christian religions.
God bless!

Answer 9

Protestant - I don't believe that the pope is better than anyone else on earth and I do believe that Mary had other children besides Jesus are just a couple of reasons

Answer 10

Protestant, Pentecostal. I've been to Catholic church services a handful of times and have felt like they were teaching me false hope


http://priestlygoth.blogspot.com/2006/11/another-bad-reason-not-to-become.html

http://catholica.pontifications.net/?page_id=2068