what are some things that are wrong with the protestant religion in your opinion?

Answer 1

The religion part.

Answer 2

They kept too much of the Catholic heritage or traditions and religion, instead of starting from scratch.

Christmas is an arbitrary day that bears no resembles to the actual day Jesus was born.

Easter is not Passover nor is it celebrated on the actual day it happened, except every 30 or 50 years by accident.

Jesus was Jewish and teaching a reformist view of Judaism. He expected the PAssover tradition to be kept, but wanted him incorproated into it as a rememberance of his scarfice and what it was for.

Christians don't have a Sedar dinner, don't break unleavened bread and don't remember the traiditions of freedom from slavery and oppression.

Religion is too much about standing, sitting, kneeling, singing, doing a ritual.

Very litte of it is about living life as JEsus so ordered.

A few new age religions try to do this, but even they don't follow all of JEsus words.

The Born Again communes, for example. Almost all of them expect you to give all your worldly possessions to the commune. This is a TOTAL violation of JEsus' words and example.

When one disciple was called he wanted to return to get his tools or possessions and JEsus said: Leave them with your family. ALL I want is YOU as you are right now.

Other disciples brought their tools with them and they retained them for their own use in the ministry and took them with them if they ministered elsewhere.

This Born Again Christian commune concept takes too many ideas from Communism, an Atheist motif. In which God (the state) owns all weath and possessions.

Jesus never said that. He said sell all you own and buy a sword.

He said, leave your things with your family.

Use your things in the service of God.

He didn't say GIVE THEM ALL TO ME SO I CAN ACCUMULATE THINGS

Protestantism is also getting to Micro Religious, focusing in a few concepts instead of the whole.

They focus on the evils of fornicators, gulltons, homosexuals and drunks, yet forget Jesus and his Disciples got very drunk at the Last Supper and Jesus expected that tradition to continue.

They also might be relaxing moral standards inapproriately, such as no fault divorce and turning a blind eye to church members who get married and have babies 5 months later. Even the homosexual marriage issue could be a little too liberal. Next, cohabitors will clamor for their christians rights.

Jesus might have embrassed these things in today's world, but I think he'd do it differently.

Not saying I have any answers, but before Christians run off an get a NON CONTESTED divorce I think they need to explore all options OR maybe the Christian Churches should NOT SANCTIFY MARRIAGES SO LIGHTLY.

Let them get civil ceremonies if the cannot satisify the Elders that they are ready for marriage. The Church should simply deny them the ritual if unsatisfied.

I've seen some "so called" protestant and even Catholic Christians with two or three divorces under their belts.

What Jesus' message that you can't set them aside except for adultery is NO LONGER VALID.

we have INVALIDATED A SAYING OF JESUS

We KNOW BETTER THAN JESUS

Jesus lived in old times and as Dillion said, the Times They Are A changing.

Those are the excuses I get from Christian.

Meanwhile the kids who learn the ways of Jesus also learn to call three or four other men "daddy."

And watch their Christian Mother take "Uncle Jim" into her bedroom all night long.

These problems are faced by all Christians, all Religions, not just Protestants.

But the Proestants, as the liberal changers, have an obligation to make those changes with great care and in the spirit of JEsus.

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 think there's often an overemphasis on the Bible to the neglect of the tradition (what Christians have held as true at all times and in all places) and the prayerful discernment of the Holy Spirit. At its worst, the Bible is treated idolatrously. Also, people have different spiritual styles, and the austerity and lack of liturgy can leave some people feeling spiritually starved. Finally, the schisms and lack of unity within Protestantism are disturbing -- it seems like people found new denominations whenever they disagree about some point.

Answer 5

Hypotheically, lets say my religion magically disapeared, and I was out to choose a protestant religion as my next best choice (to their credit that honestly probably would be my next best choice).
My biggest challenge would be finding which one has the right interpretation of the Bible? As far as I can tell, no one is claiming any other authority than what is written in that book - There are so many different ways to understand one scripture, so how can anyone tell for sure who's interpretation is best?

Answer 6

Getting one's eyes off Jesus and trying to be "good" by yourself. It's a trap that many fall into. Forgetting the good news of the Gospel. And forgetting that we were once lost and sinners and needed a Savior just like everyone else.

I hope you're not only focusing on the shortcomings of Protestants. They had a ton more positives than negatives if you have the eyes to see.

Answer 7

Several things but some that immediately come to mind are 1) lack of love among themselves (John 13:35) 2) disunity (1Corinthians 1:10) 3) Involvement in the politics of this world (John 17:16 and John 6:15)

Answer 8

Nothing. I have some problems with some denominational dogma of the Protestant church (I am protestant so I can say that, lololol). I am concerned that the more liberal churches are losing members to the more fundamental ones and if we are failing them in some way or if by and large younger people are going for a more black (not racially) and white lifestyle where things are either wrong or right with no in between.

Yeah, yeah, I know...another left wing liberal type...but hey, they ed u cated me, what can I do. Can you believe they let me in the church doors...my my.
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Answer 9

First thing that comes to mind -- they share the same book as the basis for their religion and do agree on a couple of major points, however they disagree on virtually everything else. Put five Protestants together with a bible and they'll get into an argument.

Answer 10

Some are not Bible teaching churches. That some pastors cannot give a correct answer when asked about the correct way into heaven. That some do not believe in the trinity or the virgin birth.

Answer 11

Too many off-branches. Different persuasions splinting off because of one or two or several passage interpretations. By and large Protestant Christianity has been a failure to American society.
My opinion but I hope I'm wrong.