Question: "What is the difference major between Catholics and Protestants?"?

Question

simple and short.

Answer 1

Catholics accept and believe every teaching of the original Christian Church, because they are the original Christian Church founded by Christ. Protestants have rejected more or less (depending on the specific denomination) of the teaching of the original Christian Church founded by Christ. The Catholic Church also accepts and embraces every passage of Scripture, because the Catholic Church compiled the Bible, and it therefore cannot contain anything contrary to Catholic teaching. Protestants have to search the Bible for specific passages that seem to support their new doctrines, and simply ignore the rest. The Catholic Church represents the will of God, Who said that all His followers were to be united in belief and united in worship. Protestantism represents deviation from God's stated will in that regard, with its thousands of conflicting, contradicting manmade churches. As far as specific beliefs, that again depends upon the particular denominations you are talking about, for Protestant denominations differ from one another as much as they differ from Catholicism.

The one thing all Protestants do place faith in is the manmade tradition of sola scriptura, the most destructive tradition that has found its way into Christianity. This one false doctrine is directly responsible for the ongoing fragmentation of Protestantism into its ever-increasing number of separate churches. According to this modern notion, whatever you think the Bible says is the truth for you. Of course, the church next door thinks the Bible says something different, which is why they are a separate church. Each denomination has its own "truth", so no-one really knows what the actual truth is. Jesus Christ gave full authority to the one Church He founded, so that whatsoever it binds upon earth is bound in heaven, and is therefore true. This is the only way anyone on earth can know the actual truth instead of their own private "truth". You cannot have truth without unity, and you cannot have unity without genuine authority. This is why Christ gave the Apostle Simon the keys to the kingdom, the universal symbol of supreme authority.
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Answer 2

Catholics have two sources of doctrine, most Portestants have one.

The Catholic Church does not use Holy Scripture as the only basis of doctrine. It could not. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time that the New Testament was written (by Catholics).

There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about 400 AD.

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is guiding the church today) to make the correct choices about things like:
+ The Holy Trinity (which is also only hinted at in the Bible)
+ Going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments)
+ The Communion of Saints
+ Which writings include in the New Testament?

Things that are even more modern like
+ Slavery is bad. Slavery is never declared evil in the Bible. This was one of the justifications for slavery in the Confederate States.
+ Democracy is good. The Bible states that either God should be the leader of the nation like Israel before the kings or kings should be the leader, "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's." This was talked about a lot during the American Revolution.

This second source of doctrine is called Apostolic Tradition.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Using a generalization of all Protestants, I'd say that the primary difference is that Catholics believe you can lose your salvation due to your actions in this life if you do not ask forgiveness of them. Most Protestants believe in "once saved, always saved."

Answer 4

Doctrine (Purgatory, priestly confessions, papal infallibility) hierarchy (the Pope/Vatican) and style of worship (the mass). Protestantism is a result of a split in the Catholic church begun by Martin Luther. Both Protestants and Catholics are Christian.

Answer 5

Catholics - believe in Jesus for their salvation, but there's too much other stuff in the way. You have to follow exactly what the church wants you to do, too high a look to Mary and the angels and the saints. Don't just keep it simple and focus on Jesus.
Has often been called "working your way to heaven"
Catholic Bible translated from Latin to English
sometimes Latin to Greek to English

Prodestants - believe in Jesus for their salvation, but get too caught up in all the doctrines of the church. Some groups promote this doctrine heavily, while other groups put too much emphasis on this other doctrine.
has often been labeled as "faith only, no works necessary" Don't just keep it simple and focus on Jesus
Prodestant Bible translated from Greek to English

That's just my take on it

Jesus Loves You!

Answer 6

Well catholics believe in the presence of Jesus in the elements of communion and Protestants believe it is merely symbolic.

There are other differences but that is one of the main ones.

Answer 7

Protestants do not believe in the infallibiltiy of the pope or that he is God's representative here on Earth.

Answer 8

Biggest difference is what caused Martin Luther to split away from the Catholic Church. ML couldnt find anywhere in the bible where sins are removed by anything other than faith.

Catholics believe you have to work to get into heaven, as well as believe

Protestants believe in salvation by faith alone.

Answer 9

Catholics kept the rituals, pomp and circumstances in their services and kept the Apocrypha. Protestants got rid of the obligations,indulgences, rituals pomp and circumstance and also kept the sacrments and adhered to the orginal 66 books of the Bible. Both have hierarchies. Protestants have no central church or Pope. Protestant churches are divided by dnomination. Protestants also believe that man is fallible.

Answer 10

Super simple, protestants "protest" rome.