Rules by which each is governed, the original church seperated when there was discord, if you read the New Testament you will discover through the letters that discords used to come up between the churches now and then and some of the letters that we read in Acts are instructions and support letters written to the churches in questions and so on.
The original church broke up and formed different sects, protestants, catholics and methodists (I'm not familiar with methodists).
2007-02-04 04:33:39
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answered by Neptune2bsure 6
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As you may have concluded by now, this is not the place to get a reasoned explanation of the entire history of the European Reformation or the Anglican Reformation (they were related, but not the same). You will need to engage in some (to my mind, very worth while) reading in the area. For example, the Anglican Reformation was based upon far more than a mere question of divorce (which was a political, not a religious issue at the time). The issues were both doctrinal and political, involving England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire (which, it is said, was neither holy, roman, nor an empire), and the See of Rome. Few people appear to remember that the Pope at the time was a temporal ruler as well as spiritual (indeed, the Pope commanded an army until the mid-19th Century), and the idea that he and he alone, as opposed to councils of bishops, should rule the entirety of Christendom was hardly a settled one. (You may wish to examine the effects of the Fifth Lateran Council which rejected concilarism--see, there is lots to learn.) It is in this context, Henry's assertion that "the Bishop of Rome has no more power in England than any other foreign Bishop" must be understood. You should probably start with a good book of European history. After that, an interesting book to consider, especially for an open-minded Protestant, is "How the Reformation Happened," by Hilare Belloc, written from a distinctly Roman Catholic point of view. Methodism is a later development from Anglicanism, centuries after the Reformation, and a biography of John Wesley would get you started.
2016-05-24 03:59:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Protestants and methodist are kind of like going to a buffet where you can choose what suits you best, because there are so many denomination to choose from and if you don't like how one is you can throw that plate a way and fill up on something else.Catholics are united which is why it is called the universal church.(Its what catholic means)Any time you go to a catholic mass you are united with people all around the world who are saying and hearing the very same thing and so those people are are united in prayer and faith in a totally different way, because the same reading from the bible are read and the mass has the same theme.
2007-02-04 04:41:17
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answered by Ben 2
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Before the reformation in Europe, most people were Roman Catholics. Protestants were the non Catholic Christians after the reformation. Methodists came after the reformation as a separate group that wanted to worship in their own distinctive way.
2007-02-04 04:34:07
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answered by Eso_ uk 4
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Protestants and Methodist are the same. Catholics have beliefs that are different from the other two.
2007-02-04 04:31:33
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answered by Fish <>< 7
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Quite a few Protestants will go to heaven but only some Methodists. There is a special room in heaven for Catholics but it only holds 3
2007-02-04 04:30:31
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answered by beek 7
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"Catholic" is generally used to mean "Roman Catholic", a member of the church that recognizes the Pope as its spiritual leader on earth. Some churches affiliated with the Church of England also refer to themselves as "Anglo-catholic".
"Protestant" can refer to a member of any of a large number of different churches. What these churches tend to have in common is that they broke away from the Roman Catholic church during the Reformation in 16th-century Europe. "Methodist" is the name of one of the protestant churches. "Presbyterian", "Pentecostal", and "Congregationalist" are some of the names of others.
2007-02-04 04:42:38
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answered by obro 3
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Catholics is the main church in the faith. Methodists are like catholics except they are separately run and their priests can marry. Protestants is any church that allows its priest to marry freely, and usually have churches with stained tile ceilings.
2007-02-04 04:34:51
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answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6
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"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)
Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.
Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):
By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.
There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.
A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-04 15:09:36
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answered by imacatholic2 7
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the catholic church teaches things that are not scriptural:
praying to saints
confessing your sins to a man rather than to God
purgatory
indulgences
transubtantiation
salvation by works rather than by faith
saying that Mary is co-redeemer with Christ
calling the Pope the "vicar of Christ"
Check out this website:
http://www.reachingcatholics.org/mainpage.html
2007-02-04 04:33:31
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answered by redeemed 5
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