christianity question?

Question

what is the difference between all of the branches of christianity? (ex protestant, catholic, presbyterian)
please be vivid in your describtions

Answer 1

Hundreds of books have been written about that and hundreds more will be. Do some websearching.

Answer 2

There is not much difference between protestants, presbyterian if you look at their doctrineal satements. The problem is some of the churches don't follow the true doctrine from the Bible, which in most protestant cases is their doctrine. The biggest difference between catholic and protestant is salvation. THe Bible teaches that Jesus is the only way to heaven John 14:6. And that you can't do good works to get there, is is all about God's gift of Grace and mercy by receiving the gift of God into your life which that gift is the shed blood of Christ on Calvary's cross. You need to trust in that alone for salvation. Catholics believe in the sacraments and teach that you can never know for sure if you are going to heaven. Ephesians 2:8-9, John 1:12. There are many more differences between the two but I feel that, that is the main one. Being raised catholic for 22 years and converting to Baptist once the Lord got a hold of my heart, and I gave my life to HIm in 1994 and received His Gift of salvation.

Answer 3

Actually, the three main branches of Christianity are Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox.

Presbyterian is a denomination with protestant christianity that put emphasis on Gods control and predestination.

The main difference between Orthodox and Catholicism is that Orthodox churches don’t believe in that the church has a single head (a.k.a.: the pope).

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Answer 4

The Edict of Milan in 313 A.D or proclamation of religious freedom brought about many positive changes for the church, and was certainly a much welcomed turnabout from the years of brutal persecution. But instead of converting completely from the old practices of paganism, this and the new Christian religion were somewhat mingled together.

Under the new papal authority in the seventh century, many more new beliefs were added to the church, such as the unbiblical doctrine of purgatory (593), the required use of Latin in prayer and worship (600), and prayers said to Mary, dead saints and angels (600).

One reason many of these strange ideas gained accepted credibility was because the Bible was not readily available to the common people, either in print or in translation. They had no idea what the Bible really taught.

The next four hundred years saw many more new beliefs added to the church: The ritual kissing of the Pope's foot (709), temporal (political) power granted to the Pope (750), worship of the crucifix, images and relics (786), holy water mixed with a pinch of salt and blessed by a priest (850), the worship of St. Joseph (890), the baptism of bells (965), the canonization of dead saints (995), and prescribed fasting on Fridays and during lent (998).

*A break in the church occurred in 1054 over a relatively trivial issue, when the Eastern Orthodox Church condemned the western church for the use of unleavened bread.

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*A Catholic monk and professor of theology named Martin Luther, became convinced that the Bible was the only true authority in matters of spiritual instruction, and sought to reform the church with this new insight and to expose its errant doctrines. Martin Luther came to reject all theology based only on tradition and embraced the idea of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through faith.

In 1529, the Emperor Charles V attempted to smother Luther's movement by force, but some of the German State princes stood up in protest. Thus, because of their protest, the movement began to be known as the "Protestants." What had originally been intended to bring reform to Catholicism from within was now an ousted reformation, forced to split from the original body.

In 1530, New churches began to emerge referred to as "Evangelical" or "Protestant." And from this came three other branches: The Lutherans (in Germany and Scandinavia), the Zwinglian and Calvinists (in Switzerland, France, Holland and Scotland), and the Church of England.

Answer 5

That would take a year to write in this space!

Some C.religions say faith is all that is needed others say good works have to be included in everyday Christian living to be saved.
Some honor saints,more than others.
Some believe Jesus was divine and other say he was a man and still others say he was equally man and God.
Some have Eucharistic celebrations, some have not...Some believe the body and blood of Christ
are really present in the bread and wine consecrated on the altar, like Catholics and Evangelicals don't believe that, where I have attended services.

Answer 6

In points of doctrine, most of the orthodox Christian churches are very similar. They consider that God is supreme, that salvation is through Christ, and that no one really "deserves" to go to heaven.

The main differences is in their church structure. For instance the Catholics and Anglicans (or Episcopalians as they are called in America) have bishops, archbishops, cardinals, popes, etc. Basically, they have a church hierarchy, or a chain of command. In the Protestant churches the church is centered, not around the church magistrates, but the congregation, and typically the congregation chooses their own minister.

Of course there are liberal and conservative sects in every denomination, and some of them emphasize difference things. For instance some emphasize baptism, others communion, and others the Sabbath.

Answer 7

The christian world can basically be divided into 2.

You have catholics on one hand(both roman and orthidox)and protestants on the other.

Unfortunately what happens sometimes is people become too focused on the differences,

Answer 8

Catholics believe in the centralized authority of the Catholic church, where as Protestants believe in the responsiblity of the individual to have a direct relationship with God.

Then all of the countless offshoots bicker about this and that.

Mormonism is probably the most unique denomination of Christianity.

-Aztec276

Answer 9

This is actually almost impossible to answer in Yahoo format. Maybe this will be of help though....there are countless branches, each with many details about the foundation and beliefs of it. There are many books that offer those details. Sorry this isn't of much more help...Good luck.

Answer 10

I really don't know. That's why I don't get caught up in denomination, because I really believe that denomination is an idol for some. A lot of baptists feel like they can only associate with other baptists. That's wrong! We're to love each other, no matter, race, gender, denomination, culture. So when someone asks me what church are you apart of I say the Kingdom of God!!!

Answer 11

protestant and catholic are the two main branches and then within each they branch out summore .. im protestant so cant tell you much about catholics but within protestants thers just slightly different intepretations of things like speaking in tongues or some end time criteria and stuff. also their education processes and ranks and titles are slightly different. exact believes of each i dont know. the obvious difference is between catholics and protestants i guess.