the difference and smiliarities between Catholics and Protestants?

Question

what are some differences and similarities between Catholics and Protestants?
could anyone answer this question?
please?

Answer 1

Birth control.

VLR

Answer 2

Protestant churches vary considerably, so I will use the term rather loosely. You will also notice the viewpoint I have.

Catholics and Protestants use different forms of the old testament, and initially used different forms of the new testament as well, until Luther was opposed on the elimination of Hebrew, James, Jude and Revelation.

Catholics believe that the saints can pray with you to God, Protestants don't.

Catholics believe that the Pope is the successor of Peter and can speak infallably{on matters of doctrine only}. The pope can also only alter customs, not existing doctrines, that would be heresy. Protestants don't believe any of this although many Protestant sects have organizational hyerarchies based on the Catholic church structure.

Catholics believe Mary was ever virgin, most Protestant sects don't.

Some Protestant sects feel that infant baptism, or non immersion Baptism is invalid, Catholics don't.

Both use the Bible to back their stances, beliefs and practices, although many Protestants don't believe this.

Catholics will hear a reading from the old testament and new testament at all daily masses; ot, nt and an apostalic letter at Sunday masses. Catholics will also hear either a sermon or a homily during all masses, and are encouraged to read the Bible. Nearly the entire Bible is read in a 3 year span in Catholic churches.

Catholics believe that the Eucharist is truely the Body and Blood of Christ. We believe that the event transcends time, and that we can offer are own sacrifices during the celebration of the Eucharist. Protestants don't believe in most of this.

I don't know what Protestants do, so I can't describe this for you sorry.

Catholics believe that minor sins can be forgiven without the intervention of a priest. Serious (mortal) sins cut believers off from the church completely, so they need to return through the sacrament of reconciliation. The sacrament is also encouraged because we believe you can recieve grace from God when you take part it any of the 7 sacraments. It is also a chance to get help and advice from the priest.

Catholics can and do pray to God in the Protestant manner, but also pray with the Rosary, which allows followers to meditate on Biblical events as they pray.

This could go on for pages, so I will stop now.

Answer 3

In general Catholics and most Protestants believe the same basic things about Christianity: The Christ died for our sins and was resurrected; that through baptism and repentance one has the hope of heaven, and if you're unrepentant you risk Hell.

After that it gets pretty hairy. The Catholic view has been unshaken and steady for the past 2,000 years. The confusion happens when you try to examine protestant belief. Why? Because when you get into more detailed aspects of faith and belief, each one then has different beliefs, yet each one claims to have the true teachings of Christ. And this can change day by day.

If you want consistency, study the Catholic Church. I did and I'll be forever thankful for it.

God bless.

Answer 4

Most Protestants can recite and believe the doctrines contained in the Nicene Creed - all Catholics must - so - the similarities are to be found there.

The main differences:

Catholics have valid Apostolic Succession - Protestants do not and don't really care much.

Catholics believe in seven Sacraments, Protestants only two.

Catholics have a Priesthood, Protestants believe in the "priesthood of all believers"

Catholics believe in Scripture Tradition and Reason...Protestants for the most part believe in the "Bible Only" as the rule and guide for their faith (Sola Scriptura).

Answer 5

The great majority of the differences between Bible believing Protestants and the Catholics do not come from different interpretations of the Bible or different Bibles, but from a difference in what is the "final authority".

Answer 6

they are both christians
follow christ and have christ at the core of every teaching

most protestant churches have atleast one/2 sacraments that catholics have, one is baptism i can't think of the other one right now,sorry.

both use the bible(although the catholic bible has 73 books as opposed to the 66 of the protestant bible).

differences-

roman catholics have the pope
have 7 sacraments
have the catechism of the church

major differences usually come from doctrines.
for example protestants believe in faith alone and bible alone. for more on the catholic church try these sites

www.scripturecatholic.com
www.catholiceducation.org
www.newadvent.org
www.catholicism.about.com

Answer 7

#1 Confession. Catholics are required to confess their sins to a priest to be absolved of them. Protestants have a direct connection to God without going through a priest or saints.

#2 The Rosary. Catholics have to use a string of beads to pray their daily prayers. Protestants just talk to God as a friend without the aide of beads on a string.

#3 The Crucifix. Catholic crosses all show Jesus still on the cross (to remind them of the sacrifice). Protestants see and empty cross and are reminded that Christ arose after dying for our sins.

#4 The Pope. Catholics call the Pope "Holy Father" and see him as infallible, when in fact, the Pope is just as human as anyone else. I'm not saying he isn't a good person, but he is just a human. Scripture says (MATTHEW 23:9) "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

There are numerous others, but these are the ones I think of most often.

Answer 8

The kIng james version of the bible comes out of the the revolution against the tyrrany of catholic popes throughout history. one of the claims was that Popes were Translating scriptures incorrectly, so there had to be a NEED to retranslate the bible according to learned men instead of criminals who dominated in unrighteous dominion.

The popes have declared Infalibility, When protestants declare that NO MAN is infalible, except they have True revelations from Jesus.
There are pages and many books on the argument between who has the truth and who has authority.

but the truth is NO man has authority, people of all religions are TAUGHT they have authority, but no one KNOWS the truth and argue in the defense of their own divinity and theology, even if all People are shows 100% the correct rebuttles.

Answer 9

Protestant (from "protestors") is one of three main groups of Christianity, typically referring to European churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Renaissance-era Protestant Reformation.

A commonly given definition is merely "any Christian denomination which is not Roman Catholic or Orthodox Christian." (However, see also Copt (which do not descend from the Roman Catholic church) and Anabaptist (which rejected the state church altogether).) The term "Protestant" now represents a diverse range of perspectives, denominations, individuals, and related organizations, all typically focused on a worship of Jesus and a deference to the New Testament over the Old.

The Reformation came about through a number of factors, notably that Rome had abused its political power (hence failed to provide for salvation), and the advent of the press —the printing of the Gutenberg Bible and dissident publications soon after. But different Reformations had both a different character and different result depending on the region, culture, and theological doctrines. So while Martin Luther's "95 Theses" (1517) (preceded by the Hussites and Waldensians) offers the theological roots for much of Protestantism, the English Reformation (for example) was characterized largely by political power struggle between Rome and the English monarch. These distinctions were to some degree inherited to descendant churches, called "denominations," and notable differences remain between (for example) Anglican Churches and non-Anglican Protestant churches (Lutheran, Calvinist, etc.). "Restorationism," including Protestant denominations such as Presbyterianism, Baptist, and Methodist, characterizes denominations that reject some aspects of the Reformation. Two hundred years after the Reformation, in the United States, the "Great Awakenings" led to the creation of other Protestant sub-denominations like the Baptists, Pentecostals and Adventists. (Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormonism, though sometimes classified as Protestant or Protestant-descended, holds significantly divergent views from "mainstream" Protestantism.)

Protestantism is currently the dominant religion of many first-world countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Certain forms of Protestantism —in particular, Evangelicalism (including Baptists and Pentecostals) — is also currently the fastest growing branch of Christianity today[citation needed], with significant growth in countries such as China (Christian News Service), India and many nations in Europe as well as Africa.

As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective καθολικός, meaning "general" or "universal"[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows:

~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or Western, (c) the Latin Church after that separation, (d) the part of the Latin Church that remained under the Roman obedience after the Reformation, (e) any church (as the Anglican) claiming continuity with (b)." [1]
Leaving aside the historical meanings indicated under (b) and (c) above, the Oxford English Dictionary thus associates present-day Catholicism with:

(a) "the whole body of Christians". The actual extension of Catholicism in this sense varies with the different understandings of what it means to be a Christian.
(d) "the part of the Latin Church that remained under the Roman obedience after the Reformation", i.e. the Catholic or Roman Catholic Church. This definition of Catholicism should be expanded to cover the Eastern particular Churches that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, and that the Church in question sees as no less part of Catholicism than the Latin particular Church.
(e) "any church (as the Anglican) claiming continuity with the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or Western". Churches that make this claim of continuity include not only those of the Anglican Communion, but, among others, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Assyrian Church of the East. The claim of continuity may be based on apostolic succession, especially in conjunction with adherence to the Nicene Creed. Some interpret Catholicism as adherence to the traditional beliefs that Protestant Reformers denied (see, for example, the Oxford Movement).

Answer 10

I have nothing against the main line Protestant Churches because they practise ecumenism. I just hope and pray that the other Christian groups like Fundamentalists, Adventists and Born Again groups stop attacking the Catholic Church.

How can we convince non-Christians to convert to our faith if we cannot even respect each other's religious beliefs? Think about that.

Peace!

Answer 11

There are far more similarities than differences. Unfortunately, too many prefer to focus on the differences.



BTW, 2 people already have shown that they completely misunderstand the word infallibility in reference to the Pope. Anybody care to take a guess just how many infallible statements have ever been made by Popes?