Were Pilgrims Christians?

Question

Thinking how they got over here they must of had God on their side to sail the whole ocean.

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Some were, but the pilgrims came later than the explorers, and Pagans made it far sooner than did these. The earliest to have found this continent seem to have been the Pagan Vikings, though some of the Celts may have been here as well. In any event, even Columbus was not the first European to have made it to the "new" world. If it was a god filling the sails, it wasn't the Christian God.

That same theory doesn't fit the bill for the civilisations in the Pacific either.

Answer 3

Some pilgrims were Christian, escaping other Christians in Europe. Some came for the money.

Since human remains (Kennewick man) have been found in America that are 9,000 years old, and been shown to be Polynesian, then people were sailing the seas a long time before the Pilgrims.

Answer 4

And so did the convicts have God on their side, the rapists and the thieves, that sailed across the whole ocean from the UK to the penal colonies in Australia?
How about the black slaves?
Did they have God on their side, when they were abducted and forced into slavery, sailing a whole ocean from Africa to the US?
You truly are a Christian!
lol

Answer 5

Yes

they were protestants, a main group of chrisians , and also sepratists

The Pilgrims believed that before the foundation of the world, God predestined to make the world, man, and all things. He also predestined, at that time, who would be saved, and who would be damned. Only those God elected would receive God's grace, and would have faith. There was nothing an individual could do during their life that would cause them to be saved (or damned), since God had already decided who was going to be saved before the creation of the world. However, God would not have chosen blatant sinners to be his elect; and therefore those who were godly were likely to be the ones God had elected to be saved

one group believed independence from Rome and moderate changes in religious practices to be sufficient. The others wished to further "purify" the Church of England through a second Reformation that would do away with bishops as well as the pope. Some of these "Puritans" believed they could accomplish their reforms within an ecclesiastical structure. Other more radical reformers believed that each individual church congregation must operate independently. These reformers (the "Separatists") could not support a national church.

Answer 6

Yes, the Pilgrims were Christians. They were Puritans and sailed from Holland to America to make sure that their ways were not going to become intertwined w/ the Dutch ways (of religion). They had originally come from England to escape percecution. Then, once they got to America, they set up several settlements. The book The Scarlet Letter tells of it in depth and is a very good read (even though it is tough). If you are interested in the ways of the Puritans and their religious beliefs, then you might want to read that book.


(refferring to the ones at Plymouth and America)

Answer 7

Yes read below for confirmation;

Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, MA. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled a volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America. The colonists faced a lengthy series of challenges, from bureaucracy, impatient investors and internal conflicts to sabotage, storms, disease,and uncertain relations with the indigenous people. The colony, established in 1620, would ultimately succeed, the second to do so among several English attempts. Their story has become a central theme in United States cultural identity.


The people who would come to be known as the Pilgrims were brought together by a common belief in the ideas promoted by Richard Clyfton, parson at All Saints' Parish Church in Babworth, Nottinghamshire, between 1586 and 1605. This congregation held Separatist beliefs comparable to nonconforming movements (i.e., groups not in communion with the Church of England) led by Henry Barrowe, John Greenwood and Robert Browne. Unlike conforming Puritan groups who maintained their membership in and allegiance to the Church of England, Separatists held that their differences with the Church of England were irreconcilable and that their worship should be organized independently of the trappings, traditions and organization of a central state church.[1]

Answer 8

Yep. In fact, if a non-Christian tries to sail the whole ocean they'll be swallowed whole by a giant squid and sodomized by demons in it's stomaches.

True story.

Answer 9

yes the Pilgrims were christians, in point they were reformed christians of a group called the puritans who sought a new land where they would worship God and live out of the reach of the Catholic church

Answer 10

The Pilgrims weren't all Pilgrims. In fact they had a large problem with those that wouldn't sign their biased compact.

Answer 11

I understand that they mostly were. They were in many cases attempting to escape religious persecution. Back in the 1500's to the 1700's the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church later were trying to force people to worship their way. Many protestants didn't want wither one of them to tell them anything about how to worship. They had the Bible to tell them.

The Bible that came over on the Mayflower was the Great Bible, the precursor to the King James Bible.