After all, it was you guys who told the Pope to get bent in the 1500s ... or are you too uneducated about your own religion to know that?
2007-06-14 11:12:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My parents left the Catholic church after reading the Bible, because, while some of their teachings are Godly, others contradict the very Book they claim to follow. That, and what Randy said. :O)
2007-06-14 11:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think the whole old-school push is more of a fight against the increase in methodist beliefs. Basically... the younger generation is coming in and saying the old testament is worthless and most of the new testament didn't really happen.
These people want to fight that... fundamentalists believe the Bible isn't a book of fables... that most of it is literal and truly happened.
2007-06-14 11:14:36 · answer #2 · answered by vérité 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The first Christians were Catholics. Catholics do what the 1st Christians did and believe what the 1st Christians believed. It is the Fundamentalists that do not follow or believe what Christ instituted in the Eucharist, the Church, and the Clergy.
2007-06-14 13:11:06 · answer #3 · answered by Vernacular Catholic 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tries to get visual of the Pope getting bent. Not a pretty picture.
Actually, to get truly old school, they would have to go back to the Jewish roots, speak Aramaic, etc.That did preceed the Roman dominance of Christianity.
2007-06-14 11:15:54 · answer #4 · answered by Linda R 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Protestants have always been about getting back to the first century Christianity found in the New Testament -- without all of the "extras" added by medieval Roman Catholicism.
You don't know either Protestantism, or your history.
2007-06-14 11:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Fundamentalism emerged in the 19th century. They did not exist in the 1500s. You must be thinking of the Church of England and the Lutherans. They have nothing to do with so-called fundamentalism.
2007-06-14 11:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Would that be Lutheran, calvinist, Arminius, Swinglian Wesleyan Knox or Tyndale? Since I am protestant those are the choices I have. (well I could be Lollard) Catholic is not an option for me.
2007-06-14 11:27:37 · answer #7 · answered by Yo C 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christ4me, you have been lied to. Catholics do indeed believe that Christs' sacrifice was sufficient.
http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt3art2.htm
2007-06-14 11:46:16 · answer #8 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Catholics do not believe that the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made on the cross was sufficient for the remission of our sins. They teach a "combination" theory, or that through salvation, combined with good works, one can go to heaven. They also teach the false theory of a purgatory, saying that because it says in the Bible that whatever we bind in heaven is bound on earth, that we have the ability to 'create' a purgatory where souls can go if they did not 'do good enough' to go to heaven until someone prays enough to get them released and sent to heaven. That is foolish nonsense that has no Biblical truth. We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Period. You can never do good enough to get to heaven. And if you die without salvation through Christ, you lose. There are no second chances.
God is the God and Father of truth. I would much rather accept His truth than catholic lies.
Good question. I starred it. God bless you.
2007-06-14 11:28:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Only if they renounce King Henry the 8th first.
2007-06-14 11:16:03 · answer #10 · answered by Army Retired Guy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋