main diffs between Lutheran Protestant church and Catholic?

Question

I would like to know the main differences between the Lutheran Protestant Church and the Catholic Church??

Answer 1

1. The authority of Scripture.
Lutherans believe that Scripture alone has authority to determine doctrine; the Roman Catholic Church gives this authority also to the pope, the church, and certain traditions of the church.

2. The doctrine of justification.
Lutherans believe that a person is saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. The Roman Catholic Church, while at times using similar language, still officially holds that faith, in order to save, must be accompanied by (or "infused with") some "work" or "love" active within a Christian.

3. The authority of the pope.
Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, Lutherans do not believe that the office of the papacy as such has any divine authority, or that Christians need to submit to the Pope's authority to be "true" members of the visible church.

4. Differences remain about both the number and the nature of the sacraments.
Lutherans believe that Christ's body and blood are truly present in the Lord's Supper, but they do not believe, with Catholics, that the bread and wine, are permanently "changed into" Christ's body and blood [transubstantiation].

5. Differences remain about the role of Mary and the saints.
Unlike Catholics, Lutherans do not believe it is proper or Scriptural to offer prayers to saints or to view Mary as in any sense a "mediator" between God and human beings.

Answer 2

Martin Luther's "95 Thesis" was nailed to a church door and it detailed his 95 opinions on things that were wrong with the Church.

The most highly notable among the 95 are the selling of indulgences, the Cult of the Saints, Cult of the Virgin, Veneration of relics and icons and statues, and the use of the Rosary.

Lutheranism took the "95 Thesis" to heart and eradicated all of the 'heresies' that the Roman Catholic Church endorsed.

There are three major divisions in Christianity today; Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism.

Catholicism: Roman, Anglican, and Byzantine.

Orthodoxy: Greek, Russian, Polish

Protestantism: Lutheran, Episcopalian, Baptist, Evangelical, Methodist, and a few others.

There is a last category of Christianity that is considered a form of Christianity by the groups themselves, but the above mentioned forms of Christianity do not believe the following are truly Christian:

Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon [Church of Latter Day Saints], Gnostic.

Answer 3

We follow the teachings in the Bible, believe in the ten commandments as they are written in the Bible in the book of Exodus.
We do not have statues with candles that we say prayer to, that is idolatry. We don't pray to saints only to God.

The catholic church changed many things during the middle ages claiming the church had the authority to change the laws of God. It does not.

Martin Luther and the protestant reformation, following the word of God, Worship on the Sabbath.

Answer 4

There are a few differences in the words used (the lutheran "confiteor" is different than the Catholic), when and what songs are sung (for instance the Lutheran service has a hymn between the Gospel and the homily) but otherwise there are few differences.

Answer 5

I used to be a Lutheran. We didn't use the rosery or go to confession or focus on the saints or the Virgin Mary. Those are the main differences I noticed. Communion, baptism, confirmation- those are all the same.

Answer 6

Catholic: founded by Jesus Christ

Lutheran: founded by a mentally ill man with an axe to grind.

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A 16th-century Augustinian monk named Luder for some reason left a very detailed diary. This is a man who grew up with an extremely brutal father, had a very anxious relationship with him, was very psychosomatic-illness-oriented. One day he was out walking in the field. There was a thunderstorm, and he got a panic attack, and vowed, "If I'm allowed to survive this, I will become a monk and devote the rest of my life to God." He survives, becomes a monk, and throws himself into this ritualism with a frenzy. This was an order of monks that was silent 20-some hours a day. Nonetheless, he had four hours worth of confessions to make every day: "I didn't say this prayer as devoutly as I should have. My mind wandered when I was doing this, doing that." The first time he ran a mass, he had to do it over and over because he got the details wrong. He would drive his Father Superior crazy with his hours and hours of confession every day: "God is going to be angry at me for doing this, because I said this, and I didn't think this much, and I didn't do this the right way, and I..." until the Father Superior got exasperated with him and came up with a statement that is shockingly modern in its insight. He said, "The problem isn't that God is angry with you. The problem is that you're angry with God." The most telling detail about this monk was, he washed and washed and washed. As he put it in his diary: "The more you wash, the dirtier you get." Classic OCD.

The reason why we know about this man Luder is because we know him by the Anglicized version of his name: Martin Luther.

Answer 7

There are 94 reasons to be exact. Search for Martin Luther and his 94*reasons the church should change*

cant think of what they're called, but there were 94 of them lol.

Answer 8

The number one difference is the the doctrine of Salvation through Grace and not Works..........

Answer 9

Both are heretical....end of story....