what is protestant ?

Question

im wondering if im one what is the beliefs of a protestant could some one tell me what its main all about

Answer 1

Protestant Definition

Answer 2

What Is Protestant

Answer 3

Protestant or protestor... Protesting Catholicism. The people who first began protesting Catholicism were named Protestants.

Answer 4

Firstly, protestantism only refers to the western church. That is the Roman Catholic religion. The protest is against that religion. So to be a protestant you must be against the Roman catholic rites and religion. That does not mean that a Greek or Russian orthodox believer is a protestant. Those churches diverged from western Christianity before Martin Luther invented protestantism.
There are a huge number of protestant religions, from Pentecostals to Anglicans. Mormons to Jehova's Witness. etc. etc.
Which are you?

Answer 5

The protestant reformation began with Martin Luther in the early 1500s. Protestant has come to mean "not Catholic" in the simplest terms.

Answer 6

Many of the Protestants don't think they're Protestant. They think they're Christian and everyone else isn't even though they're wrong.

The Protestant reformation began about 500 years when King Henry VIII created the Church of England in protest against the Catholic church because the Catholic church wouldn't allow him to divorce. Other Protestant denominations have popped up since then as they get whiney and don't like any of the current ones.

Answer 7

Martin Luther Broke away from the Catholic Church to start the protestant movement. Protestants are ex catholics that have found their own paths of worshiping God.

Answer 8

Typically it means that the person is a Christian who does not recognize the Pope as being an Apostle, and the Roman Catholic Church as the true church of Christ. A Protestant will believe that scripture is the authority by which God communicates in written form.

IMPORTANT! Words have more than one meaning typically. So here are some meanings from the dictionary.
–noun
1. any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
2. an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.
3. (originally) any of the German princes who protested against the decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1529, which had denounced the Reformation.

Answer 9

The definition of a protestant is any person who rejects the authority of the Catholic Church. The word protestant comes from the root word "protest", which means they are protesters of the Church.

From here, it usually filters out into what brand of protestant you are - Baptist, Lutheran, Anglican, Pentecostal, etc.

I used to be a protestant but converted to Catholicism after doing honest research into the Catholic faith. The problem I have with protestantism is that it fractures into so many different denominations because of differing interpretations of scripture, yet each one read the same bible and each one claims to be right. I call that insanity.

I don't try to explain protestant beliefs because it would be like trying to list all the different doctrines of all the different denominations and that would turn into an endless task because there are new denominations popping up daily in addition to the thousands there already are. Again, among so many, who's got it right?

God bless.

Answer 10

Protestant is someone who protests. It started when someone protested and challenged the established teachings of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther is one of those who challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church, that's why his followers are called Protestants. Of course there were many who came after Martin Luther who did protest and challenge the teachings of the Catholic Church, they too are called protestants. The teachings of the Protestants differ from the Catholic faith because they believe that the bible alone should be the basis of faith, they refuse to accept Sacred Traditions as source of faith.