How does protestantisim contradict itself.?

Question

I will start, I find when protestants argue against Catholics they use a book that Catholics under inspiration from God put together.

The churches are at best 400 years old and are founded on the teachings of men not God. The bible further was pulled apart and fashioned to meet a mans ideology (something protestants love to accuse JWs of)

Further all the little chick track testimonials of people on this site need to be looked at in light of the truth. Try www.catholic.com, realisticly dont you think that the people who had the full bible for 1200 years before Martin Luther butchered it can answer every little snippet you put forward.

Answer 1

If it's a fundamentalist protestantism, then it probably contradicts itself by insisting that everything in Holy Scripture must be read literally, but they do not seek out "sinners" who eat shellfish or refrain from beating adulterous wives.

Answer 2

Well, a Jewish person had the same Old Testament books for thousands of years before the Catholics arrived and a true Jew could easily point out the flaws in NT writings and prophecies.
However, I see the reasoning behind it. When I was a church-goer, I was in a Protestant church and knew nothing of Catholicism so that's what I wanted to be, of course. My parents were deadset against the idea but never told me why. Now that I've actually studied some of it, I see the 'reasons' behind the prejudice and find it ridiculous. They're both so wrong.
BTW, the Gnostics were better teachers/gospel writers.

Answer 3

Historically it is not possible to speak intelligently of anything like a "Roman Catholic Church" before the 7th century. The Canon of the Bible was settled in the 4th century.

So the Catholic Church did not 'give us' the Bible! It is just an absurd, silly claim. Luther did not 'remove' anything from the Bible. You simply do NOT know what you are talking about. The Roman church only declared the apocrypha fully inspired and canonical in 1881. That's pretty "johnny come lately" don't you think.

Good heavens! Get your facts straight! Go and learn something about the topic before posting this nonsensical stuff again...and again....and again.....

Answer 4

The Papacy is not the Church, but a political machine that got control of the Church, and by assumed prerogatives interposed itself between God and God's people.
One day, in 1508, while reading Romans, Martin Luther came upon the verse:"The just shall live by faith." He saw that salvation was to be gained by trust in God through Christ, and not by the rituals and sacraments of the Church.
The sale of Indulgences caused Luther to break with Rome. Luther translated the Bible into German. For the first time, the Scriptures could be read by anyone. That was Luther's greatest legacy.

Answer 5

Why do Catholics accuse Protestants of having a man made religion when Catholics (men) created the job of Pope, then decided to make the rule that he was infallible (how better to rip people off), then sold forgiveness for sins (more ripping off), then sold annullment (another ripoff) (I remember the part in Luke where Jesus instructs the church to sell annullments so people can get out of marriages) .
And don't get me started on the priest molestation problem where the church hid these guys out at new parishes so they had a whole new source of little boy sex partners whose parents had no idea they were molestors.
I am a former Catholic who sees Catholics as allies in the battle for our culture. You do nobody any favors by causing dissension. But if it's a battle you want. The truth is against you.

One final question: Why are the lines of succession of the Popes so important when many of them were corrupt, perverted and deviant? It's important the line was not broken, even when much of the line violated what the line was supposed to uphold?

Answer 6

It's because Roman Catholics distort history, continually.

Example: "they use a book that Catholics under inspiration from God put together. "
None of these people called themselves Roman Catholics at the time, and none of the Apostles called themselves Roman Catholics, Peter did not call himself Roman Catholic, Jesus did not say that anyone had to be Roman Catholic.

So the idea that Protestants have is: This is significant. We do not have to be Roman Catholic.

The Idea that the Roman Catholics have is: Well, it didn't come up until later.

And so that's what happened, it came up later. It was from men that there had to be Roman Catholics, not God.

Answer 7

I have faith in Christ and what He did at the cross and rose again 3 days later to show that through Him, we also may have eternal life. Faith has NOTHING to do with religion.
Whether its protestants or catholics, they all miss the boat when they ignore/twist John 3:3 when Jesus said ' I assure you,unless you are BORN AGAIN,you cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Catholics rely heavily on useless rituals and sacraments THINKING by performing these,they obtain salvation. They also ignore/twist Ephesians 2:8,9 which states salvation is a GIFT from God. Tell me then,how does one EARN a gift?

Jesus said WIDE is the path to destruction (hell) and narrow is the gate to heaven that so few choose. Just take the top 2 cults in the world ,,catholicism and islam(2.5 billion total), that path is VERY wide,indeed.

Click on this link for some very insightful research on the falseness of catholicism and other religions:
http://www.contenderministries.org/catholicism.php

Answer 8

AMEN and AMEN

Jesus said his Church would be "the light of the world." He then noted that "a city set on a hill cannot be hid" (Matt. 5:14). Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.

Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself.

Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy, and the churches that send out door-to-door missionaries are young compared to the Catholic Church. Many of these churches began as recently as the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Some even began during your own lifetime. None of them can claim to be the Church Jesus established.

The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin. Any merely human organization would have collapsed early on. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

Okay, let me get this straight, you're referring to the same catholic church who caused the inquisition and crusades, makes their own saints and has the nerve to tell God who the saints are, makes graven images of Mary along with their man-made saints and bows before them and prays to them, and you're saying "we're" contractidicting ourselves???? Protestants simply tried to get away from the catholic church's many man-made teachings and try to actually go by the actual bible. You really think going to a catholic website isn't going to be as biased as going to an islamic website??? Propaganda either way you look at it. I have nothing against catholics, my husband is one, but gotta admit, this question is really the pot calling the skillet black.

Answer 10

"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers
of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues" Rev 18:4, And the protestants came out of her. What does she say
about herself? Verse 7, "I sit a QUEEN, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow". Jesus is the King and she claims
to be His bride/church; a queen is the king's bride, right??

Those Pharisees & Saducees thought they had destroyed
Jesus, but His church was left, so they went out to utterly
destroy the true bide of Christ. One thing Jesus taught, they
set out to do; "A house divided against itself, can't stand".
Tear down Christ's church from within. No, these organized
denominations, who are contrary to God's word, are not His
bride. The true bride had to hide from these religious folks, or
die at their hands.

The true bride, was never a part of these man made organizations, because she was never deceived by them.
God said he had reserved unto himself 7000 men, who have
not bowed the knee to Baal. EVEN SO THEN AT THIS
PRESENT TIME ALSO THERE IS A REMNANT ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE; Rom 11:4-5.
"Few there be that find it" is the 7000 and the remnant. Those that enter their gates are the "many".

Answer 11

We should all worship the lord in the best way possible and just because the catholic church is the oldest form of christianity doesn't mean we got it right the first time. But, i feel everyone doing their best to worship the lord will never agree on one certain church. that's why he gave us free will. some will prosper in some churches better than others it's a matter of opinion and faith.