given that it so much differs from the teachings of the early church and apostles
2007-09-12 18:00:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Protestants have the correct gospel...They just don't know what it means! There are so many different private interpretations of it and ideas about what it means, that they have no clue about the real interpretations of these early writings.
That's what happens when you break away from the Church that Jesus founded, which gave us the gospel in the first place and has always given us the proper interpretation.
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand." Throughout the scripture we always see - One God, One Son, One Holy Spirit, One Church.
2007-09-13 03:16:22 · answer #1 · answered by The Raven † 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, etc., are all protestants, but they believe the Gospel at least as basic doctrine. There are some liberal factions evolving, though, that outright reject parts of the Bible.
The false gospel mentioned refers to a message that says everyone is saved, there is no need for Christ, this or that person's message is better than Christ., etc.
A lot of Biblical scholars think, and I agree, that the revival of New Age religion is ultimately going to be the predominating false gospel, because it requires absolutely nothing of people, and will offer salvation to everyone no matter what. Additionally, New Age religion revives the concept of a goddess, and that will appeal to many people who look at God in the Bible as a masculine, vengeful God, and don't see the message of grace, love and redemption (usually that's because they haven't actually read the Bible, it is more convenient just to spout off what they have heard).
2007-09-12 18:10:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Gospel of Christ is given to all humanity, it is up to the person, not his Church to understand that to each of us it will speak differently. Therefore enter the Churches that help us sort out the meaning, according to our faith.
Protestantism was born because of one man's disbelief in what he made out to be impossible. This man was so afraid of not being saved that he made it possible to be saved by scripture alone, chuck out tradition, chuck out apostolic succession, chuck out even portions of the Bible because they don't make sense to you. Form your own religion and wala many others follow with their own ideas.
The sad thing is that people who follow these people, instead of seeking their own truth, just as their founders did, which by the way many people know very little of their foundation, they follow along as guided towards misunderstanding as well. They criticize doctrines, dogmas and rules, but yet are subjected to the same in their own newly found religion. Even those who state they are religious but dont attend any Church, are bound by these things because once they pick up a Bible, it is written and translated under certain rules or doctrines.
Is it possible to live Truth and be Protestant? Yes.
Will the majority accept it? Probably not, because they are lead off the path of truth by their doctrines that they follow because they are told to do so.
2007-09-13 04:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by Perhaps I love you more 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Isuggest you get the history of christianity,,,also the history of the Roman catholic church. World history too. Find out about Constantine, and see for yourself. Oh, yes "martin Luther" A false gospel? refer to Gal 1:6-10. Your answer is NO.
2007-09-12 18:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by hamoh10 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
my only problem is that protestantism took some versers and books out especially in revelations...it's said in the Bible that there should be no modification of His words. They beleive in God and in Jesus so it's still good
2007-09-13 03:44:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.
This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.
The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.
The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.
These pagans (JEWS AND MUSLIMS) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages."
-- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)
2007-09-12 18:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
No.
Protestantism is a false, non-authoratative faith tradition that gives people license to misinterpret the authentic gospel in any way they see fit.
2007-09-12 21:58:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Actually I am a former catholic and think that protestants more accuratley depict the faith preached by the apostles. I the new testamen we find Peter had a wife and we are told a bishop must be the husband of one wife. Yet se see in the Catholic church priests forbidden to marry. In scripture we see the apostles inclusin Peter telling people to repent and believe on Christ to be saved. In the Catholic church we are told you need to join the church and recognize Peter in order to be real Christians. In the scripture some people approached Jesus saying blessed is the womb that bore you and blessed are the breasts that gave you suck and Jesus answered even more blessed is any person who hears and does my words. Yet we see the Catholic church elevate mary up to a position of being called Ever Virgin and Mother of God or as the parish I belonged to called her queen of the world. I say this not to disrespect her but to show that Jesus didn't swallow the hype but saw her as she truly is a sinner who needed to be saved like the rest of humanity. (Although she was a faithful servant she was born in sin like the rest os us. We also see in the Cathlic church the invention of purgatory yet in scripture we see that Christ paid the price for all of our sin and that to be absent in body is to be present with the Lord. The first believers were called Christians not Catholics and there is no reference to any pope. You don't find any of the apostles referring to Peter as Pope or Peter himself referring to himself as Pope or demanding people recognize him to be saved. Sadly this change has occurred because of people wanting to protect their own organisation more than reacing the unsaved. Much like the religious leaders who were Jesus biggest opposition.
2007-09-12 18:20:18 · answer #8 · answered by Edward J 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Since you can offer no "differs", only accusations, I suggest you ask a non-Catholic believer what they believe, rather than making false statements about something you know nothing about.
God bless!
2007-09-12 18:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
no, is part of it but include Catholic Church.
2007-09-12 18:15:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋