Why can't the Catholics and Prodestants get along yet?

Question

Heres a realy good Question but first let me comment: I was looking up info on the Apocrypha which I am currently reading as a prodestant because I also include the Catholic church as part of the body of Christ. Unfortunately I saw a lot of bickering and arguing on the subject and found it sad. Our body of Christ isn't supposed to be divided to the point of hatred towards different denominations. A kingdom divided cannot stand. I sometimes wonder where we went wrong? Christians are supposed to be open minded and guided by the Holy Spirit. So many churches are trying to be the first church. What ever happened to the last church? Thats the one I want! The real reason why the church is supposed to split is so we can minister to different walks of life not because of arguments and different beliefs. There is only one religion so my question is this and feel free to express yourself... Do you think based on the current division of our body this is realy the church God wanted?

Answer 1

No., I do not think this is what God wanted.

Can we at least agree that God’s nature is love, compassion and justice?

If we can agree on that, shouldn’t we strive for that in our own lives?

Jesus never said that we all must think exactly alike or worship exactly the same. The many denominations isn’t the problem, it is that so many people insist that everybody else think exactly like them. But we’re not called to think exactly like other people. We are called to follow Christ.

Mark 9:38,41 “Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.”

In Galatians Paul wrote,

Galatians 2:9,10 James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

No long theological checklist, simply show compassion. Remember the poor. If we could all do that today, put compassion before our disagreements don’t you think we might be a little closer to what God intended?

Answer 2

You see the problem here, yes? If the best some can do is only seize upon your "typo", or lay out the conditions under which they might accept other believers as brothers or sisters, then they may be among the permanently myopic by choice and unwilling to see beyond their own noses to the truth of what you're saying.

I certainly don't think division in the body of believers is what Jesus prayed for: "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." (John 17:20-21)

Answer 3

I Hate you because you're a "prodestant"...

just kidding =P...

I'm not a protestant though because I'm not protesting
on anything. I think there are churches that God blesses...
Don't worry, God is a big God so just lift up you're
worries to him about church divisions. One thing we can do is pray and leave God the rest.=)

Answer 4

"The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love…Jesus himself, at the hour of his Passion, prayed 'that they may all be one' (John 17:21)." -- Pope John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, May 25, 1995.

The Catholic Church in the United States already has the following open dialogs with her sister Churches:

- The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation
- The Joint Committee of Orthodox and Catholic Bishops
- The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation
- The Polish National Catholic-Roman Catholic Dialogue
- The Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation USA
- The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
- Roman Catholic-Reformed Consultation
- The United Methodist-Catholic Dialogue
- Southern Baptist Convention-Catholic Dialogue
- The Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue
- Faith and Order Commission, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
- Consultation with the National Council of Synagogues
- Consultation with the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America
- Midwest Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- Mid-Atlantic Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- West Coast Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html

http://www.usccb.org/seia/officialdialogues.shtml

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Satan's greatest victory was the splitting of the Church into the array of denominations we see today. I see doctrinal error on both sides. The real problem is unforgiveness. Until we all learn to listen to Jesus and obey His command to love one another, we mock Jesus AND His Church.

Answer 6

by way of fact the two sects are so insistent on being actual and focusing on their modifications that they ignore to look at what makes them the comparable. even though it is the character of guy to quarrel, and that i think of human beings delight in the combat way better than they delight in the religion. and non secular sects are created by way of a incorrect guy, no longer a suitable God. i assume all human beings will locate out one in all those days. additionally, i do no longer think of all human beings knows of the histories of the church homes. there has been abuse on the two factors, inflicting difficult emotions. study up on your church historic previous, childrens. pass to the Vatican and walk by way of St Peters which become paid for by way of indulgences and you are able to see why the Protestants protested. seem on the shoddy treatment the Catholics gained interior the U. S. while they basically needed a job and because they have been Catholic have been humiliated and thrown out. it fairly is a multitude, and no person needs to take duty for their shortcomings. i think of i ought to become a Buddhist.

Answer 7

Prodestant? You must be referring to the Protestant Movement, a movement led by Martin Luther.

Answer 8

Read "Foxes Book of Martyrs" and see if you don't ask the question a little differently.
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Answer 9

I'm a Catholic, and i believe that people should believe what they want to believe.

Answer 10

I wonder if your misspelling of 'Protestants' was a Freudian slip - lol! :)