how can you expect other people from other beliefs to believe your claim that the Bible is God's words when you don't even know your own history and how the movement "born again" started?
Most "Born-again" people that I've come to talk to don't consider themselves as Protestants, but in truth they really are because they are just an off-shoot of Protestantism. they even spread Protestant sentiments, yet they don't know, or rather don't want to believe, that they are just an off-shoot of Protestantism.
they say they are the real Christians, but in truth they are just Protestants. whether they like that term or not, they are Protestants just the same.
2007-09-24 18:38:31 · 15 answers · asked by The Asker 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my point is, know your roots to know your place. you are mere protesters, why do you claim to be the real ones?
2007-09-24 20:35:13 · update #1
you are right
2007-09-24 18:41:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Are Protestants not Christians?
Protestantism believes that the Bible is the sole authority for God word. That the bible interrupts itself.
Other Christian denominations believe differently. For example, the Catholics believe in a written tradition and an oral tradition that is govern by a hierarchy headed by the Pope.
The key word is belief, belief that the bible is God's word. Martin Luther is the first to break ranks with Catholicism and lived. The notion of "born again" starts there.
Knowing the history does not lead to belief. Being Protestant does not mean you are born again; some denominations are not bible fundamentalist.
Answer: What bother you the most, being born again or being bible fundamentalist? Both are Protestant beliefs.
2007-09-24 19:04:37 · answer #2 · answered by J. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Protestants came from the schism between the catholic church and the Church of England, but that doesn't mean that any non-catholic church (that is Christian) is Protestant. The question is: When does a new religion become a new religion? If you've ever been to a Protestant church and to a born-again church, they are very different.
Besides, born-again Christianity was an off-shoot of the Great Awakening pre-American Revolution. That was the time of the birth of a multitude of new denominations and new religions. And before you say that Puritans were an off-shoot of Protestants (since they came from England), their were several other religions that traveled to America besides the off-shoots of Protestantism. There as, it can be argued, that during the Great Awakening the origins of Born Again Christianity was created. This would then mean that it is not a branch of Protestant but from the birth of the new religions of that time.
2007-09-24 18:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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Luther is the one that started the protestantism movement. You may not know him or his history. Most what Pentecostal, born again christans, and other claim against the catholic church are Luther's teachings which started at 1600 century. The word protestant are those who are christans who fallow the teaching of Marten Luther. You would find common things about faith with the Catholic teaching which are not protestant. What makes a protestant are what the proteste against the Catholic church. Being a protestan does not disqulifies you of being a christan. An original Christan can be traced since the beginning with the bible. Only who can is the Catholic Church. The orthodic church are in communon with use which are also original christans too, but they don't fallow the Pope. We are not telling to accept the Pope at the same level as Jesus to be save, and I not know were you got that wrong idea. I don't know were did you come with that idea even the last sentence. We only fallow Jesus Christ if you read the catechsium of the Catholic Church.
J.
Check your information. Catholic church on "Sola Escritura" says that in the bible says or scriputre that we should fallow scriputre and tradiction. This tradiction comes from the mouth of Jesus Christ not writen down, and it was pass to his apostles.
Tradiction is the ways people is accustoms to fallow their belifes Jesus Christ or other belifs. Not all tradictions are come from man or Jesus Christ (who became man). We catholic don't fallow mans tradiction but only christ tradiction that was not writen in the bible which one can find their traces or indication of them in the bible.
2007-09-25 12:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by Original Christian 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With all due respect, to share my beliefs and my inumerable blessings I dont believe it is necessaary to parse words and worry about which offshoot I am from, if any. The bible and the Lord remain the same through it all. However, it is an interesting and valuable point, though I would have posed it in a different way ie. Do most Born again Christians realize that there was an actual movement that started offshooting from protestantism? Something to that effect.
2007-09-24 18:50:48 · answer #5 · answered by Loosid 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I was doing just fine with Christianity before the loud fundamentalists showed up and started screaming about being born again and having a personal relationship with God. If they want to do it that way and call it Christianity, let them. For hundreds and hundreds of years there were no fundies though so I'm not sure where they think they get their holier-then-thou take on it from.
2016-05-17 23:53:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
velvet.... "born-again movement"? Jesus began the "born-again movement" as far as I am concerned. :) I personally have been "born again" for approximately 40 years or so, closer to 50 if you date being "born again" to when you start believing....but, I rather date my status to when I not only accepted Jesus into my heart but was filled with the Holy Spirit and received my personal prayer tongue and so much more :)
The Bible isn't the source of the "titles" that mankind has given their particular beliefs....Protestantism, Catholicism, Pentacontalists, etc.,. are man's terms and divisions, not God's.
When I stand before Jesus, I will not be in a line that is specified as any particular denomination... and I won't be saying "I have been a faithful "__________" (fill in blank with church denom)....I will be humbly awaiting His judgement... or so overjoyed I won't be able to speak at all! :)
I take it you are a Catholic, by the way you speak about "Protestants".
I really don't care about man's "titles"....and I am subject to just God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Book of Truth which is the Bible. The Pope is just a man.... whom will have to answer for himself the same as the rest of us and will be judged more severely because of his assumption to be claiming that he alone can dictate what mankind is or isn't to believe or do.
You are just a babe in your relationship with Christ and God if you believe and speak as you do.... it is time you do as the Bible states and take responsibility for your own individual person and not rely on your church or doctrines as your saving grace and redemption.
I pray you find Truth soon.....
Respectfully,
ForeverSet....a bride of Christ :)
2007-09-25 02:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by ForeverSet 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
While you are correct that technically we are protestants, the truth is we don't see ourselves that way. I am not protesting the Catholic church. I am not even a follower of Luther. I read the Bible. I ask God to reveal to me what it says and I try my best to live my life the way it tells me too. When someone asks what denomination I am my answer is I am a Christian. The church I attend is Pentecostal and I hold to many of their beliefs but at the end of the day I am a Christian. It is more important than any denomination.
I know Catholics believe we need tradition in addition to the Bible. I think the Bible is enough. If a doctrine or belief does not fit with the Bible I will not accept it.
Yes I am a true Christian. I believe Jesus is the Son of God. That He was born of a virgin. That He lived a perfect life and He died on the cross. That He rose again on the third day and currently sits at the right hand of the Father. I believe it is through His sacrifice I am saved. If this does not make me a true Christian then what does?
Do I need to accept the Pope in addition to Jesus to be saved? Does the Bible say no man can come unto the father except by me and the pope?
2007-09-24 18:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 4⤊ 5⤋
And what is your point. Catholics, Orthodox and Protestant denominations are all Christians so long as the keep to Christian teachings. Protestants just protested when the Catholic church started to drift away from the real teachings of scripture and did things they were not supposed to do.
2007-09-24 19:50:23 · answer #9 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
the term "born again" originated with Christ, who said "truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God"-it is the essence of being a Christian, and predates any denomination which claims to be the 'true church' of Christ-
protestant doesn't matter
catholic doesn't matter
baptist doesn't matter
lutheran doesn't matter
methodist doesn't matter
episcopal doesn't matter
NO denomination matters...
CHRIST matters
i attend a baptist church...but i'm a CHRISTIAN
2007-09-24 19:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Takbeer!
You know that is one of the questions on my list to post! But I was waiting to see if they where going to calm down or I would have to load the cannons of thought upon them.
There is many great people of faiths and they have been given things to them long ago as we have been given things to us. The Lord knows exactly what seeds and seals lay here and there.
2007-09-24 18:43:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋