Why is there a fairly noticeable bad-blood between Christians and Catholics?

Question

I'm aware of the arguments lilke about worshipping saints-mary-etc, how a priest can forgive sins, yada-yada.. are there any other factors? Like, isn't Christianity derived from Catholicism? But, why is there that bad blood tho? Where did that come from?

Answer 1

You need to study the history of Rome, leading up to around 400 AD. Christianity was blended with Roman practices to form Catholicism. The whole confessing your sins to a priest thing goes back to these pagan practices.

For centuries, the RCC kept scripture away from the common man. Then, in 1611, the Bible was published and studied. People again learned what Christianity really was and became "Biblical Christians."

Answer 2

Protestantism was founded at a time when the Catholic Church was very corrupt. Priests actually sold indulgences, tickets that reduced one's time in purgatory, to the rich. Thus, some Protestants still find the Catholic Church to be corrupt. Others don't like the idea of having God interpreted for them by the Pope.

The main difference, above all else, is that the Catholic Church believes that you must do certain things with the church (sacraments) in order to be saved; you must be baptized, confirmed, go to mass, feel bad for everything you've ever done wrong, and confess. Protestants are much more introspective and have less church involvement in people's personal lives.

Answer 3

Many Christian's feel that the Catholic church was corrupted and controlled by Satan during the Inquisitions and crusades. At that point Popes became greedy and corrupted. Example the Knights Templar were massacred by other church Knights on order of the Pope just for the money they controled. The question now is it still corrupted. Seing the news about child molestation does not help with their case.

I use to be Catholic and now I am a Non-denominational Christian who practices like the first century church did in houses, no preacher, ect.

Answer 4

I harbor no ill-will in direction of Catholics, yet I do have faith they're erroneous. First, they pray to saints. upload to this the undeniable fact that they suspect one would desire to confess sins to a clergyman, who's barely a guy. between the flaws that Christ comprehensive replaced right into a connection to guy. now no longer is it necessary to flow via a "holy" guy to communicate to the Lord. Upon Christ's ascension, He despatched us the Holy Spirit, to be our intercessor. that's now achievable or maybe necessary for each human beings to advance a private courting with God. And as you pronounced, Mary is worshipped. basically the single is worth of worship. i've got additionally heard from Catholics, do no longer understand if that's genuine or no longer, that they have not got faith in evangelism. in spite of the undeniable fact that, as Christ pronounced, "i visit make you fishers of adult adult males... flow out into the international and unfold the forged information." different than those, take a glance at Martin Luther's ninety-5 Theses.

Answer 5

Sadly, Protestants justify their existence by hating the Catholic Church.....it is the one thing that the over 40,000 Protestant ecclessial communities can agree upon......yet they all claim to be guided by the same Holy Spirit.

That should be a neon blinker that something is arye within Protestantism.

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Answer 6

First of all Catholics are Christians. You mean the problem between Protestants, especially fundamentalists, and Catholics.

Prior to the 16th century all Chrisitians were Catholic. There was only one Christian Church and that was the Catholic Church. Martin Luther, a Catholic priest, decided that his interpretation of the scripture was THE interpretation. He started a revolt and many followed. This was the birth of Protestantism....those that protested the faith of the Church.

Martin Luther had a list of things he was against...and he had some valid points. But he should have reformed from within the Church. Instead he chose to be a heretic and take others with him. He remained faithful to the honor of Mary the Mother of God. He asked for a priest and confessed his sins on his death bed, he also is quoted as saying he had tried to rid the world of one bad Pope and created hundreds. And that he did. He allowed every person to be their own Pope interpreting the scripture with their own twist and then applying it to everyone. This is dangerous. Imagine if the laws of our country were allowed to be interpreted by each individual. We'd have chaos...and that's what we have within the Protestant movement. It's caused several thousand Protestant sects to spring up. Every time someone believes differently...they start a new church.

It's not really bad blood. Catholics remain faithful to Christ and his Church. We pray for our Protestant brothers and sisters. The bad blood comes from some Protestants...mostly because they only exist to protest the faith.

Answer 7

Catholics are Christians but the split happened when Martin Luther (and not with the last name of King) did not like the rules of the Catholic church and was a protester of it and other people joined him in the protest against the Catholic church. So, now they are both Christians one being Catholic and the other being Protestant of many different denominations.

Answer 8

There is no bad blood.
There may be minor deviations in doctrine but fundamental beliefs are compatible.

I'm a protestant with a good friend who happens to be a Catholic priest. We're all on the "same side" in this spiritual battle.

God bless.

Answer 9

Catholics ARE Christians. 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. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.) 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. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy. 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 long ago. 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.
Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

Answer 10

It really does not matter.

Catholics don't need the approval of Protestants.

Protestants (not a denomination but many little groups aggragated under this label) don't need the approval of Catholics.

There are 1.2 billion Catholics in the world, centuries of Catholic Christian scholarship and works, many Saints who testified to the validity of Catholicism and a global network of Catholic faith and good works.

Jesus Christ was works driven ala His healing and feeding of many people. Christ's ministry was about works and faith.

A Catholic