So many Protestants are telling me Catholicism is all wrong and my faith is shaking... what do I do ?

Answer 1

Protestants tell you that Catholicism is wrong for exactly two reasons.

1. They are talking about something that isn't Catholicism. For example, they think Purgatory is a third choice between heaven and hell, rather than a purging in preparation for the holiness of heaven. Too, they think we "pray" to saints in the same sense that we pray to God, when in fact we ask the saints for their their prayers, as we would any other living friend of God.

2. They misunderstand the scriptures, a predictable result when people try to read ancient Catholic documents without the help of the Church that wrote them. For example, Protestants don't understand Jesus' teaching about baptism in John 3:5, and they react to his teaching about eating his body and drinking his blood in John 6 the same way many of Jesus' original followers did: 6:66 "From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

Ignore them.
They're wrong.
The first Christians, who knew Christ and his Disciples, and the Disciples themselves, believed and worshiped the way Catholics do. Why don't Protestants believe and worship the way the first Christians did?

Wilder: yes, liturgy developed somewhat differently in other regions and cultures. The core format of the liturgy and the beliefs are still present.

CMFCJH: The question is "Prots are telling me Catholicism is all wrong..." I am saying that they are wrong about Catholicism being wrong. There are other things that they have wrong, but I am not saying that all Prots are all wrong.

Besides, there are objective truths and history about Christianity that can be observed, there is a common background for all Christians, so why wouldn't Christians debate about their faith? Where 2 or more views are expressed, someone is obviously going to be wrong.

Answer 3

I'm not a Catholic anymore, myself.

However, I still believe that Catholicism IS the original Christian church, and the tenets of your faith are sound.

Everyone's faith gets shaken once in a while. If Catholicism is your faith of choice and you are experiencing a relationship with Jesus Christ through your Catholic faith, then don't worry about what judgmental people are saying.

Blessings.

Answer 4

Pray. Read. Learn. But don't try to learn about Catholicism from people who aren't Catholic. There are books like "What Catholics Really Believe" and "The Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church."

Go to worship, as often as you can. (Lucky Catholics -- we get daily opportunities). Talk to Catholics you respect and hear what they have to say. Take the RCIA class at your parish (since you're already Catholic, it won't matter if you start in a couple weeks late).

Above all, tell God you want to follow Him in spirit and in truth and ask Him to direct your path. You can't go wrong with that!

Answer 5

Kind of amazing isn't it, that Protestants, who belong to a manmade tradition where doctrinal chaos is the rule, can only agree with one another on one point - that the Catholic Church is wrong. The constant, unified teaching of the Catholic Church over 2,000 years is wrong, and only a system of thousands of conflicting, contradicting manmade denominations can be right. Makes sense, doesn't it? And how do they know they are right? Because they all get their beliefs right out of the Bible, even though the beliefs one denomination gets out of the Bible contradict the beliefs another denomination gets out of the same Bible. The Bible tells us that the Church Christ founded, and no other, is the pillar and foundation of truth. No structure can stand removed from its pillars and its foundation. The truth cannot stand removed from the Church Christ founded. That's what the Bible says. And history plainly identifies the Catholic Church as the one Church founded by Jesus Christ on the Apostles.

Answer 6

It's so funny to me to see Christians battling Christians over who (as Genghis would put it) is "wrong". Has it really come to that point? Are people really so narrow minded as to think every other person who's beliefs differ slightly from their own is, for whatever reason, beneath them? Absolutely inane. . .

To Cholt: believe what you feel is right and don't allow Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, whoever, to tell you you're wrong because no one has the right to demean YOUR faith. Everyone needs something to believe in.

Answer 7

Study the Bible and come to your own belief.

For Genghis: The Catholic methods of worship developed through the years and are not truly representative of the practices of the first Christians, any more than the Protestant methods are. The Eastern church has as much (maybe even more) claim to a direct heritage from the first churches. Most importantly, there was no single head of all the first churches; the Popery developed much much later.

Answer 8

Bless Cholt dear Father and keep him with you as you did John. He is a sheep among wolves and Herod's soldiers have their eyes on him to be another innocent they destroy. I ask this in Jesus' name.---Amen

Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on Earth.

Answer 9

It bothers me when people do this. I may not believe in some of the things Catholics do, but I do know for a fact they are Christians and do believe in Jesus.

Answer 10

You are a sheep among wolves