Are the differences between the different Christian faiths a matter style or content?

Question

Does a Catholic believe being a Lutheran would not provide a path to salvation? I am sure there are a range of beliefs on this subject but do churches ever address this?

Answer 1

I think that it is about content more than anything. People choose and manipulate religion to fit their own lifestyles. Christians are generally terrible hypocrites when it comes to behavior. Most of what they do is for show and they really don't act deeply upon their beliefs. It is a way to create a false sense of morality. If they really believed anything beyond what was crammed into their heads as children they would either pursue a stricter religion to help them be more moral or they would choose one that would allow for the most sin. Either way they are using their own morals to decide and not really depending on the religion. When they condemn an atheist they should also condemn all other christian denominations other than their own.

Answer 2

The different 'Christian' faiths in this country (USA) presently, to some degree may be a matter of growth (I am not presently sure if one should classify that difference as style or content). I can say that there are up to 7 deviations from God's word presently; and part of the individual congtregation(and individual's)growth is related to those 7.

Answer 3

Most religions now have the world's opinion that it does not matter what you believe. The clergy's opinion is just keep the cash flowing, hopefully in each one's direction, but willing to share the loot.

The difference in those and the one true way the Creator approves to worship Him is that He described one way, not any which way someone felt like at the time. What matters is God's attitude and approval, not man's.

Do employees tell the owner/boss what to do? Never. Why does anyone expect it to be different with a supremely powerful Creator? Remember, we are His creation, not the other way around.

Answer 4

Both, but the Catholic Church ALSO teaches:

CCC 819 - "....many elements of sanctification and of truth" are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements." Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation...... All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to "Catholic unity."

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm

Answer 5

The surest means of Salvation is to be a sincere Lover of GOD in HIS only Church, the Catholic. Anything less cannot bear a guarantee.

Answer 6

The sad part is they do. They need to come together in the name of Jesus and forget their traditions. This was a problem Jesus had with the Pharisees and the Sadducee's. I would say not to let religion eat you up but to love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, spirit, and mind. Love will always replace bitterness.

Answer 7

They must say that the Catholic Church is wrong or else why are they Protestants? Yet they must also admit that not one of their denominations has any right to declare itself to be the one True Church. And that, for the simple reason that Christ did not estab­lish any institution which could be known by men to be His Church.


They are all brought up with that impression and so they continue in religious matters to wander where they will, like people in a forest, who follow any line of tracks without bothering to ask where it leads. And they so love the risky adventure of experi­menting for themselves that they search Scripture for every possible text which they think will support them.


All Christians admit that Christ intended a unity of some kind to prevail amongst His followers. But we cannot deny for ourselves what type of unity must prevail. The "all going the one way" type of unity, whilst each goes his own way, is useless if it be quite foreign to the mind of Christ. Who can accept the in­vention of Protestants who, noting the numberless ways in which they are divided, define the unity re­quired to suit themselves in their present circumstances and in such a way that they may remain where they are.


Those who believed all that He had taught would at least be one in faith. Again, He demanded unity in worship. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," was to be the rule and baptism belongs to worship. The early Christians were told distinctly by St. Paul that participation in the same Eucharistic worship probably was essential to the unity. "We, being many, are one bread, one body; all that partake of one bread".
In other words, "The one Christ is to be found in Holy Communion, and we, however numerous we may be, are one in Him if we partake of the same Holy Communion."

Protestantism cannot preserve Christian standards in­tact. Articles of faith have gone overboard. Mortifi­cation and fasting are not required. The evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, with their consequent inspiration of monastic life are ig­nored. Protestant writings excuse, and even approve, laxity in moral practice. Protestantism has not pro­duced anything equivalent to the canonized Catholic Saint. Many of the Sacraments of Christ are not even acknowledged by Protestantism, whilst the heart has been torn out of its worship by the loss of Christ's presence in the Blessed Eucharist. Of spiritual author­ity there is scarcely a trace. The very clergy are not trained in moral law, and cannot advise the laity as they should, even were the laity willing to accept ad­vice. The prevalent notion, "Believe on Christ and be saved," tends of its very nature to lessen the sense of necessity of personal virtue.

Protestantism was a movement of heated dissent. Error and rebellion took the first Protestants from the Catholic Church, the various forms of error, or the various countries in which the rebellion occurred, giving rise to the various sects. But any goodness which the first Protestants took as doctrinal baggage with them was derived from the Church they left. And any apparent goodness in the teachings of Protestant­ism is still to be found in the Catholic Church. Where, in the Catholic Church, cockle sown by the enemy is found here and there amidst the wheat, Satan was wise enough to allow some wheat here and there to remain amidst the cockle of Protestantism. And it is the presence of this wheat which accounts for the con­tinued existence of Protestantism. But the wheat does not really belong to Protestantism. It is a relic of Catholicism growing in alien soil. A Catholic is good when he lives up to Catholic principles, refusing to depart from them. A Protestant is good when he unconsciously acts on Catholic principles, departing from those which are purely Protestant.

Answer 8

Christianity a gift from God.

Answer 9

Forget religion and follow Christ.

Answer 10

yes
2nd ques no...smart ppl know that there are several correct TRinity paths...yes we respect them..