In what crucial areas do Protestants and Catholics differ that causes fued between them?

Question

They can't both be true can they?

Answer 1

Yes they both can be true. The differences are greatly exaggerated.

Answer 2

it's typical that Protestants stick with what they think what the Bible says.

Anytime a Catholic does something that isn't scriptural, they tell us Protestants that we are Literalists. And then they say that we are trying to place 'sola scriptura' as more important than the church.

What I see the Roman Catholics doing is practicing years, and years, and years, and years of rhetoric. They excuse their traditions as being of the "True Church", even though the Bible tells them not to do what they are doing.

And so the vicious cycle continues. The Roman Catholics place their priorities on what the Pope, or the religious hierarchy says. While the Protestants tend to place what Jesus said over them. And then they say that we Protestants are a part of a heresy, and there it goes again! Over and over again.

Then there is another little thing. The Roman Catholics cannot seem to see that their church is a great disruptor of freedom, at least back in the times of the Inquisitions. It's as if Roman Catholics think that the Inquisitions were wonderful people who were giving to their prisoners, rape victims, torture victims, and murder victims. It's as if the Roman Catholics think that history doesn't know what their wonderful church did in those days, and say that anyone who says that bad things happened are making it up.

So you might see the point by now, I hope.

Answer 3

on October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther knocked a document on the catholic church stating the 95 thing where catholics were wrong in there belief.

here are 2 examples of why they differ.

regarding authority: catholics believe tradition and scripture are equal in authority where protestants hold to 2nd timothy 3:16-17
the bible is the sole guide for faith and practice

regarding salvation: Catholica claim that salvation is secured by faith in christ plus good works and grace conferred through the 7 sacraments of the church. were protestants believe in faith alone. romans 3:24 Eph. 2:8-9

Answer 4

Unfortunately, there's many.

Protestants believe that human nature is evil, while Catholics believe it's good. Protestants believe that believing that Jesus is the son of God will save your soul; Catholics believe that in addition to believing that Jesus is Lord, you have to walk the walk and do good works. Protestants believe that individuals can gain a full understanding of God and religion by themselves; Catholics believe that all we can do is pray for understanding, and that the generations of clergy who have devoted their lives to such praying will have a better understanding than most people. Catholics believe in apostolic succession--Jesus created the Church and asked Peter to be the first pope, and that every priest, bishop, and cardinal ever ordained can be traced back to this (which gives the Church its legitimacy). Protestants generally believe this is utter garbage, and that Catholicism became corrupted and illegitimate over the years. Protestants believe solely in the scriptures; Catholics believe in oral tradition in addition to the scriptures (based on things Peter and John said, I don't remember the passages off-hand, but they essentially say that they could write endless books and never completely convey everything Christ said and did.) Catholics believe that saints and Mary can act as intercessors for you (much like a friend, you ask them in Jesus' name to pray for you); Protestants believe that this is praying to false idols. Catholics have sacraments; Protestants don't. Catholics pray for all Christians to become united; Protestants don't.

Furthermore, Protestants think Catholics hate anyone who is not Catholic; I've only found the opposite to be true. Some Protestants even think Catholics aren't Christians...for which I have no explanation.

Answer 5

Transubstantiation, and our relationship with Mary and the Saints come to mind. Most of it is a misunderstanding of the nature of prayer. Prayer is communication, NOT WORSHIP, for Catholics. And apparently, Protestants don't have enough faith to believe Jesus when He said we must eat His Flesh. He even asked His Apostles if they would leave, too because of this in John 6:66. The Protestant answer appears to be 'yes'.

Answer 6

Catholics did not want the Gospel of Jesus to be published, or to be known by the masses, they allowed only their own version to be told to the people, and the masses were spoken in Latin, so the people would conform to their rituals, this is where the catechism of the Catholic church came from.

The people were not fooled by their deception, but when the people asked questions they were tortured until they conformed. This was the purpose of the crusades. The Catholic church is just an extension of Jewish tradition. They are rivals but they both serve mammon as does every other church (religion) in the world today.

Answer 7

I think the key issue is Authority.
Protestants are those people that feel the Catholic Church has made a lot of mistakes, that those mistakes have compromised their ministry, and that as such they do not actually have the Apostolic Authority by which they claim pre-eminence over the other forms of Christianity.
Jesus said: 'Judge a tree by its fruits. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.'

Answer 8

The phrase sola scriptura is from the Latin: sola having the idea of "alone," "ground," "base," and the word scriptura meaning "writings" - referring to the Scriptures. Sola scriptura means that Scripture alone is authoritative for the faith and practice of the Christian. The Bible is complete, authoritative, and true. "All Scripture is 'God breathed' (given of inspiration of God) and is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness..." (2 Timothy 3:16).

Sola scriptura was the rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation. For centuries the Roman Catholic Church had made its traditions superior in authority to the Bible. This resulted in many practices that were in fact contradictory to the Bible. Some examples are prayer to saints and/or Mary, the immaculate conception, transubstantiation, infant baptism, indulgences, and papal authority. Martin Luther, the founder of the Lutheran Church and father of the Protestant Reformation, was publicly rebuking the Catholic Church for its unbiblical teachings. The Catholic Church threatened Martin Luther with excommunication (and death) if he did not recant. Martin Luther's reply was, "Unless therefore I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture, or by the clearest reasoning, - unless I am persuaded by means of the passages I have quoted, - and unless they thus render my conscience bound by the Word of God, I cannot and will not retract, for it is unsafe for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me! Amen!"

Answer 9

The main differences that cause discord is 1) Priests believe they can forgive your sins by having you do penitence. 2) Catholics believe they can ask Saints to intercede for them with God.3) Catholics belive their followers have to go thru the priests for forgiveness, instead of going directly to the source.4) Catholics still have Christ on the cross dying for their sins.5) Catholics have a Pope who has a direct line to God for all catholics.

Protestants don't need any one to intercede for them or do penitence for their sins. We go directly before God and ask him ourselves for forgiveness or whatever we need to ask him. Christ died once for all our sins and is risen from the grave. We are all equal before Christ and can all speak to him directly and He can communicate to each one of us as He chooses. We have no need of Saints. These are the major sticking points that I know of.

Answer 10

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