Do you agree with the Pope when he basically said Protestant Churches are useless for salvation ?

Answer 1

I totally disagree!......The Pope works for Satan!...... Near the beginning of The Two Babylons, Hislop lays out the basic thesis that he goes onto document in full:

It has been known all along that Popery was baptized Paganism; but God is now making it manifest, that the Paganism which Rome has baptized is, in all its essential elements, the very Paganism which prevailed in he ancient literal Babylon, when Jehovah opened before Cyrus the two-leaved gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.... Her judgment is now evidently hastening on; and just as it approaches, the Providence of God, conspiring with the Word of God, by light pouring in from all quarters, makes it more and more evident that Rome is in very deed the Babylon of the Apocalypse; that the essential character of her system, the grand objects of her worship, her festivals, her doctrine and discipline, her rites and ceremonies, her priesthood and their orders, have all been derived from ancient Babylon; and finally, that the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar. In the warfare that has been waged against the domineering pretensions of Rome, it has too often been counted merely to meet and set aside her presumptuous boast, that she is the mother and mistress of all churches—the one Catholic Church, out of whose pale there is no salvation. If ever there was excuse for such a mode of dealing with her, that excuse will hold no longer. If the position I have laid down can be maintained, she must be stripped of the name of a Christian Church altogether; for if it was a Church of Christ that was convened on that night, when the pontiff-king of Babylon, in the midst of his thousand lords, 'praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of wood, and of stone' (Daniel 5:4), then the Church of Rome is entitled to the name of a Christian Church; but not otherwise. This to some, no doubt, will appear a very startling position; but it is one which it is the object of this work to establish; and let the reader judge for himself, whether I do not bring ample evidence to substantiate my position" (Hislop, pp. 2-3).

Answer 2

He never said that. You should try and find the document that he wrote before making such statements. This is just people hearing things through the vineyard. The Pope did said the Church was established by Christ but he didn't say Protestant churches are useless for salvation. He stated they still had the "mystery of salvation'' in them and there were in communion with Christ.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ is the Only way to Salvation for Christians...not a church, a bishop, a POPe or any man made Doctrine. Totally glad there are No theocracies on planet earth...They have hidden and protected PEDOPHILES around the Planet, Abused children and Two Priests Started NAMBLA.......according to the Catholic Catechism it's permissable, because they can't help themselves..

Protestants are just that Protesting what the Catholic Church has done for centuries..The Inquistions, Putting other Christians to death, the Crusades, giving the Okay for SLAVERY in the New World, Never appologizing for it and Old Pope Pius sitting doing nothing but keeping their churches open as the trains were rolling past the Vatican on their way to the Death Camps and He's an Ex-Nazi. I don't think he can Judge anybody especially since Salvation is Not through him Or By him ...

Answer 4

The Pope does not teach that.

Protestant trinitarian ecclesial communions are true channels of Grace and are in 'real but impaired 'communion with the Catholic Church. Protestant Churches have many 'elements of sancticication and truth".

read the Catechism of the Catholic ChurchParagraphs 817-822
read also Dominus Iesus

Answer 5

The Pope did not say anything like that.

Here is the full text of the new document that states nothing new: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

Most Christian denominations believe that each of them is the fullest version of the Church of Christ.

While the Catholic Church also believes that she is "the highest exemplar" of the mystery that is the Church of Christ, she does not claim that non-Catholic Churches are not truly Christian. The Catholic Church teaches:

Furthermore, 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, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church.

All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 819: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#819

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

There's only one problem with your question - it isn't actually true.

"Therefore, these separated Churches and communities as such, though we believe they suffer from defects, have by no means been deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation. For the spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation."

(Dominus Iesus, written in 2000 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, better known today as Pope Benedict XVI)

Answer 7

Show me the exact words where he said "Protestant churches are useless for salvation". Show me that was his intent. You are putting words into his mouth that he didn't say.


If you are going to make such an assertion, please provide a reference so that we can address what was really said, rather than "what you heard someone say about something someone might have said".

Answer 8

No
I know this answer will not make me popular but in all truth following the tenets of the Catholic will not get you to heaven.
There is more man made doctrine in the Catholic faith than Gods


Ok here it is

Christ 'established here on earth' only one Church," said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains.

The other communities "cannot be called 'churches' in the proper sense" because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles -- and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said.



LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy — For the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and saying other Christian communities were either defective or not true churches.


Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288841,00.html





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LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released yesterday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.


http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2007/07/11/pope_reasserts_salvation_comes_from_one_church/

Answer 9

All churches need to take a long look in the mirror to see if they see a reflection looking back! As i said many times on here one religion condemns another and we are to have LOVE! Is that a great act of love or separation?

Answer 10

No Pope, especially this one, ever said that. You probably need to actually READ something of what he HAS said instead of spouting nonsense.

Oh...and perhaps get a life while you are learning to read.

Answer 11

He is just jealous because the Protestant faith has outgrown Catholic Church. Both religions believe in Jesus and God has no problem with that. so he's just an old man saying stupid things. I hope that the next Pope tries to bring the religions together instead of driving them apart.