What is the definition of a Protestant?

Question

What are they protesting and why?

Answer 1

A Protestant is a Catholic in rebellion against the Pope with some different dogmas and doctrines.

Essentially, since the Protestants continue to make the pagan day of worship, Sunday, their day of worship, they continue to acknowledge the authority of the Pope in setting dogma and doctrines for their faith. the Protestants also continue in the pagan celebrations of Christmas (Saturnalia) and Easter (Astarte), and accept the false pagan doctrines of the trinity and the immortality of the soul. The concept that the unsaved or wicked dead go to hell to be tormented for all eternity is another false pagan doctrine that the Protestants kept when they "left" the "Mother Church". A pretty good resource to start to learn about these things is:

http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/default.htm

For a very good article on how the Protestants acknowledge the authority of the Pope by their practices:

http://www.cbcg.org/franklin/romes_challenge.pdf

For further research on beginning to learn the true worship of the Creator God:

http://www.cbcg.org/

http://www.cog21.org/

http://www.ucg.org/

http://www.livingcog.org/

http://www.pcog.org/

All the above groups have extensive on line literature as well as free literature you can send for.

Answer 2

Protestant:
1 A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers.
2 A member of a Western Christian church adhering to the theologies of Luther, Calvin, or Zwingli.

They were/are protesting the Catholic doctrine.

Answer 3

A Western Christian Trinitarian (or Post Christian like Non Trinitarians) who is in a church tradition rooted in or descended from
the 16th century Protestant Reformations
(Lutheran,Anglican,
Anabaptist,Reformed,etc)
which professed doctrine from the Bible alone and salvation by grace alone through faith alone by ,through and for Christ alone.

Protestants were protesting what they saw as the corruptions of Bible(Evangelical) Christianity by Medieval Catholicism and its church system(pope,indugences, invocation and intercession of saints,etc) and sought a purer Christianity,but the differences among the protestants were often greater than the differences that any particular Protestant group had with R Catholicism or Eastern or Oriental Orthodoxy.
Protestantism split from Catholicism afterAD 1517

Protestantism is the 3rd and latest branch of Christianity.
There are some 30,00+ denominations of Protestantism with differing doctrines, interpretations of the Bible,moral positions,rituals,worship styles, church order ,polity and government.

Protestants are protesting some aspect of R Catholicism and usually some aspect of other Protestant traditions.

Someone once called Protestantism "Catholicism minus' and Catholicism as " All the Protestantisms added together"

Many include Jehovah's Witness and other Anti trinitarian groups in Protestantism because they profess to teach Bible alone doctrines and reject all of the catholic teachings that "Traditional trinitarian protestants" reject and they claim to be saved by Christ alone by grace alone by faith alone.

Mormons and Christian Scientists are not included as Protestants even though they are 'biblicist' and are culturally protestant and descended from protestant groups because they have scriptures/revelations in add ition to the Bible and have a very different view of Godhead and Christ.

Answer 4

The generally used definition of Protestant is any Christian religion that is not Catholic. It was more specific at one time meaning those particular religious groups who protested against the Catholic doctrine. Thankfully, many Christian religions are now in agreement about keeping "the main thing the main thing," namely that Christ died for each and everyone of us and because of his death and resurrection we have eternal life if we choose to accept Him.

Answer 5

There are three branches of Christianity:
1 Catholic
2 Protestant (includes 1000's of sub-denominations)
3 Eastern Orthodox

If you are a Christian, you are one of those. People who think otherwise delude themselves (and they are probably protestants).

Every 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 broke away and were established during the protestant revolt, which began in 1517. 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 (see list at: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm ).

For more info, go to:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Pillar.asp

Answer 6

A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers
As far as " protesting, " that would have been the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and the King of England, which was a very ignorant and oppressive state.

Answer 7

Not Catholic.

They protested the corruption in the Catholic church at the time & broke away.

Answer 8

Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the doorpost of the Catholic church because he felt they're were biblical wrong on the majority of their doctrines.

Answer 9

Any Christian that is not Catholic.

There's no protesting, try not to worry!

Answer 10

any non-Catholic Christian. and they are in constant protest against the Catholic Church. but no matter how much they protest against the Church, their world revolves around the Church, whether they like it or not.