They reject a lot of key concepts in the Catholic Church...Mother Church was the only one founded by Jesus through St. Peter...Consider it....Give me an answer....NOW!!!
2007-11-10 19:43:02 · 13 answers · asked by Grunty O 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
not really.
Our Lord Jesus Christ founded a church on earth, when He gave his apostle peter the power of the keys.
a little later that church created a book, to help in its worship (the bible).
protestants don't follow Our Lord, they follow the book.
like muslims.
2007-11-10 19:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, of course any protestant who professes belief that Jesus is Lord is a Christian.
The fact that most protestants reject some key concepts of the Catholic faith does not mean they will automatically be denied the Grace of Christ. One hopes and prays that we will all grow in faith and mercy to the point where the Lord's Church can be permanently reunited in peace and love.
P.S. Patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit that you may wish to seek.
2007-11-12 11:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by sparki777 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is the age of ecuminism and interfaith dialogue. No-one with an ounce of theological credibility will deny that the Protestant churches are Christian. They may differ from the Catholic Church on matters of doctrine but that does not make them less than Christian.
The idea of Christianity covers a broad range of faiths - evangelical, Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic - all of whom accept Jesus Christ as being the Son of God and Saviour of mankind. This is the basic tenet of Christianity. The remainder is a matter of doctrinal and theological dispute about the practice, teachings and manifestations of Christian faith.
2007-11-11 04:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by chris m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
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.
2007-11-12 01:18:25 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of what they are... they are our neighbour and we must love all as such !
I must point out that we as catholics that know the truth about the french revolution and the extend of it's horror and murderous persecution of the Church by free-thinkers are greatful to many anglicans (2nd form of protestantism) for housing many of our priests,bishops and religious until the end of the revolt,who swarmed into the open arms of the english seeking refuge.
And that gratitude should be extended from generation to generation for their protection of our consecrated religious
by the order of the english monarch (protestant) at the time.
It is only honorable that we give honour where it is due.
God bless,
JMJ
2007-11-11 11:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by BORED II 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some protestants are christian, or atleast to the best of their ability aslong as their view of christ is that of the catholic church, such as the trinity,the human and divine nature of jesus christ etc if not they follow a false christ and therefore are not christian....... protestant churchs lack the fullness of truth found only in the catholic church but salvation is not restricted to the catholic church in my humble opinion. hopefully our seperated brothers and sisters in christ come to the truth of the church jesus established. those that deny the church deny the truth of jesus and run the risk of following a false christ.
2007-11-12 01:37:07 · answer #6 · answered by fenian1916 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're a sub-sect of Christianity, like Islam and Mormonism, so yes, they're technically Christian.
The reason why they have sub-sects is because all of those sects only take from the Bible what they want to believe in. For example, Mormonism is the only sub-sect of the religion (that comes to mind, anyway.) that allows a man to have more than one wife, or polygamy for short.
At another time, Catholics believed that you had to buy your way to heaven, which is one of the major reasons why Lutheranism was found, because all of the poor Europeans couldn't buy themselves to Heaven and thought it was disgraceful to have such a rule.
2007-11-11 03:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by Kiefer H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Both catholic and protestants are christian. They differ in their beliefs.
2007-11-11 03:49:53 · answer #8 · answered by James Bond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BS.....If Jesus wanted a church founded, he would have founded a darn church.
2007-11-11 03:47:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Demanding little thing, aren't you?
Yes, they are Christian. So are we.
2007-11-11 10:47:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋