why do some protestants say bad things about their Mother Church, The Catholic Church?

Question

when Protestants say that Catholics are not Christians, what does that make the Protestants who fell away from the Catholic Church after taking away the Bible that the Catholics compiled and preserved?

Answer 1

LOL! Great question! It's like the leaves on a tree attacking the roots that keep them alive in the first place.

Answer 2

Well, If you look into church history right around the adoption of christianity(Catholicism) as the state religion, many of the decisions the catholic church made were simply plays for power and not of religious origin. Celibacy of priests was just a way for the church to own land, it is not biblical in the least. So to answer your question, the Catholic Church still was a christian church but had some teachings that were not biblical(and therefore not christian), and that caused it to make decisions just like the protestantism thing. The whole protestant reformation was a protest against the false ideas in the catholic church. So as to be honest, I couldn't accurately tell you why the Catholic Church is backing away from it's past, but i see it only as a good thing. Pretty simply, check everything you hear against the Bible(The protestant one =]) because when it comes down to it, following Jesus is much more important than following your church, and unfortunately its not always the same.

Answer 3

Outstanding answer Fr. Joseph .

What did Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, state about the Bible? In his "Commentary On St. John," he stated the following: "We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of God, that we have received It from them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of It at all." Regardless of what non-Catholic Christians may think or say, according to secular, objective historians, the Catholic Church alone preserved Sacred Scripture throughout the persecution of the Roman Empire and during the Dark Ages. All non-Catholic Christian denominations owe the existence of the Bible to the Catholic Church alone. Why did God choose the Catholic Church to preserve Scripture if It is not His Church?
The Catholic Church was the first Christian denomination to commission a mass printing of the Bible by asking Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, to do so in 1447. Non-Catholic Christians may accuse the Catholic Church of not allowing the common people to read the Bible before the Reformation, but what good would it have done for the Catholic Church to widely distribute the Bible to the masses when over 90% of the common people were illiterate and couldn't read anyway? The Catholic Mass has always included Scriptural readings from both the Old and New Testaments and Catholic priests have always "preached" the Word of God to the common people throughout history.

Love your enemies

Answer 4

Tango, I apologize for not answering the question - but I feel the need to educate Bible_Believer (SL) ....

The Baptists originated in England during a time of intense religious reform. Historical evidence shows that they came into existence during the seventeenth century and apparently emerged out of the Puritan-Separatist movement in the Church of England.

Some see the Baptists as the descendants of the 16th century Anabaptists (which some view as a product of the Protestant Reformation and others view as a continuation of the older pre-Reformation non-Catholic churches) and others see them as a separation from the Church of England in the 1600s.

No matter how you look at it, Jesus and his church were here long before the seventeenth century. In fact, the church was well-established more than 350 years before there was a Bible - relying on the traditions and oral teachings of Jesus and his apostles.

You stated, "and the Bible-Believing Baptist churches that are out there are the only ones holding to those doctrines today."

However, if you look at the beliefs, teachings and practices of the early Church, you can see that it is Catholic in nature. In fact, the earliest churches celebrated the Eucharist and believed in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The present day Catholic church is also Eucharistic. So, in what ways exactly does the Baptist church resemble the early church?

I'm afraid you've been accepting what your pastor says rather than reading for yourself.

Answer 5

The Catholic Church is not the Mother Church. The Mother Church is the Church which first existed 40 days after Christ went back to heaven. And it wasn't just the Catholics who preserved the Bible. Had the Catholic Church been important it would be mentioned in the Bible. Would you like to write it in?

Answer 6

Whenever someone is in rebellion, they tend to hate the thing that they're rebelling against. If they agreed with what they're fighting against, even in the smallest degree, then they might have to admit that they're in the wrong.

Protestantism began as an act of rebellion against the Catholic Church, and it's continued to fight against the light and truth of Catholicism ever since.

Answer 7

While I agree that bad things are said about "Mother Church" you are being presumptuous saying it preserved the word of God. Many texts have popped up at varying times. We might not have the Bible in the same way had it not been for the faithful, but we would still have God's word.

Why do Catholics insist they are "THE" church? Jesus sent out the Disciples to all nations and the Catholic Church did not come about until much later.

Oh, we did not fall away. Many realized certain practices of "Mother Church" were against the very Bible they so lovingly preserved. Preservation is good but reading is better.

Answer 8

Bad things? The Catholics deny that we are Christian...If I say this and speak to how this happened and the negative impact that it has on Christianity is this bad or just the truth that hurts?

You are welcome at my churches table.

agapefromnc

Answer 9

The Bible tells me that the heavenly Jerusalem, the City of God is my mother:

"But the Jerusalem above (the Messianic kingdom of Christ) is free, and she is our mother."

Galatians 4:26 (Amplified Bible)

How then do you say the Catholic Church - which is not catholic, but Roman, is my mother?

Answer 10

yeah... sad, isn't it?

these Protestants need to promote their church at all cost.