the Bible that these protestants are using belong to the Catholic Church, yet they are using it to their own advantage against the Catholic Church that provided them the Bible in the first place.
doesn't the Christian God supposed to hate ingratitude? so what are these protestants showing towards Catholicism? can anyone call it gratitude?
2007-12-12 08:32:46 · 33 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it is actually more like slapping your own mother
2007-12-12 08:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 5⤋
I think your premise is based on incorrect assumptions. The Bible is not "catholic" - if anything, it was originally Jewish. And Christianity was originally neither catholic nor protestant - the rituals and dogma of Catholicism evolved over centuries, at the same time as many other sects of Christianity such as Greek Orthodox. Christianity in its present form, whether Catholic or not, incorporates elements of Judaism, Buddhism, Mithra worship and other pagan myths and customs which predate Christ by centuries - the various protestant sects were among the last to evolve. And to this day, there are still several varieties of "catholic". So what does gratitude have to do with it? By your reasoning, the Catholics should have been grateful to the Jews, and the Jews should have been grateful to the pagans - instead of which, in each case they killed them - I think the Protestants come off very well by comparison.
Actually, I think illogical and vitriolic attacks by any religious sect on another are pathetic. All who are narrow-minded, religiously intolerant and vicious (whether Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, Islamic extremists or whatever) hold themselves up to ridicule every time they open their mouths and display their ignorance - and I hope they will be criticized for it. Maybe it will open their eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholocism
2007-12-13 00:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by Copper Cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Protestants are biting the hand that fed them, then shouldn't it be said Catholics do the same by rejecting the very original church- the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The original bible was written in Greek. Christianity was formalised in the Greek world. Armenia was the first country to make Christianity- Orthodox Christianity- the state religion. The Eastern Orthodox church remains unchanged from when it was established.
Perhaps the Orthodox think of Catholics the way Catholics think of Protestants.
2007-12-12 23:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by grassfell 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, there are differences between the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible. I believe several more books have been included in the Catholic Bible that were removed from the Protestant Bible.
Point of order, the Bible was written by God...or at least it was inspired by God...not by the Catholic church. A committee of clergy within the early Catholic church sifted through a lot of letters, lectures, and other teachings and decided upon what would be INCLUDED in the Bible, but they most certainly didn't write it.
**There is some debate about whether some scribes have added their own spin on some of the letters but that has not been definitively proven to my knowledge.
2007-12-12 08:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by K. F 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think what they are saying is that they do not believe that the extra-biblical teachings, beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church carry the same weight as the Bible, but the Catholic Church teaches that they do.
Protestants believe that the Bible is the SOLE authority on all things Spiritual.
I do not agree with the way some "Christians" conduct themselves on here with questions that are directed at specific religions or denominations. I think that is totally unnecessary. Remember Jesus said, "Not everyone who says LORD LORD will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.". Many people know how to type the word "Christian" but they are not.
Thanks for the question, it is one of the better ones I have seen today.
2007-12-12 08:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by the sower 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's not the same Bible, close though.
The catholic Bible is the Duae-Reims version, translated from the Textus Vaticanus. Most other versions including the KJV were translated from Textus Receptus. Of which there are more than 5000 complete scrolls dating from the 1st century, well before the establishment of the Catholic Church between 300-500 AD .An impeccable credential by any standard. The Catholic bible says the same thing though, I wish the Catholics would read it & believe it.
The True Christian is a little off, the first churches were Penticostal not Baptist
2007-12-12 08:49:10 · answer #6 · answered by Dave G 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes, but I think they just have a "little sibling" syndrome. To show people why they should be protestant, they have to hate on the Catholic Church, when really, Catholism paved the way for protestents, in terms of spreading the Faith, building Churches, Hospitals, and Universities for them.
2007-12-12 09:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by mury902 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Well, I don't know what kind of church everyone else comes from, but I attend a baptist church. Baptists never came out of the Catholic Church - they are descendents of the early church, you know, the ones who were skinned alive, tortured, and burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.
So no, I would say that there *is* no debt of gratitude that I owe to your monstrosity of a church system. It has historically been, and indeed still is today, the enemy of my particular "stripe" of Christian and I prefer to stay as far from it as I can.
Furthermore, the Bible I use - the King James Bible - did not come out of the Catholic Church either. It came from the manuscripts used by - you guessed it - that same group of Christians that the Catholics tried to eradicate. The Church also tried to destroy this Bible as well, and they failed miserably. So not only did you not give "birth" to my denomination, you also did not spawn the Bible I use. So I guess, I owe nothing to "mother Rome". No gratitude, no loyalty, nothing. I'll tell you what I will do; though - I will be as kind as I can to any and every Catholic I meet. They are good people, and I like them - it is their church's system, and not the people themselves, that I take serious issue with. I won't take that out on the people.
2007-12-12 08:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Blue Eyed Christian 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
I thought the whole point of Protestantism was that the Catholics were NOT giving out the Bible. It was only the clergy that had access, not the layman. People thought they could come to God through prayer alone, not a priest.
2007-12-12 08:35:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
particular, there's a time to chew the hand that feeds you. And, that factor could be whilst it STOPS feeding you!! LOL that is once you initiate getting very hungry or perhaps a hand looks appetizing! ;)
2016-11-03 01:24:05 · answer #10 · answered by jetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The church of Christ was established in AD 33. It was NOT the catholic church, that came 500 years later. Therefore, the only church that Christ established was around before any of the denominations and still exists today.
It is also a common misconception that the catholic church provided the Bible. The scriptures and canons of the Bible were established a couple hundred years prior to the formation of the catholic church. Therefore, we do not owe anything to the catholic church and the church of Christ was never part of the catholic church. Christ established HIS church, not the catholic church.
2007-12-12 08:40:03 · answer #11 · answered by TG 4 · 4⤊ 5⤋