2007-12-13 11:05:10 · 8 answers · asked by cristoiglesia 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are some doctrines I don't embrace but I don't actually see anything wrong with. However for the list of things I don't agree with.
1) Papal infallibility
2) Transubstantiation
3) The Marian Dogmas
4) Celibacy of priests
5) Confessing to priests (I don't see anything wrong with this I just don't see it as necessary when I can go directly to God)
6) Purgatory
7) Deuterocanonicals
8) Infant baptism (once again I don't really see anything wrong with it but I think all it does is make the baby wet)
9) Tradition equal to the Bible
10) Priest having the ability to forgive sins
That is all I can think of for now.
2007-12-13 12:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not so much that Protestants think Catholics are wrong. It's just a difference of opinion. #1 Protestants don't believe the Pope has a direct line to God. #2 Protestants believe that communion is symbolic, and not the actual body and blood of Christ.
2007-12-13 19:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tiss 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Three of the early answers cited transubstantiation, or the real presence, i.e., that the bread and wine offered at Mass actually become the body and blood of Christ.
I don't know how God accomplishes it, but I know Jesus and St. Paul taught transubstantiation in unequivocal and straightforward terms.
"‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." (John 6:51–52).
His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally—and correctly. He repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (John 6:53–56).
Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?" (1 Cor. 10:16). When we receive Communion, we actually participate in the body and blood of Christ, not just eat symbols of them.
Paul also said, "Therefore whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. . . . For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself" (1 Cor. 11:27, 29). How could eating mere bread and wine "unworthily" be so serious if they were mere symbols? Paul’s comment makes sense only if the bread and wine became the real body and blood of Christ.
Cheers,
Bruce
2007-12-13 22:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, from the answers you've received, there is certainly nothing new! Same ol' stuff for 500 years now!
2007-12-13 19:45:39 · answer #4 · answered by Misty 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Transubstantiation. The authority of the Pope. Manmade ritualism. The intermediary ministry of Mary. Sacramentalism.
2007-12-13 19:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well, I don't know a whole lot about Catholicism but I'd have to say the praying to Saints and the way Mary is revered so highly. It doesn't seem that there is any reason or explanation for doing this according to the Bible.
2007-12-13 19:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by Kat 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well, my dad used to say they worship the eternal virgin. Still don't know exactly what that means.
2007-12-13 19:12:32 · answer #7 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they think?
2007-12-13 19:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋