Unity Between Catholic and Protestant Christians

Oscarr said:

I have a question:

How can Catholics and Protestants have true unity while the Catholic church believes it is the only true church and that to be fully accepted as a true Christian a Protestant must convert to Catholicism, accept the Pope as their spiritual leader, and subscribe to Catholic doctrine and theology?

This issue came up on the Catholic forum, and I felt quite limited in discussing this because that forum is protected for Catholic believers. This is why I am bringing up the question in a more appropriate forum where those who are concerned about this can have a free discussion about the issues.

In my opinion, most Protestants, Pentecostals, and Charismatics wouldn't dream in a million years to even consider converting to Catholicism, so I cannot see any possibility of any form of unity between Catholics and Protestants. They are as totally different as chalk and cheese.

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Oscarr said:

So there has to be another basis on which unity can be achieved other than denominational union. I believe that unity can be achieved only when each acknowledge that the only basis for unity is that we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who died on the cross for us, and who rose again to give us eternal life.

There are others who are working towards unity between Jews, Christians and Islam. I don't see that happening either, because the Jews don't believe that Jesus Christ is their Messiah, and Muslims believe that every Jew has to be killed in order for Muslim resurrection can happen on the last day, and they have a record of killing Christians as well. But I guess dreams are free...

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mrhagerty said:

For the Catholic, it's the same answer we comfort ourselves with when asking how Jesus is inhabiting our prayers or is present in a worship service, yet forever sits at the righthand of the Father. For Him to be present in the species of the Eucharist is a spiritual and mystical operation where the violation of the laws of Physics doesn't apply.

As to literally eating Christ, review the account in John 6:52-58. We take this as symbolic. But those present objected ala cannibalism and Jesus reiterated about eating Him and drinking His Blood.

Mike

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Oscarr said:

I have a question:

How can Catholics and Protestants have true unity while the Catholic church believes it is the only true church and that to be fully accepted as a true Christian a Protestant must convert to Catholicism, accept the Pope as their spiritual leader, and subscribe to Catholic doctrine and theology?

This issue came up on the Catholic forum, and I felt quite limited in discussing this because that forum is protected for Catholic believers. This is why I am bringing up the question in a more appropriate forum where those who are concerned about this can have a free discussion about the issues.

In my opinion, most Protestants, Pentecostals, and Charismatics wouldn't dream in a million years to even consider converting to Catholicism, so I cannot see any possibility of any form of unity between Catholics and Protestants. They are as totally different as chalk and cheese.

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Oscarr said:

I have a question:

How can Catholics and Protestants have true unity while the Catholic church believes it is the only true church and that to be fully accepted as a true Christian a Protestant must convert to Catholicism, accept the Pope as their spiritual leader, and subscribe to Catholic doctrine and theology?

This issue came up on the Catholic forum, and I felt quite limited in discussing this because that forum is protected for Catholic believers. This is why I am bringing up the question in a more appropriate forum where those who are concerned about this can have a free discussion about the issues.

In my opinion, most Protestants, Pentecostals, and Charismatics wouldn't dream in a million years to even consider converting to Catholicism, so I cannot see any possibility of any form of unity between Catholics and Protestants. They are as totally different as chalk and cheese.

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BNR32FAN said:

I don’t believe that our salvation is contingent on having a perfect understanding of God’s Word but more on trusting in Christ and a devotion to serving God.

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