The Difference?

[travisbaptist12]

I mean, I have somewhat of an idea, and have been researching it lately, but I want to know what you think about it. The it I'm talking is the difference between protestant, and catholic denominations. This is a topic that interests me to no end. So, what do you guys think, what are the main differences? I have a pretty good idea, but I always like to hear different viewpoints.

 

[morningstar2651]

The Roman Catholic Church (the term given as the title of this article) is most often spoken of simply as the "Catholic Church". Though the latter term has other meanings (for which, see Catholicism), it is generally used in this article, for the sake of brevity and to avoid confusion with the Latin Rite component of this worldwide body of Christians of East and West in full communion with the Pope. In fact, some give the first of these two terms ("Roman Catholic Church") an even narrower meaning: they link it with the Roman liturgical rite, one of several liturgical rites used by the Latin Rite or Latin particular Church, and accordingly consider that the term "Roman Catholic Church" is a misnomer when applied to the whole Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. The relationship between the Catholic Church and the Western or Latin and the Eastern Churches within it is dealt with below.

The Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8,[1] (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_...s/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html) declared that “the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic” has a concrete realization (the Latin term is “subsistit”) "in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him". By "successor of Peter" is meant the Pope.


Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. It generally refers to those that separated from the Catholic Church in the Reformation, their offshoots, and those that share similar doctrines or ideologies. It is commonly considered one of the three major branches of Christianity, along with Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

 

[Ben Borg Again]

Hi Travis, If you read Martin Luther, youll get a great idea, since your reading from the original revolutionary himself who started the whole Reformation, He wrote tons of books. John Calvin is fun to read too. If your Baptist, you'll learn alot about the two people who had the biggest impact on your particularl denomination.
All you gotta do is Google the words" Martin Luther Library or christian classics and youll probably find most of the books"

If your feeling brave, google the words " Martin Luther on the jews and their lies" and youll discover a very interesting book Luther wrote that laid the foundation for Hitlers philosophy and the deaths of 8 million Jews.

 

[FadingWhispers3]

Martin Luther, even if he did have much to do with protestants, should be smacked upside the head for his mad rantings about Jews. What could he possibly be thinking? Supposedly Jesus was a Jew, the apostles were all Jews, Jesus himself said that he was sent to save the lost sheep of Isreal. Even Paul says that God's blessings on the Jews cannot be revoked, but that the ingrafted branches should not be prideful. What was ML thinking? A pile of rocks has better sense. What's even worse is that ML isn't the exception... much of europe had this perverse tendency to ascribe the Jews as the root of all evil.