Why are you Protestant??

[tigersnare]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.


So why are you Protestant?

 

[Godzman]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, not excluded those outside of Christianity.

So why are you Protestant?

well for the reason that I agree with a protestant view more so then a Catholic view.

I do believe somethings that catholics believe just more what protestants believe

 

[BBAS 64]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.


So why are you Protestant?

Good Day, Tigersnare

Why are you?

BBAS

 

[Gooney1]

 

[Jason1646]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.


So why are you Protestant?

Well, the reason why I remain a Protestant is not necessarily the reason why I became a Protestant, but I remain a Protestant because the Christian faith as predicated upon the Word of God as its ultimate authority is the only defensible worldview for providing the necessary preconditions of intelligibility.

~Jason

 

[theseed]

I became a Christian when I was a 12. I was turned on to Jesus Christ by reading The Simple English New Testament. And I was watching the 700 Club b/c I had reg. TV. I prayed and asked Jesus to pay for my sins, I prayed as a black guy prayed on the 700 club in my own words. Afterwards I had a disire to know Christ more and have a relationship with him, so I went to church with my step-grand parents. Long story short, I did not like their Independant Baptist church, (very conservative) and dropped out for a while before goiing to an SBC church. The main reason I'm protestant, is that I believe that we must personal ask Jesus to save us (Romans 10.9-10).

Why am i still baptist? They believe most closely to what I believe. My theology on women clergy is more liberal then most Baptists that I've encountered in the South. In the end, I believe what I believe from what I understand from Scripture or The Holy Bible.

 

[II Paradox II]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.

Ultimately because I was convinced that it was the best place to be, all things considered. For the sake of avoiding a huge post, it will suffice to say that I have been less than impressed with some major Catholic doctrines, and as such I could not in good conscience submit myself to them.

There is much more to say, but it is difficult to know how to say it without expending many more words and far more time...

ken

 

[II Paradox II]

here's a short list of a few major reasons why I am protestant:

1) justification and salvation - The more I study this issue, the less I am inclined to see the Roman view of this critical doctrine as correct. I would have great trouble being in any church that got this significantly wrong.

2) the role of tradition and scripture - Of all the issues, this has hit closest to the heart for me. When I look at history, philosophy and scripture, I just cannot justify the Catholic answer. For me, it goes far beyond issues of just "sola scriptura", but to the heart of the human relation to langauge and interpretation, an inherently "textual" world and our place in it.

3) The life of the Spirit - Simply put, I have seen God change my life and the lives of numerous people around me. I suppose if I felt a huge hole in my experience I might be compelled to jump, but I don't.

4) My own personal conviction that Rome is heading in the wrong direction is also a large key to my ambivelence towards her. Honestly, if I lived in pre-tridentine times, I might be persuaded to accept things as they were, but since Trent I don't think I cuold do so. Since that time, Rome's actions have further pushed her apart from those who might have sought common cause (via new marian dogmas and papal infallibility primarily).

ken

 

[A. believer]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.


So why are you Protestant?

I went from a skeptic/agnostic to a Christian at the age of 24, when God made it apparent to me that the worldview of the Bible was true, and that alternate worldviews were illogical and insufficient for interpreting reality. I went from denouncing the very concept of sin to confessing my own sin in rejecting God as He had revealed Himself both through general revelation (nature and conscience) and special revelation (His inscripturated Word).

The reason I'm not a Roman Catholic or an Eastern Orthodox is because of a) the lack of a sufficient explanation of the nature of saving faith and justification from either community, b) the obviously unbiblical accretions each community has accumulated over the centuries that require a great deal of rationalization to try to justify, some of which seriously undermine the gospel c) the irreformable nature of both communities in declaring each of their own, peculiar doctrines as "infallible apostolic traditions", and d) the inability of the adherents of either communion to back up their claims of holding the correct ecclesiology and soteriology with something that amounts to more than mere question begging.

That's off the top of my head. If you have any questions about anything I said, feel free to ask for further clarification.

 

[Terri]

Jesus says we are to enter through the narrow gate. I believe that narrow gate is Jesus' sacrifice and believing that His sacrifice paid for ALL of our sins. I believe that any group that adds things that one must do to have their sins forgiven other than believing in Jesus sacrifice is teaching the broad road "that leads to destruction" and I would want no part of it.

MT 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

[Svt4Him]

Because I'm not Catholic?

 

[theseed]

Why are you not Catholic?

 

[tigersnare]

Because I'm not Catholic?

If you choose to elaborate, please be sensitive to our Catholic bretheren.


P.S. Anybody know where these 2000 blessings came from?? Or better yet....just.....thank you.

 

[Arikereba]

This question is strickly for Protestants(ovbiously), but mainly for those who have researched and studied other belief systems, including those inside and outside Christianity.


So why are you Protestant?

The birth control thing.

I have a lot of respect for Catholics and I'd probably be Anglican if I weren't in the United Church of Canada; which is about as close as you can get to Catholic and still be a Protestant. But I'm not going to join a religion knowing that I disagree with it on some pretty fundamental things. Well, I disagree with conservative evangelical protestantism on some fairly major things, but simply because of the protestant tradition of individualism, there are lots of churches where I can still feel comfortable.

I'm not using birth control now, though I probably will if I ever get married. But knowing about the huge rates of HIV in Africa, and the unsustainable birth rates in some countries that only lead to famine, and knowing how many people in undeveloped countries die in childbirth, I really don't feel like that's something I can support by acknowledging Catholic teachings on birth control to be somehow infallible.

Plus my boyfriend is a relatively conservative Protestant, and he would freak.

 

[MattMMMan17]

I am a Christian because I don't believe in many of the integral parts of Catholicism

I respect this thread and its purpose. However, I would like to request that comments such as these be restrained as they imply that Catholics are not Christians. I know most here are learned enough to know that isn't true, but for the benefit of any lurkers who do not know better please be careful with your diction. Thank you.

 

[tigersnare]

Thank you Matt, I didn't see that, I appreciate your respect for the thread and it's purpose. Much appreciated.

Ok back to the topic.

 

[Lotar]

I was born a Protestant, raised in the Lutheran church.

One of my reasons is that I believe that many doctrines of the churches that hold to "Tradition" are directly contrary to scripture and use vauge references to try to justify them.

My #1 reason is that I know that salvation through faith alone is an essential trueth of the gospel, so could not belong to any church that declared it anathama. Plus, I am leaning towards RC Sproul's position that such a church is not a true Church, though there may be some true Christians in it.

 

[JVAC]

I was born and raised Catholic, but I had quiet the falling out. I went a through a brief stint of Atheism and let me tell you, boy was that depressing!!!! When I finally came to I found the Lutheran Church, and the more I sit back and look at things, I cannot think of a better place for me. The things that drove me from Catholocism aren't there, and yet all the things I loved from it are there.

I really like Catholocism but they tend to be exclusive in certain things, and that is the maing problem I had and one of the reasons for my leaving.

You know, that Luther was a pretty cool cat! Even though he had some oddities, I enjoy his theology for the most part. The Jury is still out on him being 100% right, but I think a good 96.289%.

 

[Gooney1]

For MattMann:

I wan't saying you were not Christians I was merely saying that I don't believe in certain Catholic beliefs so I ain't one, but a Protestant. It is like saying I don't believe in some Baptist or Anglican stuff so I ain't one. I have a personal faith that depicts who I am in God. You believe Catholic things so you are a Catholic no problem with me.

I will edit the afore comment!

 

[JeffreyLloyd]

I just want to read your answers