Can Protestantism Last

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As title says… W/O the Eucharist, Protestantism can not stand.

It’s my opinion that Protestantism has no link to Heaven. The saints/Jesus/Father/Holy Spirit are consistently in the Eucharist. How could an informed Catholic ever expect any Protestant denomination to last?

This … America is leaning Calvinist b/c of some movement in Evangelicals is nothing more than a fad. It won’t last either b/c they don’t have the Eucharist.

Lastly, Wikipedia the other day had that the first Eucharist was celebrated at Jamestown. That was funny, considering the first Eucharist was celebrated on the Feast of St. Augustine years before in Florida.
 
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Wait a minute, are you saying that Protestants don’t have the fullness of Faith? That’s completely right. But, it can also read a like that you don’t believe Protestants can go to heaven, and I don’t think that’s what the Church teaches.
 
Lack of fullness is another way of putting it. Protestants can go to Heaven, but I feel safe to say that not all of them can do so.
 
Exactly.

Protestants also have many beliefs they share and have taken from Holy Mother Church, and still preach and still adhere to. While they possess many false beliefs, they usually aren’t accessory beliefs but rather rejections of the Church - so, they believe in less, and therefore lack the fulness of Christian truth. Yet, are still Christians in every way by virtue of their baptism which removes the structure of original sin.
 
They have a lack of belief b/c they lack the Eucharist which is part of the “belief” that Jesus referred to in John 3:16 or whatever it is these Evangelicals always tout. They don’t believe in the Eucharist b/c of the Bible which if read by an ordinary person of today’s culture can’t merely mean as much as it did to a first century, practicing, not cut off from Israel, Jew.

“Blessed are those who keep their clothes white”.
 
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In regards to how any informed Catholic can expect any protestant denomination to last, I think it depends what you mean by “last” 500 years is actually quite a long time and the lutheran church has been around that long. Do you expect protestantism to die off sometime soon? Within 100 years? Another 500?
 
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I expect Protestantism to last till the end. I also expect further splintering of Protestantism.

That said, I also expect many more folks who search for truth in the Bible to be attracted to Protestantism; I also expect them to get to Heaven, but not without the Catholic Church.
 
You seemed to imply in your original post that you don’t expect protestantisn to last, but alright.

In regards to The Bible… I am actually a Protestant convert and it was when I began to question which church interprets The Bible correctly that my research, with God’s guidance of course, led me to The Catholic Church. It came down to “authority” to me and I realized no man made denomination led by a minister who started a church and became ordained with no connection to The early Church other than by their baptism has any authority above that of any other lay person. But I know that is a journey most protestants will never make
 
Yes, I completely agree with you. I have many Protestant friends that are very devoted to Christ and living a good life to the best of their ability. I am proud to have them as friends.
 
My own personal question is that is the protest even standing or is it already been dealt with. after all, with the council of Trent which focused on Martian Luther’s complaint.
 
A friend at work noticed the icons on my workstation, she told me that this was idolatrous, she wanted to share Scripture on why this was bad, and I told her that the Seventh Ecumenical Council considered Scripture on this question over a thousand years ago, and decided that icons of saints were to be encouraged, and she was intimidated by the response.
To be honest, her entire social world revolves around her Protestant Church, as do her family relationships, and she really does try to live a godly life, and she would be loath to give that all up. So I am not going to confrontational towards her about her faith, that would not be loving, that would not be Christian.
This scenario repeats itself millions of times, so I think Protestantism is here to stay.
 
Protestantism is over 500 years old with over 700,000,000 people.

It’s here to stay.
 
Well here in Denmark we have a lutheran State church with about 80% of the population bring members. Attendence is 5% while Catholic mass attendence is 20+% so we are doing better and that is considering we dont have churches in a lot of places and Many have to travel to other towns to go to mass. But still 80% not going to mass is not a good thing and the church Lacks money and has been closing churches the last couple of years. So has the lutheran church mostly because of empty churches not lack of money because the State gives money to repair the lutheran church.
 
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