Catholics: Why are you not Protestant?

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Because I love tradition.
Because I love a Church founded by Christ Himself, no some discontent monk.
Because we have an ultimate authority (Man, I LOVE Papa Bene)
Because we have confession, to know for sure that God forgives you
Because we stay true to our dogmas and doctrines through time, through thick and thin
Because we have Mary, a role model, and dear mother
Because we are against contraception (Un-gloved love is the way to go:thumbsup: )
Because we have thousands of close friends who are perfect and can help you in the darkest of times (Gotta love 'em saints, eh?)
Because the Catholic faith logically makes sense
Because we have the Mass
Because we have some beautiful monasteries and churches
Because we are the crux of Western history
Because we have Gregorian Chant
Because we speak Latin (somewhat)
Because we use incense (I LOVE incense, I think I’m going to go buy some for my room 😛 )

And the real kicker,
Because we can come into a close, personal relationship with Christ through the Eucharist, no Protestant denomination can lay claim to that.

Ah, I love my faith.
 
I have been Catholic all my life.
I knew, *knew *as a child that the Catholic faith was the Truth.
I fell in love with Jesus in the Catholic Church as a child. Granted, our relationship is much like a marriage that has moved well beyond the honeymoon phase, past several low points, and now is heading towards a new direction.
Before I was taught and allowed to receive the Eucharist, I craved it.
I have always loved the Mass.
The Sacrament of Confession, which I hadn’t really appreciated until I was an adult.
Catholics have a wonderful sense of humor.
The ability to be me with God’s help.
The many types of spirituality and mysticism.
That even having a grasp of transubstantiation does not take away the mystery of the Eucharist but rather adds to it, making it more wonderful.
That feeling is not required. This has been very helpful to me because I have struggled with the fact that I have never felt God’s presence. I still most definitely believe, I’ve just never felt His Presence.

I have been to a Baptist service and an Episcopalian service and both seemed very lacking. The people were lovely but it wasn’t the Mass and I could never live without the Mass.

I love being Catholic and could never leave.
 
TheApologist said:
I found that feeling greatly increased after Confirmation. My first full Mass after my confirmation(a confirmation Mass for a nearby parish) was absolutely amazing. The music was perfectly singable, listen-to-able, and sacred! The singers were very good. Also, I felt very close to the Scriptures…like I was able to understand just a little more, able to hear God’s Word just a little bit more.
The climax was Communion. At the consecration I felt so close to Him…I actually almost started to cry it was so beautiful. I felt I understood the role of the Mass and the meaning of the Mass more.

Other than the previous paragraph for an answer to the OP, I am not Protestant because…
  1. The Bible doesn’t say “hold fast to your non-traditions”
  2. The Bible doesn’t say “whoever eats His body and drinks His blood unworthily won’t have to answer to Him. They won’t eat and drink damnation on themselves.”
  3. The Bible doesn’t say “Scripture, not the church, is the pilar of Truth.”
  4. God didn’t say “Be fruitful and multiply, but contraception is okay.”
  5. Jesus didn’t say “I with-hold from you the keys to the kingdom”
  6. The angel didn’t say “Hail Mary, empty of all grace”
  7. The Bible doesn’t say you will “be judged according to your faith”
  8. The Bible doesn’t say “faith without works is alive.”
  9. The tenet beliefs of Protestantism that are in contradiction with the Church all are easily denounced as folly by good Catholic Apologists like Karl Keating.
  10. My father and mother are two good Catholics. Praise God!
  11. The Holy Spirit has led my family even deeper into the Catholic faith by introducing us to this wonderful organization called Catholic Answers.
I wanna make a t-shirt that has a ton of one-line apologetics with the headline of “100 Reasons I’m Catholic”(or however many reasons there are). What do you think? Should we form a thread and get a good list of reasons and ask Catholic Answers to sell some cool shirts?
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I’d like to add one:
12)The only true assurance of salvation comes from a good confession…there’s no “so have I been born again, yet, or what?”
 
In the Catholic Church, I feel a closeness to heaven because during Mass we have a communion with the saints in heaven as well as the angels. In Protestant it is only limited to the living and not the dead.

There is more unity in Catholicism than Protestantism.

In Protestant type of worship. It is just you and God.

In Catholic type of worship: It is you, God, His angels, and his saints. So it is more family oriented. God, is Our Father, Jesus as our brother, Mary as our Mother, and the saints as our brothers and sisters. There migh be some acknowledgement of the saints in some Protestants that keep certain Catholic Traditions, but the majority of them gotten rid of Mary and the saints… Shame shame… no Spiritual Communion with our brothers and sisters who died in Christ…
 
I wandered away because I thought I had some feminist, liberal lefty issues with my Church. During that time out in the cold, I decided that if I had to pick out some other religion to follow, it would have to be the Jewish faith. I would have to go backward to find the last form of the Truth. I couldn’t go forward, because the new forms of Christianity all existed by removing some part of the Truth they didn’t think was necesarry. It’s ALL necessary

One day, I came back. I’m still trying to catch up.
 
Mjae said:
I wandered away because I thought I had some feminist, liberal lefty issues with my Church. During that time out in the cold, I decided that if I had to pick out some other religion to follow, it would have to be the Jewish faith. I would have to go backward to find the last form of the Truth. I couldn’t go forward, because the new forms of Christianity all existed by removing some part of the Truth they didn’t think was necesarry. It’s ALL necessary

One day, I came back. I’m still trying to catch up.
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Very well stated. Welcome home, and praise the Lord!!!

Yours in Christ,

Steven
 
Mannyfit75 said:
Why are you not Protestant?
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There is only one visible Truth, not an invisible truth with 25,000 different versions. (I hate denominations)

There is only one Church which is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. (Cannot be found anywhere else)

If I have seen the Truth, why would I not pursue Him with everything I have? Many of my Protestant friends asked me why I couldnt just agree with Catholicism and just not call myself that…pathetic.
 
Because it is too hard to be a Protestant; Too many decisions to make. For example;

Would I be a Lutheran and accept Real Presence, or would I be part of the Swiss Reformation and deny it. But then I would have to deny infant baptism, so I guess I could become an Anabaptist. Or perhaps I could follow the Church of England; That would be cool because I could get divorced then. But maybe I should become Anglican because Church of England aren’t so united. Or maybe I could follow Calvism, but I like musical instruments in my churches. So maybe I could follow John Knox and the Presbyterians, for they allow female ordinations, but I don’t like their lack of condemnation for abortions. Or maybe I could follow Congregationalism, but all over the world they’re merging with Methodists and Presbyterians to form Uniting Churches. I could be a Baptist, but full immersion baptism is real problem if you live in a cold area. Now how about being an Adventist? That would be cool; You could predict the date of the second coming, and if you get it wrong, just make another prediction. But I think I look good in a uniform, and so the Salvation Army could suit me well, but I like my alcohol and bit of gambling. But I do have a degree in Science, so maybe I could be a Christian Scientist, but I get sick alot and I do need to take my medicine. Or maybe I could join one of those cool Pentecostal Churches, but it would be have to one that was affliated with the Assemblies of God because how else would I know if that Pentecostal Church was teaching the truth? Or maybe I should join Felix Manalo’s Iglesia Ni Cristo church, but Manalo thought he was God’s last messenger so that would be a problem when arguing with Muslims. Maybe I could just call myself a Born Again Christian, but even Catholics use that title too. Maybe all I need is just a Relationship with Jesus, but I get lost just trying to find my way around town.

Oh, it’s too had. I think I’ll just stay Catholic.
 
Hellisreal said:
Sorry Manny,

Forgive my ignorance, and assumptions.:o
I just, dont have an excuse really, I dont like seeing someone who is being so honest singled out for scrutiny I guess.:o

My bad. Gottle, I also apologize to you for being defensive where there was no offense.😊

Please both of you forgive my rash assumptions. I am sorry!😊 😦
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No hard feelings… all is forgiven… no one was hurt. It was just a misunderstanding
 
Mannyfit75 said:
The question is posted and explain why you are not Protestant.

I am not Protestant because of Sola Scriptura, and Sola Fidelis and because of the different doctrines each Protestant Churches have…and their doctrine is not even Biblical
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I was Protestant, but God called me to Himself and His Church.
 
I think one of the main reasons I’m not Protestant is because it is so clearly an in-between thing, neither fish nor fowl. It is part fervent belief and part sneering skepticism (and I’m not talking about liberal Protestantism here, but about Evangelical/Fundamental Protestantism). When they were arguing with Catholics, sometimes I couldn’t tell the Protestants from the atheists.

I think that Catholicism and atheism are the only two consistent world views, and having tried both, God let me see which was true. Much to my surprise (and ongoing delight)!
 
Because God in his infinate wisdom and mercy allowed me to come to the Truth led by the Holy Spirit from the first moments in my life.

Once you have the Truth, everything else is unnecessary.
 
For me…
I for a long time was like “Oh, we area ll just branches of the same tree. Catholicism is just as valid as Baptist, etc… It’s just worship style”

Then came the death of JP2… It got me really thinking about what it means to be Catholic… so I dug deeper into the faith I was raised in.

I soon found the roots of Protestantism… the analytical part in me looked at what they believed and saw that very few protestant beliefs were held prior to the reformation. How could I ever follow traditions that didn’t even exist for 1500?

And thus, my heart will always remain loyal to the Pope.

In Christ
 
There is that old injunction, “You must have faith.”

Faith in who?

Faith in someone who last month (or last year, or last century) decided the Bible means something it didn’t mean before? Faith in someone who invented new doctrines out of thin air?

I look at the long history of Catholicism and see an unbroken tradition – the Church teaches now what it taught then. And I see Who taugh the Church. In Him, I can have faith.
 
vern_humphrey said:
There is that old injunction, “You must have faith.”

Faith in who?

Faith in someone who last month (or last year, or last century) decided the Bible means something it didn’t mean before? Faith in someone who invented new doctrines out of thin air?

I look at the long history of Catholicism and see an unbroken tradition – the Church teaches now what it taught then. And I see Who taugh the Church. In Him, I can have faith.
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Amen.

Thank you Holy Spirit.
 
Because in the Catholic Church, good girls do make history.
👍

(Is anyone else as annoyed as I am by that bumper sticker that says, “Good Girls Don’t Make History”? :mad: )

Mother Mary
St. Martha and St. Mary her sister
St. Barbara
St. Agnes
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Catherine of Sienna
St. Bernadette
St. Faustina
Ste. Therese de Lisieux
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Just a random sampling of a very few of the many good, obedient Catholic women who have changed the course of history over the past 2000 years.

:extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy:
 
jmcrae said:
Because in the Catholic Church, good girls do make history.
👍

(Is anyone else as annoyed as I am by that bumper sticker that says, “Good Girls Don’t Make History”? :mad: )

Mother Mary
St. Martha and St. Mary her sister
St. Barbara
St. Agnes
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Catherine of Sienna
St. Bernadette
St. Faustina
Ste. Therese de Lisieux
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Just a random sampling of a very few of the many good, obedient Catholic women who have changed the course of history over the past 2000 years.

:extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy:
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St Edith Stein
 
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