Evangelicals are a group within Protestantism. The evangelical focus is on spreading the gospel, per the great commission and saving as many souls as they can and fouding churches (or strengthening existing ones that they consider to be of compatible doctrine and spirit) to ground new believers and ensure they mature beyond the initial decision for Christ (think of Pauls missions). Doctrine wise, evangelicals treat the bible as the only infallible/inerant authority to appeal to on matters of God’s will and read it literalyly. This is not to say that all evangelicals share identical interpretations, but they all believe the bible is a matter of absolute truth and with prayer and reliance on the Holy Spirit the correct meaning can be discerned. (i.e. many evangelicals intepret ‘day’ in Genesis to be a 24 hour period, but others interpret it to mean ‘age’ or ‘period of time’ seeing as how the Hebrew word can mean either of these things since Ancient Hebrew has a much smaller lexicon than English.) Furthermore in Evangelical Church’s a personal relationship with Christ is considered to be the most important thing, and prayer, group bible study, and daily personal study are strongly encouraged.
Major differences…???
I’m afraid that isn’t true. All Christians up to 1930 preached against condoms, until the Anglicans broke off and other Protestants followed suite. There is plenty of biblical support for being against condoms. If you would like the verses, I will quote them, if not then thats cool too
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This is slightly off topic, but seeing as how it is a difference I guess it applies. Where in scripture do you see a prohibition against (non-abortofacient) birth control? And please don’t cite Onan. The sins he committed were envy, pride, and disobedience to God’s command for him to provide his brother with an heir. The only eay you can come up with a prohibition against birth control from that passage is by adding things to the text that aren’t there. Furthermore I don’t see why Catholics allow NFP but not condoms, both when used correctly have similar rates of pregnancy prevention and condoms have the added bonus of preventing STDs.I’m afraid that isn’t true. All Christians up to 1930 preached against condoms, until the Anglicans broke off and other Protestants followed suite. There is plenty of biblical support for being against condoms. If you would like the verses, I will quote them, if not then thats cool too
Authority is the big thing. Catholics believe that the Catholic Church is the one founded by Jesus Christ himself, while Protestants believe that Jesus founded no “denomination,” but instead founded all of Christianity.
History goes like this- There is debate as to who the “early church” was. By early church, I mean from St. Paul, to around 312. With the Edict of Milan, Constantine made Christianity acceptable. Protestants believe this is when Catholicism was “founded,” while Catholics believe they can trace their Church to the disciples. The Eastern Orthodox also claim to be the Church Christ founded, and the Church from Jesus to 312.
So what we have is-debate as to Church circa 33-312. Catholics and Orthodox think they’re that “denomination,” I don’t know what Protestants think.
312-1054-Catholics and Orthodox disagree as to “who” was around. Catholics think they were the Church here, and Orthodox believe that it was them. In 1054, the Orthodox broke off the Catholics if you’re Catholic, but if you’re Orthodox, you believe the Catholics broke off of you.
1517-The Protestant Reformation, beginning with Martin Luther, began, based on sola scriptura and sola fide, or the Bible as the only rule of authority, and faith alone saves a person. No one disputes they broke off of the Catholics.
All three have different Bibles, with the Protestants not having seven books Catholics have, and the Eastern Orthodox have all the books Catholics do, and then some.
Eastern Orthodoxy is very close to Catholicisim, while Protestantism is closer to Catholicism than Eastern Orthodoxy.