If a Protestant...

[Andruschak]

I am unfamiliar with your Profession of Faith.
I had to recite the Apostle’s Creed when Baptized. Is it similar?
WP

Not quite

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I, (name), with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained
in the symbol of faith: namely:

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and Earth, of
all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only
Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.
Through Him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation He came
down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin
Mary, and became man. For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered, died and was buried. On the third day He rose again in
fulfillment of the Scriptures; He ascended into heaven and is seated
at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the
living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end. I believe in the
Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the
Son. With the Father and the Son He is worshiped and glorified. He has
spoken through the prophets. I believe in the one holy catholic and
apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to
come. Amen.

With firm faith I believe as well everything contained in God’s word,
written down or handed down in tradition and proposed by the Church –
whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal magisterium –
as divinely revealed and calling for faith.

I also firmly accept and hold each and every thing that is proposed by
that same Church definitively with regard to teaching concerning faith
or morals.

What is more, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the
teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the college of bishops
enunciate when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they
proclaim those teachings in an act that is not definitive.

 

[jmcrae]

I do, it’s call Presbyterian-Methodism
WP

Christ and the Apostles never even heard of either Presbyterianism (which got started in 1560 by John Knox) by itself, nor Methodism by itself (which didn’t get started until the mid-1800s by John Wesley) - let alone a combo-pak featuring both at the same time.

Which would you rather follow: a humanly pleasing combination of the doctrines of John Knox and John Wesley, or the doctrines of Jesus Christ and His Apostles?

The humanly pleasing combo-pak is surely more tempting, but the rewards of following Christ last a whole lot longer.

And in case you think John Knox didn’t know he was departing from the teaching of the Apostles? Go and visit his famous seminary at St. Andrew’s one of these days, and observe how he knocked the heads off of all the statues of the Apostles, to show the world plainly that he no longer considered himself to be bound by their (the Apostles’) doctrine. He knew exactly what he was doing.

The wonder of it is that Presbyterians can go to St. Andrew’s, be shocked by the sight of the vandalism, agree that Knox was wrong to knock the heads off the Apostles, but still consider themselves bound to Knox’s doctrines, instead of wondering if maybe they should seek out that Apostolic doctrine that he was rebelling against, to see whether it still exists in the world some where - and be determined to follow it, if by chance they find it.

Wesley was rebelling against another form of Protestantism, which he rightly identified as being a false religion, and he was also right in thinking that establishing a new religion wouldn’t really solve anything - but he went ahead and did that, anyway. But I think he had less idea what he was doing than John Knox did, and I think he had better intentions.

Still, it’s better by far to be Catholic, so that you can be educated to know perfectly well what you are doing (as Knox did, but Wesley did not) and intend to do the right thing (as Wesley did, but Knox did not) and get on the right path with Christ and the Apostles.