Protestants are not a different "religion" from Catholics

[tmj365]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

 

[Inquiringperson]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

I don’t get what you’re saying. You can’t say that you are apostolic if your beliefs are contrary to doctrines. Protestant beliefs are considered heresy by the Catholic Church.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

What Church do you belong too?

 

[SedesDomi]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

Protestants are imperfectly part of the One Church, thus, they are of a different religion. Muslims follow the God of Abraham, but imperfectly, thus, Islam is a different religion.

 

[tmj365]

Protestants are imperfectly part of the One Church, thus, they are of a different religion. Muslims follow the God of Abraham, but imperfectly, thus, Islam is a different religion.

Your reply is a non sequitur. It is a semantic issue about the meaning of the term religion.

 

[tmj365]

What Church do you belong too?

I belong to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, the same church that confesses all of the ancient Creeds of the Church. That is the best answer I can give. A less helpful answer is that I am an Episcopalian.

Thank you for asking. It’s an important question.
Tom

 

[PJM]

=tmj365;7740177]I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

OK:
So the Protestant position on these few items are in full agreement with what the CC holds to be the singular truth?

OSAS= false

Faith Alone= false

Forgiveness of sins ONLY by God through the Sacrament of Confession and intercession and actions of the Priest?

Belief in the Real Presence of Jeus in the Eucharist

The Primacy of peter and Popes

Only One Church

73 Books in the Bible like there was for more than 1,000 years

Inerancy of the Complete Bible [which is NOT a history book]

ALL of these Catholic [positions are Biblically founded…

Well you get the idea…

John 10:16 And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

**Eph. 2:19-20 **“So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, [singular] built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; [singular] in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. “

Eph. 4: 4 -8“There is one body [Only One Church] and one Spirit, [Only One set of beliefs] just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, [Only One God] ONLY one faith, [Only One set of doctrine and dogma] one baptism, By water in the Trinity] one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. "

I think dear friend your being a bit optomistic. We have MUCH to pray for in regards to Christian Unity.

May God continue to bless and guide you,
Pat**

 

[ConstantineTG]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

This issue can be debated. Many Protestants teach a Jesus other than the Jesus the Apostles taught. And according to St. Paul in his epistles, these are the false teachers that would get many lost.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

I belong to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, the same church that confesses all of the ancient Creeds of the Church. That is the best answer I can give. A less helpful answer is that I am an Episcopalian.

Thank you for asking. It’s an important question.
Tom

My brother in law is Episcopalian. Welcome to CAF.

I wouldn’t take offense at this section of the forums being called ‘non-Catholic religions’. As you realize there are multiple denominations who deny a lot of the aspects of Catholicism. Also, once you’ve been around a bit, you’ll see there are too many for the ‘site builders’ to individualize a section for each Church.

 

[SedesDomi]

Your reply is a non sequitur. It is a semantic issue about the meaning of the term religion.

Religion 4.a. A particular system of faith and worship.

Protestants, Muslims, and Hindus all have a particular system of faith and worship that differs from that of the Catholic Church; thus, they are different religions.

 

[PatrickSebast]

I think you are over thinking it. Keep in mind an everyday person programmed and named this forum. I doubt they put an extensive amount of thought into the semantics of the name.

 

[pablope]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

Do you subscribe to all that Catholicism hold? Do you subject your self under the authority of the Pope?

Then, with due respect, the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church refers to one with the same beliefs, one authority, and universality under one chief shepherd. Then you cannot call your self a “catholic” whether you like it or not. As the title says, non-catholic, so IMHO, so it is in the right place.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

Protestants are part of the same religion in that they believe in Christ. But you try telling some of them they’re part of the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church”. You’ll find a lot of them balk at the word, “catholic”, partly because they don’t know what the term means (“universal”) and a lot of them are suspicious and antagonistic to the Catholic Church and Catholics.

They may be part of the same religion, but so are Shi’ite and Sunni Moslems, and they kill each other on a regular basis.

Protestants are not part of the Catholic Church, with all due respect.

 

[JaredM]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

These forums are filled with hardcore Catholics. I saw a thread on here asking whether or not all Protestants go to hell or not.

 

[Cable]

A “hardcore” Catholic would know better.

 

[zaffiroborant]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

From Merriam Webster:

1
a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
2
: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
3
archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness
4
: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

According to definition 2 Protestants believe in and practice a different religion than Catholics. Where are you on, Purgatory, the intercession of Saints, confession, how about the infallibility of the Pope? And how is the “Non-Catholic Religions” title directed specifically at Protestants? Why is it not directed at Muslims and Hindus who are not catholic and those Protestants who feel they are not Catholic.

 

[TrueLight]

Protestants are CHRISTIANS.

Obviously there are differences between Protestants and Catholics. There are also big differences between an Episcopalian and a Pentecostal, but both are Christians.

Now for simple organization, I’m not the saying the forum section should be renamed, but we cannot compare Protestants to Muslims or Jews, who are not Christians.

Now here is a question to the Catholics:

If someone asks you if you are Christian, what do you say?

• Yes
  – No, I’m Catholic
• Yes, Catholic

Just curious.

 

[hazcompat]

I am disappointed at the title of this forum. Protestants are not a different “religion” from Catholics. That’s a misuse of the term “religion.” Islam is a different religion from Christianity, but Protestants are part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. This is acknowledged by most RC scholars.
Tom

This OP has merit. do most RC scholars acknowledge Protestant(s) as part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic church?

peace

 

[PJM]

=pablope;7740864]Do you subscribe to all that Catholicism hold? Do you subject your self under the authority of the Pope?

Then, with due respect, the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church refers to one with the same beliefs, one authority, and universality under one chief shepherd. Then you cannot call your self a “catholic” whether you like it or not. As the title says, non-catholic, so IMHO, so it is in the right place.

Yes! I am an Informed, fully practicing Roman Catholic

From my persepective when God WANTS MY OPINION; he’ll let me know.

Millions of folks call themselves “catholic” or other religious affiliations and DON"T even come close to living what they claim to be. It’s not a “catholic-problem” exclusively.

Either God is in charge; or we are; there can’t be a split in the responsibility of governing self: God or Me PERIOD!

God Bless,
Pat

 

[StTommyMore]

I belong to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, the same church that confesses all of the ancient Creeds of the Church. That is the best answer I can give. A less helpful answer is that I am an Episcopalian.

Thank you for asking. It’s an important question.
Tom

Episcopalians are not in full communion with Rome, dating back to the Act of Succession in 1533 and Act of Supremacy in 1534. The latter act denounced any authority of a “foreign power” (that would include the Holy See) within the borders of England. Now back in those days, the Anglicans would have a stronger argument that they were part of the “same religion,” but this is not the case today, thanks largely to the heretic Thomas Cranmer during the reign of King Edward VI (he was executed after Mary I came to power). It was under Cranmer’s episcopacy as Archbishop of Canterbury that the Anglican Church took on a more Calvinist character and moved further from Rome. Furthermore, if Catholicism and the Church of England are the same, then can you please explain the purpose of the Act of Settlement of 1700?