Protestants, why?

[CopticChristian]

Catholics believe the Holy Spirit guides the Pope and Church into the truth. Therefore, if you disagree with the Church, you are wrong.

Many Protestants I know believe the Holy Spirit guides individual believers into all truth. If you have enough faith and pray, the HS will reveal the truth and you will have the correct doctrines on essential issues like salvation. Therefore, if you disagree with them on salvation, they will tell you that you must be wrong and don’t have the Holy Spirit and therefore aren’t a Christian.

I believe in Lordship salvation (you have to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior) but most non-denominational churches (I don’t like denominations) around here teach free grace/easy believism which means you just have to accept Jesus as your personal Savior and don’t have to follow anything Jesus taught.

Here’s an example. A Christian told me that Jesus forgave all his sins (past, present, future) when he became a Christian. Therefore, he can get drunk, cheat on his spouse and never repent and he’s still going to Heaven. I disagreed. He told me if I had more faith and prayed, the HS would reveal the truth he told me about salvation. My disagreement indicated that I didn’t have the HS because I wasn’t guided into the truth. I’ve heard stuff like this many times.

Xian,

Thus the dilema with Sola Scriptura. Everyone is right and you are wondering.

 

[joe370]

XianThinker;9711313]Catholics believe the Holy Spirit guides the Pope and Church into the truth. Therefore, if you disagree with the Church, you are wrong.

Hey Xian. So, it’s not that a person is wrong because of the guidance of the fallible leaders belonging to the CC but rather because of the guidance of the Holy Spirit?

 

[joe370]

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Pick one (EO or Catholcism), Taestron.

That is true, but the the catholic church does recognize a valid Eucharist in the eastern orthodox churches, which is pretty cool… In the end I had no choice but to pick the catholic church.

 

[Eric_Hilbert]

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