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jimmy
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I would say that high Anglicans are the closest to the Catholic belief.
We are all united in our belief in Christ and in the Trinity. We are also united through our Baptism.
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We are all united in our belief in Christ and in the Trinity. We are also united through our Baptism.
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Deus_Vult
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Lets see which of the 35,000 plus…one opening on a corner near you every few minutes when one member disagrees with another do I agree with most…I would have to say NONE. I live in a neighborhood that is predominately protestant and I always find it most interesting that many of them will skip from church to church…denomination to denomination. Denominations that completely disagree with one another…their reason “I’m still trying to find one I like”. The reason I believe for this is they go and feel incomplete or maybe a belief that church has dosent agree with one of their vices or sins. Or maybe they just have to have a big production when they go special effects I like to call it. I really feel sorry for them I love them I pray for them but since they all have been spoon fed for many years that we are evil from the various churchs they have attended it is sometimes difficult to get them to try us out…and even when they do they just cant understand that we actually go to worship…usually suprised we actually read scripture but where’s the show I am acustomed to. I will continue to pray and evangelize…we all should.
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Catholic_Dude
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Its kind of hard to pick. Outside the more structured groups: Anglican (ordination of women), Episcopal(openly homo bishop ordained), Lutheran(divided among themself via “synods”), Methodists(lesbian pastors), I would have to say I agree with the Baptists.
The reason why is that I was stunned to discover that most (if not all) protestant groups DONT consider water Baptism as a requirement. Im not kiddding, I was shocked when I went to christianforums.com and saw so many people saying all you need is faith, and that specifically Baptism was NOT required. So if I have to go with the lesser of 35,000 evils I would at least go with the ones who encourage something so important as Baptism. Other than that there are many good and bad qualities to each, and I cant really go with one.
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O.S.Luke
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Catholic Dude:
The official teaching on homosexuality:
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Rebellion aside, homosexuality is contrary to the doctrine and Discipline of the United Methodist Church. And baptism is a requirement to church membership. The official UMC teaching on baptism can be found here.
The official teaching on homosexuality:
Just as there are rebellious Catholics, there are rebellious Methodists.
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Chazemataz
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One thing that Catholics don’t realize is that all Protestants wil attain salvation if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior- which they do. The war between the Catholic and Protestant churches is more about staying in controll, which the Catholic Church is currently winning.
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Steve_Green
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salvation army because they are low key and focused on the needs of others.
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On_my_way
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I would have to say none of them. For one reason and one reason only, Protestants look at Mary of having no significance.
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Kyenta
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I have never thought of this question before and I will answer:
NONE.
NONE.
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O.S.Luke
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On my way:
Where do Catholics pick up all of these incorrect and untrue statements about Protestants?
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??? - since many Protestants subscribe/recite the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed, I’d say that the statement “Protestant look at Mary of having no significance” is an incorrect one. She is the Virgin Mother of Christ, and thus, the Mother of God.
Where do Catholics pick up all of these incorrect and untrue statements about Protestants?
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Gottle_of_Geer
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Ideally, I would be an Anglican-Calvinist-Evangelical Catholic 
Calvinism has a strong sense of the Sovereignty of God;it insists on the Crown Rights of Christ the Redeemer, which AFAICS is the same as our insistence on the Social Kingship of Christ;
It has a high sense of man’s responsibility to God;
It insists that God may - must - be glorified by Christians no matter what their vocation in life;
It has been a powerful source of zealous missionary endeavour;
It is zealous for godly Church order;
it has produced plenty of theologians and spiritual writers.
I don’t think it can be entirely healthy if it relies only on the spiritual resources native to its own theological tradition; I don’t think any Christian tradition can, or is meant to by Christ.
IMO it has much in common with Catholicism; one does wonder just how far the two are genuinely incompatible. One area where differences are pretty certain to remain, is in sacramental teaching, because of the way in which election, ecclesiology, and the sacraments are connected in Calvinism. The doctrine of grace may be another.
I have the impression that it may attend too much to Calvin, and not enough to the Scriptures seen through eyes not Calvin’s: I don’t know, but I get the impression that it does not leave God free to speak through Scripture and to say un-Calvinist things. What matters is that God should be heard clearly and understood - not whether what He says supports, or seems to support, a particular christian theology or body. If Scripture supports Luther in one place, Calvin in another, St.Augustine in another, the Orthodox in another, and the Church of England in another, and Catholicism in another - then so be it: if we really trust God to be God, our inability to see how scriptures that don’t support our own churchmanship can be true even if they are contrary to our ideas, should not be a problem.
God is no respecter of persons - not even of Christians who cannot see how ideas not of their own tradition can be legitimate. If God really is Sovereign, then He is Sovereign enough not to rubberstamp our pet ideas and the ideas which are comprehensible to us at one any time. God is bigger than any Church or theology or human heart - He is not a small god, who is to be heeded only when He agrees with our own small, narrow, not fully regenerate hearts. He is God - and nothing less. How can we be taught by Christ, if we will not allow Him to teach us what we do not find pleasing to us, or do not let Him teach what we associate with some other group ? ##
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Eden
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O.S. Luke said:
I would think that the original poster is reacting to the accusations of “Mariolatry” that some Protestant denominations perpetuate. It is true that some Protestant faiths have a stronger aversion to the Virgin Mary than others. Traditional Anglicans are an exception to this “Mary Aversion”. Apparently Protestants are beginning to re-examine their views, however. Some are crediting the movie “The Passion of the Christ” with this reanalysis:
time.com/time/covers/1101050321/
jimmyakin.org/2005/03/time_on_protest.html
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Promotor_Fidei
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My short definition of Christian in this fallen age are those who strive to live Christ’s teachings as expressed in tradition and the New Testament, and embrace the literal beliefs of the Nicene Creed.
I agree most with conservative High-Church Anglicans. I strongly empathize with them in their battle against heresy within their Church. Should they lose the battle, they will find a welcome home in the Church of Cardinal Newman.
I just read that some Anglican Churches in England are being loaned out for Islamic worshipers. Sad.
Those who endorse sexual immorality and the murder of infants are clearly not following the teachings of Christ.
Here’s a list of denominations, with their stands on abortion:
pregnantpause.org/people/wherchur.htm
I agree most with conservative High-Church Anglicans. I strongly empathize with them in their battle against heresy within their Church. Should they lose the battle, they will find a welcome home in the Church of Cardinal Newman.
I just read that some Anglican Churches in England are being loaned out for Islamic worshipers. Sad.
Those who endorse sexual immorality and the murder of infants are clearly not following the teachings of Christ.
Here’s a list of denominations, with their stands on abortion:
pregnantpause.org/people/wherchur.htm
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Matt16_18
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Gottle of Geer:
There is no divine truth that can be found outside of the Catholic Church, for the Catholic Church alone possesses the fullness of truth. If a Calvinist is teaching a truth about faith or morals, then that same teaching will be found within the Catholic Church. The Calvinist is only teaching a truth taught by the Catholic Church that his denomination has managed to preserve.
Scripture supports the Catholic Church in all places, and it only supports the Orthodox, COE, Lutherans, Calvinists, etc. in those place where they have not corrupted what they have received from the Catholic Church.
There is no divine truth that can be found outside of the Catholic Church, for the Catholic Church alone possesses the fullness of truth. If a Calvinist is teaching a truth about faith or morals, then that same teaching will be found within the Catholic Church. The Calvinist is only teaching a truth taught by the Catholic Church that his denomination has managed to preserve.
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exprot
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They are all far gone.
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boppysbud
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I have noticed that this issue is centering around politics more than religion, and this disturbs me.
It seems that most of us here are focusing on issues like religious right issues like abortion and homosexuality, and agreeing with Protestant sects that agree with the Catholic church there.
But at the same time, many are ignoring theological issues. Catholics do not beleive in “gettin saved” that baptism only gets us wet. We do not beleive that the Holy Eucharist is symbolic only, that the sacraments do not exist, that the Mother of God is just another woman. These fundamentalists are the same people who say we “worship” Mary, the Saints and statues, and who call the Church the “great whore of Babylon” and the Holy Father the “beast”.
Yet these anti-Catholic fundamentalists are the people many say they agree with, while putting down people we are closer to theologically like Anglicans and Lutherans, yes we snear at those people because a lot of them are liberal politically.
I always thought that the Catholic Church is the one true church, the only one founded by Christ, but many of you are changing it into a political party.
I agree much more with Anglicans and Lutherans who are much closer to Catholic theology, (and by the way there are plenty of them who are fully Orthodox on Life issues and sexuality), than I do with Catholic hating fundies who lie about Catholic teachings and practice.
It seems that most of us here are focusing on issues like religious right issues like abortion and homosexuality, and agreeing with Protestant sects that agree with the Catholic church there.
But at the same time, many are ignoring theological issues. Catholics do not beleive in “gettin saved” that baptism only gets us wet. We do not beleive that the Holy Eucharist is symbolic only, that the sacraments do not exist, that the Mother of God is just another woman. These fundamentalists are the same people who say we “worship” Mary, the Saints and statues, and who call the Church the “great whore of Babylon” and the Holy Father the “beast”.
Yet these anti-Catholic fundamentalists are the people many say they agree with, while putting down people we are closer to theologically like Anglicans and Lutherans, yes we snear at those people because a lot of them are liberal politically.
I always thought that the Catholic Church is the one true church, the only one founded by Christ, but many of you are changing it into a political party.
I agree much more with Anglicans and Lutherans who are much closer to Catholic theology, (and by the way there are plenty of them who are fully Orthodox on Life issues and sexuality), than I do with Catholic hating fundies who lie about Catholic teachings and practice.
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On_my_way
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O.S. Luke said:
From the Protestants that I run into and ask me these Questions. The very same Protestants that tell me that us Catholics are wrong for worshipping the Virgin Mother. I have a lot of Protestant friends and they are the one that always tell me that the Catholic Church is wrong for the worship of Mary.
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Ignatius
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The Christian faith that I agree most with is the Orthodox Church, no question. The teaching is virtually identical, they have valid Apostolic Succession and have all seven valid sacraments.
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Bobby_Jim
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Hmm, this is a tough question. FWIW, I took the “what religion are you” quiz on some website (beliefnet?), and after Catholic or Orthodox (for which I got 100% match), the next closest match for me was “Quaker”.
I also have some admiration for the Amish - I think the simple communal lifestyle and shunning of modern conveniences is a different twist on the age-old tradition of monasticism and asceticism in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
I’ve also got a certain fascination with some of the Pentecostal groups that handle rattlesnakes and drink poison - there’s a certain sincerity and sense of conviction and total trust in God there that is quite “striking”…
I also have some admiration for the Amish - I think the simple communal lifestyle and shunning of modern conveniences is a different twist on the age-old tradition of monasticism and asceticism in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
I’ve also got a certain fascination with some of the Pentecostal groups that handle rattlesnakes and drink poison - there’s a certain sincerity and sense of conviction and total trust in God there that is quite “striking”…
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Promotor_Fidei
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boppysbud, the Anglicans are in the process of throwing out the authority of scripture altogether and going with Sola Sinus… Just Feelings.
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