Why is it that Protestants question everything?

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O.S.Luke said:
I married a Roman Catholic, and I certainly don’t think my wife, nor her family, is going to hell.
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Wait a second. I thought you said there is no Catholic Church in your area? Where does your wife go to Church? Why can you not simply ride with her? :confused:
 
O.S. Luke

Are you questioning the Church as an organization or the teachings of Christ?

Now answer this question with your whole mind, heart, and Soul as Jesus has taught us to love Him.

Then and only then will you know the truth that Jesus was talking about.

TRUTH
 
Ginger2 said:
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Your rolling heads is a sign of your rudeness and childishness.

I am assuming we are adults here, yet we get juvenile and sophomoric displays.

Then when you are questioned you run around the Forum saying you are being bothered and stalked, and pursued, and you don’t know what to do about it. Site after site, you take the thread off topic to complain, whimper and cry.

If you were being bothered, Ginger, why would you then resort to your babyish response, the very next day?

What nonsense you subject us to, Ginger!

First off, stop your childish behavior, and act like an adult. Then we can advise you on paranoia. Just grow up, and be Christian.

Peace
 
Benedict16 said:
Why is it that Protestants question everything, even if it is right in front of them. I notice that when they are put on the spot, it is always “Oh really?, explain that? Etc…” Why can’t they just discuss things instead of constantly questioning them? Catholics don’t do this. They have the answers.
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Why not question what you don’t know for sure?
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
Why not question what you don’t know for sure?
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Well, our Protestant friends do this an awful lot - ‘define this’, ‘explain that’, ‘what do you mean by that?’, as Benedict said.

They are hoping that one Catholic they ask doesn’t have the whole answer, or makes some sort of mistake, and they jump all over him.

Look what happened when someone said, in a particular context, scripture has dead words. Maybe he was trying to say that Scripture comes more alive with the Living Magisterium, or some such. I dont know what he was trying to say, but our Bible Protestants tried to make him look foolish, and kept it up, e3ven though the rest of us had moved on. We then have Protestants saying, ‘See, Catholics are down-playing the Word of God", "Tradition is more important to them’, "Catholics don’t understand Scripture, and all the old bugaboos.

We have a thread going on about Protestant Justification, and it is the Catholics who are explaining it, and explaining Catholic Justification. All these non-Catholics think is that Catholics say they are saved by good - works. Too bad these same don’t read the Canons of the Council of Trent or the CCC to find out what we believe.

Many of the Protestants on site generally are here to attack, not to learn, and I can a number of people who do this. Valid discussion is not possible, when there is this ‘gotcha’ mentality. But, many Protestants on site are here to learn, and are really searching for the truth.

Of course, God works in mysterious ways, and many people’s faith is strenghtened through it all.

We move on, generally with a proper understanding of the Catholic faith, and this is from a bunch of ‘amateurs’ like me. I don’t make a living ‘doing theology’. I am not a History Professor, or a Moral Theology expert, but under the circumstances I do the best I can. I think we all do quite well.

The childishness we see from our non-Catholic members is really sad. It may be uinderstandable, coming from the weak position in which they find themselves. Lack of charity and an un-christian like approach is unexpected.

Hopefully, that will change.

peace
 
MGRFIN,

you are right as you have seen a big drop in paticipation from Protestants on this site and mainly because they do noy know how to define scripture or the church,
They get answers based on factual scripture evidence and run
 
I would just like to say that not all Protestants ask questions so they can then attack when someone doesn’t know the answers.

I ask questions so I can learn and understand. I do not ask questions so that I can attack. I definitely do not agree with Catholic theology on everything, but that doesn’t mean I need to attack them!

But then again, I grew up Episcopal and I’m going to a Catholic college (and hoping to major in theology!). So maybe I’m not a “typical Protestant.”

Basically, there are some “good” Protestants out there – and on these forums. Please remember that!
 
Hannah,

So why did the Episcoal Church leave the Catholic Church? Now no slants
 
Because Henry VIII wanted an annulment and the Pope refused to grant him one.

I believe it was actually Elizabeth I who started the actual changing of doctrines, though.
 
Hannah,
Is it because it actually is a self inspiring faith? That if there is something you do not like such as

women priests
divorce
confession

What does one in the Episcopal church have to follow.

Why I think there was another huge split recently.
 
I don’t know if it’s a “self inspiring faith” or not. For one, I’m not sure what you mean by that. For another, that’s why I’m on this website – to learn. The Episcopal church has many issues, which is why I’m not an Episcopalian. However, that is not the purpose of this thread.

My point with mentioning the Episcopal church was that I think the Episcopal church tends to be much less anti-Catholic, since depending on which church you go to there are much fewer differences than in other Protestant denominations. I went to a very traditional Episcopal church. From what I’ve seen, it was a respectful disagreement, not anti-Catholicism. That would then explain why I am not a “typical Protestant.”
 
Hannah,

So I will ask again are you Catholic or what do you profess to be.

Baptist,Lutheran,Mormon, Islam,Jewish

I am Roman Catholic and this is Jesus’s Church.
 
jmcrae said:
Wait a second. I thought you said there is no Catholic Church in your area? Where does your wife go to Church? Why can you not simply ride with her? :confused:
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There was no Catholic Church in many of the areas we have lived. My wife has been United Methodist now for three years. Before that, we would attend mass when we had the opportunity to visit her parents.
 
c659smith said:
O.S. Luke

Are you questioning the Church as an organization or the teachings of Christ?

Now answer this question with your whole mind, heart, and Soul as Jesus has taught us to love Him.

Then and only then will you know the truth that Jesus was talking about.

TRUTH
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I’ve never thought of any church as “an organization” - so I don’t quite understand your question.
 
c659smith said:
Hannah,

So I will ask again are you Catholic or what do you profess to be.

Baptist,Lutheran,Mormon, Islam,Jewish

I am Roman Catholic and this is Jesus’s Church.
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I don’t remember you asking me before what I consider myself to be, so I didn’t answer the question.

I am a Christian, and I am not Catholic or Orthodox, so that makes me Protestant. I’m still trying to figure out who is right, since everyone firmly believes they are right. So I question in order to understand, I enjoy learning, and I seek God’s truth. I am currently attending a Foursquare church, but I am technically a member of a Methodist church. However, I never learned any Methodist specific doctrine while at that church. In fact, I’ve never really learned any denomination specific doctrines from the churches I’ve attended. So I identify as a Protestant Christian, because I know I agree with their most basic doctrines.
 
c659smith said:
Hannah,

So why did the Episcoal Church leave the Catholic Church? Now no slants
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What do you mean? The Episcopal Church? Don’t you mean the Anglican Church? Or, do you mean the Episcopal Church in America? Or the Scottish Episcopal Church? Or, the Episcopal Church USA ot the English Church in British North America?

And on and on it goes. Don’t you see the problems Catholics have with your question. And the problem these Protestants have with one another.

They are part of the problem. Jesus Christ didn’t found a church which was to shatter into thousands of pieces, with different moral theology, different dogmatic theology, different worship, difference ‘priesthood’, even if they claim to have a priesthood.

You have to define who you are asking about. Only a Protestant Church historian can define the limits of your question.

If Catholics try to give an answer to this question, I assure you they will be all over us - as they have in the past, per my own personal experience on this site.

Okay, Hannah, let’s hear it, please.

peace
 
O.S.Luke said:
I’ve never thought of any church as “an organization” - so I don’t quite understand your question.
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It kind of rounds out the question of this thread: “Why is it that Protestants question everything, and answer nothing”.

peace
 
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