Posted on 12/30/2008 4:47:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While Catholics and Protestants both fall under the broad umbrella of Christianity, they practice their faith in different ways.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of regular churchgoers found that 25% of Evangelical Christians read the Bible on a daily basis along with 20% of other Protestants. Just seven percent (7%) of Catholics do the same. At the other extreme, 44% of Catholics rarely or never read the Bible along with only seven percent (7%) of Evangelical Christians and 13% of other Protestants.
Consider the divergence among the faiths in other areas, too. (All the figures that follow are based upon those who attend church at least twice a month.)
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Evangelical Christians consider themselves to be born again. Sixty-three percent (63%) of other Protestants have been born again along with 25% of Catholics.
Forty-four percent (44%) of Evangelical Christians reflect at least daily on the meaning of Scripture in their lives. Thirty-six percent (36%) of other Protestants and 22% of Catholics do the same.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Evangelical Christians have had a meaningful discussion about their faith with a non-Christian during the past month. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of other Protestants and 18% of Catholics also have held such a discussion.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Evangelical Christians attend a regular Bible Study or participate in some other small-group activity. Forty-seven percent (47%) of other Protestants take part in small groups related to their faith, along with 24% of Catholics.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of Evangelical Christians say their Church does an excellent job helping them understand the Bible. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of other Protestants and 52% of Catholics say the same.
Despite these differences, the overwhelming majority of all Christians believe that the God of the Bible is the one true God. Ninety-eight percent (98%) of churchgoing Evangelical Christians hold that view along with 94% of other Protestants and 92% of Catholics.
Forty-four percent (44%) of American adults attend Christian church services at least twice a month, and 92% of these regular churchgoers believe the God of the Bible is the one true God.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of adults also say life in the United States would be better if more Americans lived as Christians.
“Come and see for yourself the fulfillment of Christs word!”
Where are priests, nuns, prayer beads, sacraments, monasteries, seminaries, Cardinals, Popes, Mariolotry, transubstantation, masses, missals,
novenas, monstrances, relics, etc., etc., and etc. in His Word?
>>When ye prey, use not vain repetition, as the heathen do.. (Matthew 6:7)<<
Yup. You know nothing about the Rosary.
>>Where are priests, nuns, prayer beads, sacraments, monasteries, seminaries, Cardinals, Popes, Mariolotry, transubstantation, masses, missals,
novenas, monstrances, relics, etc., etc., and etc. in His Word?<<
Where’s Sola Scriptura in “His Word”?
“As Catholics we are taught that while reading the Bible, we can have personal revelations. IOW, God can speak to us, directly through the words of the Bible and speak to us personally in a time of need or just to sustain us, but that that precise interpretation of the Word is meant for us a private conversation with God.”
That’s exactly what Martin Luther did! He read “The just shall live by faith” and dumped the mountain of human inventions of Catholicism.
>>Quick, what’s that from parishioner?<<
LOL!!!
See that’s the difference.
We don’t spout Bible book and verse. We have no need too.
Life is not Awana.
>>I have no need to worship The Word of God.<<
Nope I’m dead serious.
The Idolotry of the Book. “The Word of God” (note the quotes) is carried and wore as an accessory by some people.
I don’t fall for it.
>>Youre not reading it, for yourself, to enhance that part of your personal relationship with God that the snack waffer doesnt.<<
How do you know what I do?
Mind reading is not allowed on the Religion Forum.
(Jeesh!)
Duh. Breaking news.
In related news, Protestants/Christians practice their faith differently from Mormons and Hindus, too.
LOL!
Yeah, whoda thunk it?
>>I have no time for throwing Bible bricks or stringing other Christians up with beads. <<
I absolutely LOVE it!
May I quote you on my homepage?
Lord Love you, my FRiend!
Do we need an economic stimulus package for pollsters? How much trouble can we be in if folks have the money to spend on stuff like this?
>>How much trouble can we be in if folks have the money to spend on stuff like this?<<
15 minutes on FR could have told them this.
Yeah, I know, Martin Luther thought he was smarter than Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Apostles and all the scholars up to that day. He was following the lead of Adam and Eve and even Lucifer, he wanted to be like God and the arbiter of faith, all alone, by himself. He wanted to ignore 1500 years of faith and create something new and more like himself.
As you, I was not attacking Protestants. My main point was that children from the 1st through 8th grade, within the Catholic schools, are taught Biblical history every day. At least that’s the way it use to be. Then they will go to Mass every Sunday. So basically, they get seven days a week of instruction. This may be the reason that Catholics don’t really study the Bible, as adults, as much as Protestants.....I don’t know.
You mention different translations. I believe this makes it more important to study Biblical History. Understand the people of the times, not just the Bible. I find it interesting that we can pick up any Bible and compare it to others and they can be totally different. More reason to study Biblical History. But, that being said, it’s what’s in your mind and heart that really counts. If you listen to those two items, you’ll never go wrong, whether Protestant or Catholic.
I think that metmilsmom and all other practicing Catholics would find your post condescending, ill-informed and—and for all Catholics, it’s incredibly irreverent in its reference to what we reverence as Holy Communion.
Catholics “read”—(and hear)-—”for themselves” at every Mass.
The personal relationship they have with the Lord Jesus is between them and the Lord.
And when Our Lord declared “I am the Bread of Life; he who eats this bread shall live forever”, He did not intend for anyone to call this Manna from Heaven a “snack wafer”.
Sorry—should have remembered to ping you
That's the way it's SUPPOSED to work. What really happens is a different matter entirely. We could use another Ignatius Loyola, Angela Merici, Thomas Aquinas about now. Those of us in the post-VatII generation with any knowledge at all generally acquired it ourselves.
This is a major difference as Catholics go to Church for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which includes a whole lot of scripture and readings that are all tied together.
Fellowship is done in the church hall afterward over coffee, donuts and gooey butter cake or cappuccino and brioche (depends on where you are).
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