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Do Protestants consider Catholics to be Christians? [open]
5/16/08 | me

Posted on 05/16/2008 3:19:30 PM PDT by netmilsmom

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>>I think the RCC doctrines are a product of the enemy<<

Please tell us where we stand here. Examples welcome, but I'm not sure that actual names can be used when quoting another FReeper, so date and thread title may be better.


TOPICS: Catholic; General Discusssion; Skeptics/Seekers; Theology
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To: ChibisHologram

Is no your answer, or are you answering for them?


21 posted on 05/16/2008 3:31:04 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
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To: Alex Murphy

Although we question the correctness of your theology (sometimes even using the “H” word), as you do ours, and think that your connection to the Church is defective, Catholics would never question the fact that Protestants are indeed Christians.


22 posted on 05/16/2008 3:31:22 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: netmilsmom
As a Protestant, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, my answer is yes, I consider (as I think most Protestants do) Catholics to be Christians.

We differ on points of doctrine and the authority of Scripture vs. the doctrines of men, the infallibility of the Magesterium, Marian doctrines, etc, but we all adhere to the concept of the Trinity and belief in the basics of the Christian faith found in the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.

23 posted on 05/16/2008 3:31:51 PM PDT by Boagenes (I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game.)
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To: netmilsmom

Yes, but on the flip side many Catholics don’t consider us Protestants saved.


24 posted on 05/16/2008 3:31:52 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: chadwimc
Or, better yet, are non catholics going to heaven?

Individual Catholics can't even be sure if they're going to Heaven - why should they offer us non-Catholics any greater assurance than they have for themselves?

25 posted on 05/16/2008 3:32:05 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" -- Galatians 4:16)
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To: netmilsmom
Absolutely. I disagree with many of the teaching of the RC Church but as the Church believes in the three great creeds of Christianity, I consider Catholics as Christians.
The question should be framed: do Roman Catholics consider Protestants as Christians?
26 posted on 05/16/2008 3:33:04 PM PDT by quadrant
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To: big'ol_freeper; netmilsmom

Thanks, you just reminded me why I don’t belong on one of these threads.


27 posted on 05/16/2008 3:33:13 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Alex Murphy
You can be a heretic only if you used to be one of whatever it is says you are a heretic. I'm accused by many Protestants of being too soft on the Catholics, and by many Mormons of being too soft on the Gentiles.

It's all a guy can do to keep up with who he's soft on.

I am soft on the Buddhists in fact ~

28 posted on 05/16/2008 3:34:02 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: netmilsmom

This becomes an emotional issue, so let me just say that IF Catholic dogmas and doctrines were false then they would have to be the work of Satan because he is the father of falsehood.

In the same way, if Catholic dogmas and doctrines are true then anything that goes against those dogmas and doctrines are the work of Satan also for the same reason.

That is not to put the label of satanic on the adherents of the defective faith, it is just a fact that Satan deceives.

I fully believe the Catholic Church holds the fullness of faith.


29 posted on 05/16/2008 3:34:53 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: big'ol_freeper
I stand on the side that says if one holds to be true all that the Catholic Church teaches then one has attained the fullness of faith.

Was that the truth the Catholics taught in 1600's or the ones they teach now.

30 posted on 05/16/2008 3:34:53 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Alex Murphy

If you keep slinging mud in their faces what do you expect?


31 posted on 05/16/2008 3:34:53 PM PDT by Radl
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To: Always Right
Yes, but on the flip side many Catholics don’t consider us Protestants saved.

I think that's an oversimplification. I'd say, from my personal understanding, that given the sanctifying grace available in the Sacraments, its potentially easier for Catholics to enter eternal life than for Protestants. But the Catholic Church doesn't deny that Protestants do go to Heaven.

32 posted on 05/16/2008 3:35:02 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
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To: chadwimc

Yes, indeed. Catholicss are Christian. Many Catholics are bible believing, just as are the Protestants. God knows who truly believes in him or not, and it is he, who will divide the sheep from the goats.


33 posted on 05/16/2008 3:35:37 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: Always Right

One in the same.


34 posted on 05/16/2008 3:35:55 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: netmilsmom
I think the RCC doctrines are a product of the enemy.

Are the enemy to be killed? Concentrated in camps? Reduced to servile status?

Please explain why Catholics are your enemy.

35 posted on 05/16/2008 3:36:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Always Right
Was that the truth the Catholics taught in 1600's or the ones they teach now.

As if Catholic teaching on the matter has changed! By the way, it hasn't.

36 posted on 05/16/2008 3:36:39 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
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To: netmilsmom

B-16 said protestants are not “true” Christians.

But as true Christians we turn the other cheek.


37 posted on 05/16/2008 3:36:52 PM PDT by Happy Rain
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To: Petrosius
Catholics would never question the fact that Protestants are indeed Christians.

Along those lines, an honest question here (for Petrosius or any of our Catholic posters) ... can (post-baptismal) mortal sin be removed from the soul without confession to a Catholic priest and/or other rites of the Church?

38 posted on 05/16/2008 3:36:54 PM PDT by Oliver Optic
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To: Jacquerie

The “enemy” referred to is the Devil, and she was quoting someone else.


39 posted on 05/16/2008 3:37:16 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
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To: Jacquerie

That is a quote.


40 posted on 05/16/2008 3:38:35 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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