Posted on 05/19/2008 5:38:23 PM PDT by netmilsmom
Absolutely I do. Protestants might have a slighty different theology and doctrine, but most Protestant denominations are entirely kosher when it comes to the absolute non-negotiables of Christianity-—The Holy Trinity, The Incarnation, Christ’s sacrifice atoning for all sin.
Many Protestants are genuine good people who love God and Christ. However, there are others that lie about Catholicism and attack it by distorting the Churches teachings or flat out lying about them. Many 'preachers' make their living by doing so. These people are not Christians.
We live in a very ecumenical time which has kept people from seeing things clearly. So I will state something that will be upsetting to the modern mind. I believe that Jesus Christ founded a Church. That Church is the Catholic Church. The fullness of Christian truth is found in the Catholic Church. If someone like James White or any other Protestant apologist/preacherman is attacking the Church that Christ founded, he is certainly not serving Christ. If he does so by stating lies about the Church that Christ founded it is pretty hard to say that he is a Christian.
Many protestants also do not consider Mormons Christians...
Do Mormons consider themselves “Christian’?
Odds are..
The wee People are running neck on neck!
LOL
Jewish son calls his mother:
“Mom, how are you?”
“I haven’t eaten in 38 days, that’s how I’ve been.”
“Why haven’t you eaten in 38 days, Ma?”
“I didn’t want my mouth full, in case you called.”
THAT’S Jewish guilt :>)
(My step-father is Jewish, and my mother converted.)
Now those are true words if ever I heard them
The Catholic Church always regarded Protestants as Christians. To put it the darkest way possible: The Inquisition only had jurisdiction over those who claimed to be Christian; non-Christians can’t be heretics. The thinking was that the pagans will go to Hell, but that’s their problem; those who would claim to represent Christ while attacking his Church were the considered the real problem. [The Crusades were a defensive war, ordered only after Islam had conquered 2/3rds of Christendom, and were mounting an offensive against the last vestiges of the Roman Empire.]
As long as a person is baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and believe that Jesus Christ is lord and savior, they are Christians. They are in an impaired communion, but are capable of salvation through extra-ordinary grace, providing that they long for Christ in spite of indefeatable obstacles to their communion with the Catholic Church, such as invinceable ignorance. (But woe to the Protestant who just favors the stylings of Protestant fellowship, or who is stiff-necked pr indifferent to the truth!)
Some read this as contradicting, for instance, the Council of Trent, which declared Protestants anathema. But not really: they who were anathematized by the Council of Trent were they who were reared in the Church, and turned away from it, and sided against it in horrific war.
Well, yeah thanks.
That was a real ray of sunshine.
Oy Veh!
That’s a good’un!
Speaking as a Lutheran, the central point is that it is God who ultimately must do the brushing for us--our efforts will never be good enough.
Better get with the “Smoke and Oakum” crowd.
(A Quote from Master and Commander: Far Side of the World..
movie).
We God fearing folk are all we have left.
1.5 Milliom Muslims and growing.
Got to get over the Semantics and into real time!
If we don’t band together, we all gonna be in some deep doo doo.
Of course. What makes you think otherwise?
On a broad scale, yes they are Christians. Yet, some are probably not.
Of course, that holds true of my Catholic brethren also.
It is really unfortunate that some folks can sit in a church their entire lives, and not really hear the Christian message. They have no sense of closeness to the Lord. We need to pray for them.
Protestants are Christians and this Catholic also thanks God for the way most evangelical Protestants vote now-a-days. I wish Catholics did as well in that regard.
I don’t know what to make of folks calling themselves Christian, recognizing Christ as divine, but denying the Trinity. It is beyond vastly flawed, but to my understanding they still say Chist is divine and their saviour. That has to count for something.
Freegards
I thought it may be interesting for Roman Catholics to know where the word "Protestant" originates (from a well done article in Wikipedia):
"The word Protestant is derived from the Latin protestatio meaning declaration which refers to the letter of protestation by Lutheran princes against the decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1529, which reaffirmed the edict of the Diet of Worms against the Reformation.
Since that time, the term Protestantism has been used in many different senses, often as a general term to refer to Western Christianity that is not subject to Papal authority.
So.....whatever you may have heard, the ORIGINAL meaning of "Protestant" comes from those German princes who protested against an Emperor's laws against religious freedom.
As Americans, I would hope we could ALL be "protestant" in that sense....
Please note that while some may agree with all the doctrines defended in the Edict (which basically just condemns Luther and all his writings, along with all his followers--making provision for their arrest.) I trust no patriotic American would agree with Charles V's severe attempt to crush the Lutherans, along with religious freedom.
As stated above, this law is what they were protesting...
The church started on Pentecost and the proper baptism was in Jesus name as Paul stated in Acts 2:38
Yes.
Yes they do. Do fLDS consider themselves Mormon?
Do Mormons consider the fLDS Mormons?
Outsiders don't define membership.
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