Protestant Church has in Common with the Catholic Church

Auphirah
Auphirah: Protestants are always disagreeing against the Catholic doctrine, but do Christians know that two Churches have a common foundation! Both churches agreed abound since the foundation of the Christian faith. One Central Article of Faith:


Credo in unum Deum.....
Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum......
Qui propeter nos homines,
Descendit de coelis,
Et incarnatus est....:
Et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis:
Sub Pontio Pilato passus,
Et sepultus est.


This is written in many forms so I will give you resources to study. I know few folks will complain that I am copying ,pasting and posting! Lool! It is important for folks to know theology, religion and biblical history to understand their faith.

Symbolum Nicaenum
Nicene Creed
The Symbolum Nicaenum, or Nicene Creed, has a complex history. It was first promulgated at the Council of Nicea (325), though in an abbreviated form from what we have below. St. Athanasius attributes its composition to the Papal Legate to the Council, Hossius of Cordova. The Creed is also sometimes called the Nicene-Constantinoplian Creed since it appears in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople (381), but it is clear that this Council is not the source of that composition for it appears in complete form in the Ancoratus of Epiphanius of Salamis some seven years earlier in 374. In any case, it was this text that appears in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople that was formally promulgated at Chalcedon in 451 and has come down to us as our present Nicene Creed.It was at the councils of Nicea and Constantinople that the true nature of Jesus was defended against two heresies that had sprung up. The Arians denied Christ's divinity and the Monophysites denied Christ's humanity. The councils, drawing upon the traditions handed down to them from the Apostles, condemned both heresies and declared that Jesus was indeed both true God and true man. In the 11th century this creed became part of the Mass.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Christians didn't understand what a Manifestation was so clergy developed a creed (oath) to remind members that no understanding was worthy of consideration other than the clergy's.

The creed served as surrogate for the Bible, which nobody had yet, not even the churches; additionally, the people were illiterate. That's a critical consideration. Pretty much eliminates the possibility of anyone challenging their ever-so-human comprehension.

Not long after, the church split asunder. Proof that unity doesn't mean thinking the same.

What All Christians have specifically in common is Jesus, the real authority, and the Bible. Now that they have the Bible and can read the Word of God, they don't need ancient clergy to think for them.
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Yeshuaman
Yeshuaman: The protestants never did protest, it's that simple. They still follow the one clearly spoken of in Rev. 17:5 as her daughters. They have no more to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, than the Roman catholics, or Islam or any other religion.
Those who are His people obey His commands as He tells us (John 14:15), because we LOVE Him. Those who do not obey are simply NOT His people. Simple as that.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Of course, we'll be able to spot those who don't obey God very, very easily.

Some might whisper or point and laugh and call them blind, mocking them at every turn while their own house is burning down. Maybe some might just zipper their lips and merely foster those thoughts in secret. Well, God knows all things.

"Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked."
(Psalm 97:10 KJV)

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Zanjan
Zanjan: All churches have the communion (Eucharist), although variations of it, and most rule that only serious Christians are to partake. Christians say not all practice the full communion.

Well, we know Christ broke and dipped the bread in oil....(something one does with unleavened bread so they don't choke on it. In those days, oil was cold pressed so it was very nutritious). No one does the oil thing and no one knows what kind of bread it was.

The kind of bread is generally not considered important. What if it is?

He said to take "this cup" and drink - it was the "fruit of the vine" but what kind? Some consider this to be important because of the many recovering alcoholics in the churches. He never said wine or grape juice. Maybe it was tomato juice.

On the other hand, Christ said HE was the vine; what fruit did Christ produce?

As it's written, it was the "Cup of the Lord". Perhaps it could have been prayer for selflessness and the way of life in God, or perhaps martyrdom. Maybe the bread was the knowledge of the Revelation, the staff of spiritual life. Maybe it wast anything physical at all.

All Christians do seem to need props though, some more, some less.
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