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Roman Catholic AnswerThe main difference between Protestantism and Catholicism is free will. Catholics believe that God has given us free will and that with our free will we may either choose God, or something else. These is the only real decision we have in our life, and we have to make it all the time. No matter what we choose during the day, the year, or the rest of our life, boils down to either doing God's Will or our own (or the Devil's!). Protestantism believes that we have a further choice in that we can say how we can say yes to God. In the Catholic religion, you just accept God, and in accepting God, you accept what He has revealed to us through His Church, His Ministers, and the Sacred Scriptures. In Protestantism one decides for oneself how one is going to accept God. This is most obvious in the interpretation of Sacred Scripture. I have Protestant friends who say, "I have to think about that to decide what I believe".
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