Protestantism

Most protestants don't hate the pope himself but none don't believe in the authority of the pope and his infallibility. Some in the past have experienced bad popes on the throne and pass on the stereotype that all popes are bad.

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Protestantism originated around 1539. The word comes from German and French, protestant.

Yes. As a christian denomination, they adhere to the same creeds as the rest of the Christian Church. These include the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed that focusses on the belief in a Trinitarian God.

The main reason was that he wanted to take power from the catholic church due to the pope denying him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon Also the looting of churches and monasteries helped bolster the royal coffers Interestingly if you look at protestant nations as opposed to Catholic nations the former have been the more prosperous since the reformation so it was probably the right decision but made for far more personal reasons

The "vernacular" means the common language of the country. The Catholic Mass, until Vatican II, was celebrated in Latin, then it changed to the vernacular (in the USA, English). Protestant services have always been in the vernacular.

The Bibles are basically the same but there are several books from the Old Testament that have been part of the Catholic Bible for nearly 2000 years that the Protestants didn't like so threw them out of their Bible after the Reformation in the 16th century.

Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter sunday.

To participate in Lent in the Catholic religion, you have to fast, or give up, meat on Ash Wednesday and every Friday until Easter Sunday. Also, if you are not a small child, you have to give up something additional. You have to give up something that could harm you or be bad for anyone in some way. For example, you could give up TV or video games. i am giving up meat for the whole lent instead of just fridays. i am also going to stop gossiping because it could hurt others.

Lent in Christianity means giving up dairy for the whole lent i think.

Im not sure about Christianinity because i am not Christian, but i am positive for Catholicism.

You would do well to ask the Church of Christ Member. As for Jehovah's Witnesses they generally try to maintain good relations with everyone in their community. While each individual Jehovah's Witness makes their own decisions as to who they form friendships with, common interest and values obviously has a bearing with who they will form close friendships with.

Henry the Eighth didn't start the Anglican Church. The Church in England is one of the oldest Catholic Churches [Communion is a better word, or description.] in the world. According to S. Dorotheus of Tyre, 303AD., S.Simon Zelotes , brother of Christ and his Apostle, was just one who brought the Catholic faith to this country! Gildas the Celtic Historian writing in the fifth century tells us that the Catholic Church was here by about 37 AD. Aristobulos, who is mentioned in Paul's Epistle to the Romans was first bishop!

So Henry was a bit late on the scene to be a founder! In effect the Anglican Church is some two thousand years old!

Most Protestants, like the Catholic Church, do not follow the Jewish sabbath day as described in the old testament (ie Saturdays). Instead they used the Christian sabbath which is Sunday - the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The "Christian sabbath" was never authorized by YHVH. The Sabbath has always been and will always be the 7th day of the week. It's not a "Jewish" sabbath day. It is for everyone to observe. The 4th commandment (as was all of Torah) was given to the twelve tribes of Israel as well as the rest of the world! Read your bible and you will find the verification of this statement!

YHVH said emphatically in Isaiah/Yesha'yahu that HE NEVER CHANGES! Neither does his WORD! If you observe any of the unHoly days such as Sunday, Christmas or Easter then you are participating in a pagan festival which YHVH condemned!

We really don't know.. many were recorded in the bible.. we can look at specifics in Mark Chapter 1:29-34 where Jesus heals Peters mother in law. or when he healed the paralized man in Mark Chapter 2 1-12 but never the less Jesus healed while he was on this earth. and he left his holy spirit here in those that believe in him and seek him diligently.. By the Power of the Holy spirit in the name of Jesus we can draw on that power and heal others in prayer and faith.

God has His own way explaining things, and there are some things which human beings cannot understand or it is beyond human understanding. It is a difficult thing for our finite minds to comprehend but comparing it to something we can relate to may help. In our families we have many facets to ourselves. At any one time I am a wife a mother a daughter - and each plays a different role and no one of them explains the whole of me. It's not a great analogy because it is trying to explain something divine and largely inexplicable with something much less so. Nevertheless there is one God with three personalities - Father Son and Holy Spirit. Some of a scientific mind give as an example of a triune God the triple-point cell. This is a device in which water is maintained in all three of its states - solid, liquid, and vapor - in the same container. The cell has to be kept at a specific temperature and pressure, or the fine balance in the cell is broken, and one or two of the three forms is lost. The specific temperature and pressure is called the "triple point." The contents of the cell stays water, but the water is in three distinct states, each of which has properties unique to that state and no other, even though they're all water. Another more "down-home" analogy is cherry pie. According to Christian minister and comedian Mike Warnke, cherry pie filling, when made right, resists cutting; the filling stays liquid, flowing throughout the pie. You can therefore cut a cherry pie into three distinct slices, but underneath the surface there's only one united area of filling. As the paragraphs above state, though, there is nothing that is completely perceivable by the human senses that equates to the triune God. ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE Not all who claim to be Christian believe in the trinity. So, with all due respect to the previous answerers, I would like the opportunity to present another perspective. What is the trinity? According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost), each said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord' (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since."-(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126. What does the Bible say? Matt. 26:39, RS: "Going a little farther he [Jesus Christ] fell on his face and prayed, 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.'" (If the Father and the Son were not distinct individuals, such a prayer would have been meaningless. Jesus would have been praying to himself, and his will would ofnecessity have been the Father's will.) John 8:17, 18, RS: "[Jesus answered the Jewish Pharisees:] In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true; I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me." (So, Jesus definitely spoke of himself as being an individual separate and distinct from the Father.) Mark 13:32, RS: "Of that day or that hour no ones knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Of course, that would not be the case if Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were coequal, comprising one Godhead. And if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?) Matt. 20:20-23, RS: "The mother of the sons of Zebedee . . . said to him [Jesus], 'Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.' But Jesus answered, . . . 'You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.'" (How strange, if, as claimed, Jesus is God! Was Jesus here merely answering according to his "human nature"? If, as Trinitarians say, Jesus was truly "God-man"-both God and man, not one or the other-would it truly be consistent to resort to such an explanation? Does not Matthew 20:23 rather show that the Son is not equal to the Father, that the Father has reserved some prerogatives for himself?) Matt. 12:31, 32, RS: "Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (If the Holy Spirit were a person and were God, this text would flatly contradict the Trinity doctrine, because it would mean that in some way the Holy Spirit was greater than the Son. Instead, what Jesus said shows that the Father, to whom the "Spirit" belonged, is greater than Jesus, the Son of man.) John 14:28, RS: "[Jesus said:] If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I." 1 Cor. 11:3, RS: "I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God." (Clearly, then, Christ is not God, and God is of superior rank to Christ. It should be noted that this was written about 55 C.E., some 22 years after Jesus returned to heaven. So the truth here stated applies to the relationship between God and Christ in heaven.) 1 Cor. 15:27, 28 RS: "'God has put all things in subjection under his [Jesus'] feet.' But when it says, 'All things are put in subjection under him,' it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one."(So Jesus himself is subject to the father) The Hebrew word Shad·dai´ and the Greek word Pan·to·kra´tor are both translated "Almighty." Both original-language words are repeatedly applied to Jehovah, the Father. (Ex. 6:3; Rev. 19:6) Neither expression is ever applied to either the Son or the holy spirit. This is only a few points to consider from the Bible, which is the final authority on matters such as this. Many more are found in this online publication which I am providing the web address for: http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htmI It will discuss more such as, Answers such questions as: What is the Trinity? Does the Bible teach it? Is Jesus Christ the Almighty God and part of the Trinity? What is the holy spirit, and how does it function? == == Father * Son * Spirit = Elohim 1 * 1 * 1 = 1

john wycliffe

Jesus will entrance to Jerusalem during Palm Sunday.It is called the messianic entrance of messiah.In Jerusalem,he performed the last supper and his agony on the garden of Gethsemane.He was betrayed by his apostle Judas Iscariot.He was accused by the teacher of the law and the Pharisee.He experienced scourging at the pillar and then crucifixion on the cross.

Simon Magus is the founder of Gnosticism, the forerunning movement before Protestantism. He was excommunicated by Peter. Therefore, Protestantism started by him. Martin Luther made false doctrines such as sola fide, sola scriptura and many more. The reformers were pure evil. Luther and Henry VIII committed adultery. King Henry founded the schismatic Episcopal Church of England which he and his successors are the supreme head. John Calvin was another evil reformer. He preached predestination, which he make God a demon! They accused the pope as the Antichrist but they are really Antichrists.

The Shaking religion; Quakers, or Shakers, led by Mother Ann Lee, established one of the most successful insular religious communities of the nineteenth century. The Shakers have several "official" names: the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing; the Millennial Church; the Children of Truth; the Alethians (derived from the Greek word for truth). The sect first appeared as an offshoot of the Society of Friends (Quakers), around 1750 in Manchester, England. The leaders of the group--which was called the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers--were husband and wife ministers James and Jane Wardley. The Shakers broke off from the mainstream Quaker church and came under the influence of a group of charismatic preachers and miracle-workers called the "French Prophets." The Shakers were best known for the fervor of their worship services. Like the Quakers, Shakers would sit in silent meditation, waiting to be "moved by the Spirit," but the Shakers' response to this spiritual power was to tremble violently (hence "Shakers") and to spin and dance. Under the influence of the holy Spirit they engaged in group ring dances, marches, singing and shouting, speaking in tongues (glossolalia), prophecy, faith-healing, miracle-working, and spiritual trances, often accompanied by visons. The English mystic Ann Lee (1736-1784), who was baptized and married in the Church of England, was drawn to the Shakers in 1758, spending fifteen years with the sect before leading a small group of followers to America. Mother Ann (as her followers came to call her) frequently disrupted Anglican Church services, and was finally imprisoned following one such outburst. During her imprisonment she experienced a series of visions, which revealed that sex was the main cause of sin and should be avoided; that she herself was the fulfillment of Christ's Second Coming; and that it was her duty to carry the Word, which she embodied, to the New World. The Shakers already believed that Christ's Second Coming would be as a woman, so the idea that Mother Ann might represent that Second Coming was not dismissed out of hand, particularly as her charismatic personality, enthusiasm, and mystical visions clearly marked her as a prophet. In 1774 Mother Ann and eight of her followers emigrated to America, where they established the first Shaker settlement at Watervliet, near Albany, New York. During their first two years in America, they directed their efforts toward clearing the wooded land for planting, building their village, and seeking new converts to their faith. Some biographers believe that Mother Ann's original religious conversion, her revelatory visions, and her missionary zeal all grew out of early tragedy. She had been married to a blacksmith named Abraham Stanley, and they had had four children, all of whom had died in infancy. Mother Ann's rejection of the idea that God had sanctioned sex for reproduction and her insistence on the spiritual necessity of celibacy might well have been influenced by such experiences. Little is known of her life before her conversion because she avoided all discussion of it. As for as she was concerned, her life began when she became a Shaker. Mother Ann died in 1784, but her religious movement grew, reaching its peak between 1830 and 1850, with approximately 6,000 members. The sect was centered in New England, and at least twenty major Shaker communities were established in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine. A number of communities were also established outside of New England, in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Florida. Shaker beliefs appealed to many people in the United States at that time, and the Shakers themselves were tireless, enthusiastic missionaries. Many were particularly drawn to the Shaker doctrine of radical equality: all human beings were the children of God, and all should be treated equally, regardless of sex, age, race, education, or wealth. The Shakers believed themselves to be a manifestation of the original pentecostal church of the Apostles, and their religious trances and glossolalia were echoes of what the Apostles themselves had experienced when the holy Spirit descended on them in the form of "tongues of fire, which parted and came to rest on each of them and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim" (Acts 2:3-4. Revised ed. of the "New Testament of the New American Bible." Iowa Falls: World, 1986. All references are to this edition.) From St. Peter's speech in Acts, in which he quotes the prophet Joel, the Shakers derived their belief in prophecies, visions, and miracles performed through the power of the holy Spirit: "'It will come to pass in the last days,' God says 'that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. Indeed upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my Spirit in those days, And they shall prophesy.'" (Acts 2:17-18) The Shaker belief that all property and profit should be commonly held for the benefit of all grew from the description in Acts of the communal life of the new Christian communities: "They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one's need" (Acts 2:42-45). Shaker communities usually consisted of two "families," of about thirty individuals each. Each family lived in a large house, but the sexes were rigidly segregated, using separate entrances, stairways, and sleeping quarters to avoid intermingling. Each family had two elders and two eldresses, who were responsible for the spiritual management of the family, and the elders answered to the "ministry"--which consisted of two elders and eldresses chosen from among the elders of the families. Detailed oral confession of sin before witnesses was considered to be necessary for salvation, and was required for admission to the sect. Confession was to be repeated frequently, each time a member felt that he had sinned. Because they repudiated the outside world, the Shaker communities made a strong effort to achieve self-sufficiency. The Shaker villages were models of nearly complete economic self-containment, and were highly successful. The Shakers were famous not only for their industriousness, but also for their ingenuity, for in their quest for self-sufficiency they invented a number of useful tools, including the circular saw (the buzz saw), the metal pen point, the clothespin, the washing machine, and the flat broom. Mother Ann's injunction, "Put your hands to work and hearts to God," was at the center of Shaker life and worship, and their high ideals were reflected in the quality of their products. They approached work as an act of worship, and aspired to a combination of simple yet beautiful design and fine craftsmanship. To this day the elegant simplicity and exquisite workmanship of Shaker furnishings and tools are highly prized. After 1860 membership in the sect began to decline. By 1874, their numbers had fallen from the high of 6,000 twenty years earlier to a mere 2,400. By the mid-1890's, only about 1,000 Shakers were left in the Shaker villages. After 1964, no new members were accepted into the sect, and by the 1980's, only a few aged sisters remained at the Sabbath Day Lake community in Maine. One obvious reason for the sect's decline is that unlike other Utopian communities, it was not marriage-based, and thus did not renew its numbers with children born into families. Because Shakers were celibate, their communities could grow only by constantly bringing in new converts, but as the nineteenth century progressed, new converts were harder to come by. The insular, communal Shaker way of life, and its rigorous spiritual discipline--including unquestioning submission to authority, celibacy, and strenuous manual labor--did not appeal as much to an American people so strongly influenced by the individualistic values of the late nineteenth century and by the promise of material comfort and reduced labor not only for the upper class, but for the common man as well. Although Shakerism was one of the nineteenth century's most successful experiments in religious communal living, it has subsided into a memory of idealistic devotion. Once thriving Shaker villages are now only museums, and the well-built, practical furnishings they were famous for are collectors items and museum pieces.

For one, they're more of a preacher than a priest. And there's not as many rules on the dress code, and a lot of them (mine) are much more friendly and/or less strict.

There isn't really a human head, like the pope, but I think the head would be Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;