Why do some Protestants complain about division when that's what Protestantism is all about?
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No idea whatsover. Good point! The key word there is PROTEST. \nCatholic means universal. The Church is spread throughout the entire world and is UNITED.\nProtestant means protest.\nProtestants all claim to use the Bible alone, yet they all teach radically different things.\n\nSomehow, I don't think this is what Jesus wanted when he prayed for us to be ONE.
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Jesus said, "a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand".    Satan knows he said it and I'm sure he also knows that "Divide and conquer" is the first rule of war.  Well, he's at war with God, so he does his best to divide God's troops.  If we all got together for the soul purpose of worshipping and praising God then Satan would be in big trouble.  So if he can keep us fighting with each other instead of being "like minded" and conquering him then he has less to worry about and a better chance of snagging some wayward souls.  It isn't a major goal to some people because we have "become lovers of our selves more than lovers of God".
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You are right on so many levels, but being a protestant (Baptist) myself, I know that there are some things that needed to be changed from the Catholic church. The Bible is open to free interpretation by all who read it, that's why so many denominations have been started. I am a Baptist because generally, Baptists believe the Bible word for word and that's how I believe it should be looked at.\n\n(Contact me if you want to chat about religious stuff. I want to be a Youth Minister :D)
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It probably means that a church is being split into two different groups or sides with no middle ground.  For example, the church members may be extremely liberal or extremely conservative with no members that fall in between.  I'm just guessing, though.
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The fact that most churches are divided has nothing to do with God it is us as individuals, we know what God require of us and yet still we don't put into practice what we know and believe God is not the problem we are.see god doesn't want religion either what he wants us to have is a relationship with him see if we get caught up in religion we'll be constantly questioning which is the right one when we have a relationship with God we begin to know and understand
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For mainstream Catholics and Protestants, there are minor disagreements on minor points of doctrine. All of the important stuff, like Jesus is the Messiah, totally agreed upon.\n\nSome Catholics and Protestants on the fringes, blow our few disagreements into huge issues and cause much trouble.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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There are various reasons why one leaves a church; not all of them have to do with doctrinal disagreements. Sometimes it is just because they move to another area where there isn't a local church of their particular denomination.
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Not all Protestants said ugly things about the pope.  I make it a point to never say anything about Catholics, I'm Southern Baptist. Guess you taught me a lesson, huh?
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people tend to criticize things that they dont understand, so understandably christianity and god will fall under this.  Everybody's going to have their own view and own ideas about whether or not god does exist, whether it be for or against.  While other's just like to cause trouble.
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As people have said, Catholicism is just a specific type of Christianity.  As for the cross bit, many Protestants use crosses as opposed to crucifixes (the cross with Jesus on it) because of the commandment that says you shouldn't make any graven images.  Catholics interpret this to mean you shouldn't worship any graven images and use the crucifix to help focus their thoughts during prayer or worship.  Some other points based on the differences between Catholics and Protestants (most Christians who aren't Catholic are Protestant):\n\n 1. Saints.  Catholics will pray to saints, asking them to intercede on their behalf.  Protestants don't do this, and don't really have saints.  I believe one reason is they sometimes think of this as worship, naturally forbidden.  Also, Catholics believe Mary was born without sin (the "immaculate conception").  Protestants do not.\n 2.  Structure.  Catholicism has a hierarchical structure with the pope at the top, then cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, other religious, and laypeople.  This is not to say Catholics follow the pope mindlessly or above God, just that he acts as a father and a guide for the Church.  Protestants do not have this structure, but rely on small self-governing communities.\n 3.  The Eucharist.  Catholics say that the Eucharist is the essence of Christ, present with them.  They worship Christ in and through the Eucharist.  Protestants (generally) think the Eucharist is bread, symbolic of Christ, but not actually Christ.\n 4. Salvation.  Generally, Protestants believe that salvation can only come from accepting Christ as your savior.  Essentially, no matter how good a person is on their own, because they're not perfect, they wouldn't be able to make it to heaven if it weren't for Chirst's sacrifice.    Catholics believe this is true, but that you also have to 'walk the walk, not just talk the talk.'  Salvation is based on the acceptance of Christ as savior combined with good works.
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Protestants believe that the bible is the authority.  They teach what Christ and the apostles taught.\nCatholics believe that the pope is the authority.  They teach the traditions that he makes up.  Many of these traditions go against the teaching of christ.  This is the reason that the Protestants separtated from the Catholic church.
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I know that John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim's Progress, and John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost were puritans. \n\nBy protestants I understand all Christians who are neither catholics nor Orthodox. So all the divisions you mention belong to protestants.\n\nSorry I couldn't help with all parts of your question.
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They are divided because there are extremists on both sides that can't except anything other than what they think. So they end up fighting.\nAnd they are extremely foolish and just don't understands that their religion calls them to love other people. Not fight them.
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Many Christians DO NOT acknowledge that Catholicism is a division of Christianity but in fact it is. There once was a time when Catholics practiced the oneness of God.... later adding the trinity to its doctrine created a separation in the church. Out of that division came Protestant, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist,  Pentecostal, Apostolic, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon etc...All are Christian nonetheless. \n\nTo say, "I'm Christian" is a unbiased, unprejudiced title; or general and safe to say. \n\nHowever, to say, "I am Catholic" is like saying United Kingdom is NOT a part of Europe because they want to be different from the rest of Europe, and they think they are better than everybody else. They look like the oddball in the group (out-casted). \n\nChristianity has dissected into so many entities over the past  centuries, one would have to be a true religious scholar in order to define all the various types of Christianity.
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The world is not so divided.\nYou could try ‘religious and not religious’\nBut I really don’t get why different religions feel the need to differentiate them selves from each other.  Its almost like watching Sunday football backing your favorite team, vandals, hooligans and all.
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Christianity is divided into many Churches. Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Coptic, baptist the list goes on and on. They are essentially the same thing but these are some differences in dogma, tradition and ritual. But in fact all these are just nonsense the division in Christianity was done in the sole purpose of controlling the church and that means money and power.
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they dont actully 'think' when they say that per se,\n\nit comes from protestant having to break off from catholic in a messy kind of way, with such justifications as 'they're idolatrous' 'un-christian' and others that really have no merit.\n\nwhen in reality, all it is is a reminder of the person that we're praying to.  in church the priest doesnt say 'statue have mercy' he says 'Christ have mercy'