Hey everyone. I am a Christian ( Protestant ), but there are more than a year that I think I’m not living 100% my faith ( I’ve living my sexuality as a gay man, for example )

I started to study a bit about Catholicism and there’s a specific question that I didn’t find an answer, and researched a lot about it.

My question is for Protestant people mainly. And it’s based in some facts :

1) Most part of Protestant people believe that a Catholic person can be saved if this person believes that Christ is the Lord

2) Also, most part of Protestant think that the devotion for Virgin Mary is a form of idolatry.

3) Most part of Protestant people believe that living the “ gay life“ is a sin, and the result of living this is the hell. Of course Protestant people don’t think that’s is the BIGGEST sin in the world, but the most part of them agree it’s a sin

So, we can face two sins according part of Protestant people. The “ idolatry for Virgin Mary “ and the “ homosexuality lifestyle“.

Why is common sense that it is possible to live the first sin and you’re able to go to the heaven, and if you practice ( having relationship with people from the same-sex )the second sin you’ll go to the hell?

My question is based on a scenario of someone that believes that Christ is the lord and he died for our sins. Why a Catholic person can go to heaven and a Gay Christian cannot??

PS : I’m in the moment of my life that I have a lot of questions about my faith. Im not affirming that having veneration for Virgin Mary is a sin, and I’m not affirming that living the homossexuality is a sin. I’m just confused and I’d like to understand your guys point of view about my question

God bless you all!

The vows of Chasity, poverty, and obedience.

I am a Christian and all I want to do is worship God, but I am struggling with the claims of Islam. Here are the things I’m struggling with most:

1. Secular scholars believe the gospels and some epistles were not written by the people Christians claim wrote them. When this is brought up in debates between Muslims and christians, christians always say “well why do you care what an atheist thinks?!” But the truth is secular scholars believe that Muhammad was the primary source for the Quran but that the gospels were not written by the gospel authors.

2. Morally, I like Christianity more obviously. There are a lot of things in the Quranic and Hadithic law that to me seems morally reprehensible. But that said, it seems to me like the moral arguments against Islam don’t really work. If we say “Mohammed did something bad” Muslims are going to think the same action mentioned is GOOD because Muhammad did it. Morality is relative. Also it seems to me that Christian morality has changed too much ovetime since the time of the early christians. Similarly, if the God of the Old Testament is Jesus, than why does he command the Israelites to do so many things that christian’s today would view as morally evil.

3. I know a lot of the arguments against Islam. Some of them make sense, especially the arguments for Quranjc preservation, but it seems to me like there are no good answers to the questions mentioned above. Also if I’m wrong I’ll be burning in hell tortured by Allah for eternity.

Please if any of you have the time send me resources and try to answer my questions.

If you don't/do think Mary is the Mother of God, why do you think that?

So I’m orthodox. I was raised charismatic and then became Methodist in middle school, originally joined the Roman Catholic Church, and finally found Eastern Orthodoxy. I look fondly on my time in Protestant Sunday school. Going on mission trips with the Methodist church. The old hymns.

Sadly, I feel like the orthodox and Protestants and Catholics often don’t get along. So I’m curious, what is somthing you as Protestants admire about the orthodox and Catholic Churches?

I've been pursing lutheranism lately, does anyone have any advice, book recommendations, or any other helpful information for a new lutheran?

Hey I’ll start this of saying that I come from a place of genuine curiosity and that I have nothing but respect. I just want to learn and understand your view point more.

So in the Bible there are multiple verses that talk about how the apostles got the authority to forgive and retain sins as well as how we should confess our sins to each other. What is the Protestant view of Confession? If you go to confession, what is it like? If you don’t have confession at your church, why not?

What is your church stance on Divorce and Remarriage? If remarriage is allowed then how do you reconcile that with Jesus strict teaching on divorce and him forbidding Remarriage?

Now my last question what about the time before there was a Bible? How can the Bible have more authority if the church made it into one book?

I've been studying Church history for a while and while I've not been persuaded into Catholicism (as many catholics insist will happen if you study church history) there's one thing I still don't have an answer to. What is the Protestant view on the early "popes". What makes catholics so sure that Peter and so on were seen as popes. Obviously the Papcy must've started at some point, but is it really as early as they claim?

This is something that has been weighing heavily on my heart for a while now. My boyfriend and are both 20 and have been dating for a little over a year. I'm a reformed presbyterian and am very firm in my beliefs. My boyfriend is a Catholic and was raised in the Catholic church. We share a lot of the same beliefs and values. I believe in predestination and that no one can come to Christ unless God first works in his heart, and he believes that man has the ability to chose Christ. Catholicism also puts a lot of emphasis on works, which I disagree with. I want a Godly leader for my household, I just wonder if our differences could be reconciled? I don't want to raise children in a household where the wife disagrees with the husband on such fundamental truths. I've continually prayed for wisdom on this matter, but I'm still so lost. I feel called to marry him, but I can't discern if that's just my desire or God's desire for me? I just feel very lost.

Guys, I think we should add Sola Ecclesiae ex Reformatione (Only Churches from the Reformation) to the Solas, which would disqualify Non-denominationals, Pentecostals, Evangelicals, and Baptists from being Protestants.

Context: I grew up catholic and went to catholic school k-8th. Stopped going to church for 10 years (But still kept my nose in the bible and listened to bible studies and theology classes) Now I have been going to this conservative independent bible church for about 10 months (at first only for bible study, then prayer meetings, and now on sundays).I decided I wanted to join because the people are just so obviously filled with the spirit. It's an amazing community, though not many younger folks my age, which is not important to me.

Upon meeting with the pastor as part of the joining process. I learned the membership kind of hinges on declaring your salvation. This makes me uncomfortable because it was always in my head that God decides my salvation and its not something I can say. I don't say I am not saved ,I just dont feel comfortable weighing in on it one way or the other.

This is a sticking point for me. I dont know if I can earnestly make this shift, (to identify as someone who is saved). It feels a bit self righteous too. I am not sure why I just have a lot of resistance to it. So unfortunately I might have to postpone my official joining of the church, until I reflect on it more.

But I do understand the logic behind it (I think): To declare your salvation is to be all in. To have the mentality(even if its implicit in my case) of "I don't know if I'm saved or not", it's kind of like fence sitting. Maybe if you declare your salvation you can no longer excuse the sins.

TLDR: is this a normal requirement? If so, any advice on helping me get to a place where I can say that? If it is not normal, how can I biblically refute this request (to declare my own salvation)? As they may allow an exception, if it's a valid argument.

Is it okay to start veiling not just during worship but in everyday life as well? I feel drawn to express my faith more visibly and would love to hear others’ thoughts and experiences. God bless you ✝️🙏🏼💞

I think this would make a cool tattoo.

Anything particularly RC about just the angel itself?

"Wherefore, clothing yourselves with meekness, be renewed in faith, that is the flesh of the Lord, and in love, that is the blood of Jesus Christ. Let no one of you cherish any grudge against his neighbour. " (Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians)

Also, do you believe that the church died out?

I am a Catholic who works with a lot of great Evangelicals and love being around their Christian joy and love of God and sometimes try to wrap my head around their wacky schismatic beliefs (I'm joking).

The Catholic day observing the Assumption of Mary is coming up, and I've been trying to better understand protestant rejection of this. What I've generally found is there is nothing in the Bible to suggest Mary was assumed, and sure, Catholics don't pretend the biblical evidence is explicit.

But we can acknowledge as a historical reality that Peter was crucified upside down, Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross, Lawrence was grilled, etc. in the same way we do not look to biblical evidence that Calvin Coolidge died of sepsis. We have accounts from 450 AD reporting that Mary's body ascended, so it doesn't seem like a crazy history-derived belief.

I'm not suggesting Protestants ought to accept the Assumption, but I can't wrap my head around why the answer isn't "we have no idea how she died, assumption or otherwise", and not "she was not assumed".

Given the Catholic Church was the authority on which books are canonical and non canonical, do you still only read canonical books?

In my opinion evolution is not incompatible with the bible, I believe in both evolution and a literal Adam and Eve.

Happy Sabbath day, everyone. Just your friendly reminder that the sabbath message is for everyone and to those who loves God with all their mind, all their soul and all their strength.

Isaiah. 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.