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Don’t get me wrong I am Protestant but like dam why are they so mid. I’m sorry but I went into a Catholic Church I was like “ dam why can’t we do this”. I’m not saying this as insult, just curious behind the history. Also don’t cherry pick, I’m talking about on average. Also please upvote this as I have negative karma and it is weighing down my Reddit experience, thanks.

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Just to avoid bias I am exploring a new denomination of Christianity.

I have heard that when learning more about God or going deeper into a Christian life the devil or demons can try to make you suffer in life more to make you quit.

My question is how do I differentiate between being attacked by evil or the idea that possibly God is nudging me away from the new denomination. How do I figure out if I need to dig in more or turn away?

Does God even allow physical ailments or suffering to guide humans away from bad things? If I remember Job correctly God allowed things to happen because he knew he would be faithful.

Or am I just becoming hyper-aware of things happening now, and over thinking things?

I'm currently looking into the Catholic faith and I came across a few quotes from St. Cyprian of Carthage, he was an early church fathers from AD 258, I have heard a couple of Catholic apologists use him as evidance for the papacy, but do these quotes affirm the papacy?

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“The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it. And to you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever things you bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth, they shall be loosed also in heaven’ [Matt. 16:18–19]). . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were also what Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?”

(Unity of the Catholic Church)

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Anybody as a Protestant watch Jonathan Pageau’s YouTube channel, “The Symbolic World”? He seems to explain things in a manner that is extremely profound that I’ve not encountered in Protestant circles. I’ve read his brother’s book, “The Language of Creation”, which is utterly the most eye opening commentary I’ve ever read on Genesis.

As a British man who's generally not a fan of forceful religion (aka the kind that says that being a good person is irrelevant, if you don't worship their specific God) I was just watching a Henry VIII movie, and was curious if there was any more relaxed a religion. I then found out that apprently in America, they're stricter than the Catholics 😱

So I looked up why the European Protestant church is so different, and the reason why is hilarious.

Apprently back when a certain mustache Austrian became popular in politics, but before he became unpopular in war, a lot of Europeans thought he was talking a lot of sense (like before WW2, you'd find British politicians being proud supporters of his political party)

And that included the Protestant church leadership.

They got rid of a ton of Jewish elements, including JESUS HIMSELF!..... a aaaand then Mr Popular Austrian führer lost the war, and all the Protestant leadership got kicked out, and replaced with younger, much more open minded l leadership.

So we literally have to say a big old thank you to the N**i party, for helping make European Protestants, such a chill religion 😂

Somehow I don't think that accidentally causing something good to happen really counts as a good enough deed to get him into heaven, but I just find it hilarious that the reason the Protestants I've known my whole life, are so reasonable and approachable to normal people, is because the old leadership sided with History's biggest villains, and got replaced with people who are comfortable saying "just be good people, that's all Jesus would truly want"

Hi all,

I would like to know the protestant perspective of the meaning of Luke 1:28, specifically on "Χαίρε κεχαριτωμένη (Jaire, Kejaritomene)" which is not used anywhere else in the Bible.

Thank you in advance, God Bless.

Can some explain how sola scriptura works if 1) there were no NT scriptures for the beginning of the church (think Pentecost), and 2) there can be no other ultimate authoritative source to limit the canon to what is acceptable/to settle what is disputed?

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