What was one major difference between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation?
What was one major difference between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation?
One major difference: The Protestant Reformation challenged and ultimately rejected the authority of the pope. The Catholic Reformation aimed at affirming the authority of the pope.
Who was the leader of the European Protestant nations?
Martin Luther
How did the Catholic Church’s political and economic power help lead to the Protestant Reformation?
How did the Catholic Church’s political and economic power help lead to the Protestant Reformation? A. It encouraged the church to forbid state military forces, angering many rulers.
How did the Protestant Reformation affect religion in Western Europe beginning in the 16th century?
How did the Protestant Reformation affect religion in Western Europe beginning in the 16th century? A. It allowed the Roman Catholic Church to adopt some of Islam’s important practices. It decreased the Roman Catholic Church’s power and authority.
What was the first Protestant faith?
lutheranism was the first protestant faith.
Why do Protestants not believe in the Eucharist?
Protestants reject the notion of transubstantiation (bread and wine become the true body and blood of Christ) based, on a very literal interpretation of the Bible, taking the words Jesus spoke: “do this in remembrance of me” to mean that it is strictly symbolic that the bread and wine are body and blood.
Can you be Catholic and not believe in transubstantiation?
Still, one-in-five Catholics (22%) reject the idea of transubstantiation, even though they know about the church’s teaching. The vast majority of those who believe that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ – 28% of all Catholics – do know that this is what the church teaches.
What version of the Bible was before King James?
Geneva Bible
Which translation of the Bible is closest to the original text?
The New American Standard Bible
Which version of the Bible is the oldest?
Torah
What Bible do Jehovah Witnesses use?
Jehovah’s Witnesses prefer to use the New World Translation of the Bible.
What is the difference between Christianity and Jehovah Witness?
Jehovah’s Witnesses identify as Christians, but their beliefs are different from other Christians in some ways. For instance, they teach that Jesus is the son of God but is not part of a Trinity. The share of all U.S. Christians who believe in hell is 10 times larger (70%).
Why do Jehovah Witnesses believe only 144 000 go to heaven?
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that exactly 144,000 faithful Christians from Pentecost of 33 AD until the present day will be resurrected to heaven as immortal spirit beings to spend eternity with God and Christ. They believe that these people are “anointed” by God to become part of the spiritual “Israel of God”.
Are Jehovah Witnesses saved?
Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that salvation is possible only through Christ’s ransom sacrifice and that individuals cannot be saved until they repent of their sins and call on the name of Jehovah. They also believe that conforming to the moral requirements set out in the Bible is essential for salvation.
How many Jehovah’s Witnesses died because of no blood transfusion?
Although there are no officially published statistics, it is estimated that about 1,000 Jehovah Witnesses die each year through abstaining from blood transfusions(20), with premature deaths(7,8).
Is Jehovah really the name of God?
Jehovah (/dʒɪˈhoʊvə/) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and one of the seven names of God in Judaism. The derived forms Iehouah and Jehovah first appeared in the 16th century.