question for Protestants Options

[*kryogenix*]

To my understanding, the following are the major reasons why people are Protestant rather than Catholic

• Sola Scriptura
• Sola Fide
• The Pope
• Virgin Mary
• Confession

inform me if I am missing anything.

So my question to Protestants is: can you justify the deviations from Catholic teaching?

[colleen92]

i am a Catholic but i happen to know a lot about the history of our church. i know that there was much corruption in the Catholic church at the time of the Protestant Reformation. They sold indulgences which is what i think someone meant when they said "they sold tickets to heaven." Indulgences were what people paid for so that they didn't have to do pennence. Another thing was that the Popes chose their successors. They would choose their friends instead of someone that would actually make a good Pope.

meaning, the pope can stop someone from going to heaven. and the pope has power among the catholics.

Catholics do not believe that the Pope can stop someone from going to Heaven. And the Pope does not have "power" over the Catholics, he is in charge of the order of Catholocism. Meaning, he makes new rules for the Church (however they must be approved by the Cardinals) and appoints preists, bishops, ect.

[*kryogenix*]

i am a Catholic but i happen to know a lot about the history of our church. i know that there was much corruption in the Catholic church at the time of the Protestant Reformation. They sold indulgences which is what i think someone meant when they said "they sold tickets to heaven." Indulgences were what people paid for so that they didn't have to do pennence. Another thing was that the Popes chose their successors. They would choose their friends instead of someone that would actually make a good Pope.

I think the Protestant Reformation was a revolution more than it was a reformation. Luther did not bring the Church back to the way it was before there was corruption, he commited the grave sin of schism. The real reform was in the Council of Trent.

Also, indulgences DO NOT excuse you from saying penance! This is a misunderstanding. When granted an indulgences, the sacrament of reconciliation completes the indulgence. Receiving the indulgence on its own does not remove the temporal punishment for sin.

Catholics do not believe that the Pope can stop someone from going to Heaven. And the Pope does not have "power" over the Catholics, he is in charge of the order of Catholocism. Meaning, he makes new rules for the Church (however they must be approved by the Cardinals) and appoints preists, bishops, ect.

The last part is incorrect. The Pope is infallible when he makes statements ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals. I'm pretty sure they don't need to be approved by the people below the Pope.