Posted on 12/30/2008 4:47:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While Catholics and Protestants both fall under the broad umbrella of Christianity, they practice their faith in different ways.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of regular churchgoers found that 25% of Evangelical Christians read the Bible on a daily basis along with 20% of other Protestants. Just seven percent (7%) of Catholics do the same. At the other extreme, 44% of Catholics rarely or never read the Bible along with only seven percent (7%) of Evangelical Christians and 13% of other Protestants.
Consider the divergence among the faiths in other areas, too. (All the figures that follow are based upon those who attend church at least twice a month.)
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Evangelical Christians consider themselves to be born again. Sixty-three percent (63%) of other Protestants have been born again along with 25% of Catholics.
Forty-four percent (44%) of Evangelical Christians reflect at least daily on the meaning of Scripture in their lives. Thirty-six percent (36%) of other Protestants and 22% of Catholics do the same.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Evangelical Christians have had a meaningful discussion about their faith with a non-Christian during the past month. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of other Protestants and 18% of Catholics also have held such a discussion.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Evangelical Christians attend a regular Bible Study or participate in some other small-group activity. Forty-seven percent (47%) of other Protestants take part in small groups related to their faith, along with 24% of Catholics.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of Evangelical Christians say their Church does an excellent job helping them understand the Bible. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of other Protestants and 52% of Catholics say the same.
Despite these differences, the overwhelming majority of all Christians believe that the God of the Bible is the one true God. Ninety-eight percent (98%) of churchgoing Evangelical Christians hold that view along with 94% of other Protestants and 92% of Catholics.
Forty-four percent (44%) of American adults attend Christian church services at least twice a month, and 92% of these regular churchgoers believe the God of the Bible is the one true God.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of adults also say life in the United States would be better if more Americans lived as Christians.
From your post 123; “You may have sat in mass yawning and ignoring what was given to you. Pity you chose to ignore the wonder of the Holy Mass.”
One might conclude that it is U who are being presumptious, perhaps even to the extreme. What about those rules again????
Thank you for serving our country.
And I continue with my invitation when you get stateside again.
>>(More presumption on your part?) <<
Huh?
Happy New Year to you as well....
>>In the military I've attended mass at locations in different parts of the country and it's predictably the same. There's just no life in the redundancy of the ceremony and none among the obligatory attendees. I had to escape Holy Mother Church with the velocity of an ejection seat.<<
and you MAY be presuming again. How do you know what I was thinking about, posturing myself and what I was searching for. If I did yawn in all those years it was probably because of the predictability, redundancy and lack of chapter and verse reference. (that last part was pure cynicism)
>>On all threads, but particularly “open” threads, posters must never “make it personal.” Reading minds and attributing motives are forms of “making it personal.” <<
From here....
http://www.freerepublic.com/~religionmoderator/
My mistake. I read your post too quickly. I thought you states OSAS. You didn’t. You stated what all Christians believe.
Still, I don’t know how you can be an aware Protestant and not have heard of once saved, always saved since so many Protestants believe it.
***(I also can’t wait until the Ignatius Study Bible-New Testament comes out in 2009! More than ten years in the making!)***
Thanks for telling us; I didn’t know that it was underway, even. I normally use the online NAB at the USCCB site (as those whom I post regularly to know, maybe too well :) )
***You will however get as much as the Catholic leadership has decided is necessary. It will not include much from Romans, Galatians and other epistles, mainly just from the Gospels, Acts, Genesis and Exodus.***
Umm, Paul is read approximately 50 Sundays of every year.
***Not really. It’s scripted simplistic and void of any real meaning.***
Do you mean that the Catholic Church was too hard for your liking?
***We could use another Ignatius Loyola, Angela Merici, Thomas Aquinas about now. Those of us in the post-VatII generation with any knowledge at all generally acquired it ourselves.***
We have one. Look to the papal chair. Pope Benedict XVI is about as close to a Church Father as we could ever hope for in our lifetimes.
***Forfeit your chance for a deeper, meaningful, heartfelt, spontaneous relationship with Christ and cling to the comfort in the picked-over readings; scripted, empty, required responses and toss in some Latin now and then for a flavor of authenticity.***
Another Reformer in the making? God is God; your life is your life. Just because you don’t like His Institution doesn’t make you right and God wrong.
***Joshua 1:8
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.***
Wandering off into the OT, are we?
Christianity can be summed up by the Eucharistic Proclamation plus the Sermon on the Mount, with the pinnacle being the Lord’s Prayer. Luke 6 contains the parallel if one cannot understand Matthew.
If you are military and serving in Iraq, I thank you and wish you a safe and happy 2009.
I think perhaps you also may be relatively young.
In my life experiences, I have seen many people leave the Catholic Church when they were young, but return to it in later years. Please believe me, this is true.
I myself converted to Catholicism when I was 21. It never occurred to me to turn on my Protestant roots and criticize Protestant churches or Protestant people.
My parents did not give me a solid Protestant upbringing but nevertheless I was attending churches myself, had Protestant friends and knew what it is like to be in a Protestant environment.
I never saw a need to berate or criticize them or their congregations. I just moved on to the Catholic Church—the Church to which I was drawn and called.
May you know the Lord’s care and blessings.
***“When ye prey, use not vain repetition, as the heathen do.”. (Matthew 6:7)***
Why don’t we look at Matthew 6 in context?
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3 4 In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
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Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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5 6 “This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
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your kingdom come, 7 your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
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8 Give us today our daily bread;
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and forgive us our debts, 9 as we forgive our debtors;
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and do not subject us to the final test, 10 but deliver us from the evil one.
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11 If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
The Rosary contains the Lord’s Prayer to begin and for every decade. Are you telling us that the Lord’s Prayer is pagan babbling?
I hate to argue, but it's more like 30-35. During the Easter Season, which is 10 Sundays, the second reading is from Revelation. Every now and then there is one from one of the other seven. When James comes up, practically the whole book is read.
“Where’s Sola Scriptura in “His Word”?”
It is His word, not the word of some dead pope. And He values that word above His name (Psalm 138:2) That’s what Sola Scriptura is all about - God’s Word, not man’s word. Just because they wear brocaded robes and lived 1400 years ago doesn’t make them right.
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