I’m a Protestant ...
I’m not Catholic.
Christ alone can save us.
We can lead others to Christ, by our witness, testimony, and example.
And then Christ saves them.
Did we have any part in their salvation?
So much similarity yet parties on both sides criticize the other when we have so much to do. Why does my resistance to following Catholic dogma and traditions make Catholics feel I am a heretic just as it is wrong of Protestants to criticize Catholics for their choice in executing their faith when we both believe in the one true Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
2) Yes, a relatively few of us do not believe in one God, in whom are three distinct Persons (Father and Son and Holy Spirit) all of whom are equally God. And yet there are myriad other issues, of how we are saved, justified, sanctified, and what those terms mean, and what Grace is, and how it gets from God to us, etc. ad nauseaum. Christians have been wrestling with these issues, sometimes politely and sometimes at sword point, for almost two millenia.
That's not going to stop.
Still, we live in a secularized culture which denies not only all the things we disagree with each other about, but all the things we agree on as well.
I think we would be wise, on occasion, to step back and look at our vast areas of agreement ... and work to support each other.
The world out there, from secularists to communists to islamists, would dearly love to destroy us all.
if we could just STICK to those beliefs, we’d have no problem. It’s when people stick in saints, popes, Maryiology, etc., etc., etc. that it gets ‘messy.’