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Similarities and Differences Between Protestants and Catholics: 

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Similarities and Differences Between Protestants and Catholics: 

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Protestants and Catholics have many similarities and differences.  Both Protestants and Catholics believe in one God and the Holy Trinity. Both religions also read the Bible, however Protestants hold the Bible to a higher significance than Catholics. Protestants place a greater emphasis on the scripture being the true word of God. Protestants also believed that you could have a direct relationship with God. Catholics believed that you had to go through the priest to communicate with God. Catholics also believed in the power of the pope and the recognizing saints. They also believe that good works can influence one's salvation. Protestants believe in the concept of predestination, that God's judgement of eternal life or damnation is the only way to salvation.

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Similarities and Differences Between Protestant

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Similarities and Differences Between Protestant

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Protestant vs. Anglicanism: Anglicanism preached Protestant ideas however Elizabeth did not want to interfere with people's private beliefs. Anglican services were held in English and were also more elaborate than in the Protestant Church.
Protestant vs. Anabaptist: Anabaptism is one of the major branches of the Protestant church with many similar beliefs regarding God and faith however Anabaptistism believed in saving yourself and repenting for your sins through being baptized as an adult.
Protestant vs. Calvinism: Protestant Church had a firm belief in that having faith in god and the bible alone would save you in the end. Calvinism had a firm belief that basically God already had a plan for everybody and there was no reversing that plan except that good morals were a sign of salvation.
Protestant vs. Lutheranism: Lutheranism was the spread of the beliefs of Martin Luther who believed that you could be saved through having faith in god and God's grace alone. Lutheranism was spread very easily at the time and cause quite an uproar for the Protestant Reformation. Protestant and Lutheranism beliefs are very similar but Lutheranism might be more simple when compared.

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Description: A faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church. Believed that the Bible is the perfected word of God and that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Catholics believe in one God and the Holy Trinity. The Catholic church is still prevalent today.

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Description: Anglicanism believes that faith is revealed in holy scriptures and is very similar to the Protestant church although is considered to be independent from it. It is rooted in the church of England, where the services were elaborate and in English and the church remained hierarchical. The Anglican Church is also known as The Church of England.

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Description: The most distinctive belief of an Anabaptist is the ritual of being baptized as an adult. Those who wanted to be baptized publicly confessed their faith and repented for their sins. Before this concept, people were baptized as infants. Anabaptist's believed that infants did not understand the concept of sin and therefore could not repent their sins on their own free will. Anabaptist's believed in pacifism, or that violent acts or war were unjust. They believed that the church should be separate from state and that taking an oath was a sin.There was not a specific leader of Anabaptist's, and they were often persecuted for being considered radical.

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Description: Believed in the complete and independent power of God. Believed in predestination. Predestination is the belief in God's eternal decree of judgement. God has predetermined every man's fate of eternal life or damnation. Calvinists believed that one could not change their fate of eternal life or damnation, but that good morals and hard work were a sign that one was chosen for salvation. The Bible acted as a source of what God was saying. Calvinism was started by John Calvin. He reformed the city of Geneva into a city based on religious principles. The ideas on the structure of Geneva are explained in The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Geneva became a model of a reformed Christian community.

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Description: Branch of Protestant Christianity that follows beliefs of Martin Luther. Luther's ideas were based on humans being saved from God's grace alone and that having faith would save you as well, everyone being equal when presented to Heaven.