Difference between Orthodox Christians and Protestants

Introduction

Although both Protestants and Catholics share the widespread ground of being based on belief in Jesus Christ, there are important dissimilarities between the two groups. General fact, one can glimpse compares in everything from the way the clergy dress, the way their services are performed. Unlike most Protestant places of adoration, Catholic masses are undertook in liturgical pattern, with much focus on emblems, rituals and observance (Schaeffer, 33).

 

Major points of differences

1) The Orthodox position of adoration identifies as a source of divine revelation of truth, not only Scripture, but more over the Holy made-to-order, which is in full affirmation with Scripture and is customarily identified by all the very vintage Christian church. The Orthodox Church identifies the Ecumenical Councils as inviolable observers of this custom, which contacted them all before the renewal of the Roman Church and the last cited divide from the Eastern (Orthodox), which is before the ninth 100 years (Raven, 11).

2) The Orthodox Church is not the Apostles' Creed as renowned in the West, but the Nicene-Constantinople (composed throughout the First and Second Ecumenical Councils), which is read or vocalised all through the Divine bureau and personal, without Roman supplemented the Filioque, which teaches that the Holy Spirit reaches not only from the father (John 15:26), but more over the Son.

3) In supplement to the two sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion, from apostolic times the Orthodox position of adoration more over embraces the next five: anointing, confession, the priesthood, wedding ceremony and Holy Unction. Ordination to the priesthood is conveyed out from the Holy Apostles in an unbroken line of succession of bishops and only then identified as valid.

4) The Orthodox position of adoration is devout, and through conviction and love, eternally attached assembly of all the dwelling and the Dead (Raven, 11). In the Orthodox Church the sign of this harmony in belief and love is in their prayers for the dead, the concepts of purgatory and the note of indulgence of the Roman Church is absolutely foreign to her, for his part that invokes God through their glorified saints, without taking part in the Roman mistake of exaggerating the deserves of the saints or plead to them as some superhuman beings.

5) The Orthodox position of adoration sustains that it is befitting to comprise and venerate the sacred pictures of Christ and the saints in locations of adoration and at house, not to adoration them, which is solidly forbidden by the location of adoration, but looking through the sacred pictures to ignite the crave to recall and imitate the attributes of piety and the glorious exploits of the principal.

B. The major points of distinction between the Orthodox and Roman devout teachings are, in addition to those cited overhead (including discovery dogmatic educating about the Holy Spirit is advised the most important), the following:

1) The Vatican affirmation on the infallibility of the Pope and his unconditional power over Christianity, which is opposing to the conviction of the early position of adoration and ...