Protestants, what proof do you have that you church is the one true church?

None. They have to assume the Jesus made a mistake by setting up the Catholic Church - their source for uh, everything.

1) Your church was not founded by christ. Your church came around 300 years after Christ. Just because Jesus says to peter "You will be the rock I build my church on" does not mean that he is reffering to the Catholic church, which was founded by an ex-pagan man. Thats a long stretch, assuming that JEsus was talking about 300 years when an ex-pagan decides to nationalize a religion. Home churches existed long before the catholic church, and jesus often refer to the church as nothing more than followers of christ. Not to mention Peter couldn't have been a pope because a sovereign catholic leader (universal bishop/pope) did not exist until 600 years AFTER him.

2) Our churches were founded by man, but we do not follow man like you do. We follow the bible, know that humans are sinful, and know the only trustworhy source comes from the scriptures. The protestant goal is only to go back to a time BEFORE the catholic church corrupted christianity. Christians didn't used to pray to saints, see mary as superior, confess sins to humans, use objects in worship, or consider baby baptism as needed for salvation. For 300 years after Christ CHristians simply gathered together in home, read the bible, and worshiped GOd. These were the original christians, who were closest to Jesus' real teachings... protestants follow the original way that Jesus taught, not the way that humankind decided...

*sigh*, sorry man, you could repeat this 20 times a day for the next 20 years and it still would NOT be the truth....

Get your Bible out and READ it for yourself... Study it like you never have before.... Really LOOK to see what it says.....

Peter was under law.... He taught under law...... He believed under law.... He died believing in the NAME of Jesus NOT the finished works of the Cross... There is NO WAY Peter, as claimed by the catholics is the *first pope*, nor did a Jewish Messiah, a Messiah that did NOT teach his followers to *ignore* the Law .. He told each and every person who He dealt with, healed etc... to go to the Priest and observe the proper traditions and rituals.... I don't see HOW you come up with Christ started any *church*.... Jesus attended TEMPLE.....

Child of God - X atheist

Jesus is the builder of the genuine church, which you regulate right into a member of once you suspect with an honest and robust coronary heart, at which era you're baptized with the Holy Spirit, Who seals you in Him and retains you till you're resurrected and positioned on the incorruptible and thereby return to taking section in living interior the Holy Spirit constantly rather of living via devil via using the know-how of robust and evil. The question is, which one is coaching all the fact and the respond is that none of them are coaching all the truths. case in point, the Catholics are worshipping a spirit posing as Mary, which they positioned first of their church homes and this spirit began the counterfeit salvation via monks forgiving you in the time of confession and salvation via engaging of the sacraments. The Baptists don't think interior the heavenly presents,which isn't from God, the Pentecostals have faith you could lose your salvation, which isn't from God. many of the denominations have faith in a pre-tribulation rapture which isn't from God, the United Church of Christ, believes the choose arises be water baptized as a fashion to be saved, which isn't from God, the Lutheran church as an entire in no way preaches which you will hell till you suspect in Jesus, the Methodist church is transforming into liberal and so on. in case you believed in Jesus you could start to hearken to the Holy Spirit in you, Who will lead you and enable you to be attentive to what He needs you to do for Jesus or he will lead you to the church He needs you to belong to if that is His will.

Your claim is that Catholicism is the one true church. You should work on proving that first, since you asked the question. I know why I believe what I believe. And, God knows what I believe what I believe. You might be a better apologist for what you believe when you state why Protestants were murdered according to your popes.

Christians are Christians, by faith ALONE. there is no "true church", "false church" "73% true, 11% false, other neutral church".

It's JESUS PLUS NOTHING; i believe you Catholics are just as much Christians as the Orthodox, seventh day adventists, presbyterians, baptists, episcopalians, lutherans, non-denominationals, etc.etc. so long as you accept Christ

Maybe you can trace your your roots back to the apostles but Pastafarians can trace their roots back to their last drinking binge, beat that then.

‘If truth from God exists, why must I search to find it?’ some ask. ‘If God has an important message for all mankind, would he not convey it clearly enough so that people would grasp it immediately, without the need for investigation?’

SURELY God has the ability to do such a thing. But is that the way he has chosen to communicate truth?

How God Conveys Truth

Actually, God conveys his messages in a way that allows sincere seekers of truth to search them out. (Psalm 14:2) Consider the message that God delivered through his prophet Jeremiah centuries ago. It was given to God’s wayward people regarding the coming destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.—Jeremiah 25:8-11; 52:12-14.

Yet, at the same time, other prophets claimed to speak for God. Hananiah foretold peace for Jerusalem. That was a very different message from the one that Jeremiah delivered. So whom was a person at that time to believe—Jeremiah or those who contradicted him?—Jeremiah 23:16, 17; 28:1, 2, 10-17.

How could people know that Jeremiah was a true prophet, when others contradicted him?

To know who was right, sincere Jews needed to know Jehovah as a person. They needed to understand his laws and principles, as well as his attitude toward wrongdoing. Doing so, they would have agreed with God’s words spoken through Jeremiah that “there was not a man repenting over his badness.” (Jeremiah 8:5-7) Furthermore, they would have discerned that this sad situation did not bode well for Jerusalem and its inhabitants.—Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Jeremiah 52:4-14.

Jeremiah’s prophecies about Jerusalem came true. The city was razed by the Babylonians in 607 B.C.E.

Although the consequences of disobedience were foretold long in advance, effort was needed to recognize that the time had arrived for God to take action.

What About Christian Truth?

What of the truth proclaimed by Jesus Christ? Did everyone recognize it as a message from God? No. Even though Jesus was right there in the midst of the people of Israel teaching them and performing miracles, most of his listeners did not discern that he was the foretold Messiah—the Christ, or Anointed One.

To the Pharisees who asked when God’s Kingdom was coming, Jesus himself said: “The kingdom of God is not coming with striking observableness.” He added: “The kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Luke 17:20, 21) God’s appointed Ruler, Jesus, was among them! But those Pharisees refused to open their eyes to the evidence that he was fulfilling the Messianic prophecies and to accept him as “the Christ, the Son of the living God.”—Matthew 16:16.

The response to the truth proclaimed by Christ’s first-century disciples was similar. While miracles helped to demonstrate that God was supporting the disciples, the truth was still not plain to most. (Acts 8:1-8; 9:32-41) Jesus commissioned his followers to “make disciples of people” by teaching them. As a result of listening and learning Scriptural truths, sincere seekers of truth became believers.—Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:42; 17:2-4, 32-34.

It is the same today. The “good news of the kingdom” is being “preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations.” (Matthew 24:14) This is not necessarily being done “with striking observableness”—in so obvious a way that every individual on earth will recognize it as a message from God. Yet, God’s truth is recognizable and strikes a responsive chord in honesthearted individuals who want to worship God in the way approved by him.—John 10:4, 27.

The fact that you are reading a Bible journal shows that you are likely a sincere seeker of truth. How can you determine which religion is teaching it?

An Approach That Works

Some first-century residents of Beroea were commended by the apostle Paul for the way they responded when he taught them. They did not immediately accept what Paul said as truth; still, they listened respectfully. We can learn from what the Beroeans did after hearing the message.

Note that the Bible explains: “Now the [Beroeans] were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so. Therefore many of them became believers.” (Acts 17:10-12) So their search was not superficial. They did not expect conclusive results in just one or two brief discussions with Paul.

Observe also that the Beroeans “received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind.” This tells us something about the attitude with which they approached their study of the Scriptures. They were not gullible, but neither were they cynical. They did not have a critical attitude toward what was explained by Paul, who was one of God’s human representatives.

What proof do you have that your church was founded by Christ?

Its called belief.