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"Protestantism" is the name of a movement. "Protestants" are people who are part of that movement. It's the same relationship as between the words "Catholicism" and "Catholics". Catholics are the people who are part of Catholicism.
The problem is that your definition of Protestants is far too narrow. Protestants don't pray to Mary (mostly - there are a few ...
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The difference between Protestants and Protestantism isn't the same as the difference between an optician and an optometrist or the difference between a Pontiac and a Buick.
It's not a level of the same sort of thing with different priorities or anything.
It's the difference between Catholics and Catholicism or Communists and Communism or sadists and ...
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At its most basic level, Protestants believe Mary merely to be the earthly mother of Jesus - not the eternal mother of "God." To imply that she had a role in creating that which is divine with Him seems an overreach. This is not to say that Jesus is not God, but Mary's role is as a vehicle for the incarnation, not the means by which the Godhood was made. ...
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I would like to add a few other Biblical reasons Protestants in general will allow for married Pastors.
Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. -Mark 1:30.
Simon Peter having a mother-in-law necessarily meant that he had a wife. If one of Jesus's own apostles had a wife, then right there is pretty good ...
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This long passage may be sufficient to answer the question.
1 Corinthians 15:35-54 (NIV)
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of
body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to
life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that
will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something ...
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Protestants take the priestly celibacy as unbiblical or unnatural.
They claim that every man must obey the biblical injunction to "be fruitful and multiply"(Gen. 1:28) and Paul command that "each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband"(1Cor. 7:2). They also argue that celibacy somehow causes illicit sexual behaviour or perversion or at ...
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