Compare and Contrast Religions Essay

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Claim: Calvinists believe in Predestination and Catholics and Lutherans don't. Evidence 1- Calvinist believe that God has already chosen if you are going to Hell or going to Heaven. Evidence 2- Catholics believe if Christians do sinful things and don't take God's hand of faithfulness then they will surely go to Hell. Evidence 3- Lutheran's believe that Christians should desire to go to Heaven, but God is the only one who actually knows what they are going to choose before they choose it. In contrast to the Calvinist, Lutherans do not believe in a predestination to Hell.

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Claim: Catholics believe in mandatory private confessions while Lutherans and Calvinists don't. Evidence 1- Catholics believe that it is mandatory to confess their sins at least once a year. Individual men and women confess sins committed after baptism and have them forgiven by a priest. Evidence 2- Lutherans have "Private Confessions" where it's just the confessor and the priest and the confessor confesses specific sins.They also have "Corporate Confession" where at the beginning of each service a group of followers gather together and confess their general sins Evidence 3- Calvinist have private confession but it does not require a priest to be present. They can either confess to another a believer or God.

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Claim: Lutherans practice Consubstantiation, while Calvinist and Catholics don't. Evidence 1- Lutherans believe that the substance of the bread and wine coexists with the body and blood Evidence 2- The Roman Catholic view is transubstantiation, which means that at the moment of intake the bread and wine change into the literal body and blood of Jesus. Evidence 3- Calvinist do not believe in either consubstantiation or transubstantiation.

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Claim:Followers of Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism believed in the baptizing of infants Evidence 1- Catholics baptize infants because they are cleansing the child of sin. Since the child has not sinned it is cleansed of sin because the parents committed a sin to make the child. Evidence 2- Lutherans baptize infants because they believe that Jesus does not set any age limit as to which one should be baptized. Evidence 3- Calvinist baptize infants because they believe they will be disobeying God if they do not. They believe that the infant is the holy seed that will prosper in faith.

Prompt

Compare and Contrast the doctrines and practices of Lutheranism and Calvinism with the Catholic doctrines and practices.

Contextualization

During the time of the discover of most of these religions was the The Reformation. Martin Luther, founder of Lutheranism, started the Reformation and John Calvin, founder of Calvinist, joined later on. Both, Calvinism and Lutheranism came after Catholicism. Catholicism was being corrupted by the people who worked for the church. They were scamming their followers out of money, which resulted in Martin Luther starting the Reformation.

Thesis/Claim

Followers of all three religions believed in the baptizing of infants. Calvinist believe in Predestination. Catholics believe in Mandatory private confessions.Lutherans practice Consubstantiation.