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Protestantism Directly Contradictory to the Bible
Protestant doctrine openly contradicts the Bible in many places. Here are examples that struck me particularly strongly:
I. Protestant: You are not allowed to repeat the same words in prayer!
Bible: Jesus “prayed the third time, saying the same thing” (Mt 26:39-44).
II. Protestant: Every sin brings death. The distinction between light sins and mortal sins is a Roman invention!
Bible: There are sins that do not bring death: “All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death” (1 Jn 5:16-17).
III. Protestant: Your works have absolutely no influence on your salvation! Nothing depends on you. Only faith in Jesus justifies!
Bible: Jesus said to the rich young man: “If you want to enter life, keep the commandments” (Mt 19:17). “Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12). “A person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone” (Jas 2:24).
IV. Protestant: Whoever has faith is no longer subject to any judgment — Jesus takes everything upon Himself!
Bible: Jesus says: “Anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell” (Mt 5:22). “Each of us will give an account of ourselves to God” (Rom 14:12). “Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God will repay each person according to what they have done” (Rom 2:5-6).
V. Protestant: I know I will be saved! I have faith and have confessed with my mouth that Jesus is Lord.
Bible: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” (Mt 7:21-23).
VI. Protestant: Jesus did not die for everyone! God decided to save only some, so Jesus died only for the elect!
Bible: God “wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people” (1 Tim 2:4-6). “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 Jn 2:2).
VII. Protestant: The “saints in heaven” are simply dead people. They have no idea what is happening on earth and are not even interested! They do not present our prayers to God!
Bible: God said to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken (Mk 12:26-27). “I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent” (Lk 15:7). “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents” (Lk 15:10). “The twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people” (Rev 5:8). The martyrs in heaven know what is happening on earth and cry out for justice: “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” (Rev 6:9-10).
VIII. Protestant: All sins have already been forgiven in the sacrifice of Christ! You don’t need any other forgiveness of sins, and Christ never commanded a man to forgive sins. That is a Roman invention!
Bible: “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven” (Jn 20:21-23).
IX. Protestant: The Eucharist is only a memorial. Jesus never said that the bread is His real body! It must have been some allegory or symbol!
Bible: While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body” (Mk 14:22). “My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever” (Jn 6:55-58).
On the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves (1 Cor 11:23-29).
X. Protestant: Every believer has the Holy Spirit, so everyone can interpret the Bible for themselves! We don’t need any Church or its Magisterium!
Bible: Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” (Acts 8:30-31). “Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation” (2 Pet 1:20). “Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction” (2 Pet 3:15-16). The Church is “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Tim 3:15).
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