Protestants And Catholics

|PROTESTANTS |CATHOLICS |
|The Old and New Testaments are the only sources of Christian|Sources of doctrine include: |
|doctrine. |Certain papal declarations|
| |Bishops in conjunction with the pope |
||Old Testament |
| |New Testament|
| |Apocrypha (some additions to the Bible) |
||Catholic Church Tradition |
| |Catholic interpretation of the Bible|
|We are justified (saved) by faith alone, not by good works. |When a person gets baptized his "original sin" is forgiven and |
| Good works will result ingreater rewards in the afterlife but |God gives him some grace.  This grace enables him to do good |
|have no effect on getting saved. This "faith" means relying on |works.  God appreciates thegood works and rewards them with more|
|Jesus' sacrifice as full atonement (redemption) for our sins and|grace.  Because the Christian has more grace, he can now do even |
|trusting in Godenough to try to live as he said to live. It is |better works. This pleases God even more, so He gives even more |
|not mere intellectual belief in a set of facts. |grace, etc....