To my fellow Catholics; not all Protestants are the same

Adam Charles Hovey | 08/19/2025

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As a writer; and a Catholic Christian writer, I feel like coming up with ideas is not always the easiest.
Primarily, I write about The Bible, because thaat's what I know.
And, since I know I have a largely Non-Catholic (even non-Christian) audience to some extent, this means I have a job of convincing people, that, yes, Catholics do read The Bible.
I think it's easy for me to defend, because, 1) I accept material sufficiency of scripture, and, 2) Because I'm used to being asked “where's that in The Bible”? All over it. I'm actually a little confused by the claim that some Protestant beliefs are biblical. I have an article on infant baptism and baptismal regeneration, and, I used The Bible (An overlooked passage on baptismal regeneration and infant baptism).
My nephew goes to a Presbyterian church (much to my annoyance), but, his Presbyterian pastor baptizes babies (good)! But, while I think he's theology on it overall is wrong, he's reasoning is 100% correct.
(That baptism replaces circumcision, and if babies were circumcised, it would be a logical deduction that babies would be baptized).
But, remember, not all Protestants have the same beliefs. Even the same types of Protestants!
My maternal grandmother, the daughter of a Baptist Sunday school teacher, believed in the perpetual virginity of the Virgin Mary and the Immaculate Conception.
My great grandma (whom I knew), was most certainly not a Catholic, even had a lot of Marian art at her house. (Then again, her name was Mary).
And, I would imagine, that my great grandma also believed these things (she was, after all, a Sunday school teacher).
I think Catholics have a habit of treating Protestants like a monolithic group.
My dad, for instance, was Lutheran. There's quite a big difference between a Zwinglian influenced Baptists and Lutherans.
And, even amongst the same types of Protestants, you might find some pretty big differences.
There's a pretty vast difference between Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (my dad was baptized in a denomination that would later merge to become the ELCA).
ELCA is quite theologically liberal, LCMS, is quite theologically conservative.
But remember, not all Protestants are the same.
For instance, a Catholic could say, “Jesus says, unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53), okay, well, a Lutheran could say, “yep, we believe that”, because, well, Luther isn't Zwingli, Eucharistic Real Presence: Luther’s Magnificent Defense.
But, from a Zwinglian perspective, you have to interpret that a bit differently,Sacramentarian Controversies (Calvin vs. Luther vs. Zwingli).
Or, telling someone that “The Bible only mentions faith alone once, and it's not positive” (which is true, James 2:26, in fact, it even compares faith alone to being dead), but, not all Protestants believe in faith alone. (Most famously, the Churches of Christ) Can We Be Saved by Faith “ALONE?”.
I think, as Catholics, we need to remember something very important.
NOT ALL PROTESTANTS ARE THE SAME.
It seems like I address Baptist arguments a lot, well, yeah, because I live in the Bible Belt.
But, remember, my Catholic and Eastern Orthodox friends, not all Protestants are the same.