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Iii. the main links and distinctions between Catholicism, the Orthodox Church and Christianity (that is, the Protestant Church)
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1. Christianity is a general term, the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Protestant Christianity is the three major branches, in our country is customary to call the Protestant Christianity.
2. All three believe that the Lord is the only true God and that Jesus Christ is the Savior.
3. All three believe in the original sin and believe that the death of Christ is a sin for the world.
4. All three believe that the world will have an end, when all will be resurrected and receive the Judgment of God (God).
5. All three are classics of the Bible, the New Testament.

Difference:
1. History is different. Originally Christianity had only one church, the 1054 West, the Eastern Church division, the Western Church with Rome as the center called "The public education" namely the Catholicism, the Eastern Church with the Constantinople as the center said "orthodox" that is the orthodoxy. In the 16th century, the religious reform movement in Western Europe and Northern Europe separated the Revolutionary Church from Catholicism, collectively known as the Protestant Christianity.

2. Different forms of church. The Catholic Church still retains its unity, claiming to be "holy, to the public, to one, to the Church from the Apostles," and the Holy See as the Catholic center of the world. The Orthodox Church, originally centered on Custantine, was not subordinate with the demise of the Eastern Roman Empire, but the patriarch of Constantine in Istanbul, Turkey, retained the title of "the World Shepherd". Protestantism from the emergence of the absence of a unified church, the main Protestant factions are Calvinism, Lutheran, Anglican (Anglican) and so on.

3. Religious language is different. The Catholic Church speaks Latin as a religious language, but it is now allowed to pray everywhere in the national language. The Orthodox Church originally spoke Greek as a religious language, but since there is no unified Orthodox Church, it is generally used in all ethnic languages. From the date of its creation, Protestantism advocates the use of the language of each nation as a religious language.

4. A different understanding of the church and the priesthood. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church believe that people must be able to communicate with God through the church and by the clergy, so the priesthood is sacred. Protestantism believes that people can communicate with God by faith, without the church and the clergy, the church is only a religious group, the priesthood is only the church to undertake the work of the believers.

5. There are different requirements for the priesthood. Catholic clergy are not allowed to marry. The Orthodox Church is the same, but it is now not strict. The Protestant priesthood can be fully married. The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox deities must be men, and women can only be nuns. Protestant women can also be of divine duty.

6. The title of the priesthood is different. The Catholic Church is the Pope, the cardinal (cardinal), the bishop, and the priest. The Orthodox Church is the patriarch and priest. The Protestant called the priest, the Elder (Calvinism), the bishop. Pay attention to "Huan Tai Consultation-Sea Traveler"

7. The understanding of the Madonna and the Saints is different. Catholic, Orthodox worship of the Virgin Mary and the Saints, the Church of the Virgin Mary, the Saints statue. The Protestant thought that the Madonna and the Saints were human beings and could not be worshipped, and the setting of icons was idolatry, contrary to the Bible.

8. The holy Things are different. The Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church have 7 sacred things, namely the baptism, the vibration, the Eucharist, the confession, the Kamijina, the final fu and the mating. The Protestant church retains only two sacred things: the Holy Baptism, the Eucharist.

9. Rituals are different. When the Catholic Church was baptized with water injection (poured into the head), the mass into the Eucharist with unleavened bread, the clergy lead the Eucharist, the Holy blood, believers generally only lead the Eucharist, praying when the holy number of the whole palm in the chest top-down, from left to right to cross. When the Orthodox Church is baptized, it is held in a water-soaked form, the mass is taken into the Eucharist, and the clergy and believers lead the Eucharist and the Holy Blood, and the holy number in prayer is drawn with 3 fingers (thumb, index finger, middle finger) from top to bottom, right to left, and cross in the chest. The baptism of Protestantism is generally water-injected, sometimes also by immersion, the Eucharist is commemorative, unlike the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church believes that the true presence of Christ body blood, prayers do not draw the holy number.

10. Festivals are different. Some of the Orthodox festivals are roughly the same as the Catholic festivals, but they are distinguished by their names. The Catholic festival is divided into four festivals (also known as four Rites, Easter, Christmas, Pentecost, Ascension Day), general festivals (such as Ascension Day, Epiphany, Holy Trinity, prediction of the birth of the Savior, Christ the Eucharist, Jesus Holy Heart Festival, Universal King's Day, Virgin Sin Festival, God's Mother's Day, etc.), The greatest and most important festival is Easter, as is the anniversary of the Saints. Protestantism is only Easter and Christmas.

11. The calendar is different. Catholicism, Christian Protestantism with the Gregorian calendar. Orthodox Church with the Julian calendar.

12. The version of the Bible is different. Orthodox and Protestant Christianity in the Old Testament of the "multi-Machabeus", "Friends of the German biography", "The Biography of the" (Upper and lower), "Wisdom book", "German Training", "Baruch" that the second sutra, not included. Catholicism is fully adopted. So the Catholic version of the Bible is 7 volumes more than the Orthodox, Protestant Bible.

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