Re: Ask your pastor

No, Protestants don't have the candles or procedures/rituals. There are many denominations that do (Catholic, and others, etcetera). There have always been a lot of different social philosophies/lifestyles that would determine what procedures/rituals would be practiced in a religion, but there are many people all across the world who sincerely love God that do not practice any rituals/procedures.


If you look at this site, you'll see that there are many different kinds of Catholic worship that grew from all of the different lifestyles in different countries (is Greek Orthodox Byzantine Catholicism?).


http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index.php?qid=20070925153011AAjovFb

(someone wrote that list, there may be more).

At this site, you can click on SELECT BOOKS and see a list of all the books in the Protestant bible (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament).

http://search.americanbible.org/


The rituals themselves do not make a person holy, it is the love that is in a person's heart and mind. The way a person lives and treats other people is what God cares about most (as in "The Sermon On The Mount", Matthew chapter 5) and that your behavior is determined by your conscience.

In short, the word "Protestant" means that God worship is not conducted by performing rituals of any kind. It is a devotion based on our love for God without rituals.

I used to be ROMAN Catholic (but now I am Protestant), but we never had any delivery of fire from Jerusalem or anywhere else, that is only a Greek ritual as far as I know.