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Originally Posted by photon
Probably the core disagreement your friends would have with Catholics is with salvation (or justification and sanctification I guess); God's removing of the condemnation and penalty of sin and making a person righteous and able to be with God through Christ's work.
They probably believe that people are saved by grace through faith. They also probably believe Catholics believe that salvation is by works (which would be an oversimplification, but works are part of the process for Catholics).
Synergysm vs monergism.
The sacraments are necessary to salvation for Catholics.
Or at least what I was both taught at Catholic school and later what my evangelical teachers told me what Catholics believe and why it's fundamentally different.
If the method of salvation is different then there isn't much common ground.
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It's not just Catholics though, its Eastern and Coptic they look askance at, as well as JW's (I sympathise there) me I dont care either way but I dont get how anyone can view the bible as inerrant but at the same time discount all the bits about the early church