Is catholic the only true church?

Answer 1

Wow, you need to get out more. When I drive around I see Baptist Churches and Presbyterian churches, and Lutheran Churches and lots more.

BTW, Paul founded the Catholic Church and he was a Jew.

Answer 2

NO.

If you read the early history of the Catholic church, you will really learn a lot. A huge amount of human suffering has been done due to the pronouncements of Popes. You know, it was only a thousand years ago that the Pope decided that priests should not marry. It had nothing to do with sex, purity, loving God or any religious reasons. It was because the church wanted to keep the wealth of priests and not pass it on to their wives and children.

That is just one of the ways the Catholic church became THE WEALTIEST organization in the world. Even after they have paid out all of those settlements for pedofilia and the like.

Answer 3

i think any church is the true church for that person .. you ask a catholic they will say yes .. ask another they will say no mine is,
no one would be in a religion surely if they didn't believe that theirs was the truth
and i didn't really realise how true this was until coming to this forum .
i wonder if the day will come when people realise that either they are all parts of the same or that each one is wrong ...
by the way I'm all for religion if it helps that person become a more spiritual and good person but i cant understand why one person would say mine is better than yours or mine is the truth , why cant people see that for each and every individual the truth is only what they know and have became involved in .. the truth is only for that moment and for those circumstances

Answer 4

Who told you the Catholic Church is the only "True" church?

Answer 5

God only have one true people and church all through history. We all can't be right - there is only one truth not everybody's version of the truth. Our duty is to find it and it can be found in the Bible. Only true church and people of God follow the Bible whole heartedly. The Catholic Church does not do this.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church contains the fullness of religious truth.

Other churches (and entirely other religions, for that matter) do contain various amounts of religious truth -- at least to the extent that they mirror Catholicism.

Answer 7

Lets see what Scripture says about the true Church of Christ...

Jesus said his Church would be "the light of the world." He then noted that "a city set on a hill cannot be hid" (Matt. 5:14). This means his Church is a visible organization. It must have characteristics that clearly identify it and that distinguish it from other churches. Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.
Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.)

Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history.

Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy, and the churches that send out door-to-door missionaries are young compared to the Catholic Church. Many of these churches began as recently as the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Some even began during your own lifetime. None of them can claim to be the Church Jesus established.

The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin. It must be more than a merely human organization, especially considering that its human members— even some of its leaders—have been unwise, corrupt, or prone to heresy.

Any merely human organization with such members would have collapsed early on. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.

And...

The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13)

Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches with different beliefs (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but one spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church.

The Church Is Holy (Eph. 5:25–27, Rev. 19:7–8)

By his grace Jesus makes the Church holy, just as He is holy. This doesn’t mean that each member is always holy. Jesus said there would be both good and bad members in the Church (John 6:70), and not all the members would go to heaven (Matt. 7:21–23).

But the Church itself is holy because it is the source of holiness and is the guardian of the special means of grace Jesus established, the sacraments (cf. Eph. 5:26).

The Church Is Catholic (Matt. 28:19–20, Rev. 5:9–10)

Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20).

For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28).

Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19).

The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it probably went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

The Church Is Apostolic (Eph. 2:19–20)

The Church Jesus founded is apostolic because he appointed the apostles to be the first leaders of the Church, and their successors were to be its future leaders. The apostles were the first bishops, and, since the first century, there has been an unbroken line of Catholic bishops faithfully handing on what the apostles taught the first Christians in Scripture and oral Tradition (2 Tim. 2:2).

These beliefs include the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the forgiveness of sins through a priest, baptismal regeneration, the existence of purgatory, Mary’s special role, and much more —even the doctrine of apostolic succession itself.

Early Christian writings prove the first Christians were thoroughly Catholic in belief and practice and looked to the successors of the apostles as their leaders. What these first Christians believed is still believed by the Catholic Church. No other Church can make that claim.

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Answer 8

I'm assuming you mean Roman Catholics? Catholicism isn't the true church, it doesn't even follow the scriptures. There are books upon books written about this subject, and I'm sure you don't want me to post that much.

Answer 9

The only true church is made up of those people who love and are trusting God as their savior, asking Him to save and change them.

They are not found in only 1 denomination, but most likely there is at least a few in every denomination.

Answer 10

The only true church is the one that Christ himself speaks of in the new testament. The Church is to be the Bride of Christ and it is comprised of all who shall enter into Heaven. No earthly church is the true Church.