Jesus.. is he a catholic, or a protestant?

Question

why do you make such a differences in one believe?

Answer 1

He was definitely a protestant in His day. He would never allow idolatry. I can not see Him as a Catholic-just too many problems.

Didn't He go to the Baptist church to get baptized????

Answer 2

Jesus is God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

There are some minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

He was of course Jewish, The Christian church was just that for 1100 years just one church, the Church of the East or the Church of the West divided. But in general they were what we would consider today as Catholic but they were merely considered Christian ( be it catholic just means universal)

in 1100 the church of the East ( what we know today as the Orthodox Churches) and the church of the West ( what we know today as the Catholic Church)

There were of course small groups of people with some beliefs outside of the main stream but none of them really close to what we would consider as a church from todays time.

It was not untill 1500 that Luther was forced by the Catholic Church to leave the church and then used by the political powers of Germany to form thier own church.

After this various other people and groups started breaking away. The term protestant was given to these groups by the Catholic Church meaning one who is in protest and it was not considered a "nice" term when it was started in use.

But both Catholic and Protestant are all christain but have varoius ideas of types of service and some differences in beliefs

Answer 4

To really answer this questions you'd have to read a lot. Either that or simply go to 9th grade history class.

My first response is: Jesus was Jewish. When he was a man. When he walked this Earth he was both -
*true God and true Man*.

That's a division right there in beliefs between protestants, catholics, other protestants, and yes...even other catholics (more than one catholic church...sadly). Further divisions will be marked with a *

From an absolutely secular point of view, history, without the lies will tell you this:

From Judaism came Jesus. Jesus went about and he formed his church. Made up of: Judeo-Christians. Meaning- Jewish people who were christians. They also consisted of the gentiles who converted, who were also christians.
*Peter was left in charge*
(Matt 16:18, John 21:15-17 )

He became the Bishop of Antioch and later the Bishop of Rome. This church was known as the *universal* church. Catholic means universal. At this point that's what it was referred to. Not the Roman Catholic church. Not even when Peter became the Bishop of Rome.

Around 1054 A.D. there was a split in the church. Thus forming the Eastern Othodoxy. There were five different patriarchs of the church. One being Rome were Peter sat. Peter was supposed to have more power than the rest as that's how Jesus appointed it. The Eastern Othodoxy part of the church diagreed, and followed the other 4 patriarchs rather than Peter. Even still the Eastern Orthodoxy was still considered on both sides to be part of the universal/catholic church. It was at that time the "Roman" was added to the Catholic church. To differentiate between those who followed under the holy see of Rome and those who did not.

In 1534 King Henry VIII decided he wanted to get a divorce. Which, under Catholic doctrine, is not allowed. His grounds were he wanted a son and his wife kept having girls. He'd already cheated on his wife and found a replacement. However, he was refused by St. Thomas Moore. A martyr. Eventually, he split from rome forming the Anglican (England/Anglican) church. Were basically he was the pope. The rules were pretty much the same except he was able to have his divorce. For more on this subject see: A Man for all Seasons. Very good movie.

In 1584 A.D. Martin Luther discovered an old church document on sanctifying grace. He had no intention on splitting the church. He was trying to increase the love rather than the judgement. Unfortunately, he crossed the line by writing documents that contradicted scripture and tradition(i.e. Jesus). Thus making him heretical. He put his own opinion above what God had made known. He was ex-communicated and his followers followed him out into what was dubbed the Lutheran Church. The name stuck. Although, Lutherans still believe in living the christian life. They believe in sticking to the rules. They have less emphasis on hell for those who believe. The heresy was that they got rid of confession. They said the sacrament of reconciliation was not necessary.

After the Lutheran scandal the whole church split even more. You have the Bishops that left and they formed the Episcopalian church (Episcopal means bishop in Latin). You have the priests(presbyters) who left, who formed the Presbytarian church. Then you have the Deacons...unfortunately I can not remember the name of the church they formed.

Then of course you have Jean Baptiste who started the original baptist church. Later came the southern baptists. Completely different from the original baptists.

Today you have something like 33,000 different christian denominations.

side note: the idea that you could say the "sinners prayer" and be forgiven and let into heaven forever, no matter what your actions, did not come to be until the 1950's. I heard that bullsh... my whole life and I never wanted to become a christian because of that. Now I know it's a lie. Just as I knew before.

Now I'm done with history. Why are the differences so important? Because if you are a Christian, then you believe Jesus is God (or you don't...unfortunately). If Jesus is God and he walked this Earth he did some things. Like, excert the culmination of the whole entirety of the jewish faith. As a part of this he served a purpose to us. He taught us things. He taught his disciples things. He established a church. He was no just an idea. The disciples did not have an invisible friend. He really walked the Earth, did what it said he did, and died on a cross. Which means there's certain rules and guidelines that he taught us. If you go read the Sermon on the Mount you will see. If you were not to listen to what Jesus said and believe a lie somebody else told you, you risk going to hell. Do you want to go to hell? No, of course you don't. People don't want to hear they are going to hell. They don't even like to say it. Look around at the world people. Hell is going on everyday. Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory all start right now. The steps you take are in the direction of where you're going. ....I'm currently spinning around in circles....

If you're at a stoplight, and your friend convinces you that red means go and green means stop, when the light turns red you have a strong likelihood of running into another car. Now, you might just get a ticket. You might just wreck your car. However, you also might kill you, your friend, and somebody else in another car. All because you let someone convince you red was green.

As mind boggling as it may seem, people want to convince you red is green everyday. They want to tell you that things that will kill you will not. They want to feed you lies and call it enlightenment. They want to create total anarchy and destruction and tell you it's freedom. Unfortunately there's a difference between freedom, morality, and responsibility. You may have the freedom to abort a baby, but you don't deserve the RIGHT. No more than you deserve the right to kill a person walking down the street.

I have a friend who is very promiscuous. He in fact sleeps with under age girls. He does many other things against God. God is not first in his life. Yet, he will preach Jesus to you for hours. However, he doesn't know as much as he thinks he knows. Because at the end of the day he will tell you he's saved, so why is his life so horrible? He wants to know what he's done to God to deserve this punishment. Yet, what he doesn't understand is that he's a slave to his compulsions. Like so many of us. God is not punishing him no more than he's punishing himself. Neither does he understand suffering and why, although not necessarily necessary, it is an inevitable part of life. The very basic understandings of Christianity teach you about the Cross. Why you must understand the meaning of the cross.

Did I make it clear enough? Because I certainly made it long enough. God bless.

Answer 5

Jesus was sent by God to show Jews the right path which is worshipping God alone. Unfortunatley Jews tried killing him but God lifted Jesus up to heaven and replaced him by a Jew who was physically changed by God to look like Jesus. That Jew was cruxified and now Jesus is Heaven with all the other mortal prophets sent down by God.

Answer 6

Actually, neither, he's a Jew. One God, but many different religions because God scattered the people across the globe and changed their dialect so there would be variety in the world.

Answer 7

He's neither. The term Christian was first used to describe the followers of Jesus - those who believed in Him and listened to His teachings. They didn't give this name to themselves. It was given to them by non-believers. Jesus is not a "follower" of himself. He is the Son of God. He has no denomination.

Answer 8

Neither-complete fiction. Although according to the fiction he would have been Jewish-but only by ancestry. He wasn't really any religion, just a (made-up)cultist that was later idolized.

Answer 9

Jesus is the head of the mystical body of Christ and the advocate for the whole church.

Answer 10

Neither. Jesus was a practicing Jew.