what the different between christan and catholic?

Question

i really dont know the different

Answer 1

christains are weridoooooooooooooooooooooo's

Answer 2

A Catholic is a Christian, technically the original Christian Church.

By 1500 several Orthodox religions in Russia, Greek, Romania and a few other places broke with Rome over a variety of issues.

King Henry VIII In England Broke with Rome over divorce or lack of it for him and started the Church of England.

Martin Luther, a Catholic Priest, broke Rome around the same period of time over "paying in advance to get out of sins" which Luther didn't believe in.

Luther's sect, Henry's Sect and those of the Annabpatists in Scandinavia and Wycliffe and others in France in England eventually became know as the

Reformists Movements or Protestants.

Protestants do not have a central church with a major leader, they are local congrigation driven, but sometimes subscribe to a centeral committee in a given nation that coordiantes and suggests things, but no one has to follow them.

Protestants accept divorce.

Protestants let ministers and Priest marry

Protestants let women become Ministers and PRiests and Bishops

Protestants don't follow rigid rules.

Protestants don't give high respect or credibility to the Virgin Mary

Protestants don't do a lot of kneeling, just standing and sitting and singing.

Protestatns don't confess sins, do stations at the cross or light candles.

Protestants can practise birth control.

Protestants READ the bible and MAKE UP their own minds.

Catholics HAVE to follow the edicts of the Pope in Rome.

Rome does not allow birth control, divorce, women clerics, married preists.

Protestatns based their bibles on the Catholic bibles, with some modifications from King James in England.

Protestatns base a lot of their holidays on the Catholics.

Greek and Russian Orthodox do not always, for example, celebrate Easter on the same day as Catholics or Protestants. The Eastern ORthodox keeps closer to the JEwish caldender methods for Easter.

All of these are considered Christians.

Catholics make up half the Christian faith. The Protestants as a whole make the up the other half, however no one PRotestant sect is much larger than 25% of this whole.

PRotestants are generally grouped by those sects who declare themsevlees Christians but not Catholic, hence Mormons and Christian Scientists are a aprt of the Protestant head count.

Answer 3

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 4

All Catholics are Christian. Only about half of Christians are Catholic.

The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus, who asked Peter to head his church. There is a direct line of succession from Peter to Pope Benedict.

At some point, the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church split off. They remain very similar in their beliefs -- with the Orthodox refusing to recognize the Pope as their leader.

In the 1500s, Martin Luther decided that the Catholic Church was on the wrong track. He also decided to delete several books from the Bible. This is why the Catholic Bible contains several books not in the Protestant Bible -- and explains why Catholics have several beliefs not shared by Protestants (like the existence of Purgatory, different levels of sin, the belief in Original Sin, and the idea that Mary remained a virgin for her entire life and had no other children (the Protestant belief that Mary had other children is due to a mistranslation from the Greek to English)).

All Protestant religions were founded by men who decided that other Christian religions were wrong and that their interpretation was right.

Incidently -- Catholics do not put Mary on the same level as Jesus. They believe that Jesus is God, and that Mary is a saint. They do not pray to Mary. They do ask Mary to Pray to Them. They also pray directly to God.

Catholics also do not ask Priests for forgiveness. They confess their sins directly to God. The priest is merely a witness and spiritual advisor.

Answer 5

Okay, there is the Christian faith which is the overall religion and that is broken down into two main factions. Catholic church (which has both Greek Orthodox and Roman catholic) and Protestant.

Within the Protestant faith, there are a LOT of different types of churches, including Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Evangelicals, Church of God, and a lot of other churches.

So, any of these churches can be part of the overall Christian religion, but only some of the churches and Chrisitans are part of the Catholic church.

Answer 6

Catholics are Christan. The religion you belong to as long as they believe in Jesus as the Christ, the savior, are Christan's. Mormons, Protestants, Baptists and many many more believe in the Lord Jesus and are Christan's. The difference is only in how they interpret different points of the bible.

Answer 7

There's a lot of differences that one could actually write a book listing the differences. So to answer your question without writing a book, but just to get you started to research if you're serious enough to learn deeper, I'll just quote one of the early Church Fathers' writings for the early christians.

Cyril of Jerusalem
"And if you ever are visiting in cities, do not inquire simply where the house of the Lord is--for the others, sects of the impious, attempt to call their dens 'houses of the Lord'--nor ask merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the name peculiar to this holy Church, the Mother of us all, which is the Spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God" (Catechetical Lectures 18:23 [A.D. 350]).

Answer 8

They say it is Paganism,making idols of so
called saints,wearing rosaries and praising
mary,when in the Bible mary herself admitted
she was blessed among all women,she had
adknoweledged she was a mere woman who
was no more special than other righteous
women. She believed God and served him,
and did not make herself equal to God,or
the Lord Jesus who she allowed to use her
body as a vessle to bring the Lord here to us.
I believe most if not all religions have some
pagan roots though and I don't trust most
religious leaders today,this is why it is me
and God now,and The holy Ghost & My Lord
Jesus Christ,amen.
I stay away from religion,because religion
means returning back to Babylon. Babylon
was extremely pagan. Paganism is a mix of
myths,witchcraft and idolatry just to list a
few.
"Foxes Book of Martrys" by John Foxe is an
excellent book for anyone who loves Jesus.
They now have copies made in todays english.
Those who really want to be closer to God
will enjoy this book no matter what religion
they come from,because it's not about
religion when you love Jesus,it is about him!!!

Answer 9

Anyone who believes that Jesus is the son of God who came to earth to die for our sins is a Christian. There are many different denominations of Christians and Catholics are one of them. Protestants are Christians as well and some of those religions are Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran.

All Christian churches have the basic belief in Jesus as our savior but the various denominations have slightly different ways of worshiping and different "rules" so to speak.

I personally belong to a non-denominational Christian Bible church. We get our beliefs and "rules" directly from the Bible, not rules made up by man.

Jews do not believe in Jesus and Muslims believe he existed but was just a prophet and not the son of God.

Answer 10

I am Roman Catholic and my husband is Christian. To us, there is a huge difference in the way mass takes place, but other than that, not much. We pray for the same things, but in a different manner. Catholics have certain prayers that have been taken from the bible. Christians use prayer with meaning, rather than focusing on tradition. Catholics have seven sacraments we are suppose to receive by the time we reach heaven...My christian huband, thinks this is nuts.

I think alot of the confusion is that Roman Catholics or Catholics in general are from old world religion that is built upon tradition and old school morals and values. Christians, although adhere to the same morals and values, they do it in a modern way.

I have been going to my husband's church with our children since shortly after we married. It wasn't that I turned my back on my Catholic upbringing, it was just that I walked out of Christian mass taking something with me. Like it made me think about what I could change in my life to do better serving God. When I went to catholic mass, I didn't have that feeling. I felt as though, I did my deed, and it was time to get back to life.

The way I see it, to each their own. As long as you believe in a higher power and you live your life knowing right from wrong and good from evil, we're gonna be okay.

Answer 11

NONE. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were the first Christian churches.

Catholics do not pray to the saints in the "worship" sense. They ask the saints just like they would anyone here on earth to pray for them. We just happen to think that those who are already in heaven might have more perfect prayers, as they already have that "Eternal Perspective" that we don't have.

ALL Catholics have their own personal relationships with Jesus, they might not say they are "saved" specifically because they express it as "getting closer to God" or some other way. WE DO NOT require anyone to put the Priest between them and GOD. That is false doctrine.

The doctrine that "sbuxlisa9" says is Catholic where Mary and Jesus are equal is an ancient heresy and any Catholic who believes it is a heretic and anyone teaching it would be Ex-communicated!