How can catholicism be a branch of christianity?

Question

Catholicism is not a branch of christianity nor is any other false doctrine religion like jehovah's witness, mormonism, or other lying false religions. Christianity is not divided. If catholicism were a branch of christianity, wouldnt that mean that christianity is better than catholicism, and why not just do the original religion and only religion which is christianity and only itself not tied to catholicism or any other nasty religion, eew. Just stop the lies please. Christian tanslates into "christ-like" which is one who is like and imitates Jesus Christ, and catholic can not mean the same thing. I heard it means "one who follows christ" which is different.

DONT GET IT TWISTED!!!

christianity was the first religion ever and then others were made to escape God. They lie and worship the wrong things.

Answer 1

I think you have it all twisted. Read the definitions below.

Christianity is a religion centered on Jesus of Nazareth, and on his life and teachings as presented in the New Testament. Christians believe Jesus to be the Messiah and God incarnate and thus refer to him as Jesus Christ.

Catholic - derived, through Latin, from the Greek adjective καθολικός, meaning "general", "UNIVERSAL"[1] - when used as a specifically Christian religious term, can have a number of meanings:
The Catholic church often refers to herself as the Mother church.

Now tell me Catholics are not Christians.

Most other churches fall into the PROTESTANT category, with the exception of some of perhaps the orthodox churches.

They are called protestant because they PROTESTED the teachings and ways of the Catholic church.

The history of the Catholic church ..... and your church (whatever it is) is rich and full of many twists and turns. I suggest you study it a little bit.

If you want some of the details of how your particualr church evolved from the Catholic church contact me with a valid email address and I will share it with you.

Answer 2

Christianity was not the first religion. Please study some history before writing that. Men started to find some questions early on, and the first 'gods' were some that they could imagine, like the sun, moon, storms, rain, etc.. They didn't have any reason to explain it, so they started workshiping them.

Then humanity started to grow, and intelectually also. The gods were more sophisticated, have reasons of their own, and some were good and some evil.

Then came the jews, claiming only one god. Christian is a very recent religion if you look at the whole human history.

Since it encompass a very big expanse of territory and cultures, sadly it has broken into several subreligions. Some of them were because at one time or another some people didn't accept the catholic rule and created their own religion or branch.

I think this has happened to other religions, not all jews are the same, and I don't know about muslims or asian religions. I'm not bashing anyone, or that's not my intention.

I think that Catholic means universal, and thats something that Jesus tried to bring to us, love everybody, not just your kin.

Answer 3

Catholics are Christian, long before your church was ever an idea.The first Protestant church came out of the Catholic church via Marten Luther. Other denominations soon followed. You may imitate Christ, which is good, but let me assure you, you will never be like Christ. Not in this lifetime. He is the only one without sin. Imitating and following are very much the same and are good. No difference. Sounds like you are a very young Christian, which I very much respect. Please talk to your pastor about this, as I'm sure he can make you understand. God bless.

Answer 4

Evangelical Christianity believes that salvation is by faith alone. While the Roman Catholic which means universal believes that salvation is via good works. And the latter derives or seated with the pope as the head of the church. One can not claim that theirs is the true religion. To be christian is to believe in God. So Catholics are christians too. But not all christians are Catholics. Religion along with politics is very controversial. A lot of wars and crimes and fights have occured because of religions. The Jewish religion came first about 200,000 yrs before Islam and about 100,000 yrs before christianity.

Answer 5

morobell,
You lack knowledge. That's what you are essentially saying. Catholicism might put itself first, but I don't. I am a Protestant.

Catholicism shares many beliefs with Christianity. They believe that Jesus is the Son of God. They believe that he rose from the dead. They say that He is the Word of God. They say that He was from the beginning.

These things are some of the main aspects of Christianity. They makeup the core belief as to who is who in respect to the universe, and the order of things.

Roman Catholicism goes wrong in many places. But those things that I lined up for you are basic.

You might consider that for when you ask your next question.

Answer 6

Catholicism and Easter Orthodoxy are the two oldest forms of Christianity. They both branched off from the tradition of the original Jesus followers. About 500 years ago, Martin Luther came along, and the new branches of Christianity came along. Lutherans, Anabaptists, Calvinists, and so forth all sprung from Catholicism.

I have no idea where you got your information, but if you are any type of Protestant Christian, it started off in Catholicism. Even the "non-denominational" churches can thank Martin Luther for the break, who must thank Catholicism for his roots too.

Answer 7

Catholics were, indeed, first. Created, developed, founded and modified by disciples Peter, Paul and John for the first few years.

Then the church just sort of moved on until Constantine saw an opporutunity for world domination by religion, rather than some poltical Emprire, although this relgion would certainly benefit his Poltical empries in Constantinople!

By 4 AD the church was moving great guns, but was alienating Greeks and Russians and others.

Between 1100 and 1500 there were many splits and calls for change.

Germany's leaders saw an opportunity to weaken the Roman church, which taxed them, ruled them and made them kiss the ring.

They protected Martin Luther and he started the Protestants, which also encomapeld King Henry's new Church of England, Wycliffe's movements, Calvin's movement and the Anabapits.

By 1600 the Roman Empire was diminshing in size.

PRIOR to all of this was the JEwish religion and the Baptist views of John The Baptist, who was a Jewish person who just liked to baptise.

Many baptists don't consider themselves Christian, because Jesus was converted by THEM while still alive!

Answer 8

catholicism, protestants, baptists, etc all have one thing in common. They all believe that Jesus Christ is their lord and savior; therefore, they are all denominations of christianity. Despite that, each denomination has various rules, some similar and others different. Don't believe me? Look at the below statement i found at Wilkipedia under the heading "Christian Denomination."

"Christianity is composed of four major divisions of Churches: Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Protestant. Denomination typically refers to one of the many Chrisitan churches."

You know, its pretty sad that I know more about this than you considering I'm an atheist.

Answer 9

Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 10

back in the dark ages, the bible was not available to the common poeple, no printers or copiers, so they people had to rely onthe preists to tellthem what was in the bible, yet those prisests become corrupt and lied tothe people for thier own benefit,
then when martin luther came around and made the bible public diferent people translated and intpretted the bible a little different and that where we get lutherans and catholics and babtist and all those demonimations...... the bible still says the same stuff, but how we as poeple who know nothing comapered to God interpret it causes the differences.. who right and whos wrong?? i guess we will see in the afterlife
any one who believes in christ is a christian, but basiclaly how you like you church service/mass/ w/e to be held decides what denomination you are