Do you believe Catholics and Biblical Christians are the same thing? I see Muslims blaming Christians for the crusades of the Catholic church. Is there a difference?
2006-09-16 10:42:32 · 11 answers · asked by TubeDude 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes and no.
All Catholics are Christians. But not all Christians are Catholics.
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.
2006-09-17 15:05:14 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are of course Christians, and the original Christians (together with Othodox and some other Easter Christians), so i don't know who you mean with "Christians". But of course there are Christians that are not Catholics, so you might for example call them "other Christians", "non-Catholic Christians" or specify which kind of Christians you're talking about, for example Lutheran Christians, Baptists, Pentecostals, or whatever.
If you by "Biblical Christians" mean all those evangelical Christians that base their faith not on the Church and the Revelation of Christ, but on the book that tells about the same, then maybe it's relevant to categorize them different from traditional or mainstream Christians (Catholics, Orthodox, and the like).
2006-09-16 18:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by juexue 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes us the same are the essentials.Those are,the belief in God the Father,his Son from all eternity,Jesus,and the Holy Spirit. That Jesus was born of a virgin sinless,that He died for our sins was crucified,was 3 days in the tomb and rose from the dead.Those are the essentials. We can disagree on other things,and it's traditions etc,it's when other churches stray from the essentials that they are now Non-Christian cults.Mormons and jehovah Witlesses don't believe in the eternal diety of Jesus.They believe he was the physical son of God but had to attain Godhood,and his blood was shed for sin when he sweated drops of blood and that the cross means nothing(hence no cross on their steeples,just a stick).The J.W.s believe he was the angel Michael who became God's son and that he rose in the spirit(like a ghost) and not in the body.I suggest a good reading of John Chapter 2.
All the Christians that were in the Crusades were Catholic,because that was the dominant Christian sect in Europe then (others might face big trouble).They rightly tried to and were sucessful for over 100 yrs of taking back Jerusalem from the Muslims.Israel was never a Muslim territory.It was Caananitic(Jebusites),Jewish, and part of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Constantine at least.The Jews and the Christians base their religion in Jerusalem.The Muslims had no rights to Jerusalem at all.The Christians were in no way perfect during the Crusades but what war is without it's atrocities?
2006-09-16 18:08:26 · answer #3 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are Christians. Protestants (Biblical Christians? What malarkey is this? Y'all are Protestants, buddy, deal with it.) broke off from the Catholic church when Martin Luther nailed his list of complaints to the church door. It's all there in any high school history book.
Seeing as there was only one Christian church in the time of the crusades, I'd say they have just as much right to blame you for the crusades as you have a right to blame them for the terrorist acts of Muslim extremists.
2006-09-16 17:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Technically, anyone that believes in Christ is a Christian. That said there are two main branches -- Catholics and Protestants (both of which have a wide array of belief systems themselves).
2006-09-16 17:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by jered_gold 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They may say they are both christians but the difference is in the way they both do communion. So as you can see this is what seperates the two faith's is the communion.
Catholics: believe that the Eucharist is the body of Jesus Christ.
Christians: Take communion as in rememberance to Jesus Christ.
2006-09-16 18:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no they are not one , some are catholics ,Orthodox ,others are protestant
i don't blame eastern christian for the crusade wars or the current war against Islam but i blame who ever participate or helped in widening the gap between ppl
2006-09-16 17:57:20 · answer #7 · answered by SARAH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are Christians, since they believe that Christ is God's son.
2006-09-16 17:50:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Difference yes
Some Catholics are Christians.
Catholic religion doesn't accept anyone not Catholic(they do offer some tolerance of other religions).
Check history to find Christian term stated in Antioch.
Find out where and when the Catholics started.
2006-09-16 17:50:50 · answer #9 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
1. I think they are both "Christian."
2. Muslims, the Seljuk Turks, actually started the Crusades by invading Christian territories.
2006-09-16 17:46:09 · answer #10 · answered by Easy B 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋