explain why both the bible and the magisterium are important sources of authority for Roman Catholics?

Question

also...

descrie how the main features of a roman catholic church building helps believers to worship. do not refer to statues in your answer.

roman catholics should do all the church tells them do you agree?

explain what the apostles creed says about jesus.

explain the importance for christians of christmas and epiphany or holy week and easter.

what you believe is more important than what you do do you agree?

Information isn't actually for me... I got an A at GCSE and I'm actually a catholic however just seem to have misplaced a lot of information. I'm an embarrassment to my religion!

Answer 1

That's no good. That's like 10 questions rolled into one. Seriously. And I could spend hours on just the first question...sorry not doing it.

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shadowgirl

Answer 2

The Catholic Church does not use Holy Scripture as the only basis of doctrine. It could not. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time that the New Testament was written (by Catholics).

There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about 400 AD.

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is guiding the church today) to make the correct choices about things like:
+ The Holy Trinity (which is also only hinted at in the Bible)
+ Going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments)
+ The Communion of Saints
+ Which writings include in the New Testament?

Things that are even more modern like
+ Slavery is bad. Slavery is never declared evil in the Bible. This is one of the justifications for slavery in the Confederate States.
+ Democracy is good. The Bible states that either God should be the leader of the nation like Israel before the kings or kings should be the leader, "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's." This was talked about a lot during the American Revolution.

This second source of doctrine is called Holy Tradition.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Sure.....
ok i think this is going to be a long answer....

Jesus told gave his apostles the power to forgive sins and the power to bind and loose. Peter being the head of them having the later power. They went about proclaiming the word of God to fellow beleivers and this was the first Christian Church, with Peter as the head the and the apostels underneath him. Before they died Peter handed down his authority to another man as did the rest of the apostles to continue the ministry. Jesus said the Gates of the netherworld shall not prevail agaisnt his church. Peter as head of the Church was the first Pope, the apostles being the first bishops. This is how tradition has been handed down, through them, (the magisterium)
The bible, the Word of God, and this tradition handed down by the apostles, is the basis for all teachings of the church. In a sentence, the BIble is the source of teachings, and the magisterium is the Teaching authority of the Church.

As for ytour second question im not sure exactly what you mean. But ill do my best to describe the basic elements of a Catholic Church and their purposes.
While teh outward appearance and structure of the churches vary they all have a few thigns in common. There are pews with kneelers. The kneelers are tehre for the Holy Scarifice of the mass. When the preists consecrates the Bread and wine into the Body blood soul and divinity of Jesus, the congregation kneels. If there are not kneelers you may also stand and bow. there is also somehtign that looks like a golden "box". This is the tabernacle. Ill explain its purpose. After the preist has consecrated (changed) the bread and wine into the body and blood, he distributes them to the congreagation. There is ussually always some left over. The preist drinks the rest of the Blood and then places the concecrated bread into the tabernacle. Thereis a red candle beside the tabernacle to let the people know if Jesus' body is in the tabernacle. If its lighted, the Eucharist is present inside. Then the congreation knows to genuflect before the tebernacle (Most people misunderstand this and assume we are kneeling at a statue or something, but we are kneeling before our Lord). There is an alter which is where teh preist concecrates the bread and wine and there is a pulpit where there are readings from the old and new testement, includin a Gospel reading. There is a minimum of 2 candles on the alter. I hope this was somewhat informative but i didnt understand the question

Roman Catholic should not beleive everything a priest or Bishop or even the Pope says to them. The only thing Catholics should beelive 100% that the Church says is her Doctrine. All of the Churches doctrines are unchanging and infallible. The Magisterium is responsible for devoping such doctrines and the Popespeaks infallibly when he declares a doctrine to be true. But this is the ONLY time we beleive him to be infallible, because he is guided by the Holy Spirit. An example of Such a Doctrine is the Churches Stance on abortion.

Here is what the apostles creed says about Jesus...

I beleive......In Jesus Christ his only son our LOrd, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified died and was buried. He desended into Hell. On the third day he rose from the dead, he assended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the father almighty. From thence he shall come to Judge the living and the dead......

The Church celebrates the Birth of Jesus on December 25th. This is the day Christ was born of Mary to redeem the World. The importance of this is self explanatory. The Epiphany is when the "wise men" came and Gave Jesus their gifts. This is important becuase it showed that other kings recognized the Christ child, even as a Baby as a KIng. This could only have been recognized by divine intervention. Easter is the day Jesus Rose from the dead. 3 Days after Good Friday, when he died for our sins on the cross. It is the day Jesus fufilled what he said about rising in 3 days and to fufill many other scriptures!

I do not beleive that what you beleive is more important than what you do. But i do think, if you truely believe in something, such as Jesus, You will follow his will. So obviously what you beleive is very important, but worthless if you do not follow your beleifs.


I hope this has informed you on what you wanted to know about the Catholic Church, and i hope i havnt been to confusing. :)

You can contact me with mroe specific questions...or sjut ask the questions on yahoo amswers and i will try to answer them.

God Bless,
Shane

Answer 4

All your questions are answered in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So this is where you start.

Answer 5

You need to buy Catholicism for Dummies. It is well written and simple like all the dummies books.

The bible for Dummies may be useful too.

Answer 6

it would take far to long to give meaningful reply to your questions

Answer 7

you forgot to mention the mafia

Answer 8

it's called faith.
and what you do is more important then what you believe.