like when you say you're catholic some goes well i'm a christian. if you beleive in Jesus Christ then that makes you a christian and since Catholics do believe in Him that makes us Chritians to...i explain that but still they wont get it...i dont get it now!?
2006-10-21 13:51:46 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All catholics are christian. Not all christians are catholic. Catholicism is a type of christianity.
2006-10-21 13:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not all do.
It is Catholic Church Doctrine that is the problem. Two major examples are; Purgatory, and Praying to Mary, and the saints.
The idea of Limbo denies the sufficency of Christs work on the cross. Did he not say him self "It is finnished!" ?
The idea of purgatory was an idea invented by a certain early church leader to increase the amount of monies put into the coffers. Check it out for your self.
And the Bible it's self says that there is only one intercessor between God and man. That is jesus. There is only one name under Heaven by which men can be saved. That is Jesus the Christ.
I know many Catholics that are good Christians.
As usual I say don't believe what other people tell you about things. Check them out for your self. many times you will expose a liar, and many times you will find more truth than you were looking for in the first place.
( By the way, the Catholic church is now about to once and for all rid it's self of the doctrine of purgatory.)
2006-10-21 14:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by yiddishlion 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Christian church is a juggernaut that has been swayinig and bending it's way though history for a long time. Many of these divisions happened because of political moves centuries ago. I know that at one point Christianity was so very angry with the Pope - who at the time seemed to lead all christians - that they established a second one in France. Certainly the Church of England broke away from the established christain church largely because they didn't want to answer to rome either.
So you get a feeling that Catholicism - which started in about 800 AD as I understand it - is what a lot of other christian churches were trying to distance themselves from, as people evolved and other cultures were assimilated into the "machine" as it were. Which is as it should be. Christianity has withstood an awful lot in the last 2000 years and she lives - highly diversified and hard to say if it stuck to the original messages, but she lives none the less, in all her guises.
Peace!
2006-10-21 14:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by carole 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your definition of Christian. Most non-Catholic Christian denominations accept Catholics as Christians. A very few do not.
A dictionary would say that a Christian is someone professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
Catholics would fit this definition.
We accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We are baptized as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:19, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
We truly are spiritually "born again," we just don't usually use those words.
In the Nicene creed, from 325 A.D., Catholics profess:
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.
Through Him all things were made.
For us and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried.
On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-21 14:17:53 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Protestants are in competition with Catholicism, and mudslinging is just one of their methods.
Many protestants regard the Bible as the inerrant word of God. In their view, if you dispute anything in the Bible, you're calling God a liar. They like to point out that Catholics don't follow the Bible as they do.
That is true, but the Bible is simply regarded differently by Catholics, who regard it as an important work, but not the last word.
I look at it this way. The Bible was compiled by the Catholic Church. How can such a work have greater authority than the institution which produced it?
I think Martin Luther, and others like him, were right to take the Catholic Church to task, for failing to live up to it's own teachings, but it would be rather like someone accusing the President of the U.S. of not following the U.S. Constitution, or a charity failing to live up to it's own mission statement.
In case anyone is curious, I am not a Christian at all.
2006-10-21 14:03:27 · answer #5 · answered by Allen Montgomery 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Simply not knowing. I was raised in a Protestant church where Catholics were held up as evil, and it wasn't until I was doing my own research in high school that I found out where Protestantism had come from. The church doesn't give history lessons, and most American schools these days, even high schools, don't teach much beyond American history. Between lack of information and the assertion by many Protestants that Catholics are an evil idol-worshiping sect...yep.
2006-10-21 14:01:16 · answer #6 · answered by angk 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are correct Roman Catholics ARE Christian (tech the first Christian).
Bring your studies up to sometime when Luther was upset enough and separated from the church, starting the Protestant Reformation!
This chaged so many things I can't write them. Also smarter people can explain this correctly.
Anyway this is where I think Christians started to establish their identity apart from Catholics.
2006-10-21 14:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do Catholics insist that Baptist are Protestant? They are not.
Many people consider the Catholic church a pseudo-Christian cult. It looks and acts sometimes Christian, but does things that are not Christian.
The Catholic church places Mary (an ordinary woman) between God and man. This one act alone qualifies them as a cult, and disqualifies them as Christian. Priest forgive sin-blasphemous! The word of the pope and traditions of the church are placed above the authority of God-breathed scripture (Bible).
There are many serious Christian people in the Catholic church, no doubt. But Catholicism is a cult-no doubt. There is a lot more-but this will get you started if you are looking for the right answer.
2006-10-21 14:02:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is because evangelical christians think that if you don't believe exactly like them you are not Christian. That is where they are wrong. There are many Christians that don't believe the same as the evangelical christians.
I personally am a Christian and I don't believe the things the evengelical Christians teach about Jesus Christ. They have a lot of thinks wrong according to the way I think.
2006-10-21 14:01:29 · answer #9 · answered by J T 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Haha, wasn't it a Catholic Pope who commissioned the Bible and wasn't it the Catholic church that spread the word until the Protestants broke away to form a new sect? Seems you're talking to fairly ignorant people, eh.
PS - all christian religions make up man made rules and biblical interpretations. Catholics just seem to do a little more of it than others.
2006-10-21 13:57:02 · answer #10 · answered by Alex62 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
More is required of true Christians than a mere confession of faith. It is necessary that belief be demonstrated by works. (Ro 10:10; Jas 2:17, 26) What It Means to Be a Christian? Jesus extended the invitation to be his follower, saying: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and continually follow me.” (Mt 16:24) Their lives and conduct shows by how they live whether at work, family, school etc, that one is a follower of Christ.
They must keep themselves clean from fornication, from idolatry, and from eating blood. (Ac 15:20, 29) They strip off old personalities with their fits of anger, obscene talk, lying, stealing, drunkenness, and “things like these,” and they bring their lives into accord with Bible principles. (Ga 5:19-21; 1Co 6:9-11; Eph 4:17-24; Col 3:5-10)
Christians are to be kind and considerate, mild-tempered and long-suffering, lovingly exercising self-control. (Ga 5:22, 23; Col 3:12-14) They provide and care for their own and love their neighbors as themselves. (1Ti 5:8; Ga 6:10; Mt 22:36-40; Ro 13:8-10)
The main identifying quality by which true Christians are recognized is the outstanding love they have toward one another. “By this,” Jesus said, “all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”—Joh 13:34, 35; 15:12, 13.
True Christians imitate Jesus’ example as the Great Teacher and Faithful Witness of Jehovah. (Joh 18:37; Re 1:5; 3:14) “Go . . . make disciples of people of all the nations” is their Leader’s command. (Mt 28:19, 20) In carrying it out, Christians ‘witness publicly and from house to house,’ urging people everywhere to flee out of Babylon the Great and put their hope and confidence in God’s Kingdom. (Ac 5:42; 20:20, 21; Re 18:2-4)
Christians render to “Caesar” what belongs to the superior authorities of this world—honor, respect, tax—but at the same time they remain separate from this world’s affairs (Mt 22:21; Joh 17:16; Ro 13:1-7), and for this the world hates them.—Joh 15:19; 18:36; 1Pe 4:3, 4; Jas 4:4; 1Jo 2:15-17.
2006-10-21 14:11:26 · answer #11 · answered by jvitne 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋