How are Catholic and Christian the same/different?

Question

Cause i have a friend that is Catholic and i dont want to say anything cause i might feel like i will offend him and yeah

Answer 1

Technicaly there the same thing. Catholics where the first christians before the church split up. Think of catholics as Mystical christaians. If you dont want to offend your friend your best bet is to talk to him\her about it. Or if you dont want to do that just dont talk about mary, the pope, imply that any one of the 7 sacraments is wrong (baptism reconciliation communion marriage holy orders sacrament of the sick confermation), stay away from abortion gay marriage euthinasia and stem cell reserch which are all hot button isuess for catholics.

Catholics belive that mary was born with out original sin and that it is appropriate to pray to mary to intercede for you (not worship her just pray to her to pray for you because god must follow his own rules and that meens doing what mommy tells you to) We belive that the pope is the head of the church like peter which was passed down for hundreds of generations. We belive that during comunion the bread is myticaly transformed into jesus (hard to understand but its whats at the core of our belife) who is "veiled" by the bread.

About confesion The bible says "what ever you bind on earth is bound in heaven" jesus said talking to his diciples. Talking about confessing your sins for the priest to bind them as forgivin and giving you penence aka prayers to say. this quote also goes to the whole idea of the pope leading the church.

I hope that helps you out. God Bless

Answer 2

cath·o·lic (kăth'ə-lĭk, kăth'lĭk)
adj.
1. Of broad or liberal scope; comprehensive: “The 100-odd pages of formulas and constants are surely the most catholic to be found” (Scientific American).
2. Including or concerning all humankind; universal: “what was of catholic rather than national interest” (J.A. Froude).
3. Catholic
a. Of or involving the Roman Catholic Church.
b. Of or relating to the universal Christian church.
c. Of or relating to the ancient undivided Christian church.
d. Of or relating to those churches that have claimed to be representatives of the ancient undivided church

Chris·tian (krĭs'chən)
adj.
1. Professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
2. Relating to or derived from Jesus or Jesus's teachings.
3. Manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus; Christlike.
4. Relating to or characteristic of Christianity or its adherents.
5. Showing a loving concern for others; humane.
n.
1. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
2. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus.

I have learned from my pastor that the word catholic originally meant the universal Christian church and does not have anything to do with the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholics have divided themselves from other Christian religions thinking that they are the one true church which is nowhere to be found in the Bible.

What are you afraid of saying that you would think offend him? I think it's offensive that Catholics say they are the one true church to protestants without knowing the history of where that statement came from. If they studied where that came from, they would find out it's not in the Bible at all.

Answer 3

Catholics and Christians(Protestants) are basically the same I think in that we all believe in the Trinity. I think the difference comes into play on some major thinks like salvation by grace ALONE and not works. Protestants don't believe in confession because when Christ died on the cross he enabled us to go to the Father in prayer with the help of the HOLY SPIRIT. So why confess to a man who is a sinner just like you. He has no power to forgive or anything, he is just a man. If you do a study on the reformation and learn about Martin Luther, it will give you a great understanding of why the Church split and the differences between the Catholics and the Protestants. Both groups are Christian. Protestants don't believe in praying to Saints either.

Answer 4

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

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 many 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 5

Not everyone who belongs to a Church or claims to be Christian is a Christian.

All true Christians are Catholic. Not all Roman Catholics are Christians.

Answer 6

What a line between the 2! But I would just like to say, that it would appear to me that Catholics believe without questioning what has been handed down by men for centuries. Heard of the inquisition? Made me sick to my stomach. They have man made dogmas and traditions. To be frank I disagree w/ everything the catholics stand for. True Christians, strive & learn the truth, and the truth is the word, and the word is love. Spread the word of love, it's the only thing Jesus wanted us to learn, & I'm just not sure the Catholics understood that. They do a lot of judging, condemning & commit quite a bit of hypocrisy w/ the pedophilia & attempts to hide it. My only solace in what they had done to those innocent kids is that "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord." Believe in that, we are to love each other, that's all I'm trying to say, Catholics only seem to love catholics. They believe (as a lot of churches do) that they are the one & only church the "mother church" even, I strongly disagree. But that's the difference, I can agree to disagree, they just condemn u if you don't agree.

sorry so long!

Answer 7

Catholicism is a form of Christianity. Other examples would be Protestantism (Lutheran, Evangelical, Episocopalian, Baptist, etc) Eastern Orthodoxy, Fundamentalism...

You can check wikipedia for the various differences in faith, edicts and practice.

For example, women cannot be Catholic priests but in other Christian faiths they can. Catholic priests are not allowed to marry but Episcopalian priests are.

Answer 8

Roman Catholicism is the oldest denomination of Christianity. All other denominations branched from the original.
You can trace all others back to human ancestry except Roman Catholicism whose lineage extend back to Jesus Christ.
God Bless.

Answer 9

We are all the creation of God, If we do not respect a person just because they have a different faith as we do, our God is dead in us, and can not come to life, till we start living his, and lay ours down.
Your place is to love, unconditional, to except her, just as Christ did you. Your loving God, in the way you have self control, will lead her to Christ. That is a promise. That is fact.
So love, you will reap it for eternity.
Be Blessed,
And be a blessing to your friend. Your the only Christ she sees.
Let her find him powerful in you.
Your both creations of God. Made in Gods image. Stand on that word.
It will happen.
Your different, only because you made a choice to be that way.
Your both the same, only you know the truth.
Its deeper then you and me.
Love is the key.
Not put down. Both have a purpose in life, whats yours. then you can ask that.

Answer 10

The various non-Catholic of the Jesus cults symbolically cannibalize the corpse and symbolically drink the blood of their dead god during communion and the Catholic cultists transform the wafer and wine into the actual (in their mind) body and blood of their dead god , making them actual cannibals.