What the difference between a christian and a catholic?

Question

I somehow think they are the same, i dunno but people tell me that they have different beliefs. Care to elaborate?

Answer 1

Christians follow the Bible to the letter; Catholics don't. Explanation:

Jesus said that love would be an identifying mark of true Christianity. He even told his followers to love their enemies. Many Catholics are in the armed services where they slaughter their fellow man.

Jesus said not to call one another "Father" in a spiritual sense. The Pope (from the Latin word for "father") and Catholic priests are called "Father" by their church members.

Jesus was a simple man--even poor by the world's standards. "The Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head." Matt. 8:20. In Vatican City, the Pope lives in total luxury. And his robes are very expensive.

The Pope is called "Holy Father"--a title that belongs to God only.

The Catholics have all kinds of idols that are used in worship. 1 John 5:21 says to "guard yourselves from idols."

Catholics venerate "saints" as intercessors with God. They also look to Mary as an intercessor with God. At John 14:6, Jesus said: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Catholics are involved in the political affairs of the nations. Jesus told his followers that they would be "no part of the world." John 15:19

The Catholics were the ones that brought false religion into Christianity when they absorbed paganistic festivals that later became known by names such as Christmas, Easter and Halloween.

Catholicism has had a major role in corrupting Christianity.

Answer 2

All Catholics are Christian but not all Christians are Catholic. Up until the Reformation led by Martin Luther in the 1600s, all Christians were Catholic. As a result of the Reformation, there was a large group that split off from the Catholic Church and became various sects of Protestants, each believing their own thing and that Catholicism was bad.

Answer 3

Catholics are Christian. All Christians who aren't Catholic are Protestants (included in this group are Methodists, Anglicans, Baptists, Pentecostals, on and on). The main--but not only--difference is that Catholics accept papal authority, and Protestants do not. There are other variations but this is the largest and easiest to understand.

Answer 4

Catholic is one type of religion but a christian can from many different religions including the Catholic religion.

Answer 5

A Catholic is a Christian so I'm not sure I understand the question?

Answer 6

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Christian is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, referred to as Christ. Christians believe Jesus to be the Son of God, who lived a life befitting that of the creator of the universe, free of sin and full of love, who at the end of his earthly life was crucified, and then on the third day, rose from the dead, and later ascended into heaven. These beliefs are held by the vast majority of Christian denominations

Catholic - derived, through Latin, from the Greek adjective καθολικός, meaning "general", "universal" (cf. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon) - when used as a specifically Christian religious term, can have a number of meanings:

In common parlance the term most often refers to the members, beliefs, and practices of the Church that is in full communion with the Pope (Bishop of Rome). It comprises the Latin Rite and twenty-two Eastern Rite Catholic Churches. The Eastern Catholic particular Churches include the Ukrainian, Greek, Greek Melkite, Maronite, Ruthenian Byzantine, Coptic Catholic, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, Chaldean, and Ethiopic Rites.
It is used in reference to the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is sometimes known as the Orthodox Catholic Church. This Church includes the Russian, Greek, Antiochian and other Orthodox Churches that are in communion with each other. The Orthodox Catholic Church claims to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is the second largest Christian denomination after Roman Catholicism.
Both the Oriental Orthodox and the Assyrian Church of the East also consider that the description "Catholic" applies to them.
Most Reformation and post-Reformation Churches use the term Catholic (sometimes with a lower-case c) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word "catholic"/"universal" to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the phrase "holy catholic church" in the Apostles' Creed.
The term is used also to mean those Christian Churches which maintain that their Episcopate can be traced unbrokenly back to the Apostles, and consider themselves part of a broad catholic (or universal) body of believers. Among those who regard themselves as "Catholic", but not "Roman Catholic" , are Anglicans, and some small groups such as the Old Catholic Church, the Polish National Catholic Church, the Independent Catholic, the Ancient Catholic and Liberal Catholic Churches, as well as Lutherans (though the latter prefer the lower-case "c," and, like Anglicans, stress that they are both Protestant and Catholic).
The term can refer to the one Church founded by Christ through Peter the Apostle, according to Matthew 16:18-19: "And I tell you, you are כיפא (Kepha) (Aramaic for "rock"), and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.’" In Roman Catholic theology, this is understood to mean specifically the Roman Catholic Church.
Some use the term Catholic to distinguish their own position from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Reformed-Protestantism. These include High Church Anglicans, known also as "Anglo-Catholics", 19th century Neo-Lutherans, 20th century High Church Lutherans or evangelical-catholics and others.

Answer 7

Catholics are Christian and have similar beliefs, its just that some of their doctrines and dogma are different.

Answer 8

the quick and easy answer is
Christians believe that Jesus died for our sins and he is our savior and that believing in Him we are saved and can go to heaven.

Cathlics somewhat beilive in Jesus but they also consider the virgin mary holy. and that the way to heaven is through works not faith so that the only way to heaven is by doing good things if you do bad things you wont.

so basicly the main difference is faith.

Answer 9

christians follow Jesus Christ catholics follow the pope they claim to beleave Jesus is God, yet pray to mary and saints which is not good. only Jesus can save he is the only way to the father and Jesus gave us direct accese to him yet catholics still convese through a priest. and teh catholic priest may not marry where protistant preacher, pastors can.