are Christians and Catholics the same?

Question

I always thought they were but someone told me they were different. So, whats the difference???

Answer 1

Catholics are the first Christians. Catholic means "according to the whole". The Church (i.e. Christians) is the Body of Christ. It cannot be divided.

KATH = "according to"

HOLOS = "the whole"

i.e., all baptized people are members of the body, and thereby rightly, "KATH-HOLIC"

Answer 2

Loosely speaking. Catholicism is a sect of Christianity at large.
To those claiming they are the same - you're claiming that Protestants and Catholics are the same. That may get you into trouble with some people who think differently. You're also making the claim that Baptists, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Jehova's Witnesses, etc are all Catholics. Needless to say, you're wrong.

Answer 3

Not all Catholics have asked Jesus to become their personal savior, so they are different than Christians. Some Catholics have, but still worship and follow rituals that Christians don't.

Answer 4

Christians are followers of jesus christ irrespective of certain differences in practices and beliefs under christianity. There are two different sects among them based on their practices. They are catholics and protestents. Two differences I know of are.
.1. Cathlics believe in the Bible and they have made certain changes confirming to the changes in the society in the course of time.
Protestants believe in the Original Bible and they dont subscribe to any change as explained above. The changes were protested against and hence they got the name protestants.
2. Protestants do not believe in idol worship whereas catholics worship the idol of christ.

Answer 5

Well, technically they are. Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholic. Even before the Reformation, there were different sects of Christianity (most, if ot all of them, were formed during or before the times when Christianity became the Roman State Religion) In Europe (pre-Reformation) there were two sects of Christianity: Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodox. After Martin Luther's Reformation, another European branch of Christianity formed: Lutheranism. From there, all the Protestant denominations of Christianity were formed, from Methodists to Baptists to Quakers to Mennonites.
At least I think that's how it went.

Answer 6

Anyone who applies the Bible to his life is Christian. So, are Catholics Christian? In case you didn't know, the Catholics:

Are responsible for many of the pagan holidays that are celebrated today, like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween.

Display artwork that includes a nimbus (halo) around the heads of Bible characters and othes. The nimbus is from the pagan past.

Call their priests "Father", although Jesus told his followers not to do that.

Believe in the trinity, although their own reference books say that it is not supported by the Bible. For example,the Catholic Encyclopedia comments: "In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180. . . . Shortly afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian."

Similarly, in his book The Triune God, Jesuit Edmund Fortman admits: "The Old Testament . . . tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a Triune God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. . . . There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a [Trinity] within the Godhead. . . . Even to see in [the "Old Testament"] suggestions or foreshadowings or 'veiled signs' of the trinity of persons, is to go beyond the words and intent of the sacred writers."

So, after examining the evidence, do you think Catholics are Christian?

Answer 7

Okay, there is basically a tree, and it goes, Christian, and under Christian are a whole bunch of tree branches. There are catholics by themselves and there are others like pentecost and baptist etc... . Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God. We believe that, but then the other dominions have some other thigns that may be different from each other. The catholics believe that Jesus is the Son of God, (i think), but theu pray to Mary, only cuz she was the mother of Jesus, but God is against that. We should be praying to Him, not Mary, if u read hte Bible u will see that after the gospels, she is not even mentioned after that. She is not that important, except the fact that she is the mother of Jesus. If u go to most catholic churches, u will see that they have alot of staues of mary and not much of God. They worship Mary, like she is a God. And God said not to worship staues so they disobey God right there. I am a baptist/pentocost and I only pray to God and only Him. Jesus is my Savior, He died for my sins. Mary didn't do anything except use her body to give birth to Jesus, it wasn't even by her DNA or whatever that u may call it, that Jesus was born. The whole semen or fertlizer was from the Holy Spirit. But they pray to mary. That is the difference to my religion to theirs.

Answer 8

No.
The doctrines of Christians are:
Trinity, New Birth, Water Baptism, Baptism of Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in unknown tongues, Seperation, Divine Healing, Entire Sanctification (of the Body, Soul and Spirit), Overcoming Life, Consecrated Ministry, Perfection, Select Rapture, Tribulation and Great Tribulation, Resurrection, The Millenmial Reign, The Great White Throne Judgement, and Eternity..
I'm not sure of the doctrine of Catholics.

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Answer 9

Anyone who accepts Christ as their Savior, is a Christian. If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck and smells like a duck, well it is a duck. Although Catholics are slightly misled in the fact they pray to Mary, or the Saints, when you should only pray to God the Father through the Son. That is what the Bible says.

Answer 10

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

The Cathoic faith commits idolatry by bowing down to idols. They pray to people and idolize Mary as if she were the mother of God. That is an atrocity. They repeat the rosary in repetitive chanting, and say "Hail Mary" as if Mary could do anything at all.

Nevertheless, let God alone be our judge.

A Christian is someone who worships God and not idols, and accepts Christ as God's sacrifice for our sin. A true Christian repents before God and accepts the Holy Spirit. A Christian is filled with the Holy Spirit of God and is transformed, giving up the things of this world for our eternal future with our great God.

Answer 11

Yes they are Christian's too, this is like saying is a baptist and a Christian the same or a Pentecost and a Christian the same they are all Christians. the the Key word is Christ do you believe Christ is the Begotten Son of God do you believe he died on the cross for your sins do you believe he rose from the dead on the third day and do you believe he was born of the Virgin Mary yes we all believe we are all brothers and sisters in Christ