How distorted do you think Christianity is because of the Roman Catholic Church?

Question

no where in the bible did it set up such a powerful body of men

Answer 1

I do not think Catholic Christianity is distorted.

The hierarchy of the Church parallels the leaders of the early Church in the Bible.

The pope is successor of Peter, the first leader.

Bishops are successors of the Apostles.

Priests are successors of the presbyters.

Deacons are successors of the deacons.

Does the leadership of any Protestant Christian Church follow the scriptures this closely?

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Nope....Constantine did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire....he merely made Christianity legal again in the year 313 with the Edict of Milan (it had been illegal since the Jewish Council of Jamnia in 90 AD). It was a few emproers later -- Theodosius II in approx. 438 that made Christianity the official religion of the empire.

Christianity is NOT distorted because of the Roman Catholic Church.....it is distorted because there are thousands of churches within it -- each seeking to follow its own will rather than the will of Jesus Christ who prayed that all "may be one". Such heresies!

The Catholic church chooses to use the Greek Septuagint version of the OT with 46 books because it was the version used by Jesus and the apostles and the early church. Why do you suppose the early liturgies were in Greek rather than Hebrew?

In prostantism anyone can start a church -- or as Martin Luther realized after following his own will for many years and finally admitted, "Even a milkmaid who knows how to read can start her own church". So from Martin Luther down to today's protestantism, they keep cranking out more churches. Shame on you!!!

Answer 3

>>How distorted do you think Christianity is because of the Roman Catholic Church?<<

The Catholic Church was founded by Christ Himself. Much of Christianity has become distorted because of lack of communion with the Catholic Church. That is why Protestantism is constantly splintering into more and more denominations and sects.

>>no where in the bible did it set up such a powerful body of men<<

"It" did not set it up; Jesus did. He entrusted the care of His entire flock to Peter (John 21:15-17). Follow the links for more scripture references.

Answer 4

The RC Church is based on the Bible and Sacred Tradition. At one time there was no Bible. What did people do at that time? Did they reject religious teaching because it wasn't in the Bible?

The canon of the Bible wasn't completed until the 4th Century. What was the source of the Christian religion until that time? It would have had to have been Sacred Scripture.

Also, you will find things in the RC Church that are not in the King Jimmy Bible, because some of the reformers didn't like what they said, so they threw them out.

Without a body, a church will fragment into thousands of sects. That is what has happened to Protestantism. Which sect is correct? There are thousands!

Even in the RC Church, there is a wide range of beliefs and dis beliefs. There are priests and bishops who have lost their faith, and gone off on tangents. So, you can certainly point to the RC Church and show a priest or bishop who is a heretic. Why these people are allowed to promote their heresies is beyond me.

Answer 5

All Catholics are Christian, but all Christians are not Catholics.
Some of us Christians are Protestant Christians, and Protestants Protested the points of view of the Roman Catholic Religion, since the Spanish inquisitions. When they would torture people to death if they didn't believe in the Catholic's Point of view. That is why we are ALL called Christians, because we came out of her. But the main problem that I have, is that I feel that this confusion came from the Roman Catholics eons ago, since the split. Christians are now divided, but the Protestants are divided even more. Some held on to some of the Catholic beliefs, some did away with most of them, and some did away with all of them. There is also a confusion about who Jesus was/is. Some believe Jesus IS God, who sent his word to be born and live as man, to show man the way back to eternal life through His words and teachings. Others believe that Jesus was just "a" god. And God's Son. Others still, believe that Jesus was just a prophet. Some of us believe that it is impossible to call yourself a Christian, if you are not really a follower of Christ. If you are hailing the vessel, how can that be praising its contents?
There were no Bibles back then, only the Holy Scriptures, which the Roman Catholics possess. The bible is a translation of those holy scriptures, which the Roman Catholics didn't even want the common man to ever see. They wanted people to believe as they told them, as a means of control. Martin Luther, the Protestant, translated the holy scriptures for the common man to read ,and since then, they have been translated into many languages. They claim to have and follow the lost books of the bible, when those books were not even inspired by God. That's why they were left out of the bibles. Translate any writing that many times, and the words will lose something in the translation each time. Some text wasn't even translatable, and was left out.

Answer 6

Really? It isn't in the Bible?

I remember something about "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church".

Somewhere else Jesus tells the desciples to "go out and speak the gospel to all nations"

"As my Father has given to me, I give to you. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven"

Personally, and this is coming from a Catholic, I think Christianity is a little messed up because of the 25,000 or so Protestant sects changing what they want to believe because something in the Catholic church doesn't appeal to them. This is called "cafeteria Christianity" and has lead to a lot of whack jobs out there (re: Fred Phelps, Jim Jones, and a few others).

Not all Protestants are like this, but a vast majority of them are.

Answer 7

The Christian religion is distorted because of people like Calvin and Zwingli and other who began the Protestant movement. Especially the branches that are the Evangelicals and Fundamentalist. No group has done more to pervert the teaching of Christ. I have been truly shocked by some of the heresy that I have heard on here by well meaning people who have been mislead by very bad teaching.

And I am not RC, but Episcopalian.

Answer 8

Well the Roman Catholic Church is the top dog around the world so of course they are the most scrutinized of the religions. I was born as raised as a Catholic, left the faith and was reborn through a protestant church. However they were almost as ritualistic as the Catholics.
The Bible is where its at! Get yourself into a non-denominal church that preaches the Word as is clearly told in the scriptures and you will understand what faith is really all about.

Answer 9

Yeah! The Bible had nothing to do with it. Catholics Man-made "Catechism" did it.

The New American Bible = The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults.

Catholic Religion happens to have many doctrines and laws against God's Word because Catechism is full of themselves.

Answer 10

They failed in their attempt to keep the Bible oput of the hands of the people. They tried and tortured and killed and raped. I do not think that the current Roman Catholics but we are discussing history now.

We have older manuscripts than those that were used in the time of the Inquisition. So they have thier Bibles and scholarship, now that it is free from being closed down by Roman Catholicism, will not allow the Latin versions to get away with distorting. They can however hold their view over other Roman Catholics, but they cannot hold error over the rest of us.