What's the difference between...?

Question

Catholic and Christian?

Answer 1

Catholics are Christians

God Bless You

Answer 2

At the foundation of faith which is that Jesus Christ died for our sins and we must repent and accept Him in order to be saved there is no difference. It is when you come to the rituals and/or traditions the two operate in that separate them. For the most part a lot of what Catholics do is not biblical such as believing the Pope to be infallible, the ability to pray someone out of hell, purgatory (which I think has been stricken from the Catholic faith system in recent years) but you get my point. The fact is that so long as a person repents of their sins and accepts Jesus the bible says they are saved (Romans 10:0-13) so the Catholic who believes that is Christian and only God will have judgment over Catholic rituals and traditions that are not biblical.

Answer 3

There are two Catholic Church's
.. The Western or Roman Catholic based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy. The required dispositions, or seven sacraments are: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing the Sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders (the Bishop, Priest and Deacon.)

Tradition records that the Church in Rome was jointly founded in 33 aD, by Saints Peter and Paul, and that Peter was its first Pope. But there is some confusion because Peter was also crucified by the Emperor, and Rome went another 3 centuries without declaring Christendom as the official religion, and even continued a polytheistic existence.

the Eastern Orthodox Church, or Byzantine Church centered at Constantinople. (Modern day Istanbul) This Church recognizes the seven ecumenical councils, where the bishops of the whole church decide matters of Church doctrines. The Eschatology, or sacraments will include:
Monasticism (non-indulgences such as celibacy, poverty) Marriage (a biblical term for the union of a man and woman) Repentance, (remorse for past conduct.) Eucharist (Communion, consecrating bread and wine) Almsgiving (charitable giving) Fasting (abstaining from food) Baptism (blessed with holy water, to be united with the church) Confirmation (admitting a baptized person) Confession (penance and absolution of sin by a bishop or priest)

Formed in 324 aD by Emperor Constantine, when he broke from Rome, and finally claimed Christendom as the official Religion of the Empire.

Christianity (or the Protestant Reformation) began with Martin Luther's 95 Thesis, in 1517 aD, which disputed the power of the Catholic Church, and sought reform of beliefs including: purgatory, particular judgment, devotion to Mary, intervention of the saints, most of the sacraments, and authority of the Pope.

The main differences is in regards to idol worship, sacraments (including when to baptize) and who has the power to absolve sin.

Answer 4

Christians are all those we believe in Jesus Christ

Catholics are those Christians who also recognize the Church of Rome and its Pope as the representative of Christ on Earth

so:
all Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics

The word "Catholic" derives from the greek "katholikós" which means "universal" and is one of the attributes of the Church of Rome

Answer 5

Catholic is a branch of Christianity.

Answer 6

Christians do not have to have a go between to talk to God. We pray to God in Jesus name. Christians only use the bible and allow their leaders to marry. Christians ask Jesus to come into their heart to save them and don't have to have special rituals to be saved. Christians do follow the Lords example and get baptized after salvation. Christians don't baptise babies. Last of all Christians did not participate in the Crusades.

Answer 7

Main differences are: Christians don't pray to saints, they believe that they existed but they are dead and they don't have any power. They only pray to God and Jesus. In catholic religion priests never marry, but christian priests do.

Answer 8

Catholics are Christian. However, some Christian fanatics are arrogant enough to say that catholics aren't "real" Christians.

Answer 9

Catholic is a denomination of Christianity; like Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopalian and countless others.

Answer 10

The difference lies in the issue of "justification". That is the Biblical term for being made right with God.

Christians believe that justification is when God decares the sinner righteous based soley and completely upon the sinners faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Catholicism says that the sinner must "do" something in order to be made right with God.


Let's see what the Bible says:

Jhn 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.



Rom 5:1 ¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:


Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.



1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.


Jhn 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.