are these the same things or are they completely different?

Question

ok i say there compleatly different but my boyfriend says there pretty much the same thing who's right? are Catholic and Christian the same thing?

Answer 1

Nope-VAST Difference.

Catholics teach Salvation by ; Jesus, church, Mary, eucherist, etc..
Therefore "Another Gospel!"

True Christians believe Salvation by The GOD/JESUS ONLY!

Answer 2

There are those, and I am one, who do not concider the Romal Catholic(RC) dogma to be True Christian.... Those of The True Christian Faith KNOW that their Salvation is assured... it is against RC law to teach that Salvation can be assured... this is against the teaching of Jeus The Christ. For that reason alone the RCs are not True Christians... there is quite a list of other reasons for the differences between RCs and True Christians but to come to an understanding would take quite a lot of study...

While I will say personaly, that one of the RC could find their way to God as He prescribes, they would have to do it on their own by the leading of The HOly Spirit... they will not find The Truth of The Salvation Message in RC teaching.... there are a few, very few, within the RC cult who are True Christians, and who stay in the cult because of family or other relationships...

Basicly...A True Christian knows with absolute certainty that their Salvation is assured and that they will enter Heaven... no RC can make that statement... and an RC priest can be kicked out for saying they can...no pope can state that they know they are going to Heaven because it is against the RC law to say so.

Answer 3

It depends on who you ask. Different words have different meanings for different words. It's called semantics. People can be agreeing with each other while fighting tooth-and-nail. In sociology, we learned to define the terms we use when we use them. What 'Christian' means in the Bible, you can get in the Bible. The earliest believers did not name themselves Christians; they were named that by outsiders because they acted as Jesus did. It meant little Christs. How did Jesus behave? You can read this in the Bible. The word 'believer' is important also. The Bible says that people must believe that Jesus died for their sins and must accept Him as their Savior. What I'm saying is that they called Christians those who 'believed' this and behaved accordingly, so in that context, accepting Jesus as your Savior is necessary to be a Christian. This means that it is a matter of choice for each person and that no one is born a Christian, that no one is a Christian until they make that choice.

Answer 4

Christians are those who believe in Jesus Christ as a Son of God. There are different denominations in Christianity: Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Christians, Protestant (Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and others.)

Answer 5

Depends on who you ask.

Most protestants would probably say that Catholicism is NOT 'true' Christianity. Of course they neglect to mention that for nearly 1500 years Catholicism was pretty much the ONLY Christianity.

Answer 6

Catholic is a subset of Christian. The other major subset is Protestant, which is in turn divided into Episcopailians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and hundreds (I am not kidding!) others.

Answer 7

by definition, a Christian is anyone who believes in the birth, life, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus. So Catholicism is but a branch of Christianity, and not all who are Christians are Catholics.

Answer 8

Catholics are Christians. Christians are not necessarily Catholic. They could be Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc.

Answer 9

You can argue that every denomination is Christian or not Christian...and make a good case.

What is the point?
Pointless thing to argue about.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 10

All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholic.

Hope that clears it up for you both!