Ok this is RIDICULOUS - how can anyone here think that Catholics come in a separate religion to Christians?

Question

Catholics, along with Orthodox Christians were among the FIRST CHRISTIAN denominations. Protestants, and Christian devisions such as Evangelicals and Methodists, came afterwards.

It is totally wrong to judge Catholicism as 'wrong' or not Christian if you don't even know this fact. Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity and worship the same God as other Christians do. It is like saying your father is an antelope.

Answer 1

Why do you think there are Protestants. The Catholics worship Mary, The Pope, and any other saint that they invent.

Answer 2

Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.

Answer 3

Catholics are Christians, Christians are followers of Christ thus CHRISTians.
Catholics are one of the oldest groups of followers.
The different denominations are people who say I don't believe this particular belief, so I will make a new denomination that allows Divorce, Abortion, redefinition of Marriage, open Marriage, homosexuality, beast-ism, Worshiping other Gods, or whatever...
Not to say the Catholics have remained the same, they have made a few radical changes in what they will allow.
Example: Catholics started out with the belief you are Married till death due you part, now you can get a Marriage Annulled and remarry.
You just have to ask for divine help when you filter through all the religion that you are asked to follow.
Ask and it will be received.

Answer 4

Of course Catholics are Christians, its just that they do things alot different. I was brought up in a Catholic home, and went to Catholic Church and the Catholic schools.

They use a Bible that is called the Catholic Bible.
They have a Church service, but not to learn the Word of God, but to recite over and over again different small passages, where most of the people don't even know where they come from in the Bible, much less why they say them in church.
There will be a sermen, which is given to the priest to read,
that may include a few Bible verses, and then the priest goes into whatever he wants to say about it.
A Christian, or a "Christ man" will know the Bible, and go to services to learn more of it. The only thing I was ever taught between church, sunday school, and regular school, was that Eve ate an apple, which is completely non-biblical - and also one time we were briefly told the story of Daniel and the three Hebrew Children who were thrown into the furnace. But even that was told to us incorrectly, which I didn't know until I began to be a Christian, studied in the Word of God, over 15 years after graduating high school.
So, yeah, they would be considered Christians, because they believe in the Virgin birth, etc., but in practice the people are not being fed the word of God, they are being fed the word of the Vatican. Thats a shame, because certainly God has much more information that the Pope. No offense intended to anyone.

Answer 5

The Pope thinks Catholics are different than Protestants and Christian Divisions such as Evangelicals and Methodists. Why shouldn't other people?

Answer 6

I have heard this too, and it never made any sense to me. If other Christian sects don't consider Catholics to be Christians, who do you think the Christians were for the first 1500 years? They weren't Southern-Fried Baptists!

The Catholic Church created the canon of the Bible (determining which books it consisted of). Most Protestants accept the early actions and statements of the early Christians - who were Catholics by default.

It is sort of like Reform or Conservative Jews saying that Orthodox Jews are not real Jews.

Answer 7

It is only the Catholics that say they came first, the rest of us read a little history and find that Catholicism did not come along until the time of Constantine in the 300's. There was the true church that existed from the time of Christ based on the Bible and the apostles. True Christians have always been around even when Catholocism was at its peak. Protestantism was Catholics who broke away from the heresies of Rome, and joined other Christians who were being persecuted and killed by the Catholic church. In the Spanish Inquisition they killed over 86 million people, over a period of 400 years. Who do you think they were killing? Christians and Jews. So don't say non Catholic Christians did not exist. If fact there woud have been 86 million more of them if the Catholic church hadn't killed them. Cathoics do not teach what Jesus Christ taught, that salvation is by the grace of God through faith, and not of works, so spiritually speaking Catholics are not Christians.

Answer 8

The Catholic religion is the Mother of almost all other Christian religions. Most of the other Christian religions are Protestant (the protested the way the Catholics worshiped) and started worshiping in a different manner. Then there are the "start ups". These religions still worship Christ (making them Christian), but they were started by individuals claiming divine inspiration. Catholics believe that Jesus died for their sins...that makes them Christians.

Answer 9

Catholics have been making a lot of their own rules. And it seems to outsiders that the worship Mary. It is very exclusive religion. I would not want to have any part of it. Yes, they are Christians. But it looks like a cult too some ways.

Answer 10

A lot of people don't consider Catholics true Christians because of the Doctrine the Vatican adds to the Bible. They are considered Christians in the same way that those that believe in Jesus are considered Christians. But that's where it ends.

And contrary to the belief that Peter was the first Pope, and the keys to the First Church were passed onto him are simply not true. Christ did not say the church was "Catholic'.

Born-Again Christians who believe the Bible from beginning to end are considered the fundamental and orthodox church.

Answer 11

Catholics are not the first christians. Rome wanted to kill all Christians. The first church couldn't have been in Rome, or they would have been killed.

The reason why I do not believe Catholics are christians is beyond that point. They do not put their trust in God, and do not believe his word (the bible). They allow priests to interprete the bible, and change the words. They publish new bibles that change words. They pray to Mary, not to Jesus. They worship idols, the holy cookie, statues etc.

So basically they do not believe that believing that Jesus ALONE will get them to heaven. They do not have 100% trust in Jesus. They think that the church has power equil to Jesus. They do not.