what is the difference between the christian religion & catholic religion???

Question

...im catholic & i'm very involved with my church...but lately my friends have been inviting me to their christian religion & i don't see much of a difference...what are their belief differences? thanks

Answer 1

Well overall it is the same religion but they differ in some important beliefs. Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary which Christians think are wrong. Christians do not go to the preacher to confess their sins as the only way to the Father is through the son, though i believe telling the Priest is good. Catholics seem to mourn religion as many christian groups usually praise it. Preachers can marry. There are many, many more. But these are the most prolific differences of the two

Catholisim technically is Christian but is not catgorized into it as many people believe "Christians" are reformed. Choose as you will.

Answer 2

There are a number of differences. First of all, we believe that The Bread and wine is the body and blood of christ - and in reality it is after the priest has consecrated it. It is a symbol that God has saved mans soul, and he (God) can not be conquered! His infinite wisdom shall reign supreme in this world and the next. The term christian does include Catholic, Protestant (from the word Protestor) would describe other non-catholic faiths. The Catholic religion was the only church founded by God, Other religions by a mans vision of God. The Protestants faith does not always include the Jewish traditions the Catholic church recognizes. The Catholic bible is also more complete, and accurate without a protestant ministers own interpretation.

Answer 3

****************DRINK*******************... C A T H O L I C S A R E C H R I S T I A N S Being a Christian is not a denomination. Catholocism is a Christian denomination. Being Christian is simply a matter of believing that Jesus died for our sins and was resurected from the dead. It is simply accepting the fact that all men are sinners, including ourselves and accepting the grace that God provided through the sacrifice of his son. There is no Christian VS Catholic any more than there is Christian VS Baptist or Methodist or any other denomination. Now if you were referring to differences between protestant and catholic, that is a different issue. But even there the differences are based in tedium and differences in tradition. Both incorporate the same God and the same Saviour. A Protestant is anyone not Catholic or Jewish.

Answer 4

Christians pray directly to God in Jesus name not to a priest.
Christians worship the Lord only. We do not look at a pope as anything more than a man, because that is all he is.
Mary was the person God used to give birth to Jesus, we do not pray to her or any other "saints"
No man on earth is held up above the Lord.
We do not baptize children, they do not know any better, they are innocent, until the age of accountability. When they know right from wrong and they make their own choice to come to the Lord.

that is all I can think of at this time...
Not saying catholics are not christians.
I think the Catholic church steers people away. Anyone can turn to the Lord, though

Answer 5

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 6

Here's the way I see it. Martin Luther, the first protestant, decided that all the monotony and stupid rules needed to be taken out of the Catholic church, as people are smart and can handle themselves. I find that akin to looking at a four lane highway and saying, 'because I'm a good driver, I'll bet everyone else is too. Why do we need these stupid lines in here; I feel dumb having to be herded by them.' So then, he decides that God has called him to take out all the stupid lines because everyone is as smart and/or responsible as he is. So now we've taken the lines off of the highway, what next? Well, most people are smart or responsible enough to know where their lane is and keep an eye out for trouble, but, alas, turns out that exactly 50 percent of the population is dumber than the rest, and for every Nobel winner, there's at least one McGenious. At any rate, the Catholic church focuses more on the structured system, relying heavily on respect, or at least malliability, and does not encourage personal exploration of the Bible, as it is viewed as sacrosanct and dangerous in the wrong hands. The Protestant church, however, seems to rely more heavily on what the members think the Bible means, or what it says to them on a personal level. While I do agree with the idea of a personal relationship with God, I don't think Jesus came here to hang out and have a good time. Going with the common armor of God analogy, the Catholic church focuses more on bolstering the mind and spirit for defense by establishin clear codes of conduct, respect of authority, and accountability, minimizing encouragement of personal interpretation of the Word, while the protestant church hands out the Bible and says 'Run with it'. That's the catch, and the differece, the Catholic church has a bunch of frightened kids in armor curled up in a corner while the devil takes pot shots at them, and the Protestants are streaking around weilding the scriptures a kid with a shiny pair of scissors. Also, keep in mind that the same people who criticize the Catholic church for the whole keeping the Bible in Latin thing are the same ones who question and complain about the accuracy of its translation. Which do you want, pick one! :P

Answer 7

Well, consider this: the Catholic cross has Jesus on it, and the Christian cross does not. That means that Catholics consider the death of Jesus to be very important, that he died for the sins of man. Christian non-Catholics believe that the Resurrection is a more important story. There are a number of other differences, like that Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary and the saints. Some Christians believe that Catholics do not go to heaven, and they can be quite forward in their proselytizing.

Catholicism is a very beautiful religion. You can certainly check out other religions, but please don't let your Christian friends tell you that their religion is more authentic in some way.

Answer 8

Christians believe in the Bible's infallibility. Catholics add traditions to the already complete Bible and make them sometimes more important than the Bible.

Example,

Mary intercedes for us.

Saints intercede for us.

Pope is infallible.

Calls Pope holy father, although Bible says no human is holy.

Pope can send you to heaven.

Pope can make anyone a saint(bible says all true believers are
saints).

Infant Baptism which only came into place hundreds of years after Paul - and was never practised by Paul as it allows sinful man to spray some water on a child and send him heavenbound.

Actually it kills the faith of the child in that he never seeks personal repentance and redemption.

Too many to list - but you can judge when Satan took a grip on the Church and never yet let go.

Answer 9

sort of hard to answer that since Catholicism falls under the title of a christian religion. you would have better luck trying to find out out what is the diff between Catholicism and say southern baptist but even still there are many different southern baptist flavors. Ahhhh just to give you a glimmer catholic priests can't be married however pastors can in other christian religions.

P.S. no catholics do not think that Jesus is god. Jesus was the
son of god and god is god. Praise Allah!!

P.P.S. Oh yea don't forget about the holy trinity.

Answer 10

Catholics are Christians. There are several denominations of Christians out there and you don't tell us which one your friends are part of. However, if you mean Born Again Christians, my understanding is that their religion is completely about Jesus, and accepting him and following his path. I don't think they concentrate very much on what happened before Jesus or his Jewish background. Basically, all you really need is to accept Jesus. Catholics, however, follow and accept Jesus, but also include the Old Testament in their education - which includes the teachings of Judaism and how Catholicism evolved from it. That's a big simplification, and I hope I did not offend anyone, but I think is one of the differences. But if you believe in Jesus, that is the important part.

A message to John K - Catholics DO beleive that Jesus is God. That is what the Trinity is. God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit are one and the same.