what is the difference between catholic and christian?

Answer 1

The catholic church DOES NOT qualify as a Christian church for the following reasons:
1) they deny the rightful place of Jesus Christ as the only intersessor needed between humans and God the Father, replacing Him with a human priest. Being a true Christian requires that you recognize and believe in the diety of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God. humans have no right to replace God with any human.
2) they follow the teachings of a human, called the Pope, which is not biblically supported.
3) they have revised God's Word, the Bible, for their own purposes so that it conforms to their beliefs.
4) they believe in an imaginary place called "purgatory" which is not biblically supported.
5) they do not believe in nor teach the biblical truth of "being born again" into salvation, as Jesus stated in John 3. They pick and choose which parts of the Bible to believe in. the Bible is the inspired, inerrent Word of the Living God. ALL of it is 100% Truth.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

Answer 2

Catholicism and Christianity are not the same religion.Most people have a tendency to think and say that they are the same.Catholicism is not the branch of Christianity.It is another religion.There are Christians,Roman Catholics, Independents, protestants, Orthodox and Anglicans.These are the 6 chief/important 'religions' that worship the Christian God or Jesus Christ or both.I don't know much about other religions I only know about Catholicism.So it's not easy to point out the real differences.

Answer 3

All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholic.
Some people would even argue that Catholics aren't really Christian, since they worship Mary more than Jesus, and there is too much pagan influence in their religion. They do not accept the Bible as the supreme rule of law, but they follow a human leader, the Pope.
The early Christians would have followed Jesus Christ only and their only rule of law was Scripture. So it must be now.

Answer 4

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 5

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Catholics don't believe that by simply saying that they believe in Jesus that they will be saved.They believe that their redemption comes through actions and not words.They also believe that Jesus created a hierarchy when he told simon that he was the rock in which he would build his church and that action created the office of pope.We believe that with out having someone who has a final say in church matters that there would be chaos such as all of the denominations of other christian religions.Catholics are christian because we believe fundamentally the same things:Jesus died for our sins, he will come again,he re-opened the doors to heaven by taking original sin upon himself.

Answer 7

The only thing I know is that catholics believe you have to pray to Marry in order to talk to God. Some do anyway. Catholics believe in purgatory and Christians don't. Have a good day!

Answer 8

The Roman Catholics were the original Christians. The only difference is in the mind of the fundamentalist cults that have arisen in the last few hundred years. They are largely identical.

I am NOT Roman Catholic, by the way, I'm Anglican.

Regards,

Reynolds
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Answer 9

Everything.
Catholics do not know grace, or understand it- they live by works- and do not live by what the word of God says--but they do read the catholic bible a lot- but more than that they do not study the scriptures....they also pray to saints, and not Jesus and Jesus is our mediator as the Bible says- we are to pray to Him. They also hold Mary high, and she is not our savior, but we are to worship the Lord ONLY--and that is written several times in the Bible, even the OT.
There are several things that show they are not following the word of God, which is the truth- that is why God gave us the Holy Bible- to keep us grounded in His truth and to live by.
Those who do not follow it, are led astray and easily uprooted and follow different doctrines- they are not walking in the truth.

God says;3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

-The biggest error though with Catholics is their belief in works and not being saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8)---which is the ONLY reason we are saved, is by the grace of God- without understanding in that or believing in that- one is not knowing salvation through Christ Jesus.

Answer 10

Nothing Catholics are Christians. Catholics have the Pope in Rome as the head of their church while "Protestants " don't recognize the Pope as the only spokesman for God.