Is the Roman Catholic Church (not the individuals inside) still a Christian church?

Question

i've read from the New Testament how humble and pure the Christian were. comparing it to the 'christian' roman church now? well, she's near to those so-called pagan churches (with images, rituals, sacrileges, etc.). if the answer for my Q above, then let's not call it Christian church anymore..simply Roman Catholic Church will do, i think.

Answer 1

Depends on your definition of Christian. Most non-Catholic Christian denominations accept Catholics as Christians. A very few do not.

A dictionary would say that a Christian is someone professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.

Catholics would fit this definition.

In the Nicene creed, from 325 A.D., Catholics profess:

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.

Through Him all things were made.

For us and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried.

On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We are baptized as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:19, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

We truly are spiritually "born again," we just don't usually use those words.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: this question is so convoluted you can't make heads or tails from it. Are you asking what the remainder Church of Christianity is or are you asking what Paganism is?

Clearly you lack the wisdom to reason out that ritual and images doesn't lead us to the label of Paganism for every individual and community has both of these including all Protestant reformer communities.

Do you keep pictures of your family in your home, in your wallet?

Did you get baptised, did you graduate from school, have you been married and go through all the rituals, the ceremonies involved with each of these high points of life? If you did sounds like you are also pagan.

Do you accept the doctrine of Trinity? if you do by your own definition you are accepting a pagan Roman Catholic doctrine.

Silly person you cannot see beyond your own nose, hypocrite.

You obviously accept the New Testament as authoritative which means you've also accepted Roman Catholic authority for it was a Catholic authority of the early Christian councils which decided it's contents.

You should really think again before making such bold claims and fall into the sin of slander I have to assume you are very young and not too bright.

Answer 3

You think wrong. So the fact that the Catholic Church believes Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and believes One Baptism for the forgiveness of sins means, "no never mind" to you?

Besides, if you do not believe the Catholic Church is Christian, you cannot possibly believe the people inside are Christian either.

You claim "images, rituals, sacrilefes, etc" to be wrong but you do not provide evidence as to why they are wrong, much less lead to the presumption the Catholic Church isn't even Christian...

You haven't thought things through very well, I think.

Answer 4

Be glad that I gave up sarcasm for Lent -- be VERY glad. Because if ever a question deserved a blast of my best, it would be one like this.

The Catholic church is now and always has been Christian. We don't dance naked around a statue of Jupiter, and we don't sacrifice chickens to Legba. We worship God the Father, Creator of Heaven and earth, and His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, in unity with the Holy Spirit.

If that doesn't make us a Christian church, then I don't think many Protestant churches would qualify, either.

Answer 5

Oh great. Another history buff.
They have these things now called "books." You should get one - some of them even explain the difference between "pagan" and "Christian." I saw one the other day that explained all about the early Church.

Answer 6

You are almost right. The Catholic Church claims they are 100% Christian. However, their pagan rituals causes one to wonder.

Answer 7

Nowhere interior the Bible is it implied that Eve slept together with her sons to populate the Earth. in certainty, the Bible would not say the place human beings got here from. perchance Cain and Seth and the different sons slept with their sisters, or perchance God created human beings. Who is ordinary with of? yet whether Adam and Eve's little ones did commit incest, incest became declared unclean while the regulations of Moses have been created. that is totally sparkling in there that each physique varieties of incest are sinful.

Answer 8

Not only is it a christian church, but it declared all protestants heretics. As you perhaps know, heretics go to the catholic hell without any chance of redemption. I sometime wonder what "born again" think about that...

Answer 9

I think you presume quite a bit too much about the only church that Jesus ever founded, and the very same church he promised to bless and to keep until the end of time.

Ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you. And tell him I sent you.

Answer 10

The Catholic Church is Christian, founded by Christ 2,000 years ago. Always has been, always will be.

This website will answer a lot of questions you may have:

http://catholic.com/