When did Catholics become non-Christians?

Answer 1

Whenever a new "Christian" denomination decides to redefine the word 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

According to Christians themselves there are no "true Christians." Every sect, and sometimes within sects themselves there are disagreements over doctrine. Then there are the ones who live almost an entire life as an upstanding Christian only to be told they were never really a true Christian as soon as they become surrounded by controversy or lose faith.

If there were a real definition of a Christian we would have some yardstick as to who falls into this category or not, but we don't and due to the nature of the religion we never will. Rules seem to be changed and made up as they go along... Even to say a Christian is someone who is Christ like, or follows in the footsteps of Jesus is a useless definition as nobody can tell you with any certainty what Jesus was really like.

Answer 3

They haven't.
But the ACLU just won't let them talk about it or display without slapping 'em.

BTW, those of you going on about the Protestants not be catholics are making yourself look pretty stupid. Every Sunday, we say the Nicene Creed, in which the last part states:

And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

We Protestants are catholic, we just are not Roman Catholic. The RC's look to the Pope as the head of their church, whereas we look to Canterbury. As for Henry VIII, I love this arguement because it shows how poorly history is taught. Henry broke with Rome, yes, but died a good Catholic. It was a matter of ease for him not to have to answer to the Pope anymore. It was his daughter, Elizabeth I that formally broke all ties with Rome and set up the Church of England, the Protestant church. It was at this point she said that the prayer books and Bibles in the churches would no longer be only printed in Latin, requiring a parishiner to go through the Priest for translations, etc. She demanded they be printed in english so all could read them and pray on their own. But we still have the Nicene Creed, and are still catholic.

Answer 4

What makes you think that we did? Unless things have changed radically since last Sunday's Mass, we don't dance naked around Zeus' altar or sacrifice chickens to Legba.

We worship the one true and living God, Who sent His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, so that anyone who believes in Him will be saved. We know that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes to the Father except through Him.

If that doesn't make us Christians, then a whole bunch of Protestants should be worried about their own salvation.

Answer 5

That's a good one. The Church Christ founded for all mankind; the one He promised to be with until the end of time; the one to which He said, "whatsoever you bind upon earth is bound in heaven"; the one to which He said "he who hears you hears Me"; the one to which He promised, "the Holy Spirit will guide you to all truth; the one the Bible refers to as "the pillar and foundation of truth" ... is non-Christian! So let's see, that would mean that to find Christianity we would have to look among the thousands of unauthorized, conflicting, contradictory, manmade churches of the past few hundred years. Do I have it right? The One Church with a 2,000 year history of unity in belief and unity in worship is not Christian; but the manmade tradition with a 500 year history of constant fragmentation and doctrinal chaos is Christian! But wait, didn't Jesus say His followers were all to be ONE, even as He and His heavenly Father are ONE? And didn't He say the truth would set us free? Obviously conflicting doctrines mean false doctrine, since truth cannot conflict with truth. Oh well, who cares what He said? Luther knew better.
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Answer 6

Catholics are Christians always have been

Answer 7

Right about the time the Protestants realized Catholics could trace their origins all the way back to St. Peter, and therefore, theoretically, Jesus himself. All the Protestants have is Martin Luther, Henry VIII, and a few other heretics. It apparently really pisses them off.

Answer 8

Never. Catholics are christians, and most christians are Catholic.

Answer 9

Well, they bought booze from Joe Kennedy, but
that will be okay, I guess. They gave office
space in the Vatican to the CIA, but I cannot
prove it. They all watched Geraldo once and
completely changed their way of thinking.
Catholics started drinking, but unlike
Baptists, Catholics throw their empty beer
cans in the front yard. They don't mind if
people know. Baptists throw their empty
cans into the back yard. They hide it.

Answer 10

first christians and the christians that safe guarded the bible,compiled the canon of the bible so that future generations could know what god wanted us to know-his plan of salvation for mankind and that god is love. the word catholic means universal,it is this church that god gave to us through jesus.