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can someone explain to me in the simplest way possible about what the the difference is between Christian and Catholics.

2007-04-01 14:37:28 · 14 answers · asked by jenny 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Catholics = Christians.

2007-04-01 14:45:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I'm not sure that it's possible to do that with any honesty but I'll try. It's a bit complicated and to simplify it probably won't do it justice. Others will correct me if I'm wrong on somethings I have no doubt.

Catholics ARE Christians. One might say that they are the first organized Christian denomination, before that was just independent Christian churches but not organized at all many of them taught wildly different things using different scripts as a guide. The Catholic Church was started under the Roman Emperor Constantine who converted to Christianity and commissioned the first "Bible". It was very different from the ones that we all know today. The many many scripts were voted into the Bible by a group of men and much later a man named Martin Luther began what is known as the Protestant movement protesting the Catholic Church. Protestant comes from the word protest. The Lutheran Church was the first Protestant church and from there it just grew into different denominations. The Protestants took the Bible that the Catholics created and disagreed with certain books they called "Apocryphal" and the discarded them eventually leaving the Bible that most of us know today in its various forms and translations.

I hope that's not too complicated.

2007-04-01 21:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by Atheistic 5 · 0 0

First, Catholics are Christians. People need to stop making this incorrect distinction. It is properly referred to as Catholic and Protestant.

Second, in short: Catholicism is the first and original church founded by Christ 2,000 years ago. She is one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Protestantism is the result of a movement that originated 500 years ago called the Protestant Reformation. Most Protestants agree with Catholics on the basic teachings of Christianity - life, death and resurrection of Jesus, repentance and forgiveness of sins, and the hope of eternal life. After that, any further detail about Protestantism is hard to achieve. The simple reason is that there are over 54,000 different protestant denominations each teaching their own version of Christianity. The reason there are so many is the result of constant fracturing due to disagreements over opinions about scripture, doctrine, or even something as ridiculous as personal grudges. Ironically, all protestant denomination are united in two things: they are all vehemently against Catholicism, and they each believe that they have it right and everyone else has it wrong, other protestants included. Confused yet?

Hope this helps. God bless.

2007-04-03 18:22:10 · answer #3 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1 0

I think I can.
You see, Christianity is a way of life. It is a reality. A daily walk hand in hand with God. A Christian is a new creation in Christ Jesus. In this final generation, the true Christians are called the Elect of God for they have the keys of knowledge knowing who the Kenites are. the Kenites are the son of Cain for those not in the know.

Now for Catholics and any religion made up and for man.
Religion is a theology and sets of dogmas that man has seemed right to be the proper way to worship God. Its a must do set of rules that the uppers in the church makes them that join the religion perform. God is not there at all as it goes against His Commandments.

Hope this helps you in your decision making.><>

2007-04-01 21:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by CEM 5 · 0 0

The biggest differences between Catholics and other Christians is that many non-Catholics think the office of the Pope is wrong, infant baptism is wrong, and having statues in the churches and bowing down in front of them is very wrong. The Catholics think they prove their church is the right one when they trace the Roman bishops (they call them all Popes, although it was about 495 AD when they started calling them Popes) back to St. Peter, but it is more important to me what Peter preached in Acts 2.

2007-04-01 21:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by supertop 7 · 1 0

Catholics have the sacraments. Protestants don't.

Catholics have a very misunderstood doctrine about works and faith. They believe that if you have the faith it will be evident in your works. The works do not save you, only faith does - but if you truly have faith then you will show it in your actions.

Catholics do not believe in sola scriptura - the bible alone. Protestants do.

If you would like to learn more visit http://www.newadvent.com to learn about what makes Catholics different.

And by the way - Catholics are Christians.

2007-04-01 21:44:53 · answer #6 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 0 1

All Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholic. Christians is the largest categorization of this family of religions. All of the Protestant religions were derived from Catholicism

So the three looks like this

Christianity
|
Catholicism
|
Protestantism
|
Lutherans
|
Anglicans/Episcopalians
|
Baptists

etc...

2007-04-01 21:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by SDTerp 5 · 0 1

Christianity is a faith based on the foundation that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and that He died for our sins, was resurrected three days later and then ascended into Heaven.

Catholism is a religion based on the Christian fath whose roots are traced back to the origional Apostles. They follow a great many rituals during Mass and doctrine governs their way of life.

2007-04-01 21:49:06 · answer #8 · answered by Wookie 3 · 1 0

Catholics are Christain. It's Catholics and Protestants that are different. Different doctrines...etc.

2007-04-01 21:42:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

All Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholics.

2007-04-01 21:39:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

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