What are the major differences between the Catholic and Christian religions?

Question

What divides say a Roman Catholic church and a Christian church.

Answer 1

"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 2

Christians are simply people who follow Christ. They include Catholics, who are members of one of the oldest of the current churches, possibly the oldest, depending on who you believe. We pretty much call everyone else "Protestants," but that's not really accurate, as the Protestants are those churches that resulted from Martin Luther's Reformation in the Middle Ages. These would be the churches that believe that the Bible is the literal and sole revealed truth of God, and would include Lutherans, Calvinists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and other fundamentalist churches.

Other churches that get lumped in with the Protestants are the Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. But this just isn't true. The Episcopal Church is the American version of the Church of England, which only broke off from the Catholic Church because Henry the VIII wanted to get divorced! The Methodists then broke off from the Church of England, but that was more of a dispute of how to practice the faith instead of over central doctrine.

Then you have Orthodox churches, which broke away from Catholicism long ago and claim to be almost as old, if not as old, as Catholicism.

Ultimately though, they're all Christians. The difference between the Catholic-Anglican-Methodist strain of Christianity and the churches that resulted from Luther's Protestant Reformation is that the Protestants believe in using only the Bible to determine matters of faith, while Catholics use the Bible plus tradition and the Church, Methodists use the Bible plus experience and reason, and so on.

Answer 3

Catholic Christians say prayers to Mary and other dead people; most other Christians don't. Catholics and some Protestants substitute sprinkling for baptism; Baptists, Pentecostals, "Church of Christ" and some others insist on immersion and believe that sprinkling is unacceptable to God as baptism. Catholics have statues in their churches and bow down in front of them; most Protestants feel that is very wrong; the Bible says don't do it.
Most Protestants also believe that the office of the Pope is wrong; there is no one man on earth that represents Jesus exclusively.

Answer 4

A Christian is a person with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ- Catholics are Christian, as long as they have a personal relationship.
The difference between Protestants and Catholics? lots- spiritual Authority over the church, Mary and sainthood, etc- but the basic tenants of Christ being the only savior is the same

Answer 5

EVERYTHING!!!

The papacy gives Christ "lip service" by saying that you need him; but, blaspeme the Holy spirit (the spririt of truth) by saying the Pope is Christ's "infallible" substitute (vicarus Christi) here on Earth...that's the Holy Spirit's title, not some pope's. He (all popes) also blasphemes Christ by claiming to be the high priest or supreme pontiff (ponifex maximus) of the church....Christ ALONE is the High Priest and True head of His Church.

Catholicism says that men must be ordained by seminary and may not have wives...the apostles (except Luke and Paul) were not "learned men" and some were married and even warned against those that would forbid you to marry. The Bible says that all TRUE Christians are the priesthood...

1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

for more info regarding your question:
http://antichristpope.blogspot.com/

http://www.iconbusters.com/iconbusters/htm/false_ch/false_ch.html

http://www.ianpaisley.org/toc.asp?loc=rome

http://www.iconbusters.com/iconbusters/htm/beliefs/two_ch.htm

Answer 6

This seems to be a fave subject count immediately. Catholics are Christians. Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity, and judging be your post you have been stated with a distinctive denomination. there is not any reason you need to no longer supply it a pass. it rather is a church regardless of each little thing. all of them have their variations however the human beings decide for the comparable reason, to worship God.

Answer 7

You mean, other christian denominations. You can't have religions within a religion. Anyways, Mary isn't as important to Protestants as she is to The Catholics. The Catholics also have saint, which the others don't. And the pope is a figure for catholicism...in other denominations, there's no religious figure (other than in the bible)

Answer 8

There is no difference because the Catholic Faith IS the Christian Faith in its fullness and perfection. However, the differences between full Christianity and the many conflicting versions of Protestant Christianity are many. Protestantism differs from Catholicism in the many elements of original Christianity they have rejected, and in the many new traditions of men they have received from their many human founders and have substituted for genuine Christian truth. The result of this is the obvious doctrinal chaos of Protestantism with its thousands of mutually contradicting manmade denominations, compared to the pure doctrinal unity of Catholicism throughout the world and across twenty centuries. Just as Christ said it should be.
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Answer 9

Christian religion are in the Catholic groups what

Catholics and protestant are the biggest cult only

Answer 10

I often wonder if Christians understand what a Christian is, by definition. A Christian is one who has accepted Jesus CHRIST (thus, CHRISTian) as his savior. How one approaches the worship or veneration of Christ is immaterial to the barebones, basic definition of "Christian". Thus, an adherent of the Presbyterian church, the Orthodox Greek, the Baptist, the CATHOLIC or one of many other CHRISTIAN religions, will be a CHRISTIAN.