If the romans killed Christ - how did the Roman Catholics start|?

Answer 1

The Catholic Church began in Jerusalem, when Jesus personally founded it, and the Holy Spirit personally empowered both it and the apostles.

Due to the fact that the Jews in Jerusalem constantly persecuted the early Christians, it was tough to make the permanent headquarters of the church there.

The desruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was also problematic in that regard.

God prevailed upon both Peter and Paul to go to Rome (into the heart of evil) and set up shop there.

After many years of brutal persecution and bloody martyrdom, God prevailed upon the Roman emperor Constantine to become a Christian.

Constantine soon gave the church favored and protected status all across the empire, and the church was finally able to establish a permanent home base in Rome.

The church eventually converted the Roman empire, and most of the known world to Christ.

Then, the Roman empire fell, and the Church remained, as the only power on earth that was capable of saving western civilization, and rebuilding it in the image of heaven.

Much later, the protestant reformers, applied the term "Roman" to the Cathoic Church as a derogatory one, but the Catholic church accepted it anyway, and it has been known as "Roman Catholic" ever since.

The Catholic Church is also known as the only church which remains one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic, simply because God wishes it to be so ... and it will be so until the end of time.

By the way, when Jesus told Peter he was the rock on which he would build his church, he wasn't kidding.

In the middle of the 20th century, excavations in the Vatican discovered that St. Peters Basilica, the headquarters and heart of the Catholic Church, was indeed BUILT RIGHT ON TOP OF THE BONES of St. Peter.

How's that for a prophetic foundation?

Answer 2

For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine “legalized” Christianity at the Edict of Milan in A.D. 313. Later, in A.D. 325, Constantine called together the Council of Nicea, in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism.

Constantine found that with the Roman Empire being so vast, expansive, and diverse – not everyone would agree to forsake their religious beliefs and instead embrace Christianity. So, Constantine allowed, and even promoted, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs. Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical beliefs were given new “Christian” identities.

The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the Gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions, and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, yes, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the people of the Roman empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the “Roman world” for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ rose from the dead and appeared to hundreds of people.

Then Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and the Church was born.

+ Catholic +

The Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD, when the term appears in the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans:

"Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-smyrnaeans-hoole.html

All of this was long before the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed from 325 A.D. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

+ Roman +

The term "Roman" Catholic is rather recent.

The new Anglican Church in England started using the term “Roman” in the 1500s as one of many ways of demeaning and demonizing Catholics.

Catholics accepted this late coming adjective without too much protest. Today “Catholic” and “Roman Catholic” are interchangeable terms. Both terms are even used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

To add a little more confusion, some apply the term “Roman Catholic Church” only to the Latin Rite Catholic Church, excluding the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same Church, under the Pope.

The term “Roman” neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 4

In spite of the crucifixion of Christ, Catholicism eventually became the state religion of the Roman Empire.

Jesus's Church effectively overran Roman paganism. What better way to demonstrate how His Church can bring down even the greatest of mankind's civilizations than by having the Church's HQ in what used to be the capital city of said empire?

Today, there are 21 branches of the Church called "Rites". The Roman (aka Latin) Rite is the largest of Catholic Rites.

Answer 5

Your most ardent and fanatical Catholic apologists will claim that Catholicism started in Jerusalem when "Jesus" started it.

I am sorry to disappoint such feverish views, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Roman Catholicism started around 170 CE when an off shoot of the Eastern Christian Church secretly arrived- Christianity founded by Paul of Tarsus and the Jewish High Priests of the House of Ananus as a family dynasty- not Jesus nor his apostles.

See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

Prior to that time, Rome was dominated by the true teachings of Jesus through the Nazarene-Gnostic Valentinus.

Valentinus and his schools had thousands of students and support of the Emperor, who all saw the false religion of Christianity as evil.

Unfortunately, christianity gained a foothold at the end of the 2nd Century and the rest is history.

Answer 6

It wasn't all the Romans who killed Christ - there were a couple of Romans who were not there hammering the nails in.

The Roman Catholics started out as the Christian congregation in the city of Rome; i.e. the Church of Rome.

Answer 7

It started with a roman named Constantine. In a time the roman empire was divide (fast forward all the Bull.shat) he reunified the roman empire. Made Christianity the state religion and bans paganism and any one who refuses too convert he tortures to death.

Answer 8

Jesus Church was created by Peter

Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The Roman Catholic Church was founded by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine in 313 AD.

Answer 9

Google Emperor Constantine. He made Christianity the official Roman religion later. That is how.

Answer 10

they are stated as Roman Catholics as an insult. while the Protestant Reformation befell, the Reformers had a habit of calling Catholicism "Romish" because of the fact the pope is likewise popular as "Bishop of Rome" in spite of no longer certainly being in Rome. They spun unfavorable connotations to it because of the fact the the former inhabitants of Rome. That being the pagan Romans. They term is frequently basically used in English conversing factors of the international because it exchange into specially used as an insult by employing English Protestants. additionally, i think of you neglected the factor of Jesus' dying and resurrection. Jesus died for all adult men, all time. the info of who bodily did the deed isn't significant. basically the clarification in the back of Jesus' sacrifice.