The Roman Catholic religion is the mother....?

Question

i have heard that all the christians religions is strained from the Roman Catholic church....i dont know, can a true believing christian tell me better?

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: Truly the answer is ... Yes. Protestantism is the idealogy of protesting Catholicism. Protestantism in the west (meaning western Europe and America is primarily
associated with the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Before this All known Christians were Roman Catholic. All the so-called reformers, the first generation to protest are in fact fallen away Catholics in the west.

In the East (meaning Greece, Asia Minor) the Catholic Church became the Eastern Orthodox today. They too protested against the understanding of One Catholic Church and fell even worse into schism via casario-papism of the Eastern emperors.

Roman Catholicism as it is known today is the mother of all Christian communities. There are some very recent communites like the Jehovah Witnesses organization, Seventh Day Adventists, some Baptists and so on who claim to be the remnant churches of Christianity and yet they can never trace a history back to Jesus Christ the founder as Catholicism can. They are no remainder church so how is it they are a remnant?


Several persons have decided to quote bible text out of context in a feeble attempt to disprove Catholicism as the Christian Church. The dilemma for these persons is this, they will be the first individuals answering other questions on Christianity claiming the Catholic Church is no where to be found in the bible. You can't have your cake and eat it too!
When someone suggests you can't find Catholic Church in the bible I answer neither can you find Baptist Church, Pentecostal Church, Lutheran Church, Methodist Church, Evangelical Church, Born again Church etc etc...

It is only the bigots and anti-catholics who contradict themselves so often so as to suggest in one discussion the biblical Catholic Church isn't in the bible and then in another discussion that it is. Of course this fellow jun is a prime example.

Answer 2

My understanding has it that the Catholics, for one reason or another, decided to adopt the day Jesus Arose from the dead as the holy day. It has to be a Catholic or Catholic related (Greek Orthodox) thing because there WAS not other religion other than Judaism when Sunday was adopted. Lutherans didn't come until 1500 and Sunday was the Christian Sabbath for ages by that time! I'm not exactly sure where the Jewish sunset to sunset law came from. The Bibles says "The Morning and the Evening" were the first day. So if we're going to get into a sabbath day thing, then maybe we better take the WHOLE thing apart and see what a "day" is from the Genesis prespective, even though it wasn't Earth days it still says MORNING (first) then AND EVENING (second). Not NIGHT(First) and then Daytime (Second) as the JEws practise. Also, as a matter of record, Jesus, while having dinner with the head Pharasee on the Sabbath day asked the Pharaseee if it was wrong to heal someone on the sabbath day and the Phrasee couldn't not answer him, so Jesus went to the Pharasee's door where a man was and he healed the man on the Sabbath.

Answer 3

Up until the reformation, there were some Orthodox Chruches and "the Christian Church." After that schism, it all depends on your point of view. Some will say that since the Protestant denominations broke away from the governing body of the church (and for some good reasons, I might add), that they are the "newbies." Others will says that the Protestant denominations were correcting the wrongs of the Christian hierarchy and so they are the "true church." (If so, then they have to accept the first dozen centuries of common history as their own as much as that of the Catholics.)

I really don't think it matters much. What matters is how we try to follow the teachings of Jesus.

Answer 4

The most ancient branches of Christianity are the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church. The two officially split from each other in the 11th century A.D.

But those are just the large, official church organizations. In reality, there was a great variety of Christian religion existing either outside of these official churches or within these churches in the early history of Christianity.

Answer 5

Strained? Ok early on there was ONE church. But, because people make up churches they did not always agree. First split was between the East (Orthodox) and the West (Rome). From each of these TWO traditions, all the others grew. But if you ask an Orthodox which is the true mother of the others, they will say Orthodox. Likewise for Roman Catholics.

No one is right and everyone is right.

Answer 6

The Roman Catholic religion is the mother Church and most Religions branched from the Church

Answer 7

The opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and its false teaching came to a head in the sixteenth century, when a Roman Catholic monk named Martin Luther posted his 95 propositions (or theses) against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on the Castle Church door at Wittenberg, Germany. Luther’s intention was to bring reform to the Roman Catholic Church, and in doing so was challenging the authority of the Pope. With the refusal of the Roman Catholic Church to heed Luther’s call to reformation and return to biblical doctrines and practices, the Protestant Reformation began out of which four major divisions or traditions of Protestantism would immerge: Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican. During this time God raised up godly men in different countries in order to once again restore churches throughout the world to their biblical roots and to biblical doctrines and practices.

Answer 8

You heard right. The Catholic Church is the original church founded by Christ 2,000 years ago. Protestants are simply a break from the Catholic Church around the year 1500.

Answer 9

Yes Roman Catholic is the mother of the existing False Christian Churches today. They are Pretending as Christian Churches. “Born again Christian” have a doctrine that Jesus is the God the Father, Iglesia ni Manalo of the Phil. have a doctrine that Jesus is not God, and Roman Catholic worshiping Idols. If you read the bible it is very clear that those religion twisted the verses of the bible. Not only them many pretending as a Christian Churches are following the way of their Mother- liar and blasphemous .

Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Answer 10

Your assessment is partially correct. All protestant churches were created by detractors of the Roman Catholic Church. However, not all Christian churches are Protestants.