Whats the difference between Christian's & Catholic's ? ( if any )?

Question

I don't want to start a fight with this question, I would like your opinions & and answers thank you very much..

Answer 1

i agree with billy E. i use to be a catholic, christians follow the teachings of the bible, catholics have their own catecism and are taught how to be a catholic, i am born again now.and am no religion, i follow Jesus and the bible not the pope and the catholic church. do some research you will see for yourself. i stopped being a catholic because it did not follow what i was reading in the bible

Answer 2

Christianity started in Antioch; however Constantinople wanted a state church that agreed. So he had a big meeting with all of the leaders of the different sects to determine correct doctrine, real Christians walked out of the meeting and said we need no human guidance on doctrine we have the scripture. The result of the meeting that followed was the Catholic Church, Roman to be exact. The Catholic Church has basically become th BORG they just assimilated what ever the nations they conquered believed so they could be the State church.

Answer 3

"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 4

So called Christians,(most of them), believe and follow or try to, Christ's teachings and his example he left behind.
Catholics renovate more so of Mary the mother Jesus, and their saints they bestowed the title to. They misrepresent Christ's teachings he layed down. Also Peter and Paul's letters they ridicule in their own way, shadowing out the details or the main thoughts in the letters of both the Apostles Peter and Paul. The young Christian Congregations needed help because the gentiles were accepted in the Christian congregations so they needed encouragement both Jew and Gentiles.
Peace.....
Peace......

Answer 5

I think you mean the difference between Protestants and Catholics.

Catholics ARE Christians.

Protestants "protest." Such as, they protest the pope as head of the church. The protest the Mary as the mother of God. There are as many things to not agree on as there are denominations of protestantism.

So too, each variation of Protestantism claims to have some "key" by which one knows one is saved.

Catholics don't believe this. We follow what Paul says. This is a race one must run so as to win. There is no way of knowing while we are still here on earth.

Billy is under a LOT of misconceptions about Catholicism. We certainly do not elevate the pope over Jesus. Nor do we worship Mary. Among other things. Billy, Martin Luther began editing the bible in the 1530's. He took things out. Things that had been there since the beginning of Christianity. Catholics didn't "add" anything. Protestants took them out in order to "prove" that Catholicism is unbiblical.

Jill too is under a LOT of misconceptions. We do not talk to the dead through prayer.

There would be a lot less misinformation out there if people would focus on their own faith instead of telling lies to knock another person's faith.

Answer 6

Neither "Christians" nor "Catholics" requires an apostrophe.

Catholics are Christians just as Episopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Russian Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans etc are Christians. They all believe that Christ is their saviour, they just have different ways of worshipping. The oddballs are the evangelical Old Testament Fundamentalists who call themselves Christian but aren't Christians by any definition of the word.

Answer 7

I am ready for the thumbs down, but this is the truth. Catholics are not Christians. The reason is, is that the catholics believe you can talk to the dead by prayer, like for example when they pray to Mary and the saints. Mary was the mother of Jesus, but she also was married and had other children and had her sins too. She is just like the rest of us, but yes, she is in Heaven, but she is not God and nowhere in the Bible does it say to pray to her or any of the saints, as they too have their sins. This is alot of material to cover so I am going to give you a website to look at and you will get your answers.
I know alot because I use to be catholic, but I have since renounced the religion after I learned about it and am now a true born again Bible believing Christian.

Edit: Billy E and Grace have very true answers.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/catholicism_is_of_the_devil.htm

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/the_great_whore.htm

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/SS/anti1.htm

Answer 8

Sadly it's often partiality vs universalism, as catholic means universal; But Roman Catholic means Law Law. Sadly many Christians are also Law Law, "the second", "another law", which made Paul the Apostle feel "wretched" in Romans 7.

Answer 9

This is a complex question. There are many good websites out there that would go into the history of the Church, and explain how the split occurred. Here is just one.

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/catholic_protestant.htm

Answer 10

Same as the difference between women and people. Whoops, women ARE people! And Catholics ARE Christians. In fact, the Catholic Church is the original Christian Church, the only Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ, and the only Christian Church He ever intended to exist. (Remember? He said His followers were all to be ONE?) The Catholic Church is united in belief, united in teaching, united in worship and united in government throughout the world, after 2,000 years, just as Christ said it would be. What a contrast with manmade denominational religion, which has fragmented into thousands of unauthorized, conflicting, contradicting sects in just a few hundred years! That's why Scripture refers to the one Church Christ founded, and no other, as "the pillar and foundation of truth". Once you remove the pillars and foundation from a structure it begins to warp and weaken, and eventually collapses. The rubble from that collapse of truth is denominationalism.
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Answer 11

Catholicism:

-The Pope is the Vicar of Christ, meaning he is Jesus' earthly head. He is like his Prime Minister.

-Mary is revered, not worshipped - that would be idolotry. She is given the respect due to the mother of Christ, as Jesus himsef did.

-Statues of saints are remind us of the work God does through his people and are an inspiration for us to "run the good race" as Paul exhorts us to.

-Purgatory is a state in which our souls are purified after death before one enters Heaven.

-As an effect of the Reformation, certain books of the Bible were removed. Not at once, because even the first edition of the King James Bible included all of the books of the Bible that date back to the Greek Septuigent, which was widely used in the first century of the Church (it predates that time period).