Do Evangelicals Think They Are Better Than Roman Catholics?

Question

I have run into quite a few evangelical christians who believe that catholics are not REAL christians. What's up with that?

Answer 1

Catholics are Evangelical Christians.

An Evangelical is someone who lives their life in accordance with the Christian gospel.

A Christian is someone professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.

Feel free to look these words up.

Some groups like to redefine words like Christian and Evangelical into much narrower terms and claim that Catholics are neither Christian nor Evangelical.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

It's not a matter of being better. It's a matter of being authentic. The Catholic church did not exist until well after Constantine's edict of toleration in 313 AD. Once it rose to power, it continued the Roman empire's job of violently persecuting Bible believers.
The Catholic Church was birthed from a politically genius move that blended Roman Paganism with "Christian" Iconography. While some Catholics are sincerely trusting Christ for their salvation, they do so in spite of the system, not because of it. Catholicism has always been veiled paganism, and that will not change until Revelation 17 takes place.

Answer 3

A Catholic dies and appears at the gates of Heaven and suddenly hears the most wonderful music that seems to come from a walled off part of Heaven.
When St.Peter meets him the man asks rather loud and excitedly,`Who is making that music` and Peter nervously says to him,` Quiet keep your voice down, thats where the evangelicals are, and they think that they are the only ones up here`.

By the way instead of living in ignorance and judging Catholics because of hear say, would it not be better for hardcore Protestants to at least read the catechism of the Catholic church before spouting gibberish about it.

Answer 4

Well, they are not. They follow the Pope and not Jesus, they dont read the Bible, they issue heritical statements all the time, and so on - its a big issue. In the meantime, every branch of Christianity that fell away from the Roman Catholic latches onto one thing or one item from the Roman Catholics and says that they are better. And the Roman Catholics say they are better than anyone else as well.

But, they are all false churches. None of them actually follow what Jesus says in the Bible. If they did, there would be no churches other than temples for offering thanks to God (all worship would be done at home, alone, at night, in the dark, silently), women would run the priesthood, there would be no such thing as an un-married servant of God, priests would not be called priest or father or anything like that - just "teacher", the Pope would not be a figurehead, there would be no crosses, no rosary beads, no statutes of Jesus or Mary, no "holy water", etc. etc. etc.

Answer 5

Most catholics think that all other denominations of Christians are some cheat imitation. As a matter of fact most Catholics don't liked to be labeled as Christians, they liked to be called Catholics. We Should all study the life of Christ and learn a lesson.

Answer 6

Some Catholics aren't born of God yet, because they are self righteous. Some Evangelical Christians aren't born of god yet, because they are self righteous.

When one is born of God they are made the righteousness of Christ at spiritual birth. We can't be more or less righteousness because God looks at us & sees Christ righteousness. If people think they can be more righteous by making additional rules & critically judge others when they don't do the same, then this is self righteousness.

Some born again Christians get into self righteousness & critically judge others and are mad all the time. That is because they don't really know who they are in Christ.

Answer 7

Catholics are the first Christians.

We do not worship Saints, or Mary.

We are no better than anyone else.

Peace!

Answer 8

No, but it was not until recently that I started hearing people refer to Catholics as Christians. The way I was taught ,and all of the Catholics that I know, Catholicism and Christianity are two different religions.

Answer 9

i am a Christian, a follower of Christ, from the Roman Catholic Church. i am no better than anyone,...

Ridicule me if you want to, condemn me, i will stand firm in my faith and strongly stay with God.

Answer 10

Yes. They do.

Catholics, in their estimation, are little better than heathens - worse, by most accounts, because they blaspheme Christ's name with their papist idolatry, etc etc. See the ironically named "MrKnowItAll's" "answer."

They're called "fundies" for a reason. They have God on speed dial, you see, and the rest of us are "lost."

Now of course they would never phrase it this way. They would never say outright that they believe themselves to be "better" than anybody else. But they're servants of Christ, unworthy of his grace, but humbly trusting in the efficacy of His sacrifice to purge their souls of iniquity, etc. Meanwhile we (meaning all the rest of us outside of their particular cult) are the "dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers, and idolaters, who loveth and maketh a lie" referred to in the Apocalypse, and it was mistaken kindness on the part of St. John that he did not mention us by name.

Lest you think this attitude is judgemental and self-righteous, they'll throw "Hate the sin, love the sinner" at you - their complete intolerance of everyone who refuses to group-think with them is only a function of their "love," you see, because in order to get into heaven, you have to play by their rules - which they know because their rules say so.