Jesus And The 12 Apostles Were Catholic, And Not Jewish?

Question

The Pope Now Says That The Catholics Are All Going To Heaven Because As The God Pope, He Decides Who Is A True Christian?

Answer 1

Here is the full text of the new document that states nothing new: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

Most Christian denominations believe that each of them is the fullest version of the Church of Christ.

While the Catholic Church also believes that she is "the highest exemplar" of the mystery that is the Church of Christ, she does not claim that non-Catholic Churches are not truly Christian. The Catholic Church teaches:

Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church.

All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

>>The Pope Now Says That The Catholics Are All Going To Heaven Because As The God Pope, He Decides Who Is A True Christian?<<

How about posting a quote (with link) of him saying that?

Answer 3

Jesus and the 12 Disciples were Jewish in heritage. In religion they set up the Roman Catholic Church.

The pope is Christ's Representaitve on Earth. God Bless.

Answer 4

No Different Than Fundie Evangelicals Who Put Down Anyone Not In Their Particular Denomination And Declaring That Anyone Who Doesn't Believe As They Do Will Endure The Pits Of Hell...

What's With All The Capitalized Words, Dude?

Answer 5

Jesus' early followers were called "the Way" and later "Christians. Acts 9:2; 11:26. Jesus and his apostles were all Jews.

The Catholic Church has proved that is not the Church of Christ. Consider:The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately 30 A.D. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ died for, the Church that was established and built by the Apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture.

Does this sound like the Church of Christ?

Answer 6

Jesus made them "Catholic" - from the Greek words "Kath" - "according to" - "Holos" - "the whole". The birth of the Catholic Church: JESUS BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID: "RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT." We can do no better than begin these reflections with these words in the form of a prayer: Lord, breathe upon us too and send forth your Holy Spirit upon us that your words and those we are about to hear may find a place within our heart and increase your life in us. Amen. The breath of Jesus that carried his words from within his heart now imparts the new life of the Holy Spirit.

His new life carries with it a power to his apostles and their successors- the power to forgive sins and so to pass on that life which consists in communion with the Father through the Son.

The Spirit then is a source of a higher life, the Church Kath-holikos - a life that enters into the life we know through our bodily senses and our consciousness to purify, elevate, intensify and ennoble it through the energy of divine love.

This is basic Sunday School stuff.

Answer 7

When I read this I was shocked. I think The Pope needs to take a closer look into the teachings of Jesus.

Answer 8

no. He doesnt as he is but a MAN. Look into the teachings of catholoscism and the Bible and ask if the measure up. Never does it say people become "saints" and we should pray to them. "thou shalt have no brazen images"~~ why so many statues of people to pray to especially Mary. Jesus was JEWISH blood and so were his apostles.

Answer 9

"The Church" only became Roman Catholic when Constantine said so...which was about 300 years after the death of Jesus and the apostles. So...how could they have been Catholic?

atheist

Answer 10

Of course they were catholics. Look at the paintings, I mean, do they look like swarthy, middle-eastern semites? No, of course not.