In relation to the Pope's comments regarding true Christianity.... (details)?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_eu/pope_other_christians
On Divisions in the Church
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building 1 COR 3:1-9

oh they are coming.

Answer 1

very well informed statement but i don't see a question

Answer 2

1. The gospels portray Jesus in various ways: Compassionate (healing ministry - one of many "healers" at the time), angry and aggressive (calling Pharisees "Hypocrites" etc, attacking the tradesmen in the temple, and so on), and even initially uncompassionate (the Syro-Phoenician woman, for example, when he initially refused to exorcise her daughter as they were Gentiles - "dogs" - until she begged for the "scraps" – Matthew 15:22-28 & Mark 7:25-30). And in Matthew 10:34-38 and Luke 12:49-53, he states that his mission isn’t to bring peace but set the earth on fire and to set members of households and families against each other. So if Jesus was a real person, he doesn't seem perfect, but complex like other men. But I kind of think the Jesus of the gospels was probably a legend in who were assimilated proverbs and morals of a sect and tradition, and maybe attributes of several leaders of the sect. 2. One of the New Testament writers' claims was that Jesus is a descendant of King David, and so has the right to be a king as would have been expected of the awaited legendary Messiah, and worthy of the title "Son of God". "Son of God" is a title applied to the real king of Israel: 2 Samuel 7:14, "I will be his (David's) father, and he shall be my son". Christ is from the Greek word Christos, for Messiah, or Anointed in English. In Greek it looks like Χριστός . 3. Jesus is the Latin form of the Greek Ihsous, which in turn is from the Hebrew Yeshua, or Yoshua, or Yehoshua, meaning "Yahweh is salvation." It was apparently not an uncommon name, and crucifixion wasn't uncommon under the Romans. 4. In 1 Corinthians 15:12-15, Paul says: Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. In Romans 10:9 he says that that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So the doctrine of the risen Christ is considered essential to the Faith and the belief in the resurrection of the dead. Rather than deny that Christ rose, and thereby deny their faith as Paul states, they strengthen their belief in it so that they can claim that their faith is true. But this shows that belief in the resurrection wasn't universal in the early Church. That Paul said this implies that there were different beliefs and practises within the Way that became Christianity, even in the early days. Things have been that way ever since.

Answer 3

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.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 819: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#819

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

The Pope is not a true christian man. While he believe in God and in Jesus Christ, he have other Gods other than the true living God, like Mary the mother of Christ. he claimed that she is most powerful and claimed that she is God. He is worshipping Mary as God and worshipping images made of stone, wood and gold or selver. he claimed to be powerful like Jesus Christ and say to himself that he is the most benevolent. He is also worshipping Peter and other Apotles and alleged saints of the catholics.His teachings to the members is not a doctrine of Jesus Christ but was mixed with the dectrine of the Roman Catholic Church and give his own ruling without making the bible as his basis....and many more which are against the doctrine on the bible.
jtm.

Answer 5

What the pope says means nothing. God knows who believes in His son. The bible says believe in Jesus and be saved. I put my faith in the word of God, not some man...and that is all the pope is.

Answer 6

makes a person wish that the pope and the followers of him would read their own bibles.

I have long held that divisions over church and doctrine started right then during that early infancy of the church.

The cathlics hold that divisions didnt start until the protests of men such as the goose, calvin and Luther. The bible states otherwise, wish they would read their very own bibles.

Answer 7

Sounds like a lot of beaurocratic bumf to me, but I never pay much attention to the Pope.

Answer 8

Where's the question?

Answer 9

Will there be a follow up QA period.

Answer 10

Good answer!