2007-07-16 10:46:15 · 10 answers · asked by austin 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Matthew 16:18 Was not Jesus talking about himself when he said "upon this rock" and not Peter?
2007-07-16 10:53:25 · update #1
Did not Jesus give the great commission to all of his disciples and not just Peter?
2007-07-16 11:12:55 · update #2
Emperor Constantine did. He formalized the establishment of the Church at the council of Nicaea. I forget the year but it was in the 300 AD area. It was politically expedient to do so. Citizens of the empire were converting like wildfire and he wanted to get them to warm up to them by sanctioning the Christian faith. He was also flexing political muscle by establishing a centralized leadership to the Church that brought more people under his control.
2007-07-16 10:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus founded the Catholic Church. They can trace every pope back to St. Peter. This is called "Apostolic Succession."
The other churches were founded by men. King Henry VIII started the Anglican/Episcopal Church. The Puritans founded was is now the Presbyterian church. Martin Luther started the Lutheran Church. George Fox started the Quakers. The Mormons were started by Joseph Smith. Church of Scientology was founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Whoever started the pentecostal and baptist churches are unknown.
So the King who started the Catholic church was King Jesus.
2007-07-16 11:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Acorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Constantine allowed the formation of a unified church, or a Catholic Church because he was saying "Thank-you" to a cross he saw in the sky before he re-united a crumbling Roman empire as recorded history would have put it years ago. He was a political leader and the Christians were the most dynamic group not supported by any of the other leaders. He could quickly increase the support of his empire by legalizing there religion. However, he only legalized Christianity. A future emporer, I forget which, made it illegal not to be Christian. Also the present state of the Catholic Church was formed as a reaction to the Reformation and the Church around the time of Constatine (100s of years after Jesus' death) did not resemble it all that strongly.
2007-07-16 10:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by Ozymandius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 1st pope was Peter. Jesus said to Peter, "You are the rock on which I will build my church." Therefore it was Jesus who started the Catholic Church. Some misinformed people have said that the roman Emperor Constantine was the 1st pope or started the Catholic Chruch but there is no historical evidence to back this claim up.
2007-07-16 10:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Deslok of Gammalon 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't a King, it was a Roman Emperor who appointed Boniface III as the first pope in AD 606.
Although the catholic church claims that the papacy goes back to the founding of the church by Christ, for the first six centuries there was no ecumenical council called but what was called by an emperor never by a pope! The decisions of those councils were considered authoritative and nowhere in them was there the slightest or barest allusion to a pope. Why not? If there had been such, quite obviously there would have been acknowledgment of the same.
Let us consider just for a moment this matter of papal lineage. Did you know that, after the papacy was introduced, there was a period of seventy years in which there was no pope at all? Did you know that for another period of fifty years there were two lines of popes? And did you know that at one time there were three popes? They were Benedict XIII, Gregory XII, the French pope, and John XXIII, the Italian pope. Where does all this leave papal lineage and infallibility?
2007-07-16 10:52:30 · answer #5 · answered by TG 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Christ, the King of Kings set up the structure of the Church and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost started the Church.
The Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD (about 10 years after the last book of the New Testament was written), when the term appears in the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans:
"Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-smyrnaeans-hoole.html
We do not know how long they had been using the term "Catholic" before it was included in this letter.
All of this was long before the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed from 325 A.D. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-07-16 17:02:16 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic means universal and that church was started by the King of Kings although certainly not under that name.
2007-07-16 10:59:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus started the Catholic church. The first person is correct!
Edit:
Check it out on Wiki...http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism
2007-07-16 10:54:26 · answer #8 · answered by SDC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the savior, king, shepard, lamb, and salvation ... Jesus then passed the keys to the kingdom to Peter.
2007-07-16 10:59:37 · answer #9 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God started the Catholic Church to help us get to Heaven.
2007-07-16 10:51:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋