Is the Roman Catholic Church the "One True Church"?

Question

Would anyone suggest that God only loves Roman Catholics?
or that He only died for Roman Catholics?
and make the rest of us the False Prophets Jesus warned about?
Such would be the case if the Catholic church was the "one true church" wouldn' it?

Answer 1

No and the pope never said it was. Here is the actual document if you would care to actually learn the truth.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html
Do you think it's Christian to spread lies and propaganda to discredit a religion? Do you question the "Christian" churches that knowingly lie and mislead their followers?
Is it against your Christian faith to actually do research before asking a question? Must you believe everything your church tells you?
Do you think anyone who is not Christian goes to Hell? How is this any better than what you claim the pope said?

Answer 2

Is the Roman Catholic Church the "One True Church"?
Yes. She is the Church Christ founded 2,000 years ago.

Would anyone suggest that God only loves Roman Catholics?
No. That is absurd. God loves all people including atheist, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, etc. He just wishes they’d accept His Son and His Church.

or that He only died for Roman Catholics?
No, Christ died for all people, it’s just that not all people accept what He did for them.

and make the rest of us the False Prophets Jesus warned about?
False prophets are those that teach false doctrines. Know anyone like that?

Such would be the case if the Catholic church was the "one true church" wouldn' it?
No. The Catholic Church is THE Universal Church, the one set down by Christ. Universal is the English word for Catholic. It means for all. Like I said earlier, Christ intends for all to be part of His Church, but not all accept Him.

Answer 3

The more I have found out about the Evangelical/ Southern Baptist movement / their text - the Scofield Reference Bible - starting with Billy Graham - I am convinced that the Catholic church is the one true church.

Historically - the Catholic Church posses all the oral and written traditions of the Apostles prior to the writings of the Bible - and also incorporates the Bible ( in addition to the traditions ) into its rituals, dogmas and beliefs. Theoretically - the protestants, reformers, evangelicals only refer to the teachings of the Bible and ignore the traditions of the Apostles - I believe this is wrong - and so does the Catholic Church - but I personally believe as long as you believe in the essentials doctrines of Christianity ( holy trinity, Deity of Christ etc ) of the faith & pray and confess your probably alright.

That being said - the Catholic church is a back slidden institution - but the historic teachings and traditions are not.

The Evangelical movement is slowly taking its mask off - it is grossly heretical - they are trying to incorporate Jewish and Masonic beliefs into Christianity - which is an aposticacy .

Answer 4

I dont believe the the Roman Catholics is the one true church. I believe that Christ died for all of our sins, that if we choose to follow him, repent and come to the true docterine of faith, we shall be saved. Something I find interesting about the catholic church is that it was never started as pure christianity. During that time most of Italy and Rome was a pagan religious state. Even Constantine was pagan. When constantine founded the catholic church, in order to make it easer to get more people in he mixed pagan rituals into an abridged and dulled down version of christianity. Chritianity was fell into an apostacy after the last of the apostles died. He took that apostate christanity and mixed it with pagan rites and there we have catholicism. Then almost all Religions apostacised of of the all ready apostate Catholic church. Most religions today have broken off of the catholic church. How can it be the one and only true church. Also, to detemine things on earth about religion one should have direct knowlige from god. In the nicine creed, a group of catholic men gathered together to VOTE, not recive inspiration, VOTE on what the "trinity" was all about. They came up with an explanation, which is called the nicene creed, which is confusing beyond belief. Now if this isn't enough information, i can give you more.

Answer 5

From a Catholic:

1. Yes, some would, but the Church has always affirmed that God loves everyone.

2. Ditto.

3. A formal false prophet is a person who deliberately twists the oracles of God. Some Catholic priests are formally false prophets, and some Protestant ministers are only materially so.

4. No to 1 and 2, sometimes to 3.

Answer 6

RCC do not pray to everyone yet God. praying to everyone yet God is a sin. in the RCC prayers they say _____ pray "FOR" us. As for the pope, what denomination isn't ruled with the help of a head that helps interpret the bible. For Pres, baptist and different church homes that have not got a hierarchy, the minister or reverend helps to define what's considered a sin and what isn't. purely like the pope. RCC or any christian do not positioned as much as everyone's authority yet to God's. i'm uninterested in doing this. you recognize what why do not you pass criticize rapists, murders, thieves, and individuals accessible doing incorrect. or in line with danger pass perform a little volunteer artwork rather of wailing on different religions. confident there are variations in each and every church. Who cares? as long as you sense nearer to God and are not committing a sin, then it is going to not count the variety you worship God. If going and assisting the homeless helps you sense nearer to God do it. If going evangelizing helps you sense nearer do it. Missionary artwork do it. the component is there'll constantly be distinctive church homes, distinctive ideals and distinctive perspectives approximately all concerns. God made us all equivalent, yet distinctive.

Answer 7

The first Christians had no doubts about how to determine which was the true Church and which doctrines the true teachings of Christ. The test was simple: Just trace the apostolic succession of the claimants.

Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles. All over the world, all Catholic bishops are part of a lineage that goes back to the time of the apostles, something that is impossible in Protestant denominations (most of which do not even claim to have bishops).

The role of apostolic succession in preserving true doctrine is illustrated in the Bible. To make sure that the apostles’ teachings would be passed down after the deaths of the apostles, Paul told Timothy, "[W]hat you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Tim. 2:2). In this passage he refers to the first three generations of apostolic succession—his own generation, Timothy’s generation, and the generation Timothy will teach.

The Church Fathers, who were links in that chain of succession, regularly appealed to apostolic succession as a test for whether Catholics or heretics had correct doctrine. This was necessary because heretics simply put their own interpretations, even bizarre ones, on Scripture. Clearly, something other than Scripture had to be used as an ultimate test of doctrine in these cases.

Thus the early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes, "[W]here in practice was [the] apostolic testimony or tradition to be found? . . . The most obvious answer was that the apostles had committed it orally to the Church, where it had been handed down from generation to generation. . . . Unlike the alleged secret tradition of the Gnostics, it was entirely public and open, having been entrusted by the apostles to their successors, and by these in turn to those who followed them, and was visible in the Church for all who cared to look for it" (Early Christian Doctrines, 37).

For the early Fathers, "the identity of the oral tradition with the original revelation is guaranteed by the unbroken succession of bishops in the great sees going back lineally to the apostles. . . . [A]n additional safeguard is supplied by the Holy Spirit, for the message committed was to the Church, and the Church is the home of the Spirit. Indeed, the Church’s bishops are . . . Spirit-endowed men who have been vouchsafed ‘an infallible charism of truth’" (ibid.).

Thus on the basis of experience the Fathers could be "profoundly convinced of the futility of arguing with heretics merely on the basis of Scripture. The skill and success with which they twisted its plain meaning made it impossible to reach any decisive conclusion in that field" (ibid., 41).

Pope Clement I

"Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife for the office of bishop. For this reason, therefore, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed those who have already been mentioned and afterwards added the further provision that, if they should die, other approved men should succeed to their ministry" (Letter to the Corinthians 42:4–5, 44:1–3 [A.D. 80]).

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 8

In my opinion, no. I dont think God is like that. Remeber those little childrens bible, God loves everyone, and everyone is just as good as one another. Christ died for EVERYONE. They didnt say "God only loves Catholics, and Catholics are better than everyone else" or "Christ only died for the Catholics, cuz they are the best". Its rubbish. God loves every single person on this earth! Like "Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world, if their yellow, black or white, something something something, something something something something something!"Just follow the ten commandments and your good to go, bro (or sis)!
Oh, and I am like 11 and I was baptized as a Catholic, but In my own opinion, im starting to have second thoughts................

Answer 9

I suppose that if you want to consider that Roman Catholicism was the 'original' Christian church then yeah you'd have to say it was the one and true church of Christianity but there are a great deal of things in the Catholic belief scheme that doesn't pan out with the written word of the Bible. Martin Luther dared argue against that and posted his 95 Theses that literally changed the world and created Protestantism. So some would say that Catholicism deviated from the written word to the point that it is now not the one 'true' church.

Answer 10

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

+ Catholic Churches +

By the way, there are more Catholic Churches than just the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church.

The Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, are part of the one true Catholic Church, and include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition
+ Coptic Catholic Church
+ Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
+ Maronite Church
+ Syrian Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian liturgical tradition:
+ Armenian Catholic Church

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
+ Chaldean Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malabar Church

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
+ Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
+ Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
+ Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
+ Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
+ Melkite Greek Catholic Church
+ Romanian Church
+ Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Ruthenian Catholic Church
+ Slovak Greek Catholic Church
+ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 11

No Sir, Rome acknowledges even Greek Orthodox, Russian
Orthodox and Egyptian and Ethiopian Optics.

And nobody can mistake your for a prophet- false or otherwise