2007-07-20 21:51:58 · 19 answers · asked by G.xi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To be a Christian you must repent of your sins before God and ask His forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior.
2007-07-20 22:01:37 · answer #1 · answered by David R 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some Catholic people are Christians. Some Catholics actually read the Bible and find the truth instead of listening to the rules various popes made up. Some of these then leave the church for a church where they can learn the truth. Others stay in hopes of showing the truth to others. BTW, those who become Christians often find that they need a new Bible. The Catholic Bible they are told to use has a lot of religious rhetoric in place of Holy Scripture. (For example, just check out the Ten Commandments.)
Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses? No. These are pure cults. Like many other cults, they pretend they are Christian to attract people and to be accepted by the mainstream.
2007-07-20 22:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by Renee D 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Most non-Catholic Christian denominations accept Catholics as Christians. A very few do not.
A dictionary would say that a Christian is someone professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
Catholics would fit this definition.
In the Nicene creed, from 325 C.E., Catholics profess:
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father.
Through Him all things were made.
For us and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried.
On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We are baptized as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28:19, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
We truly are spiritually "born again," we just don't usually use those words.
For a complete description of what Catholics believe, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-07-21 16:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your definition of Christian.
I have seen several here in R&S.
Some say to be Christian you beleive Jesus Christ is the Sone of God and you believe he is your Saviou and Redeemer. By that Definition yes they all are.
Some say to be Christian you must believe in the Trinity. By that then Catholics are but Mormons an JW are not and then also some others Prodestants are not also. (I have noticed here in R&S not all do, but the majority do).
None of these religions are cults, some may not agree with them but they are valid religions and do use the Bible and the Teachings of Christ as their center.
BTW Noah, what commandments do they break? They don't kill per say, they don't covent their neighbors wives more then anyone else, they don't lie (you may disagree with them, but that does not constitute a lie). They don't take the Lord's name in vain any more then most other Christians. Could you please point out the specific commandment they don't keep?
2007-07-20 22:53:43 · answer #4 · answered by idaho gal 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They like to think so. I think Jehova's witnesses come the closest to believeing what Christ taught. The Mormons are a cult, and the Catholics are a world political group. There's nothing even remotely Christian about the Catholic "church". I'm an ex-Catholic (thank God!) so I'm entitled to a less than flattering opinion of them.
2007-07-20 22:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by valmay 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do use genuinely an analogous Bible as Christians, yet they interpret it very in yet in any different case. For one factor, they have not got faith interior the Trinity. they suspect that Jesus is an incarnation of the archangel Michael and that "holy spirit" is just some unintelligent divine tension. they suspect that the merely suited way forward for maximum committed believers is a suited life on a paradise Earth, ruled over via God and a crack team of a hundred and forty four,000 JW leaders in heaven. there isn't any hell. The souls of non-believers will merely be annihilated. JWs have a particular "translation" of the Bible that differences some words right here and there to make it much less stressful to stay with their own interpretations. they could use different variations yet they are extra comfortable with the "New international Translation". one factor you need to notice is the substitution of the term "torture stake" for "pass". it style of feels to be a huge deal for them.
2016-10-09 04:35:29 · answer #6 · answered by kosmoski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can Catholics be Christians when they spend more time praying to Mary then they do to Jesus?
Now remember, this is Jesus talking, not Mary:
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
The Bible CLEARLY states there that JESUS is the door; not Mary.
As far as what a Christian is, a Christian is someone who says with their their life just as loudly as with their mouth that they are a Christian.
2007-07-22 06:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.
Sadly, trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20050422/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
2007-07-24 17:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I may not agree with these faiths but they in various degrees are Christians. What I don't understand is that Islam says Jesus will return at the end. That seems to me to be Christian??????? The world is strange.
2007-07-20 23:53:16 · answer #9 · answered by Heart of man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said that any self called Christian practicing lawlessness has no part with him.
Jesus said if you love him you will keep his commandments.
Jesus's first commandment was to love God so it stands without reason that we must obey Gods commandments too.
Jehovah's Witnesses,Mormons & Catholics don't keep the ten commandments
2007-07-20 22:28:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses- NO
Mormons- NO
Catholics- YES
2007-07-20 22:17:38 · answer #11 · answered by ItsScriptural 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋