Was the Roman Catholic started by Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

No, it was started by Constantine in 325 CE.

Answer 2

Though the Church of God at Rome was started by an Apostle of Jesus Christ, the leadership in that community soon turned from the teachings of Jesus Christ. Shortly after the last of the original Apostles had died, the Church at Rome (in general) was no longer keeping several fundamental doctrines of God -- though there were still many steadfast followers in the area of Rome for centuries to come.

It is clear in Church history that those who taught and practiced non-biblical doctrines gained the ascendancy in that Church. As their power grew, they tried ever harder to enforce their false doctrines on all who looked to Christ for salvation. And they have continued their divergence from true Christianity ever since.

So, the short answer: No, the RCC was not started by Jesus Christ, but by his adversaries.

Answer 3

No, started by Constantine, a pagan. The Catholic church resembles nothing that the true church looked like. If Jesus started it, the Catholic church would be following the ways Jesus worshipped. He celebrated the true Jewish feasts of God, Kept the Sabbath Day Holy, (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown) didn't point to anyone else but to the Father for adoration and praise, was our example for what a follower was to do. The feasts were for anyone who had faith in Christ, not just Jews. The Catholic church did the opposite and snuffed out anything jewish, and forced people to give up their jewish names and feasts and festivals and Holy Days. It is the counterfiet church. The Roman chruch that was pagan before it's debut. And still is.

Answer 4

The only thing that started the catholic church is satan. God did not appoint Peter as the pope of mama. The only reason mama claims this to be true is in hopes of making people more willing to become catholic.

Constantine is "the" one who started mama. He saw the fall of Rome and try to take over were Rome left off at.

Answer 5

You are correct. Jesus Christ did start the Catholic Church. No matter what anyone says in this post I would encourage you to look up Catholic Apologetics on the internet in order to prove via logic and reason that, yes Jesus Christ did start the Catholic Church. All Protestant arguments fall under the weight of Catholic Apologetics.

Also Roman Catholic isn't mentioned in the Bible because at the time the Bible was written, all of Christianity was Catholic... at that point known as Christians. The term Roman Catholic only came about after the Anglican Church began and people needed a term to distinguish between the Anglo Christians and everyone else - and since the Pope was in Rome... Catholic is just another term for universal. No other Christian Church is as universal. Again, I point to Catholic Apologetics.

Answer 6

Yes.

The early Christian Church was not called Catholic for the first seventy years or so.

The Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 C.E. (about 10 years after the last book of the New Testament was written), when the Greek term "Katholikos" (meaning universal) 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 C.E. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

NO!.......That is a lie of Satan!......Jesus IS the "Rock", the "Cornerstone", who IS the Foundational teacher of God's truth. This IS what He built His Church on. Peter merely was to be "a" leader (not a so-called pope) of God's True Church and continue with the Gospel of Jesus Christ after His death and resurrection. The True Church of God was built on the teaching of Jesus Christ. NOT Peter, a mere mortal being!.. Constantine started and was the head of (self ordained "first pope") the Catholic (Universal) Church........ "After almost three centuries of on-again, off-again persecution by the Roman government, the Edict of Toleration was issued at Milan in 313AD. Soon after, Christianity went from simply being officially tolerated by the Roman Empire, to actually becoming the official state religion of the empire. Did this represent a success story for the Church that Jesus Christ built? Had true, biblical Christianity triumphed in the Roman Empire?
Far from it! What we have seen is a Gentile-influenced religion that appropriated Christian terminology while retaining pagan traditions—all enforced by the Roman emperor, Constantine. It was vastly different from the persecuted, Judeo-Christian Church established by Jesus Christ Himself in the first century. Constantine recognized the important role that religion could play in uniting his empire and giving his populace a common identity. Motivated primarily by these political concerns, Constantine forged an alliance with the bishop of Rome and began the process of creating a "standard brand" of "Christianity" throughout his empire. He was instrumental in calling the Council of Nicea in 325AD and actually presided over it himself. Keep in mind that Constantine was not even baptized yet! In fact he put off baptism until he was on his deathbed, at which point he was too ill to be immersed. His personal example of being sprinkled contributed much to an abandonment of immersion in favor of sprinkling.
The Council of Nicea primarily sought to resolve two thorny issues that had not been fully settled earlier. These involved controversies about the nature of God as well as the Easter/Passover question. Backed up by imperial muscle, the views of the Roman church prevailed at the council. All opposition was squelched.
Constantine was also responsible for making "the venerable day of the Sun" a state holiday when the courts were to be closed and most businesses were to shut their doors.
This Roman emperor had previously been a devotee of Sol Invictus ("the Unconquered Sun") and with his "conversion," many motifs of sun worship, such as the use of the cross and the halo in art, entered "Christianity." Also at this time, there began to be mass conversions of the populace. To facilitate this, popular holidays such as Saturnalia and Lupercalia were recycled into new "Christian" observances, now called Christmas and St. Valentine’s Day. The leaders of the church at Rome claimed that they were merely broadening the way, making Christianity more accessible to the masses and certainly much less "Jewish." Anti-Semitism was a motivating force in Roman Christianity."



Where Was the Church That Jesus Built?

http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/print-bk.cgi?action=print_item&category=Booklets1&item=1104363708&print=yes

Answer 8

No. Jesus was born a Jew and he died as a Jew when the Romans killed him. During his life, he followed the Jewish faith. Christianity and/or Catholicism did not develop until many, many years after his death.

At the time that Jesus lived, there was no such thing as Christianity.

Answer 9

In spite of what any Catholic tries to tell you, the truth of the source of Catholic beliefs and practices is much different than they want to believe:

http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/default.htm

Identifying the Catholic Chruch and practices in scripture and history:

http://www.cog21.org/whobeast.html

http://www.cog21.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/The%20Mark%20of%20the%20Beast.htm

http://www.cbcg.org/rome's_challenge.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Hills_of_Rome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

http://www.cog21.org/abip.html

http://www.zoomnet.net/~bbratt/revelatn.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath

http://www.cbcg.org/true_sabbath.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

http://www.cog21.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/PTXMAS.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

http://www.cog21.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/The%20Plain%20Truth%20About%20EASTER%20(G).htm

Answer 10

From the very wound of Christs side as water gushed forth to heal and to extend the wellspring of all grace.

Answer 11

The Church traces its history to Jesus and the Twelve Apostles, and sees the bishops of the Church as the successors of the Apostles in general, and the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter, leader of the Apostles, in particular. The first known use of the term "Catholic Church" was in a letter by Ignatius of Antioch in 107, who wrote: "Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."