Catholocism?

Question

Who are the founding fathers of the Catholic Church aside from Jesus?

2. What places did St. Paul found Christian Communities?

3. Where did early Christians celebrate mass?

4. How were early Christians treated by the Romans?

5.Why is St. Peter important to the Catholic church?

Answer 1

1. Jesus named 12 apostles to be with him....and then added 72 more as disciples. From there, they each had their own disciples as the Church grew and spread. Gradually the titles of bishop, priest and deacon were used rather than disciples.

2. St. Paul founded Lystra, Derbe and other churches.

3. Early Christians had not separated entirely their worship from that of the Jews. The early Christians considered themselves to BE Jews....not a separate faith. They faithfully went to synagogue and then after sunset, they met in homes to "break bread". In AD 90, Christianity was declared to be illegal and so public worship of any kind mostly ceased. Liturgies were then said in the catacombs using the graves of the dead martyrs as their altars.

4. Early Christians were intensely persecuted by Romans after Judaism declared the sect to be illegal at the Council of Jamnia in AD 90. The persecution continued until the Emporer, Constantine, issued his Edict of Milan in AD 313. This allowed ALL religious groups to worship openly -- Christians included. Christianity was not made the state religion of the Roman empire until a few emporers later....Theodosius II did that.

5. Peter was given the keys to Jesus' new Church by Jesus himself. In addition to the Roman Catholic Church, Peter is also very important to the Antiochian Orthodox Church, the Melkite Catholic Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Syrian Catholic Church. These five great ancient churches all claim Peter as their founder....and rightfully so!

Answer 2

Early Christians celebrated Mass in their homes. People would gather before dawn at someone's home for the worship service. Meeting at night was one reason why the Romans were suspicious of the Christians. Another reason for Roman hostility was the insistance by Christians that they were eating the body of Jesus. The Romans believed this meant cannibalism. The Christians never said it was a symbolic meal, fueling suspicion by the Romans. Persecutions were sometimes intense, sometimes lax. Generally, the Romans offered an easy way out to the Christians: they would be set free if they'd make a token worship of the Emperor. Lots of Christians preferred to die rather than do this.

Peter is important to the Catholic Church because Jesus appointed Peter to lead it. In the Gospels it's clear that Peter had primacy: he's mentioned far more than the others, and he's usually listed first. He resolved disputes. Some people question whether Peter was really appointed to be a leader. It makes a lot of sense, though. Jesus knew that Judaism had broken into various sects, all believing different things and hating each other. A leader was needed to resolve disputed and keep everyone together. As soon as people lost their belief in the primacy of the Pope, Christianity broke into denominations. Now there's thousands of denominations, and many Christians can't sit at the same table and talk without rancor.

Your question will probably produce a lot of anti-Catholic rhetoric. if you want to get Catholic rebuttals of these arguments, try Catholic Answers at Catholic.com. They have a lot of free resources.

May God bless you.

Answer 3

Evodius was the first Bishop of Antioch, and he is credited with being the first person to call the followers of Christ, "Christians", as shown in Acts 11:26. See Eusebius, book 3, chapter 22.
Saint Ignatius (35-107), the second Bishop of Antioch wrote a letter to the Smyrneans in 107 A.D..
In this letter is recorded the first known use of the words "Catholic Church"...
Paragraph #8
"You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment. Let no one do anything touching the Church, apart from the bishop. Let that celebration of the Eucharist be considered valid which is held under the bishop or anyone to whom he has committed it. Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not permitted without authorization from the bishop either to baptize or to hold an agape; but whatever he approves is also pleasing to God. Thus everything you do will be proof against danger and valid."

Some non-Catholics teach that the Catholic Church did not even come into existence until the Emperor of Rome, Constantine, issued the "Edict of Milan"* in 313 A.D..
How then, can they explain this letter of Saint Ignatius written over 200 years earlier?

Answer 4

You got to be kidding right? There is no such thing as a christian catholic or vise a versa. ---- for one the Romans use to throw the real Christians into the coliseum to get marred by the lions and second--JESUS was already in heaven when the catholic church started their reign of terror. Christians don't celebrate mass. the catholics do. to be a christian is to be CHRIST like, not to be pope like. you get it now! as for PETER look what they did to MARY, you don't think they would do the same to PETER to keep your EYES off of CHRIST!

Answer 5

Jesus did not organize the Catholic Church nor did St. Peter or any other saint. It was formed by a bunch of people who wanted power in the name of Jesus.

Answer 6

In reality, Caesar.

Roman Catholicism rises and falls upon the premise of a perpetuated Petrine papacy, to whom all must submit, which they extrapolate out of Mt. 16:13-19. However, Scripture fails to substantiate this interpretation, as no where do we see the entire church referencing Peter as it's supreme exalted Romish type pope, and no where do we see even one command to the church to submit to Peter as it's singular supreme head, nor does he refer to himself as such. And very critically, in no place does the Holy Spirit provide us with a successor to Peter, nor instructions to ordain one.

Rather, while Peter was the leader of the foundational apostles, and thus the primitive church, he was not a type of infallible exalted head, who let or allowed men to bow down to him, etc., but he was a leader among brethren, and whose office had no successor in Scripture.

And in contrast to the Biblical example of Peter, the Roman Catholic papacy finds it's model in the Roman empire in which it was found, adopting a Caeseario-papacy, with the RCC becoming a vast autocratic organization, and adopting the means of warfare of the Roman empire, to the blaspheming of the name of Christ, who forbade such.

In so doing the Bible becomes a second class authority, with multitude false teachings being promoted in it's absence, most principally that men may do works which help merit eternal life , rather than salvation by full repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus and His sinless blood, who died for us and rose again. And who will yet judge those who want sin over Him, and who thus are not born again.

2. As for your second question, i would have to research that more to be sure, but Paul wrote to churches in Galatia, Corinth, Ephesus, Phillipi, Collosae, Rome, Thessalonica, Laodicea, but he did not begin them all.

3. The Biblical church did not celebrate the RC. mass, as they did not think they were sacrificing Jesus again, much less eating them, any more than King David thoug water was blood in 2 Sam. 23:14-17.

4. Badly, overall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians

5. Because they see to validate their unBiblical Caeseario-papacy, demi-god.

(Acts 3:19) "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;"

http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/papalpresumption.html

Answer 7

gold...

Suggest you read the following for all your info:

"Understanding Roman Catholicism" By Rick Jones

""50 Years in the "Church" of Rome-The Conversion of a Priest" By Charles Chiniquy (***EXCELLENT)

"The Two Babylons" By Alexander Hislop

Read these...especially "50 Years in the Church"... You will have early history revealed since it was written in the 1800's.

Peace be with you :)

Answer 8

!.Origen founded that false religion.2.Paul nurtured the growth of Christians in several geographical areas,but there was and never have been actual Christian communities.3.They never celebrated "mass".That runs contrary to Scripture.4.Horribly.5.Peter was never in Rome.Simon Peter is the saint of Romanism.

Answer 9

The authentic church that Jesus founded was known as Catholic (universal) from at least the year 107 AD, which we can confirm in the writings of St. Ignatius.

The Mass is the eternal fulfillment of the Jewish Passover in Christ, and it was celebrated in homes on Sunday, Resurrection day ... the Lord's Day ... by the entire Christian community ... from the earliest days of the church.

St. Peter was indeed the first God-appointed leader of the whole church. You can read his official "swearing in" ceremony in the bible, and the oath was administered personally by Jesus Christ:

Joh 21:15 When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.
Joh 21:16 He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.
Joh 21:17 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
Joh 21:18 Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not.
Joh 21:19 And this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had said this, he saith to him: Follow me.

Jesus provided no such scrutiny, authority, or prophecy to any other apostle or disciple ... and the fact that the authentic bones of St. Peter were found in an ancient cemetery beneath the basilica named for him, in the Vatican, proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Jesus wasn't kidding when he gave Simon a new name ... Peter ... which means "Rock" ... and said of him, "Upon this Rock I will build my church."

Answer 10

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