2007-09-26 04:41:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think they are woefully misguided. Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return. Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.)
Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy. The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin: Any merely human organization would have collapsed long ago.
The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.
2007-09-26 04:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
lol. That the Protestants need to grow up and stop acting like whiney children because the Catholics are Christian too.
2007-09-26 11:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All religions are flawd. You are your own God. You have "the power". God is only a story, designed to give people hope. Most religious persons however use this hope as a crutch rather than a stepping stone. Such persons as my dad, who lives his life expecting god to come down and save him from the life that he himself has created for himself. Read the bible closely, its ironic, redundant, and hypocritic. We are all brothers and sisters, yet incest is a sin? Huh?? Homosexuality is a sin, yet we are supposed to be accepting of all and never judge....
2007-09-26 11:48:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thank God every day that I was not one to bend to the traditions and rules of the Catholic church and finally found my way out of there!
ps.
actually the first church was called "antioch" it's in the bible.
2007-09-26 11:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by burnt_crawfish 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It reminds me of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying in the Temple.
2007-09-26 14:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
wasting their time and prayers. why be thankful for something that is a choice of free will and undertanding. they sould be thankful if their path leads them to Christ and not worry or waste time worrying about what is not. in Matthew 7:25-34 we are explained to all about worry and how it can destroy. we are to be thankful and praise what we have and can/need to do something about.
2007-09-26 12:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those people probably aren't Catholic themselves.
2007-09-26 11:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by Staceyflourpond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they are just as insane as any other christian or catholic or Muslim or, well pick a religion and there you go.
2007-09-26 11:44:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
And I suppose you've heard a Christian say that exact same thing once while they were praying?
Try again buddy........
2007-09-26 11:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would have to ask them why they prayed this way.
2007-09-26 11:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋