why do roman catholics say they are Christ's followers?

Question

when they were the people who persecute christians and feed them to lions in the first place?

Answer 1

they are good people, subject to incredibly BAD BAD BAD teaching.

So, they believe they are following Him! LOL

Answer 2

that's exciting to verify how poorly counseled the Catholics are interior the gang. No they are no longer the church that is going back to the beginning up. there are a number of others which could make the declare to recognition. The Orthodox and Armenian church homes between others. yet it is on a actual line. the actual declare to are you a Christian is do you have faith what the early church did and prepare what they did? I even have examine a great number of the early church writings or maybe translated one from the Greek. The Catholic church is a techniques off the line from what the church improve into like in the two perception and prepare. for this reason are they genuine Christians? without doing the examine your self my opinion is confident and no. confident in the event that they placed Christ and the Early church awareness of the Bible forward of their fake church and no in the event that they placed the Church past to fact. they are taught assorted fake issues with twisted interpretations of the Bible to back it up. maximum of them in no way learn something of their background on there very own and take each and every thing at face fee from mom church. ability corrupts and absolute ability corrupts rather. the entire thought of the Catholic church has been approximately ability over human beings. Take that away and you haven't any Catholic church. They accompanied one among those the Roman empire in shape and then through fact the Romans desperate to rule the international. The Roman empire in no way died it in simple terms mutated.

Answer 3

the roman catholics are the first christians.. and the catholic church is the only one which was founded by Jesus christ.. the romans persecuted to christians... the catholic church.. was persecuted..at that time...but constatine accepted the christianity and the catholic church was installed.. the christian church it's the catholic.. the name of Roman Catholic. it's because the Church of Rome has more followers in the world.. under the Bishop of Rome that's the pope.. as well the catholics from the middle east like orthodox,armenians.. follow the catholic creed and recognize all the doctrines about the holy trinity and the saints

Answer 4

Is that so? What source are you relying on? I have doubts about the validity of this claim. Romans threw Christians to the lions prior to Constantine making Christianity the official religion of Rome, but there were no non-Catholic Christians immediately following that proclamation. Why would they throw their own to the lions?

Answer 5

The Romans fed the early Christians to the lions, not the Roman Catholics.

+ Catholic +

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

+ Roman Catholic +

The term "Roman" Catholic is rather recent.

The new Anglican Church in England started using the term “Roman” in the 1500s as one of many ways of demeaning and demonizing Catholics.

Catholics accepted this late coming adjective without too much protest. Today “Catholic” and “Roman Catholic” are interchangeable terms. Both terms are even used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

To add a little more confusion, some apply the term “Roman Catholic Church” only to the Latin Rite Catholic Church, excluding the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same Church, under the Pope.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches 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

The term “Roman” neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 6

If you keep believing in a lie, you will eventually believe it. The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately 30 A.D. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ died for, the Church that was established and built by the Apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture.

Answer 7

Oh you are so going to fail history!

You're confusing the early Christian martyrs with the Romans!

As for feeding to the lions what actually happened is that criminals were often sent to the arena and used in beast shows.

It wasnt just lions. Maltreated and half starved animals were sent out into the arena to attack criminals who often were given weapons to defend themselves but just as often sent out unarmed.

Please go to the library and read some history books!

Answer 8

I think you better reread the Bible again, It was the Romans

Answer 9

Because we are damn it. We were bored ok. Needed some kinda entertainment. No tv...hello??? Nuff said. Stop asking stupid questions.

Answer 10

because claiming does not cost anything.