what is the roman catholic understanding of Jesus?
What is the eastern orthodox understanding of Jesus?
a paragraph of each will be helpful
2007-10-20 09:16:07 · 8 answers · asked by basil 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
No offense, but I think a better question would be:
What does Jesus think of Roman Catholisism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestisism?
The ONE thing they all have in common is: All are man-made RELIGIONS that each contain SOME members of "the Bride of Christ".
And probably (just my opinion here), the more doctrinally pure biblically, the more actual Christians they actually contain. (Pure biblical doctrine believed AND practiced WILL produce REAL fruit)
....theBerean
2007-10-21 20:38:26 · answer #1 · answered by theBerean 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All three believe Jesus is the second person of the Trinity
The Orthodox believe that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are subject to the Father and not co-equal. That is why the Schism occured.
Henry remained a Catholic but cut himself off from Rome and made himself head of the Church in England, another schism
For interest the first schism was when Judaism & Christianity parted
2007-10-20 17:55:54 · answer #2 · answered by Plato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I only really know Roman Catholic. They do believe God came to earth in flesh known as Jesus. To save us. He suffered for our sins. He was crucified for us.
Pretty much like Christianity except they believe the way to heaven is through good works.
2007-10-22 04:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by Angelica1951 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a former catholic myself,
The catholic belief of Christ is pretty much the same as basic Christianity. He was God in the flesh......He was the Savior of the world.
Only difference being....they think salvation is universal & automatic.....which it's not. Salvation is for those who place their complete faith & trust in Him alone for it.....and do not rely on their works.
2007-10-22 02:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Protestant understanding: Jesus was fully human, born of a woman (Mary) but without sexual intercourse - conceived by the Holy Spirit. He came to do the will of his heavenly Father. He was obedient unto death, laying down his perfect human life as an atoning sacrifice for sinful humanity. He died, was laid in a tomb and, on the third day, was resurrected to heaven. The tomb is empty. He is our risen Lord and Saviour. No-one comes to the Father except through him. He is the way, the truth and the life. Through him, we can call God Abba, Father - we are now in a covenant relationship with our creator and through Jesus Christ, our sins can be forgiven. He has promised to return, in glory, and every knee will bow and every tongue confess him as Lord. Jesus was God with us then- fully human and fully divine. The Holy Spirit is God with us now - pointing us to Christ and to God. All three work in perfect harmony. Hope that helps!
2007-10-20 09:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
All three believe that Jesus is the son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, with no earthly father. This separates him from Adam's male line, and so he is free from sin (I always knew it had something to do with the 'Y' chromosome).
This gave Jesus the same opportunity as Adam to resist the devil; only unlike Adam, he managed it. (the Bible refers to Jesus as the second Adam). This was necessary as Adam's sin made him a slave to the one he listened to (the serpent/devil), and all his offspring forever (ie: he sold himself into slavery). A slave master can do what he likes with his slaves; and so the everlasting life that Adam and Eve had was lost, for them and their children forever. Jesus got this everlasting life back by not being born into Adam's line (not a slave to sin). And when the devil saw to it that Jesus was killed, the devil himself became a murderer (the killing of other members of the human race didn't count, as he owned them as slaves). This lost him the right to be a slave owner, and the entire human race was set free; now they just needed convincing....
Well, that's my understanding, anyway. The church has disagreed about practically everything except that Jesus is head honcho for centuries. Their story goes something like this....
In 1054 came the Great Schism. The Catholic Church broke away from the Orthodox Church after centuries of division. It came after a meeting for peace in Constantinople, after which the Roman Papal Bull excommunicated the Eastern Church. The big difference now between Orthodox and Catholics is that the Orthodox excludes women from any church office - even the choir. For centuries, there was also the difference of the Catholic church using Latin universally, whereas the Orthodox allowed each country to use their own language in their services.
Then, in 1517, Martin Luther questioned the Roman Church's operations, then in 1520 Huldreich Zwingli revolted against Rome and John Calvin had a vision in 1533 that he should break away. These all influenced a lady called Anne Boleyn, who in turn influenced Henry VIII, King of England who was finding the Pope's objections to his marital arrangements somewhat tiresome. He took England out from under the yolk of Rome and declared himself head of the Church of England. This state of affairs remains to this day.
The Protestant churches (Luther, Calvin, Henry etc) do not agree that Mary, mother of Jesus, ranks up there with the holy trinity and refuse to offer prayers to her or to the saints.
The Orthodox and Catholic churches hold mary and the saints in high reverence.
The Catholic church does not permit any of its priests (all men) to marry. The Orthodox church allows marriage, but married priests can only rise to a certain rank.
The church of England and its sundry schisms (eg Methodism) now employ women priests and are on their way to allowing higher ranking female officers.
Apart from the differences listed above, all these schisms of the Christian Church believe the Nicene Creed: http://www.creeds.net/ancient/nicene.htm
The collective name for these churches is Trinitarian Christians (because of their belief in the setup of the Holy Trinity as described in the Nicene Creed)
In a nutshell, that's about it.
2007-10-20 09:56:25 · answer #6 · answered by reardwen 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Contrary to one of the answers given, I know of no mainstream Christian Church which holds that Mary is equal to the Trinity. I suggest to the person who wrote that to check again.
Henry VIII considered himself and his Church CATHOLIC - he bequeathed a large sum of money for Masses to be said for the repose of his soul - hardly the action of a protestant!
The Anglican Church DOES venerate the Virgin Mary - please read up on these matters before making comment!
2007-10-20 10:27:36 · answer #7 · answered by Raymo 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He is the son of God who's mother is Mary. (Y'know fifteen Hail Mary's etc.)
He is the son of God and it doesn't matter who His mother is.
2007-10-20 09:19:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋