What the Catholic Church believes in?

Question

The core the Catholic faith is the person of Jesus Christ and the loving God revealed to us by him. The job of the church is to make them known to the people, so that knowing God, they can love God, serve God, and be happy with God for all eternity. By far the richest, most valuable, and most authoritative source of this knowledge is the Bible. The Bible (Old and New Testaments) contains all the information necessary for salvation.

We believe in one loving and merciful God in three divine persons. We believe that God created the universe, loves each of us, and desires for each of us to be happy, both now and for eternity. There is much more theologians have said about the nature of God, but none of it is essential. All we really need to know about God can be found in the words of Jesus in the Gospels.

After reading that how can you say we don't love God and read the Bible and we are not Christians?


CC keep the faith going don't give up!

Answer 1

The Greek roots of the term "Catholic" mean "according to (kata-) the whole (holos)," or more colloquially, "universal." At the beginning of the second century, we find in the letters of Ignatius the first surviving use of the term "Catholic" in reference to the Church. At that time, or shortly thereafter, it was used to refer to a single, visible communion, separate from others.

The term "Catholic" is in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds, and many Protestants, claiming the term for themselves, give it a meaning that is unsupported historically, ignoring the term’s use at the time the creeds were written.

Early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes: "As regards ‘Catholic,’ its original meaning was 'universal' or 'general.' . . . in the latter half of the second century at latest, we find it conveying the suggestion that the Catholic is the true Church as distinct from heretical congregations (cf., e.g., Muratorian Canon). . . . What these early Fathers were envisaging was almost always the empirical, visible society; they had little or no inkling of the distinction which was later to become important between a visible and an invisible Church" (Early Christian Doctrines, 190–1).

Thus people who recite the creeds mentally inserting another meaning for "Catholic" are reinterpreting them according to a modern preference, much as a liberal biblical scholar does with Scripture texts offensive to contemporary sensibilities.

Included in the quotes below are extracts from the first creeds to use the term "Catholic"; so that the term can be seen it its historical context, which is supplied by the other quotations. It is from this broader context that the meaning of the term in the creeds is established, not by one’s own notion of what the term once meant or of what it ought to mean.

Answer 2

I think it is very simple. We proclaim our beliefs at every Mass

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end.

And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and the Son), who together with the Father and the Son is to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

We confess one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."

Answer 3

The Catholic Church (and other churches and religions, etc) are false fronts. If you take what they say seriously, and believe in it - you become one of their model believers, followers, etc. You lose your own personal power and identity - and give it to a non-existent God, etc etc.

If you look at what they are saying - you know English? Don't you. You have to discard common sense to believe in it - and common sense tells us, they are lying. Plain and simple.

All their promises about the afterlife, heaven, etc are only 'claims' which can never be fulfilled. When you die, do you think the Church is waiting on the other side, and then says - Here you go, you will receive what we promised you, because we said so....

You can make up any kind of thought experiment you like, to illustrate that what they claim is false. Or conversely if they are 100% correct and genuine, etc you can make thought experiments which illustrate they are correct. But I can't think of any? Can you?

If you can only say - But it says in the Bible... Or that the Pastor says it is so... Well, that is no proof or evidence at all - and reason and logic says so...

Utlimately religion is a time and energy waster. If you got nothing better to do? Fine, go ahead with it...
The rest of us, have better and more productive things to do... with our lives... after all, or life here is very important indeed. Even if it is only living it...

Answer 4

Some of y'all are Christians it's just your church blasphemes god by worship of the cross and idols of the virgin Mary the pope is the beast and the church members are his ponds open your eyes

Answer 5

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Answer 6

And hiding the criminal activities of it's priests.

Answer 7

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