Has the Catholic Church lost the plot? part two?

Question

Why does the Catholic church believe that they are the ONLY true church?

they were not around first, sorry to burst your bubble. the first church was in Jerusalem then they spread through Asia Minor.

Answer 1

I think what the other answerer was trying to say was that Catholicism was the first Christian religion, not the first overall religion to exist.

There are many Christian churhes, but the Catholic Church is the One, True, Universal, and Apostolic Church. Once you know the Four Marks of the True Church, it's easy to identify which Christian church is the One True Church:

The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13, CCC 813–822)
Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but one spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church.

His Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2).

Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.

The Church Is Holy (Eph. 5:25–27, Rev. 19:7–8, CCC 823–829)
By his grace Jesus makes the Church holy, just as he is holy. This doesn’t mean that each member is always holy. Jesus said there would be both good and bad members in the Church (John 6:70), and not all the members would go to heaven (Matt. 7:21–23).

But the Church itself is holy because it is the source of holiness and is the guardian of the special means of grace Jesus established, the sacraments (cf. Eph. 5:26).

The Church Is Catholic (Matt. 28:19–20, Rev. 5:9–10, CCC 830–856)
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 probably went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

The Church Is Apostolic (Eph. 2:19–20, CCC 857–865)
The Church Jesus founded is apostolic because he appointed the apostles to be the first leaders of the Church, and their successors were to be its future leaders. The apostles were the first bishops, and, since the first century, there has been an unbroken line of Catholic bishops faithfully handing on what the apostles taught the first Christians in Scripture and oral Tradition (2 Tim. 2:2).

These beliefs include the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the forgiveness of sins through a priest, baptismal regeneration, the existence of purgatory, Mary’s special role, and much more —even the doctrine of apostolic succession itself.

Early Christian writings prove the first Christians were thoroughly Catholic in belief and practice and looked to the successors of the apostles as their leaders. What these first Christians believed is still believed by the Catholic Church. No other Church can make that claim.

Answer 2

Maybe because they were around first, before the thousands of protestant sects which each think THEY are the only true Church.

Are you getting the plot yet?

edit: my history bubble says the word Catholic means "concerning the whole". If you think Jesus's church was not concerned with the whole world's salvation, then the bubble has indeed burst.

Answer 3

Charles V brings up a legitimate factor, too. Even deliberating the entire nastiness that God prescribes for those who transgress the legislation within the OT, I inspiration that the OT was once invalid(a minimum of that is what Christians maintain announcing whilst you convey up the unsavory constituents of the bible). Shouldn't they rather ask themselves, might Jesus be professional-demise penalty? For a few unusual intent, I do not suppose he might be, for a lot the equal intent that John McCain was once the one republican candidate that was once explicitly towards torture.

Answer 4

"...I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it" (Matthew 16:18)

I personally claim nothing. Rather, I trust in Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

...and you lot can still not prevail against it. Heretics. Why do so many prods spend so much time and energy attacking it? Because they know that they are in the wrong.

Answer 6

Because they are the largest Christian church.

Answer 7

I heard Catholics have a secret plan to poison our water supply with fluoride and chloride.

Answer 8

Cause they have a holier then thou additude.

Answer 9

cause they the only church to worship mary

Answer 10

devils deception