Roman Catholic or Christian?

Question

Are there any major differences?

Answer 1

A boatload of differences, and yet a striking number of similarities.

Answer 2

Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholic.

The Catholic Church has faithfully preserved the initial deposit of Truth given to the World by Jesus the Christ, and handed down by the Apostles and their successors. The Catholic Church teaches the Gospel in its fullness. Non-Catholic Christian denominations teach watered-down versions of the Gospel.

Answer 3

being a Roman CAtholic is a way of expressing, growing and enhancing your Christianity. to be a ROman CAtholic you have to have been baptised in the name of Christ and accept He and all His teachings. there are those that have walked away from their faith but this happens in every denomination.

if you are sincerely looking for differences, please don't listen to the dolts who apparently know nothing about the Roman Catholic denomination other then the lies others spread. The beer analogy was a very good one I have to admit.

Answer 4

Roman Catholics are Christians, it was what the group called themselves in the Acts of the Apostles. We believe in Apostolic Tradition and the Bible. When the Protestant Reformation happened those that cut themselves off from Catholicism called themselves Christian. They eliminated many doctrines and dogmas of the faith, some even took out some of the books of the Old Testament, their central Sunday services is on the sermon while Catholics focus is on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Answer 5

Catholics are Christians.

Your question "Roman Catholic or Born-Again Christian" would be better put. By the way, Protestants are Christians......there are many denominations.



That four marks distinguish Christ's kingdom of heaven on earth. They are made known in the Creed—"I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church."



One in:

Faith
Belief
Worship
Government


Holy In:

Origin, Christ.
Objective, redemption.
Means, sacraments.
Sanctity of faithful.


Catholic :

Teaches all nations.
During all time.
All Christ taught.
Peoples of all nationalities obedient to one universal authority in faith and morals.


Apostolic :

Founded upon apostles.
Teaches what apostles Apostolic taught.
Continuous existence from time of the apostles.
"The enemies of the Church themselves die and disappear, but the Church itself lives on, and preaches the power of God to ever succeeding generations" (St. Augustine).

Peace Be With You

Answer 6

Roman Catholic is a Christian denomination. Within Christianity there are loads of them, but they broadly break down into Catholic and Protestant ones.

Answer 7

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html

There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/index.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

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Roman Catholics ARE Christians.

Is there a difference between Guinness and Budweiser? Yes. But they're BOTH still beer. Though I am a Guinness man myself, and Guinness has been around longer than Budweiser, I still respect Budweiser's right to be a beer.

Beer is beer. Christianity is Christianity. Period.

Roman Catholics were the first Christians, as in, you wouldn't be a Christian were it not for the Catholic Church.

A thousand years ago there was NO distinction. To be Christian was to be Catholic, until the Protestants came along.

Still, the distinguishing of the two as separate religions is a relatively new thing, brought about in modern Fundamentalist America. It's completely false.

Trying to say that they are two separate religions is a sign of extreme ignorance of one's own faith.

Answer 9

It depends on what you define as being Christian.

If Christian to you means someone that goes to church and sings songs about Jesus , then I guess Catholics are Christian...

BUT

If you mean a Christian being a person that follows the teachings and way of Christ and worships his father in the heavens according to what the Bible really teaches , , then ..... NO , they are NOT Christian.

Their teachings do not follow what the Bible really says about many important matters.

They follow teachings like the trinity , the immortal soul concept , and the hellfire doctrine.
Additionally they follow pagan holiday customs such as Christmas and Easter to name a few.
All of which have no basis in the Holy Scriptures., and therefore 'TRUE Christians' , do NOT follow them.

For more information about what the Bible really teaches , please feel free to email me.

Answer 10

not really any differences..The only few is that they worship mary and unfortunatly like the idiot jesussaves said it does indeed have pagan roots the catholics used mary to convert alot of pagans *sob* they converted my once pagan parents anyway that doesnt matter oh and the catholics leader is the pope! I think thats pretty much it..

Answer 11

Catholics hold equal authority from the church and the Bible in their religious teachings and practices. Most other Christian denominations use only the Bible as their authority.