What's the difference between Christians and Catholics ?

Question

I don't know what's the difference.

Answer 1

Not much difference, they both can be considered the same, and then different also.

They both (or one in the same) believe in a blood thirsty, vengeful sky boss.

Answer 2

I can't speak for all Christians or all Catholics, but most Christians don't answer to a man (The Roman Catholic Pope).Catholics have Yeshua (Jesus) still on the Roman cross, most Christians (not I, if He had died by hanging I wouldn't wear a noose around my neck either) have a cross that is empty showing that Christ is no longer on the cross.
We don't believe in Purgatory or the last rights.
We don't need to go the a Catholic Priest to receive forgiveness, We go to the Rock or our salvation, we go to the Stone that the builders rejected, we go to straight to the Son of God, our advocate with THE Father.
We don't consider Rome to be a holy place, or the vatican.
We fellow the Son He is our Shepherd our only Shepherd.
We do not pray the rosary, because we believe Mary was just as human as we are.
We believe Messiah is the only way to the Father, because He gave His life for us as a sin offering & any other way is false.

Answer 3

Catholics are Christians. The biggest difference that I know of is that we believe the eucharist is the actual body and blood of Christ as he asked us to do in the New Testament.

This is a very special gift. One that I am humbled by every day. It is the closest feeling of heaven and humbling.... so hard to explain. But when you leave mass if you participate with you mind and soul you feel so whole.

peace,

Pam

Answer 4

a christian is a person who adheres to christianity, a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of jesus christ as presented in the new testament and prophesied in the old testament. roman catholicism, eastern orthodoxy and protestanism are the prominent denominations or groups of christianity.

a catholic belongs to the catholic church or roman catholic church, a christian church in full communion with the bishop of rome, currently pope benedict xvi. it traces its origins to the original christian community founded by jesus and spread by the 12 apostles, in particular st. peter. it is the largest christian church, representing about half of all christians, and is the largest organized body of any world religion with more than a billion followers.

[all] catholics definitely are christians but not all christians are catholics.

Answer 5

That's not an easy question to answer in short form. There's a body of canon law and tradition that Catholics accept that Protestant Christians don't. As has been said, though, Catholics are Christians.

Answer 6

"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 7

If you believe in Christ you are a Christian, Roman Catholics are Christian. In referring to Christians, you probably mean the Protestant sects that chose parts of the Roman Catholic religion and negated parts of it. As far as I know The Church of Latter Day Saints and the Jehova Wittness, who call themselves Christians are not Christians.

Answer 8

Catholics receive grace more by their works true Christians receive grace by faith in Jesus alone. Christians do not adhere to the concept of a purgatory which is also central to catholics.

Answer 9

Catholics believe that Jesus is somehow God himself. The trinity concept.
This is difficult to understand when looking at Mark .
(MARK 9:7) And a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud: “This is my Son, the beloved; listen to him.”

God...the Father...is speaking out of heaven.

Jesus is being baptised on earth.

How can he be in two places at once....Catholics claim god can do anything...but if He does this sort of thing, it just confuses.

the truth is that there are TWO individuals.

Almighty God, the Father, and Jesus, his Son.
God has a name that Jesus always makes known/ manifest.
(EXODUS 6:3) And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them.

Jehovah SENT Jesus.

(MATTHEW 10:40) “He that receives YOU receives me also, and he that receives me receives him also that sent me forth.

Jehovah CREATED Jesus.

(PROVERBS 8:22-31) “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.

Jehovah spoke out of heaven when his Son, Jesus, was baptised.

Jesus always directed worship TO his Father.

(JOHN 5:16-18) So on this account the Jews went persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things during Sabbath. 17 But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.” 18 On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

To call Jehovah God his own Father does NOT make Jesus equal to God, and certainly NOT God himself/

Answer 10

The big set is Christianity.

This set has two disjoint subsets: Catholics, and 'Proteststants'.

The term 'Protestant' usually refers to the other, main-line Christian Churches, like Lutheran, Angilican, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, etc.

NOW, there is an IRRITATING group of people who CALL themselves 'Christians', but are not Catholics, and do not identify with any of the Protestant churches!

If you are referring to THOSE people, I suggest you ask THEM what is the difference between them and, say, Lutherans? I want to know myself.

And yes, be warned, I am getting the feeling that these so-called 'Christians' are downright HERETICS! The main-line protestants find them weird too, by the way.

Answer 11

Amazing how often this question comes up?

Catholicism is the original Christianity of the Western World (notice I said of the Western World - not whole world).