Catholic/Christianity question

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This question will raise my ignorant level /ignorance level over 9000.

Christians =/= Catholics?

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Catholicism is a different, more traditional form of Christianity, even though Christianity was derived from Catholic beliefs.

Their core beliefs are identical: Jesus Christ is the Savior and Lord and He died for our sins so that we may be saved.

However, Christians disagree with certain aspects of Catholic beliefs like confessionals and prayer to the saints and the Virgin Mary. Christians believe in no greater significance in the saints/prophets and the Virgin Mary, as Christians believe all believes are prophets.

Also, Catholics believe in purgatory, which Christians do not.

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Originally Posted by I love Jesus and christian = Catholic

And yep, there are some rather very ignorant posts here. Catholics are Christians. And just out of curiosity, I actually [/strike]googled[strike] Wikipedia'ed Christian Denomination, and lo and behold, Catholicism was listed along with Protestantism and other Christian communities.

Okay, now we have this guy saying that Christian = Catholic

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Originally Posted by Bunch of junk, don't read me

“Catholicism is NOT the same thing as Christianity.”

Yes, it IS. In fact, Catholics were the first Christians. The Roman Catholic Church existed from the time right after the death of Jesus Christ. The Bible came from the Catholic Church…not from Protestants, as the Protestants like to believe (because they ignore history that happened more than 500 years ago). The Bible already existed–Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant “Reformation”–removed 5 books from the Old Testmant. That is why there is a Catholic Bible and a non-Catholic Bible. Catholics use the original text that includes the original 5 books. Other than that, they are the same.

The Protestant “Reformation” happened 500 years ago. There were no “pro-testants” before then.

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Originally Posted by WOT!

Catholics are Christians, but are a specific denomination of Christians, which is why they have so many different beliefs (ex: Mary, purgatory, homosexuality).

Most people understand that while all Catholics are Christian, not all Christians are necessarily Catholic. Christianity IS a broad term, because it encompasses a lot of specific denominations, so telling someone not to generalize when using that word is pretty ignorant in itself. Christianity simply means believing in Christ as Savior. This is why Catholics have “different” beliefs than do Christians. Christian is really taken as a catch-all phrase that describes many religions.

But, yeah. I like how this became a forum for defining Christianity, Catholicism and (for awhile) Presbyterianism. Lalala~

Uh, wall of text, but basically saying Christian = Catholic again.


Okay, now I am really curious since there are people saying Catholic = Christian and there are others saying Christian =/= Catholic.

I know this will be really controversial (right?)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by a lurker

Uh, catholicism is a subsect of christianity. People who think that catholics are not christian tend to be wingnuts who think the Pope is the literal Antichrist as described in scripture.

For the rest of your questions, why not ask the people whose argument you're quoting here?

I am not arguing D:

I was lurking and there was this huge debate

Thanks for clearing it out

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