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Chunga: 10 months ago via iPhone

I have another question, is there a difference between Christian & catholic or are they the same ?

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mitz77: 10 months ago via iPhone

Catholicism is just another denomination of Christianity.

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j9mine: 10 months ago

Christians believe that Christ has been on earth and died for our sins on the cross so any person who belongs to a religion that believes this is a Christian and any religion that teaches this is a Christian religion

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Jerusalem07: 10 months ago via iPhone

Basically the same.

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FatKenney: 10 months ago

Christian is a broad term applying to all denominations who believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God as their central belief. Catholicism is one many Christian denominations.

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AustinCiabattini: 10 months ago

Catholic is a type of christianity

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caluvox: 10 months ago

Catholics where the first christians until Luther and the protestants broke off in the early renascence

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yirmeyahu: 10 months ago via iPhone

The Christian religion has three mainline sects: Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Many people refer to Protestants as Christian when they are contrasting Catholics and Christians, but this is mostly due to ignorance.

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ravenevan: 10 months ago via iPhone

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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pious666: 10 months ago | Last edited at 11:50PM on 7/7/2012

Simply put -- "All Catholics are (by default) Christians, but NOT all Christians are Catholics". In essence, Christianity (or Protestantism, to be specific) is only a LITTLE LESS superstitious than Catholicism.

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soloflex: 10 months ago

I just can't stop giving you the thumps up! Ya speak my mind.

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auxarcs: 10 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 6:25AM on 7/8/2012

Catholics believe themselves christian and maybe some are but in general catholics have certain practices, like worshp of Mary and the so called 'saints', that at best are very sacriligious and even borderline bladphemous.

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AnnetteJonesMenton: 10 months ago

Catholics believe that you can do confession to a mere mortal man. They also reverence Mary more than they do Jesus Christ who actually made the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.In the Old Testament you had to go before a priest to be forgiven of sins. But now after Jesus died on the cross we no longer have to go to a Priest we can now go before Jesus himself an ask forgiveness. They also do not believe in the born again experience as told in John 3:3 and 3:5. They also do not believe in the submersion (under the water) baptism, they believe in sprinkling water, this is not scriptural as told in the bible.

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

Nothing. To be Catholic is to be fully Christian. However, often when people ask this question, what they really mean, without being able to articulate it clearly, is "What is the difference between the Catholic faith and Protestant Christianity?" All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. A Christian is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and is baptized. A Catholic is a specific kind of Christian - one who also believes the Catholic Church was founded by Christ and accepts it as possessing the fullness of Christian truth and the means of salvation. Being Catholic involves three main things: (1) sincerely holding to the Catholic faith as taught by the Magisterium, which is the official teaching of the body of the Church; (2) accepting the sacraments of the Catholic Church; and (3) submitting to the teaching authority of the pope and the bishops in communion with him. (My answer continues in the comments)

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

The words Catholic and Christian were once interchangeable. The first Christians called the Church "Catholic" or "universal," to distinguish it from the heretical splinter groups that denied necessary Christian truths. Thus, the early Christians came to be known as Catholics. Around the year 1,000 AD, many Christians in the East - in Greece and in what is now Turkey - split off from the Catholic Church. They are called Orthodox Christians. They believe in many of the same things we do, but they reject the important truths such as the pope's authority.

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

Five hundred years later, a German monk named Martin Luther had some ideas about what true Christianity was. Some of his views were contrary to what Catholics believe Christ intended for His Church. He and his followers broke with the Catholic Church and formed what is now called Lutheranism. Other men and women had ideas of their own and started their own churches, too. Today there are hundreds (if not thousands) of different Protestant denominations.

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ManOfKnowledge: 10 months ago

There are sincere non-Catholic Christians - Protestant and Orthodox Christians, for instance - who believe many, but not all, of the things we believe as Catholics. Sometimes they may be even more faithful or charitable than many Catholics. That is because the Spirit of Christ is at work in them, too. The Catholic view is that the divisions and confusions among Christian communities contradicts the will of Jesus. He wants His followers to be one. We believe the unity Christ desires for His followers only exists fully in the Catholic Church.

Hope this helps! - ManOfKnowledge

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Desparado: 10 months ago

We all hold our religions dear and close to our hearts, many thinking that their's is the only "right" religion or church. Look how many wars there have been based on religious beliefs, how much hate is can creatate I have a problem with organized religion for that reason and several others. I think the only thing that really matters is that we believe in God. I am a Lutheran and I believe in The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. I answer not to a common man regardless of his vestments, I answer only to God. I do not pay umbrage to saints nor do I pray to them., I pray only to God. I also tell no man or woman how to worship God, as long as He is also my God.

Thank you for listening - Just another sinner

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