Of course Catholics are Christians. However, many Catholics will identify themselves as Catholics before identifying themselves as Christians. I even heard Catholic Answers apologist Tim Staples identified with being Catholic with the absents of the identity of being Christian on his Catholic apologetics radio program.
Why sound he have to identify himself as Christian if he identified himself as Catholic? It should be understood.
Are you talking about the game “Catechumen”, by chance? I downloaded a demo of it at the time, and played it. It was kind of - well - weird.
Galatians 2:20
To me it is the same. By identifying myself as a Catholic I have also identified myself as a Christian.
I don’t identify myself with my particular church. I’m simply a Christian. I think Catholics should be labeled as Christian Catholics. The word Christian should be in front of the word Catholic.
I can fellowship with most all Chrstiians, regardless if they attend a Baptist, Catholic, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, Orthodox, ext. church.I have no problem with Catholics identifying them selves as Christian. I just don’t see the need to, after telling you I am Catholic, to further clarify that I am Christian.I don’t identify myself with my particular church. I’m simply a Christian. I think Catholics should be labeled as Christian Catholics. The word Christian should be in front of the word Catholic.
Personally, I think it is an insult to Christ when we identify with our particular church before identifying with Christ in name, mind and in heart. We have to be very careful to not make our particular church an idol over an above our love and affection for God alone. I see this tendency in Protestants and Catholics alike.I have no problem with Catholics identifying them selves as Christian. I just don’t see the need to, after telling you I am Catholic, to further clarify that I am Christian.
Again, it is the same reasoning behind someone telling me they are a Lutheran-Christian… It would make my head explode. Are there Lutheran-muslims? Lutheran-Mormons? Lutheran-pagans?
God bless you
That’s how I see it, as a Catholic, I automatically view myself as Christian. I don’t distinguish between the two.
And you know this for sure or you are just presenting your opinion? Either way it does not matter. When I say I am Catholic, I am saying that I am Christian. That is what I have been trying to explain to you.
Here’s the challenge. If we identify in something other than Christ, then we are saying there is something more than Christ. Jesus Christ is the Apex; we were saved to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. There is nothing more than that in the Christian life, because God is the greatest joy in all of eternity.
I’m curious why do you have the screen name Roman Catholic? Most Catholics get mad if we call them Roman Catholics instead of Catholics.
I can’t follow your logic. I am a father. A husband. A brother. A son. A Washingtonian. I am a lot of things, and by the grace of God, a Catholic also.
I humbly beg to differ. I got so mad at one of my friends one day because he was complaining that I follow the Pope and not Jesus and I read the Catechism but not the Bible (his own perceptions, not mine). And yet when I told him that he seems to me to worship his Bible, he told me I was absurd.
Because I aim to make other Catholics angry.
) that was all I knew it by.I believe the Catholic Faith has sacred written and oral tradition to base the Catholic Faith. Within sacred written tradition, the Scriptures are considered superior to other forms of sacred tradition. Christ is supreme, but how do we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. In my view, God the Holy Spirit illuminates the Scriptures so we can grow our love for God alone. When we love something more than God, such as the Catholic Church or even the Bible… we can make these things idols of the heart. Here is the best Scripture to remember to put things in perspective.
I too want to change my screen name to “In 2nd Adam” instead of 2nd Adam. I’m not having much luck on that request.Because I aim to make other Catholics angry.
When I converted I was “knee deep” in the Church’s history and every history book that I read told me that it was the “Roman Catholic Church”. So when I chose the name (was it really almost 4 years ago
It was only after coming here and then reading on the history of the term’s origin that I realized why Catholics may not like the term too much.
God bless you
That’s a good description of your way of thinking, and I respect that. However, I want you to try to understand that Catholics like me believe that the Holy Spirit illumates the Church as the Bride of Christ and that the Church herself alone can interpret Scripture. Countless individuals under the guidance of the Holy Spirit through history. We as indivuals can interpret it to a small degree, but not on major things like the Trinity, etc. These things are not contained in Scripture yet are alluded to. And since the Catholic Church developed the human understanding of the Trinity, I’m using it as just one example.
Thanks for the kind and Christ-like posting. If you have found that the Catholic Church has helped you to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, then I rejoice with you as a fellow Christian. God is an infinite God with various means to grow His adopted children to the image of His Son.