Was Jesus philosophically Catholic?

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I sincerely want to learn, was the life of Jesus closer to Catholic faith? And if he comes in the future will he be catholic? If then, what will orthodox and protestant reaction be?
 
You got it all backwards.
We Catholics are supposed to be like Him.
 
In the second coming, He will come as a Judge. He will not be interested in reactions, but will judge everyone according to God’s justice.
 
He will come back at the end of time not as He came in the Incarnation but as described in the Revelation.
 
He created the Catholic faith and told and showed us how to live it. Certainly a life lived in the Catholic manner, in the fullest sense of that concept, is one that would mimic His own life. Catholic teachings on the necessity of union/communion with God, the need to deny oneself, the deceitfulness of wealth and other offerings of this world, the benefits of suffering, the need to give of ones resources, the need to forgive ones debtors, the importance of loving God and neighbor, etc, all align with the life of our Lord.
 
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I sincerely want to learn, was the life of Jesus closer to Catholic faith? And if he comes in the future will he be catholic? If then, what will orthodox and protestant reaction be?
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Well, there were a considerable amount of developments that took place in apostolic writings which occurred after Jesus left the Earth. Christianity developed over some time.

In terms of personal philosophy, Jesus was an observant 1st century Jew, barring minor exemptions he took through claiming to be God (working miracles on the Sabbath and so forth).
 
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No, He is both Jewish, and more precisely, the promised Messiah of the House of David.

His followers are first called “Christians” in Antioch, because they lived their lives in imitation of His.

The first disciples and Apostles weren’t Jews one day and Christians the next day. They observed the tenets of Judaism even as they began to break the bread on Sunday and so forth. There was overlapping of these practices for a number of years before the Jewish components were gradually abandoned.

All the first members of our Church were Jewish: the Holy Family, the Apostles, the disciples, etc.

Our “elder brothers in the faith” (how JP II referred to the Jewish people) were the first to receive the covenants, which are valid today.

Deacon Christopher
 
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I sincerely want to learn, was the life of Jesus closer to Catholic faith?
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Yes since he started it Matthew 16:16-18
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And if he comes in the future will he be catholic? If then, what will orthodox and protestant reaction be?
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Yes, why will he change what he started ,there is no shadow of change in him,they’ll join Him and we all will be one again .
 
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How will he judge the naturalist Amazon tribes, or Buddhists or atheists or jews or muslims or hindu? What is judgement?
 
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How will he judge the naturalist Amazon tribes, or Buddhists or atheists or jews or muslims or hindu? What is judgement?
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Here’s what we believe:
Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience. Nor does Divine Providence deny the helps necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God and with His grace strive to live a good life. Whatever good or truth is found amongst them is looked upon by the Church as a preparation for the Gospel. She knows that it is given by Him who enlightens all men so that they may finally have life.
 
Thank you for your answer. What do you mean by she in the last sentence?
 
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In terms of personal philosophy, Jesus was an observant 1st century Jew, barring minor exemptions he took through claiming to be God (working miracles on the Sabbath and so forth).
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Respectfully opinion only …stating…minor exemption… claiming to be God was not minor exemption… according to Judaism belief was it? Peace…
 
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Just like Jerusalem is a bride? Wow !
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Respectfully opinion in question theses OT Biblical verses…

Title as the New Covenant Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt a covenant that they broke, though I was a husband, says the Lord.

A husband to her…Israel

Jeremiah 3:8 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: See now what rebellious Israel has done! She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the harlot. And I thought after she has done all this she would return to me. But she did not return. Then eve though her traitor sister Judah saw that for all the adulteries rebellious Israel had committed, I put her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless her traitor sister Judah was not frightened, she too went off and played the harlot. Eager to sin, she polluted the land committing adultery with stone and wood. With all this the traitor sister Judah did not return to me wholeheartedly but insincerely says the Lord…

God gives a bill of divorce for her adultery…

Peace
 
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