What is the difference between Christians and Catholics?
I'm a Christian, but I would just like to know what the difference is, or if there is a difference?
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Asked September 20 2013
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Rebekah Harbottle
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Cole McCleary
As a Christian, works don't matter for salvation - they will show up as a result of being saved but they are not needed to go to heaven. God is our authority in our life, and as such we must obey the people he set in place for us. But WE CAN TALK DIRECTLY TO GOD. We don't need an Earthly priest or anything like that because we have a one on one personal relationship with him.
Caleb wohlers
As a young Catholic, I want to respond to some of these attacks against my faith in this comments section.
First, we do not pray to saints, we honor them and ask for their intercession. Much like you would ask a friend or pastor to pray for you. It is the same with Mary.
Second, there would be no Christianity today without Catholicism. If you just google "Oldest Christian church" it is the Catholic church. It wasn't until 1500 AD that there was more than one Christian church.
Third, Purgatory was referenced in this article and I would like to clarify. If you read Revelation 21:27 it says that nothing unclean can enter the kingdom of heaven. Since we are born with original sin, we are unclean. Think of purgatory as a "clenser of original sin."
God bless