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Sep 26, 2014 · The Catholic Church is not a true Christian church because denies that salvation is by faith alone, through grace alone, in Christ alone.
Sep 16, 2023 · At its core, grace is God’s free and unearned favor. It’s the help God gives us to respond to His call in our lives. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, grace is “favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God” (CCC 1996).
- Only The Catholic Church Can Trace Its Roots Back to Christ himself.
- The Eucharist—The Real Presence of Christ—Is Not Found in Protestant Churches.
- More Than Any Other Christian Religion, Catholicism Takes Scripture Seriously.
Within a few short years of the Resurrection, the followers of Jesus began calling themselves “Christians” (cf. Acts 11: 26), and by the end of the first century, the word “catholic”—meaning “universal” —was applied to the Church. The idea of different (and sometimes competing) Christian denominations would have been unthinkable to the early Christ...
Jesus described himself as the bread of life, stating that whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood will have life eternal (John 6:54). At the Last Supper he gave the apostles and their successors, the bishops (and through them, validly ordained priests), the power and authority to continue his sacrifice when he said, “Do this in memory of me” (...
This assertion will surprise those who assume that Catholics are ignorant of Scripture and that the Protestant belief in sola scriptura(accepting “the Bible only” as a source of religious teaching) makes them the only true “Bible Christians.” However, history and logic are again on the side of the Catholic Church. It was the Church that, under the ...
May 1, 2007 · As a Protestant I was taught that the Church was invisible. That is, it consisted of all people everywhere who believed in Jesus, and that the true members of the Church were known to God alone. This is true, but there is more to it than that.
It is Christian grace that is offered to children at the dawning of their moral life. VII. The third existential state: Christian grace by derivation. 1. The age of Christ's presence: the entire Church gathered up in the Virgin Mary. �2. The age of the Holy Ghost- Christian grace by derivation. �3.
From the Declaration Dominus Iesus: On the Uniqueness and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church ratified by Pope John Paul II on Aug. 6. The Lord Jesus, the only savior, did not only establish a simple community of disciples, but constituted the Church as a salvific mystery: He himself is in the Church and the Church is in him.
The one true Church established by Christ is the Catholic Church. (a) Many churches which claim to be Christian have broken away from the one true Church established by Jesus Christ.
