Sunday, May 13, 2007

I've been spending days if not many years wondering...
WHY....
why is there division of different religion even when there is a common believe
of the same almighty being...
I'm a catholic...
born into and reaffirmed at the age of 14...
gotten in and out of faith...
basically, because I question...
But how did the religion catholic come about actually?
well....

Catholic is a term derived from latin or greek....meaning 'universal' or general.

Most Reformation and post-Reformation Churches use the term Catholic to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word "catholic"/"universal" to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the phrase "holy catholic church" in the Apostles' Creed.

The term is used also to mean those Christian Churches which maintain that their Episcopate can be traced unbrokenly back to the Apostles, and consider themselves part of a broad catholic (or universal) body of believers.

I guess the only difference between Catholics and the Christians we have today is very much the method of teachings and following of the bible and one being universal, pays respect to the mother of God and pray directly to the almighty while the other only deals with direct communication. Isn't it afterall how humans interpret history and literature?... And if there are common believers, they form a new congregation of themselves and spread the very same words of the bible...

But how do each and every christians differ?....Methodist, presby, charismastics...blah blah blah...etc..?

Well I don't know...seems like all a complicated issue...
Sometimes it's a pain thinking about it.

I hate these differences.

Like I just respect all, whatever and however they see as respect as right...
am I still going to hell for that?...
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2 comments:

Paul said...

heya ken, I dun think anyone would go hell just because of different religious beliefs. and indeed, it's sad that people cannot see eye-to-eye. To some people, religion is more important than anything else, and indeed ideally speaking, our faith should be the most important. But i also believe what flows from our faith is also equally important - unity instead of division, love instead of self-righteousness. for me, it's more of questioning what our faith teaches us and living to its ideals because i know jesus' ideals are never wrong, only our interpretation of them. God gave us the free-will and the faculties to decide so and the Church as a guiding force. Yes we can be wrong often, but constant prayer and reliance on Him will bring us to light.

11:32 AM
Kenneth said...

Thanks Paul, but really, I'm just questioning how true are each of the congregations out there. For me it doesn't really matter so long doing good while living and repentence are the keys to salvation.

If everyone thinks they are right....then who is really?... afterall, what we pray about and get in learning could be an interpretation of our own understanding but believe that it's from God's guidance. I would say that even the catholic church has their misdoings way back in history and yet the anglicans and the other christians too, plainly because all are only humans.
This sux....really... I should just believe in one God and just read bible and just not be in any group at all...lol....

11:43 AM

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