Separation Of The Catholic Church

The word Catholic, means Universal and the words “ The Catholic Church” is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the symyrnaeans. Catholics believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, who became one of us to free us from the sin, and to bring us the fullness of God’s revelation. Jesus Christ is the Messiah, God’s anointed one, and the savior of the world. They initiated into the Catholic Church through the sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. The sacramental sign of Confirmation is the anointing with oil with the words, “Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit.” The Catholic Church is the community of those who profess their belief in Jesus. Christ as the Son of God, publicly affirm that belief through Baptism, Celebrate it through the Eucharist, accept the teachings of Christ that have come down to us from the apostles; they carry out the sacramental life, and mission of Church under the leadership of the pope and those ordained in …show more content…
The Protestants were the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual, and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic church, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the content in the modern era. They agree to teach straight from the bible, and have their separate ways of teaching the word of God. They believe that God is known by means of the creation and persecution of the universe, by which all men know that God is and that he ought to be served (Romans 1:20). They also believe that the one, invisible Church of God consists of all the elect of God, gathered from the beginning to end of the word, of which Jesus Christ is the Head of the church. This Church is gathered out of all nations, yet is united by the power of the Spirit of Christ in one