Why is the word Catholic not in the Bible?

Answer 1

The word "catholic" [small 'c'], is not found in The Bible at all, nor are its synonyms "universal" or "worldwide", or the word "Catholic" [capital 'C']. The word "catholic was not used to describe the Church until later in the first century, its first written use that we have a record of is St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 35-107) in his Letter to the Smyrneans, not the Bible.

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Answer 2

No the catholics are not at all mentioned in the bible, either in the old or in the New Testament "Catholics" aren't mentioned by name, but some of their practices are. For example: 1 Timothy 4:3 - forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with Thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Answer 3

No. Catholic developed as a term to distinguish the Church in Rome from the Church in Constantinople and the Church in Alexandria. As a result, it does not appear in the Bible since the Church was united when the Bible was written.

Answer 4

Catholic Answer

The word, "Catholic" is the modern form of the Latin word catholicus and the Greek word, katholikos, both of which mean "universal" It does not appear in the Bible but was first used in written form in the year 106 AD in letters from St. Ignatius of Antioch that survive even today. If it was commonly used in verbal communications before that we do not know. The Bible (the New Testament) was not put together, as we have it today, until around 390 A.D. or a good two centuries AFTER the Church was known as "Catholic", and about the same time that the Bible was finished being written. The Bible is describing the very beginnings of the Church probably before they started to use the word "Catholic" to describe it.

Answer 5

No, the word Catholic wasn't being used until the 1500s or 1600s when the Protestant Reformation occurred. Before that, everyone was called Christian.

Catholic Answer:

'Catholic Church' first appears in written form in the year 106 AD in letters from St. Ignatius of Antioch that survive even today. If it was commonly used in verbal communications before that we do not know.

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure it isn't. The disciples were initially called followers of the Way, and they were first called Christians at Antioch in Acts 11:26. I'm not even sure that the word Catholic was used until the Protestant Reformation occurred and the church split in two.

Answer 7

The word "catholic" is not found in the Bible. The origin of the the term, in reference to the Church, is in an epistle from Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnans:

"Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."

Answer 8

The term Catholic is not mentioned in the Old Testement or New Testement.

Christian is not mentioned in the Old Testement.

Ignatius of Antioch was the first to use it and he is referring to Christians. He is describing Christians and the faith as catholic (welcome to all, and whole, complete, and lacking nothing)

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In terms of the bad answer that was totally off topic:

1 Timothy 4:3 is referring to people teaching that marriage was unnessary and even evil. Regarding abstainging from food, some people taught that eating meat was evil.

Paul stated that it was good to remain unmarried. The Roman Catholic Church do not say people should not marry but do require priest follow Paul's example. The other Churches, including the Eastern Churches, allow married priest. In both cases this is not a law, there are married priest in the Roman Catholic Churches, and there are unmarried priest in the Eastern Churches.

1 Cor. 7:8, “But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.”

In terms of food, we see Paul fasting during his conversion in Act 9. Also we can see Jesus telling us fasting and prayer should be used to overcome demons.

Answer 9

· Bible – Book of books, there are 72; 45 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New.

· Verbum Dei – The Word of God

· Revelation - God reveals himself through the Bible

· Inspiration – The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible to know what to write

· Interpretation – To look for a deeper meaning and not to take it literally

· Inerrant – without error

· Theological truth – A deeper, interpreted meaning found in the text about God

· Fundamentalist Christian – strict and traditional, take the Bible literally

· Liberal Christian – more relaxed, interpret the Bible

· Omnipotent – God is all powerful

· Imago Dei – image of God, this is why we’re special

· Covenant – A sacred promise between God and humanity

Key facts

· The word Bible means ‘library’ or ‘book of books’

· There are 72 books in the Catholic Bible

· The Bible is split into two sections –

- The Old Testament (OT) which was written before Jesus was born and is the Jewish scriptures of which there are 45 books, they were originally written in Hebrew.

- The New Testament (NT) which was written about Jesus and since Jesus lived, these are the Christian scriptures; there are 27 books, they were originally written in Greek.