Because it is self evident. We are Catholics! Translation: We are the first christians! We came to membership in the Body of Christ through Baptism, oftentimes when we were infants. We came to know our christian faith through the weekly readings at Sunday mass and through our liturgical calendar which annually follows ALL the events in the life of Christ.
Hahahahahaaaaaa! God would disagree with that claim! You can't even bring yourself to capitalize Christian, but you made sure to pimp your cult!
Galatians 3: ... 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. ...
Every denomination can make that claim...it's evident because I'm ______. Just because you claim catholicism means nothing.
Translation: We are the first christians!
Irrelevant to the question if you are a follower of Christ. No proof the roman catholic church of today is the same church we read about in the New Testament. In fact, I'm sure it's not. No mention of the papacy, immaculate conception, assumption, cardinals, priests, confession to a priest for forgiveness, etc.
We came to membership in the Body of Christ through Baptism, oftentimes when we were infants.
Being baptized or becoming a member doesn't make you a Christian. I can join any denomination, get dunked, sprinkled, etc, but unless one believes Jesus is the only Son of God then one is not a Christian. One can go through a lot of processes, but that doesn't get you into the Kingdom of God. We must come to God as Abraham did...through faith..."And Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness." Since the crucifixion and resurrection, our faith/belief in Christ is what gets us to God and Heaven.
Babies cannot make a decision to believe in Christ. All infant baptism does is make the baby wet and the parent(s) feel good. In addition, we have no examples of babies being baptized in the New Testament so this is an unscriptural practice.
We came to know our christian faith through the weekly readings at Sunday mass and through our liturgical calendar which annually follows ALL the events in the life of Christ.
Again, studying about Christianity doesn't make you a Christian. Lots of athiests have studied Christianity. But they are not saved.
I would ask you, and all who claim catholicism, have you placed your faith in Christ? Have you been born again as Jesus asked Nicodemus?
It's funny -- and sad -- that the one thing that you didn't say about your "christianity" is the ONE thing that you need: faith.
Ephesians 2:
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Emphasis mine
Funny. I have yet to see where in scripture that it says that baptism saves... it's certainly an outward sign of the profession, but I don't see it listed above!
And a calendar certainly doesn't save. And weekly readings don't save.
Faith does. Through God's grace. The one thing you need, you didn't mention.
How sad.
Hoss