Is John 3:16 a Cathoilic or Christian thing?

[Amy]

I know Catholics are Christians but they believe in different things.. (saints, virgins etc.) I saw this trend on twitter.. Is it catholic?

[Christian Skeptic]

Both Catholics and Protestants accept that verse, and the whole of John's Gospel, of course. But the Protestant interpretation of it is more consistent.

If Jesus says believing in him gives us eternal life, we believe that believing in him gives us eternal life. Catholicism adds that you need to do works in addition to believing in him to MAYBE get eternal life. I don't think that's in keeping with Christ's plain teaching there.

[Christian Skeptic]

It's a Catholic thing because the Bible came from the Catholic Church. Besides Evangelicals can't read past St. John 3:16 if they did it would defeat their faith alone concept. Catholics actually read the entire Bible they don't skip over verses in Scripture.

[Dust]

The text you mentioned just says that God loved (still loves) Mankind, and has given His Son - for those who believe in Him - be saved. It is a part of the Bible many different institutions consider their own basis for their beliefs.

The Roman Catholic Church is an Organization whose History is full of the spilled blood of those who searched for the Truth of the Scriptures. Some orders that belong to the Church - the Jesuit, for instance - were expelled from Europe from 1480 till the late 1800s - 75 different times by different countries, including (but not limiting to) Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Austria, England, Spain, etc...

The order (the Jesuits) were responsible for the assesination of Abraham Lincoln - a known fact - and many other dignataries.

[Ally]

It is a christian thing. And some Catholics are Christians. So, it is technically both. Both religion believe in the same bible which has that verse. it means that if you believe Jesus is your savior you will have eternal life. Trust me Being a christian/ catholic is the right thing to be, and actually they aren't that different. Some Catholics though don't truly accept Christ into there life and life there life for him. What I mean is some people say they are Christians, but there truly spiritually are not.

[PaulCyp]

John 3:16 is a passage from a book compiled by the Catholic Church from its own writings and for its own use. Therefore any quote from that book is a Catholic "thing". Protestants, who borrowed the book from the Catholic Church, can also quote passages but they have no authoritative means of correctly interpreting what it means, as demonstrated by the fact that they have fragmented into thousands of unauthorized conflicting manmade denominations in just a few hundred years, over disagreements about what various biblical passages mean, while the one true Christian Church, which compiled the Bible, remains one in belief, one in teaching, one in worship, one in biblical interpretation throughout the world after 2,000 years, just as its founder Jesus Christ intended.

[mamapowell2001]

No, it is from GOD, John said God so love the world that he ( God ) gave his only begotten Son that who so ever believe in should not parish but have ever lasting life

[Carl]

John 3:16 is a Catholic Christian thing. John 3:16 does not promote salvation by intellectual assent only. There are other passages from the bible and from Jesus' lips himself that says we also need to obey his commandments if we want to have salvation. John 3:16 says that the one who believes in Christ will be saved. Believing in Christ does not mean simply intellectual assent. Even the demons believe and tremble. Obeying Christ is not separate from believing in him. If you truly believe in Christ you will obey him. That is why James asks can faith without works save a man? Because Intellectual assent alone is not the kind of faith that produces fruit. Jesus wants the fruit of repentance in our lives. Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Salvation is a gift but it is a gift we have to accept and live out in our lives.

[Mike N]

Even though the Roman Catholic Church is the one responsible for the existence of the Bible, the protestants decided to keep that verse in their edited / bastardized versions of the Bible, so, I guess it's both a Catholic and protestant thing. God Bless you.

[FROG E]

it's a God thing