The religious believes of both Christianity and Catholicism has some common features and differences as well. The research paper will focus on both sides in trying to compare and contrasting the two denominations (Marstensen 205). Although they are termed as two different religions, they share the most common believes of all Christian. God the creator Some of the similarities that both the Catholics have with Christianity are about only one God who is in trinity. God the father, the son and the Holy Spirit is what has been there, today and forever (Christian Century Foundation 116). They pray to this one God through Jesus who is the son in human flesh. God who is in three forms is the sole creator of everything found in universe both living and non-living things, and He is the one who sustains the whole of his creation. Final Judgment Another similarity is about God who is rightly angry with his people who do not work according to his will. They believe after death, God will make everyone to resurrect and come back to earth where judgment will take place. The way people live on earth deserves either a reward or a punishment from God. When Jesus Christ died on the cross and resurrected on the third day he paid for the sins, but those who keep on repeating their sins will be punished (Chilson 314). Everyone has a chance to repent his or her sins on earth to avoid the punishment on the judgment day, when sinners would be punished. The repentance may be speaking to God either directly or through the priests for the Catholics, for those people who mind the life after death. The Bible Another similarity between the Catholicism and Christianity is about the bible, well known as the words of God. They both know that bible is the collection of different works written by men, God inspired most of them. The bible contains information about the will of God, through which we are supposed to follow to be rewarded in heaven. The bible contains the views of men and the words of God through his people (Anatolios and Brown 287). Whoever does according to the will of God declared in the bible shall be rewarded in heaven and be saved from everlasting punishment of the sinners. The good things believers are promised in heaven are contained in the bible that Christians are supposed to follow. All in all Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. Pope and his system The first difference is Catholicism has Bishop of Rome who is the pope, and they believe is the spiritual leader of their entire church system. The Catholic Church is centralized with the head controller being the pope, who they follow in most of their practices. The pope guides other catholic leaders as well as the church followers as he is the spiritual leader. However, for other Christians who are non-Catholics, believe that Jesus is the spiritual head of the church (Marstensen 210). This makes them not to have other religious figures since they believe with Jesus Christ all the religious requirements of the church are fulfilled. Catholics allow the pope to speak on behalf of the church about the morals or dogma assuming that he cannot make mistakes because the holy spirits guides him. Other Christians cannot allow anyone to speak for the church, because, it was only Jesus who could present the church. History of the two religions The history of the two religions ha