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30,000+ Christian Creeds, Churches, Groups? Nah! :)

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
I've been reading about the 30,000+ Christian Churches etc for a while now.

So let's see how many that we actually know about, can we do that?

I don't think we'll find one hundred, but if we do I will be very surprised and pleased to have the list.

I'll start with CofE, Catholic, Dominican, Franciscan, Anglican, Baptist, Christian-Spiritualist, Jehovah's Witness, Plymouth Brethren, Brethren, Zoar, Baptist and ........ and........ ummm. I got 14!!!

14 out of 30,000...... so get to it..... please. :D
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Its why I dont see how there could be a communicating God.

That fact alone shows there isn't any God around, otherwise you would have only one doctrine in use instead of 30,000 plus variations of Christianity.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Its why I dont see how there could be a communicating God.



I've been reading about the 30,000+ Christian Churches etc for a while now.

So let's see how many that we actually know about, can we do that?

I don't think we'll find one hundred, but if we do I will be very surprised and pleased to have the list.

I'll start with CofE, Catholic, Dominican, Franciscan, Anglican, Baptist, Christian-Spiritualist, Jehovah's Witness, Plymouth Brethren, Brethren, Zoar, Baptist and ........ and........ ummm. I got 14!!!

14 out of 30,000...... so get to it..... please. :D
:)

There an innumerable (IMO) types of cells and parts of the human body... but still one body.

  1. back bone
  2. ankle bone
  3. tibia
  4. skull
  5. kidney
  6. fat cell
  7. white corpuscles
  8. red blood cells
And yet it they all seem to follow a singular purpose... life :D

Just like all the different churches, same foundation just different instructions and purposes.
I guess there must be a communicating God. :)
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
:)

There an innumerable (IMO) types of cells and parts of the human body... but still one body.

  1. back bone
  2. ankle bone
  3. tibia
  4. skull
  5. kidney
  6. fat cell
  7. white corpuscles
  8. red blood cells
And yet it they all seem to follow a singular purpose... life :D

Just like all the different churches, same foundation just different instructions and purposes.
I guess there must be a communicating God. :)
See any parts of the body fighting each other?
 

thomas t

non-denominational Christian
Here is a good few hundred, not counted but possibly into the low thousands
List of Christian denominations - Wikipedia

Also a rather long article

What to think of the 45,000 denominations that rose from the Reformation.
Here in Germany at least, many of those denominations are all combined in the German Evangelical Alliance. Evangelische Allianz Deutschland representing some 1.4 m Christians in Germany.

Here in my town, Bamberg, they resemble each other perfectly and recognise each other 100%.
They sing the same songs, believe the same things, have the same messages, behave the same way.... they are the same and noone bothers.

I personally don't like this organisation due to their lack of democracy when they choose to become political, though. Yet they exist.

There are also the mainline churches, true.
But they don't fight each other.
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
I've been reading about the 30,000+ Christian Churches etc for a while now.

So let's see how many that we actually know about, can we do that?

I don't think we'll find one hundred, but if we do I will be very surprised and pleased to have the list.

I'll start with CofE, Catholic, Dominican, Franciscan, Anglican, Baptist, Christian-Spiritualist, Jehovah's Witness, Plymouth Brethren, Brethren, Zoar, Baptist and ........ and........ ummm. I got 14!!!

14 out of 30,000...... so get to it..... please. :D
There's a staunchly Christian, yet very unorthodox man (He once told me that he prayed to God for acid so that he and particular friend could experience it together, and that, through a few unforeseen coincidences, God provided) that I walk around town with often, debating and discussing things. He showed up at my house yesterday to tell me something that God apparently told him to tell me, and my wife asked him to stay for dinner. My father-in-law has Sunday dinner with us often also, and so he was there - another staunchly Christian man who sticks to what would probably be considered more mainstream teaching. I just sat back for what I knew would be a show, as these two men struck up many a religion-themed point, and agreed perhaps only 60% of the time.

In my opinion, every single Christian practices a slightly different version of the supposed "faith." Every single one. Whether they have broken off and formed their own inane attempt at an "official" (hahahahaha!) branch at Christianity or not is irrelevant. ALL of those "official" branches started out with that exact same difference as their spawning point. Every single one.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Here in Germany at least, many of those denominations are all combined in the German Evangelical Alliance. Evangelische Allianz Deutschland representing some 1.4 m Christians in Germany.

Here in my town, Bamberg, they resemble each other perfectly and recognise each other 100%.
They sing the same songs, believe the same things, have the same messages, behave the same way.... they are the same and noone bothers.

I personally don't like this organisation due to their lack of democracy when they choose to become political, though. Yet they exist.

There are also the mainline churches, true.
But they don't fight each other.


I am sure they do all get on quite well but i cannot see that they have the same message, the reasons for the schisms was usually down to different interpretations of whichever of a couple of hundred different bibles.
 

loverofhumanity

We are all the leaves of one tree
Premium Member
I've been reading about the 30,000+ Christian Churches etc for a while now.

So let's see how many that we actually know about, can we do that?

I don't think we'll find one hundred, but if we do I will be very surprised and pleased to have the list.

I'll start with CofE, Catholic, Dominican, Franciscan, Anglican, Baptist, Christian-Spiritualist, Jehovah's Witness, Plymouth Brethren, Brethren, Zoar, Baptist and ........ and........ ummm. I got 14!!!

14 out of 30,000...... so get to it..... please. :D


How many christian denominations worldwide? | the Way?

It goes from 21,000 to 43,000 according to this article but the number is not as important as the fact they are not united as one Faith or speak with one voice.
 

loverofhumanity

We are all the leaves of one tree
Premium Member
I have seen estimates of over 50.000 increasing by op to 10 or so each week but no hard data to confirm.

I believe that the overriding message of Jesus was love. Love would have kept Christianity together. But gradually, sadly, the focus shifted away from love towards power and politics causing rifts, divisions and wars.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
I've been reading about the 30,000+ Christian Churches etc for a while now.

So let's see how many that we actually know about, can we do that?

I don't think we'll find one hundred, but if we do I will be very surprised and pleased to have the list.

I'll start with CofE, Catholic, Dominican, Franciscan, Anglican, Baptist, Christian-Spiritualist, Jehovah's Witness, Plymouth Brethren, Brethren, Zoar, Baptist and ........ and........ ummm. I got 14!!!

14 out of 30,000...... so get to it..... please. :D
The Mormons. Yes, the Mormons was the correct answer.

There are a lot of things you have to believe if you choose a religion. One god or many, omnipotent or just maximal potent, Jesus was/is a god/a human/both, meat on Friday is (not)OK, Trump is the return of the messiah/the devil himself, etc, etc.
And you have little to derive the answers from other answers. You have to believe each single thing on itself.
After you have answered 16 binary questions you already have discounted 65535 (possible) religions/denominations.

You may want to research what the questions are that lead to the schisms and list the denominations in a tree form.
 
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