Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Would you pass me a spare rib? Grumble....it turned into a naked woman, and I was hoping to have bbq.
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Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
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.
Hello 1213.....I think most of them are close enough. If there is some difficult part, I recommend to look what is said in more original language.
Do you think there is some major difference, could you show one example?
I'll swop you, my chicken'n'bacon wrap for your naked woman.Would you pass me a spare rib? Grumble....it turned into a naked woman, and I was hoping to have bbq.
I don’t know any case where interpretation is necessary. Bible explains well what is means. What do you think, is it necessary to have interpretations?
Trappists (silent order).
If they enforce their religion in public schools, they'd have to silence all the kids (that, of course, is impossible).
The thing is, each individual group thinks that they are closest to God.You are correct sir, matter of fact, Jehovah has always just had one group that belong to him, since the Law covenant made His people a nation.
So you chose mammon?It is my observation that the only denominations that matter are $50 and $100. --lingua franca, bridging disparate credenda.
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.
The Mormons. Yes, the Mormons was the correct answer.
You are correct sir, matter of fact, Jehovah has always just had one group that belong to him, since the Law covenant made His people a nation.
The thing is, each individual group thinks that they are closest to God.
Some even think that other groups are far from God.
True......Yeah, there a whole lot of groups like that. Ironically, each one thinks that they are unique.
True......
So true..
Sometimes some Christians will even point at other groups and howl out loud, 'They are not Christians!'
One Church leader even called a church down the road, 'They are Satanists!'
I was there, saw and heard it all!
Well over 80 are listed >here<.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.
Nobody takes the brunt of it like the Catholic Church though. They are probably the most hated by Christians christian denomination out there. They are the target of all sorts of conspiracies.
So many denominations think that they are the toes of the Nebuchadnezzar statue or the Harlot in Revelations.
By the way, I think we forgot to mention the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Church. They always get forgotten about.
Oh! And I used to be in one of those denominations that say that the other denominations are not Christians or Satanic. It was an excellent boost to the ego.
Pre-Reformation, there weren't actually a great volume of churches in schism. Only a relative handful.
You had three major 'communions', pretty much (that is, families of churches in ecclesial union with one another, though of differing cultural rites): those churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope or Patriarch of the West, centered around the Latin Rite (Catholicism).
Those churches in communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodoxy).
And those churches in communion with the Patriarch of Alexandria, the Coptic Pope (Oriental Orthodoxy).
In addition, you also had the Church of the East (Assyrian rite of Persia and Chaldea region).
And that was pretty much "Christendom", before the Protestant Reformation splintered the Western church into a gazillion denominations.
Even today, though, 99.9% of Christians (Catholics, EO, OO and Protestants) are adherents of mainstream orthodox Nicene Christianity with its Trinitarianism. There is, as a result of that, theological harmony between most of the world's Christians on the "core" dogmatic truths.
The Catholic Church..... The local one actually does get a reasonable congregation each Sunday, well, before lockdown.
There are Satanists on RF and it might be an idea to ask them how they feel about the pointed fingers of hatred, only I'd have to use an open forum for the thread, I suppose. I wonder what they think about such folks as that.