OLAADEGBU: Bill Hicks said: "There are over 30,000 denominations across continents and countries. There are fundamental elements being disagreed upon. And yet you're all reading the same book and all claiming to be possessed by God himself. It's nonsense."

I don’t think that there are two human beings on the face of this earth that could fully agree about anything. I’m sure you would agree with that. We disagree about politics, about what foods are the best to eat, about two human beings not being able to agree, which is the best sport, whose teams are best, about why certain things happened in history, and a host of other different issues.

This carries over into religion. While there are many denominations that disagree about how much water to baptise with, when or when not to take communion, about church discipline, there are a number of essential doctrines almost all of them agree upon—and that is that Christ died for our sins and rose again on the third day. So I wouldn’t use the fact that human beings disagree on some issues as an excuse for you to stay in your sins. On Judgment Day you will have to give an account of yourself to God, no one else.

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italo:

Hmm! So there are "essential" and non-essential doctrines.

You meantion that Christ's death and resurrection is the essential doctrine, meaning all other doctrines of Christ are non-essential.

Where did Jesus tell you this?

Abi are you teaching from you own wild imagination?

italo:

Hmm! So there are "essential" and non-essential doctrines.

You meantion that Christ's death and resurrection is the essential doctrine, meaning all other doctrines of Christ are non-essential.

Where did Jesus tell you this?

Abi are you teaching from you own wild imagination?

Why So Many Denominations?

In the religious world today there are many different religious groups. Each has its own peculiar name, organization, doctrine, form of worship, and plan of salvation. Why are there so many religious groups? Nearly all Bible students agree that in the New Testament there was only one church belonging to Jesus. Denominations did not exist. But today there are hundreds of churches all claiming to believe in God and most claiming to follow Jesus. Where did they all come from?

Could it be that people in all these churches are pleasing to God and are following Jesus? In 1 Corinthians 1:10 Paul rebuked the Corinthian church because there was division among the members there. If God condemned that division, why would He overlook the fact that far greater division exists today? In verse 13 Paul asked, "Is Christ divided?" The clear answer is: No, Christ is not divided! Jesus does not contradict Himself. He does not teach one thing to one person, and then teach the opposite to someone else. But the modern denominations do contradict one another. How then can they all be following Jesus? Jesus is not divided, so denominational division did not come from Jesus. Where then did it come from?

In Acts 20:29,30 the apostle Paul spoke to a group of bishops and made this prediction: "...after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves." After Paul left, there would be apostasy among God's people. Religious leaders in the church would pervert or change the gospel in order to get a following for themselves.

We urge you to consider the evidence that the existence of modern denominational division fulfills these prophecies. Modern denominational division came about over a period of hundreds of years because men departed from God's will.

http://www.gospelway.com/topics/church/denomination-origins.php

frosbel:

OLAADEGBU:

See why some people fail without difficulties. The question says; "why are there so many denominations?" it didn't say; "why are there so many religious groups," the difference is clear.

frosbel:

You are as usual being disingenuous , you know what he meant, religious groups or denominations, no difference, same thing.

guilty conscience

OLAADEGBU:

I expected you who's mother's tongue is English to understand this. What this thread is dealing with is about the different Christian denominations but with your glasses you will see different religious groups such as Hindus, Buddhists, Islam etc. Denominations is different from religious groups. The difference is clear.

frosbel:

The person who wrote the article I posted deliberately used the title 'Why So Many Denominations?' , so he must have known what he was talking about.

OLAADEGBU:

That is why you shouldn't be swallowing every garbage posted on the internet hook, line and sinker.

frosbel:

You will come to the light when you stop following MEN and their institutions, or when you become deinstitutionalized -

Emusan:

What I've discovered in you was that you always fought a fight of carnal doctrine rather than allowing the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Which is too bad for a real follower of our Lord Christ Jesus.

Emusan: Has it's been stressed out in the Op, the problem lies on people like you who always fight "my Church is better than yours"

Emusan: According to these scriptures have you ever asked yourself some simple questions like;
*Am I truly on Christ's foundation?
*What are those things I have made to know about Christ when I first begin and what have I found new in Christ lately/recently?

Emusan: *Am I truly interpreting the scriptures accordingly or based on what I have made to believed? e.t.c

OLAADEGBU:

When I said "there are number of essential doctrines" does that say that there is only one essential doctrine? How do you read?

there are a number of essential doctrines almost all of them agree upon—and that is that Christ died for our sins and rose again on the third day.

OLAADEGBU: "Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach… that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ."

— Martin Luther saw what was coming.

Enigma: Whatever Luther and even Calvin may be accused of, they rightly identified a rot which even leading Roman Catholics including one "pope" Adrian VI admit.

For now, here is one example from a leading Roman Catholic apologist.

"For some years before Luther and Calvin there was in the church almost no religion left." (according to him, because the papacy had almost eliminated Christianity)

per "Cardinal" Bellarmine.

Bidam: Nice post bro.Italo should chew on this for a while

Bidam: Nice post bro.Italo should chew on this for a while

Enigma:

To be honest bros, I don't really want to fight these Roman Catholic people (or anyone for that matter). But the conceit, which is even based on fraud and forgeries, had become too much!

italo:

Unfortunately, Italo doesn't chew on what a sycophant thinks is "nice."

Italo chews on TRUTH.

You should try it too...always tastes good.

frosbel:

The person who wrote the article I posted deliberately used the title 'Why So Many Denominations?' , so he must have known what he was talking about.

italo:

Here's what you said:

Do you mind telling if Christ told us that some of God's doctrines are essential while the rest are non essential?

Also can you list these "essential doctrines" so that Children of God will not ignore them at their own peril?

italo:

How ironic! Martin Luther himself raised a sect that led to tens of thousands of sects.

And Satan is "the god of all dissension," who "stirreth up daily new sects."

Bidam: What is truth? That your pope is infallible

OLAADEGBU:





This article satisfies all your objections including that of the OP.

"In the early 1500s, a German monk named Martin Luther was so conscious of his sins that he spent up to six hours in the confessional. Through study of the Scriptures he found that salvation didn't come through anything he did, but simply through trusting in the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ. He listed the contradictions between what the Scriptures said and what his church taught, and nailed his "95 Thesis" to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany.

Martin Luther became the first to "protest" against the Roman church, and thus he became the father of the Protestant church. Since that split, there have been many disagreements about how much water one should baptise with, how to sing what and why, who should govern who, etc, causing thousands of splinter groups. Many of these groups are convinced that they alone are right. These have become known as Protestant "denominations." Despite the confusion, these churches subscribe to certain foundational beliefs such as the deity, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Bible says, "The foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his (2 Timothy 2:19)"

"Thomas Jefferson once wrote of a preacher, Richard Mote, "who "exclaimed aloud to his congregation that he did not believe there was a Quaker, Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist in heaven, having paused to give his hearers time to stare and to wonder. He added that, in heaven, God knew no distinctions"

"For the Lord knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish" (Psalms 1:6).- The Evidence Bible.

Do you mind telling if Christ told us that some of God's doctrines are essential while the rest are non essential?

Also can you list these "essential doctrines" so that Children of God will not ignore them at their own peril?

Bidam: Nah..this is not fighting, you are just saying the gospel truth bro...

italo:

You dont all believe the deity of Christ. Some of you say Jesus is not God, but Archangel Michael.

And the post doesnt come near to answering these questions: