Do All Religions Lead To God?
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I’m sure there are at least two congregations that are united. Let’s say that they are multiple denominations instead of one denomination. There are plenty of denominations within non-denominational churches.
Either way denominations don’t really matter since there is only one true church, that of Jesus. There may be members and many denominations that are parts of it and may members of the same denominations that are not part of it. The people you meet with once a week and the label you put on yourself don’t make you part of His church. Your heart makes you part of it and only He can see your heart.
Churches by definition cannot be part of a denomination without denominational structure. CoCs pride themselves on not being part of a denomination. "No creed but Christ."
Christians have all from the beginning disagreed and quarreled about what is "the true doctrine" and condemned other christians into herasy. Maybe you think that this a phenomenon of ancient times? Think again.
It's happening right now, right in our time, right in this thread and this discussion forum.
It will never end. Christians will disagree, even on the most fundamental matters, into eternity.
That's how it is.
It's happening right now, right in our time, right in this thread and this discussion forum.
It will never end. Christians will disagree, even on the most fundamental matters, into eternity.
That's how it is.
Jesus made no distinction but did mention building HIS church on the rock of Peter. That church must still exist as Jesus said the gates if the netherworld shall not prevail against it. Now if the Bible is to be believed it would behoove all of us to find that church
That church isn't a building or denomination. The church is the collective body of believers.
Where does Scripture say that? For 1500 years though there was only one "collective body of believers” now there are more than 20,000
Ok great. But like I said, denominations do not matter since it’s a made up pointless word that’s not in the bible. It’s not the label that we put on ourselves but why matters is the label God puts on us. If He doesn’t call us His then we belong to the evil one.
I was just responding to a statement that the CoC is a denomination. By definition, they are not.
Sociologists of religion, historians, and most reference books classify the Church of Christ as a distinct Protestant denomination that arose from the American Restoration Movement (also called the Stone–Campbell Movement) in the early 1800s.
They do so because the Churches of Christ share:
Similar doctrinal positions (baptism for remission of sins, weekly communion, a cappella worship in many congregations, autonomous congregational structure)
A common historical origin
A recognizable name and identity
These shared features fit the sociological definition of a denomination.
According to the Bible it’s a body of believers. But according to Noah Webster it can also be a building which is how it is more commonly used these days. I sometimes get wanna say something when someone says they’re going to church
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Actually they don't because those beliefs vary from church to church and there is no higher earthly authority to sort that out. Regardless of what "sociologists and historians" say, they do not meet the definition of a denomination.
The ones I know agree more than they disagree, they have common roots and doctrines and they all use the same signs outside their buildings. Plus, they all think that anyone that doesn’t agree with them are bound for Hell.
Im going to say this again Jesus said, Matt 16:18,
And I say to you: You are Peter and in this rock I will build MY(my emphasis) church and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
So Jesus established HIS church and that church MUST still exist if he said the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. Now there are more than 20,000 christian denominations with no evidence that any one of them is actually the church HE established.
I blame King JamesAccording to the Bible it’s a body of believers. But according to Noah Webster it can also be a building which is how it is more commonly used these days. I sometimes get wanna say something when someone says they’re going to church
There aren't 20K Christian denominations despite what Rome likes to say. Also, Rome refused to reform from within, so they were reformed from without.
Denominations: The facts~
There are nowhere near as many denominations in Christianity as some suppose/believe.
The numbers thrown around are a terrible miscalculation based on a
lack of understanding perpetuated by, um, well, a dearth of knowledge.
Many sources say many things and many of those things are blatant falsehoods .
I have posted this before so am simply copy/pasting from an earlier post:
33,000 or 45,000, or 20,000 --- these are false numbers based on an egregious misunderstanding.
That misunderstanding gets thrown around as if it were truth when it is not.
Even under the most liberal definition of what constitutes a denomination, there are
nowhere close to 33,000 - 45,000 denominations. Many of these groups are merely subgroups
of larger denominational groups such as Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, or Baptists.
Evangelical apologist Eric Svendsen exposes the falsehood of this fabrication. Briefly:
Svendsen shows that the source of this figure is the World Christian Encyclopedia (David A. Barrett; Oxford
University Press, 1982). Barrett cites a figure of 20,780 denominations. Still, not all of them are Protestants.
According to Barrett, Protestants account for 8,196 (and incidentally, Roman Catholics account for 223).
However, even this figure of eight thousand Protestant denominations is misleading, for Barrett defines
"distinct denominations" as any group that might have a slightly different emphasis than another group.
The distinction is made on the basis of jurisdiction, rather than differing beliefs and practices.
Barrett breaks down the Protestant bloc into twenty-one major "traditions" which are much closer to what we usually
mean by the word "denominations." It is interesting that Roman Catholics are subdivided into sixteen such "traditions."
Svendsen concludes, "In short, Roman Catholic apologists have hurriedly, carelessly - and, as a result, irresponsibly - glanced
at Barrett's work, found a large number (22,189), and arrived at all sorts of absurdities that Barrett never concluded." source[/QUOTE]
Oh course there are. Just in the Baptist church alone there are hundreds of different branches and different enough that they had to make new branches. It has nothing to do with Rome.