I used to wonder why God allows division and false teaching in the universal church. We all know God has the power and ability to create perfect unity here on Earth if He wanted to. But in His infinite wisdom, division is allowed for His divine purpose and our good. It is through our struggles, suffering, and personal trials… that He grows us up in Christ. Because we are not completely redeemed here on earth, we will always know in part and believe in something that is not true. We are called to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ throughout our entire life… therefore, we seek God daily and ask for His daily provision of His grace… remaining dependent on Him each and every day. We are called to live for the glory of God, regardless of being Catholic or Protestant. If you find yourself glorifying God with greater capacity as a Catholic Christian… praise God. If you find yourself glorifying God with greater capacity as a Protestant Christian… praise God. For those who are united to Christ, we are truly one body.
One faith said St Paul
How is division in Christendom a good thing?
Sure there are struggles in life, doesn’t mean we can thumb our noeses up at divine commandmants, or say “well you believe God said to eat his flesh for life, I believe he meant something else, oh well never mind…”
Ephesians ch4
1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:
2 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
3 Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling.
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.
7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he gave gifts to men.
9 Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens: that he might fill all things.
11 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the word of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ:
14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.
15 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.
God bless you