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Can the culture and the freedoom of choice be the results of this growing number of non-denominations?
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Hisalone
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Jesus started a nonDenominational church
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withwind
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Where did you get that information?
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xixxvmcm85
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Exactly! Before the hands of humans severed his church there were no denominations, just the One Holy, Apostolic & Catholic Church.
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Where is that written?
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xixxvmcm85
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Ephesians 4:5 for starters
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Hisalone
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Those in Christ are of one faith, faith in Christ.Ephesians 4:5 for starters
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xixxvmcm85
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30,000 denominations and counting is not 1 faith no matter how much you try to trivialize the “secondary matters”.
You can’t even find two Protestants that agree on baptism (also mentioned in the verse I cited).
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In order for this statement to be true, there must be as many different theologies on baptism as there are Protestants.
The number of Protestants in the world are in the tens if not hundreds of million.
So in order for this statement to be true, the number of different theologies on baptism must be in the millions.
So just how many theologies on baptism are there.
Catholic apologetics strikes again.
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I’m sorry but I don’t think Jesus wanted 30,000 denominations, but He wanted one church. One. Not 30,000 with contradictory beliefs. The Holy Spirit does not guide these churches. The Holy Spirit has guided the Catholic church, since it has been through the mill, and still stands and holds it’s head up high.
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xixxvmcm85
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You’re absolutely correct! I obviously didn’t think about this critically before posting.
I should have stated:
Protestantism in general (and Non-Denominationalism in specific) has unity in neither belief nor practice with regards to baptism.
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Divide and conquer, the strategy of the evil one.
Sancta Maria, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!
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Sancta Maria, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!
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Didn’t you hear about the survey of Protestants, a few weeks ago? The question about baptism was multiple-choice, but no two Protestants checked the same box.
(It probably goes without saying that I’m kidding; but given the nature of the internet, you just never know.)
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Syele
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:ehh: Try citing some sources instead of exaggerating for effect or at least cite it as your personal opinion.
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withwind
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Syele, I appreciated your post on the facts and other data - I can see both advantages and disadvantages you mentioned in your post.
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did it ever occur to you that if they are off on the Catholics by 899 that their protestant stats are probably badly off as well? Generally if a statistic is made by a certain criteria, and that criteria is wrong, it will be wrong for the whole study.
from your source:
it specifically says that 9000 of them are protestant, not 28,000.
Then you look at WHY there are 242 Catholic Denominations and the reason is cause there are 242 countries represented. So divide those protestant denominations by 242 and you get 37. Id say as all denominations are probably not in all 242 countries you could even Quadruple that… (Im trying to be generous here) so we have somewhere around 149. even if you added up all the marginals
ok but that is STILL divided up by 242 countries! So you got 23068 Divided by 242 =95. But 95 isnt so dramatic sounding is it? lets Quadruple it to make up for not all of them being in all countries… Still looking at about 381! not thousands!
Now I personally believe its more than 149 but that was looking at the data you cited. Barretts study does not say there are 28,000 protestant denominations. Note that both “Roman Catholics” and “Protestants” are considered ONE Megabloc each. You are trying to say that the Catholic one should not be divided up but the Protestant one should be divided up more than it is. That is not an honest reading of the source material.
My opinion is that source has way too many flaws to be considered creditable!
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Ok so I will next cover the link that the bottom of that source…
On examination of the list I see:
Sorry I have found too much at bringyou.to/apologetics/a106.htm that is NOT credible for any argument appealing ot it to keep my attention any longer.
Furthur, A listing of Denominaitons is not very useful for determining the answer to the ops questions of how many non-denominations in the US. The listing of 5,000 werent even all US congregations.
it claims to be a listing of over 5,000 Protestant denominations.
On examination of the list I see:
- 361 Baptist Churches. Why are they all listed as INDIVIDUAL Denominations?
- 105 Methodist Churches. Why are they all listed as INDIVIDUAL Denominations?
- 98 Anglican Churches. Why are they all listed as INDIVIDUAL Denominations?
- 15 Presbyterian Churches. Same Question!
- 25 Society of Friends.
- 13 Catholic Churches. Why are they listed as 13 PROTESTANT Denominations anyhow?
- 12 Salvation Army installments. Ummmm Salvation Army is not even technically a Church much less 12 Denominations!
Ok so at this point I’m bored of searching the document by Denominations and I chose those at random to search. Lets examine what data I got in those few mins form this source At least two denominaitons reperesented on that list of 5,000 are not even Denominations of Protestantism. Most Denominations represented are represented by multiple Churches. The list is a list of Congregatios, not of Denominations.
Sorry I have found too much at bringyou.to/apologetics/a106.htm that is NOT credible for any argument appealing ot it to keep my attention any longer.
Furthur, A listing of Denominaitons is not very useful for determining the answer to the ops questions of how many non-denominations in the US. The listing of 5,000 werent even all US congregations.
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oneGODoneCHURCH
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you asked for a source i gave a source. for myself i can look around the city of 40,000 people i live in and if you take those numbers and then look around the my town they are comparable. 3 catholic churches ( all in communion with one another). then the fun begins there are church of Christ, disciples of of Christ, 5 or 6 different baptist. 4 different Methodist, 2 different Presbyterians. Church of God assemblies of God, SDA, LDS reform, i am forgetting some and not even going to list the independent and non denoms.
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