Supposedly accurate chart of "Church History"

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Anyone ever seen this chart on the supposed history of “the Church”?
(if you link to it, be aware that it will also start to play music, in case you are in a “quiet” area…also it is a big graphic, you might be better off printing it to fit 1 page or using a graphics software to scale it to your screen).

MY OBSERVATIONS:
I find on it a lot of the classic misconceptions of when certain “Catholic docrtines” were invented.

I find quite interesting how much focus there is on the Catholic Church on this chart if it is supposedly not the true Church anyway.

I find it interesting that the only two denominations destined for hell are the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (it looks like the Reformers might be somewhere in the middle)…so much for the narrow gate!

The chart is endorsed by a pastor named Marvin Howard. His website is here. He says the true Church is “The Churches of Christ” (plural). They are self described as:
The churches of Christ
We are undenominational and have no central headquarters or president. The head of the church is none other than Jesus Christ himself (Ephesians 1:22-23).
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Each congregation of the churches of Christ is autonomous, and it is the Word of God that unites us into One Faith (Ephesians 4:3-6). We follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his holy Apostles, and not the teachings of man. We are Christians only!
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Anyone else familiar with this or have observations??
 
You could always respond with a different chart of Church History.

It certainly puts Protestants in their place, unfirtunately it also does the same thing with Catholics. 🙂

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Many “historians” are nothing of the sort… they merely have an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a philosophy to promote.

Unfortunately, most people don’t read “real” history because, quite frankly, real historians tend to be rather dull.

And original documents? Forget it! You think Shakespeare is tuff? Try getting through City of God by St. Augustine. I tried. Really I did…
 
I found the sprinkling 1311 funny because he never read the didache.

I also wonder why he left out the Christian Connection movement out of his chart?

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Daniel_Marsh said:
I found the sprinkling 1311 funny because he never read the didache.
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Doesn’t look like he’s read much at all! I can’t know his motives, but I can’t help but feel the chart is designed to show that Catholics are evil more than anything else.
 
Well the chart is silly and chalk full of ignorance, so in other words you’re looking at the views of any restortationist protestant church. It’s a bit on the extreme side, most mainstream evangelicals no longer say Roman Catholics (or Eastern Orthodox if they’re aware we exist) are automatically going to hell. Though 30 years ago this would have been very mainstream.
 
The churches of Christ
We are undenominational and have no central headquarters or president. The head of the church is none other than Jesus Christ himself (Ephesians 1:22-23).
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Each congregation of the churches of Christ is autonomous, and it is the Word of God that unites us into One Faith (Ephesians 4:3-6). We follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his holy Apostles, and not the teachings of man. We are Christians only!
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The Churches of Christ are very numerous where I live. They have a couple of strong defining practices. They allow no instrumental music. They do not celebrate any church holidays (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost). They are Bible Only and very insistent on that.

They used to be VERY prejudiced toward Catholics and some congregations still are. Some are more friendly (it was a CoC friend who gave me my rosary from Spain). I sometimes listen to one of their preachers on Sunday on the radio. He constantly quotes the Bible yet oddly most of his quotes are from the Epistles - seldom the Gospels.
 
Biblioassistant said:
I sometimes listen to one of their preachers on Sunday on the radio. He constantly quotes the Bible yet oddly most of his quotes are from the Epistles - seldom the Gospels.
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That seems to be a hallmark of Protestant preaching - lots of Paul, very little Jesus.
 
It is very interesting to me that you mention instruments in worship. Why didn’t Jesus us an instrument when he entered the temple or synagogue to preach and to teach. It would have been logical since He Himself would have made perfect music since He could do anything physically or spiritually. You see, musical instrumentation was available during the early church times of Paul and Peter, etc. However, no mention is there in Pauls instructions to the church concerning the use of saltries, harps, or drums. Would King David have been insulted?
 
I ran into Mr. Marvin Howard online through allexperts.com. In his introduction profile he states that he belongs to the original Christian church that existed before Catholicism, which caught my attention. I wrote him, we had a lengthly debate, and it amounted to nothing. He makes a lot of absurd claims with obviously no proof to back them up. I presented many historical facts to back up Catholicism and the origins of the bible, but he would here none of it. I got the impression that I had two choices: conform or get lost. Obviously, I did the latter.
 
Do we really have to take this ****?

I mean, history is Catholic and God is Catholic. So rather than taking the abuse from anti-Catholic Protestant historicists, why not turn the tables? Why not analyze the apocalypse from a CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL HISTORICISM. After all, if God is in the business of preserving the truth and graces for His Children, would not rather the Great Schism and Protestant Rebellion, amongst other ages, be portrayed as BAD, since they are against Catholicism?
 
spauline said:
Do we really have to take this ****?

I mean, history is Catholic and God is Catholic. So rather than taking the abuse from anti-Catholic Protestant historicists, why not turn the tables? Why not analyze the apocalypse from a CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL HISTORICISM. After all, if God is in the business of preserving the truth and graces for His Children, would not rather the Great Schism and Protestant Rebellion, amongst other ages, be portrayed as BAD, since they are against Catholicism?
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no we don’;t
 
Salamander said:
It is very interesting to me that you mention instruments in worship. Why didn’t Jesus us an instrument when he entered the temple or synagogue to preach and to teach. It would have been logical since He Himself would have made perfect music since He could do anything physically or spiritually. You see, musical instrumentation was available during the early church times of Paul and Peter, etc. However, no mention is there in Pauls instructions to the church concerning the use of saltries, harps, or drums. Would King David have been insulted?
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I’m fairly certain that Paul wrote the epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians, right? He mentioned the singing of psalms. Historically, psalms were always sung with accompanying musical instruments.

Eph. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
 
Salamander said:
It is very interesting to me that you mention instruments in worship. Why didn’t Jesus us an instrument when he entered the temple or synagogue to preach and to teach.
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Interesting indeed. We have to follow JesusYeshuaIssa not any made up traditions by any churches or deviant persons. Peace.
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Wow, that’s some chart. Gotta be impossible to print out.

I also like the huge list titled “Introduction of Heretical Doctrines”. Note however that the list Is “not all inclusive”. 😛 I wonder what heretical doctrines the author chose to omit?
 
wynd said:
I use this from Wikipedia, it seems to be historically accurate and not biased towards one group.

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There is no bias in Truth. Jesus sat Himself at the Right-hand of God. He appointed his Apostles to do His will, not the Catholic will, His will. The Apostle Paul first called them “the churches of Christ.” John called them “the church at Phillipi, Laodicia, etc.” They (the Apostles) loosed it on earth as they were inspired by the Holy Spirit to do so. If the “catholic church” is so powerful and almighty today, whey aren’t people flocking to it to get healed? Even Paul left people sick behind him because it was no longer “expedient” for the Law of Christ to be proven in certain areas. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ, Rom. 10:17”. If you feel so strongly about this chart of “yours” from Wikipedia (which is frocked full of errors), then go ahead, use it. But what is this “Early Christianity” listed at the beginning? It is the church that has never been established by synods, synagogues, chapters, or conferences…could it be? The church of Christ?.🤷
 
Salamander said:
But what is this “Early Christianity” listed at the beginning? It is the church that has never been established by synods, synagogues, chapters, or conferences…
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Does this mean that “Early Christianity” ended in Acts chapter 15?
 
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