Hi Kempo1!
How are you?
I believe that God, especially Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, The Twelve Apostles, and Early Christians did created and established Christ’s Church on earth so that all of humanity can be united as Christians/Christian Brothers and Sisters/“Adopted” Children of God. As a
non-denominational Christian, I believe that Christ’s Church was not meant to be of a particular Christian** denomination
(The Roman Catholic Church/The Orthodox Christian Church.) but, simply a Christian Church with many different denominational **Christians/**non-denominational **Christians/Messianic Jews all united by their belief in Jesus Christ. But, if Jesus Christ did indeed created and established “one true original.” Church (Christ’s Church.) that he wanted all Christians to be apart of, I don’t think we will ever come close to proving that he did because of all these different kinds of historical/archaelogical/religious/sciencetific evidence/theories/interpretations/etc. Even if we did one day found out/proven (Which I extremely highly doubt it.) that he indeed did what I just said above, that there would still be many different Christians/Non-Christians who would say that they simply do not understand, believe in, agree with, and etc about what we had just proven/found out about “Christ’s true/original Church.” that no matter how hard we all try to convince them all of the truth…that they would never probully believe the truth no matter what happens. Religion is ALWAYS going to extremely consiversal and we can never ever prove nor disprove any thing, most things, or many things about religion extremely unfortunitly. That is the extremely sad truth about all of this!
I don’t think all this consistant seperation between Christian **denominations **neither causes more good or bad today. Instead, I think all of this consistant seperation mostly causes neutrualality (Neither good or bad.) today. Most Christian **denominations
are more alike than they are different from each other and they are mostly all united by the belief in Jesus Christ, even though they are different in many aspects and will most likely they never be completley united as Christians. Most Christian denominations **are extremely good Christians and love, support, respect, and etc other Christian denominations as their fellow Christians/Christian Brothers and Sisters/Human Beings. Only a few of them are extremely evil, radical, and terrorist like that they concently persecute, discrimminate, and etc against other Christian **denominations/**Non-Christian religions (Like most or some Christian denominations did back in history.). Yes, I believe that some Christian denominations (Especially the extremely evil ones.) seem extremely “lost”, unusual, strange, and bizarre because myself and other Christian **denominations **do not know too much about them, don’t understand many things about them and/or don’t agree with them on many things.
As for your father-in-law, I think it is really great that he is trying to his very best to search for and really trying to mostly or completely learn alot about and understand alot about different religions/religious denominations so that he can pick the very best/right one for him. But, extremely unfortunitly, many people can take all of their lives, end up being extremely lost and confused, lost their faith completely, can not find the very best/right religion for themselves not matter how hard they try, and etc while doing their very best to search for the very best/right religion for themselves. I think the very best/right thing to do right now is to pray to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit for guidence/help because they are completely sovereign, they have complete control over all things in existence, they can guide/misguide people, they are all knowing/seeing/hearing/understanding, they know what is best, they are all loving/forgiving, they never ever break their promises, and etc. Hopefully all of them will answer your prayers (Even though they may not answer your prayers the way you want them too, that they will not always give you what you want but, will give what is best for you/everybody, and etc.) but, if they do not grant your wish please find peace in that everything is part of God’s plan, everything happens for a very good reason, God works in mysterious ways, and that God is all loving/forgiving.
I will most definently pray for you and your father-in-law! Best of wishes and good luck to you two! May God bless you two always!
Hugs! Peace!
Love,
VikingGirlTBird!