Why are there denominations?

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I might be wrong but it seems that denominations started because of people condemning others to hell, and that is not our job, it is God’s. That’s all people seem to do today is just tell others that they are wrong. Why can’t we just be accpeting of other people’s beliefs?
 
microhun2700 said:
I might be wrong but it seems that denominations started because of people condemning others to hell, and that is not our job, it is God’s. That’s all people seem to do today is just tell others that they are wrong. Why can’t we just be accpeting of other people’s beliefs?

Hi microhun, denominations resulted from the protestant reformers back in the 1500’s, when they seperated themselves from the authority of the Pope, and started theyre new christian denominations, Lutherans, Calvanists, Prespeterians, ect. In the U.S we also have non denominations, which do not subscribe to a single doctrine. From the apostle Peter until 1500’s there has always been only one Christian faith in the world, and that was Catholic. All the others have seperated themselves from the Catholic church, then split from themselves causing many different denominations.
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I undertsand the history of it. I just don’t see why everyone can’t be united.
 
Personal pride, arrogance, lack of humility.

The concept of individual interpretation of the Bible, which itself is contradicted by scripture, has created an environment where many people think they can know better than the collective wisdom of 2000 years of Church scrutiny and study.

It is sad. But men are fallible. Pray for the reunification of all Christians.
 
true, scripture alone is insufficient and is not claimed in scripture itself. It is a false and divisive and prideful doctrine meant to give individual men the idea that they have this power and authority.

If it were true, we wouldn’t have the Bible because it took Sacred Tradition to decide the canon of the Bible. If God wanted the scriptures to be the sole authority and nothing else, then he would have written the list of the canon of scripture within the NT pages.

He did not.
 
microhun2700 said:
I might be wrong but it seems that denominations started because of people condemning others to hell, and that is not our job, it is God’s. That’s all people seem to do today is just tell others that they are wrong. Why can’t we just be accepting of other people’s beliefs?
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Suppose there were ten glasses of water on the table, and nine of them contained poison. Should we just be accepting of all the glasses of water, or should we say those nine glasses are bad, don’t drink from them?

Or suppose that I laid ten bills upon the table, and nine of them were one dollar bills and the tenth one was a twenty dollar bill. If I owed you $20.00 would you consider all the bills on the table to be acceptable?

There is right and there is wrong. There is truth and there is error. There is black and there is white. There is life and there is death. Are you willing to be accepting of all these things as though there were no difference between them?
 
microhun2700 said:
I undertsand the history of it. I just don’t see why everyone can’t be united.

This division is played out since the first covenant of God. Cain and abel, Egypt and Israel, Ishmael and Isaac. Recall the flood, only 8 persons in all survived the flood, recall the gospels parable, One will be left one will be taken, recall the 12 disciples, one was lost Judas, recall the creation One angel fell and led many with him FROM HEAVEN MIND YOU.

My point, The Roman Catholic Church is united at the Eucharist all around the world, but one of our brothers is left out of the body of Jesus Christ, to which you notice the division. My prayer gets realized when one is recieved back into communion with Mother Church, as the prodigal son comes to a reality.

Jesus is the only one that can unite us all, and he has done it through the Eucharist. Now its up to Catholics to call all those in the streets and in the by ways into the WEDDING FEAST OF THE LAMB before the door gets shut. And as we know we need to have our wedding garments on “Baptism” into the body of Jesus Christ.

We are the divided not because of the flesh and blood,

Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.

The antidote:
Colossians 2:12 and following You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead in transgressions and uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions: obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross: despoiling the proncipalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it.

Matthew 25:10 While they went off to buy it, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came ans said, "Lord, Lord, open the door for us! But he said in reply, Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.

Matthew 7: 21… "not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly , I NEVER KNEW YOU. DEPART FROM ME, YOU EVIL DOERS.

Many are called to the kingdom of God, but not all will enter.

I pray for the lost sheep that are vulnerabel to every wind of doctrine that comes their way, that the Rock of Peter will be their to withstand and dispell the powers and principalities of darkness that roam the earth.

Sorry did not mean to preach to you, but you ask a difficult question? How difficult was it for Jesus when he knew he was going to be betrayed by one he called and loved?
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justinthemartyr said:
true, scripture alone is insufficient and is not claimed in scripture itself. It is a false and divisive and prideful doctrine meant to give individual men the idea that they have this power and authority.

If it were true, we wouldn’t have the Bible because it took Sacred Tradition to decide the canon of the Bible. If God wanted the scriptures to be the sole authority and nothing else, then he would have written the list of the canon of scripture within the NT pages.

He did not.
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this sounds like a rant to me
 
microhun2700 said:
I might be wrong but it seems that denominations started because of people condemning others to hell, and that is not our job, it is God’s. That’s all people seem to do today is just tell others that they are wrong. Why can’t we just be accpeting of other people’s beliefs?
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That’s the tragedy of the divisiveness of Protestantism.
 
Denominations exist not because of people condemning anyone to hell. They exist because everyone reads the bible differently. Some can’t understand it, others think they do. One person reads one thing and other sees something different. They each come up with their own idea of what’s required for salvation. Everyone wants it his or her way instead of God’s way.
 
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