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Denominations? Serious answers only please?

Mrs Lizzard asked the question:


Serious answers only please.
The Christian Religion is Fraught with so many different Denominations. While it is wonderful to be in a country in which we can worship God after our own fashion the separation of Denominations has caused a lot of friction among Christians. For example…Say a Babtist Church says they are the ONLY way and so Does the Catholic church and the methodist churh and so on and so foeth.
DO OTHER FAITHS HAVE THIS ISSUE. ARE THER”DENOMINATIONS WITHIN THE JEWISH AND ISLAM FAITH?
I was only ussing the denominations as an EXAMPLE not meaning to offend Sorry

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14 Responses to “Denominations? Serious answers only please?”

  1. papadego on February 14th, 2009 4:58 am

    Shiite and Suny Muslims! The fight is literally physically brutal!

  2. poxtrot on February 14th, 2009 11:24 pm

    Yes, there are separate denominations in Islam and Jewish faiths.
    What is worthy of note? Within the denominations of Christendom, it seems that each major denomination contains different particulars of truth. For instance, Baptists, only baptize people of a responsible age. Lutherans, are keen on the grace of God.
    The denomination that appears to have the most consistency with Scripture, is (gasp) the JW’s.

  3. emmapeel66 on February 18th, 2009 5:10 am

    I’m an Episcopalian and at least in my church, we don’t have that attitude. Our priest has never said anything against any denomination. He refers to them as our brothers and sisters.

  4. tebone0315 on February 20th, 2009 8:59 pm

    The Catholic Church says that only God can judge what is in a persons heart and soul. Jesus is the only way to heaven.

  5. nunya b on February 23rd, 2009 8:30 am

    Of course there are denominations within other faiths. In Judaism there is Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist. They all consider themselves denominations of one religion.

    When it comes to denominations, Islam takes the cake! The Shiites and Sunnis are literally killing each other! How does that compare to the “friction” between the Christian denominations in the US?

  6. Dan on February 24th, 2009 8:07 pm

    Yep. Islam has divisions over who Mohammed wanted be the Caliph, roughly their equivalent to the Catholic Pope. This is one reason why there is considerable turmoil in the Mideast.

  7. Annie on February 27th, 2009 7:36 pm

    Unfortunately you are correct, it does cause friction and problems…… God did not intend it to be this way…. the Bible does NOT mention a tittle or label only that there are places *houses* of worship….. Man (humans) stuck the names on the doors NOT God….. We as believers, children of faith are the true *church* NOT a building….. If all would put the simple words *Gods House* on the front door, I believe a lot more would walk thru them…….. God bless

  8. didnotknow123 on March 1st, 2009 5:10 am

    you should know by now no one answers seriously any more!

  9. smellsliketeenspirit on March 4th, 2009 1:03 am

    that’s very interesting question… i believe denominations causes confusion to every God believing people.

  10. TEK on March 6th, 2009 2:47 am

    Jesus is the only way.

    Anyone who says otherwise, from a Christian point of view is as dumb as a fence post. Jesus didn’t come to make churches. He came to make disciples and save the lost.

    As for other Groups: Have you heard of Sunni and Shia? Have you heard of Wahhabism? All islam, and that’s just the start, there are many subgroups.

    In Judaism, there are Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed; and among them there are many differing views, such as Lubavichers, Khabbalists and several others. (not to mention Messianic Jews - but they’re more like Christians who are afraid of being gentiles).

    Your main focus with Christianity should be Christ. You’ll learn about him in the Bible. Any church focused on their own traditions isn’t likely to lead you into the Bible - which is the only place you will truly encounter God, in IMO.

    TEK

  11. Midge on March 8th, 2009 10:14 am

    Although the Catholic Church was the first Christian Church they no longer say you must be Catholic for salvation and anymore the Catholic Church is too busy fighting off aggressive fundamentalists to do much in the way of pushing anything on people.

  12. John S on March 8th, 2009 5:49 pm

    Yes, other faiths have their different “denominations”. It just goes to show that religion generally is a façade behind which is insecurity and doubt. The real answer is to have total unwavering faith in something, or be agnostic (that should be a-gnositc - not knowing) and question everything. This latter is a lot more fun, and you find out all sorts of things some people don’t want you to know.

  13. Francesca on March 12th, 2009 5:55 am

    Jewish I do not know. I just think there are ortodox and not ortodox. (The ortodox, males, for examples, are those with barth, black clothes, the small or bigger hut, long hair at the left and right of their heads, …. While not-ortodox are, for example, those who organised a public meeting to talk about omophilia -omosexuality- in Jerusalem -and which have been seriously condamned by the ortodox-). In Islam you have Sunnites, Shiites and Sufis. About Christianity …: I think you know better. For what I am concerned with, I think about “the Church” (which occults the teaching of Jesus-the-Christ about re-incarnation, and considers as a devil thing the Apocriphes, and so on) and “Mystic Christianity” (which consider re-incarnation, preached by Jesus-the-Christ, and the Apocriphes, and so on). Inner Peace.

  14. VENUS on March 12th, 2009 6:01 am

    yes you have believers in all religions and you have the ones that are fake they say they are light but really is dark in their
    heart god only is the one that knows what is really in your heart . so i believe you have good and evil in all religons
    u put them all together and you get the truth as far as the
    books as far as people yea you have same problems
    in their beliefs