How Old is your Church?

Question

How many people know how old is their church? here's a list:


Church/Year Established/ Founder

Catholic 33 Jesus Christ

Orthodox 1054 Schismatic CatholicBishops

Lutheran 1517 Martin Luther

Anglican 1534 Henry VII

Calvinist 1555 John Calvin

Presbyterian 1560 John Knox

Baptist 1609 John Smyth

Congregationalist 1648 Pilgrims and Puritans

Methodist 1739 John & CharlesWesley

Episcopalian 1789 Samuel Seabury

Mormon1830 Joseph Smith

Seventh Day Adventist 1844 Ellen Whit

Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 Charles Taze Russelle

Pentecostal 1901 Charles F. Parkham

Calvary Chapel1965Chuck Smith

Born-againc. 1970sVarious religious bodies

Non-denominationalc. 1990svarious

Answer 1

Actually, you are not correct about Catholics and Seventh-day Adventists. The Catholic Church as we know it today can only trace it's roots back to around 320 A.D. and should probably site it's founder as being the emperor Constantine.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church was actually formed in the year 1863. It was partly founded by Ellen White, but it was also founded by James White, Joseph Bates, and William Miller was the leader of the original movement.

So that would make my church 143 years old this year. That being said, age should not really be a deciding factor for a church. Paul writes, in the book of 1 Thessalonians, that the church would fall away and become corrupt. Therefore the older it is, the more likely it is to be corrupt. It would take a modern movement to bring the church back to the church the apostles represented, and that was definitely not the RCC!

Answer 2

The Catholic church was not recognized till the Constantine became the first pope. Peter was not the first pope. Peter was executed by the Romans. The Catholic Church is not even Christian because they do not recognize the Bible as the Inspired Word of God. They tried for many centuries to keep people in the dark about what the Bible taught so that they could oppress others. And those who stood up for their faith... many were burned at the stake.

The Catholic Church today is losing members by the droves... they just keep blowing it and blowing it. They change their doctrine to appease the crowds and not to serve the Lord. I was once raised Catholic. I was taught about Purgatory... now it is no longer mentioned... why? Because they were in Biblical error. But will they admit to the error? Of course not... just as the Catholic Church was silent when Hitler (a Catholic) murdered all those people! It took the Popes 50 years to apologize for their silence during WWII.

The Catholic Church is a cult... just like half the names on your list. The true Christian church thrives... we are not organized into denominations... either you are a Christian or your not. There will be no denominations in heaven... and it is disgraceful that we have them today on Earth.

Answer 3

The day Jesus died for our sins is when the church really started.
U have posted factions of a truly divided church. The Catholic church was one of many that started at Jesus' death. Read about John's teachings to the many churches.

Answer 4

Jesus did not found the Roman Catholic church.

By the way, the first seven church councils were Eastern.

Answer 5

Actually the church I belong to is from the day of Pentecost after Jesus' ascension to Heaven and it isn't the "Catholic" church. It's the spiritual body of all born again believers with Jesus as our head and no denominational name.

Answer 6

My church is older than all of those. It has no walls, if you look around you will see my church everywhere, God made this for all of us to share.

Have you ever noticed that all of the oldest churches have been destroyed, by who. God of coarse silly, he's send the people a message, you don't need a place of worship, where ever you are, he can hear you, see you, and respond to you.

Answer 7

It's called The Ecclesia and it's near 2000 years old.

Answer 8

1990's non-denominational

Answer 9

My religion is I don't have a religion.

Answer 10

397 years old. I'm baptist!!!