What is with all the Christian religions?

Question

You have Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Orthodox (russian for me), Pesbetarians, Piscopalians, Escipol, Protestant, etc. They all belive in Jesus Christ, and follow what the Bible has to say. WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE CHRISTIAN?! Don't tell me, "Oh, read the Bible. You don't know what you are talking about. Find God." Or any of that crap. I am Russian Orthodox, and fine with it. I am not super religious. But why are there so many dieties, or w/e it is?

I mean denominations, not dieties.

Answer 1

Don't quite understand? Everyone should be like you 'Russian Orthodox? Have you heard of brand name clothing like: Tommy, DKNY, Jones, NY, Calvin Kline, Ralph Lauren .....? Or should we just say 'Clothing'

Answer 2

How many questions do you find on this site where Catholics dis Protestants. We are always defending ourselves against the non stop barrage of insults from the other denominations. Mostly Lutherans do not do that or Methodists or the other major religions. It is usually the ones who spout twisted theology from a basement where they camp out and never go to Church. For the most part THE Christian religions get along pretty good. The Lutherans have now started praying the Rosary in some Churches and you would be surprised how many questions are asked on the ewtn website on Protestants going to a Catholic priest for confession.

Answer 3

There is only one Christianity ... the belief in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, and that we are saved by God's grace, us having faith in Jesus as our Savior and God's Son. All the other things you listed are denominations (they're all Protestants), not religions .. they are denominations within Christianity (which is not a man-made religion).
The differences in Protestants (Christians) really shouldn't be there, but they are because of human differences, beliefs and interpretations of the Bible...... some do not use the Christian Bible, or they have added to or subtracted from it or use books that man has written instead, or some are liberal and some are conservative. Ideally, there should be the one belief of the one Bible in the same one Trinity ... we should interpret the Bible as God meant His Word, and that takes some studying and praying. Also, denominations are organized differently ... their structure in their disciplines, their church staff .. things like this, so different people are geared towards, or more comfortable in, different churches. This may or may not be good, it depends on what they believe and if they are right and true to God and His Word.

Answer 4

They all have something different, some differnent doctrine.
The Lutherans evolved from the Catholics, Baptists fro lutherans, Methodists from Baptists, etc. For example, I'm a Seventh - Day Adventist because the Bible says to worship God on Sabbath [Saturday, the seventh day] and we believe in the advent, the second coming of Christ. We don't believe in the rapture, and we interpret the Scriptures differently. A lot of Seventh -Day Adventist are vegetarian also [not me] and lead conservative lives. Other Protestants and Cathlolics worship on Sunday. If you do some historical digging, you'll see it does make a difference and WHY.
If you want to join a church that doesn't mess with all that, you could join a non-denominational church.

Answer 5

Go all the way back to the Acts of the apostles. Look at what Jesus required of His church. Read Acts. Read Romans. Read Corinthians,Thessalonians, and so on and look at Paul and the apostles, and what they did, and what was expected of them by Christ! But mostly look at the book of Acts. Jesus gave clear instruction to His church! Consider this - On the day of Pentecost, there was a crippled man who laid in front of the Temple and asked for alms every day. When Paul came, after receiving the Holy Spirit from God, the man asked him for alms. Paul told him," I have no silver to give to you, but what I can give to you is worth much more." He then told the man to take up his bed and walk, and the man did just that! The sad thing about this is that there are very few churches today that can say 'I have no silver (or money) to give'! And even fewer than that which could say' take up your bed and walk' and see it happen! And as far as you being religious, girl - religion isn't going to save you, or anyone else! Religion is of man. The Holy Spirit comes from God.If you are not filled with the Holy Spirit, you are lost. Sorry if that offends you, but READ YOUR BIBLE! Cbooth151 - you're on the right track, but you need to get the KJV.

Answer 6

In the early 1500s, a German monk named Martin Luther was so conscious of his sins that he spent up to six hours in the confessional. Through study of the Scriptures he found that salvation didn’t come through anything he did, but simply through trusting in the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ. He listed the contradictions between what the Scriptures said and what his church taught, and nailed his "95 Theses" to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. Martin Luther became the first to "protest" against the Roman church, and thus he became the father of the Protestant church.

Since that split, there have been many disagreements about how much water one should baptize with, how to sing what and why, who should govern who, etc., causing thousands of splinter groups. Many of these groups are convinced that they alone are right. These have become known as Protestant "denominations."

Despite the confusion, these churches subscribe to certain foundational beliefs such as the deity, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Bible says, "The foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his" (2 Timothy 2:19). Thomas Jefferson once wrote of a preacher, Richard Mote, who "exclaimed aloud to his congregation that he did not believe there was a Quaker, Presbyterian, Methodist, or Baptist in heaven, having paused to give his hearers time to stare and to wonder. He added that, in heaven, God knew no distinctions."

Answer 7

They are not different religions, they are different denominations which are spearated for the most part on tradition. There is no church organization today like that of the 1st or 2nd century.

They had no sanctuary, lampstands, hymnal, priests, pews, liturgy, etc.; they just had the Word of God and apostolic inspired preachers of it. By no means are any of these things wrong but they are the little things that began the difference in Christians.

Answer 8

Because the devil(meaning "the divider" if I remember right) has gone throught the Church and brought with him corruption that others have broken off from. Also some denominations have turned from God to religion, where they just follow rules and don't live for Christ. I agree that the Church should become one again.

Answer 9

At Matt. 7 :13 and 14, Jesus used an illustration of two roads to say that out of all people who claim to be followers of the one true faith, only a comparative few were on the road to life. He then said in verse 21-23 that many who professed to be doing the will of the Father were doing just the opposite. He proceeded to tell them in verse 23, "I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness." At 1Cor. 1:10, we are told that in true Christianity, "there should not be any divisions among you, but that you be fitly united in the SAME mind and in the SAME line of thought." There is only one true faith.

Answer 10

They all believe in the same deity. It's just that throughout history different men have disagreed about a particular bible translation. They thought theirs was right and started their own religion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they all worship Jesus Christ.