Who started up all these denominations,and WHY? When Christ teachings were perfect, why change them?

Question

WHY DID MAN CHANGE THEM AND START UP THEIR (OWN) LITTLE CHURCHS????????? WHY CHANGE THAT WHICH IS PERFECT???

fiveshift, MARTIN LUTHER was not Christ, he was just a man. Christ is king ,and is my Lord, not some greedy man.

Answer 1

Just so that people could be superior to one another!! It's really sad actually!! Why can't we just have a Church of Christ and live by the book!!?? Instead of having all these little denominations competing against one another!!
You go girl!!

Praise God ALmigthy

Answer 2

The best analogy would be like personalities, or a classroom.
Every church, every denomination has it's own personality - God's word is perfect, but people are different. My wife and I visited many churches before we settled in one because it felt like home. The style of the Pastor, the music, the emphasis on certain parts of Christian life all vary, and that is good! I may not feel the most connected at one church but at another I do, and someone may not feel connected at my church.
Denominational churches, and non-denominational churches have their own emphasis and style, forms of government of the church, practices, etc. And they must strike a unique chord that is needed because people come.
God created us all unique and that is great, I respect the the other churches as much as my own and am glad for the differences because they meet people where they are at.
Have you liked one class or one teacher better than another? It is like that. Two teachers can teach the same subject but be very different, and in different places, and both be very good but we may have a preference because of our uniqueness.
God is the same, but people are different. And he loves us as we are, and gives us choice. As long as the focus is on God, and the word is not changed. The Bible says we are all "the Body of Christ" meaning some are the hands (doing work), some are the feet (missions to other places) but all one body with Jesus as the head. It also says "as long as the word is preached rejoice" and that "God's word will never come back void."
What good question!

Answer 3

Hi, I am Rational Spirituality. The answer to your question lies within the merits of the question itself.

You are absolutely right, Christ's teachings were perfect, but those who seized them were not.

Christ's real teachings would have exposed them as such, and they would not have served their worldly aims of power, greed and influence. So they had to change Christ's teachings to suit themselves.

Let us for example look at the 10 commandments. Why do we need them? Christ had only one: "Treat your fellow human being the way you would want to be treated in their place". But the adherence to this commandment would not have accommodated slavery and the feudal system of land owner with everything and subject with nothing at all! So it had to be carefully replaced with 10 commandments which do not question the inequality amongst people, but give only moral advice sufficiently innocent not to harm those in power.

Only when the world becomes perfect, will it be capable of appreciating Christ's perfection. That is the law.

Answer 4

Just thinking of the Christian end of things, if you think about it all the separations were made by man, not God, all the branch offs were one man disagreeing with one small thing and starting a new church and different beliefs evolved from there, What I could never understand is when you see one Christian faith put down another Christian faith. That kind of defeats the whole purpose doesn't it? You find so many "Christian" looking for the differences instead of what we have in common. Whats worse is when we mix politics and Religion.

Answer 5

When the apostles of Christ were subsequently killed in whatever form happened, their priesthood that they held fell away too, leaving the world in an apostasy situation.

Through the centuries, without this priesthood guidance normally held by prophets and apostles, good-thinking men began to interpret the scriptures to suit their reasoning and logic. Some were truthful while many others' interpretations grew into falsehoods.

The many mistranslations of biblical scriptures wasn't helpful to the different denominations growing out from them either.

But in 1820, and finally in 1830, the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ was once again placed back on the earth in its fullness, having the authority to act in God's name, His priesthood, available to worthy Christians. That church that began in 1830, founded by Joseph Smith, is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Visit one this Sunday.

Answer 6

Have wondered the same thing. Some new denominations came about because people interpreted the Word differently. Others created new denominations to gain power: Henry 8 broke off from Catholicism because the Catholic church would not permit him to divorce. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Imagine the whole truth is like a mirror. After the death of Christ and the death of the apostles the power of the Priesthood was taken from the earth. Priesthood is the authority to act in Gods name. When it was taken form the earth that mirror i.e truth was shatered. Only peices remained witch only reflected some of the truth of the true gosple of Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

www.rbc.org/bible_study/answers_to_tough_questions/answers/30885.aspx

The above website attempts to answer this question...but mostly I think that different men had different ideas and started up their own little "brands" of Christianity....much like there are different kinds of brand names of the same thing like jeans for instance...and none is wrong or bad...just different. they appeal to a different type of buyer with the different brands. Different brands of Christian doctrine seem to appeal to different people for various reasons. It is too bad that Christ's teachings weren't followed...but all the different denominations, if they teach the Word and believe that Jesus came to earth and was crucified for our sins, ...are a part of the body of Christ...and in that sense, they are all one Chuch in the Lord. I don't think there will be any denominations in Heaven...but we will all be one in Him.

Answer 9

Just a thought. during the Apostolic time the authority seemed to stay in the local church. Man seems to want to bring all the local churches together and maybe its Gods way of keeping separation. We are still sinners and to put all the churches together would risk the leadership becoming corrupt over the entire church.

Answer 10

Because Martin Luther, when he spit away from the Catholic church, clearly didn't feel that Christianity was perfect.

You're awful full of yourself. So tell me this:

Why did Christianity take so much from existing peaceful, loving religions like Celtic Paganism and form such an angry, proselytizing religion and turn around to try and convert the very religions they stole from?