Surely with all of the divisions within Christianity, one of them must be right...?

Question

Which one is it?

Answer 1

You answer for yourself after seeing the facts. Today in many lands there's a problem in counterfeit money. if you were given the job of picking out such false money how would you go about it? By memorizing every kind of counterfeit? No. your time would be better spent if u studied real money. After u knew what real money looked like, u could learn how to recognise a counterfeit. similarly, when we learn how to identify the true religion, we can recognise those that are false.

There are two roads - one to life and another to destruction.
which one leads to life - By their fruits you'll recognise them. Therefore the true religion has these attributes:

They base their teaching on the Bible
They Worship only one true God - Jehovah and make his name known
They show genuine love for one another
They accept Jesus as God's means of salvation
They preach God's kingdom as mankind's only hope.

So what religious group does this?
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Answer 2

The Bible speaks of us all (Christians) being part of one body.

1Co 12:19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
1Co 12:20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
1Co 12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"

I truly believe that many people have made divisions based upon the areas were they are supposed to be helping the body with. We have divisions of a whole bunch of eyes that can't hear. Whole bunch of hands that can't see or hear. Feet without any hearts. If we really would be together and realize that we do have weaknesses that even the Bible says that individually we can't be able to do everything maybe we could live the way Christ wants us to.

So to answer your question no I do not believe anyone division is completely right but it is only when Christians acknowledge instead of reject their brothers and sisters that would all be right.

That we all would come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of God and be made mature.

Answer 3

The body of Christ, which is the true believers are the ones who follow Him. With all the "divisions" over some things they pale in comparison. If the divisions are over what to wear, what to eat, (etc) they are surface, a matter of individual/small group conviction. However if the divisions are major such as "God was a man at one time who died and earned His way to Godhead" than that is a major division and is not doctrine sound.

Answer 4

Easy look at the bibles standards of how a congregation ought to be operated and the love within the members of the congregation.

If a person follows Jesus commandments such as
1. Love your neighbor, would you go to war and kill a potential spiritual brother or sister? Along with war ruin the earth ??
2. Be no part of the world,,,,,,,this is a principle that Christians do not associate in worldly affairs,,,include politics, community parties that especially involve drunkenness, improper conduct etc etc..and national holidays and such..
3. Also they would involve them selves as Jesus did in preaching. As the bible points out at Acts: 10:24 it is making a thorough search of persons that want to learn the bible/God.

This is only a couple basic criteria that the bible or Jesus had spoken to distinguish Gods followers from the rest of the world.

Answer 5

Hi there, I`m gonna take a real hammering for this answer but what the heck here goes,
Jesus founded one church and only one, He chose Peter the Apostle as it`s foundation, by this I mean of course on the faith of Peter and not some piece of rock lying around as some mis-guided people would have it.
this is very important so let me say it again,the church of Christ is founded on Faith( in Jesus and on his Word)
having done this Jesus then commanded Peter and the Apostles to go preach His Gospel to all the nations,and as this Gospel was indeed for everyone who would accept it,the infant church eventually became known as the universal church, i.e the Catholic church, because that is what the name Catholic church means(Universal church).
this is dogmatic truth, and all christian denominations have their roots in this one church.
okay the fact that the reformation happened does show the fact that bad mistakes were made, some Popes dropped the ball at times no doubt, but lets be real about it,even Jesus took the risk or can I say gamble that knowing human weakness He was entrusting this great mission to the care of human frailty and ineptitude.
Luther indeed had cause to complain when he nailed his thesis to the cathedral door at Wittenburg, infact quite a few in the Catholic church agreed with some of these, but he wanted immediate redress of his annoyance`s, and demanded that the Pope see it his way and recant.
now Luther at this time was a Catholic Dominican Priest, and it was not the done thing for an ordinary Priest to challenge the Pope`s authority even if he was wrong, in big buisness the shop floor worker just cant demand to see the CEO and procede to tell him off, that`s not gonna work.
and so Luther impatiently took his ball home, who knows, if he had kept his head and with the support of other clergy what change for the better he could have made to the Catholic church of the time.
anyway the point is, many great good Popes have come and gone, some not so great, but throughout it all the Catholic church remains that which was founded on Peter the rock of faith, and the same Peter who had once denied his Lord.
look, this is not me taking a swipe at protestant people, by no means, although I would understand their anger, but face the truth, could I have given answer to this question and avoided this.
the question asked, one of them must be right, I`m saying the Catholic church founded by Christ on the apostles is right, but hey, it dosen`t always get it right.
I want to say this in all sincerity that I love Christ and love those who believe in Him and follow the Master as best they can, Catholic and Protestant Christians alike, what I dont like is purposeful division of Christians and I am not looking for recruits to my church,rather let`s truly be Christian and show the true loving Christ to a world in dire need of it`s Saviour.
good luck.

Answer 6

First of all your question is great and this question can't be answered by many people. They just try to say that all paths lead to God and this in not sound doctrine. In Ephesians chapter 4 it says that there is ONE lord,ONE faith, ONE baptism,ONE God..............The reasn there is so much division within the church is because of traditions,because of greed,and because its not sound doctrine.If people actually followed the Word and lived it people that don't believe might be saved. Take for instances baptism.Research it!!! You will find in the book of Acts they baptized in the name of Jesus (Acts 2:38)....keep on reading and you will find more evidence.Matthew when it states for us to baptize in the name of the Father,and the Son,and the Holy Ghost.This is not alluding to a trinity but an answer that is so simple that man has tried to formulate another doctrine. What is the name...........singular.....that name is JESUS. Why is there division? Because people don't want pure doctrine and truth. Don't take my word for it study your word and you will see. ....God bless

Answer 7

ISLAM.
Muslim not only believe in prophet JESUS (PBUH) but follow him, respect him as well.
Unlike so called Christianity they follow PAUL, NOT JESUS (PBUH)


Today's Christianity Not Jesus' Religion? Everyone will agree. Then why they are following FALSE HOPE?

http://www.submission.org/suras/sura5.ht...

[5:72] Pagans indeed are those who say that GOD is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah himself said, "O Children of Israel, you shall worship GOD; my Lord and your Lord." Anyone who sets up any idol beside GOD, GOD has forbidden Paradise for him, and his destiny is Hell. The wicked have no helpers.
[5:73] Pagans indeed are those who say that GOD is a third of a trinity. There is no god except the one god. Unless they refrain from saying this, those who disbelieve among them will incur a painful retribution.
[5:74] Would they not repent to GOD, and ask His forgiveness? GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.

[5:75] The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers before him, and his mother was a saint. Both of them used to eat the food. Note how we explain the revelations for them, and note how they still deviate!
5:76] Say, "Would you worship beside GOD powerless idols who can neither harm you, nor benefit you? GOD is Hearer, Omniscient."


Gross Blasphemy?
http://www.submission.org/suras/sura19.h...

[19:88] They said, "The Most Gracious has begotten a son"!

[19:89] You have uttered a gross blasphemy.

[19:90] The heavens are about to shatter, the earth is about to tear asunder, and the mountains are about to crumble.

[19:91] Because they claim that the Most Gracious has begotten a son.

[19:92] It is not befitting the Most Gracious that He should beget a son.

[19:93] Every single one in the heavens and the earth is a servant of the Most Gracious.

[19:94] He has encompassed them, and has counted them one by one.

[19:95] All of them will come before Him on the Day of Resurrection as individuals


Infact THE HOLY QURAN is ORIGINAL WORD OF GOD in PURE FORM and the FINAL TESTAMENT for mankind from ONLY ONE GOD who have created everything that exists.

Answer 8

because everyone is in contact. there's a Jewish saying for each 3 jews there are 4 concepts of idea. Interpretation of scripture on many subject matters are divided. And we can comply with disagree except on the problem of salvation. Jesus Christ the Messiah, born of a virgin, died on the go, buried in a tomb, rose from the grave and ascended to heaven and is coming back. the in basic terms component non negotiable.

Answer 9

The church is considered the "Body of Christ." In Christ, there are no "divisions" in Christianity. There is only one Christ - one Lord, and one baptism.

While it is true there are different denominations, they differ on specific things - church governance and hierarchy, whether communion is real or symbolic, and how important clergy should be in church life. That stuff is important, yes, but also in many ways, it is also, trivial. "Grace and truth come by Jesus", John tells us. Any church that believes that is truly united in very real ways to all the other churches that also believe that.

Jesus finds ways to work grace in the lives of all Christians. For those of us who are Catholic, we see this at work in the sacraments. But we see grace in the communities separated from us as well.

"Therefore, these separated Churches and communities as such, though we believe they suffer from defects, have by no means been deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation. For the spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation..." (from Dominus Iesus)

Answer 10

The right will be conditional with time and situation. That moment right and cannot apply for this moment right. We are not god. We cannot justify what is right and what is wrong. Just look into ourself, what else I can do next time will be better. Other people wrong or right I cannot control but my feeling can control the case looking toward the happy ocasion.