Question for christians ....?

Question

Whats the different types of christian churches mean like baptist or AOG ???? Whats the difference ?

Answer 1

It all started with the RC church. Then there were disagreements and people started their own version of Christianity. They are variations on a theme.

Answer 2

It all started with Jesus Christ, not the RC church which came 300 years later under Consantine. Constantine merged paganism with Christianity and produce the Catholic church which dominated until the protestant reformation in the 1500's. Out of that came two lines of Prostestant denominations, the Calvinists and the Arminians. Calvinists are more Bible orientated and the Arminians mor experientially orientated. I think that the Arminian camp has certainly dominated in the last 30 years or so as churches have become increasingly more involved in feelings, music, experiences, drama, dancing but the are still many calvinists out there holding on to the Bible. Many denominations and churches are trying to break away from the traditional names such as Baptist (traditional Calvinists) , AOG (Arminian) and are becomming "community churches"so that people won't put doctrinal tags on them. Arminians have a strong belief in the free will of man, Calvinists do not believe man has a free will, but rather that God has a predetermined plan for the church and individuals. To list all the denominations and where they stand would be a pretty big task. But often their name describes their dominant characteristics. Eg Baptists, are strongly into believers baptism.

Answer 3

There's mainly Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox. I will try to explain all of them to the best of my ability, hun.

First, there was just the Christian church that is basically like Protestantism. Anyway, they decided that they needed a leader (the Pope), and the Catholics and Orthodoxes were born! Catholics were the Christians who followed the pope and were mostly in the southern and western areas of Europe. Meanwhile, the Asians and Eastern Europeans who did not follow the pope became Orthodox (another type of Christianity). Russia is a good example of an Orthodox country.

Now, the Catholics started sliding away from the original religious beliefs, and people became aware of this a little bit more around the 1400's because of Enlightening. When Martin Luther (a catholic monk) realized that the Catholic Church wasn't following many parts of the Bible, he protested and sent the Church a list of 90 Complaints. These complaints included (basically) the church robing it's worshipers, straying from the Bible, not praying to God correctly, and stealing money for its own gain. And, tada, Lutheranism was born!

Now, with Martin Luther making this discovery, more people (such as Calvin) created churches of their own that were more simple, didn't steal from it's worshippers, followed the original Bible directly, and did not follow the orders of the pope. In all honesty, these various forms of Christianity that developed were more accurate forms of Christianity than that of the Catholic Church (which still today has slipped from the original Bible, but I will explain that later).

Now, in the 1600's (I believe, but it might have been a little earlier), King Henry XIII wanted a divorce from his wife, and it was Catholic tradition (or rather, a rule) that you had to ask the pope and he would decide if it was okay. Now, the pope was in a tight spot with this. If he granted the divorce, the queen's brother would attack Rome. If he didn't grant the divorce, King Henry XIII would seperate England from the Catholic Chruch forever. Feeling that his personal safety was more important, he didn't grant the divorce, and King Henry split from the Catholic chruch. This made England officially Protestant (Christian not affiliated with Catholicism or Orthodox, and similar to Calvanism, Luthernism, and modern day's Baptism). King Henry made England's church the Anglican Church (which is similar to the Catholic Church, but includes divorces and has some parts of the original Cathoic faith removed). Thus, the Anglican Church was born!

Now, Protestants began moving to America to be free of religious oppression from the Catholics, and with them they took their faiths which turned into other faiths as time went on. When somebody thought that their church wasn't doing something right, they would simply start their own church in a pattern that they believed to be correct. Thus, more and more religions were born. As they were born, some became widely known (Baptists, Church of Christ, etc.), while others didn't recieve large names and were known as sects.

Now, here's what I know personally about some religions:

Catholicism: *very strict.
*many religious ceremonies and holidays have been created by the religion that were not originally in the Bible.
*has run off of tithe money before (not a good thing).
*has many higher ups not included in the original Christian church of the Bible (i.e. the pope, bischops, etc.).
*boosts itself as the largest followed form of Christianity in the world.
*prays to Mary and Saints instead of God/Jesus. (the Bible demands that you only pray to God/Jesus, and never glorifies Mary. Mary is not sopposed to be worshipped as she is not an actual religious being. She was only a good person. This is Biblical fact, get over it.).

Baptist: *very strict against: drinking, gambling, dancing, games, holidays.
*follows the Bible straight forward.
*has little to no ceremonies.
*doesn't celebrate Catholic holidays--only Biblical holidays.

Methodist: *almost like a combonation of Baptist and Catholic.

Lutheranism: *straight forward to the Bible.
*very close to original Christianity.
*very little ceremonies.

Now, you're probably wondering what faith I am and why I feel that I can say all of this. I am non-denomination, which means that I simply follow the Bible completely and I don't claim commitment to any sect or denomination of Christianity. I simply, read the Bible and follow what it tells me. Tada.

And there you have it--the differences, the histories, everything. I hope that this all helps!

-Missi^_^

Answer 4

People have decided what is important for a church to do, or how to practice. Baptists teach only the Bible as our authority, not relying on age-old traditions or ceremonies. We ask believers to make a profession of faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord, then they are baptized by being immersed in water (a picture of being buried with Christ, then raised to your new life with Him. The Assembly of God you mention believes similarly, but also believes that certain signs like speaking in tongues should accompany a believer. The Bible doesn't really teach that, but again, everyone must decide what is most important.

Answer 5

It all started when Jesus said he had other people to attend to and left the deciples to follow what he told them was the word of God. Since then there has been nothing but competition about who is more closely following Jesus. Whats funny is that a lot of these self professed followers have no sense of the absurd, so they take offense easily, but how can that be possible when love is rooted in forgivness?