Have Christians paid attention to the Evolution of their religion?

Question

Well I mean think about it....The Jews started the whole thing...but they weren't the first religion. they just made the religion Monotheistic rather then Polytheistic...then as time passed, Judiasm formed into Christianity...then christianity started branching off into different denominations from people who didn't agree with the original ways. I mean from Catholics came protestants and Puritains, came baptists and Methodists ect. Now as even more time passed we have people who take it to a whole new extreme based on the beliefs of a few...Mormoms and Jehovas witness's ect. Do people seem to notices that as the more time passes the more the beliefs change to fit a certain groups individual belief system? I mean i was a mormon until I paid attention to how it all started. What do you all think?

Answer 1

Im just gonna answer the first part of your question....NO.

Answer 2

you're right. it has evolved. but the sequence goes something more like this:

1. Yaweh (jewish YHWH) shows up, tells abraham to get moving. (that's the beginning of judaism, besides the whole "creation of the universe" thing)

2. Yaweh makes a covenant with abraham, binding the descendents of Abraham (jews) to Yahweh.

3. two thousand years or so goes by, filled to the brim with the jews going back and forth between Yaweh and "pagan" gods, getting their faces pounded every time they stray.

4. Jesus is born, fulfilling several bajillion prophesies about a Messiah that would come and abolish Abraham's covenant. he stirs up the jews pretty good, collects some followers, then takes the electric chair for every screw-up everyone's ever made.(before the jews had to make a sacrifice to jaweh to atone their sin; Yaweh is so purely good that evil can't exist around Him.) anyway, Jesus comes, rattles some cages, dies, is raised from the dead (400 witnesses... that's a crazy amount of people) and leaves Earth for Heaven.

5. from there Christians DO branch into several denominations, but they all hold the basic belief that Jesus was both 1/3 of the trinity and man, is the only way to exist with Yaweh, his death is the one size fits all atonement for everyone, and everyone that accepts that fact doesn't have to be separated from the 3-1 entity christians call God.

6. over several centuries, sects that call themselves christians develop. (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Latter Day Saints, etc.) they're not.

it's very interesting, really. the bottom line is that YES!! it HAS changed. it was always assumed it would change, even the Jews will agree with that. (the Jews today don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah promised in what most people call the Old Testament.)

oh yeah... jesus is coming back. we don't know when, but he's coming.

Answer 3

Well, you have some good points. Church history is a hobby of mine.
But Judaism was the first if you think about it. Adam and Eve worshiped the God of the bible right?

And the Roman Cath. Church wasn't started until after Constintine around 300 ad no matter what they say. The Church was in hiding before that because of such percecutions.

And even though the Roman Cath church may have started out Christian they changed. This was the reason Martin Luther wanted it to go back to bible basics aka Reformation movement. Back then you could buy your sins away, this is how St Peter's was built, off the sins of the people-sick? Then there's the you can't own a bible or know the truth thingy...

Then we have the restoration movement, which is where my church started. This movement began to bring or restore the Christian church BACK to like it was in the first century. To speak where the bible speaks and be silent where it is silent. Man's traditions do not overide the bible, ever.

Remember, Satan likes confusion. He wants people to turn their backs on he bible and this truth that lies there. This is why so many different denoms.
Check this web site. You may find the truth.
good for you for leaving the LDS!
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Answer 4

The True Christian Faith has always been as it is. From The Day of Pentacost following Christs ascention to Heaven. And it dose not come from the Roman catholic which did not start untill near 300 yrs after.

There are indeed doctrinal diferances between even those of The True Christian Faith. This is due to the ego and pride of man. There will remain differences untill Christ returns to establish His Thousand Year reign.

The mormons are not of The True Christian Faith. Not even close.

JWs are greatly decieved and, if only know the teaching of that cult, will not find The Way to God and will not be saved.

Roman catholics as well are not taught The Truth of The Salvation Message. They too are being deceived and will not find The Way to God through the teaching they receive.

The True Christian Faith is based on the absolute knowledge of god's existance and what God has done for the individual. It is for each individual to come to God in The Way God Prescribes. Those who do so will receive His free gift of Salvation and will become of The Body of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head. Those are the ones of The True Christian Faith. Only those of The Church will enter Heaven......those of The Church may be found in most of the main "Christian" Denominations and even a very few within the JWs and Roman catholic... but not all of any "Denomination" are a part of The Body of The Church.

Answer 5

Their religion has evolved considerably... Many of them have had to abandon most of the biblical canon and overlook much of the text just to be compatible with modern society. They ignore that the bible specifically calls for adultresses, disobedient children, people who work sundays, drunks, non-believers, and a lot more to be stoned to death. They now have to cherry pick what they believe because of the way common morality has improved.

They've also had to reluctantly accept that the Earth revolves around the sun, and after much kicking and screaming they had to accept the truth of germ theory and acknowledge that sickness wasn't caused by demons and witches. They've also finally stopped spreading the myth that Jews need to bathe themselves in christian blood to see, to be fertile, and so on (though this only stopped in 1914). So they have come a long way - though progress is still slow and gradual, with new issues to kick and scream about (homosexuals, evolution, stem cells, etc.).

Answer 6

Some do, some don't. Just like the rest of the world.

Judaism was not the first monothesetic religion. There were several before that.

And the phenonom that you refer to happens in any organization. There are multiple sects of Jews, Hindu, Islam, Buddhaism, Wiccans etc. Heck, even put two Democrats or Republicans in the same room and you can watch the sparks fly. Just part of human nature I guess.

Answer 7

I think that contemporary Christianity is just as mixed up as Christianity has always been. I do not think they have paid attention the the grand scheme of things. I also think that the hierarchy is hiding things from the common man. In general, I am confused and frustrated by Christianity. That is why I am an Eclectic Spiritualist.

Answer 8

i think you are very observant. When you look into the founders of some religions you see that alot of people make certain things to be true which later you find out may not be true. I think the best thing that one can do is read the Bible for what it says, without other outside people or books attached to it. The one thing I find interesting is that in all major religions they do believe about the same thing. There is a God, and he created everything. He is all powerful, Omniscient (everywhere), and perfect. Follow that as your example, because all humans were created to Know that there is a God since we are in his image.

Answer 9

Modernizing some practical procedures is one thing, but straying from the bible is inexcusable.

By that measure, Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.

Answer 10

I think you are right; people that claim to believe in the Bible should pay attention to what it says instead of hanging on to their traditions that were mixed into Christianity by men. In the Bible, they baptized in the name of Jesus; read that in Acts 2, 8, 10, and 19.

Answer 11

No they have not. As tjme goes on you see more hybrids of christianity. most are bad: Mormonism(moronism), Jim Jones, Branch dividian, Clefco dollar, and House of Prayer.

Judaism is the religion all should adopt.