What's the difference between all the 17 or so Christian denominations?

Question

Catholic
Baptist
Methodist
Lutheran
Presbyterian
Protestant - no denomination reported
Pentecostal/Charismatic
Episcopalian/Anglican
Mormon/Latter Day Saints
Churches of Christ
Congregational/United Church of Christ
Jehovah's Witnesses
Assemblies of God
Evangelical
Church of God
Seventh Day Adventist
Eastern Orthodox

Answer 1

First of all, there are hundreds of Christian denominations. You have only listed the more popular ones.

Second of all, a lot. Each of these religions corresponds to teachings of the Christian Bible. But some are so different as to have added their own books (ie. Mormon and Jehovah's Witness).

I would start here, for the answer to your question would take days to explain:

Answer 2

There are some differences with a few that need to be picked out to begin with. Mormons, JWs and Seventh Day Adventists should be classified as cults. They look on the rest and say that they alone are the true Christian religion and everyone else is false and can't be saved.

Catholics, Orthodox and Episcopal have an international head of the church that they look to for leadership and solving points of discussion about doctrine etc.
The others tend not to have international leaders or if they do, they are more to coordinate the activities across the world. They are not viewed as inspired nor are their writings viewed that way.
If you leave the cults out of it, all the other churches believe in the cardinal doctrines of historical Christianity. These are the ones essential to salvation. There may be some variance on secondary doctrines.

Answer 3

Way too much to detail here. Basically, they are historical. Every time a new church is founded, it is because enough people disagreed with some aspect of the one they were in before. The first big division, which happened in the third or fourth century, was between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. Then came Martin Luther, then one by one the others were formed as someone (King Henry VIII of England, for example) came to an irreconcilable difference either with Rome or with one of the other protestant sects.

Answer 4

Anglican: Use e book of straight forward Prayer, decrease than the management and employer of a consistent episcopate. they do no longer honor the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church as a linear first rate of ability from Jesus and Peter. Catholic: The Roman Catholic considers itself the apostolic succession and continuation of the Christian community based with the help of Jesus in his consecration of Saint Peter, Baptist: Baptist church homes don't have a valuable governing authority. On considerable theological subject concerns, Baptist different ideals are held in straight forward between virtually all Baptist church homes. The Baptists do no longer carry for infant Baptism and don't honor the sabbath on sunset Friday to sunset Saturday Pentecostal: Pentecostals persist with the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. in assessment to the Catholic and Angelican Church that believes that custom carry equivalent weight. Pentecostals have faith the religious presents interior the Bible are interior the church at present. there is many distinctive theological and organizational techniques and examine between Pentecostals and 3 considerable communities. there is not any longer a valuable employer, church, or physique of directors. Adventist: seventh-day Adventists settle for the Bible as their basically creed. The Adventists variety in they suspect in soul sleep and word the Fri/Sat Sabbath. Uniting Church: an limitless variety of theology perspectives interior the UCA which reflects its Congregational and Presbyterian/Methodist church origins. The Uniting Church is committed to ecumenism and social justice. The Uniting Church additionally ordains the two male and woman homosexuals.

Answer 5

I can say only about similarities. They are all under the wrap of God calling Jesus the son of.........

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up, to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause, God gave them up, unto vile affections: for even, their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over, to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

Answer 6

Check out the book "Religions in America" Edited by Leo Rosten

It covers your list and each religion is written by a member of that religion.

Answer 7

The leaders involved.

Answer 8

Only Jehovah's Witnesses are separate from world.
The others have no difference.

As the above posters said, the weapons store.

We don't have weapons. The others do.

Answer 9

Mostly in the size of their weapon hoards.

Answer 10

pride