How old is your church?

Question

:) Just for your information...coz I'm bored stiff....

Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther an ex monk of the Catholic church in the year 1517

Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry the VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope refused to grant him a divorce with the rights to remarry.

Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.

Protestant Episcopalian - an offshoot of the Church of England founded by samuel Seabury i nthe american colonies. A Congregationlist - a religion originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.

A Methodist, your religion was luanched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.

A Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.

Mormon (Latter Day Saints) - Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, NY in 1829.

Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605.

Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder. He originated your religion in New York in 1628.

A member of the churches of Christ, your church began near the beginning of the 19th century in New England. Abner Jones, Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell were some of rthe most well known originators of your religion.

Worship with the Slavation Army? Your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.

A Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year your religion was born to Mrs Mary Baker Edddy as its founder.

Belong to one of the religious organizations known as Church of Nazarene, Pentecostal Gospel, Holiness church, Pilgrim Holiness church, Jehovah's Witnesses,..... - your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century.

If you are Roman Catholic - the religion was founded in the year 33 by Christ

Thanks for all your comments.....

Okay, I have accidentally omitted the Greek, Russian and syrian ordi churches...... yet before christianity existed, do you agree on this:

Jesus was Jewish and was a practising Jew. Hence Judaisim is one of the oldest "church". Prior to this religion, in China - Taoism and Confucius was also a religion in its own right. In some countries animilistic believes were a religion.... so which is the oldest??

What about Hinduism? Is it on old religion too? Before Christianity was borned, Hinduism flourished with Bhuddhism. That's when Europe was in the dark age / ice age.

As some of you had writtten, paganism was a religion in Europe.

Greece, The Middle East, etc were pagans.

My question still stands: How old is your church.

To those of you who had answered, based on your answers, is your religion unchanged throughout the centuries?

Thanks everyone for your very generous answers. An insight and indepth to my question.

Could I safely say this:

The oldest church/temple is the human body? When men and women walked the face of this earth.

The oldest religion is men and women. Religion created by us.

Answer 1

Atheism/agnosticism is founded by the big bang.......evidence? here it is: Animals, Plants, AND non-living things Don't know anything or will ever know about gods...Therefore, mater, energy, time, space, non-living things are all atheist/agnostic...which will also including egg cells, sperms, bacteria, viruses, atoms,etc are all members of this "disbelief church"

Answer 2

I don't have a religion, I'm Christian which this may sound weird to you but Christianity isn't a religion. Christianity is based on relationship with the only one and true God. When did that start lets see try Adam and Eve. There was a time believe it or not when there was no denominations or buildings. The church is not a building but is simply the believers who are the body of Christ. When did your Religion start again and why does that seem unimportant to me? The name Christian started just after Jesus time on earth but that was just a name given to believers at that time but which had actually been going on since Adam and Eve. Read john 1:1-14 in the Genesis meaning beginning. Was there any people before that?

Answer 3

The Roman Catholic Church was not founded by Christ. Back then, the people who followed Christ were called Christians. The first church did not actually get a name until it's church in Rome broke off of it, before that, the church was often called "the way". But when the church in Rome broke off of the way in 1054 A.D. and formed their own church, the way was finally given a name- it was the Orthodox Church.
So actually the first church was the Orthodox Church- and this church still exists now, and it has not changed as many of the churches have today... of course it has gotten a few new hymns, and saints, but it has not changed what it believes. Why should the Church change, if Christ never changes- the Church is the bride of Christ- Christ is the bridegroom.

But the Church in Rome did break off (1054 AD), and elected someone they called a Pope, as head of their churches. They became the Roman Catholic Church. Later the Protestants broke off of the Catholic Church and took off some of the traditions of the Church, even translating their Bibles differently. (if you look at a Bible in the Orthodox Church or in the Catholic church, you can see differences- so sometimes the Protestants would find different meanings in scripture.)


God Bless

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Now I see that you added more onto the question.
Before the earth was, God was. He was not created. But He created the earth.
He also created the first humans- Adam and Eve.
Of course Adam and Eve did disobey God- in the fact that they tasted the forbidden fruit after God told them that that tree was the one they should never eat of. But God still loved them, and Adam and Eve also still served Him.
After a while, as the population on the earth grew, this relationship and love toward God became called Judaism. It was a religion. I say WAS because Judaism started to fail, the people kept on being unfaithful and sinning. So God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ to show the people the ways of God. And they crucified Him. He did rise from the dead on the third day as the Scriptures foretold He would, and He had conquered Hades (Hell). And Judaism was cut off of the tree of Life.
This is because they (the Jews) did not believe that Jesus was the Son of God, although He had truly proven Himself to be, and has fulfilled every prophecy of the Old Testament. He is what He has said He is. And He is coming back to bring the believers and followers of His Word,which is Truth, into the New Jerusalem, but He will cast the unbelievers into the unquenchable fires of Hell.
I do not agree with the statement that you wrote, "before christianity was", the reason being that the Trinity has always existed. Even the prophets of the Old Testament acknowledged this, and forsaw that Christ would come- they seeing visions of what would happen.
And so what people think was the oldest religion doesn't matter, because before the earth- God was, He still is, and will always be. The first humans knew God, and they even talked with Him.
Later other religions were formed, some worshipping demons-( the fallen angels). Yes, many religions were formed on this, that seeing a demon, they mistook it for a god, and they worshipped it. This sadly still goes on today.
( "From ancient times wicked demons in human form defiled women, corrupted boys, and showed men such terrifying sights that whoever did not have the insight to discern what was happening became confused. Obsessed by fear, they failed to recognize them as evil demons. They called them "gods" and gave to each the name which each demon had given himself....
(But) Him (Jesus) we follow, and deny that the spirits who have dones those things are true dieties but assert that they are wicked and infamous demons, in no way even capable of such actions as men are who strive for goodness and merit." -Saint Justin from his first Apology).

But God is stronger than the devil and his demons.
He has already conquered Hell and death.

God Bless

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever."

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" Revelation 1:8

Answer 4

"If you are Roman Catholic - the religion was founded in the year 33 by Christ"
Wow, and to totally diss the Eastern Orthodox and not mention them. Way to Go!

The Lutheran Church was not founded in 1517. It would have been better to put down the 1530's as the establishment of the Lutheran churches, since up until then, Lutherans were categorically considered catholic. The term 'Lutheran' was given to us by the Romanists as a derogatory term. Lutherans had considered themselves 'evangelicals' after the hopes of reconciling with Rome became very slim (After the Diet of Augsburg.) This term is still retained in the names of current synods such as The Evangelical Lutheran Synod, The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Our founder has always been Christ, since the basic goal of Reformation theology is to focus everything on Christ. Somehow with all the emphasis that Roman Catholics place on Saint Peter, I can’t see them singing the hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation.”
‘The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord;’

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Je_apostrophe,
The Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians are not considered Restorationalist movements. In the list provided Mormon (as you have pointed out), Baptist and Jehovah’s Witnesses are considered Restorationalists.

Answer 5

It's around 200 years old, built in a town that was once a part of Austia-Hungary, back then called Maria Teresiapolis, hence the parish name, St. Teresa.

Later the town's name was changed to Szabadka, (or Subotica in Serbian), became part of the former Yugoslavia, survived two world wars, and a planted bomb attack in 1991 during the start of the breakup of Yugoslavia.

Today the church is packed full on Sundays, about to open up a new seminary. It needs repairs, the soil underneath it is sinking, and the building shows cracks between it's two towers. Find it in this link, the first one on top:
http://www.subotica.org.yu/new/hu/religija/roman.php#p16

If you meant the Catholic church, it's around 2000 years old.

...hehe.

Answer 6

I'm Lutheran but the Church, the Church that all believers belong to, began at creation, and shall last for all eternity. This Church as it is rightly called in the Ecumenical Creeds, "the Holy catholic (universal) Church" is made up of all believers regardless of denomination; living, dead, the angels, and God the Father, Son and Holly Spirit. Again as the creeds confess; The communion of Saints!

Answer 7

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is about 150 years old. The church is founded ONLY on the Word of God and building upon doctrines that have been discovered over the ages.

It can be traced from the early church->through to the catholic church-> to the protestant churches (lutheran + methodist)-> and to the Seventh-day Adventist church.

Answer 8

You already said it. But the exact date that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was established was 1830, April 6 in Fayette Township, New York.

Answer 9

Actually in 1865 William Booth called his wesleyan methodist group the Christian Mission.

Answer 10

Because you are bored stiff...let me add this: Only boring people get bored.

If you run out of excitement and find yourself bored, you're living more from your brain than your spirit. The replacement for boredom is vibrancy, it's when the mind experiences the newness of life. This newness is the eternal moment of life everyone is looking to find. Shallow and bored is the lesser of us, deep and vibrant is the greater. It's your choice how you want to experience life. Remember what Jesus said, "to enter the kingdom of heaven you must become like a little child." Children live more from the true nature of their spirit; most adult's don't.

I hope I answered a truly relevant question for you.

Answer 11

Our church has been in the same spot for about 40 years. A church that I visited last month was there since 1820.