How old do you think Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Religions are?

Question

I have read several people claiming very old (insert shaker based religon) churches and how thier family has been (reinsert) for so many generations. I am just curious if they know how old those religons are?

Answer 1

How Did Your Church Begin?



33 A.D.
Roman Catholic Church (moved to Rome by Peter after he fled Jerusalem) was founded by God-made-man, Jesus Christ. He said: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it... Feed my lambs; feed My sheep" (Matt. 16:18,19; John 21:15,17). He also said: "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who gathers not with me scatters" (Matt.12:30).

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9th Century Marked The First Official Schisms Within The Church



827: Eastern Schism began by Photius of Constantinople. The primary difference in Faith at the heart of the schism was the argument over the addition of the filioque statement (Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, not just the Father) to the creed. This schism eventually healed.

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1053: Eastern Schism began by Michael Caerularius of Constantinople. The primary argument was the Latin practice of fasting on Saturday and the use of unleavened bread for the Holy Eucharist. Theses two points were more for challenging the authority of the Roman Pontif. This schism eventually healed.

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1378: Death of Pope Gregory XI on 27 March, 1378 began the Western Schism. The schism came to an end in 1417.



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1472: Present Schism of the Eastern Church begins with the repudiation of the Council of Florence.



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1517: Lutheran Church was founded by Martin Luther, a former priest of the Roman Catholic Church. This marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation



1521: Anabaptist first appeared in Zwickau, in the present kingdom of Saxony. Initially, they were primarily against infant baptism.



1525: Schwenkfeldians were founded by Kaspar of Schwenkfeld, aulic councillor of Duke Frederick of Liegnitz and canon. At first he associated himself with Luther, but later opposed the latter in his Christology, as well as in his conception of the Eucharist, and his doctrine of justification.



1531: The Socinians and other Anti-Trinitarians attacked the fundamental doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. Chief founder of Anti-Trinitarians was Laelius Socinus, teacher of jurisprudence at Siena, and his nephew, Faustus Socinus.



1536: Mennonites founded by Menno Simons, a former Catholic priest and later an Anabaptist elder. They deny infant baptism and the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.



1534: Church of England (Anglicanism) was founded by King Henry VIII when he threw off the authority of the Pope and proclaimed himself the head of the Church in England, because the Pope refused to declare invalid his marriage with Queen Catherine.



1560: The Presbyterian denomination was begun by John Knox who was dissatisfied with Anglicanism.



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1608: The Baptist church was launched by John Smyth in Amsterdam, Holland.



1620: The Swiss Mennonites split into Amish or Upland Mennonites and Lowland Mennonites.



1671: Quakers were founded by John George Fox of Drayton in Leicestershire. He favored a visionary spiritualism, and found in the soul of each man a portion of the Divine intelligence. All are allowed to preach, according as the spirit incites them.



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1744: The Methodist church was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England.



1774: The Unitarians were founded by Theophilus Lindley in London.



1784: Episcopalian denomination was begun by Samuel Seabury who was dissatisfied with Presbyterianism.



1787: The founder of The Salvation Army is William Booth, who quit the Anglicans, and then the Methodists, and set up his own version of Christianity.



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1822: Mormons founded by Joseph Smith, who made his appearance with supposed revelations in 1822.



1872: The Jehovah's Witness Church was developed by Charles Russell.



1879: Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy began the Christian Scientist religion basing it upon an outright denial of Original Sin and its effects.



1896: Ballinger Booth, the son of William Booth, quit The Salvation Army and started his own church.



The Seventh-Day Adventists, the Church of Christ, The Church of the Nazarene, or any of the various Pentecostal Churches, etc. are also among the hundreds of new churches founded by men within the past 150 years or so.

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Over 33,000 Sects "Scattered" Outside The One Church Founded By Christ




There Was Only ONE Church Founded By Christ

AND HIS CHURCH STILL LIVES TODAY

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

I'd say they're all around 250 or more years old. I know for a fact the Methodist was an off shoot of the Anglican church. Also, the Baptist and Presbyterian churches were established around the same time.

To the person above me, the Episcopal church was an off shoot of the Anglican. Samuel Seabury didn't start it. He was a Scottish bishop who came over to ordain the first bishops since the English were still a bit testy about having lost the war.

Answer 4

Well I grew up in CT, the church I attended as a child - a Baptist one just celebrated 300 years of existence. I don't think however that in 1707 it was baptist though..most likely a congregational or puritan type church especially as it is situated backwards so the congregation is facing you as you walk into the church. There is no way to sneak into a back pew. I do not know when it became a Baptist church but it has been active all the time the building has been up.

Answer 5

Presbyterians are the Reformed Church's brothers in Christ, and Reformed is the oldest denomination with a continuing history. It might be interesting to note that the Reformation was not a breaking away from the Catholic Church. The official title of the Reformed faith was, "The Catholic Church, Reformed According to the Word of God." The Catholic Church split, in other words. There was never an intention of breaking away, with a "True Religion" left as the orthodox viewpoint.

Answer 6

Not very. All Protestant denominations with the exception of Lutheranism began as splinter factions of the Anglican Church or Episcopalian as it is known on these shores. Most fundamentalist sects only go back 50-150 years or so. Protestantism in America has been both far more radical and far more schismatic than Christianity has been anywhere else on earth.

Answer 7

The first known Baptist Congregation was formed by a number of these fleeing separatists in Amsterdam, Holland in 1608. It was largely made up of British persons led by John Smyth who along with Thomas Helwys, sought to set up the group according to New Testament patterns. As they saw it, it was important to 'reconstitute' and not just 'reform' the Church.
http://www.reformedreader.org/history/list.htm

Protestant religious movement originated by John Wesley in 18th-century England. Wesley, an Anglican clergyman, underwent an epiphany in 1738 in which he felt an assurance of personal salvation, and he soon began open-air preaching. Methodism began as a movement to revitalize the Church of England and did not formally break with the church until 1795.
http://www.answers.com/topic/methodism

Origin: A former Catholic priest, John Knox, developed the Presbyterian church in Scotland based primarily on John Calvin’s theological doctrines.
Prime Philosophy: Calvinism
Founder: John Knox
Founding Date: 1560
http://www.saintaquinas.com/Presbyterians.html

Answer 8

There have always been individuals and groups who did not bow to the man invented "denominations" and sects commonly referred to as "Christian"... and most especially to the Roman cult... these are the ones who God has used to preserve The Salvation Message from the commissioning of The Church by Jesus The Christ... much of the true Baptist Faith comes to us today from God through those who have remained free of man invented "religion"... but now days most so-called "baptists" have given up the independent position and are now nothing more than another man religion.

The True Christian Faith is from God and The Church is from The commission of Jesus The Christ

Answer 9

As salaamu 'alaikym.
Until Martin Luther and the Reformation, none of these Christian sects existed. Before Martin Luther, you were either an Easteran Rite (i.e., Orthodox) or a Latin Rite (i.e., Roman Catholic) Christian or a Coptic (i.e., Egyptian Christian).
The three main Protestant Christian sects that you name directly developed some time after Luther and the Reformation.
Comparatively, these are the "newest Christian kids on the block".
Ma'a salaam.

Answer 10

Baptist - 1639
Methodist - mid 1700's
Presbyterian - Late 1500's

Answer 11

Presbyterians go back 500 years. I don't know about the others.