2007-08-24 00:09:35 · 9 answers · asked by larissa 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since Christianity generally believes there is only one right way to live, whenever they disagree on any point, they tend to want to separate into two different churches rather than acknowledge the concept of different ways. So they separate on what seems to an outsider to be trivial differences. Should you use real wine or just grape juice in the communion service? Should you have a hierarchy of bishops or something democratic in form? Is it faith or good works that gets you into heaven? Are people predestined to be who they are, or is free will really free and not an illusion? Shall we have statues? Shall we have stained glass? Should we sing this hymn or that one? What title should we give the man in the pulpit? And on and on and on.
2007-08-24 02:37:24 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christianity has remained remarkably consistent on the central beliefs that define the faith: the divinity of Christ, his sacrificial death for our sins, and the need for repentance and faith to enter into a right relationship with God. That is the heart of the Gospel, and it has never changed.
The vast majority of differences among Christians have arisen from disagreements over "non-essential" issues. Should baptism be by immersion or sprinkling? Can women be ordained as ministers? That kind of thing. While some of these questions may be important and worth debating, none of them can be considered absolutely essential to the faith. The bottom line is all religion is “local.” You make your home in a specific faith community, join its mission work, love its people, learn from its pastor, and find God through its community life.
2007-08-24 07:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because there are so many points of view. Even in the same religion, even in the same spin-off of a given religion.
Within the same denomination, two people can read the same Bible passage, and come away with differing interpretations...and even if they agree, each will still have their own perception.
2007-08-24 08:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think people just have many different views of the Bible's true meanings. I think that it only takes one different view to one Bible verse and a branch splits. Poor soles haven't clue
2007-08-24 07:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara g 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many... you have, of course, the things like mormons and reborn and all that, but in school I've learnt that there are three main branches...
The Catholics, they are the oldest
The protestants, an offshoot because of the antique thinking of the roman catholic church,
The orthodox church, who say that they are the ones that go back to the base of chistianity.
Off course I can be wrong, but whatever. It's all a load of crap anyhow.
EDIT: and in the case of protestantism, there is the different interpretations of protesting against the catholic church, leading to Calvinism, Lutheranism,...
2007-08-24 07:14:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
To much sects?
Seriously it's cause each sect is a splinter of an older, more established sect, who splintered of an older, more established sect. Each slightly different, but look at the hatred over those slight differences.
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2007-08-24 08:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by Rai A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Christians can't agree on how to worship their God, so they split, each one thinking that they have the only "true" way to salvation.
2007-08-24 08:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by Young Wiccan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they can't make up their mind?
2007-08-24 07:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Coma White 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Larissa, rather than the word "SO", in the future, please use the word "TOO"...
2007-08-24 14:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋