why are there so many different christian religions?

Question

when they all seem to be teaching from the same bible?

Answer 1

To be blunt - christianity is a lie.

Anyone person that has to maintain a lie over a period of time makes a mistake. Compound that to millions of people over a couple of thousand years...

When you have thousands to millions living a lie you end up with divergence in the lie. Eventually the divergence becomes sects and then you have all of the branches of christianity.

If I were to be so bold as Richard Dawkins, and I will be.

Every christian believes that the other christian faiths are based on a lie, we atheist just know they are all a lie and take it one truth further than all christians.

Answer 2

They aren't separate religions: They are "Faiths," and "Denominations" within Christianity as a religion.
There's three main faiths: Catholicism (One extreme), Protestantism (The other extreme), and the Anglican church (The middle ground). There's various denominations within those faiths, but they all began (As said before) with Catholicism.

They do teach from the same bible, but they emphasize different things. For example: Masturbation is sinful in Catholicism, but in protestantism: They usually recognize it as something that many people go through as they mature. They are very much man-made interpretations, but some are arguably more moral than others depending on context. People can't agree on everything, and that's one reason why a lot of people ditched the Catholic church over time.

However, each church recognizes Jesus as savior, each church advocates the following of the commandments, and each church believes that some things can be forgiven if one turns toward god.

Answer 3

some don't pray to saints only to God, some believe that the messiah is still coming and isn't Jesus, Some follow Jesus (ex Christians) and other follow the religion Jesus was (Jewish) its the same book but different people look at it differently and if you look all of the religion they all mostly follow one mighty being A.K.A God but there might be one thing different. You have a very good point though.. its is the same book

Answer 4

Because we are living in our flesh and not the Holy Spirit and
the world is filled with baby-baby Christians who have no
Bible doctrine in their soul. Only mature Christian really
re-present Jesus Christ and people would rather play-church
than sit under the right Pastor-Teacher and log hours and hours
of Bible Doctrine so they can 2 Peter 3:18.

Answer 5

There are so many religions because RELIGION IS SATANS CHIEF TOOL in confusing people & leading them to destruction (2 Corinthians 11:13-15) . . .For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light. 15 It is therefore nothing great if his ministers also keep transforming themselves into ministers of righteousness. But their end shall be according to their works.

(Hebrews 10:26) 26 For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left. . .

you see some things are percieved by men to be ok, but not with God
(Proverbs 14:12) 12 There exists a way that is upright before a man, but the ways of death are the end of it afterward.

Answer 6

not as simple to explain as most would put it, but if you need a simple answer, the simplest is theological disagreements.

The more complex answer is that in the church immediately after Christ's resurrection, there was no central authority until a Roman emperor created one circa 325 AD. While most churches joined this catholic (unified I think is the definition of that word) church, not all did. There were some outside Roman control, but even within the empire, some churches rejected the idea of central control.

So you went from, essentially, one 'denomination' per local church to one catholic church and a bunch non-comformists.

over time, each grows with the catholic church trying in vain to stamp out the non-comformists. With Luther, the catholic church split. Most modern denominations in some way split from the catholic church, but not all.

Answer 7

They are different religions but denominations. kind of like pontiac, and buick are all GM (not the best description but you get the idea). Now Catholicism is it's own religion even though they use the Bible and they have THEIR own version that other denominations dont have.

Answer 8

There are different sects of Jesus following groups. People in the past had different notion on Jesus teachings. They formed new religious groups and named themselves differently. It is not something new.
Same thing happened with Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism.

Answer 9

Freedom to believe in the way that fits you best.

Even school teachers teaching from the same text are going to provide different points of view.

Any two people who witness anything will have two different stories about what happened.

Answer 10

Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.)

Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy. The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin: Any merely human organization would have collapsed long ago. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.