30,000+protestant denominations descended from break
offs from the Catholic Church
The Eastern Orthodox Family and theOriental Orthodox family split from each other in AD351
E Orth and Catholic split in !054
The Major Protestant Families (and there are many,many denominations in each) which split from the Catholic starting in 1517are:
Lutheran
Anglican
Reformed
Anabaptist
Baptist(from Reformed)
Pentecostal (fromHoliness)
Holiness(from Methodist)
Methodist (from Anglican)
2007-10-21 03:34:52
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answered by James O 7
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Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.
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 1.3 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.
Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Pillar.asp
2007-10-21 10:51:11
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Nothing ever stays the same. Not even buddhism has stayed original.
What matters is that you feel comfortable with what you're doing. That you are in peace with it. Then if you are, don't let yourself be distracted away from the path that makes you happy by the aggression or induction of others.
2007-10-21 10:39:33
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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AL-ISLAM&CHRISTIAN are religions from ALLAH i believe in that but AL-ISLAM IS THE ONE THAT ALLAH WANT PEOPLE TO BE ON If you want to be sure read AL-QURAN which is ALLAH SPEECH
2007-10-21 11:11:32
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answered by fata alislam2007 1
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Your question is.........?
2007-10-21 10:32:51
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answered by darwinsfriend AM 5
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