what are the four major religious sects of the new testament?

Answer 1

Sadducees
Pharisees
Herodians
Levites (or Scribes)

Answer 2

That may be tough to answer:- Catholics were discouraged from reading the Bible until around 1960. And even now they use some strange interpretation techniques, lots of allegory. Catholics are a "sect' of Christianity, although many believe they are not Christian at all. They are probably the most perverted form of Christianity. Jehovah's Witness are thought to be Christian but they are not. They have re-translated the King James into the New World Translation which is a perverted text. The do not accept Jesus as Lord-so they are definitely not Christian. Mormons (LDS, ROLDS), do not use the Bible, but use the book of Mormon which is a fabrication by Joseph Smith. It has been re-written 3 times. Some sects like "Independent Baptist, and some Pentecostals allow only the King James version-but they do not forbid Bible reading-they encourage it. Any sect that forbids the reading of the Bible would be a cult. The Mormons and JW's are cults for several reasons, but forbidding to read the Bible is definitely a signal that the group is a cult.

Answer 3

At first, Jesus's follower were regarded as yet another jewish sect or party. The New Testament speaks of the Pharisees, the Saducees and the Zealots. So far, we have four. Then we can consider "those of the circumcision" (Jewish believers in Jesus, led by St. Peter) and the gentiles (St. Paul).

Answer 4

Jewish of Jesus' time?
Pharisee
Sadducee
Essene
Zealot
and maybe
Herodian and
Judeo-Gnostic

Samaritans were not Jewish but Israelite/syncretist
There were Gentile Pagans who were either Hellenistic Greco Roman or local Semitic or syncretistic or Mystery Religions

There may have been Zoroastrians and practitioners of other religions like Egyptian Kemetic among the merchants and travellers

Answer 5

Are you asking about the main Jewish sects during Jesus ministry time? Or you are asking about the sects of Christians after Jesus?

I think you need to clarify your question.

Answer 6

Molly has answered this as to Jesus time, but as of religions claiming to be based on the N.T., the two major divisions are between Catholics and Protestants, with the major divisions within the former being btwn the Romans Catholic institution and the Eastern Orthodox . Neither of these are New Testament churches, as they preach and practice a critically different faith than that of the Bible, with many unBiblical doctrines from paedo-baptism to prayer to the dead. And most critically, their members most typically believe that their good deeds and the power of the church will help save them, rather than utter trust in Christ and His blood to save sinners destitute of any means whereby they may escape Hell and gain Heaven.

The Eastern Orthodox are a little closer as they reject the perpetuated Petrne papacy of Rome, which is more derived from from the Romans Empire in which she found herself, and took upon much of her means.
http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/papalpresumption.html

There are are other minor divisions within Rome such as the sedevacantists, and there would be more formal divisions if Catholics were divided according to what they actually believed, and if both Rome and her attendees were more committed to doctrinal purity, but practically that is not made much of an issue. As long as you die in her arms she is basically satisfied, so that abortion promoting politicians need not fear getting less than a glorious send off at their funerals.

Within Protestantism there are basically two great divisions, that of those who hold to to the Biblical essentials of the faith (Divine inspiration of Scripture, virgin birth, deity of Christ, salvation by grace, eternality of Hell and Heaven, etc.) and apostolic "gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24), of the necessity of the new birth thru direct "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts 20:21), versus churches and cults who deviate from essential doctrines and who foster hope in ones self and or organization to gain eternal life.

The largest denomination within Protestantism are the Southern Baptists, followed by the Methodist church.
http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html

See below for some more interesting stats on this:
http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html

But most important, may you give your sins and life to Christ who died for you and rose again.

Answer 7

Mo, Larry, Curley... and ummm Shemp

Answer 8

Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
LOL!

Answer 9

Christians
Pharisees

you find the rest - hope you get an A

Answer 10

ummmm...i've never heard or read anything like that...

UNLESS

you mean the ones that followed John the baptist until
Christ came....