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Posted on 11/13/2014 6:49:41 PM PST by Heart-Rest
How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?
Partial List of 5000+ Protestant Denominations by Name
How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? The 20,000 / 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics
"The Facts and Stats on "33,000 Denominations" The 20,000 / 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics
Part II
(Above links derived from here) ===> ("How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?")
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There are many, many more Protestant denominations out there, not just those reflected in the links above. How many? Well, nobody really knows for sure exactly how many Protestant denominations exist at any given point in time, because after you get done counting the first forty or fifty thousand, several thousand more new ones pop up here and there all over the place, like popping pop corn! :-)
We Catholics love all our Protestant brothers and sisters (no matter how many denominations or "non-denominations" they belong to), and we simply want to share the fullness of the truth with them, so that they can find the precious jewel (the "pearl of great price") that we have already found (by the Grace of God). With that in mind, the following song is dedicated to all our beloved Protestant brothers and sisters, and their ever-increasing number of distinct and ever-changing denominations with contradictory, mutually-exclusive, incompatible teachings. (And, no, that is not a bunch of cardinals singing that song!)
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(Song -- "Bless 'em All!")
(This song is a tribute to all our beloved Protestant brothers and sisters, no matter what denomination -- or "non-denomination" -- they are currently in.)
"I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment." (1 Corinthians 1:10)
It appears that joke is going to get some serious mileage on this thread... :)
No, it's more than the unflattering pictures or the non-truthful statements below said photos. It is the whole antagonizing tone of the whole article whose only purpose is to incite emotions. Some lonely bitter Catholic out there desperate for attention has to post screed like this to feel better about themselves or their religion. It's just a cry to "Look, look at ME!" "Look, look at ME!". Your post serves no useful purpose no matter how you twist it.
I’m glad you posted this as “vanity”. It certainly is on your part.
So which is the real Catholic Church?
The one with pedophile priests or the one teaching social justice? Is it the one that colludes with government or the one that owns large porn publishing companies? (trick question, both of those are the German Catholic Church)
Your Pope says “Who am I to judge?” but you guys know better, you know it is better to damn protestants to hell all day long on an internet forum than clean up your own act.
“If there were only two, that is one too many, according to the wishes and prayer of Jesus Christ.”
Perhaps if you were to read Jesus’ prayer again in Greek, including the verses surrounding it, you would realize He was not counting churches or denominations.
“I’ve never met a single believer, nor a single church that believed that the people you list are the authority on interpreting the Scriptures.”
You’re mostly correct, I think, except for a few of the ones listed, as they were founders of cults, not mainline denominations (Charles Taze Russell founded the Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example). Cults do hold to the teachings of men over the teachings of Scripture, which is one of the things that makes them a cult.
Of course, that is not true for the vast majority of Protestant churches, despite Catholic confusion over the matter. In fact, the Catholic church’s insistence on a strict adherence to its hierarchy’s doctrinal interpretation is closer to the practice of the cults than the mainline Protestant churches are. Both the Catholic church and the cults impose an interpretation of the totality of Scripture, claiming absolute authority and brooking no dispute or deviation. Mainline Protestant churches, on the other hand, generally only require assent to a few creeds and perhaps a short foundational document that sums up the most important doctrinal beliefs about the nature of God and salvation.
Now, what is interesting to me about this line of attack is how self-contradictory it is with other anti-protestant attack points. After all, we are constantly told that a weakness of protestantism is “everyone is allowed to personally interpret scripture”, and that this is bad because it causes us to have no uniformity of belief. It simply can’t be true that protestants are all freely interpreting Scripture on a whim, while we are also slavishly following the interpretations of some dead guy or another at the same time. I wish the anti-protestant brigade would clear up these conflicts among themselves, so I wouldn’t have to point them out for them.
a quote from Brother Dave Gardner:
The difference between a Northern Baptist and a Southern Baptist is, a Northern Baptist says, ‘There ain’t no hell,” and a Southern Baptist says, ‘the hell there ain’t!’
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The "twelve" that Jesus personally picked included someone who committed one of the most vile, evil acts ever done.
Does that mean you reject Jesus and His Church just because 8% of his special, personally chosen assistants was rotten to the core?
One could say, "Well, I'm not going to listen to this Jesus, because look at what a member of His team did!", but that would be a very foolish and wrong thing to say.
Jesus is the Head of His Church, and He also identifies with His Church. He asked Saul, "Saul, why do you persecute Me?"
The sins of individual members of the Church are not the same thing as "the Church", and it is very important to learn that. (Think about Judas.)
Now, now, don't interrupt, he/she is on a roll.
He/she is going to remind us about how Germany attacked us at Pearl Harbor next.
“It displays the typical arrogance of the Roman Catholic posters seeking to validate their faith in their “group” claim.”
That really cuts to the heart of the matter doesn’t it? A lot of the RC posters around here do seem obsessed with finding validation in their group membership. A simple demonstration of that is just to count how many of the articles they post glorify God, or Christ, or Scripture, versus how many glorify their church. I don’t remember Jesus ever saying “Go out into the world and tell them how awesome the church you belong to is”, but maybe Luther ripped that book out of the Bible we stole from Rome.
It gets worse, IncPen’s post above yours, both formatting and a better version of the story!
A lot of Catholics seem to put their denomination over all else, including Jesus.
You don’t know much about Protestants, do you...
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Not at all. If Jesus is the Head of the one Church He Himself built (as the Apostle Paul said), is that Church important, or not?
Rather, denying the truth about that one Church that Jesus Himself built, and which He Himself is the Head of, is putting something else ahead of Jesus.
Good luck getting them to admit that when they won’t even admit they’re protestants.
Educate yourself a little bit about the Reformation of the catholic church. Read this.
http://weedon.blogspot.com/2009/01/are-lutherans-protestants.html
Jesus Himself didn't begin the Catholic church, men did and killed everyone who didn't believe and worship as they deemed fit at the time, or anyone who disagreed with the corruption then - as now.
Try reading a little of true Catholic history, then come by for a bit of a chat.
As a protestant, I won't bring up the subject of the First Commandment and the Catholic idol worship, nor will I discuss the praying to Mary for absolution and the insistence of anyone needing an intercessor or confessor but let's just agree to leave the discussion of how many denominations exist alone.
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They do that often, don’t they?
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