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This point is a perfect example of how different Christians and Catholics are. Christians will leave a church and form a new one, or join another denomination if they find doctrine contrary to SCRIPTURE. Catholic's, on the other hand, will defend to the death their church even when they know it's wrong.

Note -- Catholics ARE Christians. The Apostolic Churches (from East to west) are:

1. The Assyrian Church (it has it's counterpart the Chaldean Catholic Church which is part of the 22 Catholic churchs that form the Catholic Church).
2. The Oriental Churchs (The Armenian, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic, Ethiopian) -- they have counterparts in both Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churchs.
3. The Eastern Orthodox Churchs (the Russian, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian etc.).
4. The Catholic Churchs (22 Churchs: the Latin, the Maronite, the Syro-Malankara, the Syro-Malabar, the Chaldean etc.)

Debatable, but many do add (and I'm not learned enough to agree or disagree) in the Churchs that agree to Apostolic Succession -- like some Lutherans, Anglicans etc.

Beyond the Apostolic Churchs you have the groups that broke away and are outside the Apostolic Church -- they PROTEST basic dogma (e.g. free will versus robots condemned to heck or not among many other things) -- so, your group would belong to this PROTESTANT Christian grouping.  Within the PROTESTANT Christian grouping you have you might say there are 5 or 6 generations of thought:

1. first gen groups like the Anglicans, the Lutherans, the Calvinists etc.,
2. the Second gen like (perhaps) the Arminians, the Methodists, the Wesleyans, 
3. the third gen namely the Baptists (original), 
4. the fourth gen namely the various Baptist groupings,
5. the fifth gen deviates two opposite ways:
   1. namely the self-named "Evangelical" groups -- all the mega-assemblies. 
   2. You may also say that the fifth gen includes extremely further deviations from orthodox teachings like the present ECUSA teachings or the Mormons or the Unitarians or the Jehovah's witnesses

As I've shown above -- the final teachings of Unitarianism (Universal or "Christian") or Mormon doesn't seem so strange if you go by the above lines of progressions.  That's what happens with deviation from God's teachings -- the first make a few changes that don't seem like too much, but where does it all end?  It's like the Anglican Church first said that contraception was fine, then that abortion was fine, then gay bishops and marriages were part of god's will.

 

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"Note -- Catholics ARE Christians. The Apostolic Churches (from East to west) are:"
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I use to think so, but the more I've studied SCRIPTURE and seen the deviations from SCRIPTURE and promotion of its own institution in the Roman Catholic Church I'm not so sure that's true. BTW if you ask a Roman Catholic what they are more often than not they will say "Catholic" not Christian.