Since individual interpretation is so highly prized by the reformers, why then are there over 30,000 discrete imperfect entities in the USA alone? Is the Holy Spirit working in each of these churches or just a few or none at all? Perhaps what we have here are branches of the Church of Satan.
To credibly refute the article the burden of proof rests with you and all I can see is self serving commentary reflective of shallow thought processes. You need to cite objective historians who would refute the contentions made in the given article, not effete conjecture which appears to be the substance of your rant. Abandon the imperfect road to salvation and accept the apostolic church of Christ which has given us the Holy Scripture or continue to reside in a mirage of fantasy quite possibly a prisoner of Satan God bless
Listen, bronx2, it’s become clear that you are only able to defend Roman Catholicism by lying and demonizing.
You refuse to admit that the original article lied when it said that Luther invented the concept of the Apocrypha.
And now you bring up this lie about “30,000 denominations.”
For the love of Truth, please consider where this figure came from. It’s from the “World Christian Encyclopedia” by David Barrett, and refers to the number of religiously distinctive Christian organizations *in the world.* And the figure is actually 20,780, not 30,000. That figure includes 8,196 Protestant jurisdictionally distinct groups and 233 Roman Catholic jurisdictionally distinct groups.
But even that 8,196 figure is misleading. The author of this report identifies 21 major Protestant “traditions” (what we think of as “denominations”) — as well as 16 major Roman Catholic “traditions.”
bronx2, I have informed you of the truth. I plead with you to pursue truth, wherever it lead you, rather than cling to lies out of a passion for defending your particular denomination.
And for the love of Truth, please stop reciting this lie that there are 30,000 denominations. If you do, then it will be clear to all that you’ve abandoned a desire to know Truth and have instead embraced the Father of Lies.
More on the 30,000 denominations lie here, posted by fellow Roman Catholic markomalley:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1956752/posts
If you won’t accept truth from someone whom you consider to be a member of the Church of Satan, perhaps you’ll accept truth from someone of your own denomination.