[terycarl]

If the Catholic Church is Christain in nature, it would be classified as a denomination also. So it looks like there are 35,001 denominations if your figures are correct. Is that number a Papal Decree or was it pulled out of the air, ie made up of whole cloth (that means false, kinda like a straw man?)

nope, doesn't work that way...I have no idea of what the true numbers are but it is irrelevant....the fact that Catholicism is the ONLY, TRUE, COMPLETE Christian curch is correct. All others, Luthersns, Methodists, Baptists, etc. are denominations ( they need a name) of Christianity. Catholicism was here and doing just fine for 1,600 years before denominations were even necessary...

[Syncro]

I have no idea of what the true numbers are

Yet you very matter of factly stated a number as if it were the number. Now you backtrack.

I care not of denominatons, nor does God.

It's been explained to you many times what makes up the church that Jesus started, and it most certainly isn't Catholics except for the few (realitively) that are born again, or "from above" as Catholics prefer to say.

All who have decided to repent and follow Jesus are Christians, and the sum of those make up the church. Period. Same as it was in the first century.

Catholicism is no more important than any of the other denominations.