Posted on 01/20/2008 11:18:23 AM PST by markomalley
Now that I understand the methodology used to arrive at the 30,000 number, I won't use it any more...as it appears to be inflated by the author of the "World Christian Encyclopedia." (I don't agree with his definition for a denomination)
Hopefully you actually read the content of the article and won't just react emotionally...(and that goes for both sides)
“33,000 Denominations”
And that is just the Episcopalians after the gay mafia is finished with them!
That’s interesting, but I think there are more than 30,000 Protestant denoms. There are probably as many as there are gas stations, which is about 1/4 million in the USA alone. Where do islams fit in or don’t they count heretical sects of Christianity?
I’m so glad you posted this!
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They are not part of Christianity as they deny Christ as God/the Son of God. They deny a Trinitarian God. These are two core beliefs of Christianity.
LOL
They are allowed to attend a Christian service if there is no mosque handy. The only problem is the ones among them who are still doing that sacrifice thing.
What two countries don’t have a Roman Catholic “denomination”?
Freegards
we have been upgraded to “Marginal Christian”
Bookmarked. Thanks!
Pope Paul VI addressed this quite succintly in his encyclical Ut unum sint
The unity of all divided humanity is the will of God. For this reason he sent his Son, so that by dying and rising for us he might bestow on us the Spirit of love. On the eve of his sacrifice on the Cross, Jesus himself prayed to the Father for his disciples and for all those who believe in him, that they might be one, a living communion. This is the basis not only of the duty, but also of the responsibility before God and his plan, which falls to those who through Baptism become members of the Body of Christ, a Body in which the fullness of reconciliation and communion must be made present. How is it possible to remain divided, if we have been "buried" through Baptism in the Lord's death, in the very act by which God, through the death of his Son, has broken down the walls of division? Division "openly contradicts the will of Christ, provides a stumbling block to the world, and inflicts damage on the most holy cause of proclaiming the Good News to every creature".
My guess would be something like Brunei and Maldives, or perhaps one of the Himalayan kingdoms.
Yeah you’re ‘probly right. Some teensy countries with tiny populations are perhaps the best bet. I wonder if you only need one church and a priest to be considered a country’s Roman Catholic “denomination”? Would a few nuns or brothers count? What if there is a Catholic but no priest? I wonder if that would be considered a “denomination”...
Freegards
I checked the source I’d read that suggested my earlier post, and I would pick Maldives and Bhutan. These countries seem to allow absolutely no Christian residents at all. Citizens who convert from Islam and Buddhism, respectively, are expelled.
Wow!
Worth saving. Have already emailed it to someone.
1 Cor 1:10
I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
“Denomination” is a term that appeared in the United States during the first half of the 19th Century when theological distinctions were more or less abandoned by the evangelicals.
There is an error The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is not a denomination and never has been!
Matt. 7: 14
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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