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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)
“Abortion is sin.”
I know it is, but it is never once mentioned in scripture. Every Protestant opposed birth control for Biblical reasons for nearly 400 years. Now almost none do, yet the Biblical text hasn’t changed. So what did change?
Some seem to put more faith in their denomination than in Jesus
You may begin, after you disavow Martin Luther and his doctrine of Baalam.
Murder is referenced in scripture, and so is the consequences of injuring the unborn even by an unintended result of an evil action. So I’m not sure of your point.
Christ said it best when He was on the donkey entering Jerusalem. The Priest and officials of the Temple told him to tell his followers not to praise him "If they kept quiet, even the stones would burst into cheers."
GOD's Word was written for mans sake and GOD certainly has the power to teach it to any believer whether it is in text or by works of The Holy Spirit. If every written Bible were burned today GOD's Word will survive and still be taught to man.
There is no perfect church overseen by man. All have their faults. There is no official Church but the blood bought believers and followers of Jesus Christ whom He calls to be His own. We do not have that authority to declare who is and is not included whom Christ calls in that respect. None of us do.
We have many different churches where GOD's Word is preached but Jesus Christ is the sole head of it. Put a dozen Math teachers in a room to do Algebra and you'd likely get a dozen different methods but the same answer and results. Put thousands of Christ centered churches into action and the same thing you will get the same end result despite differing methods of how they got there. They may disagree on theory/theology but serve the same GOD and belong to the same Jesus Christ.
Jealousy has been used several times in The Bible by GOD to produce desired results :>}
That’s true.
To be boldly accurate, we should say there really is only ONE Protestant denomination, and the name it is under is Christ.
God’s heart aches, and so (personally) does mine, that an earthly recognized unity does not yet exist. Denominations in the minor sense were a problem in the New Testament... hey I am of Paul, I am of Peter, even I am of Jesus (seems to me this one is talking about someone who had met the Lord while He was still in the flesh).
And this can happen in the Roman Catholic church organization too. “He is a Jesuit.” “I am of the order of St. Francis.” Etc., etc.
“Murder is referenced in scripture, and so is the consequences of injuring the unborn even by an unintended result of an evil action. So I’m not sure of your point.”
That’s not a surprise.
It does all sum up in the obedience to the Lord. Theorizing overly about it will glorify our minds rather than God. C. S. Lewis seemed to be aware of this danger and knew what he modestly called “Mere Christianity.
I can not speak for ithem but I am a Christian first. Denomination is not important as long as they teach the Bible, word by word. I have been a Southern Baptist for decades. My late mom was a member of a tiny Primitive Baptist Church as a kid. She lived from 1904-2007 so people went to the closest church. We attended Baptist, Methodist, Church of God, Assembly of God, Church of God of Prophecy, etc. We had friends/ relatives who attended those churches and invited us. I have been to churches with less than a hundred to mine, now, which has thousands of members. God is/was in each. Some had pastors who had other jobs. They knew the Bible though. We were truly blessed.
That noncomment of yours did zing past me, because it was apparently intended as a taunt. Present us with something substantive, and we can discuss it.
“That noncomment of yours did zing past me, because it was apparently intended as a taunt.”
No, just a statement of fact: It is not a surprise.
“Present us with something substantive, and we can discuss it.”
I already did present something of substance, but that was directed at someone else. I don’t care if we discuss anything or not.
Had never heard if him until years after I became a Christian so he has no influence on my life. Jesus and His Word are my sources, not some dead guy.
“It is not a surprise, because....”
Furnish that, i.e. information that can be verified or refuted, or else you implicitly confess to making a supercilious taunt.
Wow. I think my eyes need resting. I am doing so much better since my eye muscles surgery on the 7th. Sorry about that.
Looking at Protestants through a Catholic model can get people to assume you care about everything Martin Luther said.
That noted, the Luther idea of salvation effected through faith and not the mediation of other men or even the Christian’s own works, is echoed in your (and my) worship congregations. But Luther never took credit for the idea. He asserted it had been in the bible all along. His role was in reviving interest in the idea and its ramifications.
Oh really?
Matthew 1:1 The book (biblos) of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.<<
Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book (biblos) of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
luke 3:4 As it is written in the book (biblos) of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Luke 20:42 And David himself saith in the book (biblos) of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book (biblos) of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book (biblos) of life.
biblos - Definition: a written book, roll, or volume, sometimes with a sacred connotation.
Bible - Origin - 1300-50; Middle English bible, bibel < Old French bible < Medieval Latin biblia (feminine singular) < Greek, in tà biblía tà hagía (Septuagint) the holy books; biblíon, byblíon papyrus roll, strip of papyrus, equivalent to býbl (os) papyrus (after Býblos, a Phoenician port where papyrus was prepared and exported) + -ion noun suffix
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible]
I have found it best not to.
You are right! Thanks
I belong to the universal assembly of those called out by God to be His chosen with Christ as it's High Priest.
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