How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? [vanity]

[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?")
⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪ 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!) ☺
(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)

[Elsie]

I'm the Mom; THAT's why!!

[Elsie]

Someone opens their Bible, reads what the LORD said and assumes it is to them directly.

Unlike Rome, who has opened the bible; failed to find it something; then builds doctrine on what COULD have been there.

[Elsie]

...contrary to John 17, especially that portion where the LORD Jesus Christ really did pray or each one of us that would believe on him through the word of his apostles. 

 

 John 17

1 These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

² As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

³ Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁵ And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

⁶ I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; and they have kept thy word.

⁷ Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee:

⁸ Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine:

¹⁰ And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

¹³ And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰ And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me;

²¹ That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²² And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one:

²³ I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

²⁴ Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me; that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

²⁵ Just Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee: and these have known that thou hast sent me.

²⁶ And I have made known thy name to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

[Elsie]

...contrary to John 17, especially that portion where the LORD Jesus Christ really did pray or each one of us that would believe on him through the word of his apostles. 

Not to worry.

We'll believe what THEY have said; but NOT on what your chosen religion has ADDED.

[Elsie]

Protestantism is a false religion, teaching errors of the gospel for more than 500 years.

Catholicism is such a poor religion; that the very earliest Catholic churches are SHOWN to be in quite vile error!!!

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Your albatross reeketh!

[Elsie]

There was no other text but The Bible "GOD's Word" and their GOD inspired books and letters the churches were required to abide by that is my point.

Them seven churches in Asia sure followed the Catholic teaching To the LETTER!

[Elsie]

Every Protestant opposed birth control for Biblical reasons for nearly 400 years. Now almost none do, yet the Biblical text hasn’t changed

Every Catholic opposed birth control for Biblical reasons for over 2000 years. Now almost none do, for just WHERE are the LARGE Catholic families of old?

Some like to say...

You shall know them by their fruits.

[Elsie]

You may begin, after you disavow Martin Luther and his doctrine of Baalam.

Golly!

I'll do that!

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Could you print that doctrine for me?

I'd like the WORLD to see how FOUL it is!!!

[Elsie]

Jealousy has been used several times in The Bible by GOD to produce desired results :>}

Like the Jacob/Issac example?

[Elsie]

Ok; you smell like elderberries!

[Elsie]

Jesus and His Word are my sources, not some dead guy.

WHAT?!?!?

You don't PRAY to dead folks???

[Elsie]

http://www.beginningcatholic.com/prayers-to-virgin-mary.html

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Prayers to Virgin Mary

From the Church's beginnings, prayers to Virgin Mary have held a place of honor for Catholics.

Here are some of the most fundamental and majestic.

These prayers prayers to Virgin Mary take varied forms. Most of them combine:

• Prayers to God, modeled after the faith of Mary.
• Meditations on the Incarnation, Mary's unique role in salvation history, or her perfect examples of virtues like faith, humility, and charity.
• Prayers to Mary, asking for her help and protection.

[Elsie]

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who

fled to thy protection,

implored thy help

or sought thy intercession,

was left unaided.

 

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins my Mother;

 to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful;

 O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,

 but in thy mercy hear and answer me,

 

 Amen.

[Elsie]

That thought terrifies me LOL.

AMEN!!! ^3rd

[Elsie]

None of your Catholic versions of the BIBLE!! uses the word AUTOMOBILE, yet you ride in one.

HERETIC!

[Elsie]

Remember, I said, “but it is never once mentioned in scripture.”

I ASSUME you are correct.

So does Mary...

[Elsie]

 

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,

' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'  

[cva66snipe]

Like the Jacob/Issac example?

Yea and Joseph's brothers who sold him into slavery. Or even a larger one. Jews and Gentile of which Paul speaks of. Not that Israel has been replaced. It hasn't.

[CynicalBear]

>>The word you have as "true" does not appear in the KJV in Acts 17:11.<<

So when they searched the scriptures to see if what Paul said was so you say it may still not be true? Got it.

[metmom]

The problem is, some people won't accept anything unless it is worded according to exactly how they DEMAND it be worded.

If it doesn't say what they think it should say, how they think it should have been said, they seem to feel they are then free to dismiss anything anyone brings to the table.