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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)
Excellent thread with Excellent research!
From a Catholic viewpoint, I would see it more as just a matter of trying to tell the truth (as best you understand it), both "in season and out of season", to anyone who will listen.
This contentious thread may not be the right place or time to ask this, but "freedumb2003", do you mind my asking how your wife is doing?
and that Catholic Church should divest itself of the biggest porn publisher in Germany too.
Don’t know why the Roman Catholic Church wants to sell porn.
I pray to Jesus.
Not to Mary, Luke, Mathew, Josephus, Harold or any of the other 10,000 “saints” you guys think are needed to do God’s job for him.
Catholics pray TO Jesus.
We ask Mary and the Saints to pray FOR US.
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No, what the Church does today in regard to doctrines on "faith and morals" is exactly what the Apostle Paul did too, over and over again.
If you took away Paul's exhortations in his epistles to the Church in various locations to get back to strictly adhering to the Church's (the Holy Spirit's) teachings on faith and morals, you would lose most of the New Testament.
Paul was basically saying “Why ask me? Read it for yourself”
almost “protestant” that way
My initial posts for this thread really just did two things -- posted pictures of some Protestant denomination founders, and tell the simple truth that there are many, many Protestant denominations.
Some people here either don't like the pictures, or they don't like the truth.
Probably a little of both.
Jesus told the truth — and the Pharisees hated him.
Hmmmm.
“He asked Saul, “Saul, why do you persecute Me?””
He also said to “beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing”.
And, “by their fruit shall ye know them.”
dead people who have no power, do you also pray to your ancestors and hold séances at cemeteries?
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(Just wanted to respond to this point too.)
There is no conflict.
All Calvinists pretty much rigidly adhere to Calvin's teachings, while all Methodists (for example), or Adventists, do not. All Seventh Day Adventists, for example, pretty much adhere to the teachings of Ellen G. White (which are directly opposed to Calvinism), as Adventists -- and Methodists -- believe one can lose one's salvation.
When you have thousands of different denominations, they can all be rigidly adhering to their own beliefs, while those beliefs widely diverge between the different denominations.
There is no conflict with that.
When someone starts interpreting everything for themselves, and believe they understand it better than the founder of their denomination, they go off and start another denomination. That's why there are so many of them.
(Pinging a couple folks who may be able to explain that a bit more clearly than I have, if they have the time.)
Smug and divisive.
Bwahahahaha!!
The group that trolls together rolls together, eh?
Because God won't listen to you? Is God deaf? What was Jesus' example? What dead person did he ask to pray for Him?
“That is the One True Church, that is the church founded by Jesus Christ.”
The stupiest statement of the year. Give that man a cigar.
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