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Is it Jesus?

Is it His Holy Spirit?

Is it the Father?

Is it Mother Mary or Saint Michael?

Who or what is is getting you to divide into groups and fight with each other, turning potential friends into irreconcilable enemies???

Who wins when you fight with each other about the God of Peace?

Moreover, what are the historical results over time of your fighting?

Still just the one Jesus, right? But now how many churches, faiths, denominations, etc. have we sliced and diced Him into?

In His Name, is any of this His idea? Does He want us at each other like this?

Rhetorically speaking, do you ever stop and ask your self stuff like that?

I’m slowly learning to, with both religion and politics, but it’s not easy.

Satan’s malware is all over my programming, but doing stuff like the above is helping me to spot it before it activates.

Just out of curiosity, when you talk about Catholics attacking Prots and the Orthodox attacking, too, who also attack each other, who do you think is inspiring these attacks and the defending attacks? Is it Jesus? Is it His Holy Spirit? Is it the Father? Is it Mother Mary or Saint Michael? Who or what is is getting you to divide into groups and fight with each other, turning potential friends into irreconcilable enemies??? Who wins when you fight with each other about the God of Peace? Moreover, what are the historical results over time of your fighting? Still just the one Jesus, right? But now how many churches, faiths, denominations, etc. have we sliced and diced Him into? In His Name, is any of this His idea? Does He want us at each other like this? Rhetorically speaking, do you ever stop and ask your self stuff like that?

Yes, God commands believers, "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (Jude 3)

And Scripture is the the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of the "faith which was once delivered unto the saints, of "what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels) is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.

And while comprehensive doctrinal unity was ever a goal not fully realized, believers can be of "one heart and one soul" (Acts 4:32) which the NT church once was under manifest apostles, while today Bible Christians yet testify to the greatest unity in core beliefs, in contrast to Catholics . .

Division is worked by the flesh, the devil as well as by God (from evil and error), and sadly we have plenty due to the former sources, and since Truth is exclusive by nature then you yourself are divisive by censuring those who do not subscribe to your "can't we all just get along" theme. If you are right then they are wrong, and vice versa.

But the separation from Rome became necessary due to her accretion of errors and recalcitrance, as was American from Great Britain, and while revolutions can be bloody, yet the Reformation worked much fruit (Rome even sings many of our hymns) and a great advance in the kingdom of God, along which chaff resulting from dissent from basic Truths . Which abounds in Rome also.

Just out of curiosity, when you talk about Catholics attacking Prots and the Orthodox attacking, too, who also attack each other, who do you think is inspiring these attacks and the defending attacks?

We could ask the same thing of Paul.

Evangelical Christians are more able to substantiate their posts with Scripture compared to Roman Catholics who have to resort to the CCC, the pope or taking a verse completely out of context.