[Elsie]

Thanks to the error of sola scriptura there are 35,000 plus so called Christian churches world wide.

Who taught you this? Nuns?

I've seen Catholic numbers that range from 25,000 to 80,000.

Clara wants to know, "Where's the beef?"

[KierkegaardMAN]

Hah. We used to call it Argumentum ad yellow pages.. look up ‘church’ and voila an endless list - but honestly, if God said “one Church” wouldn’t two churches be too many? On this Rock (kephas) I will build my Church (not churches) Incidentally, while there are always exceptions, most nuns I’ve known have been left wing new age liberals who reject most of the Church’s teachings. Hence, the dying orders worldwide except those that are faithful to Jesus and His Bride, the Church. Not even Francis Can destroy Her, albeit not for lack of trying.

[Cronos]

The numbers vary as new groups are formed every day and other groups die out.

the beef is that one can see the direct extrapolation from Luther's first steps all the way to Mormonism, Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and pre-tribulation rapture

Luther disgreed with some parts of orthodoxy -- he was the first generation

the next generation of reformers went one step further and junked more of orthodoxy - Zwingli and Calvin

the third like the anabaptists junked even more

And you end up with the Mormons and Adventists in the 19th century.