Updated June 19, 2000
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The Reformation: There was a need for a change in the Church. Personnel
needed to be changed, but the protest-ants changed Church doctrine to suit
themselves.
Here is a listing of but a few of the more than 28,000 Christian Churches
in the world today.
Martin Luther started Protestantism in 1521 when he broke
away from the ONE TRUE CHURCH that had already existed for 15 centuries.
Prior to this time, the false doctrine of "Sola
Scriptura", or "Bible only", had not existed,
neither had the false man made doctrine of "Individual
Interpretation" of Holy Scripture.
Thomas Munser, a Catholic priest, started Anabaptists in 1521.
Henry VIII started the Church of England in 1534. (Anglican)
John Calvin, teaching predestination, formed the Calvinists in 1536.
John Knox, who studied under Luther, started Presbyterians in 1560.
Congregationalists started by Rob Brown, as a branch from Puritanism in
1582.
John Smyth formed the Baptists in 1609. They have severely splintered since
then.
John Wesley started the Methodists in 1739.
Theophilus Lindley started Unitarians in 1774.
Samuel Seabury started Episcopalians in 1789.
Churches of Christ had four separate founders from 1793 to 1809.
Joseph Smith founded the Mormons in Palmyra New York in 1830.
William Miller, a farmer, started the Adventists in 1860.
Ellen Gould White started the 7th day Adventists in 1863.
William Booth started The Salvation Army in 1865.
Mary Baker Eddy started Christian Scientists in 1879.
Charles Russell started the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1879.
New Age was started in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky. *COL 2:8
French Abbe, Alfred Loisy and English Jesuit, George Tyrrell
started Modernism in 1895. It was condemned by the Church in 1907.
Pentecostals were started in the United States in 1901.
Felix Manalo started Iglesia ni Cristo in 1914.
Independent Churches of America (IFCA), a consortium of churches 1930.
L. Ron Hubbard started the Church of Scientology in 1952.
Chuck Smith began Calvary Chapel in 1965.
Disciples of Christ, part of Churches of Christ, separated in 1968.
Ken Gullickson started the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in 1974.
Assemblies of GOD, and other splinter Pentecostal groups, are some of hundreds
of new sects founded by mere men in the 20th century.
Catholic, your Church was founded in Jerusalem by Jesus Christ in about
33 A.D..
Mt 16:18, Mt 28:20, 1Tim 3:15
To this day Protestant churches have multiplied to over 28,000 denominations
and are still increasing. Every time a new one is added, the Body of Christ
is split more and more, 1Cor 10:17, Col 1:24, Eph 1:22-23.
The main reason for all the splits in Protestantism is the false doctrine
of individual interpretation of the Bible, every person who does this thinks
they are their own Pope. Please read the Fr.
Damen files
on this website for a full explanation.
Apparently, none of them have read Mk 3:25, 'A house (of GOD) divided against
itself cannot stand'...
These never ending multiplications of Protestant Churches are Satan's plan,
not GOD's.
GOD's plan is in John 10:16..
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance,
emulations,
wrath,
strife,
seditions,
heresies,
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time
past, that they which do
such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
Galatians 5:19-21, King James...
Interestingly, the King James lists as a footnote for the word, "seditions",
as "divisions".
Have any Protestants really read and
understood these three verses? If so, then how can they say they follow
the teachings of Jesus Christ when they keep multiplying the splits of
His Body?
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