(November 17, 2021 at 5:09 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I think it is safe to say that there are as many Christian denominations as there are Christians.
Just so.
There is a Buddhist saying "Ten thousand monks ten thousand religions" ***
This seems most pertinent in India. There is no consensus about how many gods they have. The figures vary between 15 and 30 million.
*** in this context, 10,000 is a Chinese term. It means an indefinite multitude, effectively all of creation.
It is my position that each believer cherry picks dogman to discover the beliefs and practices on which he will focus. As far as I can tell, neither spoken nor written language can fully express ideas and the nuances behind them. Hence there are divisions and differences within every major religion. Most of us here have probably come across the differences in beliefs followers call christian.