Why there are so many denominations

[Drich]

And where do all of these churches claim to be pulling their bullshit doctrines? Same place you pull yours. How do they claim to have achieved this? Same way you do.

No. Some claim Divine revelation as they are the spiritual descendants of the Apostles. Some claim to be Prophets and speak with God directly apart from what scripture says. Others form a principle like the Omni aspects of God, then take scraps of verses from all over the bible and compile then in a certain order to create a new doctrine.

I will use a whole paragraph, Chapter or even book to establish a principle. Every thing taken in it proper context. Or at least that is the ultimate goal.

Let me help you out here. Which translation of the bible is your current favorite?

It depends on who I am speaking to and what level of understanding they have in conjunction to the nature of the question being asked. I have been known to quote from the King James the New King James the NIV and the American standard. I myself for my own study use the NKJV coupled with a Strong's Lexicon and concordance, so I get to question and research the Original Greek and come to my own conclusions.

You do realize that these books aren't printed in a vacuum right? Unless you have invented your own denomination of christianity (3 is a crowd but 30k is a clusterfuck btw) you are following one of the others, you simply avoid their churches. Good for you, so do I. It's already been mentioned to you that this whole "biblical christianity" bit is little more than pretense, has it not? Maybe you should address that before you get too smug about your particular denomination's claims to the truth against all of those heretics out there.

I did in my post to faith no more.

Speaking of bullshit that has been put into the mouth of your mythical god-man. Seems to me that quite a few gather at the catholic church. So I guess that means that he is among them?

Among them most likely Yes. Supports, under girds, strengthens them... Look at all of the unanswered questions that their doctrines create and you tell me.

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[quote='Rhythm' pid='274874' dateline='1334843253']
Trouble is, you don't seem to have a "clear picture", or at least you are incapable of communicating it if you do.

Plagues that trouble other denominations, like Epicuras? You're suffering under that one as well.

Hot air Drich, hot air.

My picture is clear, the problem is it took me 20+ years to get it. Why because I was working with the same denominational misconceptions most of you are dealing with. So i had to reboot and start all over. I had to learn "to question all things and hold on to what is good." This meant not only question the questionable, but to also question the foundational. What i found was that their are some serious cracks in the popularly understood version of Christianity.

So the question becomes how can one take 20 years of study and condense it down to a few posts? The only way i know to do this is start with definitions and the re-explanation of core understandings. The problem is that most of you want to dismiss the basics because you feel you have a firm grasp of christianity already. the problem is that Biblically based Christianity and popular christianity is not the same thing.

If you can show me how to communicate this fact and get people to accept it I am all ears.