RE: Why their is so many denominations
April 19, 2012 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2012 at 11:32 am by Mister Agenda.)
Representing biblical Christianity is a lot like representing the US tax code. Good luck with that.
One of the things that the refugee children I tutor found strange about America was all the churches. Explaining that in a way they could understand, being from a Muslim country, was a bit of a challenge.
One of my formative experiences was that my parents belonged to different Pentecostal deonominations that agreed except on a few doctrines about baptism and the trinity. My mom mellowed over the years, but I think my dad still thinks she went to hell. I suppose from the Catholic point of view (I had a Catholic step-mother, although my current one is United Pentecostal), once you start splitting, you just can't stop.
One of the things that the refugee children I tutor found strange about America was all the churches. Explaining that in a way they could understand, being from a Muslim country, was a bit of a challenge.
One of my formative experiences was that my parents belonged to different Pentecostal deonominations that agreed except on a few doctrines about baptism and the trinity. My mom mellowed over the years, but I think my dad still thinks she went to hell. I suppose from the Catholic point of view (I had a Catholic step-mother, although my current one is United Pentecostal), once you start splitting, you just can't stop.
