There is a new church in town called the Frisbee-terian church. We will be meeting Sunday mornings at the local disc golf course and learning all about God's creation. This Sunday's sermon is entitled, "Why God put trees where He did."
Just kidding of course, but why are there so many different "brands" of churches? Is one any better that the other? Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Mormon, Scientology. I'm so confused. Well....
All these various "religions" are all man-made, of course. If we don't like our church we leave it. Maybe we even start a new one. These facts alone should be red flags for us all.
Back in the day, when The Church first started, there was just one church. As the disciples spread the Gospel, churches began to spring up in different towns. Ephesus, Philadelphia, Corinth, Laodicea, Rome.
But then the teaching morphed in different directions. Today it is estimated that there are over 45,000 different denominations globally. Why so many? Isn't thete just one God? Isn't there just one truth?
The answer is simple: humans. We're like Burger King. We "like it our way."
There is a term for churches who believe the religion that they practise is the only true church. Only churches that adhere 100% to the Bible are worthy churches. Churches that make up stuff as they go are not worthy.
"For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough." - 2 Corinthians 11:4
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel - not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed." - Galatians 1:6-9
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel - not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed." - Galatians 1:6-9
Churchianity - GotQuestions.org
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