I'm interested in reading other denomination bible\books but am unsure if its a good or bad idea....? So if I read a catholic bible would it totally mess with me?? If I read the book of mormon?? The book of common prayer....? Anyone read these just because you're interested??? Did you benefit with it or does it not??? I would hate to miss out on extra material that's awesome...??
The thing is there was never supposed to be different denominations that came about because people couldn’t agree on details of doctrine , much like you will find in this forum we can talk about basically any issue regarding the Bible and you’ll have several ideas about what the answer is
they couldn’t agree so they began forming sects of Christianity and called then denominations most know about the catholic Protestant wars but there have been violent clashes between many denominations of Christianity over the past two thousand years
which shows us the problem with denominations the gospel is about one family of God born in Christ by the one gospel , it’s about one body , one spirit , one faith , one baptism , one lord and God and father of all who’s spirit is in all who believe . It’s about one untied family God and all his chilidren in Christ
Catholics and Protestants went to violent war killing each other because they disagreed about Christian doctrine and who was “ the true one church “
each denomination believes they are the right one and by default the others all have something important all wrong and aren’t right . This has been Christianity and what we did to it we turned a beautiful single message meant for all
People and thier salvstion , this gift of one new humanity reborn of Gods holy spirit and called his children in the son
we made it a reason to argue and fight and condemn one another , to exclude and judge and accuse , to actually go to war and fight and kill each other in Jesus name because they are Protestant and we are catholic or we are Protestant and they are catholic because they are Baptist we are presbeterian
awe condemn and Rail against the other group of Christian’s because we don’t agree about whatever details we perceive when it’s all Meant to bring us together in one faith and belief and understanding of One God
Just go to the source brother forget reading different denominational takes and start by learning what Jesus had to say to believers for yourself , that will form an understanding in you without some interpretation first reshaping it thier own opinion
aid your serious in your inquiry start with the gospel of John read a chapter or so a day carefully d before you read so God to teach you about himself and when your done thank him , and then spend some time reflecting through each day on what you read
select a translation you can understand the language clearly and then I bet you find some new things you haven’t heard anyone talking about
lol we the right hand of the body , work with all our might to chop off the left foot , because it doesn’t function as a hand , rather than doing what the lords hands do we’re too worried about that foot that has a different purpose