Denomination threads?

And yet, I wonder, if when Jesus came to us, if He said, "hey, i'm going to teach some of u one thing... and I'll teach others another thing?"
What is a denomination? Perhaps we should ask ourselves that first?

Extra baggage can make it harder to get on a flight...and even disqualify you. Or as Jesus put it, its harder for a rich man to enter heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

And if the baggage is covid-19, nobody really wants that spreading around.

Make of that what you will.

Catholicism is an appetizer, while a true non denomination relationship with Jesus Christ is a full course meal.

For me, most of the denominational difference are less about theological differences and more about differences in worship tastes.

I don't think Jesus cares about whether you use contemporary praise songs or traditional hymns or Gregorian chant in your worship. For some people, the first is the most "spiritual" and how they feel closest to God and able to worship, for others, the second or third. The Bible says we need to worship "in Spirit and Truth." It doesn't say anything about denominational differences. I think Jesus would be glad that we have a variety of choices, so that we can meet people where they are and bring them to Him.

Extra baggage can make it harder to get on a flight...and even disqualify you. Or as Jesus put it, its harder for a rich man to enter heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

And if the baggage is covid-19, nobody really wants that spreading around.

Make of that what you will.

It doesn't say anything about denominational differences. I think Jesus would be glad that we have a variety of choices,

For me, most of the denominational difference are less about theological differences and more about differences in worship tastes.

I don't think Jesus cares about whether you use contemporary praise songs or traditional hymns or Gregorian chant in your worship. For some people, the first is the most "spiritual" and how they feel closest to God and able to worship, for others, the second or third. The Bible says we need to worship "in Spirit and Truth." It doesn't say anything about denominational differences. I think Jesus would be glad that we have a variety of choices, so that we can meet people where they are and bring them to Him.

Philippians 2:2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Do you know what it means to be one accord, one mind? This is what Jesus intended from the start. However we all have gone astray, and to say Jesus is happy over our disobedience is just...

But thank God, i know He will separate His children from wherever they have wondered, because many christians are having a hard time finding a true place to worship.

Scripture is really quite simple it seems to me.

If we had left it to scripture as what was prescribed... would we not all be on the same page?

It isn't. If it were, there would be no disagreement. There is significant disagreement. Therefore, it is not "quite simple."


We would, if what was on the page were simple and straight-forward.

It's not so much that anything "confuses" me, but that I get a different understanding from someone else. I read a passage, and it's "clear, obvious" message to me is something very different than it's "clear, obvious" message to someone else. Sometimes my "clear, obvious" understanding will be what some people also see, but completely opposite of what other people see. Sometimes my "clear, obvious" understanding will be what everyone else sees. Sometimes my "clear, obvious" understanding will be unique and something no one else has ever seen. Sometimes other people will say, "Wow, I never thought of that, but now that you say that it makes sense." Sometimes other people will say, "No, you're wrong, that's completely off-base."

If Scripture were so simple and straight-forward, that wouldn't happen. As Bright-Breezy would say, we would all be on the same page.

I think part of its beauty and marvel -- part of the reason that I think makes it clear that it IS divinely inspired and not just an ancient text that is useless today -- is this very thing, that it means different things to different people.

Forcing everyone to accept just one interpretation doesn't seem to me to be the way to a god who is beyond human understanding. I think if God is, as Scripture says, unknowable and unknown, the more different ways we find to tap into that divinity, the better.

That is a valid point. Maybe the extra baggage does exclude them from being Christian.

But you still haven't said how. You have listed things you think Catholics do that is "extra," but you haven't said how that necessarily bans them from heaven.

So I ask again, what, exactly, is necessary for a person to be a Christian. Is it necessary for a person to be a member of a church that meets your particular approval? Is it necessary that a person refrain from certain behaviors that you deem unnecessary? If you think those things ban someone from "Christianity" and/or salvation, please provide Scripture or some other reasoning why you think those behaviors or beliefs exclude a person.

why are you asking ME???? These questions are rather strange.

So I ask again, what, exactly, is necessary for a person to be a Christian.

Because you were the one to bring it up.

Catholicism was the only Christian church in the world for the first 1,000 years, and then the only Church in the Western World for the next 500.