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If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded Chirst.
If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by Christ.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by Christ.
If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was founded by Christ.
If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was founed by Christ.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by Christ.
If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.
If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion Christ.
If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, your religion was founded by Christ
If you worship with the Salvation Army, your religion was founded by Christ.
If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.
If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as 'Church of the Nazarene," "Pentecostal Gospel." "Holiness Church," "Pilgrim Holiness Church," "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion was founded by Christ.

If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded Chirst. If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by Christ. If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by Christ...If you are..."Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion was founded by Christ

Nice try, PM. You forgot the Gnostics. Notice how you altered the argument and snuck in "your rleigion" instead of the "your church." Obviousy any congregation that believes in Jesus as some form of deity can say that its religion was founded by Christ, although you clevery exclude LDS and Christian Scientists, but include Jehovah's Witnesses (who deny Holy Trinity). Lord have mercy!

Do LDS not claim that Jesus is their Savior (Christ)? So, by what authority do you exclude them? Is Protestantism not the ultimate in church-creation based on individual "understanding" of the Bible, with each person being his/her own "pope?" Is this not the ultimate in narcissism? Is denying the combined widsomm of the Church and reinterpreting everything according to one's own fancy not the ultimate in arrogance and pride?

Changing church for religion doesn't change the fact that God gave His Church to His Apsotles in 33 AD, that He gave them the keys to bind and loosen, and that they bound others to carry in their steps ever since then. That authority was not arrogated to others at they wished. So, those who assume that authority do so on their own and cannot claim that it comes from Christ.

Then, based on you rewriting of the post, you undoubtedly think that Jesus is the Author of Confusion. For it is certain that, in the wide spectrum of beliefs you cite, there are essential differences that put to lie the idea that God can BE the Way the Truth and the Life, and His Church can BE the “pillar and ground of the Truth.” He founded all of these denominations, according to you, without regard for having even one essential doctrine agreed upon by all on your list. “Jesus is God/No, He’s only a creature” is but the first of a multitude of contradictions found between the various denominational combinations in your list.

Some God your Jesus is! Mine established THE Truth in His Church, not a multiplicity of mutually contradictory belief systems in a surfeit of man-made denominations.

If you cannot understand that the Church is meant to be a visible, hierarchical structure set in place both to have visibility and create unity of belief, as opposed to merely being an umbrella for “all believers” with no regard for unity of belief, then no one can help you. You’re on your own. Claiming that all of these mutually opposed denominations are all founded by Christ doesn’t get you off to a good start in discernment of essentials. That is Exhibit A for the need for unified, structured, creed-based Christianity, tracing its origin and history organically to Pentecost.