“With 40,000+ non-Catholic denominations, one can only wonder how they can ever reach a truly Christ based determination. “
NYer, we’ve been through this before, and you KNOW 40,000+ is a dishonest number. You should be ashamed to continue posting what you know is not true.
As I have before to you, I post a link going into the details of this dishonest claim you continue to repeat:
http://www.ntrmin.org/30000denominations.htm
Shame on you.
Barrett, writing in 1982, does indeed cite a figure of 20,780 denominations in 1980,
Do you prefer the number 20,000+?
The point is that Jesus Christ established one Church. According to Scripture, Christ wanted us to be one (John 17:22-23). We are all as a Church to be of one mind and to think the same (Philippians 2:2; Romans 15:5). There is only to be one "faith" (Ephesians 4:3-6), not many. For the Church is Christ's Body and Christ only had one Body, not many. Also, since the Church is Christ's Bride (Ephesians 5:29), can Christ be married to more than one wife (essentially a spiritual form of the the sin of polygamy)? No, Christ can only have one wife (i.e., one Church, not many).
20,000 ... 30,000 ... 40,000 ... it makes no difference how you raise or lower that number since it is greater than the number 1.