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Posted on 11/13/2014 6:49:41 PM PST by Heart-Rest
How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?
Partial List of 5000+ Protestant Denominations by Name
How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? The 20,000 / 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics
"The Facts and Stats on "33,000 Denominations" The 20,000 / 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics
Part II
(Above links derived from here) ===> ("How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?")
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There are many, many more Protestant denominations out there, not just those reflected in the links above. How many? Well, nobody really knows for sure exactly how many Protestant denominations exist at any given point in time, because after you get done counting the first forty or fifty thousand, several thousand more new ones pop up here and there all over the place, like popping pop corn! :-)
We Catholics love all our Protestant brothers and sisters (no matter how many denominations or "non-denominations" they belong to), and we simply want to share the fullness of the truth with them, so that they can find the precious jewel (the "pearl of great price") that we have already found (by the Grace of God). With that in mind, the following song is dedicated to all our beloved Protestant brothers and sisters, and their ever-increasing number of distinct and ever-changing denominations with contradictory, mutually-exclusive, incompatible teachings. (And, no, that is not a bunch of cardinals singing that song!)
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(Song -- "Bless 'em All!")
(This song is a tribute to all our beloved Protestant brothers and sisters, no matter what denomination -- or "non-denomination" -- they are currently in.)
"I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment." (1 Corinthians 1:10)
ouch......
There is one body of Christ that He is building and it is comprised of born again believers.
Denominational affiliation is irrelevant between Christ followers.
If it isn't irrelevant, they are not focused on the right thing, that is Christ.
Catholics love to point out what they consider disunity amongst Protestants as if denominations are significant. They're not. Not any more than the variety found in the seven churches in Revelation 2 & 3. Each one of those was different from the other, as evidenced by what Christ spoke to them individually about. And yet they were all churches that Christ recognized as His own.
Sometimes there are different denominations based on geographic location, sometimes focus on ministry.
It's not a big deal except to those who would like to use it to disparage others and build themselves up.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Good thing there’s no Protestant bashing threads ever posted on FR.
The only way to win thermonuclear was is...
What’s interesting is that Catholics will take anyone, any kook, who calls themselves Christian, demand that *Protestants* own them because Catholics say so, and use them to invalidate anything non-Catholic.
And yet when someone points out the history of the Catholic church, the corrupt and immoral popes, politicians, homosexual priests, pederast clergy, Jesuits, liberal Catholic universities, whatever, suddenly, they’re not real Catholics. They’ll disown them and throw them under the bus so fast your head will spin.
The hypocrisy of the Catholic position doesn’t escape anyone’s notice, except the people intent on justifying and defending Catholicism.
narses is off somewhere; pouting...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Morning Consecration to Mary My Queen, My Mother, I offer myself entirely to thee. And to show my devotion to thee, I offer thee this day, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being without reserve. Wherefore, good Mother, as I am thine own, keep me, guard me as thy property and possession. Amen.
Sorry Jesus. Maybe next time.
Don't you mean WOMAN???
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I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
Oh, go on back to your MARY worship.
And there's plenty of Catholic prayers to be found online that prove otherwise.
Nobody but Catholics believes that.
Uh...
OK...
Hilarious.
I’ve never minded multiple postings. It’s the only sure way to catch the thread skimmers (like me!)
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NPK VET: The stupiest statement of the year. Give that man a cigar.
REALLY? That's what Catholics claim all the time about the Catholic church.
And BTW, do show some integrity and post the ENTIRE comment and correctly attribute it to the poster who posted it. Geron L posted in post 3: When two or more people come together in HIS name, that is church. That is the One True Church, that is the church founded by Jesus Christ.
**And yet when someone points out the history of the Catholic church, the corrupt and immoral popes, politicians, homosexual priests, pederast clergy, Jesuits, liberal Catholic universities, whatever, suddenly, they’re not real Catholics. They’ll disown them and throw them under the bus so fast your head will spin.**
Exactly.
There are FRoman Catholics who are saying Frankie isn’t Roman Catholic!
Some people here either don't like the pictures, or they don't like the truth.
Yeah; revealing stuff like that can cause problems.
St. John was revealed certain things about SEVEN Catholic churches.
Every one of them were teaching ERROR!
I guess poor catechism has been around a long, LONG time...
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