good grief, there are according to Elsies favorite authority, wikipedia, upwards of 41,000 protestant denominations....do you suppose that they all believe and interpret the Bible the same??????
Not necessarily but that's no different from Catholicism.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
The EO don't accept or recognize the primacy of the pope, which Roman Catholicism has claimed over the years to be necessary for salvation.
There are a number of areas of dispute which they both consider critical where there's disagreement.
Do all 22 or so rites of Catholicism agree perfectly?
If they do, then why are their 22 or so of them?
If they don't, then which one is right?
For that matter, the Roman Catholic church isn't even internally consistent. They've added the Mary stuff, have changed their teaching on whether anyone outside the Catholic church can be saved or not, changed their attitude towards the laity being able to own Scripture, how long before communion you could eat without it being a mortal sin, dietary restrictions about meat on Fridays, etc, ad nauseum.....
Why do Catholics always presume that different denominations must equate to different doctrines?
How about the fact that some churches have different foci? Like the Salvation Army compared to Wycliff Bible Translators?
How does the focus on helping the poor in the US as opposed to translating Scripture into other languages make one of the other of them wrong?
Not mentioned, perhaps, but NEVER neglected!
They come around every month to tell me that again, I owe no rent.
I don't know how to ping anyone other than the person who wrote the post that I am answering.so, sorry about that
The Eastern schism Catholics and the Roman Catholics are one church with internal differences...No, the church does not teach condemnation for denying the supremacy of the Pope.
the differences between the various Catholic branches are very minor in nature but serious only to those seeking total unity. Catholics of whatever branch are ALL CATHOLIC and represent the totality of Christianity.
As far as comparing Catholic divisions with the various protestant denominations, there is no analogy at all. The Protestant denominations are all independent of one another...they certainly share a majority of Christian heritage, but ALL of them differ on the interpretation of serious areas of Christian doctrines.All the Catholic groups KNOW that they are right and All of the protestant denominations think that they alone are right.
The restrictions on meat on Friday, eating for a certain time before Communion..all church rules, the abstinance from meat, for example wasn't even nearly universal...very localized. The sin, if one violated the rule, was denying that Christ's church (Catholic) had the authority to guide its members.
But, of course, you should know all this but because you couldn't understand it, you decided to make your own rules.......and then you accuse the Catholic church of doing exactly the same thing....O.K. for you, not O.K. for millions of Catholics before you....