Something I've been wondering about is the divisions of the Church. I mean, after the great divide between Catholics and Orthodox Christians, what happened? So this post is going to essentially all about the divides: when they were and what new religion came out of it.
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There are now over 33,000 sects of Christianity that have branched off of the first Catholic Church... They have all divided when man makes an error. (Like the Protestant Reformation which occured because Catholics were, at the time, promoting indulgences.) All of the divisions occur because of:
man's ignorance
man’s failure
man’s pride
man’s lust for power and position
man’s selfishness
man wanting to do his own thing in his own way
(http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/churchhi/church12.htm, and http://www.catholicbeacon.com/timeline.htm)
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The first divisions of the Church...
So this is a chart of the divides. The sects listed on the side all branched off from Roman Catholicism at some point after the Protestant Reformation.
i totally agree with the part of why divisions occur. wholeheartedly. we are so stupid. God help us <3
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