I’m not saying that other religions and beliefs don’t have denominations by the way. But it gets to a point where eventually a belief collapses because there’s so much internal disagreement within it.
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Perhaps it is the same reason you have different positions about various scientific theories and models? Everyone is trying to get at the truth, but absolute agreement is not required (unless you’re going to bring in your heretical “pseudoscience” and then you are expelled from the Academy), and no one is omniscient, except God.
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No, it’s not the same reason. Religious denominations tend to claim that they know the truth insofar as its humanly knowable—and this “with a lot of help from our imaginary Friend”—, and that all other denominations and religions err in some, most, or even all important ways. So no, it’s absolutely not the same reason; you’re just a believer, not a scientist or philosopher.
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Those scare quotes sound a lot like you definitely know the truth on this matter. What’s your denomination?
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Despite there being oneness in the core teachings (Eph 4:4-6), there eventually was a departing from it after the apostles died off. As to why this happened, the enemy of God’s will was the ultimate culprit. So the question now is is there anywhere in Scripture that tells of a time/place when and where a true Christian organization will once again be patterned after the first century Church having no division within it? That’s essential because Jesus is the Savior of the body (Eph 5:23)
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Because Gothic princes wanted to appropriate Church land.
Scientists make the same claims that they have absolute truth so I don’t see a difference between religion and Science in regard that you talk about religion it’s just there are more denominations within religion than there is science.
Really!? 
Wow, I guess scientists are just as pathetic as religious people then…
Too many people disagree but it’s all a Biblical discussion and who you want to discuss it with.
I grew up Southern Baptist and was Baptized when I was 7.
Everything spoken about the kingdom of heaven is going on inside people and between people; there is no particular time or place (which is not to say it is not “on earth as it is in heaven”) because it is eternal.
Only when the many are one can we have a good life, choose true beauty, and value persons the way we ought.
“Only when the many are one can we have a good life, choose true beauty, and value persons the way we ought”
Eschatologically speaking, no, that would be logically impossible. If it is prophesied that we shall approach a maximum sinful state upon which time the antichrist comes and all hell breaks loose, then it would be predetermined that some people not ‘have a good life, choose beauty, value persons, etc’ so that they can become sinful and bring about the antichrist… in which case your instruction is pointless.
That’s one of my deep refutations of Christian dogma. The tangled illogical mess is there… you just gotta be good at finding it.
What shall we call it? The Eschatological Contradiction Generated Through The Impossibility Of Freewill If God Is Omniscient problem?
Ergo, people can’t be free to prevent the end of dayz if god is omniscient.
Why do you think some choose other than the good, beautiful, and true?
…it isn’t because they can’t.
Every moment is co-created (by temporal-us within omnitemporal-Creator) within its moment, not “in advance” of it, all of the co-eternal timeline complete “before” the beginning/end.
Especially today when the church has become a backyard cesspit fed porta potty of the globalist narrative with the pope being just steps away from deepthroating LGBTQ flags live on air, the meaning of a globally represented and unified religion is borderline nonsensical.
Not that this has not always been the case for every religion i.e. islam which works differently from country to country even in the middle east, but especially today when the pope is a f-ing clown that demands the abolishment of online free speech, the establishment of concentration camps during the covid pandemic, the demands for countries that consider themselves to be christian to open their borders and let themselves be raped to death…
Yeah, i think you are a bit confused about how religion works in the first place.
Denominations or not, every culture and country has its own twist on it even before the obvious outcome of the entire thing being a deeply personal concept to begin with.
So no. Christianity is just fine.
It’s “official head” the church however is now a billionaire picked sh-t pit that should be set on fire because the last thing it cares about is the religion or the scripture itself.
Imo the only reason there are so many distinct religions, and denominations within those religions, has to be that god doesn’t care what people believe. And one compelling reason for him not caring is that he doesn’t exist. There are other possible explanations of course. Maybe he’s indifferent to humans, or maybe he actually wants people to go to hell. Who knows?
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Yeah, if anything like a benevolent god existed, he would be like, “Don’t do the obviously bad shit like murder and stealing and cheating and all that… you’ll figure out how to do that when you read Marx. But stay absolutely away from that freak Moses and any of those other loons. They’re lying and i said no such thing to them on a mountain. I more of a beach guy, anyway. And i don’t need you to worship me, either. I’m GOD, you guys. I don’t spend my days watching everyone through CCTV to see who steals a candy bar. I’m far too busy holding atomic bonds together across the entire universe to worry about that. You guys gotta sort that shit out yourselves.”
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The difference is in the Karl Popper’s quote:
what we call “science” is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition - that of critically discussing the myth.
Scientists disagree and debate all the time for their interpretations of nature. And they can change their opinion without being considered “blasphemous”. Moreover, there are no holy books: if an error is found in a scientific book, they modify the book, they do not start saying “The author is omniscient and benevolent, so there should be no mistakes in the book. The author meant something else than what was actually written.”
….but can you have a conversation with your mother that draws out her natural capacity to reason towards the origins of all being, action, and meaningfulness (you know… without being a dick… and making her giggle at least one time because she knows you’re being full of shit on purpose)? Until then, you have not achieved the highest level of goofiness.
Watch the movie “expelled” by that dude Ben Stein of “Ferris Bueller‘s Day off“ fame, who apparently has money people want to win.