Bible Question:
Why are there so many different churches yet proffesing to worship the same GOD and using the very same Bible? Which one is the true/right one? |
Bible Answer: I can only tell you it's always been this way. Even with the very strict Law of Moses, there had developed several different sects, two of which Jesus criticized rather harshly (Saducees and Pharisees). He called both of them vipers as neither of them had a true devotion to God. You might be interested in knowing the Law of Moses had more than 600 ordinances, laws which had to be strictly adhered to. So, when Christ and His official representatives, the Apostles provided an amazing small amount of guidance in comparison, that set the scene for the tremendous variety of mankind to mess up God's will even worse. I suppose you already know about the abuses from the Catholic church; they're well documented in Halley's Bible Handbook. Then the Reformation and the Restoration took place, leaving the world a tremendous variety of procedures and topics of controversies. Taking the Bible simply as God intended sounds like a wonderful thing but it's been my experience that it's far more difficult to do. Our Lord prayed for unity and the Apostles commanded "one faith, one body, one baptism..." but it doesn't look that's going to happen during our lifetime. The best thing to do is to study God's Word to the best of your ability and look for fellow disciples who are just as devoted to following God's Word as you are. This Forum is a good thing and I'd encourage you to keep participating. It inspires you to dig deeper and find out what God really says about a subject. That way, we can discard all the other stuff and just go with what He says. God bless. |
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