How EACH Christian denomination formed

why are there so many Christian denominations where did they all come from oh that's easy I came first and everyone else split from me no wa I came first and everyone else split from me okay it's debatable who really came first but all the mainstream Christian groups are rooted in the same early church Catholicism comes from the early church which was founded by Jesus and the apostles the early church had one problem though it was illegal at least in the Roman Empire which is where most Christians lived but despite being illegal Christianity kept spreading no matter how much the Romans tried to persecute it until it eventually took over the whole empire and then the Roman Empire became a Christian Empire with Rome being the capital of the church but then the Roman Empire collapsed at least the half of Rome that has Rome in it but the church in Rome survived and it kept its power so to this day Roman Catholicism preserves the heritage of the old Christian Roman Empire Eastern Orthodoxy also comes from the early church and is rooted in Imperial Christianity the difference is when the Roman Empire split into east and west and the East was the only half that survived and became the Byzantine Empire a lot of people thought it was the byzantines that were actually in charge of the church not Rome especially because it became the Byzantine emperors who would call The ecumenical councils where the most important Church decisions were made and they were still United with the Roman church but they disagreed on who was really in charge so when they had a big disagreement with Rome in the great schism each of them thought they could kick each other out of the church so Eastern Orthodoxy was the state religion of the the Byzantine Empire until the tragic Fall of Constantinople but to this day Orthodoxy keeps the heritage of the Byzantine Empire alive and Orthodoxy is all about preserving the traditions and handing Down The Faith from generation to generation Lutheran come directly out of the Protestant Reformation which is where a bunch of Catholics thought the Catholic church had gotten more corrupt over time and was abandoning the beliefs of the Bible and the early church it all started when Martin Luther nailed 95 thesis to the door of a church criticizing things like per to indulgences and the power of the pope now he was not trying to start a fight and was not trying to start a new church he favored a Reformation of the church not a revolution but he got excommunicated anyway but wait a lot of Catholics actually sympathize with Luther and they side with him over the pope and do the Reformation anyway but is he willing to side with them he's only willing to work with people who agree with his view of the Lord's Supper which is that the Bread and Wine are physically the body and blood of Christ some people do agree with him and some people don't so the Reformation splits into Lutheran and not Lutheran and the not Lutheran end up being called reformed so reformed Christianity comes from the same Protestant Reformation but it started out as kind of a union of different groups in different places with no clear leadership and sometimes they disagreed on things like the Lord's Supper they all disagreed with Luther's view but for example zwingley the Swiss reformer said the bread isn't really the body of Christ in the Lord's Supper whereas verigi the Italian reformer says it is the body of Christ for those who have have faith but then John Calvin came along and his ideas were so influential that they sort of standardized the reformed tradition he cited with vermigli's view of the Lord's supper and wrote a bunch of stuff on what he believed to be the Biblical teaching on various issues he believed in the sovereignty of God in predestination in avoiding idolatry in spiritual presence in the Lord's supper and in infant baptism and none of these things were new beliefs they had all existed previously in the Catholic church this is why reformed theology is also called Calvinism and the calvinist Reformation spread to many places which is why you have the hinos the German reformed the Hungarian reformed the Dutch reformed and the Scottish Presbyterians but we'll talk about them later anglicanism comes from the same Protestant Reformation a lot of people think it started when King Henry VII wanted to divorce his wife but all he really did was cut ties with Rome he didn't really care what the Theology of the Church of England was it was Thomas cranmer that was the theological head of the English reformation and he wanted the Church of England to embrace the reformed ideas of Calvin and ver migle but then the Church of England had a problem that went something like this I'm the new king of England and England should be Catholic no wait I'm the new king of England and England should be reformed wait I'm the new Queen of England and England should be Catholic wait I'm the new Queen of England and England should be reformed you get the idea so after several generations of seawing between reformed and Catholic the Church of England settled on a middle way between the two and that's why they made some compromises with Catholic teaching even though they are Protestant such as is having an Episcopal structure which is where the church is run by a hierarchy of Bishops except Scotland was not on board with this Presbyterians are just reformed people from Scotland the reason they're called Presbyterian is that describes how they run their Church government like a republic as opposed to Episcopal Church government which runs more like a monarchy and the episcopalians in England kept trying to impose their Church government structure on the Scottish Presbyterians hey you guys should become Episcopal no well guess what the king said so well the king is wrong it was this Spirit of rebelling against the king that actually inspired the American Revolution which is why the English called it the Presbyterian Revolt the anabaptists which is where Amish and minites are from came around the same time as the Reformation but were very different from the Reformation the anabaptists were much more of a radical Reformation or if you will a revolution the Reformation still saw itself as a continuation of the Catholic Church it still worked with the government and the secular Institution and they still baptized babies to show that being a Christian is a collective identity as well as an individual identity but the anabaptists saw themselves as starting from scratch not being from the Catholic church at all they did not work with any of the institutions they separated themselves from the secular government and they did not baptize any babies because they said being a Christian needs to be a personal and individual choice so what about like Baptists are they anabaptist well it's complicated officially they come from the church of England when a bunch of preachers split off off because they wanted their churches to be independent but their ideas were the same as a lot of anabaptist ideas like not baptizing babies being skeptical of the institutions in government and also being skeptical of traditions that were inherited from Catholicism so I guess you could say anabaptists are like the dark espresso but then they were diluted by the water of the Church of England to get Regular Baptist coffee now the congregationalists were like the Baptists in that they wanted their churches to be independent but unlike the Baptists they actually held to reformed theology and baptized babies but there was so much pressure in England to conform to the mainstream Church of England so many of the congregationalists just ran away to America on the Mayflower and became the pilgrims so the reason you eat a bunch of turkey every year and have awkward arguments with your family is because a bunch of Calvinists got too calvinist for the other Calvinists methodism was started by John Wesley by accident he didn't try to start a new church he was part of the Church of England but he thought it had gotten dry cold and spiritually dead and he lived during the first Great Awakening so he thought it needed a massive Revival and he had a method for encouraging this he went all over the place with a bunch of other Awakening preachers preaching religious revival and encouraging people to be active in their faith but this accidentally led to the formation of specifically Methodist churches the Holiness churches come from the Second Great Awakening they were a bunch of methodists who got too Methodist for the methodists they thought the normal methodists weren't methoding Harden enough they wanted people to focus a lot on striving for spiritual growth and avoiding sin and this Holiness movement spread all over the world in America you got big denominations like the Church of the Nazarene and in Nigeria you got big denominations like the Redeemed Christian Church of God now let's talk about Pentecostals they started in the early 20th century with the isua Street Revival where a bunch of people thought they had the same spiritual gifts that the apostles had like healings prophecy and speaking in tongues and and so a lot of Holiness Christians started methoding even harder saying that the method needs to include these spiritual gifts the Coptic church is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches just like the Eastern Orthodox they're rooted in the early church and in Imperial Christianity but they split from Imperial Christianity pretty early on over a theological disagreement the cops in Egypt had a saint named St serel of Alexandria who said Jesus is one not two and the Council of Ephesus sided with him but then there was another Council that the cops didn't necessarily agree with at that Council the Pope in Rome said you had to say Jesus has two natures and the cops were like wait a minute that contradicts the previous Council no it doesn't yes it does no it doesn't yes it does so the Coptic Church left Imperial Christianity because they believed the Council of Caledon left the true faith and they had their own Pope and stuff and the Oriental Orthodox churches are all the churches that side with the copics on this you have the Ethiopian Church The Armenian Church and the Syriac church and generally these were the churches that were not quite rooted in Imperial Christianity there's the moravians who were Protestant before Protestants existed they were started by this Czech dude named Yan hus who was basically the Martin Luther before Martin Luther existed the Assyrian Church of the East is another one of those early churches that split from Imperial Christianity pretty early on just like the Oriental Orthodox the difference between them and the Oriental Orthodox is this remember how St serel won that theological debate yeah the Assyrians were the people he won the debate against because they followed the teachings of a guy named theorius the restorationists are a recent movement which gave us the Churches of Christ and The Disciples of Christ that really aren't Protestant at all they try to just rebuild Christianity from scratch entirely because of that they don't use any Creeds or confessions so they are not rooted in the early church but although the Christian family tree has many branches all the branches have the same Roots which is the one message about Jesus

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