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How is christianity a faith based on the teaching of one text the bible divided into so many denominations? |
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Assuming that you hold all denominations equal in the respect that they are all leading you in the ways of the Lord...
Denominations start by interpretation.
For example; a popular Proverb, "spare the rod and spoil the child". For the traditionalist, this means: "Warning, if you neglect to punish your child for being bad, the bad behavior will continue!". However, for someone more 'progressive', this could mean: "God says don't punish the child for being bad, smother them with gifts instead, and spoil them!".
Or howabout this one in John 1:1; "In the beginning the word was, and the word was with god, and the word was a god." This is great fodder for Trinitarians (believers in that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are all one entity, and that God sent a 'piece' of Himself down to Earth to die...) For traditionalists this signifies that God created Jesus in the beginning of Creation . . . and was then with (in His presence) God . . . and then became a force of Creation, along with God . . .
That is just 2 verses in over 1500 pages of the Bible, imagine how many other interpretations are floating around out there waiting to become the next 'progressive' church . . .
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