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 | "Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to
Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution;
it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an
enterprise." Sam Pascoe
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America, it became a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.) |
| "Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words."
-- Francis of Assisi. |
| "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and
deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses
knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
Paul, Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV) |
A place to begin:
We recommend that you read these items first: Otherwise the remaining information may not make much sense.- Background information on Christianity, and
why this web site is very different from most.
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A very brief introduction to Christianity Who is a Christian? Divisions among Protestant denominations (Some people look upon the Protestant wing of Christianity as composed of two or more separate religions.) Differences between Roman Catholicism and conservative Protestantism (There are major gaps, and they are growing.) How Christians interpret the Bible. (They start with different assumptions and reach totally different conclusions.)
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Christianity, the religion:
Christian faith groups:
One source estimates that there are 34,000 separate Christian groups in the world.
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| Four to seven meta-groups, (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism......) |
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| Fifteen Religious families, (Adventist, Baptist, Lutheran, Reform....) |
| Dozens of denominations, (from the Amish to The Way), and |
| Many systems of belief (Arminianism, British Israelism, Calvinism...) |
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There are problems with this quotation:
It has been variously attributed to Sam Pascoe, an American scholar and to Richard Halverson, former chaplain to the U.S. Senate. Pascoe is cited on the Internet as the author more than ten times as often as Halverson. A case can be made that Christianity did not start in Palestine. According to Acts 11, the followers of Jesus were first called Christians in Antoch. Also, the Romans imposed the name "Palestine" on the Holy Land only circa 135 CE, long after most of the books of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) were written. Finally, the first followers of Yeshua of Nazareth considered themselves a new sect within Judaism, not the followers of a new religion. -
David Barrett et al, "World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," Oxford University Press, (2001). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store
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