Ep. 296 - Why Are There So Many Christian Denominations?

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Critics of Christianity often point to its many denominations to disprove it, wondering how Christianity can be true if there is division within it; however, these divisions arise from differences in secondary issues, not core beliefs. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar dive into how denominations represent different facets of the same faith, unified under Jesus Christ. Some groups are labeled as denominations but fall outside orthodoxy, or true teaching, but this is an exception. Ray believes d...

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0:00.0	Listen, the existence of numerous Christian denominations is not necessarily a bad thing.
0:05.0	And that's one of the things that I think we have to convey to our Catholic friends or the
0:08.8	skeptics that are just raising this question with a genuine thought. It hey why are there so many different
0:15.7	denominations as you're talking about there easy right that I think Karm did a
0:19.8	really great job with Matt Slick yeah and he broke down the different sorts of
0:24.9	essentials that we need to examine here right within the denominations that have
0:30.0	the primary essentials right then we would look at them as orthodoxy it's okay
0:33.5	you you are welcome within the denomination even though we disagree in this area
0:38.1	but the primary essential issues Matt Slick breaks down, listen, we have to get these key beliefs correct in order to be considered
0:46.4	Orthodox here. We have the Trinity. We have to agree in the Trinity. The deity of Christ,
0:52.2	the Virgin Birth, Salvation by Grace through Faith
0:55.0	alone, Christ's resurrection, the Gospel, and monotheism, right? There's one God.
0:59.7	Next we have secondary essential issues. you don't necessarily have to have this
1:05.2	completely down to understand it but it's still essential it just doesn't fall
1:09.5	underneath that realm of I have to get this absolutely right in order to get to heaven.
1:14.0	Right. You have the authority of scripture, the inerancy of the Bible, justification by faith, and
1:20.9	substitutionary tell me. You don't have to completely understand those
1:24.4	areas in order just like the Trinity you don't have to completely understand the
1:27.4	Trinity in order for it to be so right and there's some overlapping in the
1:31.2	midst of this as well and then you have the non-essential issues, right?
1:34.3	The church governance, modes of baptism,
1:36.6	like you were mentioning there,
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