CABL Forum - Re: Will this end the bickering? For me, yes.

And which one of the approximately 38,000 Christian denominations is doing the serving?

Here's a small list,

1 Catholicism
1.1 Catholic Church
1.1.1 The Latin Rite
1.1.2 Eastern Catholic Churches

1.2 Eastern Orthodox Church
1.3 Oriental Orthodox Church
1.4 Assyrian Church of the East
1.5 Other churches self-identified as Catholic
1.5.1 Independent
1.5.2 Orthodox
1.5.2.1 Byzantine
1.5.2.2 Oriental
1.5.2.3 Western-Rite

1.5.3 Assyrian

2 Protestantism
2.1 Pre-Lutheran Protestants
2.2 Lutheranism
2.3 Anglican Churches
2.3.1 Anglican Communion
2.3.2 Other Anglican groups

2.4 Reformed Churches
2.5 Presbyterianism
2.6 Congregationalist Churches
2.7 Anabaptists
2.8 Brethren
2.9 Methodists
2.10 Pietists and Holiness Churches
2.11 Baptists
2.11.1 Spiritual Baptists

2.12 Apostolic Churches – Irvingites
2.13 Pentecostalism
2.14 Charismatics
2.14.1 Neo-Charismatic Churches

2.15 African Initiated Churches
2.16 United and uniting churches
2.17 Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
2.18 Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
2.19 Southcottites
2.20 Millerites and comparable groups
2.20.1 Sabbath-Keeping Churches, Adventist
2.20.2 Sabbath-Keeping Churches, Non-Adventist
2.20.3 Sunday Adventists
2.20.4 Sacred Name Groups

2.21 British-Israelism
2.22 Miscellaneous/Other

3 Latter Day Saints
3.1 "Prairie Saint" denominations
3.2 Rocky Mountains denominations
3.3 Other denominations

4 Nontrinitarian groups
4.1 Oneness Pentecostalism
4.2 Unitarianism and Universalism
4.3 Bible Student groups
4.4 Swedenborgianism
4.5 Other non-Trinitarians

5 Messianic Judaism
6 Jewish Christians
7 Esoteric Christianity
8 New Thought
9 Syncretistic religions incorporating elements of Christianity

This is only a sample of the Christian religions and does not even touch on Judaism, Muslim, or any of the Eastern Religions.

What if your following the wrong one? Will god be mad at you?

Is the bible the definitive word? If so which of the primary 8 versions is the correct one?

Septuagint - 250 A.D. Written in Greek
Vulgate- 400 A.D. First version of the Bible which is canonized at the Council of Carthage in 400 A.D. Written in Latin
Luther's German Bible- 1534 A.D.
King James Version- 1611 A.D. This is the most widely used versions however it has large number of errors given that none of the writers had a decent understanding of Hebrew.
Revised Standard Version- 1952 A.D. Literal translation into American English which used the earliest possible text
New International Version- 1960's & 70's A.D. This is a very good contemporary English version. Another good contemporary English version is New King James Version (NKJV)
The Young's Literal Translation is considered as close to the originals as you can get, but how do they know? Translation by Robert Young in 1898 A.D.

There are differences between them. What if your using the wrong one?

What about the books that were said to be left out of the modern version? How can you be sure the translator did not put his own spin on it?

I am not saying there is not a God or that the bible was not inspired by him but there is a lot of room for questions and personal interpretation.

Personally I feel all modern organized religions are more a business than a place to worship God. If your happy with it (as most are) then good for you. As for me I'm happy with the relationship I have with God. It doesn't fit neatly into any of the above, but works for me.

If in the end I am wrong well then I guess that's between me and God isn't it.

Deus vobiscum

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Re: Will this end the bickering? For me, yes.