Protestantism

it was founded in the 1900s with no clear founder.

The only church founded in 33AD is the Catholic Church. history and scriptures proves that. Seek it.

You must first obtain a marriage license from your local region ... usually the County Recorders office, or possibly a City office ... depends on your state.

Then, license in hand, you are almost ready for marriage. Select the church you wish to have the ceremony and arrange for several counseling sessions with its pastor. He or she will advise you of the next steps to be taken, as that varies from one religion to another.

Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod was created in 1820.

Tension between Catholics and Protestants increased.

Humanism became more popular.

A Web site that does not agree with Billy Graham nonetheless retracted its claim that he was a Mason after receiving a statement from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association that said, in part:

1. BGEA does not have an official position on Freemasonry. Mr. Graham's response that he is not, has not, and does not expect ever to be involved in Freemasonry is as close to any policy that we have.

2. Freemasons do not have compatible beliefs with fundamental Christianity.

3. We would not suggest that a person take an oath of Freemasonry.

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Those outside of Freemasonry and its inner circle of secrets, who have not audited their customs, who do not recognise the ciphers embellished in written signatures, or do not otherwise understand the distortions they encode into Masonic written signatures - will never be able to dicipher a Freemason from a profane.

An honest, non freemason, with no hidden agenda, with no reason to conceal their true identity will use a written signature that does not employ known masonic ciphers or replace an actual "true" name with other characters that indicate to fellow members - a membership to secret society.

Cathy Burns wrote a book on the subject of "masons" but time and time again many are too unaware of the Masonic Cipher System that exists outside of pigpen. Many freemasons have more than ONE written signature - take it from those that have seen the evidence and done the research.

in fact it never ends because it is a religion and that people are believers of god that is why church may never end unless people decfide to end it... phiscally -3001022 The Roman Catholic liturgical year ends on the Saturday following the Feast of Christ the King. The actual date varies from year to year, but generally falls around the end of November. The first Sunday of Advent opens the new liturgical year, and this day generally falls around the end of November or early December.

over 35,000 who all disagree with each other on at least one thing.

It depends on how you define 'protestant'.

Originally they were a group that split from the Catholic sect of Christianity. Since then there have been hundreds of further splits and new sects created, each of which may be called protestant 'protestants'

Sure a bishop can marry. See for yourself at 1 Timothy 3:2. However, he should be a husband of one wife.

In the Roman Catholic Church Bishops are taken from the priests and conscecrated. The current ruling in the Catholic Church is that Bishops may not be married. There have been at different times in the Church men ordained to the priesthood who have been married - currently we have ordained priests from the Episcopal church who are married. But in the Latin rite and in other rites, such as the Maronites, these married priests are never considering for the bishopric. All men when ordained to any major order in the church take a vow of celibacy which means that if ordained as a deacon and their wife dies, they may not remarry. So, there may be married priests or deacons, but not bishops; and no ordained clergy could ever get married.

As the first contributer above pointed out, there were married Bishops in the first century, but Bishops could not get married

the swallow was a small bird on both paintings

Yes - Presbyterians from Scotland were a significant group in the early colonies and they organized the church along Presbyterians lines, of course. One of the concepts that they employed in structuring their church government was that the authority in the church is divided among the various groups. Thus, the pastors have certain rights and duties, the Session (made up of people elected from the congregation) have others, and the local Presbytery (a group of Presbyterian churches in an geographical area) has yet another sets of rights and duties. For example, the Session alone determines the church budget, while the pastors are the ones who decide who should be baptized. However, the local Presbytery actually owns the church's property.

This all sounds boring perhaps, as it is the old separation of powers in the Federal government as we learned in school. But the Presbyterians had the idea first and the US founders adopted it.

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Yes, it is an international evangelical Christian denomination of the Methodist / Wesleyan tradition.

The Church of the Nazarene's Manuel states that they are of the Wesleyan/Armenian tradition. The church traces its history from the Holiness Movement that Separated from the Methodist Church.

Catholic Church was corrupt after chaos of the Black Plague

Latest Pope had gotten greedy and threw huge feasts. Soon he ran out of money and started selling indulgences. These basically forgave you of you sins.

People wanted more power for the people

The printing press made it easy to get you opinion out.

Candles symbolizes light. Jesus is the Light of the World. The candles symbolizes Jesus, the Light of the World. BTW, some candles are specially dedicated for individual saints. It helps prayers/help for intercession come faster to the saints.

This was the Council of Trent, which was held at various times in a twenty-year period during the mid-1500's.

To Protestants, mass as understood and conducted by the Roman Catholic church represents beliefs that are not founded upon Scripture. In particular, they object to the doctrine of transubstantiation, that during the mass the bread and wine are transformed in essence into the body and blood of Jesus. For one thing, this says (to the Protestants) that the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross is being re-done, that his original death on Golgotha was not enough to completely pay for all of our sins.

There is, generally speaking, one Lutheran Church. What unifies that Church is the subscription to the Book of Concord as an exposition, or summary, of the truths of the Church. The Book of Concord essentially expresses that the major authority on matters of faith are the books of the canonical Old and New Testaments (the Bible,) validates the three historic ecumenical creeds (Nicene, Apostles and Anasthasian Creeds), and aims to define the basic precepts of authentic, Biblical and historic Christian faith.

While there are numerous, almost uncountable, synods, dioceses and geographical jurisdictions of the Lutheran Church, the aforementioned basic precepts of faith are the defining and unifying core. It is true that there are differing interpretations of certain aspects of these core beliefs and that is the basis for any dissent amongst Lutherans. Worship, practice and language inevitably vary from culture to culture throughout the world.

The Lutheran World Federation is the largest world-wide, formal organization of Lutherans. In the United States the three largest national synods ("synod" meaning "walk together") are the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,) the LC-MS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod,) and WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.) Each of these organizational bodies subscribes the the Book of Concord.

The Book of Concord Contains:

The Augsburg Confession and Apology of the Augsburg Confession. When the early Lutheran reformers were asked to defend their attempt to return to the beliefs of the early Church, they answered with this "Confession and Apology (apology meaning "defense.") These writings are devoted to the most important of these reforms of the faith: the doctrine of justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

The Small and Large Catechisms. Luther was appalled at the lack of knowledge of the priests and laity of the Church of his day. He wrote these handbooks, in simple and easy to understand question and answer format, answering each directly from the Bible. They have been used since that time to understand and teach the Christian faith. These writings focus on six central topics: the ten commandments, the Apostle's creed, the Lord's Prayer, Holy Baptism, Confession and Absolution, and the Sacrament of the Altar (Holy Eucharist.)

The Smacald Articles and the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope. During the time of the early reformation, the Roman Catholic leaders and Vatican authorities had gained great worldly power over the people. In these writings, the reformed Church claims its freedom from the ever-increasing, imposed power of those authorities.

The Formula of Concord. After Luther's death, there were many questions as to how the reformed Church would move on in unity ("concord" meaning "unity" or "harmony.") These writings answered those questions and achieved that unity.

Traditionally Protestants have been located in North Western Europe, Australia and in North America. However, they are now growing fast in China, South and Central America, and in Africa.

The role of the godparent is to assist the parents in bringing up their children in the practice of the Catholic Faith. Therefore to be eligible to be a "godparent" it is necessary that the person be a practicing catholic. A Protestant may be a "Christian Witness" but may not serve in the capacity of godparent in the Baptism ceremony. There must be at least one person who serves as a godparent.

1517, the year when Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses Against Indulgences on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenburg , is commonly seen as the year when the Protestant Reformation began. However, it is difficult to say precisely when an actual split occurred as there were a number of protestant groups and quite a number of negotiations occurring at this time.

Luther himself remained a Catholic for some years and originally was aiming for reform. So an actual split occurred gradually, although there were a number of key events such as the Diet of Worms in 1521, where the vote went against Luther and he was then 'kidnapped' and hidden for his own protection. Prior to this he had burned a Papal Bull on December 10, 1520, indicating the firmness of his conviction regarding his own works (the Bull had called for the burning of Luther's Works). After he came out of Wartburg Castle where he had been hidden he continued the work of church reform, particularly in worship.

There are consecutive protestant histories also going on at this time and also a little later with other Protestant groups involving such people as Zwingli and Calvin.

Think about what baptism is. All it is is a way to announce to the world that you are a Christian. It is a symbolic thing. It would be better if you did so you have better testimony to people.

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