Are There Any True Christian Denominations?

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Are There Any True Christian Denominations?

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Are any Christian denominations "true" Christian?

seen da light, in a separate thread, has told us some major denominations, in his opinion, are not true Christian. Among these would be Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Continental Reformed, and Methodists.
Here is his reasoning:
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I would like to foremostly agree with the fact that certain demoninations aren't in fact true Christianity.lets take for example the catholic church.
Nowhere does it tell christians to have a pope.Nowhere does it tell us to make church such a pompous precession of fancy dressed people.
What the catholic church does,is no where in scripture.It is traditions that have been added to the word of god.
another example is of the methodist church.Here they baptise babies. the commandments are clear ,to repent and be baptised.can babies repent?they don't even know spiritual right from wrong yet.so thus it is a tradition that is questionable when compared to the biblical model(note that is how you compare churches)

I think that a biblical church is the correct demnomination.
So most likely a charasmatic modern church who only go after what god says and are guided by prayer as opposed to human planning.
A denomination that follows the word of God down to the letter.
a biblical church...

any church, whether it be of any denomination, that if compared to the biblical model,is similar or exactly the same,with no traditions added to it.
that is a true denomination.
Denominations shouldn't exist, but it has been worldly traditions added to churches that have caused people to break away from it.because they have seen that it isn't the biblical.


So my comment to him was/is, please give an example of a true Christian church.

Please tell me which church "follows the word of God down to the letter", including being "guided by prayer as opposed to human planning".
I know a few denominations which may come close to meeting his criteria, but know of none that meet it.

He has not been willing to name such a denomination unless I PM or start a new thread, so here we are.

It seems a charismatic modern church might be a good candidate, but of course they disagree about the correct application of speaking in tongues and only a very few handle snakes, re: [And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.]

One criteria I will be looking for in seen da lights true Christian church is observance of the foot washing ceremony. As the Bible says "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet."

So seen da light, are there any true Christian denominations?

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Choosing among so many historical options........

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According to recent stats, there are over five thousand, give or take a few, denominations that claim to teach in the name of Christ. We know from the considerable number of relevent scriptural passages, that not all claims can be true. How does one then make a choice? If one does not know what is true, how can one know what is false?

Now a new claim to speak in the name of Christ has been made by a new teaching. And unique among all other claims that exist in history, this one promises [God's word] to be confirmed by God in a direct, unambiguous, intervention into the natural world with a demonstration of His power, wisdom. A promise God delivers to all who have faith and by choosing an obedience to a new, single moral imperative.

So the choice is simply between a faith in existing 'theological' traditions of men who have claimed to have understood the mind of God but are unable to offer any means to confirm their boast, or one in which God proclaims his own teaching to be true by a demonstration of his own power.

I have already made my choice and tested the new teaching and I was not disappointed.

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