Just ask these people who knew better that one should eschew all those bad churches that were teaching "traditions of men" and needed to just go by the Bible alone and that the Holy Spirit guide them completely:
General Theology, lately, has been bombarded by a host of "EVERYONE IS WRONG, HERE LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO HAVE REAL CHRISTIANITY!" threads that basically say the same as we've all heard a thousand times before: denominations are bad, just use the Bible, the Holy Spirit will guide you to the fullness of the truth.
The thing that people who say these things continually ignore is that they aren't the first person to say this. Just take a glance at history over the last two hundred years. Everytime someone comes along and says these things, decides to go "Bible alone, the Holy Spirit will lead me" and start a church with these principles the result is a brand new denomination. Sometimes (oftentimes) the denomination will say it's not a denomination at all. And then people usually come along and go "Well Founder Bob certainly got it halfway right, but he didn't read the Bible quite right, so I really think it should be done this way instead" and--shockingly--a brand new denomination.
How are your concerns over recent history, the last 200 years any different than the reformation with Martin Luther? The same could be said of him and the others in his time.
It kills me that a strong church tightly controlled "true doctrine" over an illiterate church body for over a thousand years. Along comes Luther, teaches Sola scriptura, and brings the Bible to the masses, but now Lutherans behave the same as the RCC by saying things like you can't just read the Bible, you need to be taught it, 'by someone trained in the truth in a seminary'.
All churches that denominate themselves with a fixed set of doctrine behave the same as those that the OP seems to critique. Somehow the truth is developed into a set of doctrine that defines the church. After that initial "reformation", the truth can be little argued. The result when people read the Bible and find something lacking in the church's doctrine, they must split off, because churches today preach supremacy of doctrine in the unifying of a congregation.
The reason why there are so many denominations today is that everyone can read the Bible, which is a good thing. The tight control over the "true" doctrine is obviously lacking in that it has only resulted in more denominations and some might say less unified church. Many here on CF GT have been promoting the supremacy of a "unified" church to one denomination. I do not place much importance on such an agenda. I feel if one denomination did have a completely true understanding of scripture, they would be able to defend what they say with scripture with convincing arguments and many would be won over to it. I don't think any church is there yet.
Thank God that there will be a very easy doctrine test to get to heaven.
Do you believe that Jesus is God and your savior?
All other doctrines are superfluous.
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