Will Jews, Christians, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Muslims be united under a same church one day?
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No.  While we all believe in the same god, there are major differences.\n\nChristians believe in God and Jesus Christ as His son.\n\nJews believe in God but do not believe in Jesus Christ.\n\nMuslims believe in God but do not believe Jesus Christ was the son of God, but rather a Prophet, and that Mohamed was His messenger, which Christians and Jews do not.
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I think if you follow Christ then yes we should all be united.\n\nEach denomination is just who believes what...I want to belong to the denomination that follows the one true Bible!  There isn't one so that is why I don't claim a denomination.\n\nAll this denominational stuff is just silly.\n\nGod Loves YOU\nHeather :)
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Very similar.  Greek Orthodoxy is a national church.  Catholicism is more universal in its leadership an application of faith.  Calendars for feast days do differ at times.  Prayers, saints, liturgies are similar.
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Dang, well first of all you have the catholics protestants and orthodox. then youcan split the orthodox in to a bunch of different gruops,I'm not sure of their names. then you have protestant denominations like 2nd and 7th day adventists, baptist luthereans methodists mormons and then thousands of non denominational churches plus many other kinds including cults like the branch davidians and the peoplebehind the jamestown massacre.
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They have different beliefs.  You cannot unite them, no way.  If Christians stop making fun of Muslims, it might happen, till then.....let's keep hoping.  By the way, do they make fun of others? or is it just the Muslims the easy target?
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Jesus said His Church would be “the light of the world.” He then noted that “a city set on a hill cannot be hid” (Mt 5:14). This means his Church is a visible organization. It must have characteristics that clearly identify it and that distinguish it from other churches. Jesus promised, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Mt 16:18). This means that His Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from Him. His Church will survive until His return.\n\nAmong the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of todays Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.) \n\nOnly the Catholic Church existed in the 10th century, in the 5th century, and in the 1st century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history. \n\nEven the oldest government is new compared to the papacy, and the churches that send out door-to-door missionaries are young compared to the Catholic Church. Many of these churches began as recently as the 19th or 20th centuries; some even began during your own lifetime. None of them can claim to be the Church Jesus established. \n\nThe Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Churchs divine origin. It must be more than a merely human organization, especially considering that its human members - even some of its leaders - have been unwise, corrupt, or prone to heresy. \n\nAny merely human organization with such members would have collapsed early on. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with over a billion members - one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.
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NO I THINK THE RELIGION WILL BE GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH CERTAIN PRINCIPLE TO LIVE TOGETHER AND GET THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER TOGETHER AND TO FIGHT WITH NATURAL CLIMAXES IN THE OLD DAYS BUT WITH THE PASSING OF TIME IT IS USED FOR THE POLITICAL PURPOSE.
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You said it sister! Remember that there was only one denomination for over 1500 years. We should put aside our petty differences in doctrine and unite in Truth and Holiness, all under the banner and Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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No.  The nation is divided into parts.  All those parts will never get along with all the other parts so long as religion and politics are intertwined together, which I think will be always.  Look at India...they had Hindus, Muslims, and Sikks.  They were divided along the lines of religion and politics.  They will always be at odds with each other until these two things become separate or one.
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Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhim, Hinduism
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we also believe that not all so called Christians will. but there will be a lot of Jews in heaven.
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You sir are correct!\n\nLet me strengthen your argument a bit. When Jesus prays "Let them be one, like you and I are one", this is not a pray of something that Jesus would like to happen, but rather this is a statement of fact. Remember that the Father hears all that the Son prays for and the Son only does what the Father wills. The prayers of Christ are affectious prayers, meaning that they create the outcome. So the Church is in fact one as the Father and the Son are one. How are the Father and the Son one? "They share the same Spirit" is a classical answer. If we meditate on that while doing Lectio Divinia we can reach a very strong understanding of how the Church is one. I will leave that task to each individual on the board as it is often better to come to a large truth by walking there one's self.\n\nProtestantism, if one studies its history and look at the direction that things head, over time unties itself on two fronts, one being a complete ahistorical non-doctrinal progressive group, and the other being one that tries to re-create the early Church but eventual jumps ship and goes back to the Faith once they realize that the ship wasn’t lost. When you look at ever split in Protestantism it is either towards a historical understanding of the faith or away from it. It is not really possible to say that there is hope within Protestantism, that is Protestantism being any sort of unifying force (besides of course from the "we hate Rome" stchk) because the beliefs are just too diverse at fundamental points.\n\nThe Orthodox, though, that is were real unity lies. Protestants jump and swim the Tiber. Protestant organizations at the institutional level cannot join the Catholic Church because they lack the marks of being a Church. Rather individuals have to convert. The Orthodox are Churches, and though there are sticky highly detailed theological issues to workout, their can be agreement and a consensus of thought. What is even better is that the Orthodox do not need to convert! The Eastern Catholic Churches hold 99.9% of the same beliefs as their Orthodox counterparts. So it is just a process of normalizing relations and unifying the scope of accepted belief. However, there is huge cultural tension between the east and the west so there is a problem with the animosity that the people in the pews feel towards Rome.\n\nThe best thing that I can do personal is to know the traditions of the East so that when I talk about Catholicism I can give the WHOLE picture and not just the western picture. This also can help with Protestants because instead of saying Rome did this and believed this, you can talk about how the East did this and that and believed along side Rome. Too often people in American only see things in terms of "Roman" Catholicism, when that is only a part of the totality of Catholicism. Eastern Catholic are Catholic too and they have great resources. And as a bonus, Protestant polemics hasn't dealt with Eastern thought and terminology so they are not ready for it and you can shock them into thinking outside of their box.
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While there are many world religions, there are only three that call for worship of one God: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. All of the other major religions, from Hinduism to Buddhism to Shintoism, don't really deal with the issues of salvation as we understand it, of heaven and hell.\nAs for Judaism, we as Christians believe in the same God and the same revelation they do, plus the New Testament. As the Holy Father has pointed out, Christians are all "spiritual Semites" (spiritually united with the Jews and the faith of Abraham). Basically, Christians are what you could call “Messianic Jews,” that is, we are "adopted" Jews who believe Jesus was the long awaited Jewish Messiah;..the Savior. We have been grafted into the family tree. Of course, our faith has grown considerably from there as well. While we have significant theological differences with traditional Judaism (primarily revolving around Christ), our understanding of morality is of the same basic cloth. \n\nWe should never forget our roots. We should never forget that Jesus was a Jew (who attended synagogue), as were his mother and adoptive father, all the apostles and even the first pope (Peter). Almost all of the first "believers" were Jews, and they all attended synagogue as well. While it is true that some Jews called for His execution (particularly those threatened by Jesus as a potential leader who threatened their hold on power), the Catechism reminds us that every human who has ever lived bears responsibility for his crucifixion. We are all responsible.
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Ummmm...here it's called the Nicene Creed.  A majority of protestant churches follow this.  Maybe you should read it...\nMajority of protestants repeat this every sunday during service.\n\nQuoted from the Creed:\n"We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church"
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Wow - there are tens of thousands. Nobody could ever hope to get them all into one posting, it would take days to write.\n\nThe basic breakdown:\n\nANCIENT ECCLESIA:\n\n- Eastern Orthodox\n- Coptic Church\n- Catholic Church\n- Armenian Church\n\nVIA MEDIA:\n- Anglican/Episcopal Church\n\nPROTESTANT:\n- Lutheran\n- Methodist\n- Prebyterian\n- Quaker\n\nEVANGELICAL:\n- Baptist\n- Free churches\n\nCHARISMATIC:\n- Pentecostal\n\nOTHER:\n- Universalist unitarians\n- Mormons (LDS)\n- Jehovah's witnesses\n- Unitarian Universalists\n- Oneness Pentecostal\n- Seventh Day Adventists
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Right. They all worship the One True God, written and spelled differently in Aramaic and in Arabic. All monotheistic religions are basically one and the same.
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Yes, and so will the Lutherans and Christians in many other churches, as well.  \n\nLong long ago, before our churches split apart, some scholars put together a three-year liturgical cycle.  Readings from the gospels are matched up with readings on a similar theme from the old testament and from the epistles and acts of the apostles.   \n\nIt's a pretty good system, so many of the churches decided to keep it even after they split apart from the Catholic Church.  \n\nThis Advent we will begin Year C.