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    The document discusses the founding dates and origins of various Christian denominations: - Lutheranism was founded by Martin Luther in 1517 in response to issues with the Catholic Church. - The Church of England was established in 1534 by King Henry VIII when the Pope did not grant an annulment of his marriage. - Presbyterianism was founded by John Knox in Scotland in 1560. - The Roman Catholic Church traces its origins to Jesus Christ and his apostles, with an unbroken line of Popes going back to St. Peter. It is now the largest Christian denomination worldwide.

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    The document discusses the founding dates and origins of various Christian denominations: - Lutheranism was founded by Martin Luther in 1517 in response to issues with the Catholic Church. - The Church of England was established in 1534 by King Henry VIII when the Pope did not grant an annulment of his marriage. - Presbyterianism was founded by John Knox in Scotland in 1560. - The Roman Catholic Church traces its origins to Jesus Christ and his apostles, with an unbroken line of Popes going back to St. Peter. It is now the largest Christian denomination worldwide.

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    The document discusses the founding dates and origins of various Christian denominations: - Lutheranism was founded by Martin Luther in 1517 in response to issues with the Catholic Church. - The Church of England was established in 1534 by King Henry VIII when the Pope did not grant an annulment of his marriage. - Presbyterianism was founded by John Knox in Scotland in 1560. - The Roman Catholic Church traces its origins to Jesus Christ and his apostles, with an unbroken line of Popes going back to St. Peter. It is now the largest Christian denomination worldwide.

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    How Old is Your Church?

    If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk of the
    Catholic Church, in the year 1517 and now has many divisions.

    If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry
    VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the
    right to re-marry. Queen Elizabeth is now the head of this church.

    If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the
    year 1560.

    If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of
    England, founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th
    century.

    If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in


    Holland in 1582 and consider the church a democracy.

    If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in
    England in 1744. By the way, they believed in the need for holiness and
    believed in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

    If you are Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774 and
    today more than half of them are atheists.

    If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in
    Palmyra, N. Y., in 1829 after allegedly discovering golden plates. Mormons also
    deny the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

    If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched
    it in Amsterdam in 1606. You are now divided into thousands of sects.

    If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder,
    because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.

    If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in
    London in 1865 and you deny the sacraments.

    If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion
    was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.

    If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as "Church of the


    Nazarene", "Pentecostal Gospel", "Holiness Church", "Pilgrim Holiness
    Church", "Jehovah's Witnesses", your religion is one of the hundreds of new
    sects founded by men within the past hundred years.
    If you are a Roman Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33
    by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and that its line of Popes can be traced back
    to Peter himself. The Papacy is the longest existing office in the world and the
    Catholic Church is now over 1 billion strong.

    According to the Oxford University World Christian Encyclopedia there are now (as of
    2000) 33,820 denominations and para-denominations worldwide. Did Jesus intend there
    to be 33,820 competing and contradicting Christian denominations? Please read John 17
    where Jesus prayed for the Church to be one as he was one with his Father that they
    would be perfected in unity. I am very pleased to have discovered and joined the Catholic
    Church.

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