Denomination Test...???

[True-believer]

I have recently created a denomination test. Basically you answer 24 quick questions and the test tells you what denomination most closely matches your beliefs. Of coarse it is only a rough estimate as essentially we go to the church God tells us to Go to and 24 questions can only survey a small amount of denominational differences . But its fun and so far fairly accurate !

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=denom

my results were:

My #1 is: Baptist

My #2 is: Pentecostal

My #3 is: Seventh day adventist

My #4 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)

My #5 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)

My #6 is: Anglican

My #7 is: Lutheran (LCMS)

My #8 is: Quaker

My #9 is: Presbyterian (USA)

My #10 is: Lutheran (ELCA)

My #11 is: Catholic

My #12 is: Presbyterian (AUS)

My #13 is: Jehovahs witness

My #14 is: Orthodox

My #15 is: Mormonism

I'm not surprised at all about my results!!!

[Planey]

For what it's worth:

• 1 is: Seventh day adventist
• 2 is: Pentecostal
• 3 is: Baptist
• 4 is: Anglican
• 5 is: Lutheran (LCMS)
• 6 is: Presbyterian (USA)
• 7 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)
• 8 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)
• 9 is: Quaker
• 10 is: Lutheran (ELCA)
• 11 is: Jehovahs witness
• 12 is: Presbyterian (AUS)
• 13 is: Orthodox

Graeme

[Robert]

My #1 is: Seventh day adventist

My #2 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)

My #3 is: Baptist

My #4 is: Anglican

My #5 is: Presbyterian (USA)

My #6 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)

My #7 is: Pentecostal

My #8 is: Lutheran (LCMS)

My #9 is: Quaker

My #10 is: Lutheran (ELCA)

My #11 is: Jehovahs witness

[Kountzer]

I don't think God tells anyone to break his commandments and go to church on Sunday.

[GreatLakesGramma]

#1: Seventh-day Adventist

#2: Pentecostal

#3: Baptist

My former church, United Methodist, comes at #8

[True-believer]

I don't think God tells anyone to break his commandments and go to church on Sunday.

It's not breaking God's commandments and going to Church on Sunday... It's called giving respect to those in our Christian family--the whole Christian Denominations, and respecting them for what they believe to be in the Bible.

All the Christian denominations listed are our brothers and sisters in the Lord, so we ought to be there for them and respect them for how they interpret the Bible...

Some could say the Sabbath is one day per week, and others will say its been transformed as a 24/7 everyday rest in Christ, and still others say its Sunday...

We must NOT believe what they teach, but we can still respect them, for they are family in God's Kingdom.

[Kountzer]

What a bunch of junk.

[BobRyan]

My #1 is: Seventh day adventist

My #2 is: Pentecostal

My #3 is: Baptist

My #4 is: Anglican

My #5 is: Lutheran (LCMS)

My #6 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)

My #7 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)

My #8 is: Presbyterian (USA)

My #9 is: Jehovahs witness

My #10 is: Orthodox

My #11 is: Lutheran (ELCA)

My #12 is: Quaker

My #13 is: Presbyterian (AUS)

My #14 is: Catholic

My #15 is: Mormonism

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Apparently the top two or three are the only significant ones -- the rest are just being "sorted" since they are there and in fact all of those denominations believe at least "something" in the list.

in Christ,

Bob

[phkrause]

1-SDA

2-Pentecostal

3-Baptist

4-Anglican

5-Presbyterian (USA)

6-Lutheran (LCMS)

7-Methodist (Weslyian)

8-Methodist

9-Quaker

10-Jehovahs Witness

11-Presbyterian (AUS)

12-Lutheran

13-Orthodox

14-Catholic

15-Mormon

[Liz]

#1 SDA

#2 Pentecostal

#3 Anglican

My question is, what is "Anglican"?

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

My #1 is: Seventh day adventist

My #2 is: Pentecostal

My #3 is: Baptist

My #4 is: Anglican

My #5 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)

My #6 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)

My #7 is: Presbyterian (USA)

My #8 is: Orthodox

My #9 is: Lutheran (LCMS)

My #10 is: Quaker

My #11 is: Presbyterian (AUS)

My #12 is: Catholic

My #13 is: Jehovahs witness

My #14 is: Lutheran (ELCA)

My #15 is: Mormonism

[Robert]

I don't think God tells anyone to break his commandments and go to church on Sunday.

It doesn't matter what day you go to church....Go on Monday.

[Robert]

What a bunch of junk.

Oh, other Christians are second rate? That's self-righteousness, the same sin that caused many Jews to be lost some 2000 years ago. Don't make the same mistake.

[Bravus]

Liz, 'Anglican' is what 'Episcopal' is called in the rest of the world.

[Bravus]

Nice work on building it, Luke - it's well designed and well thought out.

My results might be a surprise to some here.

My #1 is: Seventh day adventist

My #2 is: Presbyterian (USA)

My #3 is: Presbyterian (AUS)

My #4 is: Quaker

My #5 is: Anglican

My #6 is: Lutheran (ELCA)

My #7 is: Pentecostal

My #8 is: Jehovahs witness

My #9 is: Lutheran (LCMS)

My #10 is: Baptist

My #11 is: Mormonism

My #12 is: Orthodox

My #13 is: Methodist (United Methodist Church)

My #14 is: Methodist ( Weslyian church)

My #15 is: Catholic

[carolaa]

There's hope for you yet, Bravus!

[Not Cloned]

It doesn't matter what day you go to church....Go on Monday.

I am not sure as to what you are trying to communicate. I believe it does not matter when you "do" attend church. What is the key is when you don't go to church. It is not what you include it is what you exclude. Following God's direction is key. If God direct us to give 10 percent tithe is it acceptable to say well 3 percent is acceptable? One worships on the day that divine imperative tells them. It is a matter of a relationship with a Savior and a choice to follow Him.

[Robert]

Following God's direction is key. If God direct us to give 10 percent tithe is it acceptable to say well 3 percent is acceptable? One worships on the day that divine imperative tells them. It is a matter of a relationship with a Savior and a choice to follow Him.

Sorry...not under law. Go bug someone else.

[carolaa]

The Sabbath was made before the law.

[phkrause]

Here you go Liz, I googled Anglican: Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith. Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs, worship and church structures.[1] The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 meaning the English Church. Adherents of Anglicanism are called Anglicans. The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion.[2] There are, however, a number of churches outside of the Anglican Communion which also consider themselves to be in the Anglican tradition, most notably those referred to as Continuing Anglican churches.

The faith of Anglicans is founded in the scriptures, the traditions of the apostolic church, the apostolic succession – "historic episcopate" and the early Church Fathers.[1] Anglicanism forms one of the branches of Western Christianity; having definitively declared its independence from the Roman pontiff at the time of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. The earliest Anglican formularies corresponded closely to those of contemporary Reformed Protestantism; but by the end of the 16th century, the retention in Anglicanism of many traditional liturgical forms and of the episcopate was already seen as unacceptable by those promoting the most advanced Protestant principles. In the first half of the 17th century the Church of England and associated episcopal churches in Ireland and in England's American colonies were presented by some Anglican divines as comprising a distinct Christian tradition, with theologies, structures and forms of worship representing a middle ground, or via media, between Reformed Protestantism and Roman Catholicism; a perspective that came to be highly influential in later theories of Anglican identity. Following the American Revolution, Anglican congregations in the United States and Canada were each reconstituted into an independent church with their own bishops and self-governing structures; which, through the expansion of the British Empire and the activity of Christian missions, was adopted as the model for many newly formed churches, especially in Africa, Australasia and the regions of the Pacific. In the 19th century the term Anglicanism was coined to describe the common religious tradition of these churches; as also that of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which, though originating earlier within the Church of Scotland, had come to be recognised as sharing this common identity.

The degree of distinction between Reformed and western Catholic tendencies within the Anglican tradition is routinely a matter of debate both within specific Anglican churches and throughout the Anglican Communion. Unique to Anglicanism is the Book of Common Prayer, the collection of services that worshippers in most Anglican churches used for centuries. While it has since undergone many revisions and Anglican churches in different countries have developed other service books, the Prayer Book is still acknowledged as one of the ties that bind the Anglican Communion together. There is no single Anglican Church with universal juridical authority, since each national or regional church has full autonomy. As the name suggests, the Anglican Communion is an association of those churches in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.[3] With over eighty[2] million members the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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[Robert]

The Sabbath was made before the law.

Yes, and when the fall happened the Sabbath lost its significance.

The fall destroyed the Sabbath’s significance, since sin is turning from God-dependence to self-dependence. Isa. 59:2 says that your sin separates you from God. Gen. 3:19 is a good text. What did God say to Adam after he fell?

From now onward you will eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.

Before that, God worked for Adam. When you read about the Garden of Eden, it says it was God who planted the garden for Adam. Now God says,

From now onward you will eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.

That means, “You will have no rest.” So the fall destroyed the significance of the Sabbath.

[Hebrews 4:1-13 (Part 3) – Christ, the True Sabbath Rest, Jack S.]

[Robert]

Originally Posted By: carolaa

The Sabbath was made before the law.

Yes, and when the fall happened the Sabbath lost its significance.

The fall destroyed the Sabbath’s significance, since sin is turning from God-dependence to self-dependence. Isa. 59:2 says that your sin separates you from God. Gen. 3:19 is a good text. What did God say to Adam after he fell?

From now onward you will eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.

Before that, God worked for Adam. When you read about the Garden of Eden, it says it was God who planted the garden for Adam. Now God says,

From now onward you will eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.

That means, “You will have no rest.” So the fall destroyed the significance of the Sabbath.

[Hebrews 4:1-13 (Part 3) – Christ, the True Sabbath Rest, Jack S.]

Also, the Sabbath of creation symbolized a perfect and complete work. Because of the fall God's work has been destroyed. Sin entered the world...Lucifer became it's god. Hence, once again, the Sabbath of creation is meaningless!

[Not Cloned]

What do we mean here when we say that Sabbath was before the law? I'm confused!

[Not Cloned]

I was told to go bug someone else. Sorry no can do. The truth of the matter is that no one has ever been saved under the law. There were those who misunderstood covenant promises and then distorted the covenant which became one of Paul's main focuses in his letters. Everyone that has ever been saved was saved the same way, through the only One who is the Way. Acts 4:12 says "no other name" only through Jesus. Obedience comes as a result of the relationship between the creature and Creator. Therefore keeping the law which includes the Sabbath is not a part of being under the law but under the everlasting covenant, Hebrews 13:20 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.”

Sorry, got to keep bugging!

[carolaa]

Also, the Sabbath of creation symbolized a perfect and complete work. Because of the fall God's work has been destroyed. Sin entered the world...Lucifer became it's god. Hence, once again, the Sabbath of creation is meaningless!

Then why did God include it in the Ten Commandments to *remember* it if it was meaningless, done away with, whatever?