Council of Jerusalem 0050
First Council of Nicaea 0325
First Council of Constantinople 0381
Synod of Hippo 0393
The Council of Carthage 0397 Issued a canon of the Bible
Council of Ephesus 0431
Second Council of Ephesus 0449
Council of Chalcedon 0451
Second Council of Constantinople 0553
Third Council of Constantinople 0681
Second Council of Nicaea 0787
Fourth Council of Constantinople 0870
Fourth Council of Constantinople 0880
East–West Schism 1053
First Council of the Lateran 1123
Second Council of the Lateran 1139
Third Council of the Lateran 1179
Fourth Council of the Lateran 1215
First Council of Lyon 1245
Second Council of Lyon 1274
Council of Vienne 1312
Fifth Council of Constantinople 1351
Council of Constance 1418
Council of Siena 1424
Council of Florence 1449
Synod of Constantinople 1484
Fifth Council of the Lateran 1517
The Protestant Reformation 1517
Council of Trent 1563 Vulgate
Church of England completed the King James Version in 1611
Synod of Jassy 1642
Synod of Jerusalem 1672
First Vatican Council 1870
Synod of Constantinople 1872
Second Vatican Council 1965
The History of Christianity can be summed up in one word: division.
If Jesus rose from the dead in the year 33 then there were only 17 short years before Christians started dividing. Even Christianity at it's root was a splitting from the Jewish faith.
Jesus came to fulfill the Jewish faith not divide it.
Even before Jesus there were the Samaritans and the Jews.
I see Jesus not caring about people being Samaritans Jewish or Gentile.
It makes my heart heavy spending a morning reading about countless councils over the last two thousand years all of them excluding and undoing and redoing. Over and over and over.
None of it looks anything like Jesus' actions and teachings.
How can any of these religions claim to know God while still remaining divided?
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
-Galatians 5
A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse. Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
-Mark 3
Show us how to love.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
-1 Corinthians 13
Lets die with the dying
Lets cry with the crying
Lets love like Jesus
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
First Council of Nicaea 0325
First Council of Constantinople 0381
Synod of Hippo 0393
The Council of Carthage 0397 Issued a canon of the Bible
Council of Ephesus 0431
Second Council of Ephesus 0449
Council of Chalcedon 0451
Second Council of Constantinople 0553
Third Council of Constantinople 0681
Second Council of Nicaea 0787
Fourth Council of Constantinople 0870
Fourth Council of Constantinople 0880
East–West Schism 1053
First Council of the Lateran 1123
Second Council of the Lateran 1139
Third Council of the Lateran 1179
Fourth Council of the Lateran 1215
First Council of Lyon 1245
Second Council of Lyon 1274
Council of Vienne 1312
Fifth Council of Constantinople 1351
Council of Constance 1418
Council of Siena 1424
Council of Florence 1449
Synod of Constantinople 1484
Fifth Council of the Lateran 1517
The Protestant Reformation 1517
Council of Trent 1563 Vulgate
Church of England completed the King James Version in 1611
Synod of Jassy 1642
Synod of Jerusalem 1672
First Vatican Council 1870
Synod of Constantinople 1872
Second Vatican Council 1965
The History of Christianity can be summed up in one word: division.
If Jesus rose from the dead in the year 33 then there were only 17 short years before Christians started dividing. Even Christianity at it's root was a splitting from the Jewish faith.
Jesus came to fulfill the Jewish faith not divide it.
Even before Jesus there were the Samaritans and the Jews.
I see Jesus not caring about people being Samaritans Jewish or Gentile.
It makes my heart heavy spending a morning reading about countless councils over the last two thousand years all of them excluding and undoing and redoing. Over and over and over.
None of it looks anything like Jesus' actions and teachings.
How can any of these religions claim to know God while still remaining divided?
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
-Galatians 5
A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse. Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
-Mark 3
Show us how to love.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
-1 Corinthians 13
Lets die with the dying
Lets cry with the crying
Lets love like Jesus
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War