Why can't Christians agree?

HI Pose. I am a Christian (a Roman Catholic). As you might know Christianity is a big world which comprise of Catholics Protestants, Anglicans and several other groups. Some division occurred over a theological point of view, in other occasions division was more a question of authority and power. Division is not a phenomena of the Christian religion only. For example there are other denominations in Islam. There are the Sunni's, Sufi's and Shia's. Different countries, different people view God differently and I am not shocked that people belong to different churches or religious groups.

True Christian do not argue with fellow Christians because God has made us totally different from each other in all aspects. We based our faith from the Holy Bible and focus our mind to God. We have a saying that action speaks louder than words. Please visit http://www.bennyhinn.org where you can see or know that God still makes miracles today.

My thought is everyone interprets the Word in their own way, causing division. (Something the enemy loves of course.) This is why whenever I have a serious question about something, I tend to ask someone who can read the original Hebrew and can translate it correctly because the language has a different root word meaning than what was translated. It all comes down to the root meaning, for instance in either the King James or NIV version in the NT it talks about Easter. Bit mistake because Easter was not celebrated at that time, they mistranslated it, it means Passover, not Easter in that verse.

Hi, Pose123. This is very common in many churches. They seem to have their own philosophy of how they should come together with God. They don't have the same understanding and that makes the division. It is so sad because when it all balls down to it, there can be only one religion and that is the word of God alone. No other religion or teaches can stand up against this.

Ah yes. Everybody wants to rule the world. I see this as mankind's greatest problem. It will take some time for mankind to outgrow this one.

We human have a different level of thinking, we cannot agree or disagree of what people thought if it is wright or wrong unless we have a concrete evidence to prove it. Lots of people are easily be convince, just showing the good side of a religion. Come to think of it, we had a lots of religion but it only follows the same God, We Christian believe in Jesus Christ, some religion does not believe Jesus Christ as at the son of our God. But We Believe in only One God, unless that church is not from God we believe in. Why religion is divided, why we have a lot of it... As what i think is the way how they worship God, some find it not comfortable, some they see that there is a wrong with their teaching, sometimes it was the preachers fault and not the church itself. God divided the church to spread his teaching and not to divide people with different teaching, its up to us followers how we define it, what and how to follow our own religion.

Four that is all? To make matters even worse even inter-denominations have issues with each other. How many different Baptist are there? I lived at one time in a community that had four different Missionary Baptist Churches with in a couple of miles of each other, with two of them just a couple of blocks from yet other. The reason was that church member got angry one day and left to form their own church yet remaining the same denomination.

If Christians can't agree among themselves, how can they expect to convince others to join them? Thats a really interesting question and I'll definately be back in here to see what kind of replies you get because i'm curious to know as well....I would also like to know why is it that the Christian groups that disagree with other Christian groups feel its okay to belittle those they disagree with..I see/hear/read that sort of thing goin on often over the yrs and I'd love to know how they justify it since its far from true Christian behaviour ya know...

It's as simple as, "why can't humans agree". I'm not sure if you're aware that all religions are like this, but they are. Its a thing called doctrine. If you read the Bible or any religious text, it is obvious that anyone can interpret these texts differently.

It's all a power play, Like children teasing each other. " I know something you don't and that makes me closer to God" If you take that and add money and other self importance to the mix, you have the stupid bickering that goes on around Christians. But never think for one moment that other religions are immune to this, it happens in all of them.

hello friend, In my opinion,people had different understanding when it comes to biblical words. As what you have said...some read and interpret it literally. There are words that were written in literal meanings and some were spiritual too. That makes the bible complicated. And this make the christian people leads into division of faith too. Kindly check this link,hope you can find some answers too: this is not a referral link :) http://esoriano.wordpress.com/ask-bro-eli/

I think that regardless to whatever religion you are this may happen. I myself is a christian and forever will be. As a christian I really want to spread the good news to everyone as much as i can. You have a point, how can they invite more people if they dont agree among themselves. I guess they need to establish their own grounds and prove that they do deserve to be guide to God's way. If I were you join them , please do tell them about what is currently happening and from that you may be the answer to their problem. Wishing for the good of your church and other church's. Unity is one way showing our love to God. God bless and thanks for sharing this wonderful discussion.