Christendom

[Estro Felino]

I did want to start a thread in this section to make you understand that there is not much to debate within Christendom.

All Christians are just One thing. They just love Jesus our Lord.


So there is nothing divisive within Christendom.
Just Love. And faith in Jesus Christ

 

[ChristineM]

Except of course - over 200 versions of the bible in English alone, who knows how many in other languages and the close on 50,000 different branches of Christianity who each interpret their preferred version on the bible in the way that suites them.

Which has led to division, conflict and war. I personally believe faith in christ is the most divisive religion there is

 

[Ella S.]

Well, what about Adoptionists? Many of them don't view Jesus as the Christ or a lord.

And there's also the Gnostic Christians, who explicitly deny faith in preference of direct mystical experience. Many of them are Adoptionists, too.

The definition of Christianity you're using is one that was developed by the early Church to persecute heretics. I don't think you get more divisive than that.

 

[Estro Felino]

Well, what about Adoptionists? Many of them don't view Jesus as the Christ or a lord.

And there's also the Gnostic Christians, who explicitly deny faith in preference of direct mystical experience. Many of them are Adoptionists, too.

The definition of Christianity you're using is one that was developed by the early Church to persecute heretics. I don't think you get more divisive than that.

The term Christ means Messiah.
So a Christian is the one who believes Jesus is the Messiah.

 

[Estro Felino]

Except of course - over 200 versions of the bible in English alone, who knows how many in other languages and the close on 50,000 different branches of Christianity who each interpret their preferred version on the bible in the way that suites them.

Which has led to division, conflict and war. I personally believe faith in christ is the most divisive religion there is

Are there religious wars among Christians in 2022?

 

[ChristineM]

Are there religious wars among Christians in 2022?

Christianity is almost 2000 years old. At several points in that period there has been times without war. Yet conflict is still rife. Christian of one sect tearing into christians of another sect.

 

[Estro Felino]

Christianity is almost 2000 years old. At several points in that period there has been times without war. Yet conflict is still rife. Christian of one sect tearing into christians of another sect.

Ok...there are no religious wars.

 

[Ella S.]

The term Christ means Messiah.
So a Christian is the one who believes Jesus is the Messiah.

Except those Christians who believe that Michael, Autogenes, the disincarnate Logos, etc. are the Christ and that Jesus merely communicated with them, such as some sections of the Cathars, the Bogomils, the Ophites...

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Are there religious wars among Christians in 2022?

Yes:

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group since 1987.[20] Currently, there is low-level LRA activity in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. The movement is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the "spokesperson" of God and a spirit medium. It aims to overthrow Yoweri Museveni's Ugandan government and establish a theocratic state based on a version of the Ten Commandments and Acholi tradition.[21][22]

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency - Wikipedia

 

[Estro Felino]

Yes:


Lord's Resistance Army insurgency - Wikipedia

It is not a war.
And it is not a religion.

 

[kaninchen]

"Religious Wars" in the sense of "Wars about Religion" are pretty rare - "Religious Wars" in the sense of "Using religious differences as a means of getting people to fight to get the King/Caliph/War Lord more land and wealth" have been pretty common.

 

[ChristineM]

Ok...there are no religious wars.

As far as i know there are no christian on christian wars at the moment. There are however several Christian on anyone not Christian wars/terrorism. Anti balaka and the lords resistance army in Africa for example. Several christian terror groups in America don't seem to care whether their victims are Christians or not. And several in india

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

It is not a war.

Tell that to the people of Uganda.

And it is not a religion.

If a Christian leader trying to establish a theocracy isn't "religion," exactly what do you think would be?

 

[Sirona]

I might be wrong but the only time I had heard about the term Christendom before was derogatory, used by Jehovah's Witnesses to distinguish themselves from all other Christian denominations which they consider infidels.

 

[ChristineM]

It is not a war.
And it is not a religion.

Yet tens of thousands have been massacred by Joseph Kony and his LRA.

Joseph Kony by the way considers himself a spokesman for the Abrahamic god and has the intention of setting up a christian theocracy based on the 10 commandments.

Sounds religious (Christian) to me

 

[anna.]

I might be wrong but the only time I had heard about the term Christendom before was derogatory, used by Jehovah's Witnesses to distinguish themselves from all other Christian denominations which they consider infidels.

Christendom is often used to refer to the Christian territories in the ages of the Crusades, when the Church had political power. That's how I'm used to seeing the term used, in historical reference.

 

[viole]

I did want to start a thread in this section to make you understand that there is not much to debate within Christendom.

All Christians are just One thing. They just love Jesus our Lord.


So there is nothing divisive within Christendom.
Just Love. And faith in Jesus Christ

Tough love, I guess. And just some minor, harmless, disagreements. To be resolved in a rational and peaceful manner. For we all love Jesus, which is what counts.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Estro Felino]

Tough love, I guess. And just some minor, harmless, disagreements.

Ciao

- viole

Yiu live in Switzerland, so religiously diverse.
I bet Protestants and Catholics fight on the street from sunrise to sunset...right?

 

[Estro Felino]

Christendom is often used to refer to the Christian territories in the ages of the Crusades, when the Church had political power. That's how I'm used to seeing the term used, in historical reference.

In my language Christendom refers to the global population who is Christian.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I did want to start a thread in this section to make you understand that there is not much to debate within Christendom.

All Christians are just One thing. They just love Jesus our Lord.


So there is nothing divisive within Christendom.
Just Love. And faith in Jesus Christ

Out of curiosity, have you ever actually met any Christians? This makes it sound like you haven't.