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How Old Is Your Church?

The Catholic Church - 33 A.D. in Jerusalem. Founded by God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Our Lord named Simon (Peter) the first leader of His Church (the first Vicar of Christ on earth),
when He said to him "Thou art Peter (Rock), and upon this rock I will build my Church. I will
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 16:19) Instituted nearly 2,000 years
ago by the Son of God, it is still the same Roman Catholic Church (catholic from katholikos,
Greek for "universal", meant to be the Church for all peoples.)

The Orthodox church - 1054 A.D. in Constantinople. Founded by schismatic
Catholic Bishops who separated from the Roman Catholic Church.

The Lutheran church - 1517 A.D. in Germany. Founded by a man, Martin Luther,
an ex- monk of the Roman Catholic Church, who violated his sacred vows of both obedience
and celibacy. Luther created a brand-new protestant bible by throwing out 7 books of the Bible which
he personally didn't agree with, and added the word "alone" after the word "faith" in Romans 3:28,
in order to make the verse agree with his view of what it should have said (faith alone). This alteration
of Sacred Scripture directly contradicts James 2:24. Luther also called the Catholic Church
"the whore of Babylon", and he said that the Pope was antichrist (someone who denies
that Jesus is God). The Lutheran church now has many divisions.

The Anabaptist church - 1521 A.D. in Germany. Founded by men, Nicholas Storch
and Thomas Munzer, former Lutherans. The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism and were
denounced by Martin Luther. This "reformation of the reformation" is proof positive that the doctrine
of "scripture alone" (sola scriptura) is false. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been more than one
interpretation of scripture and no need for an Anabaptist church that totally ignores Luke 18:15-17.

The Mennonite church - 1525 A.D. in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by men, Grebel,
Mantz, and Blaurock, in Switzerland, as an offshoot of the Anabaptists. It derived its
name from Menno Simons, a former Catholic priest.

The Anglican church - 1534 A.D. in England. Founded by a man, King Henry VIII, as a direct result of the
Pope not granting him to remarry after a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Many a Catholic priest
was tortured and killed as a result of the very angry Henry wanting to take another young wife.
The Queen of England is the current head of the Anglican Church, the church of England.

The Presbyterian church - 1560 A.D. in Scotland. Founded by a man, John Knox.
Based on the personal beliefs of a man, John Calvin, which include predestination,
no free will in humans, & total depravity in mankind.

The Unitarian church - 1568 A.D. in Poland. Started in Poland, but died out. It was soon started again by a
man, John Biddle in 1645. The Unitarians do not believe in the Trinitarian God.

Dutch Reformed church - 1571 A.D. in Germany. Founded at the October 1571 in the German city
of Emden at the Synod of Emden. The Dutch Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk
or NHK) was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004,
the year it merged with the Reformed churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran
church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant church in the Netherlands.
At the time of the merger, the Church had 2 million members organized in approx.1,350 congregations.
A minority of members of the Church chose not to participate in the merger.
These former members organized the Restored Reformed Church.

The Congregational church - (The Puritans) - 1582 A.D. in Holland. English religious sect founded
by a man, Robert Brown (Robert Browne), which was originally called Brownists.
He was the first seceder from the Church of England, and the first to found a Church of his own
on Congregational principles. He founded his church at Norwich, but ended up returning to the
Church of England. Educated at Cambridge, where, in 1580, he began openly to attack the
government and liturgy of the church of England as anti-Christian. After attacking the established
church for years he was excommunicated, but was reinstated, and made a church living for over
forty years. The sect of Brownists, far from expiring with their founder, soon spread, and a bill
was brought into parliament which inflicted on them very severe pains and penalties. In process
of time, however, the name of Brownists was merged with that of the Congregationalists or Independents.
Brown rejected, among other things, the authority of bishops. One Puritan, named Oliver Cromwell,
got involved in the English Civil War, and overthrew Charles I in 1646. Cromwell and the British
government were also responsible for the subjugation and killing of hundreds of thousands of
Irish Catholics, who were also forbidden to say Mass, wear green, and sing patriotic songs.

The Baptist church - 1609 A.D. in Amsterdam. Founded by a man, John Smyth, who
launched it in Amsterdam as an offshoot of the Mennonites. Baptists reject infant baptism
as contrary to the Scriptures, and accept immersion as the sole valid mode of baptism.
The Baptist church is now divided into thousands of sects.

Dutch Reformed church in America (RCA) - 1628 A.D. in New York.
Founded by Michelis Jones, the Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed
Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 256,000 members,
with membership declining steadily for many years. From its beginning in 1628 until 1819,
it was the North American branch of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1819, it incorporated as the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The current name was chosen in 1867.

The Congregationalist church - 1648 A.D. in Massachusetts. Founded by pilgrims and puritans.

The Quakers - 1649 A.D. in England. Founded by a man, George Fox. Also called the
Religious Society of Friends (although they originally called themselves "Children of Light").
They acknowledge no authority higher than what Fox called the "inner light" of personal revelation.

The Amish - 1693 A.D. in France. Founded by a man, Jacob Amman, a Swiss Bishop
Also a breakaway from the Mennonite church. His followers were called the "Amish." While
similar to the Mennonites, they differ in language, dress, and interpretation of the Bible.

The Freemasons (Masons) - 1717 A.D. in London. According to legends, the fraternity began
during the construction of King Solomon's Temple. It was said that this undertaking was so vast that
in order to see it completed in a correct and timely fashion, an organization was formed among
the stonemasons and architects. They were divided into various grades and classes with
responsibilities as described in the rituals of the lodge. Although some Masonic brothers may take
the rituals to be historical truth, there are no true Masonic authorities who give
credence to an actual organization of Masons in ancient times.

The modern period of Masonry dates from the founding of the first Grand Lodge on
St. John's Day, 1717, in London. Four "old lodges" came together at the Goose and Gridiron Ale
House and organized the first Grand Lodge. Since Masons are involved in so many worthy causes,
many are unaware that Masonic leaders readily admit that Freemasonry is actually a religion,
not merely a "fraternal, social, civic service organization."

Masons require one to believe in God to be a member, but the candidate is never required
to say what god he believes in -- "Masonry ... requires merely that you believe in some deity,
give him what name you will ... any god will do, so he is your god" (Little Masonic Library,
Macoy Publishing, 1977, 4:32). In the final analysis, Masons do not adjust their beliefs to fit the Bible,
the Bible is adjusted to fit their beliefs. A Mason's loyalty is never to God but to the Lodge.
At the heart of Masonry is a secret Luciferian doctrine which a Mason only comes to understand
as he reaches the higher levels. Manly Palmer Hall, another of the great authorities on Masonry,
writes, "When the Mason ... has learned the mystery of his Craft, the seething energies of Lucifer
are in his hands. ..." (Manly Palmer Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48).

The Methodist church - 1739 A.D. at University of Oxford, England.
Founded by men, John and Charles Wesley. The Wesley brothers were originally
Anglican ministers who started a revival movement that eventually became Methodism . . .
yet another reformation of the reformation.

The Unitarian church - 1774 A.D. in London. Founded by a man, Theophilus Lindley.
Today more than half the members of the church are atheists.

The Methodist Episcopal church - 1784 A.D. in Baltimore, Maryland.
Founded by 60 preachers.

The Protestant Episcopalian church - 1789 A.D. in the American Colonies.
Founded as an offshoot of the Church of England by a man, Samuel Seabury.
Beliefs include women priests and bishops, artificial birth control, and homosexuality in spite
of Romans 1:26-27. The Episcopalian church is currently undergoing a 21st Century
reformation of itself, with individual congregations breaking away from their own hierarchy.

The United Brethren church - 1800 A.D. in Maryland.
Founded by men, Philip Otterbein & Martin Boehn.

The Evangelical church - 1803 A.D. in America. Founded by a man, 'Jacob Albright'
(originally German 'Jakob Albrecht') (1759 - May 17 1808) was an American Christian leader,
founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical church), born near Pottstown,
Pennsylvania. A German Lutheran in his heritage, he was converted in about 1790 to Methodism.
Preaching and forming classes among his converts in the German settlements, he was ordained
a minister in 1803 by representatives from these classes and elected bishop at the first annual
conference held by his followers in 1807. The movement did not take the name Evangelical Association
until after Albright's death. Albright's Methodist followers formed their own German-speaking church
due in part to a lack of cooperation with the English-speaking majority of American Methodists.
The Evangelical Church united in 1946 with the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evangelica
United Brethren Church and that body in turn united with The Methodist Church in 1968 to form
United Methodist Church. Albright is thus considered one of the founders of the United Methodist Church.

The Disciples of Christ - 1827 A.D. in Kentucky.
Started by men, Thomas & Alexander Campbell.

The Mormon church - 1830 A.D. in New York.
Founded by a man, Joseph Smith, in Palmyra, New York. Members are also called
"Latter Day Saints". Followers are polytheists who someday hope to become a god of their own planet
after death. They believe that God the Father was a good Mormon on another planet and was so
great that he became the god of our planet. They also believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers
on that former planet and deny the deity of Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

The Methodist Protestant church - 1830 A.D. in Baltimore.
The Methodist Protestant Church, instituted in 1828 and organized under its present title in 1830,
traces its origin through the Methodist Episcopal Church, back to the Evangelical Reformation
begun in England by John and Charles Wesley, of Oxford University and Presbyters of the Church of England.

The Seventh Day Adventist church was started in
1860 by Ellen White.

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

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 century.

How Old Is Your Church?

The Catholic Church - 33 A.D. in Jerusalem. Founded by God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Our Lord named Simon (Peter) the first leader of His Church (the first Vicar of Christ on earth),
when He said to him "Thou art Peter (Rock), and upon this rock I will build my Church. I will
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 16:19) Instituted nearly 2,000 years
ago by the Son of God, it is still the same Roman Catholic Church (catholic from katholikos,
Greek for "universal", meant to be the Church for all peoples.)

The Orthodox church - 1054 A.D. in Constantinople. Founded by schismatic
Catholic Bishops who separated from the Roman Catholic Church.

The Lutheran church - 1517 A.D. in Germany. Founded by a man, Martin Luther,
an ex- monk of the Roman Catholic Church, who violated his sacred vows of both obedience
and celibacy. Luther created a brand-new protestant bible by throwing out 7 books of the Bible which
he personally didn't agree with, and added the word "alone" after the word "faith" in Romans 3:28,
in order to make the verse agree with his view of what it should have said (faith alone). This alteration
of Sacred Scripture directly contradicts James 2:24. Luther also called the Catholic Church
"the whore of Babylon", and he said that the Pope was antichrist (someone who denies
that Jesus is God). The Lutheran church now has many divisions.

The Anabaptist church - 1521 A.D. in Germany. Founded by men, Nicholas Storch
and Thomas Munzer, former Lutherans. The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism and were
denounced by Martin Luther. This "reformation of the reformation" is proof positive that the doctrine
of "scripture alone" (sola scriptura) is false. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been more than one
interpretation of scripture and no need for an Anabaptist church that totally ignores Luke 18:15-17.

The Mennonite church - 1525 A.D. in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by men, Grebel,
Mantz, and Blaurock, in Switzerland, as an offshoot of the Anabaptists. It derived its
name from Menno Simons, a former Catholic priest.

The Anglican church - 1534 A.D. in England. Founded by a man, King Henry VIII, as a direct result of the
Pope not granting him to remarry after a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Many a Catholic priest
was tortured and killed as a result of the very angry Henry wanting to take another young wife.
The Queen of England is the current head of the Anglican Church, the church of England.

The Presbyterian church - 1560 A.D. in Scotland. Founded by a man, John Knox.
Based on the personal beliefs of a man, John Calvin, which include predestination,
no free will in humans, & total depravity in mankind.

The Unitarian church - 1568 A.D. in Poland. Started in Poland, but died out. It was soon started again by a
man, John Biddle in 1645. The Unitarians do not believe in the Trinitarian God.

Dutch Reformed church - 1571 A.D. in Germany. Founded at the October 1571 in the German city
of Emden at the Synod of Emden. The Dutch Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk
or NHK) was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004,
the year it merged with the Reformed churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran
church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant church in the Netherlands.
At the time of the merger, the Church had 2 million members organized in approx.1,350 congregations.
A minority of members of the Church chose not to participate in the merger.
These former members organized the Restored Reformed Church.

The Congregational church - (The Puritans) - 1582 A.D. in Holland. English religious sect founded
by a man, Robert Brown (Robert Browne), which was originally called Brownists.
He was the first seceder from the Church of England, and the first to found a Church of his own
on Congregational principles. He founded his church at Norwich, but ended up returning to the
Church of England. Educated at Cambridge, where, in 1580, he began openly to attack the
government and liturgy of the church of England as anti-Christian. After attacking the established
church for years he was excommunicated, but was reinstated, and made a church living for over
forty years. The sect of Brownists, far from expiring with their founder, soon spread, and a bill
was brought into parliament which inflicted on them very severe pains and penalties. In process
of time, however, the name of Brownists was merged with that of the Congregationalists or Independents.
Brown rejected, among other things, the authority of bishops. One Puritan, named Oliver Cromwell,
got involved in the English Civil War, and overthrew Charles I in 1646. Cromwell and the British
government were also responsible for the subjugation and killing of hundreds of thousands of
Irish Catholics, who were also forbidden to say Mass, wear green, and sing patriotic songs.

The Baptist church - 1609 A.D. in Amsterdam. Founded by a man, John Smyth, who
launched it in Amsterdam as an offshoot of the Mennonites. Baptists reject infant baptism
as contrary to the Scriptures, and accept immersion as the sole valid mode of baptism.
The Baptist church is now divided into thousands of sects.

Dutch Reformed church in America (RCA) - 1628 A.D. in New York.
Founded by Michelis Jones, the Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed
Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 256,000 members,
with membership declining steadily for many years. From its beginning in 1628 until 1819,
it was the North American branch of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1819, it incorporated as the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The current name was chosen in 1867.

The Congregationalist church - 1648 A.D. in Massachusetts. Founded by pilgrims and puritans.

The Quakers - 1649 A.D. in England. Founded by a man, George Fox. Also called the
Religious Society of Friends (although they originally called themselves "Children of Light").
They acknowledge no authority higher than what Fox called the "inner light" of personal revelation.

The Amish - 1693 A.D. in France. Founded by a man, Jacob Amman, a Swiss Bishop
Also a breakaway from the Mennonite church. His followers were called the "Amish." While
similar to the Mennonites, they differ in language, dress, and interpretation of the Bible.

The Freemasons (Masons) - 1717 A.D. in London. According to legends, the fraternity began
during the construction of King Solomon's Temple. It was said that this undertaking was so vast that
in order to see it completed in a correct and timely fashion, an organization was formed among
the stonemasons and architects. They were divided into various grades and classes with
responsibilities as described in the rituals of the lodge. Although some Masonic brothers may take
the rituals to be historical truth, there are no true Masonic authorities who give
credence to an actual organization of Masons in ancient times.

The modern period of Masonry dates from the founding of the first Grand Lodge on
St. John's Day, 1717, in London. Four "old lodges" came together at the Goose and Gridiron Ale
House and organized the first Grand Lodge. Since Masons are involved in so many worthy causes,
many are unaware that Masonic leaders readily admit that Freemasonry is actually a religion,
not merely a "fraternal, social, civic service organization."

Masons require one to believe in God to be a member, but the candidate is never required
to say what god he believes in -- "Masonry ... requires merely that you believe in some deity,
give him what name you will ... any god will do, so he is your god" (Little Masonic Library,
Macoy Publishing, 1977, 4:32). In the final analysis, Masons do not adjust their beliefs to fit the Bible,
the Bible is adjusted to fit their beliefs. A Mason's loyalty is never to God but to the Lodge.
At the heart of Masonry is a secret Luciferian doctrine which a Mason only comes to understand
as he reaches the higher levels. Manly Palmer Hall, another of the great authorities on Masonry,
writes, "When the Mason ... has learned the mystery of his Craft, the seething energies of Lucifer
are in his hands. ..." (Manly Palmer Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48).

The Methodist church - 1739 A.D. at University of Oxford, England.
Founded by men, John and Charles Wesley. The Wesley brothers were originally
Anglican ministers who started a revival movement that eventually became Methodism . . .
yet another reformation of the reformation.

The Unitarian church - 1774 A.D. in London. Founded by a man, Theophilus Lindley.
Today more than half the members of the church are atheists.

The Methodist Episcopal church - 1784 A.D. in Baltimore, Maryland.
Founded by 60 preachers.

The Protestant Episcopalian church - 1789 A.D. in the American Colonies.
Founded as an offshoot of the Church of England by a man, Samuel Seabury.
Beliefs include women priests and bishops, artificial birth control, and homosexuality in spite
of Romans 1:26-27. The Episcopalian church is currently undergoing a 21st Century
reformation of itself, with individual congregations breaking away from their own hierarchy.

The United Brethren church - 1800 A.D. in Maryland.
Founded by men, Philip Otterbein & Martin Boehn.

The Evangelical church - 1803 A.D. in America. Founded by a man, 'Jacob Albright'
(originally German 'Jakob Albrecht') (1759 - May 17 1808) was an American Christian leader,
founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical church), born near Pottstown,
Pennsylvania. A German Lutheran in his heritage, he was converted in about 1790 to Methodism.
Preaching and forming classes among his converts in the German settlements, he was ordained
a minister in 1803 by representatives from these classes and elected bishop at the first annual
conference held by his followers in 1807. The movement did not take the name Evangelical Association
until after Albright's death. Albright's Methodist followers formed their own German-speaking church
due in part to a lack of cooperation with the English-speaking majority of American Methodists.
The Evangelical Church united in 1946 with the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evangelica
United Brethren Church and that body in turn united with The Methodist Church in 1968 to form
United Methodist Church. Albright is thus considered one of the founders of the United Methodist Church.

The Disciples of Christ - 1827 A.D. in Kentucky.
Started by men, Thomas & Alexander Campbell.

The Mormon church - 1830 A.D. in New York.
Founded by a man, Joseph Smith, in Palmyra, New York. Members are also called
"Latter Day Saints". Followers are polytheists who someday hope to become a god of their own planet
after death. They believe that God the Father was a good Mormon on another planet and was so
great that he became the god of our planet. They also believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers
on that former planet and deny the deity of Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

The Methodist Protestant church - 1830 A.D. in Baltimore.
The Methodist Protestant Church, instituted in 1828 and organized under its present title in 1830,
traces its origin through the Methodist Episcopal Church, back to the Evangelical Reformation
begun in England by John and Charles Wesley, of Oxford University and Presbyters of the Church of
England. In 1939, a majority of the Methodist Protestant Churches were swept back into the present-day
"Methodist Church" in the so-called union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church.

The Church of Christ - 1836 A.D. in Kentucky.
Founded by men, Warren Stone & Alexander Campbell.

The Seventh Day Adventist church - 1844 A.D. in New Hampshire.
Started by a woman, Ellen White, as an outgrowth of failed prophecies by the Millerites.
It is a Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday,
the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its
emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ.

The Salvation Army - 1865 A.D. in London.
The sect was begun by a man, William Booth.

Church of Christ, Scientist - 1879 A.D. in Boston.
Founded by a woman, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

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," "Scientology," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects
founded by men within the past century.