What Shall I Do To Be Saved?

By Rev. Dr. Curian Kaniyamparambil

Question 67. Are there Churches without Apostolic succession?

Lots of them! There are more churches and church members? without apostolic succession than churches with apostolic succession.

Based on our discussions so far, all such Christian communities have no right to call themselves as a church. After the reformation in the 16th century, many churches came into being. Some of them are:

CHURCH	ESTABLISHED BY	YEAR
Protestant	Martin Luther	1524
Presbyterian	John Knox	1560
Baptist	John Smith	1600
Congregational	Robert Brown	1600
Quackers	George Fox	1647
Methodist	John Wesley	1739
Brethren		1800
Disciples of Christ		1827
Salvation Army	William Booth	1865
Sabbath	William Miller	1844
Pentecostal	G. Spirling	1884
Christian Science	Mary Eddy	1879
Jehovah's witness	C.T Russell	1870
God's Church	Daniel Vernan	1884

Those who desire to study more, please refer to the following books 1) Pears Encyclopedia 2) The Christian faith 3) The cults.

Those who believe that Jesus Christ is God, should believe that:

He built the church
Apostles ruled that church
They appointed priests and provided them with the apostolic succession of authority by laying of hands, for the growth of the church in grace.
People who were to be saved were admitted to the church by the apostles
One can be saved only through the church, which is the body of Jesus Christ.

We can see that by quoting a few sentences from the New Testament, one can create and form a new church. It is about time that we think about how A Single Bible created thousands of churches.

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