[dog_skyhigh]

Do you know your religion?

I mean, how did it get started by whom and in what year and what does it teach!

[Fr_Chuck]

Most people know their own faiths

[dog_skyhigh]

Myself and other Christians have found that far too many church attendees are not aware of their own church's history.

[Fr_Chuck]

If you mean how their denominations started, yes many may not know all of that, but in many ways, where and how a denomination actually started means little as to more of what it teaches today, since what it stood for 100 years ago may not be the same as today.

For Christians it is God though the old testement, and Christ though the new testement that was the start of the Church, from that all Christians come from the same start.

[shygrneyzs]

By religion, do you mean the attendance at a particular Church and membership in that Church? Or you do mean Chrisitianity or Islam or Judaism?

[firmbeliever]

I agree with Shygrneyzs,
Are you asking about different religions or about Christianity and its denominations?

[dog_skyhigh]

My thinking was about Christianity and its denominations. My point is, if Christians do not know a denomination's doctrines from its starting position how will they understand any changes that happened over 100 years. Maybe what started 100 years ago may have developed into liberalism today. So, my simple question is referring to form what a person knows about their denomination today and looking backward to how it first started. I did that for my church's history. I was just wondering had anyone else done the same.

[NeedKarma]

This probably should have been posted in the Christianity category then.
Personally I'm agnostic so there really is no history to know.

[J_9]

Moved to Christianity ;)

[Fr_Chuck]

Well of course being part of a independent catholic religious order I know my history very well, A written history of our order can be found at my website Unity Catholic Church

[shygrneyzs]

I attend an Assemby of God Church and know my church's history quite well. Before I could be accepted as a member, I had to take a course the church offered for potential members. Covered beginnings, people, influences, doctrines, etc.

I did grow up Catholic and am aware of Church history there also. In high school, one of the classes taught by our Monsignor was on various church histories. He covered basic ones such as Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, Seven Day Adventist, Methodist, and Episcopalian - since those were the churches in my home town. He had brought the other pastors in to give their church's backgrounds and that was very helpful.

[paraclete]

My religion is Christianity, it was started by Jesus Christ around 26-29 AD. The particular Church movement I attend was started about 30 years ago

[Marily]

I don't belong to a denomination, I'm not presbyterian, catholic,methodist, lutherin or pentecostal. As far as I can remenber you don't need to belong to a church in order to be a christian. Just believe God's Word and obey

[teadrinker]

I was born into a Roman Catholic family and baptized as such but today at the age of 21 I see myself as a christ follower and not exactly a Roman Christian. This is not true for all catholics but a lot of organized catholizim has turned me off to the whole organized church. I like the ideals of Jesus and his words, I live my life using his teachings. Do unto others, never an eye for an eye. But I don't feel I need to go to church every Sunday to prove my devotion to God. I feel through my own spirituality and what I do in my everyday actions allows me to have a good relationship with a higher power.

[deist]

The apostle Paul is the true founder of christianity, not Jesus. Paul wrote his epistles before the gospels were recorded, & his theological & christological ideas heavily influenced the future history of christianity. So how a particular denomination got started doesn't matter. What matters is how christianity got started in the first place.