Feel free to joke about the paedophile Catholics, the intrusive Jehova's Witnesses, the polygamous Mormons, the murderous Russian Orthodox and so on too. I don't see any reason for not joking about all Christians; after all they believe in an invisible man who sent his "son" (who was also the son of a ghost and a carpenter) as a human sacrifice to be tortured and killed, described in a book with large numbers of massacres where the invisible man slaughtered millions of innocent people. A disgusting religion like this must be joked about.
There’s a couple churches on this list that would certainly not say that everyone else has the spirit. One gentleman I spoke to was very clear in his stance that “ this is all nonsense, it’s us and nobody else”
The video only clarified that there are differences and distinct disagreements within Christianity. I have an issue with those who say, "you are not Christian if you don't believe...."
Very useful summary. I'm an Eastern Orthodox subdeacon, and I always wanted someone to explain all the protestant sects. I agree the historical perspective is the best way to start, but then we always need to look back at what joins us, not what separates us. I look back at the Great Schism with horror. Right now there is a different 'flavor' to the Roman church and mine, but very very few real dogmatic differences (yes some, but they have arrived historically). A good investment of time. Thank you Brother.
Another good book and podcast on this is Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. I’m a convert from Protestant and Catholic and O&H explained all the differences quite nicely for me.
Friends, in truth and love, please understand that biblically there is NO protestant church for there is only ONE GOSPEL, and in it is the ONLY church, body, bride and kingdom of Christ. All sincere believers must submit to it, that which the doctrine of Christ reveals. Christ built it, through His death, that we might abide in His teaching and not the doctrines & commandments of men. Faith comes by hearing the words of Christ - any who go beyond that have not God.
oldfellow is easy to understand all of them. Most of them come from the heresies of the Popes. In an attempt to fix those they tried to understand themselves the dogmas and correct them instead of going back to the orthodox roots. Every interpretation gave rise to a new church with slightly different heresies
I was raised Lutheran for 13 years before my family became Old Order Mennonite and I became a Baptist, which I remain as an adult. My mother's family is Dutch Reformed and my brother-in-law is Eastern Orthodox. There were many points in this video where SO MANY THINGS that I've experienced, conversations that I've had, or beliefs I've been around suddenly make sense. Thank you for connecting all these dots in such a clear and concise way!
@@worldview730 All Western and Eastern Churches believe same God Jesus Christ who walked on the Earth and died for our sins differences are more philosophical and methodical, traditional differences E
@@worldview730why wouldn't he be? None of these magisterial or even radical reformationists disagree about Jesus. Heck, they agree with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox about Jesus too for that matter. All of these groups agree on fundamental nicene theology.
Friends, in truth and love, please understand that biblically there is NO protestant church for there is only ONE GOSPEL, and in it is the ONLY church, body, bride and kingdom of Christ. All sincere believers must submit to it, that which the doctrine of Christ reveals. Christ built it, through His death, that we might abide in His teaching and not the doctrines & commandments of men. Faith comes by hearing the words of Christ - any who go beyond that have not God.
As a Baptist I will say no, we don't just disregard church history, but we should learn from it, I also think that you are wrong when you say that we "aren't institutional" God chose the church, the church isn't an institution made by man, the church is the Bride of Christ, God chooses the church, not men.
Yeah Zoomy has Baptist Derangement Syndrome. He sees baptists as everything that is opposed to his main values (pretty buildings, reformed sacramentology, institutional), so he doesn't tend to be very nuanced about us. He also tends to treat reformed and general baptists as one denomination which is an issue for his critiques of baptist sacramentology.
@@TheRoark Yeah, heard today that is cool with the American Baptist Association more than any of the others so I hope he realizes he is siding with the most liberal Baptist group out there 😂
Protestants invented the notion of the church not being an institution. Until the Reformation, it was seen as an institution, and among the Orthodox and the Catholics, it still is. So yes, in saying this, you are both rejecting institutionalism and church history.
@@TheRoark I notice this a lot, and it's funny as he just recently released a breakdown of Baptist belief, and He has to stop himself from dissing baptists for 10 minutes. Great video
Wow, learning about Jan Hus prophesying Luther - "you are going to burn a goose but in one hundred years you will have a swan that you can neither roast nor boil" - has been such a blessing to me!
Same here! After reading that Huss said that while he was about to be burned and that his burning took place on a solar eclipse is fascinating! Makes me think that God was really okay with the reformation. I read also o Frederick of Saxon's dream and it's at least worth considering as accurate.
@@heir8095 but Martin Luther tried to get rid of several books in the bible, because they don't align with his views on Sola Fide. They clearly state that faith without works is dead.
I wanted to say that you are an incredible creator. There is no cut in this video, so you did this in one take without a break. I wanted to compliment your work and your ability to create a comprehensive talk on religion. I would love to hear about what you had read up on to make this video? I was also trying to get into church history.
From one random nerd on the internet to another: THANK U for sharing such cool info. Knowledge truly is power and being aware of how your specific belief fits into the larger framework of society helps to create cohesion and communication between all. Keep it up bro!!
Yes, it is useful to know more about all the Christians who accuse each other of believing in nonsense. Ironically, they all seem to be right about this.
@@flameguy3416so true. I lived in south Iowa for a time and maybe it was just that…. Tribe? Idk what to call it. But they were very but not adhering to the known Amish doctrine. Kids a cell phones, they had bank accounts, they would Jew you at every turn, they would use power tools and machines as long as it was for money, that kind of thing
Though I have moved on from the Baptist way to become an Anglican, I would still not group Baptist under the Radical Reformation with Amish/Mennonites. The first Baptists had way more in common with the Reformed tradition in England than they did with Anabaptists. Also, the Anabaptists movement honestly came more out of Zwingli’s Reformation movement in Zurich, so it would be more accurate to place them as branch coming out of the Reformed tradition (there was some stuff with Karlstaut and Muntzer, but that’s another story). This tree approach may be good at looking at the distinctions from a modern perspective, but not really from a historical perspective.
This is correct and well-stated. The Anabaptists were radical not in that they broke off from Rome, but in that they broke off from Zurich. Additionally, Baptist and Anabaptist theology is very different across the board (they just happen to line up on a couple of distinctives). The Baptists came out of English Separatism, which had the same issues with Anglicanism as the Puritans. The difference in the Separatists and the Puritans is that the former split off while the latter tried to purify the Anglican Church. (Not unlike for example, the PCA vs Redeemed Zoomer in the PCUSA). Therefore, both were products of Protestant theology (both in the Particular and General Baptist streams). Moreover, John Smyth led the first General Baptists in practicing Credobaptism before he ever came in contact with the Waterlander Mennonites in Holland. Baptists are grossly misplaced on this tree and should be branching off of Anglicanism, not characterized as “Anabaptist light.”
Thanks for that clarification! I haven't watched enough of this channel's content, so I wonder if simply organizing similar beliefs within the church was more the point of the video, rather than a full out historical and chronological timeline - which would certainly be relevant and very fun to learn!
@burntmarshwigglestudio597 If you watch more of his content you'll begin to understand that this kid hates Baptists. He's got a huge ego about his preferred denomination.
Honestly, your description of the holiness movement mirrors my walk, from becoming a professing Christian at 4, then being baptised at 12 (attended a Baptist Church from birth to highschool), then more recently (about 2 years ago), actually learning to hear God's voice and humble myself before him and surrender to His will.
I'm sorry but the Council of Nicaea was convened by the Catholic Church because it WAS the church. Ignatius of Antioch called the Christian church `catholic' which is not a noun but a Latin adjective meaning `universal'. in about 100 AD in a letter he wrote whilst on his way to martyrdom Quote Catholic Answers The earliest document we have in which “Catholic” is used to label the Church is a letter from Ignatius of Antioch, who wrote around A.D. 107, while being taken to Rome for execution. For all we know, the term was used well before that time-which is to say, in the time of the apostles. End quote This was 200 years before the Council of Nicaea. The first schism came in 1050ish when Orthodoxy split off then in 1500's when Protestant Christianity split off The Catholic Church has remained unchanged with an unbroken Papal succession for 2023 years. Many denominations have split from it.
Fascinating and well done! I grew up in an independent non-denominational church. The woman who gave the land for the building said she was visited by an angel and told to give the land and that the gospel would be preached there. We DEFINITELY had some of those baptist principles - not believing in infant baptism, etc - but the bulk of the congregation came out of the Methodist and Holiness traditions. We had a pastor for a long time who was ordained in the Lutheran church. My dad grew up in a Christian Missionary Alliance church , my mom Methodist . I attended a Wesleyan Unniversity, and became a professional visual artist - so I've by default studied a LOT of Catholic art, visited the Vatican and a good deal of the major Catholic sites in France and Italy, and been exposed to a good deal of that denomination. I also grew up around the Amish, and lived near a historic Moravian founded village. I currently attend a Global Methodist Church which is the most recent major offshoot denomination in the U.S. I say all that just to point out that there is ALWAYS a lot of cross-pollination between denominations - and I really think that's a good thing. We all hope and trust that God will unify us someday in the manner in which we should be. I am thankful that my parents went out of their way to expose me to various denominations. All I know is that when a person or congregation gets serious about what they believe - when they start doing the hard personal and corporate work to do their best to love and obey Christ - then good things start to happen and the lost become found. So few of us know the basics of what you presented, and I hope that it will help us all do just what I have witnessed when the faithful labor to be faithful, and to do it more.
자이점 중 일부는 지옥이 얼마나 심각한지에 대한 감각, 세례의 방식과 시간, 성만찬의 요소, 독점성, 도상학에 대한 다양한 해석, 성인이란 무엇입니까? 그리스도를 믿는 사람 또는 교회 내의 모범입니다. 정치나 리더십, 성령의 역할, 교부들의 역할이나 역사 등 일부는 생락했다고 확신합니다.
@@brentlunger9738Where does the Bible mention hell? It says we will be damned yes. But not in hell. Don't be deceived by churches. Catholic or otherwise. Read your Bible, study it, and pray for discernment. ❤
Baptist here! This is an excellent video! I do want to say that a lot of Baptists nowadays are starting to recognize the flaw of not being institutional and the flaw of not continuing the holy lowercase “c” catholic and apostolic church. Even though I’m Baptist, I still agree with some of the point you have made regarding flaws about the Baptist church.
I grew up Baptist and I felt the same way for a long time. A few years ago I decided to follow the branches back down to the trunk, and I’ve now come out as Orthodox.
God knows and sees your blasphemous expression of prideful and mocking disgust of the Church that Jesus Christ himself founded- historically proven, and succeeded from the apostles themselves. Get over yourself and pride and accept the truth with humility, or choose the path away from salvation. Have fun. ☦️
I am not a Christian person but I love researching religions and how interestingly interconnected they all are thank you for making such an informative video!
Well done!! As a Roman Catholic, I’m extremely interested in how other denominations relate to each other. It’s enriching to realize that a word added or a line inserted in the Nicene creed can change the direction or split the church. Thanks for the thoughtful layout of the graph. You put a lot of work into this. I would also like to suggest to others, if they enjoyed your presentation, a book by Bruce L. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language.
I feel it was a but of a pretext to split, and it was a lot more politically fueled than theologically. The eastern church and the Western didn’t agree on where the power of the church should be situated (Constantinople or Rome), hense the split on the pretext of this, but it was more about Political influence than anything else
I disagree. The branch of the Catholic Church stands on equal ground with Orthodox church. Also the Branch of the Catholic Church comes BEFORE the Baptist & Amish/Mennonites. The (radical-) Reformation(-s) is per definition a movement away from the Catholic Church.... And also.... most original books and handwritings (and relics such as The Shroud of Turin) are in the Vatican Library (and Turin). For that reason alone this tree is in no way historically correct in regard of the placement of the Catholic Church.
When I was in law school, I joined a Sunday morning study at the local Baptist church that served the university community, where we made our way through Shelly's work over the course of the academic year. One of the more interesting studies I have done yet. (Our class leader was one of the engineering professors at the university!)
It's a good start but flawed too. The branch of the Catholic Church stands on equal ground with Orthodox church. Also the Branch of the Catholic Church comes BEFORE the Baptist & Amish/Mennonites. The (radical-) Reformation(-s) is per definition a movement away from the Catholic Church.... And also.... most original books and handwritings (and relics such as The Shroud of Turin) are in the Vatican Library (and Turin). For that reason alone this tree is in no way historically correct in regard of the placement of the Catholic Church.
Can you make a video about Vatican 2 bc I’m Catholic but whenever I try to find a simple explanation it’s always very biased and you are presbyterian so you would have a more unbiased perspective. Also you’re good at explaining theology
You should probably look for a Catholic source on this for the same reason it'd be better to hear about the schism in the Methodist church from a Methodist source.
@@komnennos Methodists split from United Methodist Church because of liberal theology, LGBT clergy and blessings of homosexual couple. Thus forming the newborn denomonation called Global Methodist Church. Global Methodist Church came to my country Croatia few years ago. Gotta admit that they are charming for being low church. When I saw that Pentecostals came from Methodist, I then knew why Methodists are charismatic when I met them. They share a space where they have Sunday meeting with the Calvinists. I do not know which type of Calvinists are they, but I have a reason to believe that they may be the same Calvinists from Hungary. Edit: I am Catholic, but I had been for short time half Catholic half Methodist. I have two books on John Wesley and watched an old movie about him. Pretty cool person gotta admit, but kinda wish they had bit more rich tradition like high church.
Baptists actually arose out of nonconformist Anglicans, similar to the Puritans. There was some association with the Anabaptists among the General Baptists, but in general Baptists did not arise from Anabaptists. The Baptists I know (and Baptists historically) are very fond of church history even if they disagree at points, and none of them are retreatist or anti-institution. I appreciate that you take the time to make these, but you seem to just be taking stereotypes and going off of those.
As a Lutheran I have to disagree. I see myself much closer to Catholics, due to the belief in sacrements like the Eucharist and Baptism. Also they way Lutheran churches look and how the sermons are being done is way more like the Catholic Mass. Calvinist does not believe in the real precence of Christ in the Eucharist and I think it's silly to think that they are closer to Catholics than Lutherans.
@@redeemedzoomer6053 It was pretty similar except for all the Protestant denominations. Also, if you were to put Mormonism on the chart, would you put it as it’s own separate tree, or would you put it on the same tree that has the other denominations?
@@ryanimations8049I'd say Mormons/LDS would be separate at the Nicene Creed itself, as the book has some wildly weird beliefs about God. The TL;DR is basically God was like us previously, and following the LDS Organization can enable you to become God on other planets
I thoroughly enjoy all your content on Christianity! Thank you so much for this! It helps me understand some (a lot 😂) things better. God bless you all
22:52 I want to point out that some Protestant denominations do not participate in communion with churches that differ from them theologically, such as The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Great video as always! :)
@@SlovakLutheranMonarchist LCMS doesn’t take communion with some other Protestant denominations, though. Just to clarify. Their theology of the communion is quite deep, and some believe that it won’t be the same if you don’t also believe in that specific theology.
@@alicagank I understand that LCMS does bot take communion with for example PCUSA but it does take with AALC. My point was that it does not take with other Protestant denominational families. I know that LCMS has closed communion, but it opens it sometimes for some denominations within their denominational family(aka Lutheranism).
Be interesting if Redeemed Zoomer inadvertently created a new "Zoomer" denomination that's more unitary and intellectual and based off the things that he's taught. Not saying that's what he wants to do, or that I would want it to happen necessarily, but still I find it interesting if that were to happen somehow.
Instead of Aquinas you should say Augustine: Luther, Calvin, Aquinas (a Dominican who it could probably be said defined Dominican beliefs) and Franciscans all have differing beliefs but base much of their theology on the writings of Augustine, while in orthodox christianity, it is chrysostom who begins the divergence from the augustinian west and palamas increased those differences, so for the orthodox church you should probably put Chrysostom-Palamas
To be fair to the Amish, I wouldn't agree that they separate themselves from the world as much as people think. I live in an area where there are many Amish communities and I've had the pleasure of meeting many of them and even having friendships with some. I know many non-Amish people who actually work with Amish in blue collar jobs, and the Amish workers tend to interact with the non-Amish workers a lot. Some Amish even hire non-Amish workers as helpers or co-workers, or even work FOR non-Amish people as employees. So they don't entirely remove themselves from the world as many people think. You can approach them and have a conversation with them about their faith, and to be honest, many of the Amish will likely do more evangelism in that one conversation than many non-Amish will in their entire lives. I don't believe that the Amish are theologically correct on many things, but they certainly interact with the world and have a great influence on their surrounding communities.
It’s interesting to note that in Germany there is no “Lutheran Church”. What we call “Lutheran” in Germany is just called “evangelische” or evangelical.
I go to a Foursquare Church (Pentecostal) and this has been super helpful for me! I wish we had more of an intellectual focus like this at my church. The focus is so much more on a personal relationship, then partnering with each other while empowered by God’s Spirit to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the world. Love this content so much!!
Like the city Rev 21:16. From the four sides of the gospel: Jesus is the Savior, the Healer, the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, and the Soon-coming King (former Foursquare here; took the leap to Eastern Orthodox years ago.)@@mkv2718
Great video! I think there is some nuance to be had with the non-denominational churches. I agree that the insistance on not institutionalizing is very much aligned with Baptist tradition. However, since these churches identify themselves as non-denominational, they are very varied in their theological beliefs and practical pursuits. Many take aspects from other branches in the church and apply them to their individual practices. Of course, there are trends, non-denominational churches tend to look similar. But, kind of by necessity, they float around the tree. KInd of like a bird, that flies around the tree picking fruit, but nests in the Baptist branch.
It's very obvious that RZ does not think much of non-denominational churches and it shows in his videos. After spending 30 years in the mainline protestant merry-go-round, I went non-denominational out of desperation and it was the best move I've ever made in my faith life. When I imagine how much time was wasted in silly human political arguments (as evidenced by this video) I'm ashamed that I didn't do it years ago.
@@littlesquirtthefireengine5478 Yeah, as someone who was born into a ND church, I certainly have a bias toward them. I do understand that many ND churches are not great, Mega churches and prosperity gospel are very much tied to the ND movement. But also, the most devoted, most passionate and active people I’ve seen in Christ tend to come from ND churches, since there is no politicking between branches
I VERY MUCH ADMIRE you giving your background under your description, I ALWAYS seek to find out the influences of media producers & authors thus understanding potential bias that me be woven into ones production, I find the REASON WHY someone believes a certain way as interesting as the WHAT, my experience is that MOST only believe & accept what they have been told without really sorting and studying themselves, keep up the good work !
i never understood how a human benig can exist and live and believing predestination, predestination is the most terrifying idea i have ever heard and probably the most evil too
Good point. Yet there are many other evil idea in Christian religion too. Like the fascination with an invisible man who sent his "son" (who was also a son of a ghost and a carpenter) as a human sacrifice to be tortured and killed, so that billions of other people later should be "forgiven" their crimes if they believed in these old folk tales. Or the idea that the "son" of the invisible man shall use his "angels" to gather people together in order to torture us in "the Furnace". Or the idea that "Thou shallst not have other gods before me" and those who believe in other gods must be stoned to death. Or the idea that the invisible man murdered millions of people in a long series of massacres in order to help his "chosen people". Or the idea of pretending to be cannibals by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the human sacrifice. And so on.
@@joshhiebert1208 the bible is fiction, literature, there is not a single word in it which is true, meaning from the text are created by people to control other people, some created ideas are tolerable some are evil, predestination or total depravity are among the lowest level ideas both intellectually and morally
very good video man. I appreciate your research into the history. When I was looking into churches I was amazed at how many people were in church just because of familiarity instead of doctrine. Baptists who honored saints and Catholics who avoided confession. I pray that through ecumenism all churches will return to full communion with each other and tradition can be restored for all.
Pentecostal here. We could technically be at two different parts of the tree. From the beginning of the movement there was diversity in theological influence because of the variety of different backgrounds people came from, and so there ended up being some more Wesleyan influenced Holiness Pentecostal denominations (for example COGIC), but also some more Baptist/Classical Protestant rooted Pentecostal denominations known as Finished Work Pentecostals (for example Assemblies of God.)
I'd agree. Like RZ said himself in the video, denominations like the Evangelical Free Church (and to a certain extent, Church of the Brethren which are a mix of Lutheran and Anabaptist, or Finished Work Pentecostals) are more a blend of two or more of the 10 main groups than the clear cut distinctions he made. I'd also disagree strongly with his assessment on putting the Churches of Christ alongside people like the Mormons or JW's. Even if they'd deny it till they're blue in the face, the only real difference between a General/Independent Baptist and a Church of Christ would be the name and that the former believes baptism is merely a sign of commitment to Christian belief, while the latter would say it's a salvific (saving) act that requires the mature Christian's belief in its effect. In everything else, the CoC affirms the Nicene Creed in practice, even if not in the letter. They affirm the Trinity and the Deity of Christ and the 66 book canon of the Protestant consensus, it's not like they're calling themselves gods or saying Jesus is just Michael the Archangel. EDIT: I should say that there are several more minor differences between Baptists and CoC, but the views on baptism would be the main one
i’ve been watching Zoomer for awhile and I always felt like there was a disconnect with his understanding of Pentecostalism and my Pentecostal denomination (Foursquare). your comment actually clears up so much for me so thank you
@@adamandsethdylantoo...yeah...I was going to say that the churches of Christ have a few more key differences with the Baptists (the biggest one other than the key one you mentioned being the musical instruments dispute), but you're entirely right that the churches of Christ do doctrinally agree with the Nicene Creed despite their insistence on the Sola Scriptura "No creed but the Bible," and while they would agree with the "doctrinal accuracy" of the Nicene Creed (if pressed...hard), would decline to recite the writings of men. I do think putting the churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement alongside the Mormons, JWs, Seventh Day Adventists, etc., is a *historically fair* grouping just because ALL of those groups grew out of movements in the U.S. in the 1800s with the Second Great Awakening (though the Restoration Movement really began in the late 1700s) as local movements that spread, and none of them grew fully or directly from any of the branches he's established. You're totally right that, as he says earlier, the churches of Christ, along with most American evangelical groups, are more closely doctrinally connected to American Baptists than other branches. I think he's tracing, in this video, the growth patterns and splits from older groups that can be traced in more of a straight line, and, in that way, the churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement spring up in KY and TN sort of on their own without branching from a specific origin point.
I’m a Seventh Day Adventist and love your videos. I understand where you’re coming from when it comes to the Restorationist movement. I consider myself more of a moderate Adventist. After watching more of your videos you’ve opened me up to a more high-church outlook with a more higher view of the sacraments also. As SDA’s we try to purify ourselves from many Catholic teachings, but I’m thoroughly interested in other denominations’ traditions. Keep up the great work!
Greetings brother/sister, Christian from Catholic church here. Been meaning to ask, how does your church view sacraments (infant baptism or baptism like Baptists, Lord's supper, confession, holy orders, etc...)?
Whew, an enormous amount of work packed into less than one hour. I congratulate you sir in getting so much history, faith, and understanding in place for us. New to me is the important distinction you made regarding SDA, JW, and LDS which are inventions that do not claim any connection to the root of the Church. Some minor observations: The Eastern Orthodox presumably include the Greek and Russian Churches, all very similar but with unique cultural impacts, also communion is common (usually open) among most protestants but not so Lutherans who sometimes will not allow sharing communion even with neighboring parishes (irrespective of synods). Thank you for a task well done and the honoring of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
Hey Redeemed Zoomer! I don't know if you've already done a video about this or not but, it'd be interesting to see a video about your top ~10 favorite bible translations. Keep up the great work you're doing for the kingdom!
There aren't that many mainstream good ones. You would be best off with KJV and ESV in my opinion. Both are literal translations known for accuracy to the original text. Additionally the translators notes that come with the NET Bible are insightful for a layman to understand each verse's translation difficulties.
KJV is great I think - I own a KJV and a Geneva Bible - the latter of which is far more difficult to read due to the lettering used back then. The KJV was a gift and I highly recommend it. I challenge you, present to me a passage of the KJV that seems inaccurate to you or differs greatly from the ESV. @@OliverGCowan
@@OliverGCowan 1. I think you have forgotten the whole LXX tradition of manuscripts. 2. The Church - East and West meeting in an Ecumenical Council - has never defined the Canon of Scripture. 3. For the 1500 or so years all Christians read the deuterocanonical books as a subsection of the Old Testament. 4. The Deuterocanonical books, titled the "Apocrypha", were printed in their own section in the original Authorised Version of 1611 (the KJV) and was only later omitted to save printing costs when more Bibles were printed when more people could actually read English.
I'm curious as to your thoughts on the Messianic Judaism movement and where that fits in this "tree". Personally I consider myself under that term because I think much of the protestant and catholic faith misses something important, though I know the Messianic Judaism movement is extremely new by comparison. I grew up in a "non-denominational" church where my mentor sought out original meaning by way of exploring the Biblical Hebrew language of the Old Testament and only THEN correlating that to the Greek in the New Testament (he's actually working on an OT translation himself). That led to a perceived affiliation towards traditionalism and desire to know the Hebrew as it was written in the context of the time in which it was written. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
This ties it all together. I knew about these different churches/denominations but never thought about how they started. This made a lot of sense. Thank you.
As a fundamentalist, I have long chuckled about how we are seen from the outside. Our creed is very simple, all Christians must agree on five fundamental points. 1. The inerrancy of the scripture in its original form (not translations as they are all flawed by the translation). 2. The virgin birth and God born in the flesh. 3. Doctrine of Christ atonement on the cross (salvation). 4. The bodily resurrection of Christ. 5. Bodily second coming of Christ ( when he physically sets his foot upon the earth). Beyond these fundamental points the rest are not important as to what constitutes the body of Christ.
I think emphasizing only the doctrine of Divine Simplicity creates atheism, as not having the doctrine of the essence-energy distinction to supplant it, creates a situation where people misunderstand God as some imaginary old man in the sky, so I vehemently disagree that the assertion that Eastern Orthodox theology is anti-intellectual and only mystical, even though yeah at the time, Divine Simplicity was good in the sense that it led to science and our modern standard of living, but I think a lot of Protestantism and Catholicism is often so alienating and misunderstood that it creates atheism. That is my own personal experience though, being raised Nazerene/ Non-denominational after losing my faith into a hateful misotheist agnosticism in my teen years. Now at age 20, I find Orthodoxy a bit more satisfying intellectually with the idea of Logos Spermatikos and the energy-essence distinction, and how learned many Orthodox Christians can be.
Hey RZ, I was wondering if you could cover why the Catholic Bible has books that the Protestant Bible doesn’t have in it. Thanks for all the great content!
I can explain. Protestants use a canon decided upon by Jews who had no authority to set any Bible canon. The Church was already establishing and using its own canon. Luther just wanted to go with the council of Jamnia because that version didn't contain books which rejected his views on purgatory
@@dman7668 The bishop of Rome commissioned Jerome to produce a Latin version of the bible (the Vulgate). Jerome included only the agreed upon 22 books of the Hebrew scriptures which included the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. 22 because they consolidated some of the books we now separate. He didn't disparage the other books written between the Hebrew scriptures and the NT, but did not regard them as part of the canon. In other words, though helpful and even beneficial to read they were not to be used as the measure of true doctrine. This was a view held by many faithful Catholics all the way to and including the time of the Reformation. Granted, the churches in North Africa (Hippo and Carthage) influenced by Augustine did not make the distinction between the Hebrew scriptures and these other writings, but others did. All this is to say that it is false to suggest that Luther did something new here. He was in agreement with a long history of making a distinction between the Hebrew scriptures and these additional writings eventually known as the deuterocanonical or "apocryphal" books. He included them in his German translation of the bible but did not regard them as equal to the Hebrew scriptures and the NT. Though there were earlier local councils that served as precedent, it was not until the council of Trent (1545 to 1563) that the Roman church decided to regard the deuterocanonical books as equal to the Hebrew scriptures. Luther died in 1546.
Anti-Semitism rears it's ugly head once again. That's the major difference, Protestants embrace the fact that Jesus, his mother and the disciples were all Jewish. We do not condemn God's chosen people.
I loved this video and found it very informative. Even though I am becoming a Catholic now after years of atheism, I agree with your defense of protestant churches being beautiful. My old church is one of the New England Congregational churches you mentioned, and it is lovely. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the political banners that now hang in front of it. If you ever make a new version of this video, I would find it helpful if you included dates for when these "splits" occurred.
How could the Council of Nicaea have made any statement about what the Bible said when the Christian Canon of Scripture was not yet defined at that time?
The syriac can be catholic. The maronite church is a syriac church from the east and it's a catholic church. You can find syriac catholic in the actual lebanon, syria and egypte.
Where I disagree with you on the evolution/science thing is my understanding that the book of genesis is meant to be a historical book. It’s meant to be the history of creation. So if I’m not supposed to take that book literally, then what’s stopping me from not taking the gospels as a historical account as well? I fell away from the faith when I was about 16/17 mainly due to not being able to reconcile evolution with the Bible. When I became a believer again at 23 I just understood that the Bible is true and it’s God breathed. Btw I’m a Lutheran, part of the LCMS ✝️ The official stance of the church is that Genesis is a historical book meant to be taken literally. Although, not all laypeople would agree.
Taking Genesis literally is like taking all of Jesus' parables literally, or assuming things like God setting the Earth "fixed and immovable" means the Sun revolves around the Earth despite all evidence to the contrary, especially since the text isn't being literal in the way many think. It's a history, but it's clear that the creation is condensed into what people can understand, getting it up to the point of creating mankind. Even after Adam, it's condensed to Noah, and so on. And in fact, when you look at the creation of the Earth in Genesis, it lines up with what we know scientifically when viewed through such a lense.
20:30 Reminds me of a quote from my favorite Christian Comedian. "When all else fails, make fun of the Amish. Why? Because they don't have any recording equipment to prove I said anything. Even if they did they couldn't plug it in."
I’m Anglican and been there ever since God changed my heart and brought me to Christ. However, being more of an Anglo-Catholic it’s very isolating within my area as I live in Sydney and the Sydney Anglican Church is extremely evangelical and pretty much theologically Baptist. To the best of my knowledge there are only two traditional Anglican parishes within my whole diocese, one of which by the grace of God is near me and I currently attend. It can be very isolating
This whole anglican Protestantism with high-church being kinda like catholic looking and low church on the other side is fascinating. I tried to understand the concept, but I still don't get it.
Greetings from Melbourne. I'm pretty sure you'll find the Sydney Anglicans especially those from Moore college are mostly reformed in their soteriology ie.Graeme Goldsworthy
My brother married a member of the Assyrian Church of the East. Her dad is like Gus from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ except about Assyrians instead of Greeks. But we talked a lot about Nestorianism. He’s super gung-ho about Nestorianism. But after going around and around the Merry-Go-Round on that subject and what his church teaches it seemed to me they really believe the same as my church (which happens to be the LCMS). All that to say, I agree with what you said about the Nestorian division perhaps being exaggerated.
As a member of the Assyrian Church; I remember my conversations with Baptists about incarnation and salvation. In the end, it turn out, we basically held the same beliefs.
As a Catholic, the whole thing with "protestants can believe whatever they want." I've said that many times, but that was because I've met non-denom who have said some WILD shit that has no basis in known theology.
The Council of Nicea is a Catholic Council. Saint Ignatius of Antioch used the term Catholic Church in his letter to the church in Smyrna in 107 ad. It has always been believed that The Didache was from 150 ad but, some are starting to speculate that The Didache was from 60 AD. The Encyclopedia Britannica has an entry about the letter of Clement being from 96 ad... the Catholic Church existed before the Council of Nicea, during the council, and after the council up to this very day. The Catholic Church at the Council of Nicea is the same Catholic Church today currently under Pope Francis.
A lot of eastern Orthodox would differ as to who is the heir to the term catholic church and several protestants are protestant/evangelical catholic plus Anglican Catholic.
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 .
Heretical prayer: O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou art the dispenser of all the gifts which God grants to us miserable sinners; and for this end He has made thee so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful, in order that thou mayest help us in our misery. Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to thee: come to my aid, for I recommend myself to thee. In thy hands I place my eternal salvation, and to thee I entrust my soul. Count me among thy most devoted servants; take me under thy protection, and it is enough for me. For, if thou protect me, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because thou art more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my judge, because by one prayer from thee He will be appeased. But one thing I fear: that in the hour of temptation I may through negligence fail to have recourse to thee and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me, therefore, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace ever to have recourse to thee, O Mother of Perpetual Help. This is a legit Roman Catholic prayer, look up "O Mother of Perpetual Help" if you want to know if it’s legit. This is super heretical. This doctrine of invoking departed saints doesn’t seem just like "hey it’s like praying to a friend.". .
Thank you for this great production! It showed me once again how close we Christians are, no matter where we belong to. There should be way more cummunication between the churches - hopefully, we can reach one day not only more communication but also more communion in our Lord Jesus Christ! All the best and please continue this very impotant work!!!
0:51 The Council of Nicaea was NOT a meeting of the whole church, far from it; it was hastily called and poorly attended. Although 1800 were invited to participate, only somewhere between 250 and 318 (Section 120, Schaff, Philip; Schaff, David Schley (1910). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 3. New York: C Scribner's Sons.) of those invited actually attended and only 5 from the Western Church. It was mostly about dealing with the Arian heresy, what is the correct time for celebrating Easter, and rules concerning church discipline; what has become orthodox Christian belief was not firmly established by the Council.
On the topic of the east/ west split at ~9:50, I think I side with the East. I'm gunna go look for the verse that makes me think so and come back... Here, John 14:26 ESV [26] "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom *the Father will send* in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
I know that you are doing this very American centric but I just wanted to add that there isn't only the small Moravian church that originated with Hus there is also the Czechoslovak Hussite church which the third most popular in Czech Republic and also the Unity of the Brethren which is both here and in the US (Texas) it also has some ties to the Moravian church and the Evangelical Church.
One of the few things that annoys me in his videos is that he talks in a very American centered perspective as if it was the same in the rest of the world.
Unity of the Brethren, or in latin Unitas Fratrum IS the Moravian Church, that's just another name for them used in most of the world. This is a remnant of the old Unitas Fratrum, partially formed from refugees from Moravia (hence the name) who fled to Germany and took refuge in the lands of the Lutheran Pietist count Zinzendorf, but they also got support from earlier Brethren refugees who lived in Germany for several generations before that (this includes an episcopal lineage going from bishop John Comenius). The modern Czechoslovak Hussite Church was formed by dissatisfied Catholic priests in the 1920s as a national church, and was influenced by an admiration of Hus as a national figure, Catholic modernism, and originally also by Eastern Orthodoxy (most native Czech Orthodox came from the Hussite church). You also have the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, which formally is a united Lutheran-Reformed church, due to the religious regulations of the Austro-Hungarian empire, which allowed for people to choose only between the Reformed and Lutheran confessions if they wished, forcing the Hussites to formally adhere to another confession. Nowadays, most Czech Protestants will read the works of Hus and claim some sort of lineage from the original Hussites or Unitas Fratrum.
Thanks for the video. It must have been a lot of work to research this topic. Your effort is appreciated. As one who has roamed widely over the theological landscape for more than seven decades, I would say, however, that there is no one group who got it 100% right, not even the Council of Nicea. While I think that we can learn much from different denominations, in the end, it is up to each one of us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12b) We will not be judged according to what our denomination believed, but upon what we, personally, believed.
As a southern Baptist I think it’s important to have a good knowledge of church history and to live differently than the world but that science should flow from a Christian world view. Just this week we had a reformation service about why the Bible alone through Jesus alone is the way
(Sigh) We're used to it. We are easy targets because we can't honestly deny we are messy and disparate enough that surely SOMEONE out there is accurately depicted, and a kernel of truth even when off the mark. Plus the loudest Baptists tend to be the wierdest and attract the most attention, whereas the nice quiet majority get ignored. But we try to be loving regardless.
My mom was raised Moravian… and it is very much alive and well and thriving in the southwestern Alaskan area. Small, yes, like you say. I just wanted to point out that it came all the way from Moravia to our little Eskimo communities here in southwest Alaska. My aunt was a pastor or a deacon in I think Marshall for a year or two, then someone else was appointed after her term was up. Edit: can you also cover the quakers and their transformation from quakers to the modern friends church sometime? I was raised in Kotzebue, Alaska, and in the northwest Alaska, the friends church (which descended from the Quakers) was and still is the dominant church in the area. I think Kotzebue is the only town that has more than one denomination of churches. All the spoke villages have just the friends church.
The Catholic Church is the Root of the Tree, not a branch as Zoomer has shown. I which people would not listen the Protestant rhetoric when producing these materials and do their own scholarly research with ALL the materials available.
@@LuzianJ Not Biblical the Church the Bride and Christ is the bridegroom the Church is ment to submit to him not the Bishop of Rome. 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. - Ephesians 5:23-24 Jesus says if any Apostle shall put himself first he shall be last. There is no cheif Apostle. 34 But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. 35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” - Mark 9:34-35 The Rock is Peter's proclamation of faith, and not Peter himself. 16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” - Mathew 16:16-18 The power of binding and loosing was not given only to Peter but to all other Apostles. All apostolic successors, bishops have this same authority. 18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. - Matthew 18:18
You've done a fantastic job of creating this tree! I studied this over 20 years ago, as a Reformed Christian (belonged to the PCA, but was still "baptistic" in terms of my belief in the Sacrament). I also began to read the Early Church Fathers (particularly Ignatius and Irene's, etc). By understanding the Patristic mindset of Theology, as well as this history of Christian development, I eventually could see that the Protestant movement really had no basis in historical or Biblical Christianity. There really was no continuity. In 2004, my wife and I, along with our daughter, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, as we had been convinced that in fact it was the True Church.
I’m wondering if you are familiar with Renewal Ministries: Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal. That’s where I would place myself. The Holy Spirit does consistently show up in all Christian Churches and that is precisely why there is much in common. We are one family. Thank you for your zeal and your study. Jesus bless and keep you! May the Holy Spirit give your an abundance of wisdom and discernment.
Being one of your Romish viewers I have to stick up for my Amish brothers, because they can't. Their theology is in error, but they're very nice people, and if you've ever seen a horse and buggy going down a thoroughfare in a city the first word that enters your mind is *based.*
Personally believe in Baptist succession, which means there has always been one denomination that believes the same as modern-day Baptists- from the first Christians to the Montanists to the Donatists to the Paulicians to the Waldenses to the Anabaptists and finally Baptists (and maybe some I missed inbetween)
Baptist succesionism is just bad scholarship in my opinion. The Montanists were schismatic charismatic Catholics. The Paulicians did not believe in the essential eternal Diety of Christ. The Waldensians eventually joined the paedobaptist (baptism of infants) Reformed camp at the time of the Reformation. And the Anabaptists of the 16th century rejected salvation by faith, and did not insist on immersion as the mode of baptism. Many Anabaptists also had a heretical Christology (look up celestial flesh) and some even practiced polygamy (look up Munster Rebellion of 1534). Clearly none of these groups were Baptists, and most were heretical.
@@cjheideldude Most Anabaptists today, especially the Evangelical Mennonites and Brethren believe in salvation by faith, reject the belief in celestial flesh, and polygamy. Most Mennonites today are basically identical to Baptists but strictly hold to Arminian soteriology and are boarder line pacifists while Baptists are very diverse in their soteriology.
Bless the Lord, a boring evening has been saved.
Amen!
Amen!
No evening church service??
@@cjheideldude mine is in the morning so.
Thanks be to God
I've always felt the Amish are the safest group to joke about on the internet.
I love that this comment is part of the joke as well
Feel free to joke about the paedophile Catholics, the intrusive Jehova's Witnesses, the polygamous Mormons, the murderous Russian Orthodox and so on too. I don't see any reason for not joking about all Christians; after all they believe in an invisible man who sent his "son" (who was also the son of a ghost and a carpenter) as a human sacrifice to be tortured and killed, described in a book with large numbers of massacres where the invisible man slaughtered millions of innocent people. A disgusting religion like this must be joked about.
Well yeah there is barley any of them and most of them probably don't even have Internet connection sense they live in remote areas.
@@erueda4563I have Amish as neighbors. I'm from Central PA
@@erueda4563You would be surprised about the true number of Amish
All the churches looking at each other: "He's a little confused, but he's got the _spirit"_
There’s a couple churches on this list that would certainly not say that everyone else has the spirit. One gentleman I spoke to was very clear in his stance that “ this is all nonsense, it’s us and nobody else”
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I see what you did there
😂 wow 👏
The video only clarified that there are differences and distinct disagreements within Christianity. I have an issue with those who say, "you are not Christian if you don't believe...."
Very useful summary. I'm an Eastern Orthodox subdeacon, and I always wanted someone to explain all the protestant sects. I agree the historical perspective is the best way to start, but then we always need to look back at what joins us, not what separates us. I look back at the Great Schism with horror. Right now there is a different 'flavor' to the Roman church and mine, but very very few real dogmatic differences (yes some, but they have arrived historically). A good investment of time. Thank you Brother.
Another good book and podcast on this is Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. I’m a convert from Protestant and Catholic and O&H explained all the differences quite nicely for me.
By putting this discourse in the form of a tree, the presentation is actually a fundamentally uniting one. IMO.
Friends, in truth and love, please understand that biblically there is NO protestant church for there is only ONE GOSPEL, and in it is the ONLY church, body, bride and kingdom of Christ. All sincere believers must submit to it, that which the doctrine of Christ reveals. Christ built it, through His death, that we might abide in His teaching and not the doctrines & commandments of men. Faith comes by hearing the words of Christ - any who go beyond that have not God.
oldfellow is easy to understand all of them. Most of them come from the heresies of the Popes. In an attempt to fix those they tried to understand themselves the dogmas and correct them instead of going back to the orthodox roots. Every interpretation gave rise to a new church with slightly different heresies
@@deebrown4615What if the Roman Catholic Church was corrupted?
I was raised Lutheran for 13 years before my family became Old Order Mennonite and I became a Baptist, which I remain as an adult. My mother's family is Dutch Reformed and my brother-in-law is Eastern Orthodox. There were many points in this video where SO MANY THINGS that I've experienced, conversations that I've had, or beliefs I've been around suddenly make sense. Thank you for connecting all these dots in such a clear and concise way!
Is Jesus still the same in all your beliefs?
Bet Christmas Dinner is heated.
All red-blooded, that's a match. humans@@andersd8956
@@worldview730 All Western and Eastern Churches believe same God Jesus Christ who walked on the Earth and died for our sins differences are more philosophical and methodical, traditional differences E
@@worldview730why wouldn't he be? None of these magisterial or even radical reformationists disagree about Jesus. Heck, they agree with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox about Jesus too for that matter. All of these groups agree on fundamental nicene theology.
You, sir, are one of the only people where I can sit through and listen to an entire 40 minute video. Well done brother in Christ.
as an atheist, this is still interesting to listen to.
@@heliumfireAgreed. I am also an atheist (formerly a Methodist) I also found this video very informative. This young man has really done his studies.
@@user-pq9zw5wb1z Just out of curiosity, which of those denominations are you a member of?
Friends, in truth and love, please understand that biblically there is NO protestant church for there is only ONE GOSPEL, and in it is the ONLY church, body, bride and kingdom of Christ. All sincere believers must submit to it, that which the doctrine of Christ reveals. Christ built it, through His death, that we might abide in His teaching and not the doctrines & commandments of men. Faith comes by hearing the words of Christ - any who go beyond that have not God.
@@deebrown4615Are you making the same reply to all of the comments?
As a Baptist I will say no, we don't just disregard church history, but we should learn from it, I also think that you are wrong when you say that we "aren't institutional" God chose the church, the church isn't an institution made by man, the church is the Bride of Christ, God chooses the church, not men.
Yeah Zoomy has Baptist Derangement Syndrome. He sees baptists as everything that is opposed to his main values (pretty buildings, reformed sacramentology, institutional), so he doesn't tend to be very nuanced about us. He also tends to treat reformed and general baptists as one denomination which is an issue for his critiques of baptist sacramentology.
@@TheRoark Yeah, heard today that is cool with the American Baptist Association more than any of the others so I hope he realizes he is siding with the most liberal Baptist group out there 😂
Protestants invented the notion of the church not being an institution. Until the Reformation, it was seen as an institution, and among the Orthodox and the Catholics, it still is. So yes, in saying this, you are both rejecting institutionalism and church history.
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@@TheRoark I notice this a lot, and it's funny as he just recently released a breakdown of Baptist belief, and He has to stop himself from dissing baptists for 10 minutes. Great video
Wow, learning about Jan Hus prophesying Luther - "you are going to burn a goose but in one hundred years you will have a swan that you can neither roast nor boil" - has been such a blessing to me!
Same here! After reading that Huss said that while he was about to be burned and that his burning took place on a solar eclipse is fascinating! Makes me think that God was really okay with the reformation.
I read also o Frederick of Saxon's dream and it's at least worth considering as accurate.
@@heir8095 but Martin Luther tried to get rid of several books in the bible, because they don't align with his views on Sola Fide. They clearly state that faith without works is dead.
@@pikapi6993and that we are justified by works and not by faith alone.
@@pikapi6993 Right, he called the epistle of James the epistle of straw.
@@dansw0rkshopRight no one ever wants to mention how he even tried to take out the book of Apocalypse aka Revelations
I wanted to say that you are an incredible creator. There is no cut in this video, so you did this in one take without a break. I wanted to compliment your work and your ability to create a comprehensive talk on religion. I would love to hear about what you had read up on to make this video? I was also trying to get into church history.
From one random nerd on the internet to another: THANK U for sharing such cool info. Knowledge truly is power and being aware of how your specific belief fits into the larger framework of society helps to create cohesion and communication between all. Keep it up bro!!
Yes, it is useful to know more about all the Christians who accuse each other of believing in nonsense. Ironically, they all seem to be right about this.
Mennonite here, don't diss us like you did the Amish cuz we're watching😅 Loving your content
The Amish are also watching with their secret phones...
@@flameguy3416so true. I lived in south Iowa for a time and maybe it was just that…. Tribe? Idk what to call it. But they were very but not adhering to the known Amish doctrine. Kids a cell phones, they had bank accounts, they would Jew you at every turn, they would use power tools and machines as long as it was for money, that kind of thing
I am friends with the mennonite mafia, I know Everything!!!
Also a Mennonite here, just wondering which conference your church belongs to because I want to see if we recognize each other's churches
Thanks! As a new Catholic, this video was very useful especially for helping to distinguish between the protestant branches!
yeah, I only started to understand protestantism when I started watchig Redeemed Zoomer's channel
You went the wrong path brother
@@SkankHunt-iy1ecpresbyterian is the way!
@@SkankHunt-iy1ec how so?
Don’t listen to any of this dudes takes on Catholicism or theology in general
Though I have moved on from the Baptist way to become an Anglican, I would still not group Baptist under the Radical Reformation with Amish/Mennonites. The first Baptists had way more in common with the Reformed tradition in England than they did with Anabaptists. Also, the Anabaptists movement honestly came more out of Zwingli’s Reformation movement in Zurich, so it would be more accurate to place them as branch coming out of the Reformed tradition (there was some stuff with Karlstaut and Muntzer, but that’s another story). This tree approach may be good at looking at the distinctions from a modern perspective, but not really from a historical perspective.
This exactly, and I'm a Baptist. Some have pointed this out to him in the past but he hasn't changed his thinking.
This is correct and well-stated. The Anabaptists were radical not in that they broke off from Rome, but in that they broke off from Zurich. Additionally, Baptist and Anabaptist theology is very different across the board (they just happen to line up on a couple of distinctives). The Baptists came out of English Separatism, which had the same issues with Anglicanism as the Puritans. The difference in the Separatists and the Puritans is that the former split off while the latter tried to purify the Anglican Church. (Not unlike for example, the PCA vs Redeemed Zoomer in the PCUSA). Therefore, both were products of Protestant theology (both in the Particular and General Baptist streams). Moreover, John Smyth led the first General Baptists in practicing Credobaptism before he ever came in contact with the Waterlander Mennonites in Holland. Baptists are grossly misplaced on this tree and should be branching off of Anglicanism, not characterized as “Anabaptist light.”
@@waterdrinkerrrnice pfp. Haven’t seen a Living Water Bible in a long time
Thanks for that clarification! I haven't watched enough of this channel's content, so I wonder if simply organizing similar beliefs within the church was more the point of the video, rather than a full out historical and chronological timeline - which would certainly be relevant and very fun to learn!
@burntmarshwigglestudio597 If you watch more of his content you'll begin to understand that this kid hates Baptists. He's got a huge ego about his preferred denomination.
Honestly, your description of the holiness movement mirrors my walk, from becoming a professing Christian at 4, then being baptised at 12 (attended a Baptist Church from birth to highschool), then more recently (about 2 years ago), actually learning to hear God's voice and humble myself before him and surrender to His will.
I'm sorry but the Council of Nicaea was convened by the Catholic Church because it WAS the church. Ignatius of Antioch called the Christian church `catholic' which is not a noun but a Latin adjective meaning `universal'. in about 100 AD in a letter he wrote whilst on his way to martyrdom
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The earliest document we have in which “Catholic” is used to label the Church is a letter from Ignatius of Antioch, who wrote around A.D. 107, while being taken to Rome for execution. For all we know, the term was used well before that time-which is to say, in the time of the apostles.
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This was 200 years before the Council of Nicaea.
The first schism came in 1050ish when Orthodoxy split off then in 1500's when Protestant Christianity split off
The Catholic Church has remained unchanged with an unbroken Papal succession for 2023 years. Many denominations have split from it.
Fascinating and well done!
I grew up in an independent non-denominational church. The woman who gave the land for the building said she was visited by an angel and told to give the land and that the gospel would be preached there.
We DEFINITELY had some of those baptist principles - not believing in infant baptism, etc - but the bulk of the congregation came out of the Methodist and Holiness traditions. We had a pastor for a long time who was ordained in the Lutheran church. My dad grew up in a Christian Missionary Alliance church , my mom Methodist . I attended a Wesleyan Unniversity, and became a professional visual artist - so I've by default studied a LOT of Catholic art, visited the Vatican and a good deal of the major Catholic sites in France and Italy, and been exposed to a good deal of that denomination. I also grew up around the Amish, and lived near a historic Moravian founded village.
I currently attend a Global Methodist Church which is the most recent major offshoot denomination in the U.S.
I say all that just to point out that there is ALWAYS a lot of cross-pollination between denominations - and I really think that's a good thing. We all hope and trust that God will unify us someday in the manner in which we should be. I am thankful that my parents went out of their way to expose me to various denominations. All I know is that when a person or congregation gets serious about what they believe - when they start doing the hard personal and corporate work to do their best to love and obey Christ - then good things start to happen and the lost become found.
So few of us know the basics of what you presented, and I hope that it will help us all do just what I have witnessed when the faithful labor to be faithful, and to do it more.
Well stated and amen. Super cool to watch this video, what a nice quick overview perspective of the Church!
자이점 중 일부는 지옥이 얼마나 심각한지에 대한 감각, 세례의 방식과 시간, 성만찬의 요소, 독점성, 도상학에 대한 다양한 해석, 성인이란 무엇입니까? 그리스도를 믿는 사람 또는 교회 내의 모범입니다. 정치나 리더십, 성령의 역할, 교부들의 역할이나 역사 등 일부는 생락했다고 확신합니다.
So a witch who saw a devil gave the land.... derp. Bet you don't know the gospel.
I love the term “cross-pollination”. I use it all the time.
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@@brentlunger9738Where does the Bible mention hell? It says we will be damned yes. But not in hell. Don't be deceived by churches. Catholic or otherwise. Read your Bible, study it, and pray for discernment. ❤
Baptist here! This is an excellent video! I do want to say that a lot of Baptists nowadays are starting to recognize the flaw of not being institutional and the flaw of not continuing the holy lowercase “c” catholic and apostolic church. Even though I’m Baptist, I still agree with some of the point you have made regarding flaws about the Baptist church.
I grew up Baptist and I felt the same way for a long time. A few years ago I decided to follow the branches back down to the trunk, and I’ve now come out as Orthodox.
@@cadenhenry4446 🤮
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Oh no, somebody doesn’t worship the same way as you. Gross!
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God knows and sees your blasphemous expression of prideful and mocking disgust of the Church that Jesus Christ himself founded- historically proven, and succeeded from the apostles themselves. Get over yourself and pride and accept the truth with humility, or choose the path away from salvation. Have fun. ☦️
I love this channel brother. I'm happy to see a fellow zoomer so engaged in church history and orthodoxy. Much love from New Hampshire ❤
This has clarified DECADES of unspoken confusion 😂😂
I am not a Christian person but I love researching religions and how interestingly interconnected they all are thank you for making such an informative video!
Well done!! As a Roman Catholic, I’m extremely interested in how other denominations relate to each other. It’s enriching to realize that a word added or a line inserted in the Nicene creed can change the direction or split the church. Thanks for the thoughtful layout of the graph. You put a lot of work into this. I would also like to suggest to others, if they enjoyed your presentation, a book by Bruce L. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language.
I feel it was a but of a pretext to split, and it was a lot more politically fueled than theologically. The eastern church and the Western didn’t agree on where the power of the church should be situated (Constantinople or Rome), hense the split on the pretext of this, but it was more about Political influence than anything else
I disagree. The branch of the Catholic Church stands on equal ground with Orthodox church. Also the Branch of the Catholic Church comes BEFORE the Baptist & Amish/Mennonites. The (radical-) Reformation(-s) is per definition a movement away from the Catholic Church.... And also.... most original books and handwritings (and relics such as The Shroud of Turin) are in the Vatican Library (and Turin). For that reason alone this tree is in no way historically correct in regard of the placement of the Catholic Church.
When I was in law school, I joined a Sunday morning study at the local Baptist church that served the university community, where we made our way through Shelly's work over the course of the academic year. One of the more interesting studies I have done yet. (Our class leader was one of the engineering professors at the university!)
The Council of Nicea was a Catholic Council.
Very nice video! Love from an Orthodox Catechumen ☦
Wow! You are great at explaining this! As a Roman Catholic I appreciate your honesty!
It's a good start but flawed too. The branch of the Catholic Church stands on equal ground with Orthodox church. Also the Branch of the Catholic Church comes BEFORE the Baptist & Amish/Mennonites. The (radical-) Reformation(-s) is per definition a movement away from the Catholic Church.... And also.... most original books and handwritings (and relics such as The Shroud of Turin) are in the Vatican Library (and Turin). For that reason alone this tree is in no way historically correct in regard of the placement of the Catholic Church.
Thank you ... God bless you ... Keep it up ... Compilations brings out the underlying harmony running all along ...
Can you make a video about Vatican 2 bc I’m Catholic but whenever I try to find a simple explanation it’s always very biased and you are presbyterian so you would have a more unbiased perspective. Also you’re good at explaining theology
That great idea!
Yea I’m curious about that as well
You should probably look for a Catholic source on this for the same reason it'd be better to hear about the schism in the Methodist church from a Methodist source.
@@komnennos Methodists split from United Methodist Church because of liberal theology, LGBT clergy and blessings of homosexual couple. Thus forming the newborn denomonation called Global Methodist Church.
Global Methodist Church came to my country Croatia few years ago. Gotta admit that they are charming for being low church. When I saw that Pentecostals came from Methodist, I then knew why Methodists are charismatic when I met them.
They share a space where they have Sunday meeting with the Calvinists. I do not know which type of Calvinists are they, but I have a reason to believe that they may be the same Calvinists from Hungary.
Edit: I am Catholic, but I had been for short time half Catholic half Methodist. I have two books on John Wesley and watched an old movie about him. Pretty cool person gotta admit, but kinda wish they had bit more rich tradition like high church.
What do you want to know?
Baptists actually arose out of nonconformist Anglicans, similar to the Puritans. There was some association with the Anabaptists among the General Baptists, but in general Baptists did not arise from Anabaptists. The Baptists I know (and Baptists historically) are very fond of church history even if they disagree at points, and none of them are retreatist or anti-institution. I appreciate that you take the time to make these, but you seem to just be taking stereotypes and going off of those.
Yes. Anyone interested in Baptist history should check out Dr Nettles.
24:10 HEY, TAKE THAT BACK, US LUTHERANS ARE CALM AND REASONABLE.
As a Lutheran I have to disagree. I see myself much closer to Catholics, due to the belief in sacrements like the Eucharist and Baptism. Also they way Lutheran churches look and how the sermons are being done is way more like the Catholic Mass. Calvinist does not believe in the real precence of Christ in the Eucharist and I think it's silly to think that they are closer to Catholics than Lutherans.
Anglicans believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, it’s in the 39 articles.
@@lusivConsubstantiation versus Transubstantiation
Me who randomly fully buys that the ethiopian tewahedo church has the ark
I made a tree of denominations 30 minutes ago and I come to my phone and see this.
haha that's funny. How similar was yours to mine?
Have you seen the one made by Useful Charts?
@@redeemedzoomer6053 It was pretty similar except for all the Protestant denominations. Also, if you were to put Mormonism on the chart, would you put it as it’s own separate tree, or would you put it on the same tree that has the other denominations?
@@ryanimations8049I'd say Mormons/LDS would be separate at the Nicene Creed itself, as the book has some wildly weird beliefs about God. The TL;DR is basically God was like us previously, and following the LDS Organization can enable you to become God on other planets
@@ryanimations8049separate tree considering Mormons don't follow the Nician Creede.
I thoroughly enjoy all your content on Christianity! Thank you so much for this! It helps me understand some (a lot 😂) things better.
God bless you all
I love your Viking picture.
22:52 I want to point out that some Protestant denominations do not participate in communion with churches that differ from them theologically, such as The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Great video as always! :)
He meant like LCMS and AALC both Lutheran but different denominations but still take communion.
LCMS shoutout!
He actually talked about the LCMS in his recent video on why he supports open communion
@@SlovakLutheranMonarchist LCMS doesn’t take communion with some other Protestant denominations, though. Just to clarify. Their theology of the communion is quite deep, and some believe that it won’t be the same if you don’t also believe in that specific theology.
@@alicagank I understand that LCMS does bot take communion with for example PCUSA but it does take with AALC.
My point was that it does not take with other Protestant denominational families.
I know that LCMS has closed communion, but it opens it sometimes for some denominations within their denominational family(aka Lutheranism).
Thanks, brother. I am learning a lot from your videos. God bless you.
Be interesting if Redeemed Zoomer inadvertently created a new "Zoomer" denomination that's more unitary and intellectual and based off the things that he's taught.
Not saying that's what he wants to do, or that I would want it to happen necessarily, but still I find it interesting if that were to happen somehow.
Instead of Aquinas you should say Augustine: Luther, Calvin, Aquinas (a Dominican who it could probably be said defined Dominican beliefs) and Franciscans all have differing beliefs but base much of their theology on the writings of Augustine, while in orthodox christianity, it is chrysostom who begins the divergence from the augustinian west and palamas increased those differences, so for the orthodox church you should probably put Chrysostom-Palamas
But Augustine and Chrysostom were before the schism and he tried to represent postschismatic Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
"Thomism vs Palamism" is "Augustine vs Crystosom" on steroids which is "Aristotle vs Plato" but with Jesus
@@kuafer3687Schism 2: Eclesiastic Boogaloo
To be fair to the Amish, I wouldn't agree that they separate themselves from the world as much as people think. I live in an area where there are many Amish communities and I've had the pleasure of meeting many of them and even having friendships with some. I know many non-Amish people who actually work with Amish in blue collar jobs, and the Amish workers tend to interact with the non-Amish workers a lot. Some Amish even hire non-Amish workers as helpers or co-workers, or even work FOR non-Amish people as employees. So they don't entirely remove themselves from the world as many people think. You can approach them and have a conversation with them about their faith, and to be honest, many of the Amish will likely do more evangelism in that one conversation than many non-Amish will in their entire lives. I don't believe that the Amish are theologically correct on many things, but they certainly interact with the world and have a great influence on their surrounding communities.
It’s interesting to note that in Germany there is no “Lutheran Church”. What we call “Lutheran” in Germany is just called “evangelische” or evangelical.
This has become one of the most valuable channels I’ve ever subscribed to. Thank you.
MT - a conservative holiness Pentecostal pastor
I go to a Foursquare Church (Pentecostal) and this has been super helpful for me! I wish we had more of an intellectual focus like this at my church. The focus is so much more on a personal relationship, then partnering with each other while empowered by God’s Spirit to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the world. Love this content so much!!
Foursquare?
like the game?
Like the city Rev 21:16. From the four sides of the gospel: Jesus is the Savior, the Healer, the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, and the Soon-coming King (former Foursquare here; took the leap to Eastern Orthodox years ago.)@@mkv2718
@@mkv2718 ooh did not know there is a 4 square game?
@@mkv2718it’s a Pentecostal church
Same!!
Great video! I think there is some nuance to be had with the non-denominational churches. I agree that the insistance on not institutionalizing is very much aligned with Baptist tradition. However, since these churches identify themselves as non-denominational, they are very varied in their theological beliefs and practical pursuits. Many take aspects from other branches in the church and apply them to their individual practices. Of course, there are trends, non-denominational churches tend to look similar. But, kind of by necessity, they float around the tree. KInd of like a bird, that flies around the tree picking fruit, but nests in the Baptist branch.
It's very obvious that RZ does not think much of non-denominational churches and it shows in his videos. After spending 30 years in the mainline protestant merry-go-round, I went non-denominational out of desperation and it was the best move I've ever made in my faith life. When I imagine how much time was wasted in silly human political arguments (as evidenced by this video) I'm ashamed that I didn't do it years ago.
@@littlesquirtthefireengine5478 Yeah, as someone who was born into a ND church, I certainly have a bias toward them. I do understand that many ND churches are not great, Mega churches and prosperity gospel are very much tied to the ND movement. But also, the most devoted, most passionate and active people I’ve seen in Christ tend to come from ND churches, since there is no politicking between branches
Brother, I really appreciate the call to follow Christ at the end of your videos.
I love your channel, I have learned a lot about Christianity from you. It's an interesting religion
I VERY MUCH ADMIRE you giving your background under your description, I ALWAYS seek to find out the influences of media producers & authors thus understanding potential bias that me be woven into ones production, I find the REASON WHY someone believes a certain way as interesting as the WHAT, my experience is that MOST only believe & accept what they have been told without really sorting and studying themselves, keep up the good work !
i never understood how a human benig can exist and live and believing predestination, predestination is the most terrifying idea i have ever heard and probably the most evil too
Good point.
Yet there are many other evil idea in Christian religion too. Like the fascination with an invisible man who sent his "son" (who was also a son of a ghost and a carpenter) as a human sacrifice to be tortured and killed, so that billions of other people later should be "forgiven" their crimes if they believed in these old folk tales. Or the idea that the "son" of the invisible man shall use his "angels" to gather people together in order to torture us in "the Furnace". Or the idea that "Thou shallst not have other gods before me" and those who believe in other gods must be stoned to death. Or the idea that the invisible man murdered millions of people in a long series of massacres in order to help his "chosen people". Or the idea of pretending to be cannibals by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the human sacrifice. And so on.
You can't reject it because you don't like it, if it's in the Bible (which it clearly is) you have no choice but to believe it
@@joshhiebert1208 the bible is fiction, literature, there is not a single word in it which is true, meaning from the text are created by people to control other people, some created ideas are tolerable some are evil, predestination or total depravity are among the lowest level ideas both intellectually and morally
very good video man. I appreciate your research into the history. When I was looking into churches I was amazed at how many people were in church just because of familiarity instead of doctrine. Baptists who honored saints and Catholics who avoided confession. I pray that through ecumenism all churches will return to full communion with each other and tradition can be restored for all.
This is the coolest channel, I've been watching and learning so much about God, thank you.
Pentecostal here. We could technically be at two different parts of the tree. From the beginning of the movement there was diversity in theological influence because of the variety of different backgrounds people came from, and so there ended up being some more Wesleyan influenced Holiness Pentecostal denominations (for example COGIC), but also some more Baptist/Classical Protestant rooted Pentecostal denominations known as Finished Work Pentecostals (for example Assemblies of God.)
I'd agree. Like RZ said himself in the video, denominations like the Evangelical Free Church (and to a certain extent, Church of the Brethren which are a mix of Lutheran and Anabaptist, or Finished Work Pentecostals) are more a blend of two or more of the 10 main groups than the clear cut distinctions he made.
I'd also disagree strongly with his assessment on putting the Churches of Christ alongside people like the Mormons or JW's. Even if they'd deny it till they're blue in the face, the only real difference between a General/Independent Baptist and a Church of Christ would be the name and that the former believes baptism is merely a sign of commitment to Christian belief, while the latter would say it's a salvific (saving) act that requires the mature Christian's belief in its effect. In everything else, the CoC affirms the Nicene Creed in practice, even if not in the letter. They affirm the Trinity and the Deity of Christ and the 66 book canon of the Protestant consensus, it's not like they're calling themselves gods or saying Jesus is just Michael the Archangel.
EDIT: I should say that there are several more minor differences between Baptists and CoC, but the views on baptism would be the main one
i’ve been watching Zoomer for awhile and I always felt like there was a disconnect with his understanding of Pentecostalism and my Pentecostal denomination (Foursquare). your comment actually clears up so much for me so thank you
That may be so, but having a circle in a family tree is a big no-no.
여호와의 증인은 아리우스주의에 더 가깝기 때문에 어떤 면에서는 이슬람교와 다소 유사합니다.
@@adamandsethdylantoo...yeah...I was going to say that the churches of Christ have a few more key differences with the Baptists (the biggest one other than the key one you mentioned being the musical instruments dispute), but you're entirely right that the churches of Christ do doctrinally agree with the Nicene Creed despite their insistence on the Sola Scriptura "No creed but the Bible," and while they would agree with the "doctrinal accuracy" of the Nicene Creed (if pressed...hard), would decline to recite the writings of men.
I do think putting the churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement alongside the Mormons, JWs, Seventh Day Adventists, etc., is a *historically fair* grouping just because ALL of those groups grew out of movements in the U.S. in the 1800s with the Second Great Awakening (though the Restoration Movement really began in the late 1700s) as local movements that spread, and none of them grew fully or directly from any of the branches he's established.
You're totally right that, as he says earlier, the churches of Christ, along with most American evangelical groups, are more closely doctrinally connected to American Baptists than other branches.
I think he's tracing, in this video, the growth patterns and splits from older groups that can be traced in more of a straight line, and, in that way, the churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement spring up in KY and TN sort of on their own without branching from a specific origin point.
Great video. Thank you for explaining all that 👍
That is the best denomination history lesson I have ever had! Thank you very much. I think the 'tree' visual helped alot also.
I’m a Seventh Day Adventist and love your videos. I understand where you’re coming from when it comes to the Restorationist movement. I consider myself more of a moderate Adventist. After watching more of your videos you’ve opened me up to a more high-church outlook with a more higher view of the sacraments also. As SDA’s we try to purify ourselves from many Catholic teachings, but I’m thoroughly interested in other denominations’ traditions. Keep up the great work!
Greetings brother/sister, Christian from Catholic church here.
Been meaning to ask, how does your church view sacraments (infant baptism or baptism like Baptists, Lord's supper, confession, holy orders, etc...)?
@@silvio1894not an adventist, but they only have 2 sacraments: believers baptism and a memorial view of communion
@@tonic-music yes that is correct as far as I know
@@tonic-music may I ask what do you mean by a 'memorial view' of communion ?
@@josephkawak362symbolic and in memory vs spiritual presence of God or transubstantiation
“There is a bidenflation of Protestant groups”🤣🤣🤣
Catholic: every 60 seconds, 4 new Protestant Churches start.
Whew, an enormous amount of work packed into less than one hour. I congratulate you sir in getting so much history, faith, and understanding in place for us. New to me is the important distinction you made regarding SDA, JW, and LDS which are inventions that do not claim any connection to the root of the Church.
Some minor observations: The Eastern Orthodox presumably include the Greek and Russian Churches, all very similar but with unique cultural impacts, also communion is common (usually open) among most protestants but not so Lutherans who sometimes will not allow sharing communion even with neighboring parishes (irrespective of synods).
Thank you for a task well done and the honoring of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
Atheist here and I’ve been watching all of your videos! Very informative!
Hey Redeemed Zoomer! I don't know if you've already done a video about this or not but, it'd be interesting to see a video about your top ~10 favorite bible translations. Keep up the great work you're doing for the kingdom!
There aren't that many mainstream good ones. You would be best off with KJV and ESV in my opinion. Both are literal translations known for accuracy to the original text. Additionally the translators notes that come with the NET Bible are insightful for a layman to understand each verse's translation difficulties.
@@michaellautermilch9185 the KJV fucking blows
KJV is great I think - I own a KJV and a Geneva Bible - the latter of which is far more difficult to read due to the lettering used back then. The KJV was a gift and I highly recommend it.
I challenge you, present to me a passage of the KJV that seems inaccurate to you or differs greatly from the ESV. @@OliverGCowan
@@OliverGCowan The trouble with the ESV and the LSB is that they do not contain the deuterocanonical books, which were included in the original KJV.
@@OliverGCowan 1. I think you have forgotten the whole LXX tradition of manuscripts. 2. The Church - East and West meeting in an Ecumenical Council - has never defined the Canon of Scripture. 3. For the 1500 or so years all Christians read the deuterocanonical books as a subsection of the Old Testament. 4. The Deuterocanonical books, titled the "Apocrypha", were printed in their own section in the original Authorised Version of 1611 (the KJV) and was only later omitted to save printing costs when more Bibles were printed when more people could actually read English.
I'm curious as to your thoughts on the Messianic Judaism movement and where that fits in this "tree". Personally I consider myself under that term because I think much of the protestant and catholic faith misses something important, though I know the Messianic Judaism movement is extremely new by comparison.
I grew up in a "non-denominational" church where my mentor sought out original meaning by way of exploring the Biblical Hebrew language of the Old Testament and only THEN correlating that to the Greek in the New Testament (he's actually working on an OT translation himself). That led to a perceived affiliation towards traditionalism and desire to know the Hebrew as it was written in the context of the time in which it was written. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Constantine I was baptized on his deathbed by Eusibeus, the "Arian" bishop of Nicomedia.
This ties it all together. I knew about these different churches/denominations but never thought about how they started. This made a lot of sense. Thank you.
As a fundamentalist, I have long chuckled about how we are seen from the outside.
Our creed is very simple, all Christians must agree on five fundamental points.
1. The inerrancy of the scripture in its original form (not translations as they are all flawed by the translation).
2. The virgin birth and God born in the flesh.
3. Doctrine of Christ atonement on the cross (salvation).
4. The bodily resurrection of Christ.
5. Bodily second coming of Christ ( when he physically sets his foot upon the earth).
Beyond these fundamental points the rest are not important as to what constitutes the body of Christ.
I think emphasizing only the doctrine of Divine Simplicity creates atheism, as not having the doctrine of the essence-energy distinction to supplant it, creates a situation where people misunderstand God as some imaginary old man in the sky, so I vehemently disagree that the assertion that
Eastern Orthodox theology is anti-intellectual and only mystical, even though yeah at the time, Divine Simplicity was good in the sense that it led to science and our modern standard of living, but I think a lot of Protestantism and Catholicism is often so alienating and misunderstood that it creates atheism. That is my own personal experience though, being raised Nazerene/ Non-denominational after losing my faith into a hateful misotheist agnosticism in my teen years. Now at age 20, I find Orthodoxy a bit more satisfying intellectually with the idea of Logos Spermatikos and the energy-essence distinction, and how learned many Orthodox Christians can be.
Hey RZ, I was wondering if you could cover why the Catholic Bible has books that the Protestant Bible doesn’t have in it. Thanks for all the great content!
The best video on that topic is at Gavin Ortlund's Truth Unites. The title of the video is "Which Old Testament Canon is Right? With John Meade".
I can explain. Protestants use a canon decided upon by Jews who had no authority to set any Bible canon.
The Church was already establishing and using its own canon. Luther just wanted to go with the council of Jamnia because that version didn't contain books which rejected his views on purgatory
@@dman7668 The bishop of Rome commissioned Jerome to produce a Latin version of the bible (the Vulgate). Jerome included only the agreed upon 22 books of the Hebrew scriptures which included the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. 22 because they consolidated some of the books we now separate. He didn't disparage the other books written between the Hebrew scriptures and the NT, but did not regard them as part of the canon. In other words, though helpful and even beneficial to read they were not to be used as the measure of true doctrine. This was a view held by many faithful Catholics all the way to and including the time of the Reformation. Granted, the churches in North Africa (Hippo and Carthage) influenced by Augustine did not make the distinction between the Hebrew scriptures and these other writings, but others did. All this is to say that it is false to suggest that Luther did something new here. He was in agreement with a long history of making a distinction between the Hebrew scriptures and these additional writings eventually known as the deuterocanonical or "apocryphal" books. He included them in his German translation of the bible but did not regard them as equal to the Hebrew scriptures and the NT. Though there were earlier local councils that served as precedent, it was not until the council of Trent (1545 to 1563) that the Roman church decided to regard the deuterocanonical books as equal to the Hebrew scriptures. Luther died in 1546.
Anti-Semitism rears it's ugly head once again. That's the major difference, Protestants embrace the fact that Jesus, his mother and the disciples were all Jewish. We do not condemn God's chosen people.
They took stuff out
I loved this video and found it very informative. Even though I am becoming a Catholic now after years of atheism, I agree with your defense of protestant churches being beautiful. My old church is one of the New England Congregational churches you mentioned, and it is lovely. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the political banners that now hang in front of it.
If you ever make a new version of this video, I would find it helpful if you included dates for when these "splits" occurred.
How could the Council of Nicaea have made any statement about what the Bible said when the Christian Canon of Scripture was not yet defined at that time?
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There are 4500 branches of American protestant churches.
This tree is a tad incomplete on the right side. Look into Russian Orthodox Schism of 1653.
30:28. Feel better soon! You have a very nice voice--perfect for doing videos AND TEACHING!!!!!!!!
The syriac can be catholic.
The maronite church is a syriac church from the east and it's a catholic church.
You can find syriac catholic in the actual lebanon, syria and egypte.
Every video this guy posts makes me more and more baptist. 😂
Real
Being Baptist shows a fundamental ignorance of church history and the Bible itself. Baptists are super goofy and have many heterodox beliefs
Real. Everytime he slanders baptists I actually baptize fewer and fewer babies.
@@TheRoark 😂 What is less than zero?
Where I disagree with you on the evolution/science thing is my understanding that the book of genesis is meant to be a historical book. It’s meant to be the history of creation. So if I’m not supposed to take that book literally, then what’s stopping me from not taking the gospels as a historical account as well? I fell away from the faith when I was about 16/17 mainly due to not being able to reconcile evolution with the Bible. When I became a believer again at 23 I just understood that the Bible is true and it’s God breathed. Btw I’m a Lutheran, part of the LCMS ✝️ The official stance of the church is that Genesis is a historical book meant to be taken literally. Although, not all laypeople would agree.
Taking Genesis literally is like taking all of Jesus' parables literally, or assuming things like God setting the Earth "fixed and immovable" means the Sun revolves around the Earth despite all evidence to the contrary, especially since the text isn't being literal in the way many think. It's a history, but it's clear that the creation is condensed into what people can understand, getting it up to the point of creating mankind. Even after Adam, it's condensed to Noah, and so on.
And in fact, when you look at the creation of the Earth in Genesis, it lines up with what we know scientifically when viewed through such a lense.
I'm Dutch Reformed, but I have a lot of respect for my brothers and sisters in the LCMS.
Science is revealing that evolution is a broken idea the more we study.
Genesis is truth. No matter how difficult to comprehend
I agree that the surface and atmosphere of this planet was created in 6 literal 24 hour days as God stated in Exodus 20:8-11
Love your stuff man. Perfect. Such an important channel.
20:30 Reminds me of a quote from my favorite Christian Comedian.
"When all else fails, make fun of the Amish. Why? Because they don't have any recording equipment to prove I said anything. Even if they did they couldn't plug it in."
Wow that was very educational and entertaining ! Thank You !
I’m Anglican and been there ever since God changed my heart and brought me to Christ. However, being more of an Anglo-Catholic it’s very isolating within my area as I live in Sydney and the Sydney Anglican Church is extremely evangelical and pretty much theologically Baptist. To the best of my knowledge there are only two traditional Anglican parishes within my whole diocese, one of which by the grace of God is near me and I currently attend. It can be very isolating
This whole anglican Protestantism with high-church being kinda like catholic looking and low church on the other side is fascinating. I tried to understand the concept, but I still don't get it.
Greetings from Melbourne.
I'm pretty sure you'll find the Sydney Anglicans especially those from Moore college are mostly reformed in their soteriology ie.Graeme Goldsworthy
@@andrewhamblinglocal there is a charismatic Catholic Church movement in Australia that is Anglican-friendly and Protestant-friendly
My brother married a member of the Assyrian Church of the East. Her dad is like Gus from ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ except about Assyrians instead of Greeks. But we talked a lot about Nestorianism. He’s super gung-ho about Nestorianism. But after going around and around the Merry-Go-Round on that subject and what his church teaches it seemed to me they really believe the same as my church (which happens to be the LCMS). All that to say, I agree with what you said about the Nestorian division perhaps being exaggerated.
I’m an Italian/Greek Catholic. I can also confirm “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is accurate 😅
As a member of the Assyrian Church; I remember my conversations with Baptists about incarnation and salvation. In the end, it turn out, we basically held the same beliefs.
As a Catholic, the whole thing with "protestants can believe whatever they want." I've said that many times, but that was because I've met non-denom who have said some WILD shit that has no basis in known theology.
The Council of Nicea is a Catholic Council. Saint Ignatius of Antioch used the term Catholic Church in his letter to the church in Smyrna in 107 ad. It has always been believed that The Didache was from 150 ad but, some are starting to speculate that The Didache was from 60 AD. The Encyclopedia Britannica has an entry about the letter of Clement being from 96 ad... the Catholic Church existed before the Council of Nicea, during the council, and after the council up to this very day. The Catholic Church at the Council of Nicea is the same Catholic Church today currently under Pope Francis.
A lot of eastern Orthodox would differ as to who is the heir to the term catholic church and several protestants are protestant/evangelical catholic plus Anglican Catholic.
Thank you so much. Im a Presbyterian too. But i have to say there were truths noted in most all the branches you spoke of. I subscribed ❤
Highly educational and useful video as I'm coming to understand Christian history better
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
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Heretical prayer: O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou art the dispenser of all the gifts which God grants to us miserable sinners; and for this end He has made thee so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful, in order that thou mayest help us in our misery. Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to thee: come to my aid, for I recommend myself to thee.
In thy hands I place my eternal salvation, and to thee I entrust my soul. Count me among thy most devoted servants; take me under thy protection, and it is enough for me. For, if thou protect me, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because thou art more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my judge, because by one prayer from thee He will be appeased.
But one thing I fear: that in the hour of temptation I may through negligence fail to have recourse to thee and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me, therefore, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace ever to have recourse to thee, O Mother of Perpetual Help.
This is a legit Roman Catholic prayer, look up "O Mother of Perpetual Help" if you want to know if it’s legit.
This is super heretical. This doctrine of invoking departed saints doesn’t seem just like "hey it’s like praying to a friend.".
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Thank you for this great production! It showed me once again how close we Christians are, no matter where we belong to. There should be way more cummunication between the churches - hopefully, we can reach one day not only more communication but also more communion in our Lord Jesus Christ! All the best and please continue this very impotant work!!!
0:51 The Council of Nicaea was NOT a meeting of the whole church, far from it; it was hastily called and poorly attended. Although 1800 were invited to participate, only somewhere between 250 and 318 (Section 120, Schaff, Philip; Schaff, David Schley (1910). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 3. New York: C Scribner's Sons.) of those invited actually attended and only 5 from the Western Church. It was mostly about dealing with the Arian heresy, what is the correct time for celebrating Easter, and rules concerning church discipline; what has become orthodox Christian belief was not firmly established by the Council.
I have been called a "weird child" before, but "weird child of Lutherans and Baptists" is new to me 😂
Hey, I would really like if you could do a video on the Greek Catholic Churches (Romanian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, etc.).
On the topic of the east/ west split at ~9:50, I think I side with the East. I'm gunna go look for the verse that makes me think so and come back...
Here, John 14:26 ESV
[26] "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom *the Father will send* in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
I know that you are doing this very American centric but I just wanted to add that there isn't only the small Moravian church that originated with Hus there is also the Czechoslovak Hussite church which the third most popular in Czech Republic and also the Unity of the Brethren which is both here and in the US (Texas) it also has some ties to the Moravian church and the Evangelical Church.
One of the few things that annoys me in his videos is that he talks in a very American centered perspective as if it was the same in the rest of the world.
Unity of the Brethren, or in latin Unitas Fratrum IS the Moravian Church, that's just another name for them used in most of the world. This is a remnant of the old Unitas Fratrum, partially formed from refugees from Moravia (hence the name) who fled to Germany and took refuge in the lands of the Lutheran Pietist count Zinzendorf, but they also got support from earlier Brethren refugees who lived in Germany for several generations before that (this includes an episcopal lineage going from bishop John Comenius).
The modern Czechoslovak Hussite Church was formed by dissatisfied Catholic priests in the 1920s as a national church, and was influenced by an admiration of Hus as a national figure, Catholic modernism, and originally also by Eastern Orthodoxy (most native Czech Orthodox came from the Hussite church).
You also have the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, which formally is a united Lutheran-Reformed church, due to the religious regulations of the Austro-Hungarian empire, which allowed for people to choose only between the Reformed and Lutheran confessions if they wished, forcing the Hussites to formally adhere to another confession.
Nowadays, most Czech Protestants will read the works of Hus and claim some sort of lineage from the original Hussites or Unitas Fratrum.
@@daliborbenes5025 Thanks for the read, I got some from the wiki but this is a really nice complication of information.
That was absolutely amazing! Loved it...
Thanks for the video. It must have been a lot of work to research this topic. Your effort is appreciated. As one who has roamed widely over the theological landscape for more than seven decades, I would say, however, that there is no one group who got it 100% right, not even the Council of Nicea. While I think that we can learn much from different denominations, in the end, it is up to each one of us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12b) We will not be judged according to what our denomination believed, but upon what we, personally, believed.
As a southern Baptist I think it’s important to have a good knowledge of church history and to live differently than the world but that science should flow from a Christian world view. Just this week we had a reformation service about why the Bible alone through Jesus alone is the way
Thank you for your very detailed video on church history. Would you be able to make a video on the history of biblical canon?
I second this!
Like the most of the content, but man never misses a chance to throw shade on Baptists.
(Sigh) We're used to it. We are easy targets because we can't honestly deny we are messy and disparate enough that surely SOMEONE out there is accurately depicted, and a kernel of truth even when off the mark. Plus the loudest Baptists tend to be the wierdest and attract the most attention, whereas the nice quiet majority get ignored. But we try to be loving regardless.
Baptists as Cafe americano, Amish not tweeting, Catholic Biden inflation, Luther anger issues - hilarious. Good presentation of tons of history.
My mom was raised Moravian… and it is very much alive and well and thriving in the southwestern Alaskan area. Small, yes, like you say. I just wanted to point out that it came all the way from Moravia to our little Eskimo communities here in southwest Alaska. My aunt was a pastor or a deacon in I think Marshall for a year or two, then someone else was appointed after her term was up.
Edit: can you also cover the quakers and their transformation from quakers to the modern friends church sometime? I was raised in Kotzebue, Alaska, and in the northwest Alaska, the friends church (which descended from the Quakers) was and still is the dominant church in the area. I think Kotzebue is the only town that has more than one denomination of churches. All the spoke villages have just the friends church.
The Catholic and Apostolic church is the one true church 🇻🇦💪
Catholic = Universal ≠ Roman
The Catholic Church is the Root of the Tree, not a branch as Zoomer has shown. I which people would not listen the Protestant rhetoric when producing these materials and do their own scholarly research with ALL the materials available.
@@Corpoise0974 the universal Church submits to Rome. Only one Pope. The church was built on rock, not on sand.
@@brianbrachel4871 The Roman Church split from the tree in 451. Rome is not even the Apostolic see of Peter, Antioch is. Also im not protestant.
@@LuzianJ Not Biblical the Church the Bride and Christ is the bridegroom the Church is ment to submit to him not the Bishop of Rome.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
- Ephesians 5:23-24
Jesus says if any Apostle shall put himself first he shall be last. There is no cheif Apostle.
34 But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. 35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
- Mark 9:34-35
The Rock is Peter's proclamation of faith, and not Peter himself.
16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
- Mathew 16:16-18
The power of binding and loosing was not given only to Peter but to all other Apostles. All apostolic successors, bishops have this same authority.
18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
- Matthew 18:18
You've done a fantastic job of creating this tree! I studied this over 20 years ago, as a Reformed Christian (belonged to the PCA, but was still "baptistic" in terms of my belief in the Sacrament). I also began to read the Early Church Fathers (particularly Ignatius and Irene's, etc). By understanding the Patristic mindset of Theology, as well as this history of Christian development, I eventually could see that the Protestant movement really had no basis in historical or Biblical Christianity. There really was no continuity. In 2004, my wife and I, along with our daughter, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, as we had been convinced that in fact it was the True Church.
Hi, that's a very interesting story! I also belong to the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church - welcome dear sisters and brother!
@@adikozarev2462 Thank you! 😁🙏☦️
I’m wondering if you are familiar with Renewal Ministries: Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal. That’s where I would place myself. The Holy Spirit does consistently show up in all Christian Churches and that is precisely why there is much in common. We are one family. Thank you for your zeal and your study. Jesus bless and keep you! May the Holy Spirit give your an abundance of wisdom and discernment.
I am Eastern Orthodox , and i really apreciate your work. Very well explained everything
Imagine a musical like Hamilton but it's called "Lutheran" and it's about the Protestant Reformation
Being one of your Romish viewers I have to stick up for my Amish brothers, because they can't. Their theology is in error, but they're very nice people, and if you've ever seen a horse and buggy going down a thoroughfare in a city the first word that enters your mind is *based.*
Personally believe in Baptist succession, which means there has always been one denomination that believes the same as modern-day Baptists- from the first Christians to the Montanists to the Donatists to the Paulicians to the Waldenses to the Anabaptists and finally Baptists (and maybe some I missed inbetween)
Baptist succesionism is just bad scholarship in my opinion. The Montanists were schismatic charismatic Catholics. The Paulicians did not believe in the essential eternal Diety of Christ. The Waldensians eventually joined the paedobaptist (baptism of infants) Reformed camp at the time of the Reformation. And the Anabaptists of the 16th century rejected salvation by faith, and did not insist on immersion as the mode of baptism. Many Anabaptists also had a heretical Christology (look up celestial flesh) and some even practiced polygamy (look up Munster Rebellion of 1534). Clearly none of these groups were Baptists, and most were heretical.
@@cjheideldude Most Anabaptists today, especially the Evangelical Mennonites and Brethren believe in salvation by faith, reject the belief in celestial flesh, and polygamy. Most Mennonites today are basically identical to Baptists but strictly hold to Arminian soteriology and are boarder line pacifists while Baptists are very diverse in their soteriology.
@@leullakew9579 that is why I specified 16th Century Anabaptists. They have since been influenced by more mainstream Protestant beliefs.
The Montanists were absolutely not Baptists, and they arguably weren’t even Christians.
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