• If you are a Lutheran,
your religion was founded
by Martin Luther, an ex-
monk of the Roman
Catholic Church, in the
year 1517.
• If you belong to the
Church of England, your
religion was founded by
King Henry VIII in the year
1534 because the Pope
would not grant him a
divorce with the right to
remarry.
• If you are a Presbyterian,
your religion was founded
by John Knox in Scotland
in the year 1560.
• If you are a
Congregationalist, your
religion was originated by
Robert Brown in Holland in
1582.
• If you are a Protestant
Episcopalian, your religion
was an offshoot of the
Church of England,
founded by Samuel
Seabury, in the American
colonies in the 17th
century.
• If you are a Baptist, you
owe the tenets of religion
to John Smyth, who
launched it in Amsterdam
in 1606.
• If you are of the Dutch
Reformed Church, you
recognize Michelis Jones as
founder because he
originated your religion in
New York
If you are a Methodist,
your religion was
founded by John and
Charles Wesley in
England in 1774.
• If you are a Mormon
(Latter Day Saints), Joseph
Smith started your religion
in Palmyra, New York in
1829.
• If you worship with the
Salvation Army, your sect
began with William Booth
in London in 1865.
• If you are a Christian
Scientist, you look to 1879
as the year in which your
religion was founded by
Mary Baker Eddy.
• If you belong to one of
the religious sects known
as “Church of the
Nazarene”, “Pentecostal
Gospel”, “Holiness
Church,”, or “Jehovah’s
Witnesses,” your religion is
one of the hundreds of
new sects founded by men
within the past hundred
years.
If you are a Roman
Catholic, your church
shared the same rich
apostolic and doctrinal
heritage as the Orthodox
Church for the first
thousand years of its
history since during the
first millennium they were
one and the same Church.
Lamentably, in 1054, the
Pope of Rome broke way
from the other four
Apostolic Sees
(Patriarchates), by
tampering with the original
Creed of the Church, and
considering himself to be
the universal pastor over
other Sees and infallible.
• If you are a Uniate
Roman Catholic of any
Eastern Rites, you had
your roots in the Orthodox
Church, but were forced
into the Roman Catholic
Church, either by financial
hardship, or regional
political/ ecclesiastical
unrest (e.g.: Malankara
Syrian Catholics), or by
western colonialization
(e.g.: Syro-Malabar Rite),
or by military strength.
IF you are an Orthodox
Christain
If you are an Orthodox
Christian, you religion was
founded in the year 33 by
Jesus Christ, the Son of
God. It has not changed
since that time. Our
Church is now almost 2000
years old. And it is for this
reason, that Orthodoxy,
the Church of the Apostles
and the Fathers is
considered the true “One,
Holy, Catholic, and
Apostolic Church.”
• This is the greatest
legacy we can pass on to
the young people of the
new millennium!
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