Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox: What’s the difference and does it matter?
Protestant Christian and apologist Nick Peters explores some key distinctions within different branches of Christianity
From the very beginning Christianity had divisions. We see this in the first epistle to the Corinthians where, in the first chapter, Paul talks about people saying they follow different people: some Apollos and some Paul and others claiming to only follow Christ.
In Church history, there have been two great divisions in the Church. The first was the Great Schism in 1054 that divided the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches. The next was in 1517 with the Reformation that led to the Protestant Churches.
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