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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think these people represent all Christians.... [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)wants to start a church just needs to interpret the Bible in his or her own way and convince others to join.
My brother lived in Arkansas for about 10 years and it is amazing how many independent churches exist in that state. Some of them as small as 10 people. By independent I mean not affiliated with another larger church body. And truthfully this happens in all religions. The small group who attacked the cartoonist in Paris interpreted the Koran the way they wanted to.
There is criterion that is ancient in many churches that they follow at least to the point of calling it their doctrine. Many of the rw churches do not have this anymore if they ever did. If you had asked that as far back as the 60s I think at least with the mainstream churches of that time you would have found many of the same doctrines but when the charismatic movement started in the 70s they moved into the churches with a new doctrine that was pretty much the rw tripe we hear about today.