I'm an Independent Baptist. So I'll know who I'm talking to, what is your denomination?
What is an "Independent Baptist"? And how does your denomination differ from other "Baptist" denominations?
Do you see the problem here Charlie24? 'The Christ exists divided' even among those who claim the same basic denomination.
Do you think God judges us by what we call ourselves? Label wearing is ridiculous from God's standpoint.....and yet if there were no 'labels' indicating what beliefs are held by a certain group, how would anyone know what their beliefs were? People can go online and find out the basic teachings of those thousands of "denominations", otherwise, how would anyone differentiate one from another? Christianity would be a free for all! Although I suppose, it already is....thousands of people, all claiming to be right, when they disagree with one another.
Is "Christianity" one "umbrella" describing those who are disunited? (1 Corinthians 1:10) How can it be?
I came out of the Anglican church because the hypocrisy I witnessed there made me sick. I saw them flout the teachings of Jesus whilst making excuses for doing so. Who will accept those excuses? Not Jehovah, that's for certain. (Matthew 7:21-23) Jesus is his appointed judge and because a hated "few" are on the road to life, (Matthew 7:13-14) I was looking for those who would teach me Bible truth whilst at the same time, living up to the teachings of God's son to the best of their ability as imperfect humans.
I searched in Christendom's denominations for those who people...but never found them....they found me by doing what Christ commanded his disciples to do. (Matthew 10:11-14; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 20:20)
If Christendom as a whole, bases their beliefs on the foundation laid by the Roman Catholic church, then according to my studies, they are all in the same hole.....an enormous grave dug for them by God's enemy, who will not go down in there alone.
The "tares" are dictating your doctrines....in case you hadn't noticed?