There were already "heresies" in churches before the first century was over. Paul battled them in almost every epistle he wrote. John warned to try the Spirits because not every spirit is of God. Jude said we must earnestly contend for the faith once delivered. In some respects every one of the writers of the New Testament created "boxes" true believers were to stay inside of. Paul said to mark those who would not walk according to the traditions he gave them. Before the Catholic church started in around 314 AD, there were already churches that would not accept the baptism of some other churches, believing them to have departed too far from the faith delivered by Jesus and the apostles. When Constantine supposedly converted and called for the Christians to come under his protection (and thereby establishing the Catholic - which means universal, one world church), many churches refused, understanding it to be of a different sort than the church Jesus built. Those churches were labeled by the Catholics as "Ana-baptist" and were hunted down by the Catholics for the next 1300 years. Historically then there are three sorts of Churches: Catholics, Protestants (those who were once Catholics and protested out from it) and Independent (those churches that were never part of the Catholic system). Baptists, Mennonites, Amish, Quakers are among those that are neither Catholic nor Protestant.
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Wonderful! Thank you. I love to think and challenge. Nothing is ever what it seems. I am still believing that what Jesus taught was taken in, and quickly forgotten. The very fact that we have so many boxes as you stated above shows that we are probably more divided than ever. I think that Jesus' message was clear and simple. It was man that muddied the water. Trying to figure out what Jesus meant instead of simply believing what He said.