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Why do Christians do that?


You may have wondered why Christians have different practices. The short answer is that every practice had an origin, and often we can know the person or group who decided to start a trend. Read below for some of those practices.


  1. Why do Catholics have extra books in the Bible? or Why do Protestants have less books in their Bible?
  2. The origin of the fish symbol in Christianity
  3. Why so many denominations when there is one Bible?
  4. Why do most Christians attend church on Sunday?
  5. Different methods of Communion
  6. When were the chapters and verses added to the New Testament?
  7. Why does Easter move around the calendar?
  8. How we got the New Testament: New Testament canonization
  9. Why is the headquarters of the Church of England not in London?
  10. Overview of the Protestant Reformation
  11. Why are there 5 points of Calvinism, and what are they?
  12. Origin of the King James Version of the Bible
  13. How the vast amount of land in America produced so many denominations
  14. Charles Wesley "proves" Jesus will return in 1793
  15. The Origin of the Separation of Church and State
  16. Utopian groups of the 1800's; aka Where did the Mormons come from?
  17. Fundamentalism: The origin of the name
  18. I know what you are trying to do: Niebuhr's Christ and Culture

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