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Exploring The Problems Of The Church In The Gilded Age

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There were many problems the Church struggled with that have lasted over 2000 years.
These 2000-year-old problems are just as easy to solve as the ones already solved. The Church did not deal with them because they bring up questions and challenge its faith, or sometimes never deal with them which make divisions in a church that should be one and have everyone brought together through Christ. The early churches concern and conflicts often related to the fact that they knew the gift of God should be reached to everyone there were oncoming separations and ideas that would have made the gift harder to spread, because people wouldn’t be open to changing to Christianity if it meant they had to go way out of their way to change themselves. The Church …show more content…

The Church did not know what it takes for a person to be qualified to baptize, which is why different denominations have different ideas about it.
Becoming baptized through a church is putting a person to a equal standard to all the other members who were baptized before. The idea of when a person should be baptized is different depending on the denomination, the ways it happens now are infant baptism which is usually sprinkling water and also believers that are ready to take that step, inviting God into a life, and that is usually being fully submerged, but is not always the case. The reason this has been such an issue in the Church is because there are two groups of Christians, the ones who think baptism is necessary for salvation and the ones that do not. The Church has divided over this issue and has so much controversy. Christians live their life to be like Jesus because he was perfect and in the book of Matthew the statement is that he came out of the water so there were many different interpretations of this. (3:13-17) The Church needs to make a wide spread rule on this topic and stop letting it separate us.
The Church biggest idea that brought up so many questions and confusion which

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