OUTLINE: Christendom Family Tree

Q: Why so Many Denominations? 

A: She had DAUGHTERS

And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH....And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, MY PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Revelation 17:5/18:4

 CATHOLIC (use of Apocrypha)

ROMAN CATHOLIC

--OTHER CATHOLIC

Bridge Gap: ORTHODOX (toss out Purgatory from hereon)

--EASTERN ORTHODOX

--ORIENTAL ORTHODOX

MAINLINE PROSTETANT

Stemming from the Reformation

ANGLICAN

LUHERAN (toss out Apocrypha from here on except for one*)

CALVINIST

--PREBYTERIAN

--REFORMED

ZWINGLI

--ANABAPTIST

Bridge Gap within

HUSSITE

Stemming from the Age of Revivalism

CONGREGATIONAL

WESLYAN

Bridge Gap: RESTORATIONIST

--CANE RIDGE

--BRETHREN

--IRVINGIAN*

EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT

BAPTIST

HOLINESS

--CHARISMATIC

MISCELLANEOUS EVANGELICAL

SABBATRIAN

Bridge Gap: ARMSTRONGISM

OTHER "CHRISTIAN" (Mostly Binitarian or Unitarian)

ONESS PENTECOSTALISM

MORMON

JEHOVAH WITNESS

QUAKER

UNITARIAN

MISCELLNEOUS OTHER

NEW THOUGHT

CONVERGANCE