By Savion Rayson Every denomination that exists today shares the same foundational problem: when tested against the Scripture, they crumble. Though their teachings differ and their histories vary, all have departed from the truth. The New Testament gives multiple warnings, three of them directly at the core issues we see today. (1) When men step away from God’s pattern, they do not do so accidentally (2 Thess. 2:7). (2) They do so because something else, human authority, alte

By Savion Rayson Every denomination that exists today stands at the end of a long historical chain. None of them existed in the first century, and none of them appear in the most significant book ever to be. The Bible reflects a simple, pure pattern of the church that Christ wished, and did establish on Pentecost (Acts 2:38–47). That being the case, history shows that denominations are not the product of Scripture. They are the product of departure . The New Testament warns t