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John the Baptist was a Christian because it is recorded in the Gospels how he proclaimed that Jesus is the Messiah.

John the Baptist was a Christian because it is recorded in the Gospels how he proclaimed that Jesus is the Messiah.

That makes it a bit more interesting. So do you think you can break Orthodox churches into a few groups, with churches in each group agreeing with each other? Like Russian and Greek is in one of the groups, and then maybe there are some other groups? How many arch bishops are there by the way? Are Russian and Greek Orthodox under the same arch bishop or different ones? What about other Orthodox churches?

One thing I am really curious about is whether or not Armenian and Ethiopian would agree. Because I like them for two different reasons. I like Armenian because they are the oldest, and I like Ethiopian because they borrowed elements of Jewish law (such as kosher and sabbath). Actually there is a reason why the two would go hand in hand: in particular, according to the theory that Messianics and other Sabbaterians hold, Apostles likely kept the Jewish law but then the church got de-judaized by Rome. So, according to that theory, the oldest church would be more likely to keep it. However, I haven't heard of Armenian Orthodox keeping Jewish law, I only heard of Ethiopian Orthodox doing it. So that would be a reason right there for them to disagree. But could it be that they look past it and recognize each other anyway?

But here is more general question. How did it come about that different Orthodox groups ended up disagreeing? From what I know from church history, there was one dominant church up until approximately 1000 AD, and then there was a split into Orthodox and Catholic at around 1000 AD (the reason I said "one dominant church" rather than "one church" is that there were some sects such as Arians and others we talked about, but they were in the minority and no they weren't part of that church so it is not relevant to what I am talking about now). So are you saying that -- some time after 1000 AD -- there were some further splits within Orthodox church? If so, when did they happen?

certainly the Mandeans were influenced and follow him

and there is evidence that JTB also influenced almost all sects of modern christianity (not just Baptism but also in terms of evangalism).

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