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 This illustration by
U.S. News and World Report was accompanied by an article discussing the
wide variety of Protestant Christian denominations. Of particular
note is that the one straight line emanating from the Pentecost event of
A.D. 33 is that of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eastern Orthodox
Christians do not consider themselves part of a "denomination"
in any sense, but rather the Church itself -- the same Church which Paul
established and to whom he wrote his Epistles -- which has preserved the
Apostolic teachings and worship, remarkably intact, without addition or
subtraction. The term "denomination" itself has a monetary
connotation meaning something like "a part of" a bigger piece, but
Orthodoxy is both Apostolic and catholic in the
sense of being according to the whole, or universal.
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