Why Not Question: Should there be different religions?

Ask anyone today what they believe and inevitably the response given is: "I'm a Catholic. I'm a Baptist. I'm a Charismatic. Or, I attend such and such church."

Interesting enough, this same division among the Christians surfaced in Paul's time. In I Corinthians 3:4-7 JKV - 'For while one sayeth, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollous; are ye not carnal?' (fleshly) Ouch! Right off the bat he tells the believers they're wrong to divide themselves this way.

'Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man.' Meaning, we're just the messengers.

'I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.'
'So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.'

Again, the messengers are nothing. It's all God. Also, notice how Paul twice says it's God who gives the increase. Anytime the Bible says something twice, it means Pay attention! This is important!

Now, let's got to Acts 2, where it talks about the beginning of Christianity.
Notice some interesting things here.

vs 44 'And all that believed were together, and had all things common;'
Okay, there were not disagreements on what they should believe.

45 'And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, as every man had need'

They made sure no one in their church with needs was ignored. They didn't set up special ministries, as is done today, they sold their own stuff and cared for each other.

46 'And they, continuing daily with one accord (like minded), in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,(they ate together) did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.'(happy and united)

Do the Baptists agree with the Catholics? Do the Catholics agree with the Charismatics? And so forth - notice the huge difference here.

47 'Praising God, and having favour with all the people, And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.'

Notice something very important here. Christians had favor with ALL men - meaning the Romans, Jews, and everyone else. Not like today when Christian is dirty word due to intolerance, being unforgiving, thinking the government should concede to religious demands, very visual leaders who get greedy, fall and make God look bad, and in general, a very unloving, self righteous people - who in NO WAY reflect the love of God. No wonder people run from Christianity with such poor examples.

And notice the last - isn't this also what Paul said?

God, not the people, added to the church. Note here it says - daily - not every once in while as it is today.

End conclusion, labels of Chatholic, Baptist, charismatic, need to vanish and be replaced by, "I'm a Christian. I believe in God. Jesus Christ saved me."

Also the 'church' needs to return to the basics as shown in Acts, show God's love, and maybe then, there can be a revival such as has not been seen since those first days.