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What is Authentic Christianity? Currently, there are approximately 40,000 different Christian churches and denominations. If you go back only 500 years, most of what you regard as Christianity would not have existed. If you go back earlier still, your Christian belief (including the current form of Catholicism that is practiced) would be regarded as heretical by the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Merely 500 years ago, the only authorized forms of the Bible were printed in Latin, and they were the exclusive property of a Catholic clergy who taught in Latin. Christians were a group of people who were told what to do, what to believe, and how to regard Christianity. When Luther, Calvin, Knox, Zwingli, Simons, and others started to oppose Catholic abuses, there was an eager audience wishing to be freed from Catholic domination. The protests unleashed against Catholicism quickly spread throughout Europe. Once Protestant leaders published the Bible in the language of the common man, an aloof and educated clergy lost their monopoly over access to and the right to interpret Scripture. Every soul was entitled and expected to read the Bible for themselves. Today, Christianity is a fragmented, quarreling, and inconsistent patchwork of denominational sects, many of which claim that they alone offer the truest form of Christianity. There have been many Christian thinkers who longed to see Christianity drop its internal disputes and find common ground. C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, Billy Gra