I think even 3 groups would still be too much! Why should there be thousands of churches if one church can't stand all the other churches?! People always say: "My church is better than your church!" What are we? 5? Even those 3 groups we have today are just too many: we have Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Who needs thousands of churches anyway?! We should all be Christians and not divided at all. Why can't people see that?? We are only 1 religion, not thousands of different religions!! What ever happened to the idea of just 1 Christian Church for all of us Christians?! I mean did you ever heard of the ecumenism before???

^The Catholic Church happened. They got too much power and lost sight of what mattered most and people were right to break away. Ones like Luther didn't intend to create division though, but to convince the Church the were going about it the wrong way and sadly it didn't work.

I think when Jesus spoke of unity He meant the spiritual kind, not a literal one world church. I agree it would be better to have less division but 1) people (mainly Catholics) really exaggerate how many sects there are and 2) the finer details are less important than the super important main stuff (belief Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected, etc).

I know of many new Christians and nonbelievers who get confused on why there are so many churches. It can be a great divider when we share the majority of the same beliefs. I think that there should be different groups for people who believe in things like infant baptism vs. believers baptism, but I don't think churches should split over things like dress code.