Which Christian denomination is the most similar to Judiasm?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Excluding Messianic Judiasim, of course. (Assuming they count as Christians.)

[useful idiot]

Reform Judaism seems pretty similar to many of the most liberal denoms of mainline Protestantism (such as the UCC). Just take out the ethnic aspect and they're not really that far off.

I don't know of any Christian denomination that's strikingly similar to Orthodox or even Conservative Judaism, other than social aspects.

[The Mikado]

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Definitely Ethiopian Orthodox. They even have many similarities to Conservative and Orthodox Judaism despite what useful idiot said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church#Similarities_to_Judaism

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

It's not at all uncommon for other churches to hold Saturday services now (though almost always evening services), I even know of one that only meets on Saturday evenings (I sometimes go to it if I've traded shifts with someone to work Sunday but not Saturday.)

[All Along The Watchtower]

What about Jews For Jesus?

[useful idiot]

Definitely Ethiopian Orthodox. They even have many similarities to Conservative and Orthodox Judaism despite what useful idiot said.

Interesting, I had assumed they were essentially Eastern Orthodox...there are more differences that I thought...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

They're from the "Oriental Orthodox" tradition which is not the same as Eastern Orthodoxy and even predates the Eastern Orthodox/Catholic schism by several centuries which also includes the Armenian Orthodox Church, most Copts in Egypt and a bunch of other Christian groups in the Middle East.

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Islam

*ducks*

[Insula Dei]

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

It's not at all uncommon for other churches to hold Saturday services now (though almost always evening services), I even know of one that only meets on Saturday evenings (I sometimes go to it if I've traded shifts with someone to work Sunday but not Saturday.)

My parish only has Mass on saturday evening. Has more to do with lack of priests than with concious decision, though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

It's not at all uncommon for other churches to hold Saturday services now (though almost always evening services), I even know of one that only meets on Saturday evenings (I sometimes go to it if I've traded shifts with someone to work Sunday but not Saturday.)

My parish only has Mass on saturday evening. Has more to do with lack of priests than with concious decision, though.

Weird, I think lack of priests would mean only having it on Sunday. The one I'm referring to probably does so because it's early enough on Saturday so that people don't have to worry about waking up on Sunday and it's early enough so that people can still go drinking and partying on Saturday.

[Insula Dei]

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

It's not at all uncommon for other churches to hold Saturday services now (though almost always evening services), I even know of one that only meets on Saturday evenings (I sometimes go to it if I've traded shifts with someone to work Sunday but not Saturday.)

My parish only has Mass on saturday evening. Has more to do with lack of priests than with concious decision, though.

Weird, I think lack of priests would mean only having it on Sunday. The one I'm referring to probably does so because it's early enough on Saturday so that people don't have to worry about waking up on Sunday and it's early enough so that people can still go drinking and partying on Saturday.

The priest is needed elsewhere on Sunday.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's quite amazing that the largest Christian denomination in the world has such difficulty with manpower shortages yet movements that have barely been around for a decade have churches popping up everywhere and don't even bother with how many people in the area they come to already belong to that tradition when the Catholic Church in theory already has a built-in base of over a billion people. I wonder why that could be...(well yeah we all know the answer.)

What's also fairly amusing is the Catholic Church with their tons of churches still has this issue while the type of church I refer to above basically have to resort to just renting out places because they don't have any church buildings at all.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Catholic Priests have to be qualified, don't they?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Catholic Priests have to be qualified, don't they?

Well the guy leading the church plant I'm involved in now did in fact graduate from a seminary program at a Christian university, though he has also said he primarily did it because he got some scholarship deal that allowed him to do it for free. And I suppose he technically has never been "ordained" or recognized by any denomination. But my current church's plant group consisted of about a dozen people none of who had any formal theological training, as do none of the current pastors (the most recently ordained associate pastor's last job was working at an organic food co-op.)

But the real issue obviously is priest celibacy. I think I read somewhere that some year in Ireland there was as many priests ordained by the Church of Ireland as the Catholic Church despite the Catholic Church having about 40x the membership.

[Insula Dei]

Catholic Priests have to be qualified, don't they?

Great rebuttal.

It takes 7 years to become a priest. And not all people who have attended seminary go on  to be ordained. And not all those that are ordained go on to be parish priest. In countries where there's a system of catholic schools there are a good number of priests active as teachers. There are the ones involved in charity and things like that. And obviously you need some people to run the diocese.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I suppose the Adventists for moving the Sabbath back to Saturday?

I am an Adventist and I would largely agree with you.  Also because we discourage/prohibit (I don't know which) eating non-kosher meats (I.e. pork).