Which Christian denomination is the most similar to Judiasm?

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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.)

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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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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.

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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.

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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.