Confession is a feature of religion

In a multinational multi-confessional state, it is quite possible to get confused with differences in religious teachings. There are Christians who profess Christ. Muslims who talk about Mohammed, Jews who do not recognize either one or the other. Buddhists are far from all this, they teach about indifference and nirvana. What is the difference between all these creeds and what is the difference between a Buddhist and a Baptist?

The questions are quite reasonable, but they are not at all complicated. Indeed, there are several religions that profess a completely different concept of God. It is often said that God is one, but He is glorified in different ways. It is only necessary to delve deeper into the description of Allah, to understand that he and Jesus Christ are very different. So different that it is simply impossible to describe one Being so differently.

Christianity preaches Christ. Judaism is, one might say, pre-Christianity. These are people who did not recognize the coming Savior in Jesus and are waiting for His coming until now.

Muslims know that there was such a great man - Jesus Christ, but they do not recognize Him as God, for them He is only a prophet. Buddhism generally teaches that there is no personal God, but there is a certain absolute to which one should strive, in which one should merge and completely dissolve.

So, in the world and in Russia there are several different religions. They are distinguished not only by God, whom their followers revere, but also by the ethical principles that they follow. But within the same religion there are several denominations.

A denomination is one branch of a religion, although there are other branches, that is, denominations. Today there are such divisions in any religion. For example, in Christianity the oldest confession is Orthodoxy, the newer is Catholicism, the most modern is Protestantism.

And Orthodox, and Catholics, and Protestants worship Christ. The Gospel for all is important and authoritative, but everyone is at variance in their interpretation of the foundations of faith. Moreover, each denomination considers its interpretation and teaching to be correct and criticizes other teachings. Orthodox believe that the Catholics, who separated from the Orthodox Church about a thousand years ago, are dogmatically wrong, have an incorrect spiritual practice. In turn, Catholics do not like the excessive conservatism of the Orthodox, there are also some dogmatic disagreements.

But representatives of the religions of one religion are guided by the same values, they speak the same language. But if the dialogue is conducted by representatives of various religions, then, apart from universal values, they no longer unite, therefore it is extremely difficult to agree on them.

The oldest religious denomination in Judaism is Orthodox Judaism, there is also a newer trend - Hasidism, as well as reformist Judaism.

Islam is also heterogeneous. There is Sunnism, Shiism and Salafism.

In Russia, the main Christian denomination is Orthodoxy, although there are Catholics and Protestants. Russian people in the majority hardly represent a canonical difference between currents. It's just that Russians are accustomed to the appearance of temples and the type of service. Various Christian denominations in Russia are not infringed, have the right to existence, freedom of preaching. Almost every major city has a Catholic church and several Protestant prayer houses. Previously, belonging to a particular tradition could cost lives (crusades, Bartholomew's Night), and now people are more tolerant.

Most of Russia's population does not understand religious trends, and therefore a dogmatic dispute between faiths will cause confusion at best.