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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]I'm Christian...

To answer your questions:

1.  Do you guys have a certain number of mandatory prayers that you do every day?   Does it depend on what branch of Christianity you follow?
No... I don't know about all the "branches" (denominations), but most of the Protestant ones do not. Not sure about Catholics.

2.  What is the difference between Catholics, Protestants and Methodists? 
Protestants grew out of the Reformation period from the Roman Catholic church. In a nutshell, some people felt the Catholic Church was a bit too corrupt so they split from them. Then different fractions started appearing... Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran... each started by different leaders.  They all hold to the universal truths about Christianity, just vary slightly in certain aspects of the belief.

3. Can you guys go to each other's churches?   
Yes, it is very open.  I grew up in a Presbyterian church but now go to what is called non-denominational.[/quote]

Thank you, I appreciate it. So Catholics were the "Original Christians" and all the other denominations branched out from them? [/quote]

The Roman Catholics were the original organized Christians, with a creed, a set of scriptures and set of rules that the leaders devised and  agreed to at the council of Nicea in 325, but before that there were many independent groups, just as there are today.[/quote]

The Roman Catholics, were not "Roman" until they broke away from the Orthodox Eastern Catholics.  There were many independent groups before during and after Nicea. [/quote]

The Egyptian Copts I know swear they were the original Christians. :)  doesn't really matter to me but Eastern Orthodox in general is older than Roman Catholicism.[/quote]

There are no "original" Christians.. they've since all died.  Every type of Christian church/denomination/sect is a derivative of the Apostles/Disciples.  I don't think you can equate oldest Christian group to "original".  [/quote]

Original in that the way they practice Christianity is the way it was first practiced.  [/quote]

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