The Christadelphians

Denomination·Founded 1848 CE·Around 50,000 worldwide in roughly 120 countries is the figure usually cited, from the Columbia Encyclopedia and repeated widely. There is no central body and no census: each ecclesia keeps its own roll and no one aggregates them, so the number is an estimate and should be read as one. Substantial communities exist in Britain, Australia, North America, Malawi, Mozambique and India.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Christadelphians

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Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 2 You × The Christadelphians Discussion

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum Part of Belief →
The shared center — held across the tradition
God is one person, and the Trinity is a Greek import. The Father alone is God; Jesus is his son, begotten and not pre-existent as a person; the Holy Spirit is God's power in action. Christadelphians argue this from the text at length and hold that the fourth-century creeds imported a philosophy the apostles would not have recognised. Go deeper — context →
You do not have an immortal soul, so there is nowhere to torment you. The dead are unconscious and know nothing until the resurrection. Immortality is not a possession but a gift given at judgment to those found faithful; the rejected are destroyed rather than punished forever. There is no devil as a person — the diabolos of Scripture is read as human sinful nature. Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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