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.Christianity (from the Greek word Xριστός, Khristos, "Christ", literally "anointed one") is a monotheistic religion[1] based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament.^ Wherefore, Christ (Maashua) has been present throughout the entire Spiritual Evolution of Man and the entire history of God on earth-even in the New World before the coming of Columbus.

 ^ Who Christ is referring to are those Europeans and Indo-Europeans who practice the religion of Judaism as in keeping the Spirit of the original Hebrew faith, and Hebrew Israelites, who make similar claims on the Old Testament and the linage of Abraham to suggest that their religion or way of life is also in keeping with the Spirit of the original Hebrew.

 ^ The whole of the Tibetan Religion is based upon the Rinpoche, a "Precious Jewel" who transfers his consciousness lifetime after lifetime into a new body and then again rules.
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.Christians believe Jesus is the son of God, God having become man and the savior of humanity.^ According to Christian dogma, Jesus is the Son of God.

 ^ So who is the Lord God that John (the brother of Jesus) refers to, as having been crucified in Sodom and Egypt?

 ^ Jesus came a fulfilled the culmination of the mission by becoming one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God, and one with the Creation of the Universe in the sight of men.

 .Christians, therefore, commonly refer to Jesus as Christ or Messiah.^ It was used as a derogatory reference to the unusual amount of devotion and attention paid to the Catholic Saints, often in preference to Jesus Christ.

 ^ Therefore, once the thousand years were up, the Aryan ego and pride of the Romans (Satan) was loose to start the Great Christian Crusades, the first of which started exactly one thousand year after the death as resurrection of Christ Jesus.

 ^ Church Fathers invented historical Jesus Christ some five hundred years after the advent of Christianity to install a Messiah.

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.Adherents of the Christian faith, known as Christians,[4] believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (the part of scripture common to Christianity and Judaism, and referred to as the "Old Testament" in Christianity.^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ One of the most interesting parts of the book is a section in which the author discusses the racial identity of Jesus and offers evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man.

 ^ Therefore, to the rest of the world, the Messianic faith and the Hebrew faith remained divided-despite the fact that Jesus had fulfilled both the transformation and the resurrection.

 ). .The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds, which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith.^ Consider, for instance, the following claims of Bolaji Idowu, one of the most cited scholars on Yorb theology: .

 ^ Hence, one can engage in some linguistic license and claim that, while Christian theology has a mono-demonic conception of evil, Yorb religion has a poly-demonic conception of evil.

 ^ In a footnote reference to his claims that in Yorb theology the Deity created the world in four days, Idowu refers us to page 112 of his book, were we read the following: .

 [5] .These professions state that Jesus suffered, died from crucifixion, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead to open heaven to those who believe in him and trust him for the remission of their sins (salvation).^ Jesus was not the first son of Heru to be resurrected from the dead.

 ^ Surely these two Pass-Overs were a sign that heaven was preparing a day of judgment for those who claim to be Hebrew descendants of Abraham, but refuse to keep the original Hebrew faith.

 ^ The purification and perfection of such knowledge also gave him power to appear before those whom he loved the most, as one who was resurrected from the dead.

 [6] .They further maintain that Jesus bodily ascended into heaven where he rules and reigns with God the Father.^ The Indians say, "Our Mother, the Earth" and our Father, who art in Heaven is God, the energy in the center of the universe.
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 ^ All of that brings us back to Jesus, and what the Heavenly Father Heru sent him into the earth to fulfill.

 ^ Father Heru...When the prophets like Isaiah in chapter 6:1-5 speak of seeing the Lord (YHWH) are they speaking of the Heavenly Father and God (Power) of the earth, Heru?

 .Most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant eternal life to his followers.^ After all, most of the people he sought to elevate to higher levels of human behavior, metaphysical thinking, and scientific understanding were highly religious people.

 ^ Hence one must have lived life as a human before becoming an ancestor.

 ^ Sahu - The incorruptible spiritual body of man that could dwell in the heavens, appearing from the physical body after the judgment of the dead was passed (if successful) with all of the mental and spiritual abilities of a living body.

 He is considered the model of a virtuous life, and both the revealer and physical incarnation of God.[7] .Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the Gospel ("good news") and hence refer to the earliest written accounts of his ministry as gospels.^ Nevertheless, the resurrection of Heru's son is the root of how Horus became known as the god of the resurrection in Egypt, and Jesus coming to fulfill the resurrection written of in the Gospel of Heru.

 ^ It was used as a derogatory reference to the unusual amount of devotion and attention paid to the Catholic Saints, often in preference to Jesus Christ.

 ^ My Dearly Beloved Sister Jennifer, If I tried to understand the Revelation of Christ Jesus from a purely religious point of view, or from the point of view of traditional Christianity, I too would have some problems with the idea of an old serpent called Satan and the Devil.
Christianity began as a Jewish sect[8][9] and is classified as an Abrahamic religion.[10][11][12] Originating in the eastern Mediterranean, it quickly grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the 4th century had become the dominant religion within the Roman Empire.
.During the Middle Ages, most of the remainder of Europe was Christianized, with Christians also being a (sometimes large) religious minority in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of India.^ One of the most interesting parts of the book is a section in which the author discusses the racial identity of Jesus and offers evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man.

 [13] .Following the Age of Discovery, through missionary work and colonization, Christianity spread to the Americas, Australasia, and the rest of the world, therefore Christianity is a major influence in the shaping of Western civilization.^ The common language of the country at that time had become assimilated to the Semitic dialect, especially through the influence of the Assyrians, and was the language that was used for all civil purposes.

 ^ Therefore, to the rest of the world, the Messianic faith and the Hebrew faith remained divided-despite the fact that Jesus had fulfilled both the transformation and the resurrection.

 ^ To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner.
.As of the early 21st century, Christianity has between 1.5 billion[14][15] and 2.2 billion adherents.^ During the early stages of Christianity reincarnation was accepted as revealed in Matthew 17: 10-12; 16;13; 11:14 and John 9: 2-3; Revelation 13: 10 and so on.

 ^ Jainism penetrated in Gandhra (North-West India) in the early centuries of the Christian era.
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 ^ The typical Jain symbols from Bawa Pyara caves of Junagarh are generally assigned to the early centuries of the Christian era 158 .
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 [16][17][18] .Christianity represents about a quarter to a third of the world's population and is the world's largest religion.^ In the New World, the Orishas and much of the religion was hidden behind a fa=E7ade of Catholicism with the Orishas themselves represented by various saints.

 [19] In addition, Christianity is the state religion of several countries.[20]

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Beliefs

The Sermon On the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.
.Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.^ There are also many differences between the Christian and Yorb conceptions of evil.

 ^ Africans smell hypocrisy and hang on to their beliefs even as they proclaim themselves devoted Christians and Moslems.

 ^ For there are still many things in the Book of Revelation that I will not be able to see clearly until they are drawn near their time of fulfillment.

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Creeds

Main article: Creeds
.Creeds (from Latin credo meaning "I believe") are concise doctrinal statements or confessions, usually of religious beliefs.^ Doctrine and creed and race mean nothing.
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 ^ "Do not believe" means that you have never believed the statement.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What Do Mormons Believe - Accurate but concise summary of the doctrinal differences in the beliefs of evangelical Christians and Mormons or Latter Day Saints.
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 .They began as baptismal formulae and were later expanded during the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries to become statements of faith.^ His baptism would mark the beginning of the Messianic tradition that would later become the core of Mayan society.

 ^ During the thirteenth century the capital of the Sntaras was shifted to Kalasa, and later to Karkala in Tuluva.
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 ^ The Jaina temples at unascribed to the eleventh and twelfth centuries, appear to have been built during the reign of the later Paramra kings of Malwa.
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The Apostles Creed (Symbolum Apostolorum) was developed between the 2nd and 9th centuries. .It is the most popular creed used in worship by Western Christians.^ Reminder: the prize for our most popular Catholic March blogger is a $50.00 gift card to be used at CatholicIpod.com.
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 ^ The mealy-mouthed and apologetic character of so much Western scholarship on Islam springs from the fact that many of these scholars were, and are, believers, in the rival creed of Christianity .
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 ^ The term "jihad" is used both by some Muslims and by most Orientalists and critics of Islam to equal the Christian term "crusade" or "Holy War."
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 .Its central doctrines are those of the Trinity and God the Creator.^ This work goes well beyond the doctrine of the trinity and addresses the broader subject of the three-fold nature found in all creation.

 ^ God said unto Osiris, it is the unwritten universal Law which govern that which God has created and those laws rule all that God has created, as God become the very essence of all it has created.

 ^ But the doctrine of deism which relegates God, after creation, to the passive role of a disinterested spectator, is antipodal to the teachings of Judaism.
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 Each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period. .The creed was apparently used as a summary of Christian doctrine for baptismal candidates in the churches of Rome.^ Several Christian churches have been attacked since Friday in Malaysia in a dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.
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 ^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christopher Hitchens points out that this is the same trick the Christian church used to pull in persecuting people who translated the Bible .

 [22] Since the Apostles Creed is still unaffected by the later Christological divisions, its statement of the articles of Christian faith remain largely acceptable to most Christian denominations:
The Nicene Creed, largely a response to Arianism, was formulated at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in 325 and 381 respectively[23][24] and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the First Council of Ephesus in 431.[25]
.The Chalcedonian Creed, developed at the Council of Chalcedon in 451,[26] though rejected by the Oriental Orthodox Churches,[27] taught Christ "to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably": one divine and one human, and that both natures are perfect but are nevertheless perfectly united into one person.^ Only two persons turned up; one didn't turn up, so we were only three.
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 ^ We both feel it as white light flowing from one to the other in an incredibly intense way which lasts for two hours.
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 ^ Then the head, two blockages, one a person who had just died, very deep and negative.
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The Athanasian Creed, received in the western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: "We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance."[29]
Most Christians (Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Protestants alike) accept the use of creeds, and subscribe to at least one of the creeds mentioned above.[30]
Many evangelical Protestants reject creeds as definitive statements faith, even while agreeing with some creeds' substance. The Baptists have been non-creedal “in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another.” [31]:p.111 Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Churches of Christ.[32][33]:14-15[34]:123

Jesus Christ

Main articles: Christian views of Jesus, Christology, and Jesus Christ in comparative mythology
The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah (Christ). The title "Messiah" comes from the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ (māšiáħ) meaning anointed one. The Greek translation Χριστός (Christos) is the source of the English word "Christ".[7]
A depiction of Jesus as a child with his mother, Mary, the Theotokos of Vladimir (12th century).
Christians believe that Jesus, as the Messiah, was anointed by God as savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus' coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept. The core Christian belief is that through belief in and acceptance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, sinful humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.[35]
.While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and "true God and true man" (or both fully divine and fully human).^ The earliest Jaina inscription from Mathura is of 150 B.C. Jainism got a foothold there by the beginning of the second century B.C. if not earlier.
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 ^ And for hourshe was a rich man so there was no need for him to be worried about timethree hours in the morning, three hours in the evening, he was constantly torturing the god of the temple.
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 ^ Even if you don't believe in God or prayer, sit and say, "Let there be peace.
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 Jesus, having become fully human, suffered the pains and temptations of a mortal man, but did not sin. As fully God, he rose to life again. According to the Bible, "God raised him from the dead,"[36] he ascended to heaven, is "seated at the right hand of the Father"[37] and will ultimately return[Acts 1:9-11] to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and final establishment of the Kingdom of God.
.According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.^ Its father is the sun father, its mother the earth The connection between the two, the holy spirit or ananda has borne it.
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 ^ The Father in Heaven, The Son on the surface of the Earth or Mother Mary symbolising Kundalini Shakti in the Center of the Earth, and the Holy Spirit.
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 Little of Jesus' childhood is recorded in the canonical Gospels, however infancy Gospels were popular in antiquity. In comparison, his adulthood, especially the week before his death, are well documented in the Gospels contained within the New Testament. The Biblical accounts of Jesus' ministry include: his baptism, miracles, preaching, teaching, and deeds.

Death and resurrection of Jesus

Main articles: Crucifixion of Jesus and Resurrection of Jesus
Christians consider the resurrection of Jesus to be the cornerstone of their faith (see 1 Corinthians 15) and the most important event in human history.[38] Among Christian beliefs, the death and resurrection of Jesus are two core events on which much of Christian doctrine and theology is based.[39][40] According to the New Testament Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb, and rose from the dead three days later.[Jn. 19:30–31] .[Mk. 16:1] [16:6] The New Testament mentions several resurrection appearances of Jesus on different occasions to his twelve apostles and disciples, including "more than five hundred brethren at once,"[1 Cor.^ The Dalai Lama for example is the same soul who has returned to a new body on 13 different occasions for thousands of years.
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 15:6] before Jesus' Ascension to heaven. Jesus' death and resurrection are commemorated by Christians in all worship services, with special emphasis during Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
.The death and resurrection of Jesus are usually considered the most important events in Christian Theology, partly because they demonstrate that Jesus has power over life and death and therefore has the authority and power to give people eternal life.^ Craig Adamson Overall, I think that this video gives the two most important and often overlooked keys to meditation.
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 ^ Nobody used to go there, although the temple was so beautiful that many people would have gone there; they would go to a temple further away because this Balaji was too much.
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 ^ But the local authorities continued to send evasive replies because they knew that the emperor's end was nigh.
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Christian churches accept and teach the New Testament account of the resurrection of Jesus with very few exceptions.[42] .Some modern scholars use the belief of Jesus' followers in the resurrection as a point of departure for establishing the continuity of the historical Jesus and the proclamation of the early church.^ It refers to the installation of Jaina images and points to the existence of the early Jaina establishment on these hills.
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 ^ Some of the modern Scholars of great reputes and authority have come to the conclusion that Chandragupta can safely be called a Jaina on the Authority of this tradition.
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 ^ According to some scholars, the author of Tolkppiyam was himself a Jaina; that Valluvar, the author of Kural , was likewise a follower of Arhat; that Ilangovaigal, the author of Maimekhala and the author of Nladiyar were both Jainas.
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 [43] Some liberal Christians do not accept a literal bodily resurrection,[44][45] seeing the story as richly symbolic and spiritually nourishing myth. Arguments over death and resurrection claims occur at many religious debates and interfaith dialogues.[46] Paul the Apostle, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, "If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless."[1 Cor. 15:14] [47]

Salvation

Main article: Salvation
Paul of Tarsus, like Jews and Roman pagans of his time, believed that sacrifice can bring about new kinship ties, purity, and eternal life.[48] For Paul the necessary sacrifice was the death of Jesus: Gentiles who are "Christ's" are like Israel descendants of Abraham and "heirs according to the promise".[Gal. 3:29] [49] The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the "mortal bodies" of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the "children of God" and were therefore no longer "in the flesh".[Rom. 8:9,11,16] [48]
.Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.^ THIS MAP SHOWS HOW WE HUMAN BEINGS CONNECT INTO THE HIGHER AND HIGHER ENERGIES OF THE UNIVERSE. .
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 According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus' substitutionary death and resurrection. The Catholic Church teaches that salvation does not occur without faithfulness on the part of Christians; converts must live in accordance with principles of love and ordinarily must be baptized.[50][51] Martin Luther taught that baptism was necessary for salvation, but modern Lutherans and other Protestants tend to teach that salvation is a gift that comes to an individual by God's grace, sometimes defined as "unmerited favor", even apart from baptism.
Christians differ in their views on the extent to which individuals' salvation is pre-ordained by God. Reformed theology places distinctive emphasis on grace by teaching that individuals are completely incapable of self-redemption, but that sanctifying grace is irresistible.[52] In contrast Arminians, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians believe that the exercise of free will is necessary to have faith in Jesus.[53]

Trinity

Main article: Trinity
.Trinity refers to the teaching that the one God comprises three distinct, eternally co-existing persons; the Father, the Son (incarnate in Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.^ Only two persons turned up; one didn't turn up, so we were only three.
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 ^ Its father is the sun father, its mother the earth The connection between the two, the holy spirit or ananda has borne it.
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 ^ After the death of Mahendravarman I, his son Narasihavarman I ascended the throne about the beginning of the second quarter of the seventh century A.D. He is one of the most striking personalities among the Pallava potentiates.
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 .Together, these three persons are sometimes called the Godhead,[54][55][56] although there is no single term in use in Scripture to denote the unified Godhead.^ And for hourshe was a rich man so there was no need for him to be worried about timethree hours in the morning, three hours in the evening, he was constantly torturing the god of the temple.
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 ^ These saints were probably Jaina saints, because there was no question of caste restriction in Jainism.
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 ^ Nobody used to go there, although the temple was so beautiful that many people would have gone there; they would go to a temple further away because this Balaji was too much.
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 [57] .In the words of the Athanasian Creed, an early statement of Christian belief, "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God".[58] They are distinct from another: the Father has no source, the Son is begotten of the Father, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father.^ There was no spirit of rivalry on intolerance.
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 ^ There is no evidence to assume Guptigupta and Chandragupta as one.
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 ^ There is an ancient Greek myth about Hercules, (a Son of God, Zeus), wanting to marry Persephone the Daughter of the King of the underworld.
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 .Though distinct, the three persons cannot be divided from one another in being or in operation.^ Only two persons turned up; one didn't turn up, so we were only three.
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 ^ Energy Blockages tend to move from one person to another according to the Third Law of Thermodynamics - Energy flows from areas of high concentration to low concentration.
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The Trinity is an essential doctrine of mainstream Christianity. ."Father, Son and Holy Spirit" represents both the immanence and transcendence of God.^ The Holy Spirit is fully God in nature.

 ^ God is a trinity of persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

 ^ Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that our bodies (both men and women) are temples of the Holy Spirit (cf.

 .God is believed to be infinite and God's presence may be perceived through the actions of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.^ Tower of Connection created out of mental matter to channel the energies of God through all the infinite chakras of existence, powering the whole universe from the center.
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 ^ The round base of the key symbolises the Earth and the shank of the key symbolises the Antahkarana or the Holy Spirit connection between Earth and God, the Father.
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 [60]
.According to this doctrine, God is not divided in the sense that each person has a third of the whole; rather, each person is considered to be fully God (see Perichoresis).^ Energy Blockages tend to move from one person to another according to the Third Law of Thermodynamics - Energy flows from areas of high concentration to low concentration.
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 .The distinction lies in their relations, the Father being unbegotten; the Son being begotten of the Father; and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and (in Western theology) from the Son.^ The round base of the key symbolises the Earth and the shank of the key symbolises the Antahkarana or the Holy Spirit connection between Earth and God, the Father.
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 ^ Its father is the sun father, its mother the earth The connection between the two, the holy spirit or ananda has borne it.
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 ^ In the Egyptian Religion the Obelisk symbolises the Penis of Osiris - the Father, which when conjoined with his wife Isis creates the Orgasm of Enlightenment symbolising the Holy Trinity of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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 Regardless of this apparent difference, the three 'persons' are each eternal and omnipotent.
The word trias, from which trinity is derived, is first seen in the works of Theophilus of Antioch. .He wrote of "the Trinity of God (the Father), His Word (the Son) and His Wisdom (Holy Spirit)".[61] The term may have been in use before this time.^ Its father is the sun father, its mother the earth The connection between the two, the holy spirit or ananda has borne it.
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 ^ Ankh, Sword in the Stone, Squaring the Circle, Tree of Life, The Holy Trinity, The Hindu Trimurthy, Vishnu/Krishna and Son/Christ, Shivalingam, Kundalini Key!!
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 ^ The kings used to worship both Hindu gods and Jaina Trthakaras at the same time and used to participate in the affairs and functions of both the religions.
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 Afterwards it appears in Tertullian.[62][63] In the following century the word was in general use. It is found in many passages of Origen.[64]
The "Hospitality of Abraham" by Andrei Rublev: The three angels represent the three persons of God.

Trinitarians

Main article: Trinitarianism
.Trinitarianism denotes those Christians who believe in the concept of the Trinity.^ "FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN ENLIGHTENMENT AND UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY OF THE SITUATION" - GAUTAMA BUDDHA .
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 Almost all Christian denominations and Churches hold Trinitarian beliefs. .Although the words "Trinity" and "Triune" do not appear in the Bible, theologians beginning in the 3rd century developed the term and concept to facilitate comprehension of the New Testament teachings of God as Father, God as Jesus the Son, and God as the Holy Spirit.^ Its father is the sun father, its mother the earth The connection between the two, the holy spirit or ananda has borne it.
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 ^ After the death of Mahendravarman I, his son Narasihavarman I ascended the throne about the beginning of the second quarter of the seventh century A.D. He is one of the most striking personalities among the Pallava potentiates.
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 ^ Also the triple word, Sat Chid Ananda - Sat is our Father, the Truth, Chid is the purified Mind which alone can absorb the Holy Spirit of Bliss, Ananda.
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 .Since that time, Christian theologians have been careful to emphasize that Trinity does not imply three gods, nor that each member of the Trinity is one-third of an infinite God; Trinity is defined as one God in three Persons.^ Only two persons turned up; one didn't turn up, so we were only three.
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 ^ The first Initiation of Enlightenment (Alice Bailey's Third Initiation) crowns the removal of all sub-personalities and One Soul Infused Personality.
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 ^ Energy Blockages tend to move from one person to another according to the Third Law of Thermodynamics - Energy flows from areas of high concentration to low concentration.
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Non-trinitarians

Main article: Nontrinitarianism
Nontrinitarianism refers to beliefs systems that reject the doctrine of the Trinity. They are a small minority of Christians. Various nontrinitarian views, such as adoptionism or modalism, existed in early Christianity, leading to the disputes about Christology.[66] .Nontrinitarianism later appeared again in the Gnosticism of the Cathars in the 11th through 13th centuries, in the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, and in some groups arising during the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century.^ Samantabhadra, who is known to be the great leader of Jaina religion and thought through his works, lived in the second century A.D. He is known to have gone from place to place for the propagation of Jainism and attracted masses.
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 ^ Jainism made striking progress in Uttar Pradesh during the first and second century A.D. .
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 ^ The Jaina temples at unascribed to the eleventh and twelfth centuries, appear to have been built during the reign of the later Paramra kings of Malwa.
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Scriptures

Main articles: Bible and Development of the Christian Biblical canon
Christianity regards the Bible, a collection of canonical books in two parts (the Old Testament and the New Testament), as the authoritative word of God. .It is believed by Christians to have been written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and therefore for many it is held to be the inerrant word of God.^ Also the triple word, Sat Chid Ananda - Sat is our Father, the Truth, Chid is the purified Mind which alone can absorb the Holy Spirit of Bliss, Ananda.
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 ^ The round base of the key symbolises the Earth and the shank of the key symbolises the Antahkarana or the Holy Spirit connection between Earth and God, the Father.
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 [67][68][69] Jews, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants each define separate lists of Books of the Bible that each considers canonical. These variations are a reflection of the range of traditions and councils that have convened on the subject. .Every version of the complete Bible always includes books of the Jewish scriptures, the Tanakh, and includes additional books and reorganizes them into two parts: the books of the Old Testament primarily sourced from the Tanakh (with some variations), and the 27 books of the New Testament containing books originally written primarily in Greek.^ The Indian sages, according to the Greek writers, have been divided into two categories (1) the Brhmaas and (2) ramaas.
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 [70] The Roman Catholic and Orthodox canons include other books from the Septuagint which Roman Catholics call Deuterocanonical.[71] Protestants consider these books to be apocryphal. Some versions of the Christian Bible have a separate Apocrypha section for the books not considered canonical by some Churches or by the groups publishing them.[72]

Catholic and Orthodox interpretations

In antiquity, two schools of exegesis developed in Alexandria and Antioch. .Alexandrine interpretation, exemplified by Origen, tended to read Scripture allegorically, while Antiochene interpretation adhered to the literal sense, holding that other meanings (called theoria) could only be accepted if based on the literal meaning.^ As philosophical, moral, and eventually allegorical overlays came to be applied to Hercules death-cheating superhuman exploits, behind their outer, literal meaning, the Hercules figure came to represent an inner mystical tradition, and thus the labours could be interpreted in terms of the spiritual path.
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Catholic theology distinguishes two senses of scripture: the literal and the spiritual.[74]
The literal sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture. The spiritual sense is further subdivided into:
Regarding exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation, Catholic theology holds:
  • the injunction that all other senses of sacred scripture are based on the literal[75][76]
  • that the historicity of the Gospels must be absolutely and constantly held[77]
  • that scripture must be read within the "living Tradition of the whole Church"[78] and
  • that "the task of interpretation has been entrusted to the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome".[79]

Protestant interpretation

Clarity of Scripture
Protestant Christians believe that the Bible is a self-sufficient revelation, the final authority on all Christian doctrine, and revealed all truth necessary for salvation. This concept is known as sola scriptura.[80] .Protestants characteristically believe that ordinary believers may reach an adequate understanding of Scripture because Scripture itself is clear (or "perspicuous"), because of the help of the Holy Spirit, or both.^ Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that our bodies (both men and women) are temples of the Holy Spirit (cf.

 ^ Evangelicals may receive considerable benefit from a clear understanding and judicious appropriation of the doctrine.
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 ^ Muhammad here says that God bestowed on Jesus the Holy Spirit, exalted him above other prophets in degrees, and gave him clear proofs of Allah's sovereignty (i.e.

 .Martin Luther believed that without God's help Scripture would be "enveloped in darkness."^ Why would God send the Gospel with His prophet Jesus, and then allow all of the disciples of Jesus to be misled by believing that Jesus died on the cross, and thus distort the original message of the Gospel?

 ^ They declared God to be pure Essence without attributes, because attributes would imply multiplicity.
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 ^ The founder of the Yellow Turban Taoists It is believed that he received the Ling-pao (spiritual Treasure) Scripture written on golden tablets, from the Gods.

 [81] .He advocated "one definite and simple understanding of Scripture."^ To understand what a sacrament is, and what it does for a person, one must know the correct, the traditional Christian, definition of a sacrament.
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 [81] John Calvin wrote, "all who...follow the Holy Spirit as their guide, find in the Scripture a clear light."[82] The Second Helvetic (Latin for "Swiss")[83] Confession, composed by the pastor of the Reformed church in Zurich (successor to Protestant reformer Zwingli) was adopted as a declaration of doctrine by most European Reformed churches.[84]
Original intended meaning
Protestants stress the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture, the historical-grammatical method.[85] The historical-grammatical method or grammatico-historical method is an effort in Biblical hermeneutics to find the intended original meaning in the text.[86] This original intended meaning of the text is drawn out through examination of the passage in light of the grammatical and syntactical aspects, the historical background, the literary genre as well as theological (canonical) considerations.[87] The historical-grammatical method distinguishes between the one original meaning and the significance of the text. The significance of the text includes the ensuing use of the text or application. The original passage is seen as having only a single meaning or sense. As Milton S. Terry said: "A fundamental principle in grammatico-historical exposition is that the words and sentences can have but one significance in one and the same connection. The moment we neglect this principle we drift out upon a sea of uncertainty and conjecture."[88] Technically speaking, the grammatical-historical method of interpretation is distinct from the determination of the passage's significance in light of that interpretation. Taken together, both define the term (Biblical) hermeneutics.[89]
Some Protestant interpreters make use of typology.[90]

Afterlife and Eschaton

Main article: Christian eschatology
.Most Christians believe that human beings experience divine judgment and are rewarded either with eternal life or eternal damnation.^ Most of the other students this year and last year had experiences of meeting beings of light, ascended masters and angels - EE has that effect!
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 ^ Like The Matrix with Neo and Morpheus , "Humanity is a Virus" and Mythically , the kiss of the holy Trinity bringing one who was asleep (sleeping beauty) or dead like most normal unevolved human beings (like Lazarus), to life and Enlightenment.
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 This includes the general judgement at the Resurrection of the dead (see below) as well as the belief (held by Catholics,[91][92] Orthodox[93][94] and most Protestants) in a judgment particular to the individual soul upon physical death.
.In Roman Catholicism, those who die in a state of grace, i.e., without any mortal sin separating them from God, but are still imperfectly purified from the effects of sin, undergo purification through the intermediate state of purgatory to achieve the holiness necessary for entrance into God's presence.^ Those who have not been touched by God.
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 ^ Practise this Connection every day so that when you die you will be able to pass through the death process without losing your memory.
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 ^ To dissolve the Selfishness of the separated selves, those "Law of the Jungle" Egos who cannot communicate with The Higher Self.
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 [95] Those who have attained this goal are called saints (Latin sanctus, "holy").[96]
Christians believe that the second coming of Christ will occur at the end of time. All who have died will be resurrected bodily from the dead for the Last Judgment. Jesus will fully establish the Kingdom of God in fulfillment of scriptural prophecies.[97][98] Jehovah's Witnesses deny the existence of hell. Instead, they hold that the souls of the wicked will be annihilated.[99]

Worship

Main article: Christian worship
Samples of Christian religious objects—The Holy Bible, a Crucifix, and a Rosary.
Justin Martyr described 2nd century Christian liturgy in his First Apology (c. 150) to Emperor Antoninus Pius, and his description remains relevant to the basic structure of Christian liturgical worship:
.And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.^ Live Courses in India this next year With Satchidanand and Devi Dhyani - we have An All India Tour and Two Level Courses in Haridwar and Goa but we are available at other times..
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 ^ Incinerators which gather in Hospitals and Universities throughout the world, burning Industrial waste from all the major cities.
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 ^ For everyone reading this, get your asses over to see these people, your lives will be changed forever and we don’t get many chances in this world to be able to achieve that and there are defiantly not many people in this world like Satchi and Devi who can do the business like this" .
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 .Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons.^ Even if you don't believe in God or prayer, sit and say, "Let there be peace.
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 ^ I wanted to thank you that you did that mischief; otherwise, I would have continually prayed and died, and it was all just meaningless, useless.
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 ^ As we were talking well into the night at the end of our Energy Enhancement Course together.
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 And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.

– Justin Martyr[100]

.Thus, as Justin described, Christians assemble for communal worship on Sunday, the day of the resurrection, though other liturgical practices often occur outside this setting.^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
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 ^ They have been wisely set aside in Christian worship , though in a very few places, as at Echternach in Luxemburg , and in the Seville cathedral , religious dancing gives a local colour to the celebration of certain festivals.
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 ^ Though tensions, conflicts, and even wars in which Christians and Muslims stand against each other are not primarily religious in character, they possess an undeniable religious dimension.
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 .Scripture readings are drawn from the Old and New Testaments, but especially the Gospels.^ Both old and new Testaments are part of the entire Gospel.
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 ^ See how the Bible's Old and New Testaments encourage slavery, and how Islam came to end the thousands of years old Pagan and Judeo-Christian slavery.

 ^ The New Testament Scriptures further reveal an apostolic duty, commanded by Jesus, to heal the sick while proclaiming the Gospel (MT 10: 7-8).
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 Often these are arranged on an annual cycle, using a book called a lectionary. Instruction is given based on these readings, called a sermon, or homily. .There are a variety of congregational prayers, including thanksgiving, confession, and intercession, which occur throughout the service and take a variety of forms including recited, responsive, silent, or sung.^ But there's no Jesus actually there in prayer or a church service.
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 The Lord's Prayer, or Our Father, is regularly prayed. .The Eucharist (called Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper) is the part of liturgical worship that consists of a consecrated meal, usually bread and wine.^ And so I have been called: Hermes Trismegistus - thrice greatest, having the three parts of the philosophy of the world – THE HOLY TRINITY and SAT CHID ANAND, - THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. .
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 Justin Martyr described the Eucharist:
.And this food is called among us Eukaristia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.^ The temple was of Krishna in his childhoodbecause when Krishna becomes a young man he creates many troubles and many questions, so there are many people who worship Krishna as a childhence the temple was called the temple of Balaji.
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 ^ In front of the temple lived the man who had made the temple; he was a great devotee.
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 ^ These Energy Enhancement techniques can teach us how to dissipate these toxins from our bodies from all the food we have ever eaten and from all the air we have ever breathed.
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 .For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.^ It was my turn to receive an initiation from Devi so I was sat on a chair at the back of the meditation room with my eyes closed and hands together in a prayer like fashion.
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 ^ He said, "That scream made me aware that I am really an afraid man, and all my prayers are nothing but trying to persuade God to save me, to help me, to protect me.
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 ^ Toxins in our food and in our Environment are one of the major causes of cellulite, obesity, scaly skin, tooth loss, baldness and hair loss in both men and women.
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– Justin Martyr[100]

Some Christian denominations practice closed communion. They offer communion to those who are already united in that denomination or sometimes individual church. Catholics restrict participation to their members who are not in a state of mortal sin. Most other churches practice open communion since they view communion as a means to unity, rather than an end, and invite all believing Christians to participate.
Some groups depart from this traditional liturgical structure. A division is often made between "High" church services, characterized by greater solemnity and ritual, and "Low" services, but even within these two categories there is great diversity in forms of worship. Seventh-day Adventists meet on Saturday, while others do not meet on a weekly basis. Charismatic or Pentecostal congregations may spontaneously feel led by the Holy Spirit to action rather than follow a formal order of service, including spontaneous prayer. Quakers sit quietly until moved by the Holy Spirit to speak. Some Evangelical services resemble concerts with rock and pop music, dancing, and use of multimedia. For groups which do not recognize a priesthood distinct from ordinary believers the services are generally lead by a minister, preacher, or pastor. .Still others may lack any formal leaders, either in principle or by local necessity.^ And still others agree wholeheartedly with the manifesto and do as many of the "best practices" as are suggested by leaders of the movement.
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 ^ Forced marriages may still take place in certain Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, but would be anathema to Muslim women from other backgrounds.

 ^ Physicians whose training is insufficient may still avoid harming people as long as they are able to follow proper principles.
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 .Some churches use only a cappella music, either on principle (e.g., many Churches of Christ object to the use of instruments in worship) or by tradition (as in Orthodoxy).^ Not only traditions but even archaeological and epigraphical sources given some idea about the state of Jainism.
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Worship can be varied for special events like baptisms or weddings in the service or significant feast days. .In the early church, Christians and those yet to complete initiation would separate for the Eucharistic part of the worship.^ Bhigukachchha, one of the oldest parts of India, identified with modern Bharuch in Gujarat, was a popular Jaina centre in the early centuries of the Christian era.
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 .In many churches today, adults and children will separate for all or some of the service to receive age-appropriate teaching.^ Will the Church also feed, clothe and send these many children to school?
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 ^ World Community Day--Day for celebrating the unity behind diversity and remembering we are all one people - all children of the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.
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 ^ Some say nativity scenes should not be on public property because this violates the separation of church and state.

 Such children's worship is often called Sunday school or Sabbath school (Sunday schools are often held before rather than during services).

Sacraments

Main article: Sacrament
See also: Sacraments of the Catholic Church
The Eucharist
In Christian belief and practice, a sacrament is a rite, instituted by Christ, that mediates grace, constituting a sacred mystery. .The term is derived from the Latin word sacramentum, which was used to translate the Greek word for mystery.^ "It was Tertullian, one of the earliest apologists, who translated the Greek word 'mysterion' into the Latin 'sacramentum', a term still used in the liturgy and literature of the West by people oblivious to its direct ink with an ancient and almost forgotten wisdom of initiation."
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 ^ His real name, according to Plutarch , was Sphines; and he received the name Klnos among the Greeks because in saluting the persons, he used the word ' Kle '.
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 ^ The Greek word used in the New Testament to identify the Body of Christ is ekklesia —'the called out' or assembly.
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 .Views concerning both what rites are sacramental, and what it means for an act to be a sacrament vary among Christian denominations and traditions.^ "J. P. Morgan, the Rothschild's representative in the United States, set up a trust fund to unite various Christian denominations.
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 ^ Pagan initiation rites, which bond initiates to Satan, were 'Christianized' in the Catholic Church as 'sacraments'.
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.The most conventional functional definition of a sacrament is that it is an outward sign, instituted by Christ, that conveys an inward, spiritual grace through Christ.^ VAISHNAVISM: Most Vaishnavites believe that religion is the performance of bhakti sadhanas, and that man can communicate with and receive the grace of the Gods and Goddesses through the darshana of their icons.
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 ^ I believe that spiritual progress comes through analysis of current and past life experiences which resolve past karma most directly (Scientology).
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 ^ EASTERN VIEW: Salvation is through strict obedience to God's will and the descent of His grace through the enlightened spiritual preceptor.
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 The two most widely accepted sacraments are Baptism and the Eucharist, however, the majority of Christians recognize seven Sacraments or Divine Mysteries: Baptism, Confirmation (Chrismation in the Orthodox tradition), and the Eucharist, Holy Orders, Reconciliation of a Penitent (confession), Anointing of the Sick, and Matrimony.[101] Taken together, these are the Seven Sacraments as recognised by churches in the High church tradition—notably Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Independent Catholic, Old Catholic and some Anglicans. .Most other denominations and traditions typically affirm only Baptism and Eucharist as sacraments, while some Protestant groups, such as the Quakers, reject sacramental theology.^ In all If poems (and other traditional Yorb genre such as Ijala and Iwi Egungun), Oldmar is gender neutral.

 ^ But probably "faith-based" allocations will remain a bone of contention, as such religious groups are intensely competitive and prone to attack each other's authenticity.

 ^ Most of those studying theology with me departed to other careers in public service or academic fields.

 [101] Some Christian denominations who believe these rites do not communicate grace prefer to call them ordinances.

Liturgical calendar

Main article: Liturgical year
Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Eastern Christians, and traditional Protestant communities frame worship around a liturgical calendar. .This includes holy days, such as solemnities which commemorate an event in the life of Jesus or the saints, periods of fasting such as Lent, and other pious events such as memoria or lesser festivals commemorating saints.^ Six hours a day he is wasting, and it is such a small life; and he is a coward.'"
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 ^ Being a holy place, Ujjain was frequently visited by Jaina saints such as Chaarudra, Bhadrakagupta, ryarakshita and rya shha 40 .
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 Christian groups that do not follow a liturgical tradition often retain certain celebrations, such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. .A few churches make no use of a liturgical calendar.^ No Pope has ever used his infallibility to change, add, or subtract any Christian teaching; this is because Our Lord promised to be with His Church until the end of the world.
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 ^ Its just like dieting - no fad is going to make up for the obvious solution that so few can accept: eating less and exercising more.
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 ^ Why does the Catholic Church make no exceptions when it comes to divorce?
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 [102]

Symbols

Main article: Christian symbolism
An early circular ichthys symbol, created by combining the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ into a wheel. Ephesus, Asia Minor.
.The cross, which is today one of the most widely recognised symbols in the world, was used as a Christian symbol from the earliest times.^ Energy Enhancement , - An Advanced Meditation Course which gives the MOST benefits of any course of Meditational Self-Development available anywhere in the World today.
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 [103][104] Tertuallian, in his book De Corona, tells how it was already a tradition for Christians to trace repeatedly on their foreheads the sign of the cross.[105] .Although the cross was known to the early Christians, the crucifix did not appear in use until the 5th century.^ The early advent of the akas into Western Malwa from Seistan Via Sind and Kathiawad, in the second century B.C is known from the Kalkchrya Kathnaka .
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 ^ The existence of Jainism in this region as early as the 10th century is known to us from an inscription of 994 A.D. engraved on the Jaina image 'Jayati r Vgaa Sagha'.
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 ^ Jainism penetrated in Gandhra (North-West India) in the early centuries of the Christian era.
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 [106]
.Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish seems to have ranked first in importance.^ It seems that the symbolism of the two births, well known to the ancient world and to the early Christians, does not deal only with the person of Jesus but also with the life of every person.
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 .From monumental sources such as tombs it is known that the symbolic fish was familiar to Christians from the earliest times.^ From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures.

 ^ It seems that the symbolism of the two births, well known to the ancient world and to the early Christians, does not deal only with the person of Jesus but also with the life of every person.
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 .The fish was depicted as a Christian symbol in the first decades of the 2nd century.^ The typical Jain symbols from Bawa Pyara caves of Junagarh are generally assigned to the early centuries of the Christian era 158 .
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 [107] .Its popularity among Christians was due principally, it would seem, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish (Ichthys), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and the claim to worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, meaning, Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.^ (Some compound this error, believing that Christians worship God, Jesus and Mary).

 ^ According to Christian dogma, Jesus is the Son of God.

 ^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 [107]
Christians from the very beginning adorned their tombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. The first Christians had no prejudice against images, pictures, or statues. .The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries.^ The Chausa hoard also contains the statues not latter than tenth-eleventh century A.D. There are several Jaina idols at National Museum, New Delhi of the tenth or eleventh century A.D. 341 .
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 ^ Even afterwards, during the reign of Khnzds, Jainism remained associated with this region in the 15th or 16th century A.D. These Khnzds were originally Hindus who were converted to Islam during the reign of Firoz Tughluq in the 14th century A.D. By nature, they were tolerant and showed great regard towards Jainism.
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 [108] .Other major Christian symbols include the chi-rho monogram, the dove (symbolic of the Holy Spirit), the sacrificial lamb (symbolic of Christ's sacrifice), the vine (symbolising the necessary connectedness of the Christian with Christ) and many others.^ The round base of the key symbolises the Earth and the shank of the key symbolises the Antahkarana or the Holy Spirit connection between Earth and God, the Father.
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 ^ In the Egyptian Religion the Obelisk symbolises the Penis of Osiris - the Father, which when conjoined with his wife Isis creates the Orgasm of Enlightenment symbolising the Holy Trinity of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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 ^ Or the stream of energy which flows between the other two polarities - the Holy Spirit) the Antahkarana Lightning Holy Spirit and Shakti the Mother.
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 These all derive from writings found in the New Testament.[106]

History and origins

Main article: History of Christianity

Early Church and Christological Councils

Christianity began as a Jewish sect in the eastern Mediterranean in the mid-1st century.[4][8][9] Its earliest development took place under the leadership of the Twelve Apostles, particularly Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle, followed by the early bishops, whom Christians considered the successors of the Apostles.
From the beginning, Christians were subject to persecution by the Jewish religious leaders, who disagreed with the apostles' teachings. This involved punishments, including death, for Christians such as Stephen[Acts 7:59] and James, son of Zebedee.[Acts 12:2] .Larger-scale persecutions followed at the hands of the authorities of the Roman Empire, first in the year 64, when Emperor Nero blamed them for the Great Fire of Rome.^ As the Nandas held sway over the Magadhan empire in the fourth century B.C., Khravela, who flourished more than 300 years after Nandarja, should be assigned to the first century B.C. .
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 According to Church tradition, it was under Nero's persecution that early Church leaders Peter and Paul of Tarsus were each martyred in Rome. Further widespread persecutions of the Church occurred under nine subsequent Roman emperors, most intensely under Decius and Diocletian. From the year 150, Christian teachers began to produce theological and apologetic works aimed at defending the faith. These authors are known as the Church Fathers, and study of them is called Patristics. Notable early Fathers include Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen.
.State persecution ceased in the 4th century, when Constantine I issued an edict of toleration in 313. On 27 February 380, Emperor Theodosius I enacted a law establishing Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.^ Vijay Nagara kingdom was established in 1346 A.D. Though kings of this kingdom were Champions of Brahmanical religion, they followed the policy of religious toleration.
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 [109] From at least the 4th century, Christianity has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization.[110]
Constantine was also instrumental in the convocation of the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which sought to address the Arian heresy and formulated the Nicene Creed, which is still used by the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglican Communion, and many Protestant churches.[30] Nicaea was the first of a series of Ecumenical (worldwide) Councils which formally defined critical elements of the theology of the Church, notably concerning Christology.[111] The Assyrian Church of the East did not accept the third and following Ecumenical Councils, and are still separate today.

Early Middle Ages

With the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the west, the papacy became a political player, first visible in Pope Leo's diplomatic dealings with Huns and Vandals.[112] The church also entered into a long period of missionary activity and expansion among the various tribes. Whilst arianists instituted the death penalty for practicing pagans (see Massacre of Verden as example), Catholicism also spread among the Germanic peoples ([112] the Celtic and Slavic peoples, the Hungarians, and the Baltic peoples.
Around 500, St. Benedict set out his Monastic Rule, establishing a system of regulations for the foundation and running of monasteries.[112] Monasticism became a powerful force throughout Europe,[112] and gave rise to many early centers of learning, most famously in Ireland, Scotland and Gaul, contributing to the Carolingian Renaissance of the 9th century.
.From the 7th century onwards, Islam conquered the Christian lands of the Middle East, North Africa and much of Spain,[113] resulting in oppression of Christianity and numerous military struggles, including the Crusades, the Spanish Reconquista and wars against the Turks.^ Orcs cannot walk in the light so Sauron creates black smoke to cover the sky as a prelude to spreading his Orcs all over the Middle Earth in his war against Humanity.
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The Middle Ages brought about major changes within the church. Pope Gregory the Great dramatically reformed ecclesiastical structure and administration.[114] In the early 8th century, iconoclasm became a divisive issue, when it was sponsored by the Byzantine emperors. The Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (787) finally pronounced in favor of icons.[115] In the early 10th century, western monasticism was further rejuvenated through the leadership of the great Benedictine monastery of Cluny.[116]

High and Late Middle Ages

In the west, from the 11th century onward, older cathedral schools developed into universities (see University of Paris, University of Oxford, and University of Bologna.) .Originally teaching only theology, these steadily added subjects including medicine, philosophy and law, becoming the direct ancestors of modern western institutions of learning.^ We can only heal ourselves when we learn to fill ourselves with energy by these methods.
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 [117]
Accompanying the rise of the "new towns" throughout Western Europe, mendicant orders were founded, bringing the consecrated religious life out of the monastery and into the new urban setting. The two principal mendicant movements were the Franciscans[118] and the Dominicans[119] founded by St. Francis and St. Dominic respectively. Both orders made significant contributions to the development of the great universities of Europe. Another new order were the Cistercians, whose large isolated monasteries spearheaded the settlement of former wilderness areas. In this period church building and ecclesiastical architecture reached new heights, culminating in the orders of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and the building of the great European cathedrals.[120]
Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, where he preached the First Crusade.
From 1095 under the pontificate of Urban II, the Crusades were launched.[121] These were a series of military campaigns in the Holy Land and elsewhere, initiated in response to pleas from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I for aid against Turkish expansion. The Crusades ultimately failed to stifle Islamic aggression and even contributed to Christian enmity with the sacking of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.[122]
Over a period stretching from the 7th to the 13th century, the Christian Church underwent gradual alienation, resulting in a schism dividing it into a so-called Latin or Western branch, the Roman Catholic Church,[123] and an Eastern, largely Greek, branch, the Orthodox Church. These two churches disagree on a number of administrative, liturgical, and doctrinal issues, most notably papal primacy of jurisdiction.[124][125] The Second Council of Lyon (1274) and the Council of Florence (1439) attempted to reunite the churches, but in both cases the Eastern Orthodox refused to implement the decisions and the two principal churches remain in schism to the present day. However, the Roman Catholic Church has achieved union with various smaller eastern churches.
Beginning around 1184, following the crusade against the Cathar heresy,[126] various institutions, broadly referred to as the Inquisition, were established with the aim of suppressing heresy and securing religious and doctrinal unity within Christianity through conversion and prosecution.[127]

Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Opening of Luther's 95 Theses
Main articles: Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
The 15th-century Renaissance brought about a renewed interest in ancient and classical learning. Another major schism, the Reformation, resulted in the splintering of the Western Christendom into several Christian denominations.[128] Martin Luther in 1517 protested against the sale of indulgences and soon moved on to deny several key points of Roman Catholic doctrine. Others like Zwingli and Calvin further criticized Roman Catholic teaching and worship. These challenges developed into the movement called Protestantism, which repudiated the primacy of the pope, the role of tradition, the seven sacraments, and other doctrines and practices.[129] The Reformation in England began in 1534, when King Henry VIII had himself declared head of the Church of England. Beginning in 1536, the monasteries throughout England, Wales and Ireland were dissolved.[130]
Partly in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church engaged in a substantial process of reform and renewal, known as the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reform.[131] The Council of Trent clarified and reasserted Roman Catholic doctrine. During the following centuries, competition between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism became deeply entangled with political struggles among European states.[132]
Meanwhile, the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 brought about a new wave of missionary activity. Partly from missionary zeal, but under the impetus of colonial expansion by the European powers, Christianity spread to the Americas, Oceania, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Throughout Europe, the divides caused by the Reformation led to outbreaks of religious violence and the establishment of separate state religions in Western Europe: Lutheranism in parts of Germany and in Scandinavia and Anglicanism in England in 1534. Ultimately, these differences led to the outbreak of conflicts in which religion played a key factor. The Thirty Years' War, the English Civil War, and the French Wars of Religion are prominent examples. These events intensified the Christian debate on persecution and toleration.[133]
See also: European wars of religion

In the Modern Era

In the Modern Era, Christianity has been confronted with various forms of skepticism and with certain modern political ideologies such as Marxism. Events ranged from mere anti-clericalism to violent outbursts against Christianity such as the Dechristianisation during the French Revolution,[134] the Spanish Civil War, and general hostility of Marxist movements, especially the Russian Revolution.
Christian commitment in Europe dropped as modernity and secularism came into their own in Western Europe, while religious commitments in America have been generally high in comparison to Western Europe. The late 20th century has shown the shift of Christian adherence to the Third World and southern hemisphere in general, with western civilization no longer the chief standard bearer of Christianity.
Some Europeans (including diaspora), Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and natives of other continents have revived their respective peoples' historical folk religions. (see Neo-paganism, [1])

Demographics

Further information: Christianity by country
Christianity by percentage of population in each country.
Nations with Christianity as their state religion:      Orthodox Christianity      Protestantism      Roman Catholicism
With an estimated number of adherents that ranges between 1.5 billion[135] and 2.1 billion,[135] split into around 34,000 separate denominations, Christianity is the world's largest religion.[136] The Christian share of the world's population has stood at around 33 per cent for the last hundred years. This masks a major shift in the demographics of Christianity; large increases in the developing world (around 23,000 per day) have been accompanied by substantial declines in the developed world, mainly in Europe and North America (around 7,600 per day).[137] It is still the predominant religion in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, and Southern Africa.[138] However it is declining in many areas including the Northern and Western United States,[139] Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), northern Europe (including Great Britain,[140] Scandinavia and other places), France, Germany, the Canadian provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec, and parts of Asia (especially the Middle East,[141][142][143] South Korea,[144] Taiwan[145] and Macau[146]).
.In most countries in the developed world, church attendance among people who continue to identify themselves as Christians has been falling over the last few decades.^ This crazy world is, in a way, stabilized because of people sitting for a few minutes in meditation every day.
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 [147] Some sources view this simply as part of a drift away from traditional membership institutions,[148] while others link it to signs of a decline in belief in the importance of religion in general.[149]
Christianity, in one form or another, is the sole state religion of the following nations: Armenia (Armenian Apostolic),[150] Bolivia (Roman Catholic),[151] Costa Rica (Roman Catholic),[152] Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran),[153] El Salvador (Roman Catholic),[154] England (Anglican),[155] Finland (Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox),[156][157] Georgia (Georgian Orthodox),[158] Greece (Greek Orthodox),[154] Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran),[159] Liechtenstein (Roman Catholic),[160] Malta (Roman Catholic),[161] Monaco (Roman Catholic),[162] Norway (Evangelical Lutheran),[163] Switzerland (Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, or Protestant—denomination varies per canton)[164] and Vatican City (Roman Catholic).[165]
There are numerous other countries, such as Cyprus, which although do not have an established church, still give official recognition to a specific Christian denomination.[166]

Main grouping of Christianity

See also: List of Christian denominations and List of Christian denominations by number of members
The four primary divisions of Christianity are Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox church, Anglican, and Protestantism.[34]:14[167] There are other Christian groups that do not fit neatly into one of these primary categories.[168] The Nicene Creed is "accepted as authoritative by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and major Protestant churches."[169] There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.[170] Another distinction that is sometimes drawn is between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity.
Christian Denominations
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A simplified chart of historical developments of major groups within Christianity.

Catholic Church

Main article: Catholic Church
The Catholic Church comprises those particular churches, headed by bishops, in communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, as its highest authority in matters of faith, morality and Church governance.[171][172] .Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.^ THE SWORD IN THE STONE - PIEDRA PETER - MY CHURCH IS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK - JESUS CHRIST .
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 [173][174] .Catholics maintain that the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church" founded by Jesus subsists fully in the Roman Catholic Church, but also acknowledges other Christian churches and communities[175][176] and works towards reconciliation among all Christians.^ THE SWORD IN THE STONE - PIEDRA PETER - MY CHURCH IS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK - JESUS CHRIST .
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 [175] The Catholic faith is detailed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.[177][178]
The 2,782 sees[179] are grouped into 23 particular rites, the largest being the Latin Rite, each with distinct traditions regarding the liturgy and the administering the sacraments.[180] .With more than 1.1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.^ I had had this shaking experience before with the more advanced level one techniques of the DVD Course but this time all that was required was correct posture.
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 ^ Toxins in the Environment are one of the major causes of disease and death all over the world.
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 [181][182][183]
.Various smaller communities, such as the Old Catholic, Heenum Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, include the word Catholic in their title, and share much in common with Roman Catholicism but are no longer in communion with the See of Rome.^ A very common decoration theme, cornucopia is often shown in a very standardized way (see the cornucopias in Porta del Popolo in Rome).
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 The Old Catholic Church is in communion with the Anglican Communion.[184][185]

Orthodox churches

Main articles: Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy
See also: Eastern Christianity and List of Orthodox Churches
Eastern Orthodoxy comprises those churches in communion with the Patriarchal Sees of the East, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.[186] Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized. A number of conflicts with Western Christianity over questions of doctrine and authority culminated in the Great Schism. Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest single denomination in Christianity, with over 200 million adherents.[181]
The Oriental Orthodox Churches (also called Old Oriental Churches) are those eastern churches that recognize the first three ecumenical councils—Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus—but reject the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon and instead espouse a Miaphysite christology. The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (India) and Armenian Apostolic churches.[187] .These six churches, while being in communion with each other are completely independent hierarchically.^ Each APPRENTICE LEVEL is entirely independent of the others and complete in itself.
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 [188] These churches are generally not in communion with Eastern Orthodox Churches with whom they are in dialogue for a return to unity.[189]

Protestantism

Historical chart of the main Protestant branches
Main article: Protestantism
See also: History of Protestantism
In the 16th century, Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin inaugurated what has come to be called Protestantism. Luther's primary theological heirs are known as Lutherans. Zwingli and Calvin's heirs are far broader denominationally, and are broadly referred to as the Reformed Tradition.[190] .Most Protestant traditions branch out from the Reformed tradition in some way.^ Believe it or not, there are some stories out there that you may not have heard about - or perhaps didn't look at the way we did.
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 ^ While some consider the Islamic mysticism called Sufism to constitute a separate branch, most Sufis can easily be considered Sunni or Shi'a.
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 In addition to the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation, there is Anglicanism after the English Reformation. The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history. .Some but not most Baptists prefer not to be called Protestants, claiming a direct ancestral line going back to the apostles in the 1st century.^ Today, also after this movement it started to move in a direct line from right to left and after front and back.
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 [191]
The oldest Protestant groups separated from the Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.[190] For example, the Methodist Church grew out of Anglican minister John Wesley's evangelical and revival movement in the Anglican Church.[192][193] Several Pentecostal and non-denominational Churches, which emphasize the cleansing power of the Holy Spirit, in turn grew out of the Methodist Church.[193][194] .Because Methodists, Pentecostals, and other evangelicals stress "accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior",[195] which comes from John Wesley's emphasis of the New Birth,[196] they often refer to themselves as being born-again.^ The techniques of Energy Enhancement show you how to QUICKLY AND EASILY TRANSMUTE YOUR STRESS because it works at the level of Energy which underlies AND IS THE BASIS of all Life.
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 ^ Because these people have been talking too much about the "other world", they have destroyed this world.
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 [197][198]
Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers (although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination).[181]
A special grouping are the Anglican churches descended from the Church of England and organised in the Anglican Communion.. Some Anglican churches consider themselves both Protestant and Catholic.[199] Some Anglicans consider their church a branch of the "One Holy Catholic Church" alongside of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, a concept rejected by the Roman Catholic Church and some Eastern Orthodox.[200][201]
Some groups of individuals who hold basic Protestant tenants identify themselves simply as "Christians" or "born-again Christians". They typically distance themselves from the confessionalism and/or creedalism of other Christian communities[202] by calling themselves "non-denominational." Often founded by individual pastors, they have little affiliation with historic denominations.[203]

Other

The Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revival that occurred in the U.S. during the early 1800s, saw the development of a number of unrelated churches. .They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.^ THE SWORD IN THE STONE - PIEDRA PETER - MY CHURCH IS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK - JESUS CHRIST .
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 [204] A common belief held by Restorationists was that the other divisions of Christianity had introduced doctrinal defects into Christianity, which was known as the Great Apostasy.[205][206]
Some of the churches originating during this period are historically connected to early-19th century camp meetings in the Midwest and Upstate New York. American Millennialism and Adventism, which arose from Evangelical Protestantism, influenced the Jehovah's Witnesses movement (with 7 million members),[207] and, as a reaction specifically to William Miller, the Seventh-day Adventists. Others, including the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Churches of Christ, and the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, have their roots in the contemporaneous Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, which was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee. Other groups originating in this time period include the Christadelphians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 13 million members.[208][209][210][211] While the churches originating in the Second Great Awakening have some superficial similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.

Ecumenism

Main article: Ecumenism
Most churches have long expressed ideals of being reconciled with each other, and in the 20th century Christian ecumenism advanced in two ways.[212] One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.[212]
The other way was institutional union with new United and uniting churches. Congregationalist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches united in 1925 to form the United Church of Canada,[213] and in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia. The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.[214]
.Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054;[215] the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970;[216] and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.^ In Energy Enhancement Level 2 the techniques were given to remove those resistances – the first few baby steps towards ultimate freedom.
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 In 2006, the Methodist church adopted the declaration.[217]

See also

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Endnotes

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  4. ^ a b The term "Christian" (Greek Χριστιανός) was first used in reference to Jesus' disciples in the city of Antioch[Acts 11:26] about 44 AD, meaning "followers of Christ". The name was given by the non-Jewish inhabitants of Antioch, probably in derision, to the disciples of Jesus. In the New Testament the names by which the disciples were known among themselves were "brethren", "the faithful", "elect", "saints", "believers". The earliest recorded use of the term "Christianity" (Greek Χριστιανισμός) was by Ignatius of Antioch, around 100 AD. See Elwell/Comfort. Tyndale Bible Dictionary, pp. 266, 828
  5. ^ Defined to avoid the ambiguous term "orthodox"
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  14. ^ "between 1,250 and 1,750 million adherents, depending on the criteria employed" (McGrath, Christianity: An Introduction, page xvl.)
  15. ^ "1.5 thousand million Christians" (Hinnells, The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, p. 441.)
  16. ^ 33.2% of 6.7 billion world population (under the section 'People') "World". CIA world facts. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html. 
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  210. ^ Press Release, LDS Church, "One Million Missionaries, Thirteen Million Members", June 25, 2007.
  211. ^ The church counts all members who were ever baptized, who have neither been excommunicated nor asked to have their names removed from church records. Independent surveys estimate that about 50% of people on LDS Church rolls do not identify with the religion. See John Dart, Counting Mormons: study says LDS numbers inflated, Christian Century, August 21, 2007.
  212. ^ a b McManners, Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, pp. 581–84.
  213. ^ McManners, Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. p. 413f.
  214. ^ McManners, Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, p. 498.
  215. ^ McManners, Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, p. 373.
  216. ^ McManners, Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, p. 583.
  217. ^ Methodist Statement

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Further reading

  • Gill, Robin (2001). The Cambridge companion to Christian ethics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521779189. 
  • Gunton, Colin E. (1997). The Cambridge companion to Christian doctrine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47695-X. 
  • MacMullen, Ramsay (2006). Voting About God in Early Church Councils. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300115962. 
  • Padgett, Alan G.; Sally Bruyneel (2003). Introducing Christianity. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN 1570753954. 
  • Price, Matthew Arlen; Collins, Michael (1999). The story of Christianity. New York: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0-7513-0467-0. 
  • Ratzinger, Joseph (2004). Introduction To Christianity (Communio Books). San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 1586170295. 
  • Tucker, Karen; Wainwright, Geoffrey (2006). The Oxford history of Christian worship. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513886-4. 
  • Wagner, Richard (2004). Christianity for Dummies. For Dummies. ISBN 0764544829. 
  • Webb, Jeffrey B. (2004). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Christianity. Indianapolis, Ind: Alpha Books. ISBN 159257176X. 
  • Woodhead, Linda (2004). Christianity: a very short introduction. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192803220. 

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John 1
John 2
John 3
John 4
John 5
John 6
John 7
John 8
John 9
John 10
John 11
John 12
John 13
John 14
John 15
John 16
John 17
John 18
John 19
John 20
John 21

Matt. 1
Matt. 2
Matt. 3
Matt. 4
Matt. 5
Matt. 6
Matt. 7
Matt. 8
Matt. 9
Matt. 10
Matt. 11
Matt. 12
Matt. 13
Matt. 14
Matt. 15
Matt. 16
Matt. 17
Matt. 18
Matt. 19
Matt. 20
Matt. 21
Matt. 22
Matt. 23
Matt. 24
Matt. 25
Matt. 26
Matt. 27
Matt. 28

Mark 1
Mark 2
Mark 3
Mark 4
Mark 5
Mark 6
Mark 7
Mark 8
Mark 9
Mark 10
Mark 11
Mark 12
Mark 13
Mark 14
Mark 15
Mark 16

Luke 1
Luke 2
Luke 3
Luke 4
Luke 5
Luke 6
Luke 7
Luke 8
Luke 9
Luke 10
Luke 11
Luke 12
Luke 13
Luke 14
Luke 15
Luke 16
Luke 17
Luke 18
Luke 19
Luke 20
Luke 21
Luke 22
Luke 23
Luke 24

Acts 1
Acts 2
Acts 3
Acts 4
Acts 5
Acts 6
Acts 7
Acts 8
Acts 9
Acts 10
Acts 11
Acts 12
Acts 13
Acts 14
Acts 15
Acts 16
Acts 17
Acts 18
Acts 19
Acts 20
Acts 21
Acts 22
Acts 23
Acts 24
Acts 25
Acts 26
Acts 27
Acts 28

Eschatology
PROPHECIES FULFILLED CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST
Prophecy Nature Fulfillment
And I will put enmity between thee and the   
woman, and between thy seed and her
seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shall bruise his heel. Gen. 3:15




 Jesus to be the   
seed of a wom-
an





 And the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to
devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was   
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne. Re. 12: 4, 5
(Gal. 4: 4, Heb. 2: 14)
Then take silver and gold, and make
crowns, and set them upon the head of
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest; And speak unto him, saying, Thus
speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name is The
BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his
place, and he shall build the temple of the
Lord: Even he shall build the temple of the
Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and
shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon his throne: and the
counsel of peace shall be between them
both. Zec. 6: 11-13 (Ezra 3: 8)		 Type of
Joshua (Jeshua)
as Priest-King
Messiah










 But while he thought on these things,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou
son of David, fear not to take unto thee
Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in
her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall
bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his
name JESUS: for he shall save his people
from their sins. Mt.1: 20-21
(Heb. 6: 20)
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel. Is. 7: 14

 Jesus to be
born of a virgin



 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and
shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his
name Emmanuel, which being interpreted
is, God with us.
Mt. 1: 23 (Lu. 1: 26-35)
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that
I will raise unto David a righteous Branch,
and a King shall reign and prosper, and
shall execute judgment and justice in the
earth. Jer. 23: 5		 Of the Lineage
Of David
Of Abraham


 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mt. 1: 1 (Ro. 1: 3)
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou
be little among the thousands of Judah, yet
out of thee shall he come forth unto me that
is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlasting.
Mic. 5: 2		 Born in Beth-
lehem




 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
Judea in the days of Herod the king…
Mt. 2: 1 (Lu. 2: 4, Joh. 7: 42)
Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard in
Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping;
Rachel weeping for her children refused to
be comforted for her children because they
were not. Jer. 31: 15


 Massacre of
infants at His
birth by Herod




 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken
by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama
was there a voice heard, lamentation, and
weeping, and great mourning, Rachel
weeping for her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not.
Mt. 2: 16-18
When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
and called my son out of Egypt.
Ho. 11: 1




 Flight into
Egypt





 When he arose, he took the young child and
his mother by night, and departed into
Egypt: And was there until the death of
Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Out of Egypt have I called my Son.
Mt. 2: 14-15
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they
were whiter than milk, they were more
ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing
was of sapphire. La. 4: 7

 Pure as a
Nazarite



 And he came and dwelt in a city called
Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophets, He shall be
called a Nazarene. Mt. 2: 23
(Ac. 24: 5)
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord.
Mal. 4: 5		 Forerunner
appears as
Elijah

 For all the prophets and the law
prophesied until John. And if ye will
receive it, this is Elias, which was for
to come. Mt. 11: 13-14
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of the
fear of the Lord. Is. 11: 2

 Anointed by
the Holy Spirit




 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the
heavens were opened unto him and he saw
the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him. Mt. 3: 16
(Lu. 3: 22, 4: 18)
I saw in the night visions, and, behold,
one like the Son of man came with the
clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they brought him
near before him. Da. 7: 13		 Son of Man




 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven
open, and the angels of God ascending
and descending upon the Son of man.
Joh. 1: 51 (Mk. 13: 26-27)
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such
as was in her vexation, when at the first be
lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously afflict her by the way of the sea,
beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
The people that walked in darkness have
seen a great light: they that dwell in the land
of the shadow of death, upon them hath the
light shined. Is. 9: 1-2

 Ministry begins
in Galilee









 And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt
in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast,
in the borders of Zabulon and
Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
The land of Zabulon, and the land of
Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond
Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people
which sat in darkness saw great light, and
to them which sat in the region and shadow
of death light is sprung up. Mt 4: 13-16
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
because the Lord hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; he
hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are
bound; To proclaim the acceptable YEAR
OF THE LORD, and the day of vengeance
of our God; to comfort all that mourn.
Is. 61: 1-2



 Prophesies in
His time











 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to
the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised. To preach the acceptable year of
the Lord. And he closed the book, and he
gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
And the eyes of all them that were in the
synagogue were fastened on him. And he
began to say unto them, This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears. Lu. 4: 18-22
To proclaim the acceptable year of the
Lord, and the DAY OF VENGEANCE of our
God; to comfort all that mourn.
Is. 61: 2






 Completes
the Day of
Vengeance
(70 A.D.)
Prophecy





 And when ye shall see Jerusalem
compassed with armies then know that
the desolation thereof is nigh, Then let
them in Judea flee to the mountains, and
let them which are in the midst of it depart
out; and let not them that are in the
countries enter thereinto. For these be
the days of vengeance, that all things
which are written may be fulfilled.
Lu. 21: 20-22
I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their [Levites] brethren [11 tribes], like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth
which he shall speak in my name I will
require it of him.
De. 18: 18



 Prophet like
unto Moses







 If I told you earthly things, and ye believe
not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of
heavenly things? And no man hath
ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man
which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of man be lifted up.
Joh. 3: 12-14 (Ac. 3: 22-26)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace. Is. 9: 6		 Jesus is God's
Son




 For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
Joh. 3: 16
For he shall grow up before him as a
tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
Is. 53: 2
 Appearance is
of a common
man



 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,
the brother of James, and Joses, and of
Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters
here with us? And they were offended at
him. Mk. 6: 3 (Php. 2: 7-8)
I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Ps. 69: 8		 Prophet without
honor in His
own country		 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet
hath no honour in his own country.
Joh. 4: 44
For I will pour water upon him that is
thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground:
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and
my blessing upon thine offspring: And
they shall spring up as among the grass,
as willows by the water courses.
Is. 44: 3-4



 The Living
Water		 In the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man
thirst let him come unto me, and drink. He
that believeth on me, as the scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water. (But this spake he of the
Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not
yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.) Joh. 7: 37-38
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. Is. 53: 4




 Bore our
afflictions






 When the even was come, they brought
unto him many that were possessed with
devils: and he cast out the spirits with His
word, and healed all that were sick: That
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took
our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Mt. 8: 16-17
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; mine
elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have
put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles. Is. 42: 1

 God's Servant
a Light to the
Gentiles


 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen;
my beloved, in whom my soul is well
pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and
he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.
Mt. 12: 18
A bruised reed shall he not break, and
the smoking flax shall he not quench: he
shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Is. 42: 3 (Is. 61: 1-3)		 Ministry
to the
downtrodden

 A bruised reed shall he not break, and
smoking flax shall he not quench, till he
send forth judgment unto victory.
Mt. 12: 20
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he
shall gather the lambs with his arm, and
carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
lead those that are with young. Is. 40: 11
(Ps. 23: 1)




 The Good
Shepherd







 I am the good shepherd, and know my
sheep, and am known of mine. As the
Father knoweth me, even so know I the
Father: and I lay down my life for the
sheep. And other sheep I have, which are
not of this fold: them also I must bring, and
they shall hear my voice; and there shall
be one fold, and one shepherd.
Joh. 10: 14-16
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King
cometh unto thee: he is just, and having
salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Zec. 9: 9



 Enters Jeru-
salem riding
on the colt of
an ass





 On the next day much people that were
come to the feast, when they heard that
Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took
branches of palm trees, and went forth to
meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is
the King of Israel that cometh in the name
of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found
a young ass, sat thereupon; as it is written:
Joh. 12: 12-14 (Mk. 11: 7-10)
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
hast thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies, that thou mightest still the
enemy and the avenger. When I consider
thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which thou hast
ordained; What is man, that thou art
mindful of him? And the son of man,
that thou visitest him? Ps. 8: 2-4
(Ps. 148)		 Children cry
Hosanna to
The King







 And when the chief priests and scribes
saw the wonderful things that he did, and
the children crying in the temple, and
saying, Hosanna to the son of David;
they were sore displeased, And said
unto him, Hearest thou what these say?
And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye
never read, Out of the mouth of babes
and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Mt. 21: 15-16
Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the Lord. Jer. 7: 11		 Zeal for God’s
house


 And said unto them, It is written, My
house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Mt. 21: 13 (Joh. 2: 14-17)
I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me,
and art become my salvation. The stone
which the builders refused is become the
head stone of the corner. This is the
Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Ps. 118: 22-23		 The Stone
rejected by
authorities



 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read
in the scriptures, The stone which the
builders rejected, the same is become the
head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mt. 21: 42
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he
said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but percieve not. Make the heart
of this people fat, and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see
with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and
convert, and be healed. Is. 6: 8-10		 People do not
believe









 Therefore they could not believe, because
that Esaias said again, He hath blinded
their eyes, and hardened their heart; that
they should not see with their eyes, nor
understand with their heart, and be
converted, and I should heal them.
These things said Esaias, when he
saw His glory, and spake of Him.
Joh. 12: 39-41
In those days they shall say no more, The
fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the
children’s teeth are set on edge. But every
one shall die for his own iniquity: every
man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge. Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will make a
NEW COVENANT with the house of
Israel, and with the house of Judah.
Jer. 31: 29-31		 Ministers the
New Covenant








 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the
fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of
God shall come. And he took bread,
and gave unto them, saying, This is my
body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me. Likewise also the
cup after supper, saying, This cup is the
NEW TESTAMENT in my blood which is
shed for you. Lu. 22: 18-20
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom
I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath
lifted up his heel against me. Ps. 41: 9
(ca. 1000 B.C.)		 The betrayal of
Christ


 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have
chosen: but that the scripture may be
fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath
lifted up his heel against me. Joh. 13: 18
They that hate me without a cause are
more than the hairs of mine head: they that
would destroy me, being mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that
which I took not away. Ps. 69: 4


 Hated without
cause





 If I had not done among them the works
which none other man did, they had not
had sin: but now have they both seen and
hate both me and my Father. But this
cometh to pass that the word might be
fulfilled that is written in their law, They
hated me without a cause. Joh. 15: 24-25
And I said unlo them. If ye think good, give
me my price, and if not, forbear. So they
weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Zec. 11: 12		 Price paid for
Jesus' betrayal


 And said unto them, What will ye give me,
and I will deliver him unto you? And they
covenanted with him for thirty pieces of
silver. Mt. 26: 15
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and
the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn
mine hand upon the little ones. Zec. 13: 7
(ca. 500 B.C)		 Forsaken by
disciples




 Then saith Jesus unto them. All ye shall be
offended because of me this night: for it is
written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
sheep of the flock shall be scattered
abroad. Mt. 26: 31 (Mk. 14: 50)
And the Lord said unlo me, Cast it unto the
potter: a goodly price that I was prised at
of them. And I took the thirty pieces of
silver, and cast them to the potter in the
house of the Lord. Zec. 11: 13



 Price of
betrayal cast
away on a
potter’s field




 And he cast down the pieces of silver
in the temple, and departed, and went and
hanged himself. And the chief priests took
the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful
for to put them into the treasury, because
it is the price of blood. And they took
counsel, and bought with them the potter’s
field, to bury strangers in. Mt. 27: 5-7
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my
charge things that I knew not. Ps. 35: 11

 False witnesses
at His trial

 For many bare false witness against him,
but their witness agreed not together.
Mk. 14: 56
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is
dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Is. 53:7		 Silent before
His accusers as
a lamb to the
slaughter		 And he answered him to never a word;
insomuch that the governor marvelled
greatly. Mt. 27: l4 (Joh. 1: 29)
But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed. Is. 53: 5		 Jesus' scourging




 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and
when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered
him to be crucified. Mt. 27: 26
As many were astonied at thee; his visage
was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men:
Is. 52: 14		 His marred
visage (face)


 Then Jesus came forward, wearing the crown
of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilatus
said to them, [ECCEHOMO] Behold the
man. Joh. 19: 5
And if a man have committed a sin worthy
of death, and he be to be put to death, and
thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not
remain all night upon the tree, but thou
shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he
that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy
land be not defiled, which the Lord thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
De. 21: 22-23		 The Saviour's
crucifixion
according to the
law of the land





 And he said unto them the third time, Why,
what evil hath he done? I have found no
cause of death in him: I will therefore
chastise him, and let him go. And they
were instant with loud voices, requiring
that he might be crucified. And the voices
of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
And Pilate gave sentence that it should be
as they required. Lu. 23: 22-24
I gave my back to the smiters, and my
cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Is. 50: 6



 Spat upon in
humiliation





 And they smote him on the head with a
reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing
their knees worshipped him. And when
they had mocked him, they took off the
purple from him, and put his own clothes
on him, and led him out to crucify him.
Mk. 15: 19-20
For dogs have compassed me: the
assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
Ps. 22: 16



 He is nailed to
the cross





 The other disciples therefore said unto him,
We have seen the Lord. But he said unto
them, Except I shall see in his hands the
print of the nails, and put my finger into the
print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his
side, I will not believe.
Joh. 20: 25 (Re. 1: 7)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he hath poured out his
soul unto death: And he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he bare the sin
of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors. Is. 53:12		 Numbered with
transgressors





 And when they were come to the place,
which is called Calvary, there they
crucified him, and the malefactors, one
on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Lu. 23: 33
They part my garments among them, and
cast lots upon my vesture. Ps. 22: 18


 The parting of
His garments by
castings lots

 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for
they know not what they do. And they
parted his raiment, and cast lots.
Lu. 23: 34
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried:
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Ps. 69: 3		 He becomes
thirsty

 After this, Jesus knowing that all things
were now accomplished, that the scripture
might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Joh. 19: 28
They gave me also gall for my meat; and
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Ps. 69: 21		 Given bitter
drink

 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled
with gall: and when he had tasted thereof,
he would not drink. Mt. 27: 34
I became also a reproach unto them: when
they looked upon me they shaked their
heads. Ps. 109: 25		 He is mocked


 And they that passed by reviled him,
wagging their heads. Mt. 27:39
All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,
saying, He trusted on the Lord that he
would deliver him: let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him. Ps. 22:7, 8		 Railing and
taunting toward
Christ


 And one of the malefactors which were
hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be
Christ, save thyself and us. Lu. 23: 39
(Mt. 27:43)
And he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
Is. 53:12








 His intercession
for a fellow
sufferer in
need







 But the other answering rebuked him,
saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing
thou art in the same condemnation? And
we indeed justly; for we receive the due
reward of our deeds: but this man hath
done nothing amiss. And he said unto
Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said
unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day
shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Lu. 23: 42-43
And it shall come to pass in that day. saith
the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go
down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
the clear day. Am. 8: 9		 The sun going
down at noon


 Now from the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the land unto the ninth
hour. Mt. 27: 45
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? why art thou so far from helping me,
and from the words of my roaring?
Ps. 22: 1

 An intense
lonely cry



 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with
a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mt. 27: 46
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast
redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Ps. 31: 5

 His commending
His spirit


 And when Jesus had cried with a loud
voice, he said. Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit: and having said
thus, he gave up the ghost. Lu. 23:46
And afler threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.
Da. 9: 26

 Messiah is cut
off (slain)


 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that
one man should die for the people, and that
the whole nation perish not. Joh. 11:50
(Joh. 11:51-52)
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them
is broken. Ps. 34: 20

 Not a bone
broken

 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that
he was dead already, they brake not his
legs: Joh. 19: 33
And they shall look upon me whom they
have pierced, and they shall
mourn for him. Zec. 12: 10		 His side
pierced

 But one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced his side, and forthwith came
there out blood and water. Joh. 19: 34
And he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death; because he
had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his mouth. Is. 53: 9


 The place of
burial




 When the even was come, there came a
rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph,
who aIso himself was Jesus' disciple: He
went to Pilate, and begged the body of
Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body
to be delivered. Mt. 27: 57-58
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to
see corruption. Thou wilt show me the
path of life: in thy presence is fulness of
joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures
for evermore.
Ps. 16: 10-11








 His resurrection And he said unto them, These are the
words which I spake unto you, that all
things must be fulfilled, which were written
in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,
and in the psalms, concerning me. Then
opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures, And
said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus
it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead the third day: And that
repentance and remission of sins should
be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem, And
ye are witnesses of these things.
Lu. 24: 44-48 (Ac. 2: 22-28)
Thou hast ascended on high, thou has led
captivity captive: thou hast received gifts
for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that
the Lord God might dwell among them.
Ps. 68: l8		 The ascension




 And it came to pass, while he blessed
them, he was parted from them, and
carried up into heaven. Lu. 24: 51
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at
my right hand, until I make thine enemies
thy footstool. Ps. 110: 1

 To sit at the
Right Hand of
God, the Father

 So then after the Lord had spoken unto
them, he was received up into heaven, and
sat on the right hand of God. Mk. 16: 19
(Re. 3: 21)
All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all. Is. 53: 6








 Jesus' sacrifice
to satisfy
God’s plan of
salvation








 Who did no sin, neither spoke deceitfully:
Who, when he was reviled, did not answer
contemptuously; when he suffered, did not
threaten; but committed Himself to
righteous judgment from on high: Who
bore our sins in His own body on the tree
by whose stripes you are healed, that you,
being dead to sins should live under
righteous conviction. While you were as
sheep gone astray; you are now returned
to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
I Pe. 2: 22-25 (1 Co. 15: 3)
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the
generations from the beginning? I, the
Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Is. 41:4


 The First and
the Last




 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as
dead. And he laid his right hand upon me,
saying, Do not fear; I am the first and the
last: I am he that lives, and was dead; and,
so, look, I am alive forevermore, Amen.
Re. 1: 17 (Re. 21: 6, 22: 13)
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 ^ It refers to the 39 books that make up the Jewish & Christian Old Testament.
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 .In that nation alone, the great truths of the existence and unity of God, His providential ruling of His creatures and their responsibility towards Him, were preserved unimpaired amidst general corruption.^ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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 ^ Truth, however maintains the unity of God in such a way as to insist that whatever belongs to God Himself belongs to Him alone.
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 ^ Millennium (end): All nations will worship God at the Great White Throne judgment.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The ancient world was given to Pantheism and creature-worship; Israel only, not because of its "monotheistic instinct" (Renan), but because of the periodic interposition of God through His prophets, resisted in the main the general tendency to idolatry.^ Ritual sacrifice of animals was a extensively practiced in ancient Israel and was only discontinued after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in the eighth decade A.D. .

 ^ It is only through this sacrifice that anyone can be saved from the wrath of God (1 Pet.

 ^ Sexual Energy and Selfish Desire is Mastered through the Soul Connection and ONLY through the Soul Connection because the energy of God is higher and stronger.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 .Besides maintaining those pure conceptions of Deity, the prophets from time to time, and with ever increasing distinctness until we come to the direct and personal testimony of the Baptist, foreshadowed a fuller and more universal revelation — a time when, and a Man through Whom, God should bless all the nations of the earth.^ But the rich man has no time for God.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ And, that God will curse all those who curse the Jews, and bless those who bless the Jews.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.

 We need not here trace the Messianic predictions in detail; their clearness and cogency are such that St. Augustine does not hesitate to say (Retract., I, xiii, 3): "What we now call the Christian religion existed amongst the ancients, and was from the beginning of the human race, until Christ Himself came in the flesh; from which time the already existing true religion began to be styled Christian". And thus it has been remarked that Israel alone amongst the nations of antiquity looked forward to glories to come. .All peoples alike retained some more or less vague recollection of a Paradise lost, a remote Golden Age, but only the spirit of Israel kept alive the definite hope of a world-wide empire of justice, wherein the Fall of Man should be repaired.^ There, this man found some people.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Moreover, Ancient Egypt from its pre-dynastic period up to its Golden-Age of pyramid building was a an unadulterated predominately Black race of people (3500-2100 B.C.E.).

 ^ So the gate was opened and we went over the nearest heaven and there we saw a man sitting with some people on his right and some on his left.

 .The fact that, eventually, the Jews misinterpreted their oracles, and identified the Messianic Kingdom with a mere temporal sovereignty of Israel, cannot invalidate the testimony of the Scriptures, as interpreted both by Christ's own life and the teaching of His Apostles, to the gradual evolution of that conception of which Christianity is the full and perfect expression.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Contrast the above with Christianity's teaching about women: The Apostle Paul knew better then anybody in antiquity that male and female were equal in Christ Jesus.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This mystery of the Trinity, which is a fundamental dogma of the Christian faith, has been described by the Church fathers as a Trinity in Unity, the perfect expression of perfect love.

 .Mistaken national pride, accentuated by their galling subject to Rome led them to read a material significance into the predictions of the triumph of the Messias, and hence to love their privilege of being God's chosen people.^ This somehow makes people feel that they have something for God to fix, and that by having problems, they are being tested.
  • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]

 ^ After reading and studying the aforementioned sources, if people still want and need to believe that the King James Version of the Bible is the "Word of God," then the history and research pertaining to this subject is moot at best and will subsequently go for naught.

 ^ For centuries much of the world has been deceived into believing that the Hebrew were God chosen people above all other people who dedicated their lives to fulfilling the Will of God and the Works of God, but were not labeled Hebrews.

 The wild olive in St. Paul's metaphor (Rom., xi, 17) was then grafted upon the stock of the patriarchs in place of those rejected branches, and entered upon their spiritual inheritance.
.We may trace, too, in the world at large, apart from the Jewish people, a similar though less direct preparation.^ Several prominent U.S. groups are helping prepare for a World Congress of Families in Poland in May 2007.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Whether due ultimately to the Old Testament predictions or to the fragments of the original revelation handed down amongst the Gentile, a certain vague expectation of the coming of a great conqueror seems to have existed in the East and to a certain extent in the Roman worlds, in the midst of which the new religion had its birth.^ World news: Religion .
  • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ I have come across many priests, and it was, in the beginning, a great shock to me that they are people who know nothing about religion; they are the people who know nothing of prayer; they are the people who have never meditated.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 .But a much more marked predisposition to Christianity may be noticed in certain prominent features of the Roman religion after the downfall of the republic.^ To make this more certain a red tinge is given to the lips; and the only test in the Christian bible quoted by orthodox Christians as describing his complexion represents it as being black.

 ^ The group is composed of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, and Christians--Protestant and Roman Catholic--from more than twenty countries.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ For instance some may wish to say that Constantinople is used as a synonym for the Roman Christian Empire.

 The old gods of Latium had long ceased to reign. .In their stead Greek philosophy occupied the minds of the cultured, whilst the populace were attracted by a variety of strange cults imported from Egypt and the East.^ Old Testament Period : Plato inspired Greek philosophy based on the mystery religion of Atlantis; Alexander the Great brought Platonism to the Middle East; Neo-Platonism developed in the Gnostic academia of Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire and caused the Greek language and philosophy to be spread throughout much of the known world, including Egypt.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ [As we have learned, it was in the great city of Alexandria, Egypt that many Jews and early Christians came under the influence of Greek philosophy]..."
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Whatever their corruption, these new religions, concentrating worship on a single prominent deity, were monotheistic in effect.^ Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion These reports are frequently augmented, so use your REFRESH BUTTON. .
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 ^ Traapantha of Traasvm in Madhya Pradesh, ravaapantha by Kauvaha in Gujrat and these new sects were called Sdhumrgis, and were against image worship and temples.
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 .Moreover, many of them were characterized by rites of expiation and sacrifice, which familiarized men's minds with the idea of a mediatorial religion.^ The early Christian church had to deal with the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, the son of God, eternal life, and the resurrection, in their religion.

 They combined to destroy the notion of a nation cultus, and to separate the service of the Deity from the service of the State. .Finally, as a contributory cause to the diffusion of Christianity, we must not fail to mention the widespread Pax Romana, resulting from the union of the civilized races under one strong central government.^ One day during meditation, Tendo Nyojo shouted at a sleeping monk, "When you study under a Master, you must drop body and mind!"
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ One of the central characters of the series is David Qin, a devout Christian.
  • Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: General]

 ^ In addition to these, mention must be made of the marked exertions of feudal ladies for the cause of Jainadharma.
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]
.Thus much may be said with regard to the remote preparation of the world for the reception of Christianity.^ This same quality of transmission we find regarding the Jewish and Christian bible cannot be said of the Islamic Qur'an.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "The merger of Gates and Buffett may spell doom for the families of the developing world," said a Roman Catholic Priest who is President of Human Life International.
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 ^ Several prominent U.S. groups are helping prepare for a World Congress of Families in Poland in May 2007.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .What immediately preceded its institution, as it was born in Judaism, concerns the Jewish race alone, and is comprised in the teaching and miracles of Christ, His death and resurrection, and the mission of the Holy Spirit.^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ At the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit descended on Him as a dove.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Tribulation/First 3.5 Years: The Charismatic movement will be a point of entry for Lucifer, posing as the Holy Spirit, to impregnate the Church as the Bride of Christ.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .During his whole mortal life on earth, including the two or three years of His active ministry, Christ lived as a devout Jew, Himself observing, and insisting on His followers observing, the injunctions of the Law (Matt., xxiii, 3).^ Let us live as he lived, and be living Christs on earth.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Our Whole Lives, a product of Unitarian-Universalists and the United Church of Christ, has proved popular at both churches, each has trained more than 1,000 teachers.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .The sum of His teaching, as of that of His precursor, was the approach of the "Kingdom of God", meaning not only the rule of righteousness in the individual heart ("the kingdom of God is within you" — Luke, xvii, 21), but also the Church (as is plain from many of the parables) which He was about to institute.^ Only the purer in heart will see God.

 ^ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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 ^ God I miss everything about you.I hate that you arent here to teach Carter stuff and to fight with him.

 .Yet, though He often foreshadowed a time when the Law as such would cease to bind, and though He Himself in proof of His Messiahship occasionally set aside its provisions ("For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath", Matt., xii, 8), yet, as, in spite of His miracles, He did not win recognition of that Messiahship, still less of His Divinity, from the Jews at large.^ Man is so deceptive that he can deceive even himself.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Before Noah, Abraham, and Moses I AM. Noah, Abraham, and Moses died longing to see the day of the Father and Son of the Glory of God in Man, and did not see it.

 .He confined His explicit teaching about the Church to His immediate followers, and left it to them, when the time came, openly to pronounce the abrogation of the Law.^ However, the Orthodox Christian Church today still follows the ancient teaching of St. Paul (cf.

 ^ "This type of false teaching is likely what was taking place in Thyatira and had already begun to infiltrate the church by the time of this writing.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Today may be the time to free yourself from that tyrannical yoke of living in a false religion which came about to glue together a group of robbers, murderers and opportunists.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .(Acts, xv, 5-11, 18; Gal., iii, 19; 24-28; Eph., ii, 2, 14-15; Coloss., ii, 16, 17; Heb., vii, 12.) It was not so much, then, by propounding the dogmas of Christianity as by informing the Old Law with the spirit of Christian ethics that Christ found Himself able to prepare Jewish hearts for the religion to come.^ References for this is found in John 14:6; Acts 4:12, and 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 ^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 .Again, the faith which He failed to arouse by the numerous miracles He wrought, He sought to provide with a further and stronger incentive by dying under every circumstance of paint, disgrace, and defeat, and then raising Himself from the dead in triumph and glory.^ Throwing about pieces of his limited knowledge of what he learned about the Christian and Jewish religions provided Muhammad a way to elevate himself further in front of his listeners.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Our faith in Christ and His words is supported by numerous prophecies, by the evidence of miracles, by His divine Incarnation of a virgin, His Resurrection and ascension, and by countless manifestations of His love for mankind.

 ^ Jesus did numerous miracles to prove His divinity, including raising the dead and command over nature ( All Gospel writers and Josephus).
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 .It was to this fact rather than to the wonders He worked in His lifetime that His accredited witnesses always appealed in their teaching.^ And we are to see our money as a reward from God for our obedience to him in working rather than for the work itself.
  • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The introduction of Sharia in Nigeria has had more to do with political appeal, rather than religious sentiment.
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 .On the marvel of the Resurrection is based in the counsels of God the faith of Christianity.^ Is he anything like the God of Christian faith?

 ^ TRIBULATION / FIRST 3.5 YEARS At the resurrection of the Church, Christians will have an intimate knowledge of God.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To develop an understanding Jesus' fulfillment of all faith in God, we will start with the resurrection of Jesus, and perhaps work our way back to the beginning of his Gospel.

 ."If Christ is not risen again, your faith is vain", declares the Apostle Paul (I Cor., xv, 17), who says no word of the other wonders Christ performed.^ Beware of false apostles who perform signs and lying wonders.
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 ^ After performing with the five-member troupe (Here is what goes through your mind during 90 minutes of Christian improv: "No, no, can't say that, nope, maybe if ...
  • In Good Faith: Judaism - A blog for news and discussion on matters of faith - baltimoresun.com 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC weblogs.baltimoresun.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The word that signifies God is AUM. When properly pronounced, Aum represents the whole gamut of sound production as no other word can.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 .By His death, therefore, and His return from the dead, Christ, as the event proved, furnished the strongest means for the effective preaching of the religion He came to found.^ Religion is Satan's dragnet to catch men into Hell-fire, while Christ came purposely to conquer Satan and deliver as many as put their trust in Him.
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 ^ Islam denies this historical fact about Jesus which therefore negates the salvation given us by the Son of God's painful death and miraculous resurrection from the dead.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]
.The third antecedent condition to the birth of Christianity, as we learn from the sacred records, was a special participation of the Holy Spirit given to the Apostles on the day of Pentecost.^ Also remember that the Spirit of Faith was the dominant creative force in the Third Day of Creation.

 .According to Christ's promise, the function of this Divine gift was to teach them all truth and bring back to their remembrance all that [[[Jesus Christ (Catholic Encyclopedia)|Christ]]] had said to them (John, xiv, 26; xvi, 13).^ As Jesus Christ said -"Look at all the lillies in the field.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ Tribulation : All of the saved will worship Jesus Christ at the Bema Seat judgment.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ."I send the Promised of my Father upon you, but remain ye in the city till ye shall be clothed with power from on high" (Luke, xxiv, 49).^ You had killed her father, her husband and many of her relatives, and till recently she was an unbeliever.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26).
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 ^ Then I told my grandfather, "You go away because if you are caught then the whole city will think that this is going too far."
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ."John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy ghost, not many days hence" (Acts, i, 5).^ "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26).
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Joel 2:28-31 John the Baptist prophesied baptism with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
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 ^ John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him You only have to ask Jesus and He will save you.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .As a result of that Divine visitation we find the Apostles preaching the Gospel with wonderful courage, persuasiveness, and assurance in the face of hostile Jews and indifferent Gentiles, "the Lord working with them and confirming their words by the signs that followed" (Mark, xvi, 20).^ Beware of false apostles who perform signs and lying wonders.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.
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 ^ This clearly contradicts all 4 Gospels (Injil) which Muhammad confirmed in the as the revealed word of God in the Qur'an itself.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]
.We have now to consider the circumstances of Christianity at the outset, and to estimate to what extent it was affected by the already existing religious beliefs of the time.^ Christian is now on the breathing machine around 11am today he was having a hard time doing it on his own.

 ^ It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed.

 ^ Community of Truth Seekers...was a group of powerful occultists who believed that there had been a single world religion in ancient times which had fragmented into a single world religion which had fragmented into the various religious beliefs and occult doctrines which exist today.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It took its rise, as we have seen, in Judaism: its founder and His disciples were orthodox Jews, and the latter maintained their Jewish practices, at least for a time, even after the day of Pentecost.^ While many participate in some religious observances, only the Orthodox adhere to Judaism's strict regimen of rules, including praying three times a day and not driving on the Sabbath.
  • In Good Faith: Judaism - A blog for news and discussion on matters of faith - baltimoresun.com 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC weblogs.baltimoresun.com [Source type: General]

 ^ [A comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews, edited by the late Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary] [Ger97] Gerber, Jane S. (ed.
  • Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt. I) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]

 ^ [A comprehensive description of Judaism and the Jews, edited by the late Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary] [Fin71c] Finkelstein, Louis (ed.
  • Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt. I) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]

 The Jews themselves looked upon the followers of Christ as a mere Israelitish sect (airesis) like the Sadducees or the Essenes, styling St. Paul "the instigator of the revolt of the sect of the Nazarenes" (Acts, xxiv, 5). .The new religion was at first wholly confined to the synagogue, and it votaries had still a large share of Jewish exclusiveness; they read the Law, they practised circumcision, and they worshipped in the Temple, as well as in the upper room at Jerusalem.^ It is true that the Muslim rulers were not in favour of erecting new temples, but at times, they gave their consent to the erection of new temples or did not object to the repair of old ones.
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 ^ They showed unusual favour towards Jainism, probably the religion of a large section of their subjects.
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 ^ It will not be unsafe to conclude that the Jaina temples are contemporary of the Hindu edifices; and under the liberal policy of the Paramras of Dhr, they existed side by side with the Hindu temples for the worship of Jaina community which was quite large at Atru at this time.
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]

 .We need not wonder, then, that some modern rationalists, who reject its supernatural origin and ignore the operation of the Holy spirit in its first missionaries, see in early Christianity Judaism pure and simple, and find the explanation of its character and growth in the pre-existing religious environment.^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Holy Spirit is really the Mother, and thus the Christian Trinity properly translated should be Father, Son and Mother.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Both sides need to display some of the wisdom of Einstein, who wrote "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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 .But this theory of natural development does not fit the facts as narrated in the New Testament, which is full of indications that Christ's doctrines were new, and His spirit strange.^ The Greek word used in the New Testament to identify the Body of Christ is ekklesia —'the called out' or assembly.
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 ^ The wedding feast, therefore, is the new thing which God is doing in the earth at this time, in which He, the Spirit of God, is overshadowing the elect and INSEMINATING their souls with His own DIVINE NATURE..."
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 ^ In the New Testament this plurality is more explicitly revealed to be a Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One in Essence, Every-existing, Undivided and Indivisible.

 Consequently, the records have to be mutilated to suit the theory. .We cannot pretend to follow, there or in other places, the rationalists in their New Testament criticism.^ This place has been identified by A. Cunningham with Narayanapura near Alwar, and other scholars also followed him.
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 ^ Changes are taking place in the Muslim world in the status of women, and there are other evidence of slower rates of population growth in the decades to come.
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 ^ He wrote: " On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake , and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down " .
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 There is the less need of doing so that their theories are often mutually destructive. .A dozen years ago an observer computed that since 1850 there had been published 747 theories regarding the Old and New Testaments, of which 608 were by that time defunct (see Hastings, "Higher Criticism").^ According to an article published in the New York Times on September 22, 2008, as a result of advances in treatment "...98 percent of women with early-stage [breast] cancers survive at least five years.."

 ^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ Thousands of the Hebrew Old Testament manuscript copies are still available for textual criticism, ranging in age from the second century B.C. (Before Christ) to the eleventh century A.D. (After Christ).
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 The effect of these random hypotheses has been greatly to strengthen the orthodox view, which we now proceed to state.
.Christianity is developed from Judaism in the sense that it embodies the Divine revelation contained in the latter creed, somewhat as a finished painting embodies the original rough sketch.^ Many of these suggestions come from a reading list developed by Rabbi Shira Stern, originally published in v4n60 of the [6]Liberal Judaism Mailing List.
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 ^ Allah ( or Muhammad ) claims the "people of the book" (Christians & Jews) have a book of divine revelation.
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 ^ The Book of Ezekiel is actually a prophecy of the development of Divine Science for today's tribes of Israel written of in the Book of Revelation.

 .The same hand was employed in the production of both religions, and by type and promise and prophecy the Old Dispensation points clearly to the New.^ Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion These reports are frequently augmented, so use your REFRESH BUTTON. .
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 ^ Likewise, the Septuagint edition of the Old Testament was always in the hands of both Christians and Jews, both rivals in religion.
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 ^ One would ask why is this so, since both religions are supposed to worship the same God?

 .But type, and promise, and prophecy as clearly indicate that the New will be something very different from the Old.^ The picture of Allah as revealed by the Qur'an is quite different to the one of God revealed in both the Old and New Testaments.
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 ^ "Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith," Nourizadeh said.
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 No mere organic evolution connects the two. A fuller revelation, a more perfect morality, a wider distribution was to mark the Kingdom of the Messias. "The end [or object] of the Law is Christ", says St. Paul (Rom., x, 4), meaning that the Law was given to the Jews to excite their faith in the Christ to come. ."Wherefore", he says again (Gal., iii, 24), "the law was our pedagogue unto Christ", leading the Jews to Christianity as the slave brought his charges to the school door.^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 ^ Islamic Laws are very clear - Jews and Christians have no rights whatsoever to independent existence.
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 ^ The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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 .Christ reproached the Jews for not reading their Scriptures aright.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ."For if you believed Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me" (John, v, 46).^ If you don't believe that population growth is a problem, would you like to ride around with me here in Atlanta where urban sprawl reaches 100 miles wide?
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 ^ Police recover Auschwitz sign, damaged (0) John Paul II, Pius XII move closer to sainthood (2) wrote: Ace - I have to agree with you.
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 ^ John 10:30 Jesus said; "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."
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 And St. Augustine sums the whole matter up in the striking words: "In the Old Testament, the New lies hidden; in the New, the Old is made manifest" (De catechiz. rud., iv, 8). .But Christ claimed to fulfil the Law by substituting the substance for the shadow and the gift for the promise, and, the end having been reached, all that was temporary and provisional in Judaism came to a conclusion.^ According to these laws, if a woman who claims to have been raped cannot produce four male witnesses to the crime, she is beaten and whipped for having had "illicit sex".
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 ^ GREAT TRIBULATION (end) God will fulfill the 'latter rain' promise of the Holy Spirit to Israel.
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 ^ The point of singularity and the event horizon all rest in the peace of having fulfilled the Works of God and left only peace, and an equal distribution of power.

 .Still, a direct divine intervention was necessary to bring this about, just as, in any rational account of the theory of evolution, recourse must be had to supernatural power to bridge the gulf between being and non-being, life and non-life, reason and non-reason.^ This is God's divine order of bringing forth life...
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 ^ I'm just a run of the mill Tai Chi student, and run of the mill human being, who is doing his best to live life halfway wisely, responsibly, and enjoyably.
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 ^ But the Muslim religion is a faith with no central doctrinal authority to serve as the "bridge" between Muslim principles and modern life that are supposed to be issued by religious scholars.
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 ."God, who, at sundry times and in divers manner, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, least of all in these days hat spoken to us by his Son" (Heb., i, 1, 2), the message growing in clearness and in content with each successive utterance till it reached completion in the Incarnation of the Word.^ This sickening butchery by the "Prophet of God" lasted all day.
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 ^ Who can do these things other than God Incarnate?

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 .The Christianity, then, which the Apostles preached on the day of Pentecost was entirely distinct from Judaism, especially as understood by the Jews of the time; it was a new religion, new in its Founder, new in much of its creed, new in its attitude towards both God and man, new in the spirit of its moral code.^ During this time Muhammad became acquainted with both Jews and Christians.
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 ^ He is both God and man (Col.

 ^ The past few days have been rough for me, when I see how much fun Carter is having here at nan and pappaws I think Christian would be having such a great time here as well, riding the truck,swimming and just being with them.

 ."The Law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (John, i, 17).^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 ^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ Islam says Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or part of any Trinity (Surah 5:17; 5:116; 19:35).
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 St. Paul, as was to be expected, is our clearest witness on this point. ."If any man be in Christ", he says, "he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are new" (II Cor., v, 17).^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 ^ "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

 ^ Islam says Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or part of any Trinity (Surah 5:17; 5:116; 19:35).
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 .How new Christianity was, the Jews themselves showed by putting its Author to death and persecuting His adherents.^ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 [ shows how Yemen is seeking to develop the political, economic and social structures of the modern democratic state ].

 ^ Fredrikson, the author most recently of “Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism,” will deliver the 2009 Bernard Manekin Lecture at 7:30 p.m.
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 ^ Christian made it through surgery ok he does have an infection but its not in the wound so that was the good news he did put the bone back also.

 .Renan himself, who is not always consistent, admits that "far from Jesus being the continuer of Judaism, what characterizes His work is its breach with the Jewish spirit" (Vie de Jésus, c.^ "The church may have been hit by lightning," the Rev. Frank M. Reid III told church members, "but the work of the church continues in Jesus' name."
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 ^ Over at the Baltimore Jewish Times, editor Neil Rubin has an interesting cover story on the continuing growth of Conservative Judaism in Baltimore , amid a national decline in the movement.
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 ^ Therefore, Jesus' pure and perfect model is only for the few (the 144,000), who can overcome the human lust and greed in which the Devil manifests himself.

 xxviii). .It may be granted that there is a certain resemblance between the Essene communities and the earliest Christian assemblies.^ There are also many differences between the Christian and Yorb conceptions of evil.

 ^ These two realms of existence are interdependent in the sense that there is constant communication between the two worlds.

 ^ There is a symbiotic relationship between the Jews and Christians which has made America the greatest country in the world.
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 But the resemblance is only on the outside. .The spirit of the Essenes was intensely national; except in the matter of worship in the Temple, they were ultra-Jewish in their observance of external forms, ablutions, the Sabbath, etc., and their mode of life and discouragement of marriage were essentially anti-social.^ The books were pulled form the shelves after some parents complained that some passages seemed anti-Jewish.

 ^ As a matter of fact they should have known that the Ka'ba (the House of God) had been itself defiled with idols, and was sanctified again by the purity of Muhammad's life and teaching.

 ^ Building temples, feeding groups of monks, worship of the Jaina images and celebration of festivals formed the time-honoured mode of showing religious zeal.
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 .Harnack himself owns that Christ had no relations with this rigoristic sect, as was shown by His mixing freely with sinners, etc.^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 (Das Wesen des Christenthums, Lect. Ii, p. 33, tr.). .But Christianity did not reject anything in Judaism that was of permanent value, and so the Jewish converts on the day of Pentecost could not have felt that they were abjuring their ancient faith, but rather that they were then for the first time entering upon the full understanding of it.^ Then they will meet their brides for the first time.
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 ^ Is he anything like the God of Christian faith?

 ^ A survey showed that nearly a third of young Brazilians did not use a condom the last time they had sex because one was not available or they could not afford one.
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 .More will be said on this point when we come to consider what is the essence of Christianity, but we may notice that the Church very early found it necessary to emphasize her distinctness from Judaism by abandoning the essentially Jewish rites of circumcision, Temple-worship, and observance of the Sabbath.^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
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 ^ The tipping point for democracy in Iran is coming, and it could arrive as early as this week.
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 ^ In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement.
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.Judaism is not the only religious system that has been requisitioned by rationalistic writers to account for the appearance of Christianity.^ R.T. Antoun & M.E. Hegland, eds., Religious Resurgence: Contemporary Cases in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism .

 ^ Religious Dialogue and Revolution: Essays on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam .

 .Points of similarity between the teaching of Christ and His Apostles and the great religions of the East have been taken to indicated a derivation of the latter system from the earlier, and the elaborate eschatology of the Egyptian religion has been quoted to account for certain Christian dogmas about the future life.^ Who Christ is referring to are those Europeans and Indo-Europeans who practice the religion of Judaism as in keeping the Spirit of the original Hebrew faith, and Hebrew Israelites, who make similar claims on the Old Testament and the linage of Abraham to suggest that their religion or way of life is also in keeping with the Spirit of the original Hebrew.

 ^ To make this more certain a red tinge is given to the lips; and the only test in the Christian bible quoted by orthodox Christians as describing his complexion represents it as being black.

 ^ The Song of Solomon speaks of the love between Christ and the church, and the final act of planting the seed of life within the soul, the womb of the church.
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 It were a long and not very profitable task to state and refute these various theories in detail. .Underlying all of them is the rationalistic postulate which denies the fact and even the possibility of Divine intervention in the evolution of religion.^ It appears that, originally, the sacred day of each divinity came round every fifth day, and it is possible that the same sacred day was observed for them all.

 ^ For the fulfillment of the Masonic faith involves reveling the Divine Science that make all these things possible.

 ^ Idowu’s view might be based on the fact that priests and priestesses of Yorb religion say that they worship their divinities lrrn, i.e., "every fifth day".

 .In virtue of that attitude rationalism is confronted with the impossible task of explaining how a universal religion like Christianity, with an extensive yet logical system of dogma, could have been evolved by a process of promiscuous borrowings from existing cults and yet preserve everywhere its unity and coherence.^ "The infiltration and control of the Christian religion has been one of the easiest tasks of the Illuminati."
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 ^ Yet and still Louis Farrakan and his followers will tell us the lie that Christianity is the white man's religion.
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 ^ Parents pre-exist their children, yet Mary a mortal woman could not pre-exist God; in fact the paradox remains clear to this day that Jesus the son of Mary pre-existed Mary.
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 .If the selection were made by Christ and His adherents, rationalists must tell us how these "ignorant and unlettered men" (Acts, iv, 13; cf.^ But Revelation 6:11 tells us that the works of others shall be killed as the works of these Pan African elders were also killed.

 ^ S ura h 20:8389 tells us that a Samaritan ( Samiri ) made the golden calf for Israel while Moses was receiving the law.
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 ^ We did not get any of these pictures for we werent there for that reason but I wanted to share with everyone how cute the little men are!

 .Matt., xiii, 54; Mark, vi, 2) knew the religions of the East, when it was a matter of astonishment to their contemporaries that they knew their own.^ Some religions demonstrate their power by showing what they can build but this is only a matter of financial not moral wealth.

 ^ The imperial Cholas were followers of Brahmanical religion, they were somhow tolerant in the matters of religion.
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 ^ "In their own towns and cities they are allowed to do so (practice their religion) with the fullest freedom.

 .Or, if the dogmas and practices under consideration were the additions of a later age, the questions arise, first, how to reconcile this statement with the fact that the essence of Christianity is discoverable in the earliest Christian witnesses and, secondly, how scattered communities composed of various nationalities and living under different conditions could have united in selecting and maintaining the same dogmas and rules of conduct.^ Navigating the differences between cultures (even within same-minded Christian cultures in… Mormanity - A Mormon Blog (But Not Just for Mormons) .
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 ^ Eight hundred leaders from fifty-two 'bodies of Christians' in eight nations decided to form a confederation under the name 'The Evangelical Alliance.'
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 ^ CHURCH AGE The Founding Fathers of the United States were occultic pantheists, and not Christians as some pseudo-Christian textbooks claim.
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 .We may ask, furthermore, why Christianity which, on this hypothesis, only selected pre-existing doctrines, excited everywhere such bitter hostility and persecution.^ You may ask, ‘How, then, can one explain misery and sin and unhappiness?’ The answer is that these apply only to the jiva (the individual soul).
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 ^ There, the three religions, despite being so doctrinally and intellectually at odds, get along peacefully, even happily, a friendship that is celebrated in such artwork everywhere.
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 ^ In Egypt, a Muslim country, Christians have been persecuted heavily for their faith and only recently are things beginning to change.

 "About this sect", said the Roman Jews to St. Paul in prison, "we are informed that it meets with opposition everywhere" (Acts, xxviii, 22)k. Immense erudition has been wasted in the attempt to show that Buddhism (q. v.) in particular is the prototype of .Christianity, but, apart from the difficulty of distinguishing the original creed of Gautama from later and possibly post-Christian accretions, it may be briefly objected that Buddhism is at best only an ethical system, not a religion, for it recognizes no God and no responsibility, that in so far as it emphasizes the comparative worthlessness of earthly things and the insufficiency of earthly delights it is in accord with the Christian spirit, but that in aim it is essentially diverse.^ The religion of Christ or true Christianity had no dogma, no creed, no system, and no theology.
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 ^ There are no recognized experts when it comes to God, the hereafter, what may exist apart from matter.
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 ^ Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...
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 .The supreme aim of Christianity is eternal happiness in a state involving the employment of all the soul's activities, that of Buddhism the ultimate loss of conscious existence.^ Christians should be involved with all of God's creation, not just people.
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 ^ Is not God beyond all that it has created and involve not its existence in the carnal wishes and desires of that which it has created?

 ^ Bodily resurrection of all people, non-Christians to damnation and Christians are resurrected to eternal life (1 Cor.
.Let us grant, once and for all, that God's intercourse with His creatures is not confined to the old and New Covenants, and that Christianity includes many doctrines accessible to the unaided human reason, and advocates many practices which are the natural outcome of ordinary human activities.^ Let us reason.
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 ^ Let us Reason.
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 ^ In the Christian view of God as set forth in the Bible, there are many elements.
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 .We thus expect to find that, human nature being the same everywhere, the various expressions of the religious sense will take similar shapes amongst all peoples.^ All futures are made by human beings.

 ^ Thus this 10% is used to meet our physical and natural needs as physical and natural human beings, such as the needs listed is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

 ^ In the Yorb cosmos, instantiations of evil are the handiwork of natural beings (such as humans) and supernatural beings (such as the anti-gods, Ajogun , who attacked rnml in the If poem above).

 .Accordingly, false religions may very well inculcate ascetic practices and possess the idea of sacrifice and sacrificial banquets, of a priesthood, of sin and confession, of sacramental rites like baptism of the accessories of worship such as images, hymns, lights, incense, etc.^ Goddess worship flourished in false religions.
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 ^ Other cardinals have rejected the idea that condoms could be used, contending they may help spread AIDS through a false sense of security.
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 ^ This proved me and may be to you as well, that meditation is very active process using the energy of the earth and those from the universe.
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 .Not everything in false religion is false, nor is everything in the true religion (or Christianity) supernatural.^ If one of these two religions is true, the other is false by simple deduction.

 ^ Because Muslims teach that Allah alone is the one true God, they claim that Christians worship a false god, a pagan idol.

 ^ Christians believe that their religion is the true religion of God and Islam is not.

 "We must not look", says M. M�ller, "in the original belief of mankind for [distinctively] Christian ideas but for the fundamental religious ideas on which Christianity is built, without which as its natural and historical support, Christianity could not have become what it is" (Wissenschaft der Sprache, II, 395).
.These remarks apply not only to the religious systems which are alleged to have influenced the conception of Christianity, but to those which it met as soon as it issued from Judaism, its cradle.^ Those who practice Gnostic mysticism hide within the organized Church system and claim to follow primitive Christianity.
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 ^ Though some of the members of those groups do indeed practice the religion of Judaism, many are atheists, and some are Christians, Buddhist, etc.

 ^ These remarks stem from the fallacious theory that Muslims and Christians are breeding faster than Hindus.
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 Here, we are face to face with history, and not with mere hypothesis and assumption. .For Christianity, on its first essaying to realize its destiny as the universal religion, did actually come in contact with two mighty religious systems, the religion of Rome, and the widespread body of thought, more of a philosophy than a creed, prevalent in the Greek-speaking world.^ "The universal world religion will inevitably emerge.
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 ^ The universal religion will return the world to worship of the Sun god.
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 ^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
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 .The effect of the national religion of pagan Rome on early Christianity concerned rites and ceremonies rather than points of doctrine, and was due to the general causes just mentioned.^ Was it a carryover from the Pagan fertility rituals among the early Pagan Christians?

 ^ O ne thing that sticks out in Islam is that most of the rites and practices adopted into the religion are actually pagan customs that Muhammad claimed were sanctioned by God.

 ^ While it still wields influence over this nation, Catholic dogma on contraception and divorce is causing a less conservative younger generation to shun the Church.
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 .With Greek philosophy, on the other hand, representing the highest efforts of the human intellect to explain life and experience, and to reach the Absolute, Christianity, which professes to solve all these problems, had, naturally and necessarily, many points of contact.^ "Like the goddess Isis , who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity -- different races, religions and cultures."
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 ^ The powerful techniques of Energy Enhancement REMOVE the traumatic nature of all this Energy Release by using the new ALCHEMICAL concept of "Transmutation" - there remains non of the problems associated with all other courses.
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 ^ For the West, on the other hand, the problem today is primarily internal, both in terms of ideological confusion (which in many instances leads to active collaboration), coupled with demographic infiltration.

 .It is on this connection that modern rationalists have brought all their learning and research to bear in the effort to show that the whole later intellectual system of Christianity is something more or less alien to its original conception.^ Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...
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 ^ (Later in the day, I listened to the whole show online, because I wanted to hear the whole hour.
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 ^ Carter will be turning one Friday the 17th and all Christian is say he wants more cake!

 It was the transference of Christianity from a Semitic to a Greek soil that explains, according to Dr. Hatch (Hibbert Lectures, 1888), "why an ethical sermon stood in the forefront of the teaching of Jesus, and a metaphysical creed in the forefront of the Christianity of the fourth century". Professor Harnack states the problem and solves it in similar fashion. He ascribes the change, as he conceives it, from a simple code of conduct to the Nicene Creed, to the three following causes: (1) The universal law in all development of religion, that when the first generation of converts who have been in contact, more or less immediate, with the founder, and endowed with his spirit, have passed away, their successors, having no personal grasp of their creed, must depend on formul� and dogmas; (2) the union of the Gospel with the Greek spirit (a) due to the conquests of Alexander and the consequent mingling of Jew and Gentile, (b) further strengthened about A.D. 130, when Greek converts brought into Christianity the philosophy in which they were educated, (c) again, about a century later, when Greek mysteries and Greek civilization in its widest range were admitted, and finally, (d) about the middle of the fourth century, when the Greek spirit finally prevailed and polytheism and mythology (i.e. the worship of the saints) were admitted; (3) the internal struggles with Gnosticism, which aimed at a synthesis of all existing creeds. ."The struggle with Gnosticism compelled the Church to put its teaching, its worship, and its discipline into fixed forms and ordinances, and to exclude everyone who would not yield them obedience" (Das Wesen des Christenthums, Lect.^ Those who practice Gnostic mysticism hide within the organized Church system and claim to follow primitive Christianity.
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 ^ It is used to describe the inner struggle against sin as well as the outer struggle against those who would oppose Islam.

 ^ Those who have been misled into believing that Christians and Muslims worship the same God need to review their position .
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 Xi, p. 210).
.It is the second of these reasons for the birth and growth of dogma that concerns us immediately; but we may remark in regard to the first that it ignores the direct working of God on the soul of the individual, the perpetual renewal of fervour through prayer and the use of the sacraments, that have always marked the course of Christianity.^ Other cardinals have rejected the idea that condoms could be used, contending they may help spread AIDS through a false sense of security.
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 ^ These countries are experiencing growth through migration, as in the US. The decrease in population growth rate is mostly due to individual choice in this country.
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 ^ I want to be able to make a donation by March 23rd that will mark one year since our sweet Christian left us.

 .Herein, the spirit of its first days is seen still to be energetic, notwithstanding the comparative elaborateness of creed and ritual of modern Christianity.^ So hopefully that first day or so we can relax and spend time with Carter and Christian and just be a family for bit.

 ^ The Spirit of Strength was the dominant creative force in the Seventh Day of Creation.

 ^ As a Crown of Life for the other churches, it is associated with the Spirit of Knowledge, which was the dominant creative force in the very first day of Creation.

 .The saints are admitted to be the most perfect exponents of practical Christianity; they are not exceptions or accidents or by-products of the system; yet they did not find dogma any hindrance to their perfect service of God and man.^ Yet, who did this false Islamic god, Allah adopt?
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 ^ Jesus said; "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father."
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 ^ The purification and perfection of the Seven Spirits of God within is done within the Temple of God in man, and generates pure and perfect thought energy.

 .As regards the third cause above mentioned, we may grant that it has always been the providential function of heresy to bring about a clearer definition of the Christian creed, and that Gnosticism in its many varieties undoubtedly had this effect.^ Why is it that Muslims are allowed to establish mosques and Islamic centers in the western world, when the same privilege is not granted to Christians in many Muslim countries?
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 ^ He said "the use of contraceptives is always morally evil, and many of them have harmful side effects as well."
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 ^ The 'Followers of Horus'...may be identified with a single and originally heliopolitan 'brotherhood' of temple-makers whose function was to prepare and initiate the generations of the Horus kings in order to bring about the 'resurrection' of what was remembered as 'the former world of the gods'."
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 .But long before Gnosticism had sufficiently developed to necessitate the safeguarding of doctrine by conciliar definition, we find traces of an organized Church with a very definite creed.^ Those who practice Gnostic mysticism hide within the organized Church system and claim to follow primitive Christianity.
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 ^ Gnostic master Basilides feasted on the day of the Baptism and kept a long vigil before it.
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 ^ As a Crown of Life for the other churches, it is associated with the Spirit of Knowledge, which was the dominant creative force in the very first day of Creation.

 Not to mention the traditional "for of doctrine" spoken of by St. Paul (Rom., vi, 17) and the act of faith required by Philip from the eunuch (Acts, viii, 37), many critics, including the Protestants Zahn and Kattenbusch (Das Apostolische Symbol., Leipzig, 1894-1900), agree that the present Apostles' Creed represents a formula which took shape in the Apostolic Age and was uninfluenced by Gnosticism, which Protean heresy first became formidable about A.D. 130. And as regards organization, we know that the episcopate was a fully recognized institution in the time of Ignatius (c. .110), whilst the Canon of New Testament Scripture, the final establishment of which was undoubtedly helped by Gnosticism, was in process of recognition even in Apostolic times.^ Pranayama is good but Meditation is 10 times faster than even that at releasing Energy Blockages which stop the Enlightenment process.
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 ^ He composed his own scriptures (the Quran) based on the Torah, the canonical Gospels, gnostic gospels (also called pseudepigrapha ), and Arabian pagan customs.

 ^ Mussolini even attacked Ethiopia because Haile Sellasie was becoming successful in re-establishing the connection between African history and the Hebrew scriptures.

 St. Peter (assuming the Second epistle to be his) classifies St. Paul's Epistles with the "other Scriptures" (II Pet., iii, 16), and St. Polycarp, early in the second century, quotes as Scripture nine of those thirteen Pauline documents.
.Concerning the "union of the Gospel with the Greek spirit" which, according to Hatch and Harnack, resulted in such profound modification so the former, we may admit many of the statements made, without drawing from them the rationalistic inferences.^ This is something which Muhammad made lawful according to all the scholars and chroniclers without exception.
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 .We readily grant that Greek thought and Greek culture had thoroughly permeated the society into which Christianity was born.^ They can become the institutionalized schools of thought of a group, organization, culture, a race or a group within a race, a society, a nation, a government, etc.

 ^ According to the Greek writers, the society was divided into the five classes in accordance with the occupations.
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 ^ Their responsibility in front of God may not be as great as many Christians who are born in a free society and apostatize from Christ.

 .Alexander's conquests had brought about a diffusion of Greek ideals throughout the East.^ The Greek writers supply very valuable information about the Indian philosophers whom Alexander met.
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 ^ Old Testament Period : Plato inspired Greek philosophy based on the mystery religion of Atlantis; Alexander the Great brought Platonism to the Middle East; Neo-Platonism developed in the Gnostic academia of Alexandria, Egypt.
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 ^ The conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great extended the influence of Greek philosophy.
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 .The Jews were dispersed westwards, both from Palestine and from the towns of the Captivity, and established in colonies in the chief cities of the empire, especially in Alexandria.^ [As we have learned, it was in the great city of Alexandria, Egypt that many Jews and early Christians came under the influence of Greek philosophy]..."
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 ^ As patronized by monarchs and their provincial Governors, Jainism became popular among people even in cities, towns and villages of the Vijayanagara empire.
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 .The extent of this dispersion may be gathered from Acts, ii, 9-11), Greek became the language of commerce and social intercourse, and Palestine itself, more particularly Galilee, was to a great extent hellenized.^ You may think you're got your balanced act together, but an awkward stumble after someone disrupts your root speaks for itself.
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 .The Jewish Scriptures were best known in a Greek version, and the last additions to the Old Testament — the Book of Wisdom and the Second Book of Machabees — were entirely composed in that tongue.^ Nothing of the sort occurred in Christendom after Dan Brown published his best selling book of lies known as the "Da Vinci Code".
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 ^ Thousands of the Hebrew Old Testament manuscript copies are still available for textual criticism, ranging in age from the second century B.C. (Before Christ) to the eleventh century A.D. (After Christ).
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 ^ Old Testament Period : The Greeks glorified the pre-Flood mythological gods.
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 .In addition to this peaceful permeation of the Hebraic by the Greek genius, formal efforts were made from time to time, both in the political and the philosophical sphere to hellenize the Jews altogether.^ Thus, when both John the Baptist and Jesus was dead, the Romans and the Jews made merry and sent gifts to one another.
It is with the latter attempt that we are concerned; for the writings of Philo, its chief and earliest advocate, coincided with the birth of Christianity. .Philo was a Jew of Alexandria, well versed in Greek philosophy and literature, and at the same time a devout believer in the Old Testament revelation.^ Old Testament Period : The Greeks glorified the pre-Flood mythological gods.
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 ^ T he Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament which underlies modern versions, renders the word for "knowledge" in Gen.
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 ^ Old Testament Period : Plato inspired Greek philosophy based on the mystery religion of Atlantis; Alexander the Great brought Platonism to the Middle East; Neo-Platonism developed in the Gnostic academia of Alexandria, Egypt.
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 .The general purpose of his principal writings was to show that the admirable wisdom of the Greeks was contained in substance in the Jewish Scriptures, and his method was to read allegory into the simple narratives of the Pentateuch.^ I just finished reading a collection of his writings that were edited into a book, “ The Tao of Gung Fu .” .
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 ^ From: SCJ FAQ Maintainer < maintainer@scjfaq.org > Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish , soc.culture.jewish.moderated Subject: Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt.
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 ^ Whereas the Jewish Pentateuch (1st 5 books of Jewish Bible) is a continuous narrative from the beginning of the world until the Hebrews enter the Promised Land.
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 .To the pure and certain monotheism of Judaism he wedded various ideas taken from Plato and the Stoics, trying thus to solve the problem, with which all philosophy is ultimately confronted, how to bridge the gulf between mind and matter, the infinite and the finite, the absolute and the conditioned.^ Thus Tai Chi finds a resonance between heaven and earth, spirit and body, mind and matter, subtle and gross energy.
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 ^ Because of the power of the Pure and Perfect Mind of God over matter, two images of the Madonna and Child appeared on earth.

 ^ Therefore, finite was given a human face that would be the Father of all the He-hu-ba-ru linked to the infinite Ra by the Hehu.

 .Philo's writings were, no doubt, widely known amongst the Jews, both at home and abroad, at the time when the Apostles began to preach, but it is extremely unlikely that the latter, who were not educated men, were acquainted with them.^ During this time Muhammad became acquainted with both Jews and Christians.
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 ^ Many of the guys who live at home pay lip service to independence, but admit that they enjoy the best of both worlds.
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 ^ Though no entire race of men have ever known the Messianic Plan in its entirety, it was indeed known by Heru and certain of his Hamitic Ethiopian descendants-among whom was his son Abel, as he is known in the Bible, or Horus, as he later became known by the Egyptians of the latter dynasties.

 Not until the conversion of St. Paul and the beginning of his apostolate can Christianity be said to have come, in the mind of one of its chief exponents, into immediate contact with Greek religious and philosophical theories. St. Paul was learned, not only in Hebrew, but also in Hellenistic lore, and a singularly apt instrument in the design of Providence, on account of his Jewish origin and education, his Greek learning, and his Roman citizenship, to aid Christianity to throw off the swaddling-bands of its infancy and go forth to the conquest of the nations. But whilst recognizing this providential dispensation in the election of St. Paul, we cannot, in face of his own express and emphatic testimony, go on to assert that he universalized Christianity, as Philo attempted to universalize Judaism, by adding to its ethical content the merely natural religion of the Greek thinkers of his own more sublime and pure conceptions. In one of his earliest letters, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul rebukes their factious spirit, whereby some of them had styled themselves partisans of Apollos, a learned Alexandrian, and repudiates again and again that very attempt to make Christianity plausible by tricking it out in the garb of current speculations. ."But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness" (I Cor., i, 23; see chaps.^ The sacrificial death of Jesus Christ as an atonement for our sins was a stumbling block to Muhammad.
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 I and ii, passim, and Col., ii, 8). St. Paul, at any rate, was not indebted for his Christology to Philo or his school, and any similarity of terminology which may occur in the works of the two authors may quite reasonably be ascribed to the metaphors already embodied in the language they both used.
More insistence has been laid, perhaps, on the resemblance between the Christology set forth by St. John in the opening chapters of his Gospel and in the Apocalypse, and the Logos theories which Philo elaborated, and which he is said to have taken from Greek sources. .If he did so, we may remark, he neglected others older and nearer to hand, for the conception of a Divine Word of God, by which the Deity enters into relation with the created universe, is by no means exclusively or originally Greek.^ The first naming of the divine, netcher, god, or netcheru divinity from which some say the English word nature is ultimately derived.

 ^ The word that signifies God is AUM. When properly pronounced, Aum represents the whole gamut of sound production as no other word can.
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 ^ To accomplish great achievements, during this time in history, men and women were gathered together by spiritual concept, or a declaration of the Word of God.

 .The idea, expressed in the opening verses of Genesis, is frequently repeated in the rest of the Old Testament (see Pss., xxxii, 6; cxlvii, 15; Prov., viii, 22; Wisdom, vii, 24-30, etc.^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ OLD TESTAMENT PERIOD Greek mythology is derived from the lost civilization of Atlantis, i.e., the demons who copulated with humans in Genesis 6:4.
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 ^ GENESIS 4:11-15 "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath open its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand."

 ). .Philo, therefore, was not compelled to seek in the Platonic Nous, which is merely the directive cause of creation, or the Stoic Logos, as the rational soul of the universe, the foundation of his doctrine.^ How man connects with the Universe Soul Chakra, Monad Chakra, Logos Chakra and the Kundalini Chakra.
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 ^ Thus all humankind was held in darkness concerning the only direct link between their souls and the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator himself.

 ^ Platonism: “…[T]he doctrine of Analogy [is]…an implicit correspondence between the appearance and reality, the microcosm of man and the macrocosm of the universe, the seen and the unseen worlds.
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 .His Logos theory is not at all clear or consistent, but, apparently, he conceives the Word to be a quasi-personal, subordinate, intermediate being between God and the world, enabling the Creator to come into contact with matter.^ There are no recognized experts when it comes to God, the hereafter, what may exist apart from matter.
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 ^ God said unto Osiris, it is the unwritten universal Law which govern that which God has created and those laws rule all that God has created, as God become the very essence of all it has created.

 ^ Christians should be involved with all of God's creation, not just people.
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 .He calls this Logos "the eldest" and the "first-born" son of God, and uses phrases that suggest the Fourth Gospel; but there is no resemblance in substance between the bold, clear, categoric statements of the inspired Apostle, and the misty, if poetical, conceptions of the Alexandrian philosopher.^ The first idea of a son of god or a daughter of God.

 ^ There is no other God in existence.

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 We may conjecture that St. John chose his language so as to impress the cultivated Greek mind with the true doctrine of the Divine Logos, thus connecting his teaching with the older revelation, and, at the same time, putting a check upon the Gnostic errors to which Philoism was already giving birth.
.Abandoning the Apostolic Age, Harnack, in his "History of Dogma", ascribes the hellenization of Christianity to the apologists of the second century (1st German edit., p.^ Thousands of the Hebrew Old Testament manuscript copies are still available for textual criticism, ranging in age from the second century B.C. (Before Christ) to the eleventh century A.D. (After Christ).
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 ^ The esoteric tradition of Solomon spanned the centuries to the era of Gnostic Christianity which preceded the Merovingian Age.
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 ^ When the second-century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity.

 253). .This contention can best be refuted by showing that the essential doctrines of Christianity ae contained already in the New Testament Scriptures, while giving, at the same time, their due force to the traditions of corporate Christianity.^ The Holy Scriptures and Sacred Tradition of the Christian Church has never even remotely taught that Jesus predicted the coming of a prophet after Him.

 ^ Tribulation : Pantheism will replace the Judeo-Christian tradition through a new system of education which teaches Hermetic arts and sciences.
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 ^ If the husband wants to have sex with his wife he can, even by force - which in the west, and in Christian and Jewish tradition, is considered cruelty and rape.
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 .If the Nicene Creed cannot be proved article by article from the sacred records, interpreted by the tradition that preceded them and determined their canon, then the rationalist assertion will have some support.^ Authentic Pentecostalism has gone out of style for some folks in America but one preacher is determined to preserve its traditions and leave behind a wake of young Pentecostals.
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 .But the point of comparison with the Creed must be not only the Sermon on the Mount, as Hatch desires, nor the merely verbal teaching of Christ, but the whole New Testament record.^ The Greek word used in the New Testament to identify the Body of Christ is ekklesia —'the called out' or assembly.
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 ^ If we examine the whole Koran, we find that the only messenger who came from God with the kind of offering described in the above quoted Surah is Christ as can be seen in Surah 5:115-117.
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 ^ Only those who have been united in Jesus Christ will inhabit the New Jerusalem.
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 .Christ taught by His life no less than by His words, and it was His actions and sufferings as well as His oral lessons that His Apostles preached.^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ Because the biblical account of his life is based on traditions preserved by oral transmission rather than by historical records, no biography in the present sense can be written."

 .For the fuller exposition of this, see REVELATION. Here it suffices to note that Christian theology became, in the hands of the apologists the synthesis of all speculative truth.^ End Time Beheadings and Revelation 20:4: Some Christians and ex-Muslims see a direct correlation between Islam and the Book of Revelation about the "end times".
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 ^ All evil in Anglo-Christian theology ultimately derives from one source, Satan.

 ^ See Christian Bible references to who Jesus really is: here Who is he talking about?
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 It met and conquered the various imperfect systems that possessed men's minds at its birth and arose after that event. .The early heresies — Sabellianism, Arianism, and the rest — were but attempts to make Christianity one of a number of philosophies; the attempts failed, but the scattered truths that those philosophies contained were shown, as time went on, to exist and find their fulfilment in Christianity as well.^ "Early Christians in Alexandria, Egypt sought to fuse the teachings of Plato into Christianity in a philosophy known as 'Neo-Platonism.'
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 ^ It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed.

 ^ It even tells us of our obligations to the rest of Life, and in Revelations we find this: Now is time.......for destroying those who are destroying the earth.
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 ."The Church", says Newman, "has been ever 'sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing and asking them questions'; claiming to herself what they said rightly, correcting their errors, supplying their defects, completing their beginnings, expanding their surmises, and thus gradually by means of them enlarging the range and refining the sense of her teaching" (Development of Doctrine, viii).^ Archbishop Lagdameo said no matter how many surveys claim the increasing support for family planning methods, the Church will never waver in its support for natural methods to plan families.
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 ^ This is what the warning means that Jesus left us with, when he said; "insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
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 ^ Jesus said; "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father."
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 .In the same section Newman thus summarizes the battle and the triumph: "such was the conflict of Christianity with the old established Paganism, which was almost dead before Christianity appeared; with the Oriental Mysteries, flitting widely to and fro like spectres; with the Gnostics, who made Knowledge all in all, despised the many, and called Catholics mere children in the Truth: with the Neo-Platonists, men of literature, pedants, visionaries, or courtiers; with the Manichees, who professed to seek truth by Reason, not by Faith; with the fluctuating teachers of the school of Antioch, the time-serving Eusebians, and the reckless versatile Arians; with the fanatic Montanists and harsh Novatians, who shrank from the Catholic doctrine, without power to propagate their own.^ I should look assuredly to the East, in the direction of that pure catholic gnosticism which lies like a pearl of great price within the...shell of external Christianity, which is not of Marcion or Valentinus, or Cerenthus and all their cohorts, but is the unexpressed mystery of experience in deep wells which issue no strife or sects."
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 ^ There are also secular historians who are outsiders to the Christian tradition, such as the Jews Josephus and Philo, and the pagans Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetoneus, who have recorded corroborating facts about Jesus and his followers.

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 .These sects had no stay or consistence, yet they contained elements of truth amid their error, and had Christianity been as they, it might have resolved into them; but it had that hold of the truth which gave its teaching a gravity, a directness, a consistency, a sternness, and a force to which its rivals, for the most part, were strangers" (ibid., viii).^ I am not allowed to touch the kids today because of the cardiolite they gave me today so its pretty hard on me when christian says he wants to hug me or wants me to hold him.

 ^ Most of these communities no longer exist.
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 ^ Islam, teaches that Jews and Christians both have earned the wrath of Allah by failing to follow Islam, and that they have also lost the way by following the teachings of the Torah for the Jews, or the Bible for Christians.
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II. THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY

.We have so far seen, in its origin and growth, the essential independence of Christianity of all other religious systems, except that of Judaism, with which, however, its relation was merely that of substance to shadow.^ For juniors at St. Frances Academy, virtually all of them Baptist, Catholic or some other stripe of Christian, the weekly celebration of the Jewish Sabbath is a highlight of religious studies class.
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 ^ We have all had appointments this week, Christian eye appts to keep an eye on the cornea and Darren and I a follow up however they said that I know have diabeties on top of everything else.

 ^ On the other hand, Christianity would try to eradicate these practices, and because of this, the people were more receptive to Islam, except in some parts of Indonesia.
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 .It is now time to point out its distinctive doctrines.^ This inscription is important in so far as it points out to the fact that Kpa, the portion of Sirohi state at that time, was under the possession of the Rthoa ruler of Jodhpur.
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 ^ So popular was Jainism for some time there that even oilmen and people of similar castes observed the doctrine of ahis out of respect for the Jaina population.
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 ^ Yahweh was the popular reference point at the time but Islam had some doubts so they invested their version of Yahweh with some peculiar traits distinct from those of the Christian God.

 .In early Christianity there was much that was transitory and exceptional.^ There is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man, or at least a dark man, as there is of his being the son of the Virgin Mary, or that he once lived And moved upon the earth.

 ^ There are also 80,000 quotations in the works of early Christian writers which are so extensive that the New Testament could virtually be reconstructed from them without the actual New Testament documents .
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 ^ Much of the Qur'an was copied from early Christian texts.
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 .It was not presented full-grown to the world, but left to develop in accordance with the forces and tendencies that were implanted in it form the first by its Founder.^ The experience of Roman Catholic missionaries in the developing world has been the driving force behind the current rethink.
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 ^ He was the world's first "Adept" or "Master" and he created the science of alchemy for the spiritual development of humankind.

 .And we, having His assurance that His Spirit would abide with it for all time, to inspire and regulate its human elements, can see in its subsequent history the working out of His design.^ The past few days have been rough for me, when I see how much fun Carter is having here at nan and pappaws I think Christian would be having such a great time here as well, riding the truck,swimming and just being with them.

 ^ And if they are working and he is doing better then we can start putting smaller trachs in and begin the process of taking it out all together!

 ^ I’m getting some traction, getting some interest and seeing this happen makes all the late nights and hard work really pay off.
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 .Hence, it does not trouble us to find in primitive Christianity qualities which did not survive after they had served their purpose.^ Christians did not take a man and make him God; they worship God who came to earth in the form of a man.
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 ^ Merchant called us and said he would not do radiation on Christian for he feels that he would not be able to handle it, coming from a doctor that does take risk with that it did make us feel defeated in away.

 ^ The main intent of this article is to warn Christians who may be " fooled " into Islam, because they did not have all the facts.
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 .Natural causes and the course of events, always under the Divine guidance, resulted in Christianity taking on the form which would best secure its permanence and efficiency.^ Eight hundred leaders from fifty-two 'bodies of Christians' in eight nations decided to form a confederation under the name 'The Evangelical Alliance.'
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 ^ On these truths the Eastern Christian has placed little emphasis, stressing the living Christ and the divine nature of man...
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 ^ Just as in the If poem quoted above, it is only through divination that a medical practitioner can determine whether the cause of an illness is natural or supernatural.

 .In Apostolic times, supreme authority as to faith and morals was vested in twelve representatives of Christ, each of whom was commissioned to proclaim and infallibly interpret His Gospel.^ The twelve divisions of the Tuat, which represent the divine science in the Gospel of Heru, just might give us a better idea of what actually caused the resurrection.

 The hierarchy was in an inchoate condition. .Special charismata, like the gifts of prophecy and tongues, were bestowed on individuals outside the official teaching body.^ By connection with Chakras outside the body like the Soul we connect with Infinite Pure Spiritual Energies which create Health, Wealth, Abundance, Super Intelligence and Genius.
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 ^ Among his followers Muhammad inculcated a strong bond of brotherhood, while those outside the faith, like the Jews, were subject to official discrimination, including special taxes.

 .The Church was in process of organization, and the various Christian communities, unit ed, doubtless, in a strong bond of charity, and in the sense that they had one Lord, one faith, and one baptism, were to a large extent independent of one another in the matter of government.^ They are also rarely suicidal in the pathological sense…They don’t have to be Islamic extremists either, or even radicalized by faith.
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 ^ Other key findings of the report, entitled “ Faith and Organization Project: Maintaining Vital Between Faith Communities and their Organizations :” .
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 ^ Those who practice Gnostic mysticism hide within the organized Church system and claim to follow primitive Christianity.
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.Such was the fashion in which Christ allowed His Church to be established.^ The Catholic Church allows for the veneration (respect) of images as long as the honor is directed towards Christ and His saints.
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 It has greatly changed in outward appearances during the ages. Has there been any corresponding change in substance? .Are the essentials of Christianity the same now as they were then?^ Muslim activists in the West have been using the tactic of claiming that they worship the same god as the Christians in order to gain legitimacy and acceptance.
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 .We affirm that they are, and we prove our assertion by examining the main points of the teaching, both of Christ and His Apostles.^ Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that our bodies (both men and women) are temples of the Holy Spirit (cf.

 ^ Our Whole Lives, a product of Unitarian-Universalists and the United Church of Christ, has proved popular at both churches, each has trained more than 1,000 teachers.
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 We must look upon the matter as a whole. .We cannot judge of Christianity properly before the coming of the Holy Spirit.^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 ^ The Holy Spirit is really the Mother, and thus the Christian Trinity properly translated should be Father, Son and Mother.
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 ^ J esus foretold the coming of the "Comforter", which is the Holy Spirit.
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 The Gospels describe a process which was not consummated till after Pentecost. .The Apostles themselves were not fully Christians till they knew through faith all that Christ was — their God and their Redeemer as well as their Master.^ Till we all come in the unity of the faith...
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 ^ PROGRAM OF GOD Church Age : Jesus prayed for the unity of all true Christians.
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 ^ Christians should be involved with all of God's creation, not just people.
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 .And as Christianity furnishes a regulative principle for both mind and will, teaching us what to believe and what to do, faith no less than works must characterize the perfect Christian.^ On the contrary, many Christians today no longer believe in the death penalty because Christ refused to condemn or to stone the woman caught in adultery (cf.

 ^ More than 70% of people of faith believed global warming was occurring.
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 ^ Islam, teaches that Jews and Christians both have earned the wrath of Allah by failing to follow Islam, and that they have also lost the way by following the teachings of the Torah for the Jews, or the Bible for Christians.
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(1) The Teaching of Christ
.Taking, then, first of all, Christ's own dogmatic and moral teaching, we may divide it into (a) what He did not reveal but only reaffirmed, (b) what He drew from obscurity, and (c) what He added to the sum total of belief and practice.^ It takes into account only the will of the husband.
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 ^ With the banning of African mysteries in 4 AD and finally in 6 AD, Africans fought back by withdrawing totally into necromancy and witchcraft.

 ^ Because first of all the author's becoming an author is a testimony of his or her tasting the experience and 'only those who taste, knows'.
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.(a) The Jews, at the time of Christ, however worldly-minded, were at any rate free from their ancestral tendency to idolatry.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ Anyone with an open mind, who has studied history from the time of Christ, must realize that Islam is filled with contradictory teachings.

 ^ It was he, after all, who said, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal.
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 .They were strict monotheists, believing in the unity, power, and holiness of the Supreme Deity.^ We Africans have always believed in a supreme deity whether the name was Nyame, Oludumare, Abasi, Nkulunkulu, Woyengi, Chukwu, Mawu and Lisa.

 ^ Radical Muslims believe that they are Mujahideen, or "holy warriors of Allah".
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 .Christ reaffirmed, purified, and confirmed the Jewish theology, both moral and dogmatic.^ In Yorb theology, this issue does not arise because evil supernatural forces are associated with both natural and moral evil.

 He asserted the spiritual nature of the Godhead (John, i, 18; iv, 24), and insisted on the importance of worshipping Him in spirit, i.e. with more than merely external rites. And he exacted the same right dispositions of heart in the whole of God's service, showing how both guilt and merit depend on the will and intention (Matt., v, 28; xv, 18). He recalled the original unity and indissolubility of the marriage-tie. .He brought into prominence the immortality, and hence the transcendent importance, of the human soul (Matt., xvi, 26), as against the heresy of the Sadducees and the worldliness of the Jews in general.^ It was taught that as the lower worlds were brought into being through the generative process, the Dove was to be associated with these goddesses who were identified with the procreative functions.
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 ^ But along with the bodies being brought over for sale into a life of misery, something else was being brought along, namely their souls and their religion.

 .In all these points He fulfilled the Law by showing its real and full significance.^ The point of singularity and the event horizon all rest in the peace of having fulfilled the Works of God and left only peace, and an equal distribution of power.

 ^ If this were true, then it is mandatory that these two great prophets must coincide exactly in all points and never contradict each other.
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 ^ For the fulfillment of the Masonic faith involves reveling the Divine Science that make all these things possible.
(b) But He did not stop here. .Taking the great central precept of the Old Dispensation — the love of God — He pointed out all its implications and made clear that the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God, so imperfectly grasped under the law of fear, was the immediate source of the doctrine of the brotherhood of men, which the Jews had never realized at all.^ The real God loves the Jews.
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 ^ For once fulfilled, the Law of Love becomes our very nature, which sets us free to truly love God with all our heart, soul, and might, and to love of neighbor as ourselves.

 ^ The biblical God does love the sinner; in fact, He loves all sinners (John 3:16; Romans 5:1-10).

 .He never tired of dwelling on the loving kindness and the tender providence of His Father, and He insisted equally on the duty of loving all men, summing up the whole of His ethical teaching in the observance of the law of love (Matt., v, 43; xxii, 40).^ You are gone our sweet boy but never FORGOTTEN! We love and miss you with all our hearts.

 ^ However, Christianity, from which the Islamic religion came, teaches that both men and women must guard all their senses, as Christians are to be pure in thought, word and deed.

 ^ He invited the Muslims for settlement by providing all kinds of facilities at these places and the Jainas were forced to migrate.
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 .This universal charity He designed to be the mark of His true followers (John, xiii, 45), and in it, therefore, we must see the genuine Christian spirit, so distinct from everything that had hitherto been seen on earth that the precept which inspired it He called "new" (John, xiii, 34).^ According to Muslim jurists, the following legal ordinances must be enforced on Zimmis (Christians and Jews alike) who reside among Muslims: .

 ^ We have all had appointments this week, Christian eye appts to keep an eye on the cornea and Darren and I a follow up however they said that I know have diabeties on top of everything else.

 ^ If so-called Christians and Muslims and Jews would stop so much HATE they could see God.

 .Christ's clear and definite teaching, moreover, about the life to come, the final judgment resulting in an eternity of happiness or misery, the strict responsibility which attaches to the smallest human actions, is in great contrast to the current Jewish eschatology.^ Contrast the above with Christianity's teaching about women: The Apostle Paul knew better then anybody in antiquity that male and female were equal in Christ Jesus.
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 ^ Moreover, when it comes to the creation of humans and the world, it is quite clear from If poems that there was a division of labor among Oldmar, two other divinities, and a third spiritual entity who is not regarded as a divinity.

 ^ There are no guarantees that come attached to this garment of life that I’m temporarily wearing.
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 .By substituting eternal sanctions for earthly rewards and punishments, He raised and ennobled the motives for the practice of virtue, and set before human ambition an object wholly worthy of the adopted sons of God, the extension of their Father's Kingdom in their own souls and in the souls of others.^ Jesus was totally human and totally God (one with the Father) .
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 ^ Therefore, to save the identities and individualities worthy of eternal life, each soul had to physically and naturally take on its very own portion of the mental darkness that surrounded the Mind of God in the beginning of Creation.

 ^ Before Noah, Abraham, and Moses I AM. Noah, Abraham, and Moses died longing to see the day of the Father and Son of the Glory of God in Man, and did not see it.
.(c) Among the doctrines added by Christ to the Jewish faith, the chief, of course, are those concerning Himself, including the central dogma of the whole Christian system, the Incarnation of God the Son.^ According to Christian dogma, Jesus is the Son of God.

 ^ Islam says Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or part of any Trinity (Surah 5:17; 5:116; 19:35).
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 ^ Jesus promises those who believe that He is the Son of God who took away our sins will live forever.
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 .In regard to Himself, Christ made two claims, though not with equal insistence.^ Muhammad himself claimed to be the last in a series of prophets that included the Jewish Old Testament prophets as well as Jesus Christ.

 .He asserted that He was the Messias of Jews, the expected of the nations, Whose mission it was to undo the effects of the Fall and to reconcile man with God; and He claimed to be Himself God, equal to, and one with, the Father.^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 ^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ He said: 'Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?'
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 .In support of this double claim, He pointed to the fulfilment of the prophecies, and He worked many miracles.^ Archbishop Lagdameo said no matter how many surveys claim the increasing support for family planning methods, the Church will never waver in its support for natural methods to plan families.
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 ^ The point of singularity and the event horizon all rest in the peace of having fulfilled the Works of God and left only peace, and an equal distribution of power.

 ^ He is sent by Heru to not only to fulfill the prophecies of the Hebrew prophets, but also the prophecies and works of all his Ethiopian ancestors, whose prophecies and works were born out of the Gospel of Heru.

 .His claim to be the Messias was not admitted by the leaders of His nation; had it been admitted, He would doubtless have manifested His Divinity more clearly.^ This farewell address of the aged ecumenical leader was thus prophetic of the Federal Council [of Churches] of the 20th century, and even more of its successor, National Council of Churches.” – 84:256 .
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 ^ The National Pro-Life Committee argued that it would encourage more women to terminate their pregnancies.
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 .Most modern rationalists (Harnack, Wellhausen, and others) acknowledge that Christ from the beginning of His preaching knew Himself as the Messias, and accepted the various titles which belong in the Scripture to that personage — Son of David, Son of Man (Dan., vii, 13), the Christ (see John, xiv, 24; Matt., xvi, 16; Mark, xiv, 61, 62).^ JOHN 16:13-15 .

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
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 ^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 .In one passage — and very significant one — He applies the name to Himself — "But this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent" (John, xvii, 3).^ Allah is only One God.

 ^ They have never been gods of death, but of life.

 ^ Only in Jesus do we have a promise for life.
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In regard to His Divinity, His claim is clear, but not emphasized. .We cannot say that the title "Son of God", which is repeatedly given to Him in the Gospels (John, i, 34; Matt., xxvii, 40; Mark, iii, 12; xv, 39, etc.^ Islam says Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or part of any Trinity (Surah 5:17; 5:116; 19:35).
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 ^ John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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 ^ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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 ), and which .He is described as taking to Himself (Matt., xxvii, 43; John, x, 36), necessarily of itself connotes a Divine personality; and in the mouths of several of the speakers, e.g.^ S howing again and again that God is not a single person, but several persons in one divine being: .
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 in the exclamation of .Nathaniel, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God", it presumably does not.^ God said to Abraham; "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
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 ^ God spoke unto Osiris and said, what the son of man does is only for the benefit of the son of man and not God.

 ^ And when We exchange a verse in place of another verse -- and God knows very well what He is sending down -- they say, 'Thou art a mere forger!'
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 But in the confession of St. Peter (Matt., xvi, 16) the circumstances point to more than a mere amplification of the Messianic title. .That title was at that time in habitual use in regard to Jesus, and there would have been nothing significant in peter's expression and in Christ's glad acceptance of it, if it had not gone further than the common belief.^ The common language of the country at that time had become assimilated to the Semitic dialect, especially through the influence of the Assyrians, and was the language that was used for all civil purposes.

 ^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ The God depicted by Muhammad is very different than the God revealed in Christ, although the name of the deity and few of His attributes might be held in common.

 Christ hailed St. Peter's confession as a special revelation, not as a mere deduction from external facts. .When we compare this with that other declaration narrated in the same Gospel (Matt., xxvi, 62-66), where, in answer to the high-priest's adjuration, 'I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God", Jesus replied, "Thou has said it" (i.e., "I am"; see Mark, xiv, 62), we cannot reasonably doubt that Christ claimed to be Divine.^ What is His name, and what is His son's name , if thou canst tell?"
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 ^ Therefore, Jesus cannot be the son of Allah.

 ^ On the Sonship of Jesus: Jesus is the unique Son of God in a spiritual sense.
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 .The Jews so understood this and put Him to death as a blasphemer.^ "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.
Another prominent feature in the theology of Christ was His doctrine about the Paraclete. When, in St. John's gospel (xiv, 16, 17), He says; "And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you forever, the spirit of truth", it is impossible to believe that what He promises is a mere abstraction, not a person like Himself. .In verse 26, the personality is still more marked: "And the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father shall send in my name, He will teach you all things". (Cf.^ "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26).
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 ^ This one thing is the father of all things.
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 ^ In John 14:26 the comforter is specifically identified as the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in the name of Jesus Christ.
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 .Xv, 26, "But when the Paraclete shall come whom I shall send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father" etc.^ Read lots of interesting stuff in nexus magazine about toxins and I am also reading David Ickes books - The Robots Rebellion and The Truth Shall set you Free.
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 ^ Here I am, someone who's pursued spiritual practices for almost forty years, and I can't tell you what "spirit" is.
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 ^ Enthroned on high with the Eternal Father and Your divine Spirit, O Jesus, You willed to be born on earth of the unwedded handmaid, your Mother.
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 ) .It may be that the full meaning of those words was not realized till the Spirit did actually come; moreover, the revelation was made, of course, only to His immediate followers; still, no unbiased mind can deny that Christ here speaks of a personal influence as a distinct Divine entity; a distinction and a Divinity which is further implied in the baptismal formula He afterwards instituted (Matt., xxviii, 19).^ The baptism which Christ gives His followers concerns the purification of the mind by fire.
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 ^ The Koran is a divine revelation with no errors.
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 ^ His real name, according to Plutarch , was Sphines; and he received the name Klnos among the Greeks because in saluting the persons, he used the word ' Kle '.
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.Christ took up the burden of the preaching of His precursor and proclaimed the advent of the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, a conception already familiar in the Old Testament [Ps.^ Thousands of the Hebrew Old Testament manuscript copies are still available for textual criticism, ranging in age from the second century B.C. (Before Christ) to the eleventh century A.D. (After Christ).
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 ^ Old Testament Period : The Greeks glorified the pre-Flood mythological gods.
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 ^ It refers to the 39 books that make up the Jewish & Christian Old Testament.
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 cxliv (A. V., cxlv), 11-13], but furnished with a wider and more varied content in the words of Christ. It may be taken to mean, according to the context, the Messianic Kingdom in its true spiritual sense, i.e. the Church of God which Christ came to found, wherein to store up and perpetuate the benefits of the Incarnation (cf. .The parables of the wheat and the tares, the dragnet, and the wedding feast), or the reign of God in the heart that submits to His sovereignty (Luke, xxvi, 21), or the abode of the blessed (Matt., v, 20 etc.^ God calls them the synagogue of Satan, as well as Tares among the Wheat.
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 ^ The wedding feast, therefore, is the new thing which God is doing in the earth at this time, in which He, the Spirit of God, is overshadowing the elect and INSEMINATING their souls with His own DIVINE NATURE..."
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 ). .It was the main topic of His preaching, which was occupied in showing what dispositions of mind and heart and will, were necessary for entrance into "the Kingdom", what, in other words, was the Christian ideal.^ In other words, jihad is necessary to be good.
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 ^ "The way into the kingdom is found by questioning and answering, by seeking and finding, and by the obedience to that inner voice which can be heard when all other voices are stilled.
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 ^ Mind and body are integrated, not split into concepts of spirit and matter -- which most religions consider to be at odds with each other.
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 .Regarded as the Church, He preached the Kingdom to the multitude in parables only, reserving fuller explanations to private intercourse with His Apostles (Acts, i, 3).^ Into this new church other peoples of the world, for they only await the resurrection of Europe to join and become citizens of the celestial kingdom.
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.The last great dogma which we learn from the life, preaching, and death of Christ is the doctrine of Redemption.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ "In Ice Age art the Great Goddess or Great Mother is responsible not only for life and death but also for regeneration.
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 ^ These five initiations will cover the last 3.5 years of the Tribulation period and correspond to events in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
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 ."For the Son of Man also came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and to give His life a redemption for many" (Mark, x, 45).^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ God spoke unto Osiris and said, what the son of man does is only for the benefit of the son of man and not God.

 ^ One came out of the temple and instructed the Son of Man to thrust his sharp sickle into the earth.

 .The sacrificial character of His death is clearly stated at the Last Supper: "This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins" (Matt., xxvi, 28).^ Krishna says: "Giving up all the formalities of religion, come unto Me, take refuge in Me, I shall make thee free from sins, sorrows and sufferings".
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 ^ I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
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 ^ Revelation (New Testament) 1:15 reveals " his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace."

 And He ordained the perpetuation of that Sacrifice by His Disciples in the words: "Do this in commemoration of me" (Luke, xxii, 19). .Christ, knowing the counsels of His Father, deliberately set Himself to realize in His own person the portrait of the suffering servant of Jahveh, so vividly painted by Isaias (ch.^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ The church would claim that Nestorius made it appear, in his emphasis on the reality of the humanity of Jesus, that Christ was two persons or 'two sons' the son of Mary and the son of God.
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 ^ Delivered in 2006, Chandler shares the weight of pastoring, his own struggles as a pastor at the time and how the knowledge of Christ—experiencing the person of Christ—is essential to surviving.
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 liii), a .Messias Who should triumph through death and defeat.^ The true God mentioned the triumph of Messiah (Jesus) over Satan through death when He gave the promise in the garden of Eden (Genesis 3:15).
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 This was a strange revelation to Israel and the world. .What wonder that so novel an idea could not enter the Apostles' minds till it had actually been realized and further explained by the Divine Victim himself (Luke, xxiv, 27, 45).^ However, in being free from the ego and pride in which Satan manifests himself, Einstein was somewhat blind to the actual power of Satan, the power of darkness, wherein quantum physics is a reality.

 ^ The hearts and minds of the conservative bishops were swayed by the testimonials from married couples who explained the realities of attempting a healthy sex life without the aid of contraception.
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 ^ "And he explained to them the books of the law, and precepts, and statutes: and the mysteries which are contained in the books of the prophets; things which the mind of no creature could reach."

 .Thus, first of all in action, Christ preached the great doctrine of the Atonement, and, by raising Himself from the dead, He added another proof to those establishing His Divine mission and His Divine personality.^ Jesus's last message to his followers about himself and his mission: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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 ^ A better translation of this phrase is: "If is the master of all the four days (of the week) established here on earth by the divinities".

 ^ Thus, when both John the Baptist and Jesus was dead, the Romans and the Jews made merry and sent gifts to one another.

 .But, naturally enough, He left the more explicit teaching on these points to His chosen witnesses, whose presentment of Christianity we shall presently examine.^ I am missing Christian more and more these days.

 ^ These activities have left us with substantially less cropland to plant, just at a time when food supplies must be increased to feed more people.
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 ^ On the other hand, Christianity would try to eradicate these practices, and because of this, the people were more receptive to Islam, except in some parts of Indonesia.
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.To turn now to what is new in the moral teachings of Christ, we may say, once for all, that it embodied ethical perfection.^ Yet all the time we hear people saying things like “ I’d die for a piece of chocolate right now .” .
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 ^ Where God wants all humanity to be is one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator himself, and one with the Creation of the Universe (which metaphysically we might say one with the point of singularity in a black-hole).

 ^ Now we come to the music of the Tao, which may or may not be metaphor (no one can say, since the Tao can't be spoken).
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 .There may be development of doctrine, but, after the Sermon on the Mount, there can be no further evolution of morals.^ There are no recognized experts when it comes to God, the hereafter, what may exist apart from matter.
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 ^ Wolfowitz, the bank's president, claimed there is no change: "Reproductive health is crucial to what I have said over and over again is a major part of the development agenda."
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 ^ "Woe unto them that join house to house, lay field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!"
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 God's own perfection is set as the standard (Matt., v, 48). .Duty was the principal motive in the Old Dispensation; in the New this was sublimated into love.^ In concord with Moses, Elijah and John the Baptist, in the Old Dispensation, he placed Peter, Paul, and John in the New, representing the three stages in the Christian Church.
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 ^ Old Testament Period : Ham reintroduced phallic rites into the new world.
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 ^ OLD TESTAMENT PERIOD Ham (Hermes) reintroduced phallic rites into the new world.
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 Men were taught to serve not on account of the penal ties attached to non-service, but on principles of generosity. Before, God's will was to be the aim of the creature's performance; now, His good pleasure also was to be sought. ."What things are pleasing to Him, these do I always" (John, viii, 29), and by action even more than by word Christ taught the lesson of voluntary self-sacrifice.^ Christ Himself is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6).

 ^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
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 ^ So please say an extra prayer during that time for him that things will go well.

 Never till His time were the Evangelical counsels — voluntary poverty, perpetual chastity, and entire obedience — preached or practised. From no previous moral code, however, exalted, could the Beatitudes have been evolved. Meekness and humility were unknown as virtues to the heathen, and despised by the Jew. .Christ made them the ground-work of the whole moral edifice.^ Remember that it was the works of Meni that made it possible to count the number of years back that the Gospel of Heru was conceived, and the number of years from the conception of the Gospel of Heru until the coming of Christ.

 .To realize what new thing Christ's ethical teaching brought into the world and put within the grasp of everyone, we have only to think of the great host of the Christian saints.^ "Early Christians in Alexandria, Egypt sought to fuse the teachings of Plato into Christianity in a philosophy known as 'Neo-Platonism.'
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 ^ Into this new church other peoples of the world, for they only await the resurrection of Europe to join and become citizens of the celestial kingdom.
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 ^ Wherefore, Christ (Maashua) has been present throughout the entire Spiritual Evolution of Man and the entire history of God on earth-even in the New World before the coming of Columbus.

 .For they are the true disciples of the Cross, those who imbibed and expressed His spirit best, who had the courage to test the truth of that Divine paradox which forms the substance of Christ's moral message; "He that shall wish to save his soul shall lose it, but he that shall lose his soul on my account shall find it" (Matt., xvi, 25; cf.^ When Jesus Christ returns, He will judge those who are involved in phallic worship.
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 ^ Many of the guys who live at home pay lip service to independence, but admit that they enjoy the best of both worlds.
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 ^ This alone should make them realize that it is Satan behind Islam who wishes to enslave Muslims to turn them away from the truth.
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 .Mark, viii, 35; Luke, ix, 24; xvii, 33; John, xii, 25).^ Mark 16:1-14; Luke 24: 1-12; John 20:1-18).

 ^ Read this Gospel of Jesus online in Arabic : John in MS Word ; John in PDF ; Matthew in PDF ; Mark in PDF ; Luke in PDF .
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 That was the course He Himself adopted — the way of the Cross — and His disciples were not above their Master. .Self-conquest as a preliminary to conquering the world of God — that was the lesson taught by Christ's life, and still more by His passion and death.^ John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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 ^ Medical expenses related to smoking cost the US more than $150 billion in 1999 and contributes to 5 million deaths across the world.
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 ^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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(2) The Teaching of the Apostles
.Does the Christianity presented to us in the rest of the writings of the New Testament differ from that described in the Gospels?^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ Merchant called us and said he would not do radiation on Christian for he feels that he would not be able to handle it, coming from a doctor that does take risk with that it did make us feel defeated in away.

 ^ "T hey " could not have changed the Christian Gospels after Muhammad , since there are 5,735 (Welte, 2003) manuscripts of the whole or part of the Greek text of the New Testament (Injil) pre-dating Muhammad still in existence .
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 And if so, is the difference one of kind or one of degree? We have seen that Christianity must not be judged in the making, but as a finished product. It was never meant to be fully set forth in the Gospels, where it is presented mainly in action. ."I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now", said Christ in His last discourse.^ The Prophet said, " You may say it.
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 ^ You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same.
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 ^ Then I leave my body and I am guided through many things that I cannot explain or remember in my current state."
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 ."But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will teach you all truth .^ "Even though, as a Buddhist Monk, I have to follow 33,000 rules, I have to come to prove to you that we are all Infinitely FREE!!"
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 ^ All dogmas and forms will be abolished, for the Holy Spirit will guide into all truth...
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 ^ Law (Torah) , the Gospel (Injeel) , and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord."
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 . . and the things that are to come he shall show you" .(John, xvi, 12, 13).^ During the early stages of Christianity reincarnation was accepted as revealed in Matthew 17: 10-12; 16;13; 11:14 and John 9: 2-3; Revelation 13: 10 and so on.

 ^ John 13:4-5, 12-17 .
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 .We may presume that Christ Himself told them these many things when "He showed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God" (Acts, i, 3), and that they were rendered permanent in the minds of the Apostles by the indwelling of the Spirit of Truth after Pentecost.^ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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 ^ Jesus (Isa) Himself is appearing to many.
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 ^ These are things that cannot be grasped with the mind.
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 .Accordingly, we must expect to find in their teaching a more formal, more theoretic, and more dogmatic exposition of Christianity than in the drama of Christ's life.^ In the sweep of the long history of the Islamic assault on the Christian world, it is sobering to consider how close the latter has come to annihilation on more than one occasion.

 ^ Taoists say that we make life a lot more complicated than it really is.
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 ^ Our Whole Lives, a product of Unitarian-Universalists and the United Church of Christ, has proved popular at both churches, each has trained more than 1,000 teachers.
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 .But what we have no right to expect, and what rationalists always do expect, is to find the whole of Christianity in its written records.^ Islamic Laws are very clear - Jews and Christians have no rights whatsoever to independent existence.
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 ^ Mainly, I’ve found, that no matter how many different places I go to, I always find the same person there.
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 ^ In no other record of the numerous inscriptions belonging to pre-Christian period from the caves of Western Mahrshra, does this expression find a place.
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 Christ nowhere prescribed writing as a means of promulgating His gospel. It was comparatively late in the Apostolic Age, and apparently in obedience to no preconceived plan, that the sacred books began to appear. .Many Christians must have lived and died before those books existed, or without knowledge of them.^ Ratzinger last updated it a day before Pope John Paul II died, yet the book covers many of the themes Benedict has focused on in his two months in office.
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 ^ Men and women, without any knowledge of the Gospel and without any contact with Christians, have been forever transformed after experiencing dreams and visions of Jesus Christ (Isa / Yeshua).
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 ^ The purification and perfection of such knowledge also gave him power to appear before those whom he loved the most, as one who was resurrected from the dead.

 And so we cannot argue from the non-appearance of any particular tenet to its non-existence, nor from its first mention to its first invention — fallacies which often vitiate the erudite researches of the rationalists.
The main heads of the Apostolic preaching, as far as we can gather from the records, vary with the character of the audiences they addressed. .To the Jews they dwelt upon the marvellous fulfilment of the prophesies in Christ, showing that, in spite of the manner of His life and death, He was actually the Messias, and that their redemption from sin had really been accomplished by His sacrifice on the Cross.^ Christ and His sacrifice on the cross.

 ^ They have never been gods of death, but of life.

 ^ The sacrifice of Christ on the cross (1 Pet.

 This was the burden of St. Peter's discourses (Acts, ii and iii) and those of St. Stephen and all who addressed the Jews in their synagogues (cf. Acts, xxvi, 22-23). .Once convinced of the reality of Christ's mission and the seal God set upon it by His Resurrection, they were received into the Christian body to discover more at leisure all the implications of their belief.^ In the Christian view of God as set forth in the Bible, there are many elements.
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 ^ For once fulfilled, the Law of Love becomes our very nature, which sets us free to truly love God with all our heart, soul, and might, and to love of neighbor as ourselves.

 ^ The difference is that, when their works are killed, they will have managed to have drawn all colors of Light (or Intelligence) into the event horizon of the black-hole.

 .In regard to the Gentiles, the same striking fact of the Resurrection was in the forefront of the Apostolic teaching, but more stress was laid upon the divinity of Christ.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ Our faith in Christ and His words is supported by numerous prophecies, by the evidence of miracles, by His divine Incarnation of a virgin, His Resurrection and ascension, and by countless manifestations of His love for mankind.

 ^ As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ.

 Still, St. Paul, whose peculiar mission it was to approve the new revelation to those that sat in darkness and had no common ground of belief with the Jews, did not consider that his Gospel was anything different from that of the others. ."I have laboured more abundantly than all they: yet not I, but the grace of God with me: for, whether I, or they, so we preach, and you have believed" (I Cor., xv, 10, 11).^ More than 70% of people of faith believed global warming was occurring.
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 ^ Yet all in this period was preceded by much more earlier fundamentals created and developed by indigenous African People [among whom He, Hehu, and Heru were indeed names for God, and the source of the bibical YH, Yehu, and YHWH] .

 ^ You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.
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 .This definiteness and uniformity of content in the Apostolic message, and this sense of responsibility in regard to its character, is still more strikingly emphasized by the same Apostle in the next Epistle, wherein, rebuking the Galatians for giving heed to innovators "who would pervert the Gospel of Christ", he exclaims: 'Yet, though we ourselves or an angel from heaven preach a gospel other than that we have preached to you, let him be accursed" (Gal., i, 7, 8).^ One is more than the other.
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 ^ Let me give you a convenient simile.
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 ^ Would you like that I kill him?"
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 .There is no trace here of uncertainty or ignorance as to what Christianity meant, or of any tentative groping in search of truth.^ In Christianity, there is no such compulsion.
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 ^ I say that that is a lie and there is no truth in it.

 ^ Its just as hard being here as it is there Christian loved being down here and that is what I'm trying to hold on to.

 Even then, when theological science was in its infancy, we find the Apostle exhorting Timothy to keep to the very phrases in which he has received the Faith, "the form of sound words", avoiding "profane novelties of expression" (I Tim., vi, 20; II Tim., i, 13). .Once again "Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle" (II Thess., ii, 14).^ We must talk honestly to our elders --- those who have not abandoned the traditions - consult the priests, learn from them, and discover the source of our problems.

 ^ We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions.

 ^ Our mind is so full of thoughts that it is necessary to learn how to press the stop button, so that one thought can have maximum power when you want it.
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 .And those traditions were directly communicated by Christ Himself to His Apostle, as he tells us in many passages — "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you" (I Cor., xi, 23), and again "For I delivered unto you first of all what I received" (I cor., xv, 3).^ In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement.
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 ^ God said unto Osiris, it is the unwritten universal Law which govern that which God has created and those laws rule all that God has created, as God become the very essence of all it has created.

 ^ Because first of all the author's becoming an author is a testimony of his or her tasting the experience and 'only those who taste, knows'.
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 .Many rationalists have professed to discover in the apostolic writings various kinds of Christianity mutually antagonistic and all alike illegitimate developments of the original Gospel.^ Many of these suggestions come from a reading list developed by Rabbi Shira Stern, originally published in v4n60 of the [6]Liberal Judaism Mailing List.
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 ^ To develop an understanding Jesus' fulfillment of all faith in God, we will start with the resurrection of Jesus, and perhaps work our way back to the beginning of his Gospel.

 ^ Additionally, Christianity and Judaism abound with many, many miracles, all witnessed by throngs of people.
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 We have Pauline, Petrine, Joannine Christianity, as distinguished from the Christianity of Christ. .But those theories which ignore Catholic tradition and supernatural guidance, and rest on the written records alone, are gradually being abandoned, helped to their disappearance by the critics themselves, who have little respect for each others' hypotheses.^ Many evangelicals find it difficult to criticize the president who has the moral authority of the presidential office and a record of standing on moral issues like abortion.
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 ^ The ramaas, on the other hand, are taken from all Indian castes differently from all who wish to give themselves to the study of divine beings.
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 ^ In one section, the document criticized the faithful who support Catholic politicians who back policies contrary to church teaching.
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 .We may take the Apostolic messages as one self-consistent whole, any apparent discrepancies or want of coherence being amply accounted for by the different circumstances of their deliverance.^ You may say to yourselves, 'How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?' If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken.

 ^ May I preface this message by stating up front that I in no way am suggesting that the God of all creation is an anthropomorphous being, only the wise know that it is not.

 .This preaching, therefore, reduced to its simplest form, was: The Resurrection of Christ as a proof of His Divinity and Incarnation, a guarantee of His teaching and a pledge of man's salvation.^ "One of the initial acts of the reappearing Christ and of the Hierarchy will be to erase this particular fear [of death] and to confirm in people's minds the idea that incarnation and the taking of a form is the true place of darkness to the divine spirit which is man ; it is death to the spirit temporarily, and imprisonment.
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 ^ On these truths the Eastern Christian has placed little emphasis, stressing the living Christ and the divine nature of man...
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 ^ Resurrection of the spirit in man, in all forms, in all kingdoms, is the objective of the entire evolutionary process and this involves liberation from materialism and selfishness.
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 .On the historic fact of the Resurrection the whole of Christianity is based.^ His hearsay knowledge of Christianity and Judaism resulted in Muhammad's failure to get many historical facts correct.
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 ^ Islam denies this historical fact about Jesus which therefore negates the salvation given us by the Son of God's painful death and miraculous resurrection from the dead.
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 ^ The historical Muhammad was in fact an ambitious terrorist, criminal and murderer - whose entire life was based on victimizing innocents and indulging in mindless violence, carnage and massacre.
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 .If He was not truly slain, Christ cannot have been man; if he did not rise again, He cannot have been God.^ Wherefore, Christ (Maashua) has been present throughout the entire Spiritual Evolution of Man and the entire history of God on earth-even in the New World before the coming of Columbus.

 ^ Before Noah, Abraham, and Moses I AM. Noah, Abraham, and Moses died longing to see the day of the Father and Son of the Glory of God in Man, and did not see it.

 ^ They believe in Jesus the Christ as the Son of God, and know that he did not teach such things.
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 St. Paul does not hesitate to stake everything on the truth of this fact: If Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith also is vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God" (I Cor., xv, 14, 15). .Consequently, God's providence has so arranged matters that the proofs of Christ's Resurrection place the fact beyond all reasonable doubt.^ Consider the significance of the fact that no Jew or Roman alive at the time ever openly denied the Scriptural record of Jesus Christ's life, death, ministry or resurrection.
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 ^ The fact of the matter is that, taken all together, If poems suggest that Oldmar is, in essence, a spiritual entity; as such, describing Oldmar as male (or female) is inappropriate.

 ^ At the resurrection, the Bride of Christ will have an intimate knowledge of God.
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But if St. Paul is so emphatic about the foundation of the Christian Faith, he is also careful to erect the edifice upon it. .It is to him that we owe the statement of the doctrine of grace, that wonderful gift of God to regenerate man.^ And for hourshe was a rich man so there was no need for him to be worried about timethree hours in the morning, three hours in the evening, he was constantly torturing the god of the temple.
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 ^ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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 ^ Christians did not take a man and make him God; they worship God who came to earth in the form of a man.
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 .Christ had already taught, in the allegory of the vine and the branches (John, xv, 1-17), that there can be no salutary action on the part of the faithful without vital communication with Him.^ And for hourshe was a rich man so there was no need for him to be worried about timethree hours in the morning, three hours in the evening, he was constantly torturing the god of the temple.
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 ^ But when you get taught to receive energy correctly on the Energy Enhancement Course - "When the energy is flowing correctly, there is no movement" - Saadi of Shiraz.
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 ^ Wolfowitz, the bank's president, claimed there is no change: "Reproductive health is crucial to what I have said over and over again is a major part of the development agenda."
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 This great truth is expanded in many passages by St. Paul (Phil., ii, 13; Rom., viii, 9-11; I Cor., xv, 10; II Cor., iii, 5; Gal., iv, 5, 6) wherein regenerate man learns that he is God's adopted son and united with Him by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. .This privilege is what man gains by Christ's redemption, the benefits of which are applied to his soul by baptism and other sacraments.^ For we can rest assured that, wherever this baptism is poured out for the duration of man's spiritual evolution, the gloried souls of Heru and Jesus will always appear in the midst.

 ^ "That Gnostic Gospel [of Philip] lists five initiatory rites or sacraments : baptism, chrism (anointing), eucharist , redemption -- and the highest of all, 'the bridal chamber ': 'The chrism is superior to baptism...and Christ is (so) called because of the chrism...
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 And St. Paul is not only the chief exponent of this doctrine, but he alone of the Apostles promulgates anew the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist, the principal fountain of grace (I Cor., xi, 23, 24; cf. .John, iv, 13, 14).^ For Reservations at Our Fathers House, Please Enter John 3:16 Bible Study - Book of Daniel - Daniel 7:13-14 A verse by verse bible study to better understand the… .
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 ^ During the early stages of Christianity reincarnation was accepted as revealed in Matthew 17: 10-12; 16;13; 11:14 and John 9: 2-3; Revelation 13: 10 and so on.

 ^ John 14:17, 16:7 & 13 tell us that Jesus said a "Spirit of Truth" (not a man - a Spirit), the Comforter would come after He Himself departed.
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We need not pursue farther the development of doctrine amongst the Apostles. .The Christianity they preached was received from Christ Himself, and His Spirit prevented them from misconceiving or misinterpreting it.^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
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 ^ For such people to tell ordinary people in desperate circumstances that they cannot use condoms to prevent the spread of a deadly disease is to preach a culture of death.
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 .On the strength of His commission they insisted on the obedience of faith, they denounced heresy, and with skill, incredible had it not been Divine, they preserved the truth committed to them in the midst of a perverse, subtle and corrupt civilization.^ KJV - Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself .
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 ^ They are the Spirit of Knowledge, the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Faith, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, and the Spirit of Strength.

 .That same Divine skill has remained with Christianity ever since; heresy after heresy has attacked the Faith and been defeated, leaving the fortress all the more impregnable for its onset.^ Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...
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 ^ But probably "faith-based" allocations will remain a bone of contention, as such religious groups are intensely competitive and prone to attack each other's authenticity.

 ^ It appears that, originally, the sacred day of each divinity came round every fifth day, and it is possible that the same sacred day was observed for them all.

 .The Christianity we profess to-day is the Christianity of Christ and His Apostles.^ Contrast the above with Christianity's teaching about women: The Apostle Paul knew better then anybody in antiquity that male and female were equal in Christ Jesus.
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 .Just as they were more explicit than He in its verbal formulation, so the Apostolic Church has ever since laboured to express more and more clearly the treasures of doctrine originally committed to her charge.^ They just have different commitments.
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 ^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
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 ^ Our Whole Lives, a product of Unitarian-Universalists and the United Church of Christ, has proved popular at both churches, each has trained more than 1,000 teachers.
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 .In a sense, we may believe more than our first Christian ancestors, inasmuch as we have a more complete knowledge of the contents of our Faith; in a sense, they believed all that we do, for they accepted as we the principle of a Divinely-commissioned teaching authority, to whose dogmatic utterances they were ever prepared to give assent.^ Believing in problems may be our only problem .
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 ^ Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, the author shows that although the rabbis whose rulings are recorded in the Talmud did not achieve full equality for women they should be credited with giving women higher status and more rights.
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 ^ "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign."

 .The same essential oneness of faith and the same variety in its content for the individual exist side by side in the Church to-day.^ This time state and Church are on the same side.
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 ^ In one section, the document criticized the faithful who support Catholic politicians who back policies contrary to church teaching.
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 ^ Remember that the original Hebrew faith was faith in establishing the kingdom of Heru on earth as the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the True Brotherhood of Man being one and the same.

 .The trained theologian, deeply versed in the wonders of revelation, and the young or the uneducated who know explicitly little more than the bare essentials of Christianity, knowing the One True God, and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, believing in the Incarnation, the Atonement, the Church, are equally Christians, equally possessed of the integrity of faith.^ PROGRAM OF GOD Church Age : Jesus prayed for the unity of all true Christians.
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 ^ Then why not believe the same of Jesus the Christ according to the second verse?
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 ^ Christians believe that their religion is the true religion of God and Islam is not.

III. THE DIVINE PURPOSE IN CHRISTIANITY

.It remains now to set forth, as far as we can determine it from the sacred records and from the course of history itself, the purpose of God in establishing Christianity.^ In the Christian view of God as set forth in the Bible, there are many elements.
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 ^ Epiphany was traditionally a Christian feast to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to humanity in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ.
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 ^ To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god or the Hindu's god and so forth is to valorize those histories above your own.

 .We gather that the Divine founder meant Christianity to be (1) a universal religion, (2) a perfect religion, (3) a visibly organized religion.^ The universal religion will at first claim to be the Church of the St. John or the third stage in the evolution of Christianity.
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 ^ Then there will be neither Christian nor heathen, neither Jew nor Gentile, but simply one great body of believers, gathered out of all the current religions."
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 ^ Tribulation : The universal religion will at first pose as the Church of St. John, or the third phase in the evolution of Christianity.
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(1) Universality includes both space and time
.As regards space, we see that Christianity is intended for the whole world (a) from the prophecies that foreshadowed it in the Old Testament.^ OLD TESTAMENT PERIOD The city and tower of Babel were mankind's first attempt to unite the people of the world into a global religion.
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 ^ It refers to the 39 books that make up the Jewish & Christian Old Testament.
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 ^ Old Testament Period : The Tower of Babel was man's first attempt to unite the cultures of the world.
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 .Among these were the promises made to Abraham and his descendants, the constantly recurring note of which is that in them "all the nations of the earth shall be blessed". (b) From the plainly expressed purpose of Christ Himself, who, while proclaiming that His personal mission concerned only the "lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matt., xv, 24), announced the future extension of His Kingdom: "Other sheep I have who are not of this fold" (John, x, 16); "Many from the east and the west shall come and shall recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven (Matt., viii, 11); "And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world in testimony to all nations" (Matt., xxviii, 19).^ His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth.

 ^ New Heavens/New Earth : Only those who are united in Christ will inhabit the New Jerusalem.
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 ^ All others to hell (Matt.

 .(c) From the actual conduct of the Apostles, who, though they required the special inspiration of the Holy Spirit to bring home to them the practical bearing of this commission, did finally leave the synagogue and proclaim the Faith to all without distinction of race or country.^ Many of the guys who live at home pay lip service to independence, but admit that they enjoy the best of both worlds.
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 ^ "Like the goddess Isis , who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity -- different races, religions and cultures."
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 ^ Wives cannot work if their husband opposes the place of employment and they cannot travel outside the country without written permission from their husbands.
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 .The universality of Christianity, in time as well as space, is implied in Christ's promise, "Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world" (Matt., xxviii, 20).^ Perhaps one day it is going to happenbecause the time you waste in loving your beloved can produce much money, much power.
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 ^ "Even though, as a Buddhist Monk, I have to follow 33,000 rules, I have to come to prove to you that we are all Infinitely FREE!!"
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 ^ End Time Beheadings and Revelation 20:4: Some Christians and ex-Muslims see a direct correlation between Islam and the Book of Revelation about the "end times".
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 It follows, furthermore, from the next element in God's purpose to be considered.
(2) Christianity is meant to be a perfect religion
.A priori, we should expect that a religious system which was revealed and instituted, not by a prophet or even an angel, but by the personal action of God Himself, and was designed, moreover, to supplant an imperfect and provisional form of religion, would lack nothing of possible perfection in end or means.^ Muhammad even disqualified himself as a true Prophet of God.
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 ^ "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, The Mystery of God Should Be Finished , as He hath declared to His servants the prophets."

 ^ Where God wants all humanity to be is one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God the Creator himself, and one with the Creation of the Universe (which metaphysically we might say one with the point of singularity in a black-hole).

 .Christ's own teaching satisfied this expectation, and precludes the notion entertained by some early heretics, and still alive in the minds of men, of a fuller and more perfect revelation to come.^ Ancient fears of sexuality and of women's control over their own childbearing still operate in some places.
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 ^ Helping all parts of the mind including the Unconscious, to become more calm and still.
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 ^ Jesus came a fulfilled the culmination of the mission by becoming one with the Pure and Perfect Mind of God, and one with the Creation of the Universe in the sight of men.

 .First of all, He, its Founder, is God, and therefore had all the knowledge and all the power requisite to establish a perfect religion.^ It is the mystic knowledge which effects regeneration, rebirth into the full consciousness of one's divine nature and powers as a ' Son of God '."
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 ^ The point of singularity and the event horizon all rest in the peace of having fulfilled the Works of God and left only peace, and an equal distribution of power.

 ^ Because of the power of the Pure and Perfect Mind of God over matter, two images of the Madonna and Child appeared on earth.

 .Secondly, He promised His Apostles the abiding presence of the Spirit of Truth, who should teach them all truth.^ This alone should make them realize that it is Satan behind Islam who wishes to enslave Muslims to turn them away from the truth.
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 ^ All dogmas and forms will be abolished, for the Holy Spirit will guide into all truth...
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 ^ The Comforter Jesus spoke of was the Holy Spirit who filled the Apostles while they gathered together on Pentecost.
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 .Thirdly, He promised that the body enshrining this deposit should never be vitiated by error — "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt., xvi, 18; cf.^ And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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 Ephes., v, 27). Fourthly, the same truth is insinuated by St. Paul's words: "God, who at sundry times . . .last of all . . .hath spoken to us by His Son" (Heb., i, 1), and by the expression, the fulness of time, used in Gal., iv, 4, to indicate the epoch of the Incarnation. .Fifthly, by the character of the Christian revelation itself and the Christian ethical ideal which is the imitation of Christ, the Perfect Being.^ In Revelation 15:8, this pure and perfect thought energy is described as the Temple being filled with smoke from the glory of God.

 ^ Epiphany was traditionally a Christian feast to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to humanity in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ.
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 ^ "Only through the revelation of the Christ within each human being can this at-one-ment be made.
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 .No possible development of mankind can be thought of which should not find all that it needs in Christ.^ This is all the inspiration one needs… and should need .

 ^ One first examines the structure of one's mind and finds the root of all problems in the development of an ego-identity, which must be abolished and eradicated completely.
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 ^ Thus commonsense should tell us that Christ was not referring to the virtually all European and Indo-European ethnic and genealogical groups also called Jews.
.We are compelled, therefore, to believe that the Christian revelation closed with the death of the last of those originally commissioned to set it forth.^ In the Christian view of God as set forth in the Bible, there are many elements.
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 ^ On the contrary, many Christians today no longer believe in the death penalty because Christ refused to condemn or to stone the woman caught in adultery (cf.

 ^ Epiphany was traditionally a Christian feast to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to humanity in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ.
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 We are thus brought counter to a modern view regarding revelation which has lately been condemned as heretical by Pius X (Encyclical, "Pascendi Gregis", Sept., 1907). .It is to the effect that revelation is nothing external, but a clearer and closer apprehension of things Divine by the Christian consciousness, which in each particular age is the expression of the experience of the best men of that age.^ Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...
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 ^ It is the mystic knowledge which effects regeneration, rebirth into the full consciousness of one's divine nature and powers as a ' Son of God '."
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 ^ For the fulfillment of the Masonic faith involves reveling the Divine Science that make all these things possible.

 .Consequently, revelation grows, like a material organism, by waste and renewed supply, and therefore what is truth for one age maybe quite different from what is truth for another.^ The women are the ones who are repressed, and, therefore, they more likely to resist and ultimately to break free.
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 ^ Jesus told us, there would only be one more revelation of truth that would come after Him.
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 ^ The picture of Allah as revealed by the Qur'an is quite different to the one of God revealed in both the Old and New Testaments.
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 .The error which has these developments is ultimately philosophical, being based on the false assumption that the finite mind can know only the phenomenal and can have no certainty of what is beyond experience.^ The only book I know of that exceeds the Koran in deliberate tediousness, false claims, and incoherence is the Book of Mormon.
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 ^ Because first of all the author's becoming an author is a testimony of his or her tasting the experience and 'only those who taste, knows'.
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 ^ Would you pray (open up your spirit and minds eye) knowing a evil being was sitting right next to you waiting to jump in and possess you?

 .Were that so, any external revelation would be impossible, for its guarantees — miracle and prophecy — could not be grasped by human intelligence.^ Such fusion could only radiate more of the intelligence that would produce even more forces of mental attraction.

 ^ This prophecy could be pointing toward the ominous "beast" of Revelation who unites Islamic countries and convinces them to attack tiny Israel.
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 These errors were long ago exposed and condemned by the Vatican Council. .The most casual glance at the history of Christianity shows that there has been development of doctrine; the Creed grew only gradually; but that development is merely logical, produced by analysis of the content of the original deposit.^ To deal with the contradiction between the Bible and the Qur'an, Muslims throughout history have claimed that the Jews and Christians have corrupted their Bible so that the original Bible no longer exists.
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 ^ Their form of Christianity was closely allied to the metaphysical doctrines of Plato and Pythagoras, with their creeds being largely founded upon astrology and cosmic awareness.
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 ^ But his error here is that both Christians and Jews believe there is only One God.
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 (See DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE.)
(3) God intended, in the third place, that Christianity should be a visible organization.
.Christ established a Church and, in a variety of parables, sketched many of the features of its character and history, all of which point to something external and perceptible by the senses.^ Tribulation/First 3.5 Years: The Charismatic movement will be a point of entry for Lucifer, posing as the Holy Spirit, to impregnate the Church as the Bride of Christ.
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 ^ He pointed out that the people of the Bible were Black and that in all the early Catholic Churches of Europe: "the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures to be black (peoples).

 ^ To establish my argument that we have a crisis in civilization because we have a crisis in religion I will make several points dealing with the themes of tradition, history, religion, and human action .

 It is the "house built upon a rock" (Matt., vii, 24), showing the security and permanence of its foundation, and "the city set upon a hill" (Matt., v, 14) indicating its visibility. .Its doctrine works in the three great races descended from Noe's sons like the leaven hidden in three measures of meal, silently, irresistibly (Matt., xiii, 33).^ In this same vein, the works of these three visionaries provide great insight and a foundation into Taoist philosophy.
  • Church of the Churchless: Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC hinessight.blogs.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ At best, the sons of Noah and his one wife could have been a combination of three races, and I submit to you that the white race was not one of them.

 ^ It has nothing at all to do with being a descendant of Abraham or Shem—though the true history of their lives and works play an important role in the reunification of the three great faiths.

 It grows great from humble beginnings, like the mustard seed (Luke, xiii, 19). .It is a vineyard, a sheep-fold, and finally a kingdom, all of which images are unintelligible if the bond that unites Christians is merely the invisible bond of charity.^ Concomitantly, it is precisely the fact that Christianity prevailed against all the forces and powers in the world out to destroy it, by merely the force of its truth, that points to the superhuman origin of Christianity.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The old distinction between the body and soul of the Church is useful to prevent confusion of ideas.^ The early Christian church had to deal with the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, the son of God, eternal life, and the resurrection, in their religion.

 .Christian baptism constitutes membership in the Visible Church; the state of grace, membership in the Invisible.^ CHURCH AGE The Founding Fathers of the United States were occultic pantheists, and not Christians as some pseudo-Christian textbooks claim.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It is obvious that one membership does not necessarily connote the other.^ Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Some of these parables apply only to the Church fully developed, and so they indicate Christ's ultimate purpose.^ The characteristics and practices of these saints indicate that they were Jaina saints.
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They felt some hesitation in going round these places during the Pilgrimage.

 ^ Between these two natures would develop the pioneering of those who built great cities as they traveled.

 .History shows us that, in establishing Christianity as an institution, He was content that on its human side its organization should be subject to the same laws of growth and development as other human institutions.^ Muslims will have thc freedom of conscience, opinion, expression, and association as the one enjoyed by Muslims themselves, subject to the same limitations as are imposed by law on Muslims."

 ^ Why is it that Muslims are allowed to establish mosques and Islamic centers in the western world, when the same privilege is not granted to Christians in many Muslim countries?
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The idea that Christians have a duty to campaign on climate change is well established in the US. Christians compose 40% of the Republican party and are beginning to say that this is an important issue.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .He did not give His Apostles a draft scheme of the Church's constitution beforehand, to be worked out in the course of ages, prescribing the various stages of progress, and indicating the final term.^ CHURCH AGE For the MYSTERY of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth will let, until He be taken out of the way.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ August 06, 2005 The Age (Australia) Draft Iraqi Constitution Jeopardizes Women's Human Rights.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .But the organization which existed in germ in the consecrated hierarchy of the apostles was left to unfold itself under the guidance of the abiding Spirit, according to the needs of time and place.^ One of these, according to Muhammad's wife, A'isha, with whom he resided at this death, was kept under their bed at the time of Muhammad's death, but was eaten by a domestic animal (a goat).
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Furthermore, Orthodoxy is not organized as a movement in the same sense as Reform or Conservative; although Orthodox organizations exist, congregations do not need to join them to be considered Orthodox.
  • Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt. I) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]

 ^ And, just in time, the spirit intervenes, telling him, stroking his ego again and again, he is an apostle of god.

 .The presence of the Holy Ghost and Christ's promise sufficiently guarantee that the result, however obtained, is in accordance with the original design.^ Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost and brought forth Jesus Christ, the son of God.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Today we still witness the holiness in the Church as Christ has promised.

 ^ Old Testament Period : God promised the Holy Spirit to Israel in the latter days; John the Baptist prophesied the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It may well be that the development was very largely natural,, modelled, first of all, on the synagogue, and then on the existing civil government; its progress may have been hastened or retarded by the passions of individuals, but any account of it that ignores the directing finger of Providence cannot be true.^ The Natural Family Planning (NFP) programme of the Pilipino government is the government response to the impending pullout of support from the US Assistance for International Development (USAid.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ That accounts for all negative misrepresentations of the Everlasting Gospel of Heru that exist on earth.

 ^ Yet, broadly speaking, the women’s movement in India, as in several other ‘developing’; countries, remains, to a large extent, elitist.Almost all of its articulate… .
  • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]
.This, then, is Christianity, a supernatural religion and the only absolute one; in a sense (developed in the Epistle to the Hebrews), the oldest, for the Church is not an afterthought, but instituted by God in the fullness of time, and containing a revelation of Himself, which all to whom it has been adequately presented are bound under pain of eternal loss to accept (Mark, xvi, 16), offering to all, who are sincere in seeking, the solution of all the world's problems; enabling human nature to rise to the sublimest heights and "to play the immortal"; full itself of mysteries and Divine paradoxes, as bringing the Infinite into contact with the finite; the one bond of civilization, the one condition of progress, the one hope of humanity.^ Allah is only One God.

 ^ It only has to do with God's nature and the three persons /natures that make up the one God.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is only one God and one baptism.

 Its fortunes have been the fortunes of its Founder; "not all obey the gospel" (Rom., x, 16). .The Jews rejected Christ in spite of the evidence of prophecy and miracle; the world rejects the Church of Christ, the "city set upon a hill", conspicuous though she be through the notes that proclaim her Divine.^ Therefore, I will go through many of my old notes and post a lot more such evidence on my website.

 ^ T he twin heresies of the deification of man and divinization / transfiguration of the world are finding their way into Christianity via the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Today, as in ancient Christian times, women come to church with or without their husbands to participate in the Divine Liturgy and to commune with Christ through the Mystery of Holy Communion.

 .What men call the failure of Christianity is no proof that it is not God's final revelation.^ Satan no doubt is having quite a laugh at Muslims calling God - Allah.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Epiphany was traditionally a Christian feast to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to humanity in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If so-called Christians and Muslims and Jews would stop so much HATE they could see God.

 .It only makes evident how real is human liberty and how grave human responsibility.^ Only then will you have sufficient energy to enjoy making love, or really doing any of the thousand things we have to do on this planet.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ Human beings not only intuit the divine reality within and without, but join it with all their being.
  • Church of the Churchless: Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC hinessight.blogs.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As I realized how wonderful and life transforming this course is, I got inspired to make this course available to others in London.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 .Christianity is furnished with all the necessary evidence to create conviction of its truth, given goodwill.^ Christians should be involved with all of God's creation, not just people.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Concomitantly, it is precisely the fact that Christianity prevailed against all the forces and powers in the world out to destroy it, by merely the force of its truth, that points to the superhuman origin of Christianity.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Furthermore, this Muslim doctrine of abrogation extends so far as to dismiss all previous revelation, given in the Jewish-Christian Bibles.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

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.Christianity is a monotheistic[1][2] It is also growing rapidly in Africa and Asia, particularly in China, South Korea and the Middle East.^ Prakrit inscriptions from South-East Asia.
  • Encyclopaedia of Jainism/edited by Nagendra Kr. Singh 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.vedamsbooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Hinduism is regarded as the oldest of world's major religions and Hindu mythology and philosophy has had a profound impact in many parts of the world, especially southern and South East Asia.
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 ^ A 2007 rally in Rome to demand an end to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East that has forced thousands to flee the region, ( Medichini / AP Photo ) .
  • The Two-Way - Breaking News, Analysis Blog : NPR 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

 [3] .It is declining in other countries including Australia, Great Britain, France and Germany[4].^ People have come to other countries from India, helping Hinduism to spread throughout Asia, including places such as Nepal, Tibet, and Indonesia.
  • Hindu Gods and Goddesses 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.asianartmall.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Askenazic Jewry, the remants of the communities of medieval england and France and Germany with others from further afield - became concentrated in Poland and the surrounding Slavonic territories.
  • Jews, Jewish, The Jewish People - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The eclipse is not visible in England, Switzerland, Germany and other European countries.
.Christianity began as a sect within Judaism,[5] and includes the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament) as well as the New Testament as its canonical scriptures.^ The Christian Scriptures include many examples of anti-Judaism.

 ^ Christianity does not supplant Old Testament Judaism; it is the fruition of it.
  • A Ready Defense-Judiasm 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They recognize that Christianity has its roots in the Judaism of the Old Testament.
  • Defining Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC jesus-messiah.com [Source type: Original source]

 [6] .Like Judaism and Islam, Christianity is classified as an Abrahamic religion (see also, Judeo-Christian).^ Like Christianity, Judaism had Pagan origins.
  • POCM > The Triumph of Christianity > Syncretic ancient Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.pocm.info [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Judaism shaped Christianity and Islam.

 ^ The world's two other Abrahamic religions are Judaism and Christianity.
  • Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Basic Info about Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.riifs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 [7][8]
.The name "Christian" (Greek Χριστιανός Strong's G5546), meaning "belonging to Christ" or "partisan of Christ",[9] was first applied to the disciples in Antioch, as recorded in Acts 11:26.^ It appears in Acts 11:27, where we read that "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch" (NIV).
  • What is a Christian? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.auburn.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In Acts 11:26, Luke writes "...The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch."
  • What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.menofintegrity.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They quoted these verses: And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch (Acts 11:26)-- used for believers only .
  • Defining Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC jesus-messiah.com [Source type: Original source]

 [10] .The earliest recorded use of the term "Christianity" (Greek Χριστιανισμός) is by Ignatius of Antioch.^ I have tried to speak in terms of religious belief as a whole, using my knowledge of Christianity ...
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 ^ If it was used as a term of ridicule and scorn for the first followers of Jesus in Antioch , most likely Roman officials coined the word to differentiate the Christian group from Judaism.
  • Christian@Everything2.com 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC everything2.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The word "Judaism" derives from the Greek Ioudaismos, a term first used in the intertestamental period by Greek speaking Jews to distinguish their religion from hellenism (see 2 Macc.
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Beliefs

.In spite of important differences of interpretation and opinion, Christians in the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions share a common faith.^ T he Roman Catholic faith is predominant in Malta.
  • RELIGION [aboutmalta.com] 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.aboutmalta.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements.
  • Islam 101 - Jihad Watch 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jihadwatch.org [Source type: Original source]

 [12] .Although Christianity has always had a significant diversity of belief on controversial issues, most Christians share a common set of doctrines that they hold as essential to their faith.^ Yet for others, belief and faith is not an issue.
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They also share their belief in the doctrines of karma and samsara and in the possibility of moksha .
  • Ackland Art Museum 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.ackland.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But you always have a set of shared, core beliefs.
  • Coding Horror: Software Development: It's a Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.codinghorror.com [Source type: Original source]

 .This common Christian heritage of beliefs has been given such titles as "the Good News of Jesus Christ,"[13] “the Way”[14] and “mere Christianity,”[12] among others.^ For Christianity the way is to live in Christ and Christ in you...
  •  All about Taoism, Religions in China 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.religion-cults.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Help spread the Good News of Jesus Christ!

 ^ Jesus Christ are known as Christians (and the Religion ...
  • Jainism doctrine sayings Jainism believe about Salvation 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.vijaykumar.com [Source type: Original source]

Jesus the Christ

Main article: Jesus
.
As indicated by the name "Christianity," the focus of a Christian's life is a firm belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah or Christ.^ Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God ."
  • Islam and Christianity - A Comparison of the Bible with the Teachings ofMuhammad - Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.dianedew.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 ^ He wasn't the son of God, but he was the Messiah .
  • Islam@Everything2.com 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC everything2.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The title "Messiah" comes from the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ (māšiáħ) meaning anointed one.^ The Hebrew word ketuvim means "writings."
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.ishwar.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Cristianon is derived from the Greek cristos which means "Christ" or "anointed one" the equivalent of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ "Messiah".
  • Christian | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.carm.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Messiah Means 'annointed' and comes from the Hebrew word 'mashiach.'

 .The Greek translation Χριστός (Christos) is the source of the English word Christ.^ If one were to pick up an Arabic translation of the Bible, one would see the word "Allah" being use where the word "God" is used in English.

 ^ Rather, “Christ” is His title in much the same way as we might refer to a “President” or “King.” This title is taken from the Hebrew word “Mashiach” or “Anointed One,” which was translated into the Greek “Christos” and later anglicized to “Christ.” The actual English translation of Mashiach is “Messiah” and means an anointed, God-appointed leader.
  • What is Messianic Judaism? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.shema.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Khristos is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah, meaning the anointed.
A depiction of Jesus and Mary, the Theotokos of Vladimir (12th century)
.Christians believe that, as the Messiah, Jesus was anointed as ruler and savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus' coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament.^ The messianic age is a period in human history that will be initiated when the messiah comes.
  • Jewish Beliefs on the Afterlife - ReligionFacts 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.religionfacts.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They believe in the Old Testament, but not in the Talmud.
  • Judaism and their Groups 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.missionislam.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Hebrew prophecies of a coming Messiah.
  • What is the difference between Christianity and Judaism? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.gotquestions.org [Source type: Original source]

 .The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept.^ Hindu salvation concept is different from Christian salvation concept.
  • http://boloji.com/hinduism/036.htm 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC boloji.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Qur'an retells stories of many of the people and events of the Jewish and Christian Bibles, although it differs in many details.
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.ishwar.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Although Orthodox Judaism retains the belief in a personal Messiah and He figures prominently in the liturgy, He does not occupy a leading role in contemporary Jewish thought.
  • Judaism-4Truth.net 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.4truth.net [Source type: Original source]

 [15] .The core Christian belief is that, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, sinful humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.^ But the gods of the mystery religions were popular because they offered salvation from sin and the promise of eternal life to everyone regardless of their nationality.
  • Esoteric Christianity: The Greek Mystery Religions and Their Impact onChristianity 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.egodeath.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 ^ He is the true God and eternal life.

 [Ref. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13 KJB]
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.While there have been theological disputes over the nature of Jesus, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and "true God and true man" (or both fully divine and fully human).^ This is the true human nature.

 ^ Human dao s in general are a part of natural dao .
  • Taoism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ No Incarnations as there is no God.
  • SelectSmart.com spiritual/religion selector quiz. What religion am I? Compare world religions and belief systems. 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC selectsmart.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Jesus, having become fully human in all respects, suffered the pains and temptations of a mortal man, yet he did not sin.^ Yet, He loved me enough to become a man and die for my sins.
  • Hindu Beliefs - A Personal Account of a Hindu Guru - Hindu astrology - Information on Hinduism 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.everystudent.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ All of humanity has inherited the sin of Adam.
  • Islam on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus did not die for our sins.
  • What is Islam? What do Muslims believe? 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 .As fully God, he defeated death and rose to life again.^ They have never been gods of death, but of life.

 ^ Sikhs believe that at death, one's earthly life is over, but that a transition is made to a life spent in the presence of God.
  • CBCnews.ca - Where is God Today? - Sikhism Background 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.cbc.ca [Source type: General]

 ^ On the last day the Sadd Ramkali is read which tells of the third Gurus death and the transitory nature of life and the acceptance of Gods will.

 .According to the Bible, "God raised him from the dead,"[16] he ascended to heaven, to the "right hand of God,"[17] and he will return again[18] to fulfil the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and establishment of the physical Kingdom of God.^ Judgment Day --On the last day the dead will be resurrected.
  • Background of Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.xenos.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He ascended unto Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
.According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary.^ Scripture affirms that Jesus was conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary.

 ^ I believe that Jesus Christ was born of Mary, a virgin.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus was born of Holy birth, of virgin birth (not of natural action by sex).
  • Are You Christian? Christian Miracles and Thoughts 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.abetterlife.net [Source type: Original source]

 .Little of Jesus' childhood is recorded in the canonical Gospels, however infancy Gospels were popular in antiquity.^ Jesus died, almost certainly on a Friday afternoon (although there are some oddities about the chronology as recorded in the Gospels).
  • What are Major Christian Beliefs? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC geneva.rutgers.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems the later authors were aware of and knew the earlier gospels and this appears confirmed by the successive changes which were made which changed the record of what Jesus taught and of the meaning of the stories and of the arguments.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ DC Talk's video "Jesus Freak" is one of the most popular Christian video's ever recorded.
  • CHRISTIAN ROCK: Blessing or Blasphemy? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.av1611.org [Source type: General]

 .In comparison, his adulthood, especially the week before his death, are well documented in the Gospels contained within the New Testament.^ The New Testament contains 27 books.
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.dlshq.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is implausible that the followers of Jesus originated the term among the first Christians because most referred to themselves as saints 2 3 4 , the Way 5 6 , brothers 7 8 9 , and frequently throughout the Gospels as well as the New Testament as disciples 10 11 .
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 ^ This document contains a brief overview of Judaism, basic beliefs, and a description of current day movements within Judaism.
  • An Introduction to Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC urantiabook.org [Source type: Original source]

 .The Biblical accounts of Jesus' ministry include: his baptism, miracles, preaching, teaching, and deeds.^ Although many rejected Jesus during his three-year ministry, he always attracted crowds because of his teachings, miracles, and lifestyle.
  • Religions of Man 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religionsofman.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Wanting to know how best to address inaccurate biblical teaching and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with those involved in a group that may be labeled as a “cult”?
  • ANSWERS about RELIGIONS - ChristianAnswers.Net 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.christiananswers.net [Source type: General]

 ^ What a difference from the disciples (some REAL Christians) in Acts 5:42 says, " And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
  • CHRISTIAN ROCK: Blessing or Blasphemy? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.av1611.org [Source type: General]

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus

Main article: Death and Resurrection of Jesus
The Crucifixion by Diego Velázquez (17th century)
.Christians consider the resurrection of Jesus to be the cornerstone of their faith and the most important event in human history.^ The crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the single most important event in the Christian religion.

 ^ It is considered to be the most important Saptami in a year.

 ^ The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history.

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.According to the Gospels, Jesus and his followers went to Jerusalem the week of the Passover where they were eagerly greeted by a crowd.^ They are following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
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 ^ They claim that he went to Jerusalem on a white horse and ascended into heaven from a rock that is now enclosed in the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar) on Mt.

 ^ They believe the gospels were written way after the crucifixion and thus could have been tainted by people's imagination of what they thought Jesus should be.

 .In Jerusalem, Jesus drove money changers from the Temple,[21] and predicted its destruction[22] - heightening conflict with the Jewish authorities who were plotting his death.^ Jesus also charged Peter to be the source of strength for the rest of the apostles (Luke 22:32) and the earthly shepherd of Jesus' flock (John 21:15-17).
  • Welcome to Scripture Catholic - Providing Scriptural Evidence for the Teachings of the Catholic Faith 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.scripturecatholic.com [Source type: General]

 ^ What the scrolls show is that the texts used at about the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, about 70 years after the death of Jesus, are almost the same as what we read today.

 ^ It remains unclear whether this was an exclusively Jewish symbol in Italy during that period, as it was also an Arab design motif and a Christian allusion to Jesus --who was of the House of David.
  • Religions of Sicily - Judaism in Sicily - Islam in Sicily - Eastern Orthodoxy in Sicily - Best of Sicily - Sicily Religions 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.bestofsicily.com [Source type: Original source]

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.After sharing his last meal with his disciples, Jesus went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane where he was betrayed by his disciple Judas Iscariot and arrested by the temple guard on orders from the Sanhedrin and the high priest Caiaphas.^ It was when Jesus prayed before He and His disciples went to the garden of Gethsemane.
  • The Roman Catholic "Church" is Not Christian 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Finally, he speaks of the Temple’s certain doom, retires to eat the Passover meal with his disciples, and slips out to pray.
  • Jesus and Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.wcg.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ He made 'Langar' an integral institution of the Sikhs by insisting that anyone who wanted to meet him should first accept his hospitality by sharing a meal with the disciples.

 .Jesus was convicted by the Sanhedrin of blasphemy and transferred to the Roman governor Pilate.^ J. Jomier provides a list of mistakes and exaggerations: The writing says that Jesus was born when Pilate was governor, though he did not become governor until A.D 26 or 27.

 ^ In 6 AC, Herod Archelaus was removed, and replaced by the Roman Governor "Pontius Pilate", famous for his judgment over Jesus.
  • History of Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC religion-cults.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Pilate was pressured into crucifying Jesus by the nearly rioting crowds.^ From this Surah comes the popular belief of Muslims that Allah cast the likeness of Jesus onto another man and that this man was the one crucified while Jesus was snatched into heaven.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There was fear that he might have indeed been Jesus himself and the Romans had been deceived into crucifying the wrong man.

 ^ Muslims believe that the world was deceived into believing that it was Jesus that was crucified.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Although the crowds were incited by the religious authorities, Jesus was sentenced to death for "inciting rebellion."^ The suggestion that Jews or Jewish religious authorities or "the Jews" were responsible for the death of Jesus stems, ultimately, from viewing Jesus as in radical discontinuity with his whole context.
  • Anti-Judaism in Process Christologies? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.religion-online.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Marks history is explained by the comment that "it was his [Jesus] particular conception of God that underlay his ongoing conflict with the Jewish religious authorities" (CC 205).
  • Anti-Judaism in Process Christologies? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.religion-online.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ By June 1981, when the fundamentalists triumphed, revolutionary courts were sentencing Bahais to death on purely religious grounds.
  • Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Jesus died by late afternoon and was entombed.^ Jesus died, almost certainly on a Friday afternoon (although there are some oddities about the chronology as recorded in the Gospels).
  • What are Major Christian Beliefs? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC geneva.rutgers.edu [Source type: Original source]
Christians believe that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day, that Jesus appeared to his apostles and other disciples, commissioned his disciples to "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son (Jesus) and of the Holy Spirit."[24] and then ascended to heaven. .Christians also believe that God the Father sent the Holy Spirit (or Paraclete)[25] to the disciples.^ Do they believe he is the word/spirit of God?
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 ^ Disciple of Ramananda, he believed in formless God.
  • Glossary of Terms at Kamat's Potpourri 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.kamat.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Holy Spirit is not human but the spirit of God Himself.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Many modern writers such as members of the Jesus Seminar and other Biblical scholars such as Michael Ramsey (a former Archbishop of Canterbury) have argued that the historical Jesus never claimed to be divine.^ One such claim promotes specious equivalences between Hindu spiritual principles and modern scientific ones (for example, karma equals Newton's laws of mechanics).
  • Hindu nationalism: an annotated bibliography of onlineresources 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC comminfo.rutgers.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Among other things, Turton observes that there is not enough focus on Paul himself (or on Paul in relation to the historical Jesus), and the book is not recommended.

 ^ Of the former, 22 are mentioned by name in the Koran — such as Adam , Noah , Abraham , Moses , Jesus .
  • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mohammed and Mohammedanism (Islam) 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.newadvent.org [Source type: Original source]

 .John Hick observes that it is generally agreed among scholars today that Jesus did not claim to be God.^ Jesus claimed to be God.
  • Islam and Christianity - A Comparison of the Bible with the Teachings ofMuhammad - Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.dianedew.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christianity is founded upon the historical event of God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ (John 1:1–14).

 ^ We choose to serve others, ever mindful of the example of Jesus, who "did not cling to his equality with God, but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave."

 [26] .Many also reject the historicity of the empty tomb (and thus a bodily resurrection) and many other events narrated in the gospels.^ They are in general agreement with each other; each conflicts with the Gospel of John in theme, content, time duration, order of events, and style.

 ^ The tomb of Christ is empty, and His bodily resurrection from the grave is the best proved fact of all history.
  • RELIGION - Aren't all religions basically the same? - ChristianAnswers.Net 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.christiananswers.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They accepted only the Torah, ruled out the coming of the Messiah to deliver them from their captors, rejected angels, demons, miracles, and the bodily resurrection at the end of the world.
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 .They assert that Gospel accounts describing these things are probably literary fabrications.^ Apart from these the Janam Sakhis also occupy an important position for the Sikhs as they give account of the early life of Nanak and the subsequent spread of Sikhism.

 ^ How else does one account for the many mushrooming and thriving centres that propagate Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and similar philosophies (or the western perception of these philosophies not quite the same thing as the philosophies as they really are!
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 ^ All of these things may be done by Christians, but they do not MAKE someone a Christian.
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 [27] .However, many other scholars and historians have maintained that the Gospel accounts of Jesus are, in fact, historically reliable.^ However other historians suggest that he is a synthesis of a number of historical figures.

 ^ In fact there are a large number of other historical and religious significances that the five day festival holds for different Hindu communities around the world.
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 ^ Qur'an (also Koran ), and to other prophets (including Adam , Abraham , Moses , and Jesus ), many of whom are Biblical figures shared with Christianity and Judaism .
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 For example, the late scholar Sir Frederic Kenyon, referring to the New Testament canon, asserted that:
.
"The interval then between the dates of the original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Sciptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.^ They were not written down; in fact this was prohibited.

 ^ They dare to come and stand with us ?

 ^ The world had very early recognised the latter, and many very beautiful sets of commandments like the Jewish Decalogue have come down to us.

 .Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established."^ The New Testament contains 27 books.
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 ^ Thus, early in the Second-Century, the canon of the New Testament was being established and its twenty-seven books preserved in various sections of the early Church.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Full discussions of Jesus' words and works are located in the "Gospels" of the New Testament - the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
  • "Islam-101 tells what the Koran teaches about Jesus." 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islam-101.org [Source type: Original source]

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.The purpose of Jesus' death and resurrection is described in various doctrines of atonement.^ In the Christian world, Easter (and the days immediately preceding it) is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus in (approximately) C.E. 30.
  • The Christian Calendar | Calendars 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.webexhibits.org [Source type: General]

 ^ Exploration of cross-cultural rituals surrounding death and speculation from various religions on immortality, resurrection and reincarnation.

 ^ Christianity alone is centered in the historical events associated with a Person - the birth, death, resurrection, and imminent, glorious return of Jesus Christ.
  • RELIGION - Aren't all religions basically the same? - ChristianAnswers.Net 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.christiananswers.net [Source type: Original source]

 .Some see Jesus as a Sacrifice (substitutionary atonement) made to take away the sin of the world (John 1:29} in a manner similar to Old Testament sacrifices.^ The place where Jesus atoned for the sins of the world.

 ^ It's similar to the Old Testament of the Bible , or the Jewish Torah , in that they all recount some of the same history; God creates the world, God creates Adam and Eve , God creates Prophets such as Noah , Abraham , and Moses so that they may guide people.
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 ^ These are the Gospels, referred to as the words of Jesus, Some Muslims believe that this consists of the entire Christian Scriptures (New Testament); others believe it refers to only the four canonical Gospels.

 .Others see Jesus' dying and suffering on the cross as a sign and demonstration from God the Father that His Son was willing to endure the shame and suffering of the cross because of his agape (parental, self-sacrificing) love for humanity.^ Jesus was totally human and totally God (one with the Father) .
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Islam says: Jesus is not the Son of God.
  • What is Islam? What do Muslims believe? 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The other is that Jesus was fully human and fully God and as the Son of God is part of the Holy Trinity: God the Father, His Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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 In other Scriptures which record Jesus' death and resurrection, The Gospel According to St. John compares the crucifixion of Jesus to the lifting up of the Nehushtan (brass serpent) saying that "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. .For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."^ God loves the community of life.

 ^ There is only one God (Deut.
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 ^ It recognizes God as the only One.
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 (John 3:14-16)

Salvation

Main articles: Sin and Salvation
.Christians believe salvation is a gift by means of the unmerited grace of God, a gift from a loving heavenly Father who sent His only begotten Son Jesus to be their savior.^ Islam says: Jesus is not the Son of God.
  • What is Islam? What do Muslims believe? 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Yes, the only way to God the Father is through the Son.

 ^ Jesus said He is the only way to God the Father (John 14:6).

 .Christians believe that, through faith in Jesus, one can be saved from sin and eternal death.^ Christians are monotheistic and believe that God is one.

 ^ Christians believe in the presence of Jesus.
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 ^ Jesus' crucifixion they believe, redeems Christians of their sins.
  • Islam and Christianity - Similarities and Differences 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC muslim-canada.org [Source type: Original source]

 The crucifixion of Jesus is explained as an atoning sacrifice, which, in the words of the Gospel of John, "takes away the sins of the world." One's reception of salvation is related to justification.[29]
.The operation and effects of grace are understood differently by different traditions.^ Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces - Explores Different Traditions for Holiday Season .
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 .Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy teach the necessity of the free will to cooperate with grace.^ In 1054 CE, this religion split to become Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy .

 ^ Major liturgical denominations in the colonies The oldest Christian churches: Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Eastern Orthodoxy, have left their unique stamp on the history of religion in America.
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 ^ Justification is the beginning of our free response to God, that is our faith in Christ and our cooperation with the grace of the Holy Spirit.
  • Basic Catholic Beliefs and Practices 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.ancient-future.net [Source type: Original source]

 [30] .Reformed theology places distinctive emphasis on grace by teaching that individuals are completely incapable of self-redemption, but the grace of God overcomes even the unwilling heart.^ God is self illumined and is by grace revealed'.
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 ^ Belief in Freedom Sikhism places great emphasis on the individual and freedom of choice for everyone.
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 ^ It may be, if he had even heard of the teaching, that Muhammad thought that the churchs confessional description of Mary as theotokos ("God-bearer") implied that she was deity.

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The Trinity

Main article: Trinity
The "Hospitality of Abraham" by Andrei Rublev: The three angels represent the three persons of God

Trinitarians

.Most Christians believe that God is spirit (^ Christians are monotheistic and believe that God is one.

 ^ Can a person be a Christian without God's Spirit?
  • What Is a True Christian? > The Good News : May/June 2004 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.gnmagazine.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Most conservative Christians believe that, since God is pure and just, that a person who sins just once cannot come into God's presence unless they first attain salvation .

 href="http://familypedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Outbound&f=Christianity&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbibref.hebtools.com%3Fbook%3D%2520John%26amp%3Bverse%3D4%3A24%26amp%3Bsrc%3D%21">John .4:24 ), an uncreated, omnipotent, and eternal being, the creator and sustainer of all things, who works the redemption of the world through his Son, Jesus Christ.^ The God is the creator of all things.
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 ^ I can do all things through Christ.
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 ^ Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
  • The Roman Catholic "Church" is Not Christian 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 .With this background, belief in the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit is expressed as the doctrine of the Holy Trinity,[32] which describes the single Divine substance existing as three distinct and inseparable persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ the eternal Word), and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7).^ At the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit descended on Him as a dove.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When we come to the baptism of Jesus, we have a revelation of the three Persons of the Trinity.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Godhead is One but exists in three Persons.

 .According to this doctrine, God is not divided in the sense that each person has a third of the whole; rather, each person is considered to be fully God (see Perichoresis).^ Anyone who successfully avoids these five transgressions, and who lives a truthful living, is considered to be a God-conscious person.
  • Thai Sikh Organization :: What is Sikhism ? :: 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.thaisikh.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Karma may function to explain a person's life circumstances by attributing them to conditions created in past lives; in that sense the doctrine of karma functions analogously to the doctrine of predestination in theistic religions.
  • World Scripture - Cosmic Justice 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.unification.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Tirthankar are not regarded as gods in a pantheistic or polytheistic sense, but rather as examplars who have awakened divine spiritual qualities that lie dormant within each of us.

 .The distinction lies in their relations, the Father being unbegotten, the Son begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeding.^ Thus it deals first with the Father, then the Son, and finally the Holy Spirit.
  • What are Major Christian Beliefs? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC geneva.rutgers.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is a trinity of persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

 ^ "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19 NASB).
  • Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 [33] ."Begotten," in these formulae, refers to the idea that Jesus was uncreated and "eternally begotten" of the Father.^ These are examples of what Jesus is referring to.
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 ^ These are the Gospels, referred to as the words of Jesus, Some Muslims believe that this consists of the entire Christian Scriptures (New Testament); others believe it refers to only the four canonical Gospels.

 ^ It is impossible, then, to avoid the strong suggestion on Jesus part in this parable of his eternal pre-existence with the Father as the latters "beloved Son."
Christians of Reformed theology also conceive salvation to be one work of the triune God in which "the three divine persons act together as one, and manifest their own proper characteristics" with the agency of the Holy Spirit as an essential element."[34]
.Trinitarian Christians trace the orthodox formula of the Trinity — The Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost — back to the resurrected Jesus himself who spoke these words, and which words were subsequently recorded in Matthew 28:16-20, and are commonly referred to as the Great Commission.^ "Making the Son and the Holy Ghost the equal with the Father is absolutely sinful."
  • The Watchman Expositor: Nation of Islam Profile 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.watchman.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ In Matthew 28:19, God the Son commanded the Apostles to baptize ``in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.''
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "These words" refer to His Torah.
.The "Indwelling of the Holy Spirit" has been called the "common privilege of all believers."^ I believe the Holy Spirit does not possess.
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 ^ Some are open to the calling of the Holy Spirit and some are not.

 ^ Though there are some core beliefs common to virtually all Hindus, there really is no "Hindu orthodoxy"--no hard and fast dogma that all Hindus must believe.
  • Hinduism 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.leaderu.com [Source type: Original source]

 [35] John 20:22 quotes Jesus as saying to His apostles, "Receive the Holy Spirit." They were to receive the Holy Spirit Himself in some way. .Nearly all Christians speak of the "Indwelling of the Holy Spirit."^ Christians receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Sacred Writings, Part One 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.plim.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19 NASB).
  • Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They assumed that if all the faiths had a chance to speak publicly to the world, it would be obvious that Christianity was superior.
  • http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/tag/hindu/ 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC blogs.reuters.com [Source type: General]

 .The person who has "received the Holy Spirit" thereafter not only has a sinful nature and carnal desires.^ Sin is by action only and not by nature.
  • What is Islam?  A short history of Islam and its beliefs 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.truthnet.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In the following chapters of Avesta Zoroaster was described as a legendary fighter who had not only used words and miracles, but also material weapons against evil spirits.
  • About religion in Central Asia :: Islam Central Asia. Suphism Central Asia. Buddhism Central Asia. Zoroastrianism Central Asia 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC orexca.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The doctrine of the Trinity rests in the belief that God is a single essence, but the essential unity of the divine nature is shared between three persons: the Father, the Son (Logos) and the Holy Spirit.

 .According to this theological position, there now is also a second, competing, moral presence, that of the Holy Spirit, forever indwelling within him/her.^ So for now we will enjoy every second that we do have with him.

 ^ Now, with His Spirit residing within, we can follow Him.
  • Goodbye Messianic Judaism! 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.seedofabraham.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Accordingly, in heaven and earth there are spirits that take account of men's transgressions, and, according to the lightness or gravity of their offenses, take away from their term of life.
  • World Scripture - Cosmic Justice 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.unification.net [Source type: Original source]

 .From that point on, the person is able to see daily situations from either of two perspectives, and as a result, can choose to respond in a moral, Christian manner.^ Muslims regard Islam as an integral part of daily life, resulting in an ordered society in which a person's social, spiritual and economic status is clearly defined.
  • Islam Travel Information | World Travel Guide 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.worldtravelguide.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ A Christian might respond to the second theory by pointing out that Christ's teaching was, of course, nothing like Hinduism, so that if he had learned it in India, he either forgot it or modified it beyond recognition on the way back to Palestine.
  • Witnessing to Hindus - EffectiveEvangelism.com 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.christiananswers.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We see, then, that a person cannot truly become a Christian unless he truly repents.
  • What Is a True Christian? > The Good News : May/June 2004 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.gnmagazine.org [Source type: Original source]

 .However, the Christian often ignores these ethical, moral, positive thoughts inspired by the presence (indwelling) of the Holy Spirit, and respond in some selfish or lustful way as their own original nature desires.^ The Holy Spirit is fully God in nature.

 ^ Christians receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Sacred Writings, Part One 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.plim.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is personal, so the Holy Spirit is a personal presence.
  • What are Major Christian Beliefs? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC geneva.rutgers.edu [Source type: Original source]

 [36] (John 16:7-14; 1 Corinthians 2:10ff)
.In Catholic, Orthodox, and some Anglican theology, this indwelling is received through the sacrament called Confirmation or, in the East, Chrismation.^ Most often associated with Roman Catholics, the rosary is also used by the Orthodox, for whom it is almost exclusively a monastic devotion, and by some Anglicans which are the Catholic Churchs offshoot in England .

 ^ In that country there was what Burkert called the 'strange battle' between orthodox practitioners and free thinking philosophers inspired by foreign ideas, which lasted for some centuries.
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 ^ The working document of the Synod for the Middle East calls for a personal conversion of Christians through a return to the spirit of the Gospel.
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 .In most Protestant traditions, the "Indwelling of the Holy Spirit" takes place in the action of becoming a Christian.^ Christians receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Sacred Writings, Part One 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.plim.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Pilgrimage in Hindu traditions allows pilgrims to spend time in sacred places, experiencing a sense of communion with spiritual ancestors on holy ground.
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 ^ Taking it a step further: Taoism being the free spirit black sheep of the family (not in a negative connotation as usually the black sheep are the most interesting ones.
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.The New Testament also teaches that the Holy Spirit inspired all Scripture,[37] a belief shared by most Christians.^ Christianity and Judaism both recognise the Old Testament as Holy Scripture.
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 ^ Christians receive the Holy Spirit.
  • Sacred Writings, Part One 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.plim.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ She was denied all access to Holy Scriptures.

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Non-Trinitarians

Main article: Nontrinitarianism
.In antiquity, and again following the Reformation, several sects advocated views contrary to the Trinity.^ Suppose, then, we have an adequate working conception of the DRR. The question naturally arises: Why do advocates of the standard view maintain that we should conform to the DRR? For several reasons, most prominent of which are the following three arguments.
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 ^ First, in what follows, we will remain largely noncommittal about what the qualifier “plausible” means, as advocates of the standard view understand it in different ways.
  • Religion and Political Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The new community was termed the Khalsa Panth or the 'Pure Sect' as its followers were required to be far more strict in observing the tenets of their reformed faith.
  • Sikhism - The Khalsa Panth of Punjab 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.hindubooks.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Hindu Customs in Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism - Socio-cultural Interchange between Religious Communities in India 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.hindubooks.org [Source type: Original source]

 .These views were rejected by many bishops such as Irenaeus and subsequently by the Ecumenical Councils.^ He was hearing views that had been rejected by the leading theologians of the church such as Athanasius, Cyril of Alexandria, and Augustine.

 ^ The video alternates between clips of children from many different backgrounds talking about their views on these subjects and with short animated stories and poems.
  • JUDAISM (Religion) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.cjlmilwaukee.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ An ecumenical Council is a universally binding general Council of the Catholic Church, such as the Council of Trent.
  • The St Catholic Churches : Holy Family Monastery : Worship : Mass :Bible : MostHolyFamilyMonastery.com 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC mostholyfamilymonastery.com [Source type: Original source]

 .During the Reformation (though most Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants accepted the value of many of the Councils) some groups rejected these councils as spiritually tainted.^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Reform Jews accept that Orthodox Judaism is Judaism.
  • Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.sullivan-county.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Most often associated with Roman Catholics, the rosary is also used by the Orthodox, for whom it is almost exclusively a monastic devotion, and by some Anglicans which are the Catholic Churchs offshoot in England .

 [39] .Clemens Ziegler, Casper Schwenckfeld, and Melchior Hoffman, advanced the view that Christ was only divine and not human.^ ALLOW ME TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE 1) Does divine inspiration seem any longer necessary when reason can provide what, in the granthical view, can be taught only by the prophet?
  • Neo-Sikhism 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC o3.indiatimes.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Are the Jehovah’s Witnesses correct in their view that this verse states that Christ is only “a god”?
  • ANSWERS about RELIGIONS - ChristianAnswers.Net 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.christiananswers.net [Source type: General]

 ^ Thus, the apprehension of an ordinary human being is partial, and therefore valid only from a particular point of view.

 .Michael Servetus denied that the traditional doctrine of the Trinity was necessary to defend the divinity of Christ.^ Islam rejects the Trinity doctrine, the deity of Christ and His Sonship, claiming that Jesus was only a great prophet.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Then we have the Vatican II sects teaching on the false religion of Islam, which rejects the Holy Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
  • The St Catholic Churches : Holy Family Monastery : Worship : Mass :Bible : MostHolyFamilyMonastery.com 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC mostholyfamilymonastery.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Not only is the sonship of Christ important per se, but the deity of Christ is also an important point of difference between Christianity and Islam since Islam denies the doctrine of the Trinity.
  • A Ready Defense-Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 .He claimed that Jesus was God Himself in the flesh.^ Psalms 2:7) Jesus himself claimed to be the Son of God: .
  • Islam and Christianity - A Comparison of the Bible with the Teachings ofMuhammad - Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.dianedew.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus claimed to be God.
  • Islam and Christianity - A Comparison of the Bible with the Teachings ofMuhammad - Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.dianedew.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God, through Jesus Christ, took that punishment on Himself so that all mankind could be brought back into a proper relationship with Him.
  • Shintoism 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

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.Modalists, such as Oneness Pentecostals, regard God as a single person, with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit considered modes or roles by which the unipersonal God expresses himself.^ The Holy Spirit is not human but the spirit of God Himself.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Holy Spirit is fully God in nature.

 ^ Can a person be a Christian without God's Spirit?
  • What Is a True Christian? > The Good News : May/June 2004 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.gnmagazine.org [Source type: Original source]

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.Latter-day Saints (commonly called Mormons) accept the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but deny that they are the same being.^ Latter-day Saints / Exorian .
  • Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Latter-day Saint .
  • Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Latter-day Saints?
  • Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: General]

 .Rather, they believe them to be separate beings united perfectly in will and purpose.^ Though his mother tried to keep the family together, they were eventually separated with Malcolm being sent to a boy's institution.
  • The Watchman Expositor: Nation of Islam Profile 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.watchman.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Both man and nature have meaning because they were created by a purposeful Being.” [ Handbook of Jewish Thought, 1:1 and 1:2 ] .
  • The difference between Judaism and Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Parsis (Zoroastrianism) 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.simpletoremember.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They do not believe in an omnipotent, supreme, creator being.
  • Why I believe Hinduism and Hindu belief are false 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC peace-of-mind.net [Source type: Original source]

 [42] .They believe that the Father, like the Son, has a glorified physical body.^ They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son..
  • Hinduism- a Brief Sketch 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Would the Dutch have been more idiotic if they had denied the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and worshiped the blessed trinity of sausage, beer and cheese?
  • What Is Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.infidels.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands fathers, and their sons.
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.cuii.org [Source type: Original source]

 (see Godhead)
.Present day groups who do not consider Jesus to be God include: Unitarians,[43] descendants of Reformation era Socinians, Christadelphians,[44] and Jehovah's Witnesses.^ "So let them fight in the way of God who sell the the present life for the world to come; and whosoever fight in the way of God is slain, or conquers, We shall bring him a mighty wage.
  • Background of Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.xenos.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Islam is a strictly monotheistic religion, and its adherents, called Muslims, regard the Prophet Muhammad as the last and most perfect of God’s messengers, who include Adam , Abraham , Moses , Jesus , and others.
  • Islam (religion) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.britannica.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ This includes all the natural descendants of Abraham as well as the Gentiles to whom God swore a blessing of salvation (see Galatians 3:8).
  • Defining Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC jesus-messiah.com [Source type: Original source]

 [45]
.Muslims believe that the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is incompatible with monotheism, and they reject the Christian teaching that Jesus is the Son of God, though they affirm the virgin birth and view him as a prophet preceding Muhammad.^ Islam does believe Jesus was a sinless prophet though not as great as Muhammad.
  • Background of Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.xenos.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What do they believe about God?
  • World Religions - All About GOD 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.allaboutgod.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ In the eyes of the believers, Muhammad, like Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, is a prophet of God.
  • Islam, Beliefs And Observances, Caesar E. Farah, p2-7, 26-35 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.bible.ca [Source type: Original source]

 [46] .The Qur'an also uses the title "Messiah," though with a different meaning.^ Eventually, most commentators accepted ten variant readings (qira'at) of the Qur'an as canonical, while agreeing that the differences are minor and do not greatly affect the meaning of the text.
  • Islam Muslim: Islamic Religion, History, Beliefs. Quran / Koran, Mohammed Quotes 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The meaning changes drastically, though, when read with the emphasis on a different word: 'To Hell WITH The Devil.'
  • CHRISTIAN ROCK: Blessing or Blasphemy? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.av1611.org [Source type: General]

 ^ I think it's more about the basic meaning of life, and the fundamental differences the religions use to explain why we're here.
  • Religion | MetaFilter 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 [47][48] .Muslims also dispute the historical occurrence of the crucifixion of Jesus, believing that while a crucifixion occurred, it was not of Jesus(see docetism).^ These are the Gospels, referred to as the words of Jesus, Some Muslims believe that this consists of the entire Christian Scriptures (New Testament); others believe it refers to only the four canonical Gospels.

 ^ Fundie Christians and Muslims would probably want to convert them and then go to war with them if they did not believe in Jesus or Allah.
  • Religion and Spirituality (Religions, Faith) @ OnlineReligion.com 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.onlinereligion.com [Source type: General]

 ^ They believe the gospels were written way after the crucifixion and thus could have been tainted by people's imagination of what they thought Jesus should be.

Scriptures

Main article: Bible
See also: Criticism of the Bible
.Christianity regards the Holy Bible, a collection of canonical books in two parts (the Old Testament and the New Testament) as authoritative: written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and therefore the inerrant Word of God.^ Old Testament Using Septuagint book ordering, this is the Christian "TaNaKh."

 ^ Both old and new Testaments are part of the entire Gospel.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Holy Spirit is not human but the spirit of God Himself.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

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.The Old Testament contains the entire Jewish Tanakh, though in the Christian canon, the books are ordered differently, and some books of the Tanakh are divided into several books by the Christian canon.^ Old Testament Using Septuagint book ordering, this is the Christian "TaNaKh."

 ^ It refers to the 39 books that make up the Jewish & Christian Old Testament.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ These books are synonymous with the 39 books of Christianity's Old Testament.
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 .While these books are part of the Christian canon, scholars of Judaism generally teach that Christians misinterpret passages from the Old Testament, or Tanakh.^ Old Testament Using Septuagint book ordering, this is the Christian "TaNaKh."

 ^ They recognize that Christianity has its roots in the Judaism of the Old Testament.
  • Defining Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC jesus-messiah.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It is to historic Judaism, the Judaism of the Old Testament, that Christianity traces its roots.
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 .(See also Judaism and Christianity.^ This may seem to be a disturbing concept to many that see Messianic Judaism as the "Jewish Church" and the place of Messianic Judaism being the Jewish cultural form of the Universal Christian Church.

 ^ Click the link to see the search results for main religions including Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
  • Judaism // Current 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC current.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ See, for example, Judaism and Christianity , pages 41-45.
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC bessel.org [Source type: Original source]

 ) .The Catholic and Orthodox canons include the Hebrew Jewish canon and other books (from the Septuagint Greek Jewish canon) which Catholics call Deuterocanonical, while Protestants consider them Apocrypha.^ The Apocrypha refers to fourteen books found in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) but not in canonical Hebrew Scriptures.

 ^ Thirteen years later Jewish males have a ceremony called a Bar Mitzvah which consists of learning to recite prayers and Bible portions in Hebrew and to participate in Jewish rituals, and after which we are considered to have all the rights and duties of Jewish men.
  • Judaism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC bessel.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Fifty-two percent of Americans said they are Protestant, .5 percent are Catholic, 14.1 percent “no religion,” 1.3 percent Jewish and 0.5 percent Muslim or Islamic.
  • Hinduism: a guide to U.S. experts and organizations | ReligionLink 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.religionlink.com [Source type: Academic]

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.The first four books of the New Testament are the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), which recount the life and teachings of Jesus.^ A term used to refer to the gospels Mark, Matthew and Luke.

 ^ The Gospels followed - as far as we know Matthew's was written first, then Mark's, then Luke's.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Lovejoy: Today's readings come from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
  • The Simpsons Archive: Religion on the Simpsons 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.snpp.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The first three are often called synoptic because of the amount of material they share.^ The earliest Christian scholars, the first to define major religions, recognized only three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Paganism (which they considered to encompass every other religion).
  • Theology: Major World Religions, Statistics 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I want to make this distinction, because people often think their inherited views of religion, society, and politics apply to islam, and get confused when they see it working.
  • Islam@Everything2.com 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC everything2.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ During the first three centuries of our era Christianity was a voluntary, egalitarian process, persecuted precisely because its egalitarianism was considered subversive and revolutionary.
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 The remainder of the New Testament consists of:
.
  1. a sequel to Luke's Gospel which describes the very early history of the Church (the Acts of the Apostles),
  2. a collection of letters from early Christian leaders to congregations or individuals, (the Pauline and General epistles), and the
  3. Apocalyptic Book of Revelation.^ Gospels and Acts attributed to apostles.
    • The Big Religion Comparison Chart: Compare World Religions - ReligionFacts 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.religionfacts.com [Source type: Academic]

     ^ The epistles (letters) from the apostles shows how home churches...

     ^ It describes dozens of faith groups: Christian, Islamic, Japanese, Jewish, Wiccan, Satanic, Sikh, and individually distinctive groups.

     [50]
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church maintains two canons,
.
  1. the Narrow Canon (itself larger than any Biblical canon outside Ethiopia), and
  2. the Broad Canon (which has even more books.^ Taking the approach that new religious movements are neither new nor inherently evil or dangerous, New Religious Movements takes a more historical and cultural perspective than other books on the market.
    • Pearson - Sikhism - Gurinder Singh Mann 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.pearsonhighered.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ There are other reasons, as well, and they're probably more significant than I'm even aware, but I have enough understanding of it to believe in it and know why I wear it.

     ^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
    • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

     )[51]
.Campaigning to be a restoration of the Christian church,[52] denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement (commonly called Mormons) are distinct from other forms of Christianity in that they consider the Book of Mormon holy scripture and comparable to the Bible.^ This Christian community is called the "Church".
  • What are Major Christian Beliefs? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC geneva.rutgers.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christians and Jews are called People of the Book.

 ^ Latter-day Saint / Mormon .
  • Comic Book Religion Database (Religion of Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC comicbookreligion.com [Source type: General]

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Interpretation

.Though Christians largely agree on the content of the Bible, there is significant divergence in its interpretation, or exegesis.^ When there are so many branches in Christianity, the Bible has not been interpreted in the correct way.

 ^ There is no core sacred text in Shinto, as the Bible is in Christianity or Qur'an is in Islam .
  • Faith of the Japanese - Shinto - World Religion Day 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.worldreligionday.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ In the Christian view of God as set forth in the Bible, there are many elements.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In antiquity, two schools of exegesis developed in Alexandria and Antioch.^ And across the developing world, girls who complete primary school tend to marry four years later and have two fewer children.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Alexandrine interpretation, exemplified by Origen, tended to read Scripture allegorically, while Antiochene interpretation adhered to the literal sense, holding that other meanings (called theoria) could only be accepted if based on the literal meaning.^ Only the Church can read the scriptures.
  • Anti-Judaism in Process Christologies? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.religion-online.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I mean, he was the only one I could think of.
  • Religion of Comic Book Characters (esp. Super-Heroes) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Discuss whether what you saw was similar or different from what you expected based on your readings, and assess the meaning behind what you witnessed.
  • RELS 212 Hinduism 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.csuchico.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

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Catholic

Main article: Catholicism
.Catholic theology distinguishes two senses of scripture: the literal and the spiritual.^ Therefore, if is also associated with man's sense of thought, the first of man's two spiritual senses.

 ^ Her awards include the College Theology Society Book Award and two Catholic Press Association Awards.
  • Religion News Service Editorial Team 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.religionnews.com [Source type: Academic]

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Literal

.The literal sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation.^ We Japanese do not understand the meaning of this Japanese word.
  • Singapore Paranormal Investigators 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.spi.com.sg [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God's written word [and] is self-authenticating, clear (perspicuous) to the rational reader, its own interpreter ("Scripture interprets Scripture"), and sufficient of itself to be the final authority of Christian doctrine.

 ^ A figure of speech in which words are not used in their literal sense; examples include a metaphor, simile, allegory, irony, etc.
  • Glossary of religious terms starting with the letter T: 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.religioustolerance.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .It has three subdivisions: the allegorical, moral, and anagogical (meaning mystical or spiritual) senses.^ In a moral sense, poverty means wealth."
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The term literally means “action,” but in this context it denotes the moral, psychological spiritual and physical causal consequences of morally significant past choices.
  • Hindu Philosophy [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.iep.utm.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This subjugation of the senses is the highest means of attaining spiritual light.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]
  • The allegorical sense includes typology. .An example would be the parting of the Red Sea being understood as a "type" (sign) of baptism.^ For example, one should allow a river to flow towards the sea unimpeded; do not erect a dam which would interfere with its natural flow.
    • TAOISM 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.religioustolerance.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
    • Taoism / Tao: Discussion Metaphysics Philosophy of Taoism, Tao. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu Quotes Information Pictures 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Pharaoh then thought he would bring the Israelites back, but God parted the water of the Reed Sea for the Israelites to escape and then drowned the Egyptian Army.
    • Exploring Religion-Judaism Glossary 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC uwacadweb.uwyo.edu [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If (to use Nida's example), the people of Jacob's day understood his wrestling with the angel in a literal sense, the people of this day probably would not.
    • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

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  • The moral sense understands the scripture to contain some ethical teaching.
  • The anagogical interpretation includes eschatology and applies to eternity and the consummation of the world.
Catholic theology also adds other rules of interpretation which include:
  1. the injunction that all other senses of sacred scripture are based on the literal[57]
  2. that the historicity of the Gospels must be absolutely and constantly held[58]
  3. that scripture must be read within the "living Tradition of the whole Church"[59] and
  4. that "the task of interpretation has been entrusted to the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome"[60]

Protestant

Main article: Protestantism
.Many Protestants stress the literal sense or historical-grammatical method,[61] Protestants characteristically believe that ordinary believers may reach an adequate understanding of Scripture because Scripture itself is clear (or "perspicuous"), because of the help of the Holy Spirit, or both.^ Fundamentalists literally believe in the above scripture.
  • Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe the Holy Spirit does not possess.
  • Why I believe Hinduism and Hindu belief are false 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC peace-of-mind.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Because I believe in Yeshua , my spirit welcomes the Holy Spirit.
  • Why I believe Hinduism and Hindu belief are false 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC peace-of-mind.net [Source type: Original source]

 .Martin Luther believed that without God's help Scripture would be "enveloped in darkness."^ Why would God send the Gospel with His prophet Jesus, and then allow all of the disciples of Jesus to be misled by believing that Jesus died on the cross, and thus distort the original message of the Gospel?

 ^ They declared God to be pure Essence without attributes, because attributes would imply multiplicity.
  • ISLAM, 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.history.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The founder of the Yellow Turban Taoists It is believed that he received the Ling-pao (spiritual Treasure) Scripture written on golden tablets, from the Gods.

 [62] .He advocated "one definite and simple understanding of Scripture."^ To understand what a sacrament is, and what it does for a person, one must know the correct, the traditional Christian, definition of a sacrament.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 [62] And John Calvin wrote, "all who…follow the Holy Spirit as their guide, find in the Scripture a clear light."[63] The Second Helvetic (Latin for "Swiss")[64] Confession, composed by the pastor of the Reformed church in Zurich (successor to Protestant reformer Zwingli) was adopted as a declaration of doctrine by most European Reformed churches.[65] The Confession contains this statement about interpreting Scripture:

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Creeds

Main article: Creeds
.Creeds (from Latin credo meaning "I believe") are concise doctrinal statements or confessions, usually of religious beliefs.^ Doctrine and creed and race mean nothing.
  • Religion - near-death experiences 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Do not believe" means that you have never believed the statement.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What Do Mormons Believe - Accurate but concise summary of the doctrinal differences in the beliefs of evangelical Christians and Mormons or Latter Day Saints.
  • World Religions - All About GOD 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.allaboutgod.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .They began as baptismal formulas and were later expanded during the Christological controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries to become statements of faith.^ The faith of Islām helped various Muslim peoples in their struggle to gain political freedom in the mid-20th century, and the unity of Islām contributed to later political solidarity.
  • Islam (religion) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.britannica.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Many individuals who spent part of their lives in the Egyptian desert went on to become important figures in the Church and society of the fourth and fifth century, among them Athanasius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, John Cassian, and Augustine of Hippo.

 ^ Schaff, in his History, IV, 159, notes that the nominal Christians who inhabited Arabia at the time of Muhammad belonged mostly to the various heretical sects that were expelled from the Roman Empire during the doctrinal controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries.
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.The Apostles Creed (Symbolum Apostolorum) was developed between the second and ninth centuries.^ Any blockages to the second chakra, the throat or between them causes problems to the Mastery of Purification of thoughtforms, travel on the astral plane and The Mastery of Creativity in Art, Science, Philosophy and Business.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ Europe was riven by conflict between petty kingdoms for centuries, but eventually a society developed from it that is stable and not at constant war with either itself or its neighbors.
  • Endless Jihad 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.catholic.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Slaka, who flourished in the second half of the ninth century A.D. in the chragavritti 138 , distinctly refers to this shrine.
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]

 .It is the most popular creed used in worship by Western Christians.^ Reminder: the prize for our most popular Catholic March blogger is a $50.00 gift card to be used at CatholicIpod.com.
  • Catholic Writings - Just another StBlogs.com weblog 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC catholicwriter.stblogs.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The mealy-mouthed and apologetic character of so much Western scholarship on Islam springs from the fact that many of these scholars were, and are, believers, in the rival creed of Christianity .
  • Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The term "jihad" is used both by some Muslims and by most Orientalists and critics of Islam to equal the Christian term "crusade" or "Holy War."
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.cuii.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Its central doctrines are those of the Trinity and God the Creator.^ This work goes well beyond the doctrine of the trinity and addresses the broader subject of the three-fold nature found in all creation.

 ^ God said unto Osiris, it is the unwritten universal Law which govern that which God has created and those laws rule all that God has created, as God become the very essence of all it has created.

 ^ But the doctrine of deism which relegates God, after creation, to the passive role of a disinterested spectator, is antipodal to the teachings of Judaism.
  • Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.sullivan-county.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period.^ Their form of Christianity was closely allied to the metaphysical doctrines of Plato and Pythagoras, with their creeds being largely founded upon astrology and cosmic awareness.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The creed was apparently used as a summary of Christian doctrine for baptismal candidates in the churches of Rome.^ Several Christian churches have been attacked since Friday in Malaysia in a dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.
  • Religion News - Congoo 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.congoo.com [Source type: News]

 ^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christopher Hitchens points out that this is the same trick the Christian church used to pull in persecuting people who translated the Bible .

 .An even earlier creed was Paul's doctrinal statement recorded in 1 Corinthians 15:1-9.^ Of the importance of the resurrection, Paul states, "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins" (2 Corinthians 15:17, NASB).
  • A Ready Defense-Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.greatcom.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Further and further away from Matthew's clear record and statement about what Jesus taught, obscuring and confusing that which Jesus taught so as to weaken arguments against Paul's ideology.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It would seem that those who later favoured Paul's pro-establishment ideology could not challenge Matthew's earlier record.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]
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The Nicene Creed, largely a response to Arianism, was formulated at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in 325 and 381 respectively,[66] and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the Council of Ephesus in 431.[67]
.The Chalcedonian Creed, developed at the Council of Chalcedon in 451,[68] though not accepted by the Oriental Orthodox Churches,[69] taught Christ "to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably": one divine and one human, and that both natures are perfect but are nevertheless perfectly united into one person.^ Our Lord Jesus Christ is one Divine Person with two natures: divine and human.
  • The St Catholic Churches : Holy Family Monastery : Worship : Mass :Bible : MostHolyFamilyMonastery.com 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC mostholyfamilymonastery.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ United Church Of Christ (52/401) .
  • Christian Forums - Where Christian Community Meets Faith 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.christianforums.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Likewise, Jesus had a two-fold nature, divine and human.
  • Esoteric Christianity: The Greek Mystery Religions and Their Impact onChristianity 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.egodeath.com [Source type: Original source]

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The Athanasian Creed (English translations), received in the western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: "We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons not dividing the Substance."[71]
.Most Protestants accept the Creeds.^ Most Mainline Protestants Say Society Should Accept Homosexuality 19 Mar 09 Most members of mainline denominations say society should accept homosexuality.
  • Pew Research Center Reports on Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC pewresearch.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Some Protestant traditions believe Trinitarian doctrine without making use of the Creeds themselves,[72] while other Protestants, like the Restoration Movement, oppose the use of creeds.^ He used the language of common man like some other Sants.
  • Sikhism-Hinduism : Philosophical Relationship by Vishwa Mohan Tiwari, Air Vice Marshal (Retd) 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.boloji.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ III. Judaism in Its Relation to the Gentile World: Notwithstanding its unmitigated severity against heathenism with its folly and vice, and against every mode of compromise therewith, Judaism does not, like other creeds, consign the non-believer to eternal doom.

 ^ Both the hope of resurrection and that of immortality, in some form or other familiar and indispensable to all tribes and creeds, seem evidently to have come to the Jews from without—the one from Persia or Babylonia, the other from Greece.

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Afterlife and Eschaton

Main article: Christian eschatology
.Most Christians believe that upon bodily death the soul experiences the particular judgment and is either rewarded with eternal heaven or condemned to an eternal hell.^ You will either go to heaven or hell.

 ^ Do you believe in heaven and hell?
  • about-judaism.com 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC about-judaism.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe that upon death and according to its earthly deeds and its acceptance of the Christian faith, the soul enters Heaven, Purgatory or Hell.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The elect are called "saints" (Latin sanctus: "holy") and the process of being made holy is called sanctification.^ A new class of OCE features is being made public today: RSS Feeds RSS: Catholic Saints - Saints from the Original Catholic Encyclopedia; daily feed in XML format.
  • Original Catholic Encyclopedia - Home of the largest Catholic Encyclopedia resource on the web 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC oce.catholic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Being a holy place, Ujjain was frequently visited by Jaina saints such as Chaarudra, Bhadrakagupta, ryarakshita and rya shha 40 .
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]

 .In Catholicism, those who die in a state of grace but with either unforgiven venial sins or incomplete penance, undergo purification in purgatory to achieve the holiness necessary for entrance into heaven.^ Vol 9:50 Those who die in holy war are guaranteed to go to Heaven.
  • What is Islam? What do Muslims believe? 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jesus-is-lord.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is the general plateau in which all those who die slip into.
  • Koshinto - Camarilla Wiki 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC wiki.white-wolf.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ While those who die without Christ, die in their sins.
  • Answering Buddhism 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.truthnet.org [Source type: Original source]
.At the last coming of Christ, the eschaton or end of time, all who have died will be resurrected bodily from the dead for the Last Judgement, whereupon Jesus will fully establish the Kingdom of God in fulfillment of scriptural prophecies.^ That he was sent by God who was at the same time "fully" Jesus!!!
  • Islam on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Who hath established all the ends of the Earth?
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Is Dubai The Babylon of end-time scripture?

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.Some groups do not distinguish a particular judgment from the general judgment at the end of time, teaching instead that souls remain in stasis until this time (see Soul sleep).^ End of times or not group By: prodigalson12 .
  • Judaism: The Born Again Thread - Catholic Answers Forums 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC forums.catholic.com [Source type: General]

 ^ It accepts the concept of guardian angels, the existence of jinn, the Day of judgment (last day), general resurrection, heaven and hell, and eternal life of the soul.
  • Afghanistan Country Study 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.gl.iit.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Not until the 20th century were the religious (private) and the secular (public) distinguished by some Muslim thinkers and separated formally in certain places such as Turkey.
  • Islam (religion) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.britannica.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .These groups, and others that do not believe in the intercession of saints, generally do not employ the word "saint" to describe those in heaven.^ Though both these religions allowed no converts from other religions; they have not remained untouched by the customs and beliefs of those of other religions.
  • Sikhism - The Khalsa Panth of Punjab 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.hindubooks.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Hindu Customs in Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism - Socio-cultural Interchange between Religious Communities in India 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.hindubooks.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Alternative medicine is a generic term used to describe any other approach that employs principles and methods that are different from those of orthodox medicine.

 ^ Science has shown, with true data from cumulative studies, that those who actively believe in God are happier, more successful and treat other people better.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Universalists hold that eventually all will experience salvation, thereby rejecting the concept of an eternal hell for those who are not saved.^ On Hell: Those who reject Jesus Christ will suffer eternal torments in hell.
  • Islam and Christianity - A Comparison of the Bible with the Teachings ofMuhammad - Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.dianedew.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It accepts the concept of guardian angels, the existence of jinn, the Day of judgment (last day), general resurrection, heaven and hell, and eternal life of the soul.
  • Afghanistan Country Study 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.gl.iit.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The evil deities are those who do all manner of evil, moved by the spirit of the deity,” which appears to be a kind of fatalism.
  • Fr. Hardon Archives - Religions of the World - Chapter 9. Shinto 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.therealpresence.org [Source type: Original source]

Worship and practices

Christian life

.
Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6 and 1Timothy2:5).^ Christians believe in the presence of Jesus.
  • Church of the Churchless: Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC hinessight.blogs.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ See how the Bible's Old and New Testaments encourage slavery, and how Islam came to end the thousands of years old Pagan and Judeo-Christian slavery.

 ^ The New Testament canonizes very different expressions of Christianity while bearing consistent testimony to the unifying center ⁙ Jesus-the-man-now-exalted as the canon within the canon.
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by many Christian scholars to be the antitype[75] of the proclamation of the Old Covenant by Moses from Mount Sinai
.Christians believe that all people should strive to follow Christ's commands and example in their everyday actions (Romans 13:14).^ Christians should be involved with all of God's creation, not just people.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ It is a model of Judaism: of a system, of a people rejected by Cod, unfaithful to God, rejecting Christ, opposed to Christianity, and caught up in a trail of crimes which culminates in deicide.
  • Anti-Judaism in Process Christologies? 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.religion-online.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For example, all three traditions share a notion of karman as the actions of individuals that determine their future births; yet, each has attached connotations to the concept that are uniquely its own.
  • Jainism 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC cyberspacei.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .For many, this includes obedience to the Ten Commandments.^ So Jesus taught that all the laws had to be kept, that belief and practice included and had to include the Ten Commandments, the social laws and the social system of the Pentateuch.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Many of the Sahabah (ra) narrated the descriptions of this group which include the fact that they establish Allah's Commands, and that they are supported and upheld by Allah (s.w.t.
  • Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Sinai, which include the Ten Commandments, the basis for Jewish spirituality and ethics.

 .Jesus made it clear that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17).^ Where did the Oral Law come from?

 ^ This rite is usually performed as a remembrance in order for the fulfilments what Jesus did at his last supper.
  • Religion - Ask Questions and Get Answers - Blurtit 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.blurtit.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The sunnah (a clear and well-trodden path, of traditions) denote tribal/common law and the examples of the Prophet, his words and deeds.
  • A Short Summary of Islamic Beliefs 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC ldolphin.org [Source type: Original source]

 .In response to a "catch" question from a Pharisee as to which is the greatest commandment in the Old Testament Law, Jesus replied: {{quotation|'Love[76] Other Christian practices include acts of piety such as prayer and Bible reading.^ Other famous laws include: .

 ^ It's similar to the Old Testament of the Bible , or the Jewish Torah , in that they all recount some of the same history; God creates the world, God creates Adam and Eve , God creates Prophets such as Noah , Abraham , and Moses so that they may guide people.
  • Islam@Everything2.com 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC everything2.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thus, they do not pray as Christians do; there is no God to hear the prayers or to act upon them.
.Christianity teaches that one can overcome sin only through divine grace: moral and spiritual progress can occur only with God's help through the gift of the Holy Spirit dwelling within the believer.^ Allah is only One God .
  • Islam Muslim: Islamic Religion, History, Beliefs. Quran / Koran, Mohammed Quotes 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Allah is only One God.
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.fatheralexander.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Articles - Other - Islam - The Truth About Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.lamblion.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Hence, the "spirit" within us is Divine.
  • Hinduism and Christianity: Hindu Teaching or the Bible? 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.gospelway.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It also teaches that, by believing in Christ, and sharing in Christ's life, death, and resurrection, God's children become dead to sin and are resurrected to a new life with Him.^ In Christ, God has become our Redeemer.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Life and death are nothing to him.

 ^ Hindus believe in life after death.
  • http://boloji.com/hinduism/036.htm 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC boloji.com [Source type: Original source]

Christian Love (Agape)

Main article: Christian Love
See also: 1 Corinthians 13
.A prominent Christian belief is that love is a primary value.^ We are guided by strong Christian values and the belief that each child is a precious gift, filled with the life and love of God and blessed with talents and abilities, unique joys and challenges.

 ^ "Yeshua was Jewish," while affirming Christianity as a positive set of values and beliefs.
  • Omdurman.org: exposing Islamic Supremacist and Palestinian terror 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.omdurman.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil wrote that members of the community need to "lead a life rooted in Christian values and beliefs."
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Matthew 'Άgapē' has been used in different ways by a variety of contemporary and ancient sources, including Biblical authors.^ Unfortunately people throughout history have used different ideologies, including religion, to impose their will on others.

 ^ She is the author of three books, including Bead One, Pray Too: A Guide to Making and Using Prayer Beads (Morehouse, 2008) and blogs at www.kimberlywinston.wordpress.com .
  • Religion News Service Editorial Team 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.religionnews.com [Source type: Academic]

 ^ A third difference is that unlike 'way', dao may be used as a verb.
  • Taoism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Many have supposed that 'agapē' represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love.^ The four faces of the Brahma statue represent the Four Divine States of Mind: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Sympathy and Equanimity.
  • Hindu Wisdom - Symbolism in Hinduism 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.hinduwisdom.info [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Our Heavenly Father and Mother, as divine representatives of the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit of Love, have the same hope for their children, the citizens of New Jerusalem.

 ^ And, as in all real love, the individual forgets himself utterly and entirely: only the object of love, the divine Krishna, the Lord, the inner Self of man, remains.
  • Hindu Wisdom - Symbolism in Hinduism 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.hinduwisdom.info [Source type: Original source]

 .Greek philosophers at the time of Plato and other ancient authors, used 'agapē' to denote love of a spouse or family, or affection for a particular activity, in contrast to philia — an affection that could denote either brotherhood or generally non-sexual affection, and eros, an affection of a sexual nature, usually between man and woman.^ So, this has been used since ancient times.
  • Singapore Paranormal Investigators 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.spi.com.sg [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A man and a woman have a different role in the family.
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ He taught that societal harmony could be realized when individuals acted with loving care for family, concern for friends and neighbors, benevolence to strangers, and respect for all.
  • 2009 Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.wheeloftheyear.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  • 2004 Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.wheeloftheyear.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .The Greek Old Testament uses the word eros only twice, while the New Testament does not use it at all.^ The Greek word for 'circle' is never used in the New Testament .
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Howard Ervin, the first Baptist pastor in New Jersey to be filled with the Holy Spirit in the 1960’s, told his Hebrew class on Psalms at Oral Roberts University in 1981 that, ‘The only thing Greek about the New Testament are the words.’ I didn’t fully understand it then but over the years the Holy Spirit has shown me what he meant.
  • Goodbye Messianic Judaism! 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.seedofabraham.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ See how the Bible's Old and New Testaments encourage slavery, and how Islam came to end the thousands of years old Pagan and Judeo-Christian slavery.

 [77] .The word agape is rarely used in ancient manuscripts, but was used by the early Christians to refer to the self-sacrificing love of God for humanity, which they were committed to reciprocating and practicing toward God and among one another.^ God's primary demand of people is that they act decently toward one another.

 ^ In their words, they love sincerity.
  • Ethics of Daoism and Mo-zi by Sanderson Beck 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.san.beck.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He never uses the word "Allah" but God and refers to "submitters" not Islam.

 .Άgapē has been expounded upon by many Christian writers in a specifically Christian context.^ Does that mean she intended to join a specific Christian group upon her baptism?
  • JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jimmyakin.org [Source type: Original source]

 Thomas Jay Oord has defined agape as "an intentional response to promote well-being when responding to that which has generated ill-being." Άgapē received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted "Christian" love or "charity" (1 Corinthians 13:1-8), or even God himself [Theos ein agape, ..". for God is Love." (1 John 4:8)]. .Various senses of agapē are used throughout the New Testament, some expanding the meanings used in ancient texts, and rendered as: brotherly love, love of one's spouse or children, and the love of God for all people.^ We are all people of God.
  • Why I Left Judaism | Real Zionist News 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.realjewnews.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God will indwell all of His people in the New Heavens and New Earth.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ New Heaven & New Earth : God indwells all of His people.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]
.Christian writers have generally described 'agapē' as a form of love which is both unconditional and voluntary; that is, it is non-discriminating, has no pre-conditions, and is something that one decides to do.^ Karma or previous actions of a being are the factors that determine the condition into which a person, after his death and subsequent stay in heaven or hell, is reborn in one form or another.

 ^ Want to read or watch something interesting, but don’t want to surf through website after website to find one?Search no longer, dear reader.
  • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Even those who were not necessarily Jew or Christian, for example Deists who believed in an unmoved Mover, generally had some vague belief in something more spiritual.
  • Judaism_and_Darwin 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.lookstein.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Tertullian, in his 2nd century defense of Christians remarks how Christian love attracted pagan notice: "What marks us in the eyes of our enemies is our loving kindness.^ Indeed, Christ taught us to love and to forgive our enemies.

 ^ See how the Bible's Old and New Testaments encourage slavery, and how Islam came to end the thousands of years old Pagan and Judeo-Christian slavery.

 ^ We are persuaded that our next step should be for our leaders at every level to meet together and begin the earnest work of determining how God would have us fulfill the requirement that we love God and one another.
  • Yale Center for Faith and Culture - About Us 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.yale.edu [Source type: Academic]

 .'Only look' they say, 'look how they love one another'" (Apology 39).^ They are only apparent, says the Hindu.
  • Hinduism- a Brief Sketch 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We are taught to love one another.
  • Are You Christian? Christian Miracles and Thoughts 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.abetterlife.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They are also the only ones without any problems.
  • Izabael Muses: Ramblings of a Renegade Djinn (Genie,Djinni,Jinn): Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC izabael.typepad.com [Source type: General]

Worship

.Justin Martyr described second century Christian liturgy in his First Apology (c.^ The early second century apologist of Christianity, Justin Martyr, claimed that the Mithraists copied the Christians: "...
  • Esoteric Christianity: The Greek Mystery Religions and Their Impact onChristianity 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.egodeath.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Mahayana Buddhism was brought over to China gradually, beginning around 67 CE and continuing throughout the first and second century.
  • Buddhism Vs. Taoism Vs. Zen [Archive] - thebigview.com 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.thebigview.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ During the first three centuries of our era Christianity was a voluntary, egalitarian process, persecuted precisely because its egalitarianism was considered subversive and revolutionary.
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 150) to Emperor Antoninus Pius, and his description remains relevant to the basic structure of Christian liturgical worship:
The Holy Bible, Crucifix, and Rosary
".And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.^ Live Courses in India this next year With Satchidanand and Devi Dhyani - we have An All India Tour and Two Level Courses in Haridwar and Goa but we are available at other times..
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 ^ Incinerators which gather in Hospitals and Universities throughout the world, burning Industrial waste from all the major cities.
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 ^ For everyone reading this, get your asses over to see these people, your lives will be changed forever and we don’t get many chances in this world to be able to achieve that and there are defiantly not many people in this world like Satchi and Devi who can do the business like this" .
  • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

 Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need."[78]
.Thus, as Justin described, Christians assemble for communal worship on Sunday, the day of the resurrection, though other liturgical practices often occur outside this setting.^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They have been wisely set aside in Christian worship , though in a very few places, as at Echternach in Luxemburg , and in the Seville cathedral , religious dancing gives a local colour to the celebration of certain festivals.
  • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.newadvent.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Though tensions, conflicts, and even wars in which Christians and Muslims stand against each other are not primarily religious in character, they possess an undeniable religious dimension.
  • Yale Center for Faith and Culture - About Us 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.yale.edu [Source type: Academic]

 .Scripture readings are drawn from the Old and New Testaments, but especially the Gospels.^ Both old and new Testaments are part of the entire Gospel.
  • Islam The Lies and Deceptions 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC islamlies.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ See how the Bible's Old and New Testaments encourage slavery, and how Islam came to end the thousands of years old Pagan and Judeo-Christian slavery.

 ^ The New Testament Scriptures further reveal an apostolic duty, commanded by Jesus, to heal the sick while proclaiming the Gospel (MT 10: 7-8).
  • Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans � Home 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC ccano.org [Source type: General]

 .Often these are arranged on an annual cycle, using a book called a lectionary.^ A good sources for the rare or used books, often not stocked by other retailers.
  • Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt. I) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]

 ^ The scheme of the Union Prayer-Book ignores both the annual and the triennial cycle.
  • JewishEncyclopedia.com - REFORM JUDAISM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE REFORM JEW: 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.jewishencyclopedia.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ These Rhoa rulers had deep reverence for Jaina saints, and they often used to pay visits to them.
  • CHAPTER - VI 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.jainworld.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Instruction is given based on these readings, called a sermon, or homily.^ These are instructions only given to Bodhisattvas.

 ^ Examine what these terrorists of Islam see as an acceptable lifestyle based on the so-called "peaceful" teachings of Islam.

 ^ These books called the Bible, was written by the son of man based upon his opinion about that he is not certain of and his lack of knowledge about what he refer to as God.

 .There are a variety of congregational prayers, including thanksgiving, confession, and intercession, which occur throughout the service and take a variety of forms including recited, responsive, silent, or sung.^ This was refused on the ground of an "askama" (rule) of the congregation forbidding within a radius of four miles of the synagogue the erection of any house of prayer or the holding of any service not of a domestic nature.
  • JewishEncyclopedia.com - REFORM JUDAISM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE REFORM JEW: 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.jewishencyclopedia.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Prescribed body movements, including genuflections and prostrations, accompany the prayers, which the worshiper recites while facing toward Mecca.
  • Afghanistan Country Study 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.gl.iit.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Similarly Cantors should help those congregants with musical talents learn the intricacies of nusach and prayer and apply there talents and knowledge to leading 50% of services and help the congregation to speak to God.
  • Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads – Forward.com 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.forward.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The Lord's Prayer, or Our Father, is regularly prayed.^ Elizabeth Barrett Browning : God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
  • Religion Quotes | Religion Quotations | Religion Sayings | Wisdom Quotes 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.wisdomquotes.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How much more availing is the unceasing prayer of the sinless Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ!
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The end of religion is filial communion with God , in which we honour and revere Him as our supreme Lord, love Him as our Father, and find in that reverent service of filial love our true perfection and happiness .
  • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.newadvent.org [Source type: Original source]

 .The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper) consists of a ritual meal of consecrated bread and wine, discussed in detail below.^ Upon them will be green Garments of fine silk and heavy brocade, and they will be adorned with bracelets of silver; and their Lord will give to them to drink of a Wine Pure and Holy.
  • What is Islam?  A short history of Islam and its beliefs 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.truthnet.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They called their own council and with the help of The Holy One, they determined the will of the Lord (Acts 15:1-21).
  • Goodbye Messianic Judaism! 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.seedofabraham.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Detailed below are generic non-mechanical Rituals which are used across all the Koshinto Sects.
  • Koshinto - Camarilla Wiki 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC wiki.white-wolf.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Lastly, a collection occurs in which the congregation donates money for the support of the Church and for charitable work.^ Jains willingly donate money to churches and mosques and usually help with interfaith functions.
  • Jainism at AllExperts 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Percentage of Americans who would allow " churches and other houses of worship" to seek federal funds for charitable work: 75 .
  • Religion (Harper's Magazine) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC harpers.org [Source type: General]

 ^ Ram Cnaan of the University of Pennsylvania found that congregations as communities were almost universally involved in collective charitable outreach.
  • Why Religion Matters Even More: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.heritage.org [Source type: Academic]
Some groups depart from this traditional liturgical structure. .A division is often made between "High" church services, characterized by greater solemnity and ritual, and "Low" services, but even within these two categories there is great diversity in forms of worship.^ There are two main divisions.
  • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Was there harmony and diversity in the Apostolic Church?
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We have emphasized that there are important differences between these two views.
  • Religion and Political Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .Seventh-day Adventists meet on Saturday (the original Sabbath), while others do not meet on a weekly basis.^ Celebration of Sabbath rest on any other day is totally void.

 ^ The seventh day of the week is shabbat (sabbath, literally, "rest") to recall that "God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh" (Exod.
  • Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC hirr.hartsem.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ To put forth the seventh day Sabbath as a type of rest from sin progresses towards blasphemy, because it implies G_d needed rest from sin, since He rested then.

 .Charismatic or Pentecostal congregations may spontaneously feel led by the Holy Spirit to action rather than follow a formal order of service, including spontaneous prayer.^ One learned to live life spontaneously rather than become trapped in the process of preparing for the unpreparable, avoiding the inevitable, or seeking the unobtainable.
  • Spirituality Information - World Religions - Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.majikalwishes.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Tribulation/First 3.5 Years: The Charismatic movement will be a point of entry for Lucifer, posing as the Holy Spirit, to impregnate the Church as the Bride of Christ.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christian life in the school of the Lord's Service by following the Order's Rule of St. Benedict.
  • White Robed Monks of St. Benedict: Catholic Christianity 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.wrmosb.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Quakers sit quietly until moved by the Holy Spirit to speak.^ And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Some Evangelical services resemble concerts with rock and pop music, dancing, and use of multimedia.^ Many Things Concerning the Ark Resemble Japanese Customs King David and people of Israel sang and danced with the sounding of musical instruments in front of the ark.
  • Singapore Paranormal Investigators 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.spi.com.sg [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’ve been thinking for a long time that some cool intro music would be a nice touch, only I’m not allowed to use snippets of other peoples’ music.
  • Alltop - Top Taoism News 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC taoism.alltop.com [Source type: General]

 .For groups which do not recognize a priesthood distinct from ordinary believers the services are generally lead by a minister, preacher, or pastor.^ While not all reform temples have identical services, they are closer than the what the UAHC statement could lead one to believe without understanding the context.
  • Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.sullivan-county.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are also a scattering of women's prayer groups, where women not only pray separately from men but lead the service and read the Torah.
  • Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC hirr.hartsem.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Still others may lack any formal leaders, either in principle or by local necessity.^ And still others agree wholeheartedly with the manifesto and do as many of the "best practices" as are suggested by leaders of the movement.
  • Coding Horror: Software Development: It's a Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.codinghorror.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Forced marriages may still take place in certain Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, but would be anathema to Muslim women from other backgrounds.

 ^ Physicians whose training is insufficient may still avoid harming people as long as they are able to follow proper principles.
  • Essentials of Taoism and the Taoist Influence on Herbal Medicine Literature 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.itmonline.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Some churches use only a cappella music, either on principle (e.g.^ I knew I never paid too much attention in church but I could really use some of that good stuff now.
  • The Simpsons Archive: Religion on the Simpsons 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.snpp.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thinking so illogically can only mean one is either under some kind of deceiving enchantment or a fool, devoid of all reason.

 ^ God's going to want to use some of you to be ambassadors for what He's doing here, because He's wanting this to go to other churches ...
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 many .Churches of Christ object to the use of instruments in worship) or by tradition (as in Orthodoxy).^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christ used that terminology when He appointed the Apostle Peter the first head bishop of His Church, saying: ``Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona .
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Throughout this study, "church" and "churchgoer" are used in the generic sense to indicate church, synagogue, or any other place of worship and an individual attending any such institution.
  • Why Religion Matters:  The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.heritage.org [Source type: Academic]
.Worship can be varied for special events like baptisms or weddings in the service or significant feast days.^ Special congregational service of worship (salat) once per week on Friday, in a mosque, is an obligation (in addition to five times a day obligatory service of worship (salat) - also preferably in congregation.
  • Islam and Christianity - Similarities and Differences 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC muslim-canada.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ However, various ceremonies hold special religious significance in the life of the Sikh: .
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Gnostic master Basilides feasted on the day of the Baptism and kept a long vigil before it.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In the early church Christians and those yet to complete initiation would separate for the Eucharistic part of the worship.^ Yet a certain intellectualism on his part, and his positing of what might seem to lesser minds to be a remote, almost inaccessible G-d (a G-d realizable chiefly by those who could attain to genuine prophecy)all this would be softened by other thinkers.

 ^ The earliest of the Christian writings to be accepted as part of the Christian Canon and thus playing an important part in moulding early Christian beliefs, were Paul's letters.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it .
  • The St Catholic Churches : Holy Family Monastery : Worship : Mass :Bible : MostHolyFamilyMonastery.com 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC mostholyfamilymonastery.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In many churches today, adults and children will separate for all or some of the service to receive age-appropriate teaching.^ Will the Church also feed, clothe and send these many children to school?
  • Faith, Religion and Population of WOA!! World Population Awareness 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.overpopulation.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ World Community Day--Day for celebrating the unity behind diversity and remembering we are all one people - all children of the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.
  • 2009 Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.wheeloftheyear.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  • 2004 Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC www.wheeloftheyear.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Some say nativity scenes should not be on public property because this violates the separation of church and state.

 .Such children's worship is often called Sunday school or Sabbath school (Sunday schools are often held before rather than during services).^ Practices of Protestant Christianity were often the inspiration for many of the changes, such as using the local vernacular language instead of Hebrew, instituting Sunday worship (the Jewish Sabbath day had, of course, always been on Saturday), abolishing segregation of the sexes in the synagogue, utilizing organ music in the services, and de-emphasizing or eliminating any references to a coming Messiah.

 ^ Name calling is not really mature and to attack my personal character rather than critiquing my critique is nothing more than a “low blow”.
  • Neo-Sikhism 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC o3.indiatimes.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The swastika symbol is supposed to be marked on the hood of the cobra, and is often associated with the heliolithic culture of snake-worshipping peoples such as the Nagas.
  • Hindu Wisdom - Symbolism in Hinduism 12 January 2010 0:23 UTC www.hinduwisdom.info [Source type: Original source]

Sacraments

Main article: Sacrament
The Eucharist
.A sacrament is a Christian rite that is an outward sign of an inward grace, instituted by Christ to sanctify humanity.^ Properly defined, a sacrament is ``an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace'' (holiness) to the soul .
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PENANCE --the sacrament, also known as Confession, through which Christ forgives sin and restores the soul to grace: ``Receive ye the Holy Ghost.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .Catholic, Orthodox, and some Anglican Christians describe worship in terms of seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist (communion), Penance (reconciliation), Anointing of the Sick (last rites), Holy Orders (ordination), and Matrimony.^ Alternative medicine is a generic term used to describe any other approach that employs principles and methods that are different from those of orthodox medicine.

 ^ The term "jihad" is used both by some Muslims and by most Orientalists and critics of Islam to equal the Christian term "crusade" or "Holy War."
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.cuii.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (This article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, Confession, Marriage and Extreme Unction after Vatican II.) .
  • The St Catholic Churches : Holy Family Monastery : Worship : Mass :Bible : MostHolyFamilyMonastery.com 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC mostholyfamilymonastery.com [Source type: Original source]

 [79] .Many Protestant groups, which grew out of the Reformation,[80] recognize the sacramental nature of Baptism and Eucharist, but not usually the other five in the same way, while other Protestant groups reject sacramental theology.^ "In America, the usual candidates for expansion of the list [of world religions] beyond five are China's great traditions other than Buddhism--the Confucian and the Taoist.
  • Adherents.com 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC www.adherents.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Although, it was not always that way; at the dawn of Christianity, there were other competing versions that rejected the tri-unity -- the so-called arian and monophysite heresies.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (By the way, I, too, can be mentioned in the same sentence as Malamud, Ozick and Roth: Tomaso went to the library, and, not finding Brooke Shields' memoir, checked out novels by Malamud, Ozick and Roth."

 .Some Christian denominations who believe these rites to do not communicate grace prefer to call them ordinances.^ The mealy-mouthed and apologetic character of so much Western scholarship on Islam springs from the fact that many of these scholars were, and are, believers, in the rival creed of Christianity .
  • Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah - The Peace FAQ 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.peacefaq.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ One of these is called the 'Liar' and apparently came from within the community.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Though not sacraments, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Holiness Churches emphasize "gifts of the Spirit" such as spiritual healing, prophecy, exorcism, glossolalia (speaking in tongues), and laying on of hands where God's grace is mysteriously manifest.^ Church Age (beg): At Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit from heaven in the form of tongues of fire.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ At Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit from heaven in the appearance of tongues of fire.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ From It came the mysterious existence of spirits; from It the mysterious existence of T (God).
  • The Texts of Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC terebess.hu [Source type: Original source]
See also: Anglican sacraments
See also: Sacrament (Community of Christ)
See also: Sacraments of the Catholic Church

Eucharist

Main article: Eucharist
.The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper) is the part of liturgical worship that consists of a consecrated meal, usually bread and wine.^ Abhisheka (Siva) Abhisheka is a part of the worship of Lord Siva.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Justin Martyr reported that they used wine and bread in their communion: "For when they say Dionysus was born of Zeus' union with Semele, and narrate ...
  • Esoteric Christianity: The Greek Mystery Religions and Their Impact onChristianity 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.egodeath.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They called their own council and with the help of The Holy One, they determined the will of the Lord (Acts 15:1-21).
  • Goodbye Messianic Judaism! 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.seedofabraham.net [Source type: Original source]

 Justin Martyr described the Eucharist as follows:
."And this food is called among us Eukaristia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.^ One man’s food is another man’s poison.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Let us live as he lived, and be living Christs on earth.
  • http://www.hinduism.co.za 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.hinduism.co.za [Source type: Original source]

 ^ 'The man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,...so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God' (II Thess.
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 .For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh."^ Is not Jesus the Word of God by whom all things were made?

 ^ Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It rejects the salvation Jesus has made possible.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 [81]
.Orthodox, Methodists, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and many Anglicans believe that Jesus Christ is present in the elements of bread and the cup (the doctrine of the Real Presence).^ You do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, but he believes in you.
  • Why I Left Judaism | Real Zionist News 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.realjewnews.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You do not, at this point believe in Jesus Christ.
  • Why I Left Judaism | Real Zionist News 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.realjewnews.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Most other Protestants, especially Reformed, believe the bread and wine merely represent the body and blood of Christ.^ Unlike most other religions, Shinto has no real founder, no written scriptures, no body of religious law, and only a very loosely-organized priesthood.
  • Long Island Shinotism Shinto Shrines Cultural Centers Nassau Suffolk Hamptons New York 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC longislandbrowser.com [Source type: News]
  • The Shinto Religion Mod - Civilization Fanatics' Forums 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC forums.civfanatics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Pious Muslims consider that his work merely clarified and finalized the true religion, building on the work of other prophets of monotheism, and believe Islam to have existed before Muhammad.
  • Islam Muslim: Islamic Religion, History, Beliefs. Quran / Koran, Mohammed Quotes 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.spaceandmotion.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Can we venerate one and merely argue that the other should be allowed to insult a religion because he believes it to be irredeemably violent?
  • Islam | Jewcy.com 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.jewcy.com [Source type: Original source]

 .These Protestants may celebrate it less frequently, while in the Roman Catholic Church the Eucharist is celebrated daily (but not on Good Friday and Holy Saturday.^ Pope Benedict XVI is apparently trying to put together what English King Henry VIII put asunder, the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
  • The Two-Way - Breaking News, Analysis Blog : NPR 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

 ^ Among Lutherans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Protestants - the various original Christian churches - all are in agreement that we all look to the same God, the same Jesus, the same Holy Trinity.
  • Are You Christian? Christian Miracles and Thoughts 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.abetterlife.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Think about that number the next time the Roman Catholic Church starts meddling in American politics.

 [82]). .Some Christian denominations view communion as indicating those who are already united in the church, restricting participation to their members not in a state of mortal sin (closed communion).^ Those who commit sin are not Christians.
  • Religion: The Appendix of Modern Society 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In North America, temples built by larger Sikh communities are likely to be patterned on traditional Indian Sikh architecture, though Sikhs have converted churches of Christian denominations to use as temples.
  • Sikhism, Gurudwaras, religion FAQ and Trivia on Life in the US and North America for Immigrants and Visitors from Garamchai.Com 8 January 2010 7:58 UTC www.garamchai.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They believe it is a place or state of punishment wherein the souls of those who die in God's grace may do penance for past sins and hence become cleansed and fit for heaven.
  • Islam and Christianity - Similarities and Differences 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC muslim-canada.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Most other churches view communion as a means to unity, rather than an end, and invite all Christians or even anyone to participate (open communion).^ Christian, open to all.

 ^ Iranian women in higher education have a larger degree of freedom and play a wider role in society than most women from other Middle Eastern countries.
  • Islam 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC www.au.af.mil [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ A Jewish anti-missionary group has succeeded in persuading Barnes & Noble booksellers to reclassify a Passover guide from a "messianic Jewish" publisher as Christian, rather than Jewish.

 In some denominations, participation is by prior arrangement with a church leader.

Liturgical calendar

Main article: Liturgical year
.In the New Testament Paul of Tarsus organised his missionary travels around the celebration of Pentecost.^ The Kate New Year is celebrated at the towers in the seventh month of the Cham calender (around October).

 ^ Paul's letters (epistles) are the oldest part of the New Testament.
  • ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.solhaam.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The New Testament describes Paul's NDE because he is defending his authority as an apostle on it.
  • Religion - near-death experiences 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.near-death.com [Source type: Original source]

 .(Acts 20.16 and 1 Corinthians 16.8) This practice draws from Jewish tradition, with such feasts as the Feast of Tabernacles, the Passover, and the Jubilee.^ Traditional Moslem practices such as polygamy and begging were outlawed, womens' education was promoted, and voting rights were extended to all citizens.

 ^ Ecology and the Jewish Tradition: A Postscript.” Judaism 20 (summer 1971): 330–35.

 ^ [Written by an originally Reform rabbi who then joined the Conservative movement, and who appreciates Orthodox traditions, this is a unique introduction to Jewish belief and practice.
  • Judaism Reading List: Introduction and General (Pt. I) 28 January 2010 1:12 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]

 .Today Catholics, Eastern Christians, and traditional Protestant communities frame worship around a liturgical calendar.^ Among Lutherans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Protestants - the various original Christian churches - all are in agreement that we all look to the same God, the same Jesus, the same Holy Trinity.
  • Are You Christian? Christian Miracles and Thoughts 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.abetterlife.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Tribulation : T he Eastern Orthodox Church, which historically has taught the deification of man ( Theosis) , will be the point of entry to the worship of Antichrist for Protestants and Roman Catholics whose theologians and apologists will defend the Orthodox doctrine of Theosis .
  • Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC watch.pair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Catholic belief is different, too different to be orthodox, say Protestants and Christian cultists.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .This includes holy days, such as solemnities which commemorate an event in the life of Jesus or the saints, periods of fasting such as Lent, and other pious events such as memoria or lesser festivals commemorating saints.^ Bible festivals and Holy days .

 ^ Bible festivals and Holy day s.

 ^ This work is a compilation of the many talks he gave in America and India about his life and teachings, as well as recollections by others -- a rare portrait of a contemporary and influential saint.

 .Christian groups that do not follow a liturgical tradition often retain certain celebrations, such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost.^ There are also secular historians who are outsiders to the Christian tradition, such as the Jews Josephus and Philo, and the pagans Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetoneus, who have recorded corroborating facts about Jesus and his followers.

 ^ Christian Shintoists are rare grouping to see, their thoughts on the Kami is that they are angels or saints doing God’s will through the names and traditions of a none Christian Country.
  • Koshinto - Camarilla Wiki 16 January 2010 18:43 UTC wiki.white-wolf.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The fathers of the church were clever to recycle popular pagan feast days by pinning Christian feast days on top of them (eg Easter, Christmas).

 .A few churches make no use of a liturgical calendar.^ No Pope has ever used his infallibility to change, add, or subtract any Christian teaching; this is because Our Lord promised to be with His Church until the end of the world.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Its just like dieting - no fad is going to make up for the obvious solution that so few can accept: eating less and exercising more.
  • Coding Horror: Software Development: It's a Religion 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.codinghorror.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Why does the Catholic Church make no exceptions when it comes to divorce?
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Catholic Church 10 February 2010 14:014 UTC www.columbia.edu [Source type: Original source]

Symbols

Main article: Christian symbolism
.
An early circular ichthys symbol, created by combining the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ into a wheel.^ He created the Khalsa (The Pure Ones) in 1699, changing the Sikhs into a saint-soldier order with special symbols and sacraments for protecting themselves.
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 Ephesus, Asia Minor.
.Today the best-known Christian symbol is the cross, which refers to the method of Jesus' execution.^ Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on a cross.
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 ^ The Cross: A Vanishing Kafir Symbol in Pakistan (Islam Watch) A Pakistani Christian writes about the hostility toward religious minorities and their symbols in his native country.
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 ^ Pilgrimage sites are known as tirthas , but this does not refer to the literal meaning of "river crossing", sacred to Hindus because of the purificatory nature of water.

 [83] .Several varieties exist, with some denominations tending to favor distinctive styles: Catholics the crucifix, Orthodox the crux orthodoxa, and Protestants an unadorned cross.^ Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements.
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 ^ Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches will condition Protestants and Catholics to worship the Antichrist and mankind in general.
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 ^ SECTS: Christianity is divided into three main sects: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant.
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.An earlier Christian symbol was the 'ichthys' fish (Greek Alpha - α) symbol and anagram.^ (Christians, too, used symbols, such as the fish and the anchor.
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 .Other text based symbols are Greek abbreviations for Jesus Christ, originally with superlineation,[84] to include IHC and ICXC and chi-rho (the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek).^ In other words, his infallibility is limited to his specialty--the Faith of Jesus Christ.
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 ^ Based on t he original work (in draft format) compiled by Pravin Shah and other members of JAINA Education Board .
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 ^ What Paul is saying and putting forward in this letter is neither God's word nor is it what Jesus taught.
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 In the Greek alphabet, the Chi-Rho appears like an X (Chi - χ) with a large P (Rho - ρ) overlaid and above it. .It is said Constantine saw this symbol prior to converting to Christianity (see History and origins section below).^ Historys slaughter-bench is drenched with the blood of those slain because they "obstinately" refused in their "blindness" to see that the Christian alternative was better.
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 ^ (History shows that Christianity was established mainly by Emperor Constantine's power, by destroying its competitors, and by securing the monopoly of religion in the Byzantine Empire and subsequently in the West.
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 ^ Christian saw the cornea dr today and she said his eye is looking better however there are still a little irratation to the eye but she wants to wait and see him in 6 weeks so at least thats a step for slowing things down a little.

 .The variation IHS of the nomina sacra is latinized Greek representing the first three letters of the Latin name, Iesus.^ Note that the first letters in the names of the three who were cast into the fiery furnace, H ananiah, A zariah, and M ishael spells HAM .

 ^ The first letter "a" represents Arihants (human beings who have eradicated all four Ghti Karma.
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 ^ He reads the monosyllables , H, and Wei according to his view of the old names of the Chinese characters, and calls them i, Ki, and Mi, considering them to be representative of one or three names of God.
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 .Another ancient symbol is an anchor, which denotes faith and can incorporate a cross within its design.^ The Cross is not only a symbol of Easter, but it is more widely used, especially by the Catholic Church, as a year-round symbol of their faith.

 ^ "This Ancient Egyptian cross is the earliest and most ancient sacred symbol of religion.

History and origins

Main article: History of Christianity
See also: Pauline Christianity.
See also: Timeline of Christianity and Early Christianity
See also: Christian philosophy, Christian art, Christian literature, Christian music, and Christian architecture
Virgin and Child. Wall painting from the early catacombs, Rome, 4th century.
.The history of Christianity is the history of the Christian religion and Church, from Jesus and his Twelve Apostles to contemporary times.^ (History shows that Christianity was established mainly by Emperor Constantine's power, by destroying its competitors, and by securing the monopoly of religion in the Byzantine Empire and subsequently in the West.
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 ^ PROGRAM OF GOD Church Age : Jesus prayed for the unity of all true Christians.
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 ^ The Orthodox Christian Church founded by the Lord Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and His apostles offers you forgiveness of sins, cancelling of the curse of death, and eternal life.
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.In the mid-first century, Christianity spread beyond its Jewish origins.^ He was unsuccessful in this as Jewish Christianity spread and continued to spread.
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 ^ The Caliphate of Cordova in the 10th century was celebrated for the mingling of Islamic, Christian and Jewish cultures.

 ^ The Qumran Essenes (many of whom joined the Jewish Christians, the original followers of Jesus imitated the pagan associations and their sacred meals in common.
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 .The New Testament depicts this as occurring under the leadership of the Apostles, especially Peter and Paul.^ Rest assured that the truly righteous will be attacked like the Prophets and Apostles and the Messiah of the Old and New Testaments.

 ^ So when the Apostles and their assistants proclaimed the good news in the Mediterranean world, the New Testament, as we now know it, had not yet existed.
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 ^ Where this name for the Christian system occurs in our Revised Version of the New Testament in the Acts of the Apostles, the literal rendering is adhered to, Way being printed with a capital W. See Acts ix.
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 .Some scholars even consider Paul to be the founding figure of Christianity, pointing to the extent of his writings and the scope of his missionary work.^ Missionary work is considered very important.
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 ^ Some Christians also found the name offensive.
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 ^ It appeal is universal, and has been found relevant by Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and even Quantum Physicists.
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 [85] (See also Pauline Christianity). Within a generation an episcopal hierarchy can be seen, and this would form the structure of the Church.[86] .In 301 Christianity became a state-religion in Armenia being the first country to accept Christianity.^ The individuals that first accepted Mormonism were Christians before they became Mormon .
  • Imperialist, fundamentalist, traditionalist and literalist religious concepts are faulty and need to return once again to the source in order to purge belief of fallacy 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.unique-design.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Malaysian federal court has rejected professed Catholic Lina Joy's appeal to change her stated religion from 'Muslim' to 'Christian' on her identity card.
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 ^ "Fight People of the Book (Christians and Jews), who do not accept the religion of the truth (Islam), until they pay tribute (penalty tax) by hand, being inferior."

 .Christianity spread east to Asia and throughout the Roman Empire, despite persecution by the Roman Emperors until its legalization by Emperor Constantine in 313. During his reign, questions of orthodoxy lead to the convocation of the first Ecumenical Council, that of Nicaea.^ Their great period began when the Romans imposed peace upon the Mediterranean world, during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, towards the end of the first century BCE (a few decades before the birth of Christianity).
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 ^ (History shows that Christianity was established mainly by Emperor Constantine's power, by destroying its competitors, and by securing the monopoly of religion in the Byzantine Empire and subsequently in the West.
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 ^ Although Christianity has two main branches Catholicism and Protestantism they both use basically the same testament that was decided upon by the Roman Catholic Council of Nicaea in 325 AD .
  • Imperialist, fundamentalist, traditionalist and literalist religious concepts are faulty and need to return once again to the source in order to purge belief of fallacy 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC www.unique-design.net [Source type: Original source]
.In 391 Theodosius I established Nicene Christianity as the official and, except for Judaism, only legal religion in the Roman Empire.^ The only serious religions are Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
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 ^ Christianity is the only TRUE religion.
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 ^ Mithraism was the official religion of Roman soldiers.
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 .Later, as the political structure of the empire collapsed in the West, the Church assumed political and cultural roles previously held by the Roman aristocracy.^ Think about that number the next time the Roman Catholic Church starts meddling in American politics.

 ^ The Catholic Church began in the days of the Roman Empire, and the language spoken throughout that Empire was Latin.
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 ^ Is it possible that Islam and the West could become integrated in some way such that the political structure of revived Rome would unite with Islam?

 .Eremitic and Coenobitic monasticism developed, originating with the hermit St Anthony of Egypt around 300. With the avowed purpose of fleeing the world and its evils in contemptu mundi, the institution of monasticism would become a central part of the medieval world.^ These writings gave rise to cenobitic monasticism which resulted in the Desert Fathers - hermits, ascetics and monks - who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century.
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 ^ For five and a half years I’ve been traveling around the world, Mexico, Central American, India.” .
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 ^ In any event, a large group of people living in what is now India began practicing what would become Hinduism, around 5000 years ago.
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 [87]
Christ Jesus,[88] the Good Shepherd, 3rd century.
.Christianity became the established church of the Axumite Kingdom (presently encompassing Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia) under king Ezana in the 4th century through the efforts of a Syrian Greek named Frumentius, known in Eritrea and Ethiopia as Abba Selama, Kesaté Birhan ("Father of Peace, Revealer of Light"), thus making Eritrea and Ethiopia one of the first christian states even before most of Europe.^ Such potions were known and used even in the first century.
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 ^ By the 4th century it became one of the most powerful religions of the Roman empire.
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 ^ This is not correct even if one is Christian.

 As a youth, Frumentius had been shipwrecked with his brother Aedesius on the Eritrean coast. .The brothers managed to be brought to the royal court, where they rose to positions of influence and converted Emperor Ezana to Christianity, causing him to be baptised.^ They converted from Islam to Christianity.
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 ^ They swear by him in courts of law and the judges believe that whatever they say under the sacred oath is truth and nothing but truth.
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 ^ They are more under the influence of a feeling of rancor towards him than of enmity to the British government.

 Ezana sent Frumentius to Alexandria to ask the Patriarch, St. Athanasius, to appoint a bishop for the Kingdom of Aksum. .Athanasius appointed Frumentius himself, who returned to Aksum as Bishop with the name of Abune Selama.^ So even when it is rnml himself who was engaged in the past divination, his praise names are those given in the first part of the poem.

 ^ And urges all who take the name Christian to return to the Apostolic foundation.
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The first coins to display the Christian cross were those of the Axumite leader Ezana circa 350 AD.
.During the Migration Period of Late Antiquity, various Germanic peoples adopted Christianity.^ Christianity was born during a period of proliferation.
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 ^ Jerusalem Mosaic This site offers information about the history of Jerusalem, focusing on topics such as the architecture, food, customs, and prominent people during various time periods.

 ^ Jainism received great royal support in the South from the various ruling dynasties of the Deccan during this period.
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 .Meanwhile, as western political unity dissolved, the linguistic divide of the Empire between Latin-speaking West and the Greek-speaking East intensified.^ But even if, broadly speaking, East and West are never able to share a common Eucharistic chalice, does that mean they must be enemies?

 ^ The tribes of Arabia were eventually drawn into the east-west struggle between the Romans and the Persians.

 ^ Much of what the English incorporated into the language with regards to Christianity was brought to them from French, Greek and Latin-speaking people, mostly Clerics.
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 .By the Middle Ages distinct forms of Latin and Greek Christianity increasingly separated until cultural differences and disciplinary disputes finally resulted in the Great Schism (conventionally dated to 1054), which formally divided Christendom into the Catholic west and the Orthodox east.^ Christianity is increasingly a persecuted faith in the West.
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 ^ Again, many Jews of modern times more or less systematically discard that form of Judaism fixed by the codes and the casuistry of the Middle Ages, and incline toward a Judaism which they hold more in harmony with the requirements of an age of broader culture and larger aims.

 ^ Christianity ), as it often stood as mediator between Church and Mosque during the Middle Ages ( see Disputations and Judah ha-Levi ).

 .Western Christianity in the Middle Ages was characterized by cooperation and conflict between the secular rulers and the Church under the Pope, and by the development of scholastic theology and philosophy.^ Middle-aged People in Church .
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 ^ Christianity ), as it often stood as mediator between Church and Mosque during the Middle Ages ( see Disputations and Judah ha-Levi ).

 ^ The War Between The God of Israel And The God Of Islam - As hard as Osama bin Laden and other Islamic extremists tried to paint their jihad as a war between Islam and the Jewish/Christian/Crusader west, western leaders and press have attempted to characterize the conflict in narrower terms as a "war against terrorism."
.Beginning in the 7th century, Muslim rulers began a long series of military conquests of Christian areas, and it quickly conquered areas of the Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, and even captured southern Spain.^ Nevertheless, many Muslims have studied and several novelized lives of Jesus have been published in the twentieth century, especially in Egypt.
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 ^ At the height of their power, the Muslims' territories stretched from northern Africa and southern Europe in the West to the borders of modern India and China in the East.

 ^ Under Muhammad's immediate successors the Islamic empire expanded into Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain.
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 Numerous military struggles followed, including the Crusades, the Spanish Reconquista, the Fall of Constantinople and the aggression of the Turks.
Martin Luther
.In the early sixteenth century, increasing discontent with corruption and immorality among the clergy resulted in attempts to reform the Church and society.^ However understandable supersessionism may be as a response to the pressures brought to bear on the church from the late first through the early fourth century, it should be dropped.
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 ^ China's impact on Malacca as of the early sixteenth century was confined to the activities of a single sector functioning on its own.
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 ^ In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement.
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 .The Protestant Reformation began after Martin Luther published his 95 theses in 1517, whilst the Roman Catholic Church experienced internal renewal with the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent (1545-1563).^ 'Through the Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church came to terms with the modern world,' the Denver-born Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, mused with me.

 ^ Catholics believe in seven sacraments because Christ instituted seven; because the Apostles and Church Fathers believed in seven; because the second Ecumenical Council of Lyons (1274) defined seven; and because the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563) confirmed seven.
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 ^ Think about that number the next time the Roman Catholic Church starts meddling in American politics.

 .During the following centuries, competition between Catholicism and Protestantism became deeply entangled with political struggles among European states.^ In fact, during the first three centuries of the rise of Christianity, being a follower of Christ usually resulted in great hardship, persecution, and often martyrdom.

 ^ But in fact they do apply to one case: Malacca during roughly the first century of [European imperalism] phase 1.
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 ^ Mawdudi, a prominent Pakistani Muslim scholar, summarizes the basic differences between Islamic and secular states as follows: .

 .Meanwhile, partly from missionary zeal, but also under the impetus of colonial expansion by the European powers, Christianity spread to the Americas, Oceania, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.^ Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s .
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 ^ It will outline Muslim beliefs and practices, as well as the history of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 17th centuries, including the expansion of the Islamic empires of Asia, Africa, and Europe."

 ^ To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner.
.In the Modern Era, Christianity was confronted with various forms of skepticism and with certain modern political ideologies such as liberalism, nationalism, and socialism.^ Within the mystery communities the class distinctions of the secular world, such as differences in nationality, race, or economic and social position, were null and void.
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 ^ While in prison, Qutb wrote an intelligent, informed, and morally serious commentary on the Koran in which he laid the ills of modern society at the feet of Christianity and liberal democracy.
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 ^ Liberalism is committed to various philosophical claims and practices that are incompatible with orthodox theism (or at least orthodox theism in its best forms, such as Thomism).
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 .This included the anti-clericalism of the French Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, and general hostility of Marxist movements, especially the Russian Revolution.^ This Chasidic site features the teachings of Judaism in 9 languages: Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Hungarian German and Russian.

 ^ What but the mighty mastership of religion has ever led a people up through civil wars and revolutions into a regenerated order and liberty?
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 ^ Civil War by Aristobulus Against Hyrcanus (Third generation after Simeon) .
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Persecution

Main articles: Persecution of Christians and Historical persecution by Christians
.Starting with Jesus, the early Christian church was persecuted by state and religious establishments from its earliest beginnings.^ As a result, they started persecuting the Christians.
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 ^ Taoism started as a combination of psychology and philosophy but evolved into a religious faith in 440 CE when it was adopted as a state religion.
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 ^ Thus, early in the Second-Century, the canon of the New Testament was being established and its twenty-seven books preserved in various sections of the early Church.
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 .Notable early Christians such as Stephen, eleven of the Apostles as well as Paul died as martyrs according to tradition.^ The earliest of the Christian writings to be accepted as part of the Christian Canon and thus playing an important part in moulding early Christian beliefs, were Paul's letters.
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 ^ Contrast the above with Christianity's teaching about women: The Apostle Paul knew better then anybody in antiquity that male and female were equal in Christ Jesus.
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 ^ The fierce and even brutal persecution of Christians in Islamic countries today is well documented — if shamefully ignored (see Paul Marshall's Their Blood Cries Out).

 .Systematic Roman persecution of Christians culminated in the Great Persecution of Diocletian and ended with the Edict of Milan.^ Their great period began when the Romans imposed peace upon the Mediterranean world, during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, towards the end of the first century BCE (a few decades before the birth of Christianity).
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 ^ The argument for Christian supersession of Judaism is an ideology of the Christian will-to-power left over from the days of persecution at the hands of the Roman Empire.
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 [89] .Persecution of Christians persisted or even intensified in other places, such as in Sassanid Persia.^ Though tensions, conflicts, and even wars in which Christians and Muslims stand against each other are not primarily religious in character, they possess an undeniable religious dimension.
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 ^ Throughout this study, "church" and "churchgoer" are used in the generic sense to indicate church, synagogue, or any other place of worship and an individual attending any such institution.
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 ^ CCM is in such as worldly, compromising, money-making, confusing, mess it's "number-one-star" does NOT even know if her album is Christian!
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 [90] .Later Christians living in Islamic countries were subjected to various legal restrictions, which included taxation and a ban on building or repairing churches.^ Second, since Jews were the only infidel living continuously within Christian society, they were often singled out for both church and state regulation.
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 ^ Why is it that Muslims are allowed to establish mosques and Islamic centers in the western world, when the same privilege is not granted to Christians in many Muslim countries?
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 ^ First, Jews living under the jurisdiction of Islamic rule were considered to be subject to Islamic law.
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 .Christians at times also suffered violent persecution or confiscation of their property.^ When they rejected him, he stopped praying towards Jerusalem, turning instead towards Mecca, and began persecuting the Jews, confiscating their properties.

 ^ Along with other non-Christian sects, it suffered persecution by Christianity and was gradually eliminated after Emperor Constantine declared Christianity the state religion.
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.There was persecution of Christians during the French Revolution (see Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution).^ The central figure in an attempt to supersede Christianity during the French Revolution.
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 ^ Christianity ), as it often stood as mediator between Church and Mosque during the Middle Ages ( see Disputations and Judah ha-Levi ).

 ^ When I see the news releases about persecuted individual Christians from elsewhere in the world, I sigh.

 [92] .State restrictions on Christian practices today are generally associated with those authoritarian governments which either support a majority religion other than Christianity (as in Muslim states),[93] or tolerate only churches under government supervision, sometimes while officially promoting state atheism (as in the Soviet Union).^ "Other Christian religions, such as Protestantism" .

 ^ Only Christianity prohibited its converts from belonging to other religions.
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 ^ Of 53 nations only one nation is more African in religion than either Christian or Muslim.

 .The People's Republic of China allows only government-regulated churches and has regularly suppressed house churches and underground Catholics.^ Percentage of Americans who would allow " churches and other houses of worship" to seek federal funds for charitable work: 75 .
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 ^ Indeed, when the empire finally decayed, the Celestial Master government was the only order in much of southern China.
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 ^ ONLINE STORE concerning the traditional Catholic Church and other issues Get 4 DVDs, 4 books and more for only $10.00!
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 .The public practice of Christianity is outlawed in Saudi Arabia.^ Why is the Bible, a cross, or any Christian literature prohibited from entering Saudi Arabia?

 ^ (XXXIII - The Confederates: 25) The above is the description of what happened to the Jews of Khyber , who were attacked without an ultimatum of war , and this practice was also repeated against the Christian tribes of Arabia .
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 ^ Christian Maid Tells of Constant Harassment in Saudi Arabia...
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 .Areas of persecution include other parts of the Middle East, the Sudan, and Kosovo.^ Other prominent jihads include that fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Muslim Bosnians against the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Muslim Albanians against the Serbs in Kosovo, and the Chechens against the Russians in the Caucasus.
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 ^ One has to do with funding and other support from the Middle East , which goes almost exclusively to fundamentalists.
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 ^ An initiative by the US state department to create a women's network in the Middle East so that women can learn from each other is a positive move.
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.Christians have also been perpetrators of persecution against other religions and other Christians.^ Though tensions, conflicts, and even wars in which Christians and Muslims stand against each other are not primarily religious in character, they possess an undeniable religious dimension.
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 ^ The U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women, says violations of women's rights shows that religion is used as a tool whether in Muslim or Christian or Jewish societies.
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 ^ Only Christianity prohibited its converts from belonging to other religions.
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 .Christian mobs, sometimes with government support, destroyed pagan temples and persecuted or even killed adherents of paganism (e.g.^ The fierce and even brutal persecution of Christians in Islamic countries today is well documented — if shamefully ignored (see Paul Marshall's Their Blood Cries Out).

 ^ All in, from 1896-1923, some 2.5 million Christians were killed, the first modern genocide, which to this day is denied by the Turkish government.
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 ^ They convinced many Jews that they will be protected from Christians , called pagans), and they convinced many Christians that Jews were the mortal enemies, because they killed Issa (Jesus).
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 the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria). .Also, Jewish communities have periodically suffered violence at Christian hands.^ The U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women, says violations of women's rights shows that religion is used as a tool whether in Muslim or Christian or Jewish societies.
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 ^ We then see Jewish communities arguing against what the Jewish establishment was doing, see them trying to live according to the laws of the Pentateuch, being or including the Jewish Christian communities.
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 ^ Origin of Christianity: the early Christians and the Jewish community - - - Judaism under Roman rule .
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 .Christian governments have suppressed or persecuted groups seen as heretical, later in cooperation with the Inquisition.^ The Inquisition, on the other hand, is a perfect example of what happens when a religious group (the Roman Catholic Church) gets in power and tries to root out heretics and blasphemers.

 ^ The apostle Paul himself was so against Christianity that he persecuted the early church and was responsible for the stoning a young convert called Stephen of which he later repented when he became a Christian.
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 ^ History will also judge Christian, Jewish and other governments of later generations on their adherence to their principles!
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 Denominational strife escalated into religious wars. .Witch hunts, carried out by secular authorities or popular mobs, were a frequent phenomenon in parts of early modern Europe and, to a lesser degree, North America.^ "I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe or North and South America" ...This was a clear reference to legislation either enacted or proposed in several part of the world.

 ^ Where once it was widely assumed that modernity and its handmaiden "secularization" would kill off religion, the reports of God’s death turn out to have been greatly exaggerated.

 ^ He pointed out that the people of the Bible were Black and that in all the early Catholic Churches of Europe: "the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures to be black (peoples).

Christian divisions

An icon depicting the First Council of Nicaea
.There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian.^ Although, it was not always that way; at the dawn of Christianity, there were other competing versions that rejected the tri-unity -- the so-called arian and monophysite heresies.
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 ^ Christianity itself in the beginning consisted of many cults that existed independently and had very diverse doctrines.
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 ^ Why is it when these so-called CHRISTian groups do mention the name of Jesus it's in a degrading and mocking manner!
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 .These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.^ He also enumerated other details of the order of Hindu monks grouped under these heads for their identity.
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 ^ The Pentateuch states the Ten Commandments, the social laws and the social system laws and states in religious language the effects when people either follow or else reject these laws.
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 ^ Though not all mosques in America are radicalized, many have tended to serve as safe havens and meeting points for Islamic terrorist groups.

 [95] Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:[96]
.
  • Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, or "Catholic Church," includes the 23 particular churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome.^ She recently announced on EWTN that has received permission to start a women’s religious order — as she says for women 18 to 118 — by the Roman Catholic bishop of St. Louis, Missouri.
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     ^ In 2005, Catholic bishops announced they would refuse Communion to government health workers who distributed birth control devices.
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     ^ Mexican Santeria, for example, emphasizes its Roman Catholic roots; it often includes nationally based icons, like the Virgin of Guadeloupe.

     .It is the largest single body, with more than 1 billion baptized members.^ After men marry, they work more productively and make more money than they did when they were single.
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     ^ I’m not going to say more other than “the loops (stems) come first, and then the flowers.” Just like within the body, “the arteries come first, and then the organs form.” .

     ^ More than at any time in history, today the world has two billion poor and one billion in abject poverty with little hope of a positive outcome.
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    • .
  • Eastern Orthodoxy: Those churches in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the other Patriarchal Sees of the East.^ Those who attend church weekly or more frequently, on the other hand, exhibit the following profiles: .
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     ^ "The Catholic Church in the Middle East: communion and testimony."
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     ^ Many famous mosques of the Middle East incorporate ancient columns from churches, classical temples and other public buildings.

     .A 1992 agreement amongst American theologians resolved theological differences between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians -- although this has yet to be universally recognized.^ Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements.
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     ^ There are also many differences between the Christian and Yorb conceptions of evil.

     ^ This is an excellent book that sheds light on the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity ) .

     .Together with the "Church of the East", these can be considered a single large grouping.
  • Protestantism: Virtually every church body outside Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholocism are considered to be Protestant.^ The Christian East fell to Islam largely because of the heresies and civil turmoil raised up by the secret Jews in the Church - both East and West.
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     ^ Each of these activities -- which I've done recently -- requires my mind and body to act together harmoniously.
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     ^ If a church is a manifestation of the living body of Christ, you can't have loose body parts all over the place: a congregation needs to congregate, in small groups and in large.

     .In the 16th Century, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin inaugurated what has come to be called the Protestant Reformation.^ Details the interconnections between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Book call no.: 323.0922 B181b .
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     ^ The German reformer and musician, Martin Luther puts it bluntly - "whoever does NOT want to song and speak of it shows that he does not believe it".
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     ^ The Protestant Reformation started under Martin Luther led to disasters such as the 30 Years War that killed millions and devastated Europe.

     Luther's primary theological heirs are known as Lutherans (Also known as Evangelicals in Germany and elsewhere). Zwingli and Calvin's heirs are far broader denominationally, and are broadly referred to as the Reformed Tradition. .Most Protestant traditions branch out from the Reformed tradition in some way.^ Believe it or not, there are some stories out there that you may not have heard about - or perhaps didn't look at the way we did.
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     ^ It is a powerful answer to many of our most significant social problems, some of which, including out-of-wedlock births, have reached catastrophic proportions.
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     ^ While some consider the Islamic mysticism called Sufism to constitute a separate branch, most Sufis can easily be considered Sunni or Shi'a.
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     .In addition to the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation, there is also the Anabaptist tradition, which was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but have achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history.^ Steven provides you a synopsis of each group’s origins & history, its beliefs, rites, rituals & practices, as well as additional resources to learn more about them.
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     ^ Others will find much more value in almost any other work on Taoism, for founding history and a good background of Taoism's early development go with Elements of Taoism (Martin Palmer).
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     ^ You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.
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     Restorationism may be considered to be another Protestant branch should one consider them to be properly called Christians.
.The oldest Protestant and Reformed groups separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
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 ^ In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement.
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 ^ Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population but Protestant groups have been making inroads for decades.
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 .Estimates of the total number of Protestants and Reformed are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems to be unquestionable that Orthodox Christianity is the second major group of Christians (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
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 ^ The statistics of the Hindus, who constitute more than 80% of the total population, should be kept in perspective while comparing these figures.

 ^ Somehow we also began discussing religious persecution during the second World War and he said quickly, "What I think is people should not blame any religion for all these (persecutions)."

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Some Reformed Christians identify themselves simply as Christian, or born-again Christian; they typically distance themselves from the confessionalism of Protestant communities[98]
.Restorationists are historically connected to Early 19th Century Camp Meetings in the Midwest and Upstate New York.^ Thus, early in the Second-Century, the canon of the New Testament was being established and its twenty-seven books preserved in various sections of the early Church.
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 ^ In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement.
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 ^ Hanukkah lamp, silver with enamel medallions, by Johann Adam Boller, early 18th century, Frankfurt …[Credits : Jewish Museum, New York City] Moses Maimonides, engraved portrait and autograph, c.
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 .American Millennialism and Adventism, which arose from Evangelical Protestantism, produced certain groups such as the Jehovah's Witness movement (p.^ He drifted into Detroit at a time when many African-Americans were beginning to form racial identity groups around charismatic personalities such as Marcus Garvey.
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 .807), and, as a reaction specifically to William Miller, Seventh Day Adventists (p.^ I know Muslims and Mormons, Christian Scientists and Seventh Day Adventists will not want to hear this, but the Bible declares that Jesus was the FINAL revelation of God to man.
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 ^ Jerald Whitehouse, Director, Global Center for Adventist Muslim Relations, General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, Loma Linda, CA .
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 381). .These groups usually describe themselves as restoring the Church that they believe was lost at some point and not as "reforming" a Christian Church continuously existing from the time of Jesus.^ You do not, at this point believe in Jesus Christ.
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 ^ Jesus' crucifixion they believe, redeems Christians of their sins.
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 ^ They stay for some time.
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 .Restorationists include Churches of Christ with 2.6 million members, Disciples of Christ with 800,000 members,[99] and Jehovah’s Witnesses with 6.6 million members,[100] and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 12 million members.^ In Utah at least 70% of the 2.2 million residents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the church's emphasis is on big families.
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 ^ CHRISTian is a disciple of Jesus Christ!
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 ^ Doctrine and Covenants 129 : THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, SECTION 129: Instructions given by Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, February 9, 1843, making known three grand keys by which the correct nature of ministering angels and spirits may be distinguished.
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 .Though Restorationists have some superficial similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.^ In spite of these great variations of belief and practice, there are also some common characteristics.

 ^ Though some of the members of those groups do indeed practice the religion of Judaism, many are atheists, and some are Christians, Buddhist, etc.

 ^ So popular was Jainism for some time there that even oilmen and people of similar castes observed the doctrine of ahis out of respect for the Jaina population.
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.
A simplified chart of historical developments of major groups within Christianity.^ Christian beliefs were spreading largely among Jews, and Christianity was a group within Judaism.
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 ^ Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three major religions that developed within the Indian civilization.
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 The different width of the lines (thickest for "Protestantism" and thinnest for "Oriental Orthodox" and "Nestorians") is without objective significance.

Mainstream Christianity

.Mainstream Christianity is a widely used term, used to refer to collectively to the common views of major denominations of Christianity (such as Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christianity) as against the particular tenets of other sects or Christian denomination.^ "Other Christian religions, such as Protestantism" .

 ^ Although Christianity has two main branches Catholicism and Protestantism they both use basically the same testament that was decided upon by the Roman Catholic Council of Nicaea in 325 AD .
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 ^ The U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women, says violations of women's rights shows that religion is used as a tool whether in Muslim or Christian or Jewish societies.
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 .The context is dependent on the particular issues addressed, but usually contrasts the orthodox majority view against heterodox minority views.^ It doesn't really have much directly to do with Daoism, but it does address the issue of why I am what people usually call a "religious" instead of a "philosophical" Daoist.
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 ^ Those Dirty Muslims Muslims are generally deemed by a majority of Hindus as minorities in bigoted nations are usually considered to be: unclean, uneducated, and unpatriotic.

 ^ (This book answers all of the major objections on the baptism issue and the salvation issue look through the Table of Contents if you are looking for a particular issue) .
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 .In the most common sense, "mainstream" refers to Nicene Christianity, or rather the traditions which continue to claim adherence to the Nicene Creed.^ This divine tradition to which Paul refers--this revealed truth which was handed down by word rather than by letter-- is the tradition upon which, along with Sacred Scripture, the Catholic Church bases her tenets of faith--as the primitive Christian Fathers affirmed.
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 ^ In an ontological sense it refers to the creative power of Brahman.
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 ^ Wrote St. Augustine: ``These traditions of the Christian name, therefore, so numerous, so powerful, and most dear, justly keep a believing man in the Catholic Church.''
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.Some groups identifying themselves as Christian deviate from the tenets considered basic by most Christian organizations.^ A Common Word Between Us and You identifies some core common ground between Christianity and Islam which lies at the heart of our respective faiths as well as at the heart of the most ancient Abrahamic faith, Judaism.
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 ^ Embracing people from more than 2,100 ethnic, racial and tribal groups, it is quite likely the most diverse organized body of people on the planet.
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 ^ Though some of the members of those groups do indeed practice the religion of Judaism, many are atheists, and some are Christians, Buddhist, etc.

 .These groups are often considered heretical, or even non-Christian, by many mainstream Christians.^ Reports of these supernatural occurrences often come from closed countries where preaching the Gospel is forbidden and where converting to Christianity can invoke the death sentence.

 ^ The mealy-mouthed and apologetic character of so much Western scholarship on Islam springs from the fact that many of these scholars were, and are, believers, in the rival creed of Christianity .
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 ^ Considered marginal even among Haredi Jews, the group's size is estimated at between a few hundred to a few thousand people.
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 This is particularly true of non-trinitarians.

Ecumenism

Main article: Ecumenism
Christianity percentage by country
.Most churches have long expressed ideals of being reconciled with each other, and in the 20th century Christian ecumenism advanced in two ways.^ Although, it was not always that way; at the dawn of Christianity, there were other competing versions that rejected the tri-unity -- the so-called arian and monophysite heresies.
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 ^ In the earlier centuries of Christianity, Epiphany was considered to be more important than Christmas, even by the so-called orthodox church.
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 ^ OAKLAND — Buddhists are perceived as being above church politics.But a bitter five-year battle over an Oakland temple pitted two Cambodian Buddhist organizations against each other and gave rise...
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 .One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which also includes Roman Catholics.^ Many Christian groups, such as the Roman Catholics and Orthodox, believe this, too.
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 ^ 'Through the Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church came to terms with the modern world,' the Denver-born Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, mused with me.

 ^ Within the mystery communities the class distinctions of the secular world, such as differences in nationality, race, or economic and social position, were null and void.
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.The other way was institutional union with new United and uniting churches.^ It survives as a vibrant philosophical system and way of life as its evidenced by the revival of its practice and study in several new University institutes in the People's Republic.
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 ^ Into this new church other peoples of the world, for they only await the resurrection of Europe to join and become citizens of the celestial kingdom.
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 ^ As the result of secessions in the Brahmo Samaj, three institutions arose: The Adi Brahmo Samaj; the New Dispensation of Keshub Chandra Sen; and the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj founded by dissenters from the Keshub Church.
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 .Congregationalist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches united in 1925 to form the United Church of Canada and in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia.^ The Funeral Service will be had at 11:00am on Wednesday at the University United Methodist Church at 410 Minnesota Ave.

 ^ In the course of reporting that story, I interviewed the Rev. Tyrone Gordon, pastor at St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas.

 ^ Jill Schaeffer, United Presbyterian Church of Cincinnatus, NY and Adjunct Professor, New York Theological Seminary, New York, NY .
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 .The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.^ Mogamat-Ali Behardien, Minister, African Reformed Church, Paarl, South Africa.
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 ^ August 21, 2006 The Nation Catholic Church in South India Tells Flock to Have More Babies.
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.Steps towards reconciliation on a global level have also been taken in 1965 by the Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970; and the Lutheran and Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.^ On occasions this has led to conflict with the Catholic Church.
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 ^ Aims of the Church's doctrines and the consequences for Catholics.
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 ^ I n addressing the cultural schism between the western and eastern halves of European, Christian civilization, marked principally by their respective religious traditions, Roman Catholic/Protestant in the West and Orthodox in the East, one issue stands above all others in determining whether that millennium-old division shall eventually prove fatal: the Islamic resurgence that has rapidly come to mark the post-Cold War era.

 .In 2006 the Methodist church also adopted the declaration.^ March 14, 2006 AAP (Australia) Philippines: Church Adopts Tough Stance on Birth Control.
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 ^ January 05, 2006 Guardian (London) Philippines: Catholic Church Should Be Declared Security Threat .
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        • We Believe in One God...: The Nicene Creed at Mass.^ I believe that no priest should intervene in the relationship of man and God, nor should God be represented in any form, nor should any being be worshiped other than the One God, Yahweh.
          • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

           ^ I believe man's sense of the sacred can be fulfilled naturally, without formal worship, houses of God, ceremony, creeds or theology (various faiths).
          • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 8:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

           ^ By contrast, Ascenders believe that the timeless, formless, limitless One (God) is right here, right now.
          • Church of the Churchless: Taoism 14 January 2010 10:19 UTC hinessight.blogs.com [Source type: Original source]

           Catholics United for the Faith (2004). Retrieved on 2006-10-25.
        • White, James; Gerry Matatics (November, 1992). .Does The Bible Teach Sola Scriptura?.^ So how does a small group leader grab the attention of their students while teaching them about the bible?
          • Alltop - Top Religion News 28 January 2010 1:44 UTC religion.alltop.com [Source type: General]

           Retrieved on 2006-10-09.
        • Wright, David F.; Sinclair B. Ferguson, J.I. Packer. New Dictionary of Theology. 

        Further reading

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        • From Jesus to Christ Perspectives on Jesus and early Christianity from various academics.
        • bethinking.org Christianity Treating Christianity as a whole worldview or perspective and looking at the relationship between historic Christianity and contemporary thought.^ CHRISTian is a disciple of Jesus Christ!
          • CHRISTIAN ROCK: Blessing or Blasphemy? 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.av1611.org [Source type: General]

           ^ But the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ is given to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus alike.
          • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 1:01 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

           ^ I’d mentioned that I was pulling together something about a study that looks at the relationship between psychiatry and religion among U.S. doctors.

           .(Website from the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship.^ James R. Payton, Jr., Professor of History, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada and President, Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe .
          • Yale Center for Faith and Culture - About Us 10 February 2010 14:24 UTC www.yale.edu [Source type: Academic]

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        • Christianity. Religion & Ethics. BBC. Retrieved on 2006-04-12.

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        .This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia.^ Yet surprisingly, the almost universal translation in English uses one of the smallest, simplest, most familiar and least consciously noticed terms of the language — 'way.'
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         ^ Note: "Mi" in the Ga language is the same semantically and phonologically as the English word "M" (Nana Darkwah, The Africans Who Wrote The Bible, page 123).

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