Christianity is the largest religion in the world. Although many of the beliefs and doctrines of Christianity are similar to those of other faiths, it also has many things that make it unique. Geographically, it
There is no room for the processes ofdemocracyin a true theocracy. For the population to abide by and respect the will of the ruler and, by extension, that of the deity, those who disagree with or fail to abide by the laws and the dictates of the religion are often repressed and perse...
The four largest branches of Christianity are the Catholic Church, Protestantism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Oriental Orthodoxy. Protestantism is made up of many denominations including Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists. Islam is the world's second-largest religion and a majority of the...
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Unitarian commentators traditionally view this as either a later addition (disputed by textual scholars) or primarily a symbolic reference to God’s power manifest in different ways, not a literal...
The second question asks, “Upon what grounds will a believer be saved during the Tribulation?” The short answer would appear to be, “the same grounds upon which believers are saved during the Church Age” — salvation by grace through faith. But that isn’t exactly accurate. During the ...
These well-intentioned but misguided apologists are, in one respect, much like Lea, Coulton, and contemporary Fundamentalist writers. They fear, while the others hope, that the facts about the Inquisition might prove the illegitimacy of the Catholic Church. Don’t Fear the Facts But the facts ...
“[T]o the Church beloved and enlightened after the love of Jesus Christ, our God, by the will of him that has willed everything which is” (Letter to the Romans 1 [A.D. 110]). Aristides “[Christians] are they who, above every people of the earth, have found the truth, for th...
A quick look at Manalo’s background shows where these doctrines came from: Manalo stole them from other quasi-Christian religious sects. Manalo was baptized a Catholic, but he left the Church as a teen. He became a Protestant, going through five different denominations, including the Seventh-...
What does it mean for doctrines to develop? Are the professed doctrines of the Church such as the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the sacraments unalterably true, or can they develop into something radically different from what we now believe them to be?
The second question asks, “Upon what grounds will a believer be saved during the Tribulation?” The short answer would appear to be, “the same grounds upon which believers are saved during the Church Age” — salvation by grace through faith. But that isn’t exactly accurate. During the ...