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Among the many churches which separated from the Worldwide Church of God, also referred to as the "Sabbatarian Churches of God" or, more pejoratively, Armstrongites, there is a shared belief in binitarianism, and that Jesus was the God of the Old Testament through whom God the Father created the world (based on Ephesians 3:9 and John 1:1–3 ...
In Luke 22:31, Jesus grants Satan the authority to test Peter and the other apostles. [88] Luke 22:3–6 states that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus because "Satan entered" him [87] and, in Acts 5:3, Peter describes Satan as "filling" Ananias's heart and causing him to sin. [89] The Gospel of John only uses the name Satan three times. [90]
Durand de Huesca, responding to a Cathar tract c. 1220 indicates that they regarded the physical world as the creation of Satan. [157] A former Italian Cathar turned Dominican, Sacchoni in 1250 testified to the Inquisition that his former co-religionists believed that the devil made the world and everything in it. [158]
According to this belief, these purposes were explained and discussed in councils in heaven, followed by the War in Heaven where Satan rebelled against the plan of Heavenly Father. In the 1840s, [citation needed] Joseph Smith stated that the human spirit existed with God before the creation of Earth.
The Qur'an recounts the story of when the descendants of Adam were brought forth before God to testify that God alone is the Lord of creation and so only God is worthy of worship [25] and so on the Day of Judgement, people cannot use the excuse that they worshipped others only because they were following the ways of their ancestors.
Jesus' existence and his crucifixion are historically well attested. [9] [10] [11] Jesus saw his identity and mission, and that of his followers, in light of the kingdom of God and the prophetic tradition of Israel. [12] His followers believed God's spirit was incarnated (embodied) in Jesus and that after his crucifixion, he rose from the dead.
Part of the 6th-century Madaba Map asserting two possible baptism locations The crucifixion of Jesus as depicted by Mannerist painter Bronzino (c. 1545). There is no scholarly consensus concerning most elements of Jesus's life as described in the Christian and non-Christian sources, and reconstructions of the "historical Jesus" are broadly debated for their reliability, [note 7] [note 6] but ...
Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel. The pre-Adamite hypothesis or pre-Adamism is the theological belief that humans (or intelligent yet non-human creatures) existed before the biblical character Adam. Pre-Adamism is therefore distinct from the conventional Abrahamic belief that Adam was the first human. "Pre-Adamite" is used as a term, both ...