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For example, the biblical prophet Jeremiah complains: "According to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah." [ 53 ] Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Hosea referred to Israel's worship of other gods as spiritual adultery : [ 54 ] "How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have ...
From Isa Masih, a name of Jesus Christ in the Hindi-language Bible. [12] The term literally means '[person/people] of Jesus' in India and Pakistan , but in the latter country, Isai has been pejoratively used by non-Christians to refer to 'street sweepers' or 'labourers', occupations that have been held by Christian workers of Dalit ancestry. [ 13 ]
The Catholic Church states that idolatry is consistently prohibited in the Hebrew Bible, including as one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3–4) and in the New Testament (for example 1 John 5:21, most significantly in the Apostolic Decree recorded in Acts 15:19–21). There is a great deal of controversy over the question of what constitutes ...
A heresy is a belief or doctrine that is considered to be false or erroneous by one or more Christian denominations, i.e. what is believed to be contrary to the teaching of Christianity.
The regulative principle of worship is a Christian doctrine, held by some Calvinists and Anabaptists, that God commands churches to conduct public services of worship using certain distinct elements affirmatively found in scripture, and conversely, that God prohibits any and all other practices in public worship.
The normative principle is often contrasted with the regulative principle of worship, which teaches that only those practices or elements specifically commanded or modelled in Scripture are to be permitted in worship services. An example of the difference between these two principles of worship (normative and regulative) can be illustrated by ...
In this comparison, he equates each covenant with a woman, using the wives of Abraham as examples. The old covenant is equated with the slave woman, Hagar, and the new covenant is equated with the free woman Sarah (Galatians 4:22–26). He concludes this example by saying that we are not children of the slave woman, but children of the free woman.
Christian tradition is a collection of traditions consisting of practices or beliefs associated with Christianity.Many churches have traditional practices, such as particular patterns of worship or rites, that developed over time.