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Pages in category "Extinct religious groups" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Gayomarthians; H.
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 years old. [1] A lack of written records results in most of the knowledge of pre-historic religion being derived from archaeological records and other indirect sources, and from suppositions. Much pre-historic religion is subject to continued debate.
Executed by his half-brother Demetrius I when he was 11 years old. Identified in an inscription from Dymi, [92] and on contemporary coins. [93] 2 Macc. 2:20, 2 Macc. 13:1: Antiochus VI Dionysus: King of Asia 145–142: Reigned only nominally, as he was very young when his father died, [94] but he is identified on contemporary coins. [95]
The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abecedarian; ... Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)
By this time, Egyptian religion was largely confined to the south of the country and to the distant, isolated Siwa Oasis in the west. [18] This century also saw significant expansion of institutionalised Christianity into Egypt, but adherence to the old religion on a smaller, more local scale was still prevalent. [19]
Noah, as the last of the extremely long-lived Antediluvian patriarchs, died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950, when Terah was 128. [5] The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, gradually diminishes thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses. [11] [12]
[493] [494] By the 1690s, many secular thinkers had rethought the state's reasons for persecution and begun advocating for religious toleration, [495] [496] as Protestants and other Christian moderates had long argued. [497] [498] Concepts of freedom of religion, speech, and thought became established in the West. [499] [500] [501]
On February 27, 380, the Roman Empire officially adopted Trinitarian Nicene Christianity as its state religion. [8] Prior to this date, Constantius II (337-361) and Valens (364-378) had personally favored Arian or Semi-Arianism forms of Christianity, but Valens' successor Theodosius I supported the Trinitarian doctrine as expounded in the Nicene Creed.