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The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is composed of 24 autonomous sui iuris particular churches: the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It considers itself the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, [ 63 ] and which Saint Peter initiated along with the missionary work of Saint Paul and others.
New Testament Christian Churches of America (NTCC) is a Pentecostal, [1] Evangelical, Trinitarian, [2] Fundamentalist denomination of about 10,000 members in approximately 100+ individual churches internationally, headquartered in Graham, Washington in the United States.
In contrast to the variety of absolute or personal names of God in the Old Testament, the New Testament uses only two, according to the International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia. From the 20th century onwards, a number of scholars find various evidence for the name [YHWH or related form] in the New Testament. [1]
Christian Reformed Church in Honduras; Christian Union (denomination) Church of Bible Understanding; Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Church of God (Holiness) Church of God in Christ, Mennonite; Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America; The Church of the Nazarene in Trinidad and Tobago; Church of the United Brethren in Christ
The church was founded by Paul Ramankutty, who was born to Hindu parents in Engandiyur, a village in present-day Thrissur district, Kerala, India. While in Ceylon, at the age of 18, he became a Christian. Later, he felt a strong call and began to preach and share the gospel. In 1923 he founded the church with the name Ceylon Pentecostal Mission.
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible.They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [1]
The New Testament includes four canonical gospels, (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) but there are many gospels not included in the biblical canon. [3] These additional gospels are referred to as either New Testament apocrypha or pseudepigrapha. [4] [5] Some of these texts have impacted Christian traditions, including many forms of iconography.
In the New Testament, the Greek word for angels (άγγελος) is not only used for heavenly angels, but also used for human messengers, such as John the Baptist (Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, Luke 7:27) and God's prophets (Revelation 22:8–9) [20] C.I. Scofield has noted that "The natural explanation of the 'messengers' is that they were men ...