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Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million [180] Indonesian Christian Church Synod – 0.2 million [181] Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv – 0.2 million [182] Evangelical Church of Congo – 0.2 million [183] Christian Evangelical Church of Sangihe Talaud – 0.2 million [184] Central Sulawesi Christian Church – 0.2 million [185]
Muck, Netland and McDermott emphasize that this clearly shows that Scientology is incompatible with Christianity. [100] In the book New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America (1995) by Mary Farrell Bednarowski, the author comments that "In the game of life as Scientology understands it, sin does not call for repentance as much as ...
Conversion to Christianity primarily involves belief in the Christian God, thinking that they are far short of the Christian God's apparent "glory and holiness" , repentance of "sin", and confession of their belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the all-sufficient and only means by whom one's sin can be atoned for and therefore the ...
Bible – any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Old Testament – Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians, and which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism. Law– first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.Individual bodies, however, may use alternative terms to describe themselves, such as church, convention, communion, assembly, house, union, network, or sometimes fellowship.
The inclusion of Gentiles led Christianity to slowly separate from Judaism (2nd century). Emperor Constantine I decriminalized Christianity in the Roman Empire by the Edict of Milan (313), later convening the Council of Nicaea (325) where Early Christianity was consolidated into what would become the state religion of the Roman Empire (380).
In the field of comparative religion, a common geographical classification [2] of the main world religions distinguishes groups such as Middle Eastern religions (including Abrahamic religions and Iranian religions), Indian religions, East Asian religions, African religions, American religions, Oceanic religions, and classical Hellenistic ...
Vatican City and St. Peter's Basilica.. Christianity played a prominent role in the development of Western civilization, in particular, the Catholic Church and Protestantism. [5] [50] Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture, and much of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians.