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One who undertakes apostasy is known as an apostate. Undertaking apostasy is called apostatizing (or apostasizing – also spelled apostacizing). The term apostasy is used by sociologists to mean the renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, a person's former religion, in a technical sense, with no pejorative connotation.
Apostasy is the rejection of Christ by one who has been a Christian. …" [3] "Apostasy is a theological category describing those who have voluntarily and consciously abandoned their faith in the God of the covenant, who manifests himself most completely in Jesus Christ." [4] "Apostasy is the antonym of conversion; it is deconversion." [5]
An apostate is one who renounces their religion. Apostate or Apostates may also refer to: Literature ... Biology. Apostates, a genus ...
Religious disaffiliation is the act of leaving a faith, or a religious group or community. It is in many respects the reverse of religious conversion.Several other terms are used for this process, though each of these terms may have slightly different meanings and connotations.
In the early Christian Church, lapsi (Latin for "fallen;" Greek: πεπτωκότες, romanized: peptōkotes) were apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by Roman authorities.
The Great Apostasy is a concept within Christianity to describe a perception that mainstream Christian Churches have fallen away from the original faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his Twelve Apostles.
Apostasy in Judaism is the rejection of Judaism and possible conversion to another religion by a Jew. [1] The term apostasy is derived from Ancient Greek : ἀποστάτης , meaning "rebellious" [ 2 ] ( Hebrew : מורד .
The mystery of iniquity, according to the church, will be a religious deception: Christians receiving alleged solutions to their problems at the cost of apostasy. [104] The supreme religious deception, according to the church, will be the Antichrist's messianism : mankind glorifying himself rather than God and Jesus. [ 104 ]