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The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members. [ 2][ 3] The UCC is a historical ...
The United Church of Christ in the Philippines is trinitarian and believes in the deity, humanity, and atonement of Jesus. It believes that the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God and that salvation is by grace through faith, repentance and following after Christ.
The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship. Many such congregations identify themselves ...
Belief that the snake in the Garden of Eden (Satan) was an agent of the true God and brought knowledge of truth to man via the fall of man. Syrian sect drawing their origin from the Ophites. Dealt as heresy by Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Philaster. Sect is founded around the Apocalypse of Adam.
The United Church of God, an International Association ( UCGIA or simply UCG) [2] is a nontrinitarian Christian church based in the United States . The UCG calls itself "The United Church of God, an International Association ", with the last three words italicized in order to differentiate the UCG from local congregations and denominations ...
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) [note 1] is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. [2] [3] The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th century as a loose association of churches working towards Christian unity, then slowly forming quasi-denominational structures ...
t. e. The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches,[4]or Old Catholic movement,[5]designate "any of the groups of Western Christianswho believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivided churchbut who separated from the see of Romeafter the First Vatican councilof 1869–70".
The Four Marks of the Church, also known as the Attributes of the Church, [ 1] describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: " [We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." [ 2]