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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.
Faith may also refer to: Bad faith , a legal concept in which a malicious motive on the part of a party in a lawsuit undermines their case Bad faith (existentialism) , mauvaise foi , a philosophical concept wherein one denies one's total freedom, instead choosing to behave as an inert object
In Word of Faith teaching, a central element of receiving from God is "confession", often called "positive confession" or "faith confession" by practitioners. Practitioners will claim and affirm they have healing, well being, prosperity, or other promises from God, before actually experiencing such results.
Lamott has said that the opposite of faith is certainty. This idea didn’t originate with either of them. It’s very old. For instance, “The Cloud of Unknowing,” a spiritual work of the ...
Religious persecution can be considered the opposite of freedom of religion. Bateman has differentiated different degrees of persecution. "It must be personally costly... It must be unjust and undeserved... it must be a direct result of one's faith." [4]
Christianity isn’t a dirty word. It’s tough these days to say “Merry Christmas” without thinking about the nearly 30 years of culture war baggage loaded on top of that phrase.
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, seed-faith gospel, Faith movement, or Word-Faith movement) [1] is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive scriptural confession, and giving to ...
The Soviet Union adopted the political ideology of Marxism–Leninism and by extension the policy of state atheism. [7] It directed varying degrees of antireligious efforts at varying faiths, depending on what threat they posed to the Soviet state, and their willingness to subordinate themselves to political authority.