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The Anglican Communion has been divided over the issue of homosexuality in several ways. The Church of England, the mother church of the Communion, currently maintains (according to the statement Issues in Human Sexuality) that same-sex partnerships are acceptable for laypersons, and gay clergy may enter in a civil partnership as long as they are expected to give assurances of celibacy.
The LDS Church has held notable political influence on laws around LGBT individuals in the United States, especially in the state of Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been involved with many pieces of legislation relating to LGBT people and their rights (e.g. housing, job discrimination, and same-sex marriage).
The criterion of contextual credibility, [1] also variously called the criterion of Semitisms and Palestinian background [2] or the criterion of Semitic language phenomena and Palestinian environment, [3] is a tool used by Biblical scholars to help determine whether certain actions or sayings by Jesus in the New Testament are from the ...
Carolyn Kaster/AP. A group of Louisiana parents and civil rights organizations are suing the state over its new law that requires all public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. The lawsuit ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) focuses its doctrine and teaching on Jesus Christ; that he was the Son of God, born of Mary, lived a perfect life, performed miracles, bled from every pore in the Garden of Gethsemane, died on the cross, rose on the third day, appeared again to his disciples, and now resides, authoritatively, on the right hand side of God.
t. e. In Christianity, salvation (also called deliverance or redemption) is the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences [a] —which include death and separation from God —by Christ's death and resurrection, [1] and the justification entailed by this salvation. The idea of Jesus' death as an atonement for human sin was recorded ...
The belief that Jesus is God, the Son of God, or a person of the Trinity, is incompatible with Jewish theology. Jews believe Jesus did not fulfill messianic prophecies that establish the criteria for the coming of the messiah. [7] Judaism does not accept Jesus as a divine being, an intermediary between humans and God, a messiah, or holy.
Raymond Franz (1922–2010), writer of Crisis of Conscience, former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and critic of the institution. Jehovah's Witnesses have been criticized by adherents of mainstream Christianity, members of the medical community, former Jehovah's Witnesses, and commentators with regard to their beliefs and ...