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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 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.
Criterion of contextual credibility. 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 ...
Updated June 24, 2024 at 8:15 PM. Nine Louisiana families filed a federal lawsuit Monday against their state's education department and their local school boards challenging the constitutionality ...
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 Kiss of Judas by Giotto di Bondone (between 1304 and 1306) depicts Judas's identifying kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas Iscariot (⫽ ˈ dʒ uː d ə s ɪ ˈ s k æ r i ə t ⫽; Biblical Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died c. 30 – c. 33 AD) was—according to Christianity's four canonical gospels—a first-century Judean man who became a ...
Catholic Church. The Catholic Church and Judaism have a long and complex history of cooperation and conflict, and have had a strained relationship throughout history, with periods of persecution, violence and discrimination directed towards Jews by Christians, particularly during the Middle Ages . The Catholic Church, as the largest Christian ...
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 ...