Pathway under the tower of the church

* In 1885, the Suffolk Street Fellowship was formed over the inspiration of the Bible.

* Fellowship Bible Church

* Bible Baptist College-Springfield-A private, conservative Bible college owned by the Baptist Bible Fellowship International.

This leadership was drawn heavily from Falwell ’ s fellow members of the Baptist Bible Fellowship.

* New England Fellowship of Evangelicals ( Rumney Bible Conference )

It is also home to seven churches: Assumption Roman Catholic Church, Bible Baptist Church, Church of Christ, Church of the Nazarene, New Egypt United Methodist Church, Plumsted Presbyterian Church, and The Christian Fellowship Church of New Egypt.

Main Street Bible Fellowship

* Grace Bible Fellowship Church

In addition, two major American Christian denominations are headquartered in Springfield: General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America ( one of the largest of the Pentecostal denominations ) and Baptist Bible Fellowship International ( a fundamentalist Baptist denomination with roots to J. Frank Norris ).

Others such as The Perry Bible Fellowship and PartiallyClips have been published in smaller alternative newspapers, or printed in magazines, such as The Order of the Stick in Dragon Magazine and Get Your War On in Rolling Stone.

In June 2006, Universal Press Syndicate editorial cartoonist Ted Rall focused on webcomics for the third volume of the Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists series, and included comics such as The Perry Bible Fellowship, Cat and Girl, and A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible.

Thomas Road Baptist Church was initially affiliated with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International, but is now dually aligned with that Fellowship as well as with the Southern Baptist Convention, having entered the convention by way of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia.

Urbana 09 speakers included Ramez Atallah, General Secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt ; Shane Claiborne of The Simple Way in Philadelphia ; Ruth Padilla DeBorst, General Secretary of the Latin America Theological Fellowship ; Sunder Krishnan, Senior Pastor of the Rexdale Alliance Church in Ontario, Canada ; and Patrick Fung, General Director of OMF International.

*" What the Bible Teaches About Freedom " ( published as a Fellowship of Reconciliation pamphlet, 1943 )

Among the new denominations formed by those seceding or being expelled from the Church of the Nazarene are: the People's Mission Church ( 1912 ), which had become part of the Church of the Nazarene in 1911, but subsequently became part of the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1925 ; the Pentecost Pilgrim Church ( 1917 ), which merged with the International Holiness Union to form the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1922 ; the Bible Missionary Church ( 1955 ), which subsequently split to create the Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches ( 1959 ), and the Nazarene Baptist Church ( 1960 ) ( later Nazarene Bible Church in 1967 ); the Holiness Church of the Nazarene ( 1961 ) in the Philippines ; the Church of the Bible Covenant ( 1967 ); the Crusaders Churches of the United States of America ( 1972 ); and the Fellowship of Charismatic Nazarenes ( 1977 ).

Pastor Alan Campbell is the Pentecostal pastor of the Cregagh Covenant People's Fellowship in Belfast, Northern Ireland, director of Open Bible Ministries and a prominent scholar and lecturer in the British Israel movement.

They left the Methodist congregation and, with other couples, established the fundamentalist Fellowship Bible Church.

The Baptist Bible Fellowship International ( BBFI ) is a separatist, fundamentalist Baptist organization formed in 1950 by members who broke away from the World Baptist Fellowship as the result of a leadership dispute with J. Frank Norris.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

You can ignore His Book, the Bible, and His church.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

* April 6, 1830-When the church was organized, the Bible and Book of Mormon were unanimously accepted as scripture.

Thus, as church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. explained, the church believes the Bible to be the word of God " as far as it is translated correctly.

However, it is still printed in every version of the King James Bible published by the church.

She was the author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook and which, along with the Bible, serve as the permanent " impersonal pastor " of the church.

The church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 following a personal healing in 1866, which she claimed resulted from reading the Bible.

Because there are no clergy in the church, branch church Sunday services are conducted by two Readers: the First Reader, who reads passages from Science and Health, and the Second Reader, who reads passages from the Bible.

The philosophes of the Enlightenment used criticism of myth as a vehicle for veiled criticisms of the Bible and the church.

Countercult ministries often concern themselves with religious sects that consider themselves Christian, but hold beliefs thought to contradict the Bible, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Unification church, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Its roots can be traced to the early church when the term " doctor " referred to the Apostles, church fathers and other Christian authorities who taught and interpreted the Bible.

In 1499, while in England, Erasmus was particularly impressed by the Bible teaching of John Colet who pursued a style more akin to the church fathers than the Scholastics.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

" Wang reports that Gödel's wife, Adele, two days after Gödel's death, told Wang that " Gödel, although he did not go to church, was religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning.

The Religionsgeschichtliche Schule appeared at a time when scholarly study of the Bible and church history was flourishing in Germany and elsewhere ( see higher criticism, also called the historical-critical method ).

The radicals preached the " sufficientia legis Christi "— the divine law ( i. e. the Bible ) is the sole rule and canon for human society, not only in the church, but also in political and civil matters.

Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.

He became a lector, a minor office in the Christian church, and his later writings show a detailed knowledge of the Bible, likely acquired in his early life.

The largest of these were the Primitive Methodist church, deriving from a revival at Mow Cop in Staffordshire, the Bible Christians and the Methodist New Connexion.

Calvinists generally believed that the worship in the church ought to be strictly regulated by what is commanded in the Bible ( the regulative principle of worship ), and condemned as idolatry many current practices, regardless of antiquity or widespread adoption among Christians, against opponents who defended tradition.