Here St. Paul, on his way to Rome, was met by a band of Roman Christians ( Acts 28: 15 ).

As the first version of Street Level was " too confusing to the Christians ", Norman recorded " a second version for the church kids " in 1971 that completely replaced side two with one recorded with a band called White Light.

The band chose this name to be a direct tie in to Christianity, which explains, that since Jesus died on the Cross, Christians inherit all of his assets ( Heaven ).

Not wanting to be labeled a Christian band, the rest of the band was unwilling, but as Ted recalls, A & R Bill Power and Adam persuaded them that " T & N was not really a Christian label, but really belonged in the same category as us ; they were Christians who ran a label, not a Christian record label.

It is from this point where we see the often confused band of disciples ( not limited to the Twelve ) mature into what is known as the Church ( ekklesia εκκλησια ), the forefathers and foremothers of the faith of all modern Christians worldwide.

As a matter of strategy, many evangelical Christians around the world now focus on what they call the " 10 / 40 window ", a band of countries between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude and reaching from western Africa through Asia.

Although REZ had been left out of the mainstream success which arguably the band had spearheaded for others, REZ was nevertheless more interested in using its music to speak plainly to both non-Christians about the reality of God and to Christians about their responsibility to the disenfranchised and hurting in the world around them.

He founded a small Catholic resistance group and sought to amalgamate into one organised band the Christians, Communists and trade unionists against the Nazis, and as a soldier later came into contact with the resistance group " Soldatenrat ".

From the 1990s there were increasing numbers of acts who attempted to avoid the Christian band label, preferring to be seen as groups who were also Christians, including P. O. D and Collective Soul.

Lyrically, the band shifted from overt evangelism to encouraging the young Christians who made up the bulk of its audience.

Several of the band members are outspoken Christians, but they prefer not to be classified as a Christian band in some cases.

The Chariot is frequently called a Christian band, which Scogin agreed with in a 2005 interview: " We are Christians in a band therefore we are a Christian band.

Some Christians are offended because Mohr and other band members wear dreadlocks and sing in a style typically associated with Rastafari.

The early 1990s saw the band continuing to tour, A greatest hits album, The Best of the Christians was released in 1993, and peaked at number 22.

These Five Down is a Christian metal band from Michigan made up of five Christians who turned ( or returned ) to their faith for salvation from previous lifestyles and aim to preach faith through hardcore music.

After years of feeling isolated and artistically stifled in Kansas, Livgren found working with fellow Christians refreshing and began discussing with Hope the possibility of leaving Kansas and forming a new band.

For some years, a small band of Orthodox Christians kept Orthodoxy alive in Hong Kong ; while services with a priest were rare, they continued to live the ancient expression of Eastern Christianity.

By 1988 the band were touring, supporting acts such as Terence Trent D ' Arby and The Christians.

" We recognise the ultimate validity of the criticisms leveled against us ," responded lead singer Martin Smith, " and we feel as a band that this just speaks to the spiritual and intellectual maturity of our listening audience and Christians in general, for that matter.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

* Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ), called the New Ark of the Covenant by Christians of the Catholic tradition

The Adamic language is, according to Jews ( as recorded in the midrashim ), some Christians, and Mormons, the language spoken by Adam ( and possibly Eve ) in the Garden of Eden.

Jews, Protestants, and Catholics all use the Masoretic text as the textual basis for their translations of the protocanonical books ( those which are received by both Jews and all Christians ), with various emendations derived from a multiplicity of other ancient witnesses ( such as the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

* The Christians ( political party ), a minor party in Austria

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

* Communion ( Christian ), the relationship between Christians as individuals or Churches

* Guyana: Chicken Curry, Goat Curry, Duck Curry, Shrimp Curry, Beef Curry ( eaten by Muslims and Christians ), Aloo Curry ( Potato ), Fish ( different varieties ) Curry, etc.

It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

He argues against the idea that Christians should reject their family for an ascetic life, which stems from Luke, contending that Jesus would not have contradicted the precept to " Honour thy Father and thy Mother " ( Exodus ), one of the Ten Commandments.

Although Christians generally believe their religion to be very inclusive ( since not only Jews but all gentiles can be Christian ), Jews see Christianity as highly exclusive, because some denominations view non-Christians ( such as Jews and Pagans ) as having an incomplete or imperfect relationship with God, and therefore excluded from grace, salvation, heaven, or eternal life.

Christadelphians reject a number of doctrines held by many other Christians, notably the immortality of the soul ( see also mortalism ; conditionalism ), trinitarianism, the personal pre-existence of Christ, the baptism of infants, the personhood of the Holy Spirit the divinity of Jesus and the present-day possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit ( see cessationism ).

Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January ( Gregorian Calendar ), which coincides with 25 December according to the Julian Calendar.

Having consolidated his conquests in Syria ( 1831 – 38 ), Ibrahim Pasha, son of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, made the fatal mistake of trying to disarm the Christians and Druzes of the Lebanon and to draft the latter into his army.

The first Christians, Jewish and Gentile, were certainly aware of the Hebrew calendar (; ; ; ; ), but there is no direct evidence that they celebrated any specifically Christian annual festivals.

The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

Gentile Christians may have developed a dislike of or looked down on Jews ( see also Antisemitism and Responsibility for the death of Jesus ), because they theologically rationalized that Jews were no longer God's people.

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To avoid being recognised by a soul, Christians would wear masks and costumes to disguise themselves, following the lighted candles set by others to guide their travel for worship the next day.

The belief that human souls choose good or evil totally independently of God's will, which is most often found among Arminian Christians, means that God does not ultimately determine the will of each soul.

< td valign =" top "> Early Christians considered a child as having a soul at birth, although possessed by evil tendencies.

In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, Song of Songs has often been interpreted as a parable of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, Christ and the Church or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife.

Some Reformed Christians object to this view saying that if the father of the child is regenerate, then the soul of the child would also be regenerate which obscures the doctrine of original sin.

The Charismatic Movement also generally supports the idea that the Holy Spirit is creator of every individual soul, citing the traditional hymn Veni Creator Spiritus as evidence that Christians have long invoked the divine soul-making properties of the Spirit.

Some Christians, such as Augustine, have interpreted the parable allegorically, with the Samaritan representing Jesus Christ, who saves the sinful soul.

Although originally the term was used by common people, the insult was mostly racist, as people associated in a superstitious and prejudiced way to the descendants of forced New Christians as a racially identifiable people by their bad denture, which allegedly proved their sinful soul.

Some early Christians believed that the embryo did not have a soul from conception, and consequently opinion was divided as to whether early abortion was murder or ethically equivalent to murder.

For Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Christians, fasting is an important spiritual discipline, found in both the Old Testament and the New, and is tied to the principle in Orthodox theology of the synergy between the body ( Greek: soma ) and the soul ( pnevma ).

That is to say, Orthodox Christians do not see a dichotomy between the body and the soul but rather consider them as a united whole, and they believe that what happens to one affects the other ( this is known as the psychosomatic union between the body and the soul ).

* Prohibition for Christians of the use of tablets with the forbidden inscription " site of the soul ", and to follow the Chinese rites for the ancestor worship.

The three scholars set out to demonstrate that Christians could hold their own in conversations with learned Greek-speaking intellectuals and that Christian faith, while it was against many of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle ( and other Greek philosophers ), was an almost scientific and distinctive movement with the healing of the soul of man and his union with God at its center — one best represented by monasticism.

Most of them have, of course, an agenda ; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul.

Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that Mary died a natural death, that her soul was received by Christ upon death, and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her death and that she was taken up into heaven bodily in anticipation of the general resurrection.

As a " first-day " body of Adventist Christians established by The Advent Christian General Conference in 1860, the church's beliefs include " conditional immortality " and a form of " soul sleep ".

However the term has its origin in the descriptions of Eusebius of Caesarea and John of Damascus of mortalist views among Arab Christians, In the 1960s also this phrase was applied also to the views of Tyndale, Luther and others engaged in mortal introspection, from awareness that Calvin's term Psychopannychia originally described his own belief, not the belief he was calling error as well as in view of the Anabaptists, since their own writings held that the soul dies and the dead sleep.

Redepenning ( 1841 ) was of the opinion that Eusebius ' terminology here, " the human soul dies " was probably that of their critics rather than the Arabian Christians ' own expression and they were more likely simply " psychopannychists ", believers in " soul sleep ".

" John of Damascus denounced the ideas of some Arab Christians as thnetopsychism (‘ soul death ’).

Christians cannot claim such autonomy ; Christians acknowledge that they belong to God ... Christians yield their personal autonomy and accept a special obligation, as the first answer of the Heidelberg Catechism invites people to confess: ' I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ ' ( Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 1 )... A decision to take one's own life thus appears to be a denial that one belongs to God ./ A second conviction is that God does not abandon people in times of suffering ... Christians express their faith in God's love by trusting in God's care for them.