Among all Christians, 37. 5 % live in the Americas, 25. 7 % live in Europe, 22. 5 % live in Africa, 13. 1 % live in Asia, 1. 2 % live in Oceania and 0. 9 % live in the Middle East.

Among the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, the message to his followers that one should " Turn the other cheek " and his example in the story Pericope Adulterae, in which Jesus intervenes in the stoning of an adulteress, are generally accepted as his condemnation of physical retaliation ( though most scholars agree that the latter passage was " certainly not part of the original text of St John's Gospel ") More militant Christians consider Romans 13: 3 – 4 to support the death penalty.

Among Eastern Christians, the Eucharistic service is called the Divine Liturgy ( Eastern Orthodox ) or similar names ( Oriental Orthodox ).

Male & female circumcision: Among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Among present-day Christians, Hussite traditions are represented in the Moravian Church, Unity of the Brethren, and the refounded Czechoslovak Hussite churches.

Among his homilies, eight directed against Judaizing Christians remain controversial for their impact on the development of Christian antisemitism.

Among Eastern Orthodox Christians this sharing is accompanied by the proclamation " Christ is risen!

Among Christians who hold this belief, this is not the " end of the world ", but rather the penultimate age, the age just prior to the end of Satan's worldwide system in anticipation of a New Heavens and a New Earth under Jehovah's kingdom reign ( Rev.

Among his apologetic writings, the Apologeticus, addressed to the Roman magistrates, is a most pungent defense of Christianity and the Christians against the reproaches of the pagans, and an important legacy of the ancient Church, proclaiming the principle of freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and demands a fair trial for Christians before they are condemned to death.

Among futurists there are differing views about what will happen to Christians during the Tribulation:

Among Christians, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the Acts of the Apostles 2: 1 – 31.

Among Orthodox Christians, Sunday is considered to be a " Little Pascha " ( Easter ), and because of the Paschal joy, the making of prostrations is forbidden, except in certain circumstances.

Among the teachings Barbour introduced to Russell was the view that Christians who had died would be raised in April, 1878.

Among Southern Baptists in the United States, Reverend is formally written but the pastor is usually orally addressed as Brother ( Brother Smith ), as New Testament writers describe Christians as being brothers and sisters in Christ.

Among Eastern Christians belief in witchcraft was regarded as deisdemonia — superstition — and by the 9th and 10th centuries in the West, belief in witchcraft had begun to be seen as heresy.

Among Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians, the exchange of rings is not technically part of the wedding service, but rather are exchanged at the betrothal.

Among his other works were the tragedy Nimrod ( 1857 ), and Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den christichen Völkern ( A history of visual arts among Christians, 1845 ), Die Ahr: Landschaft, Geschichte und Volksleben ( Landscape, history and life of the people along the Ahr, 1845 ), and Mosaik zur Kunstgeschichte ( 1876 ).

Among dispensational premillennialists writers, there are those who believe that Christians will be supernaturally summoned to Heaven by Jesus in an event called the Rapture, which occurs before the biblical " Great Tribulation " prophesied in Matthew 24-25 ; Mark 13 and Luke 21.

Among Christians, " the Son " or Son of God refers to Jesus Christ.

Among other things, they were united in the belief that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God ; that Christians should celebrate the Lord's Supper on the first day of each week ; and that baptism of adult believers by immersion in water is a necessary condition for salvation.

Among the films banned by him was Monty Python's Life of Brian, which he described as " offensive to Christians and to Jews as well, because it made them appear a terrible load of gobshites ".

Among his direct spiritual heirs are several major religious denominations, including Seventh-day Adventists and Advent Christians.

Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed his first public miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast () when the wine provided by the bridegroom had run out ( see Jars of Cana ).

Among conservative Christians, there are cultural, political, and moral objections.

Among the most controversial verses of the Bible is what some consider an explicit reference that supports the doctrine of the trinity, the Comma Johanneum, ( 1 John 5: 7 – 8 ).

Among other accomplishments of the Great Assembly, the last books of the Bible were written at this time and the canon sealed.

Among the many works Zamenhof translated into Esperanto is the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

Among the women who are specifically named in the New Testament of the Bible, Mary Magdalene ’ s name is one of the most frequently found.

Among these are the NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible, the Zondervan published NIV Study Bible, the Wesleyan revision, Reflecting God Study Bible, as well as the Life Application Study Bible.

Among early centers of Christianity a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible was used by Greek speakers ( Aramaic Targums were used by Aramaic speakers such as the Syriac Orthodox Church ).

" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.

Among these scholars was William Whittingham, who supervised the translation now known as the Geneva Bible, in collaboration with Myles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and William Cole ; several of this group later became prominent figures in the Vestments controversy.

Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation only Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible.

Among the causes of offence might be enumerated not only his vigorous defence of one from whom he greatly differed, Bishop Colenso, but his invitation to the Holy Communion of all the revisers of the translation of the Bible, including a Unitarian among other Nonconformists.

Among those who have been charged with offenses under the Act are former Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society president Joseph F. Rutherford, communists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, and alleged cablegate whistleblower Bradley Manning.

Among the classic texts of Jewish tradition, some Jewish Bible commentators, the Midrash, the Talmud, and mainstream Jewish philosophy utilise revealed approaches.

Among incunabula, printed before 1500, Legenda aurea was printed in more editions than the Bible.

Among the several strong distinctives of his teaching have been encouragement of Bible memorization, large families, homeschooling, aversion to debt, respect for authority and extended principles related to identity, family, education, healthcare, music and finances.

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 ).

Among some of the other liberalizing trends were the ordination of women to the offices of elder and deacon, the ratification of a pro-choice position on abortion by the General Assembly, and the rejection by that assembly of the plenary verbal inspiration of the Bible, considered by conservatives as a touchstone dogma.

Among the most important, Drosnin clearly states in his book " The Bible Code II ", published on December 2, 2002, that there was to be a World War involving a " Atomic Holocaust " that would allegedly be the end of the world.

Among his literary works he is best known for funding the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, the first printed polyglot of the entire Bible.

Among Christian villages, the language has been enriched by loanwords from English, Latin and Greek via Bible translation, plus neologisms in the areas of hygiene, music and education.