Apostasy ( turning from Christ ) is only committed through a deliberate, willful rejection of Jesus and renunciation of saving faith.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

He then expresses thanks that his readers were the elect of God, chosen for salvation and saved by His grace through faith, and thus not susceptible to the deception of the " Great Apostasy ," ( 2 Thess 2: 13-14 ) first mentioned here as is the " Katechon " ( 2 Thess 2: 6-7 ).

Apostasy (; ( apostasia ), ' a defection or revolt ', from ἀπό, apo, ' away, apart ', στάσις, stasis, ' stand, ' standing ') is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.

Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates because of the pejorative implications of the term.

" Apostasy is the antonym of conversion ; it is deconversion.

* Turning away: " Apostasy is also pictured as the heart turning away from God ( Jeremiah 17: 5-6 ) and righteousness ( Ezekiel 3: 20 ).

" Apostasy is symbolized as Israel the faithless spouse turning away from Yahweh her marriage partner to purse the advances of other gods ( Jeremiah 2: 1-3 ; Ezekiel 16 ).

Apostasy is certainly a biblical concept, but the implications of the teaching have been hotly debated.

Apostasy is legal in secular Muslim countries such as Turkey.

Apostasy, the rejection of one's old religion, is also criminalized in a number of countries, notably Afghanistan with Abdul Rahman being the first to face the death penalty for converting to Christianity.

The Great Apostasy is a term used by some religious groups to describe a general fallen state of traditional Christianity, especially the Papacy, because they claim it allowed the traditional Roman mysteries and deities of solar monism such as Mithras and Sol Invictus and idol worship back into the church, and is not representative of the faith founded by Jesus and his twelve Apostles: in short, in their opinion, the church has fallen into apostasy.

In their case, the term Great Apostasy is used more technically than above, directed in a sweeping way over all of Christianity beyond their group, indicating that true Christianity has not been preserved, but rather restored.

To Latter-day Saints, the Great Apostasy is marked by:

First there is the quote from 2 Thess. 3-4 :" Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God " which points to the Great Apostasy happening in the future, during the time of anti-Christ.

These verses again also show that the Great Apostasy is a future event.

The Early Church Fathers also predicted a future Great Apostasy in the Church, for example Hippolytus: " And the churches too will wail with a mighty lamentation, because neither oblation nor incense is attended to, nor a service acceptable to God ; but the sanctuaries of the churches will become like a garden-watcher's hut, and the Holy Body and Blood of Christ will not be shown in those days.

Apostasy, for example, is a violation of orthodoxy that takes the form of abandonment of the faith, a concept largely unknown before the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of Rome on February 27, 380 by Theodosius I ( see also First seven Ecumenical Councils and State church of the Roman Empire ).

Apostasy in Islam (, literally means: " relapse / regress " but usually translates to " apostasy ", or ) is commonly defined in Islam as the rejection in word or deed of one's former religion ( apostasy ) by a person who was previously a follower of Islam.

According to Mormons, a Great Apostasy began in Christianity not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ ,.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the Great Apostasy started not long after Jesus ' ascension and continued until Joseph Smith's First Vision in 1820.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the Great Apostasy in Christianity began not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ.

Smith and his associates intended that the Church of Christ would be a restoration of the 1st century Christian church, which Smith taught had fallen from God's favor and authority because of a Great Apostasy.

Smith and his associates asserted that the Church of Christ was a restoration of the 1st-century Christian church, which Smith claimed had fallen from God's favor and authority because of what he called a " Great Apostasy ".

A common belief held by Restorationists was that the other divisions of Christianity had introduced doctrinal defects into Christianity, which was known as the Great Apostasy.

This alleged " corruption " and resistance to reform by the traditional, especially Catholic, churches may sometimes be called The Great Apostasy by some religious groups.

The term Great Apostasy appears to have been coined in this narrower, technical sense, by " Restorationists ".

* Barker, Eileen Defection from the Unification Church: Some Statistics and Distinctions, article in the book edited by David G. Bromley Falling from the Faith: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy.

* Barker, Eileen " Standing at the Cross-Roads: Politics of Marginality in ' Subversive Organizations '" article in The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements edited by David G. Bromley Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, ( 1998 ).

In 1818, the name Baphomet appeared in the essay by the Viennese Orientalist Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Mysterium Baphometis revelatum, seu Fratres Militiæ Templi, qua Gnostici et quidem Ophiani, Apostasiæ, Idoloduliæ et Impuritatis convicti, per ipsa eorum Monumenta (" Discovery of the Mystery of Baphomet, by which the Knights Templars, like the Gnostics and Ophites, are convicted of Apostasy, of Idolatry and of moral Impurity, by their own Monuments "), which presented an elaborate pseudohistory constructed to discredit Templarist Masonry and, by extension, Freemasonry itself.

Apostasy, however, for one who had been raised as a Muslim or had embraced Islam, was a crime punishable by death.

Apostasy by a Muslim is punishable by death, although the definition of an apostate in Islam ( and in Iran ) is a Muslim who leaves Islam and actively makes a mockery of it.

Apostasy, specifically conversion from Islam, can be punishable by death.

Stone and Campbell believed that the division among Christian sects had been caused by a Great Apostasy ( or falling away ) from the original teachings of Jesus, and that the correct principles of Christianity could be re-established by " restoring " practices described in the New Testament.

Violating this law could potentially be considered Apostasy in Islam: a crime punishable by death according to Qutbis.

Shortly after the release of The Apostasy, the band was featured as one of Ozzfest 2007's second stage headliners, one of the four non-US bands playing that year.

There was less emphasis on the Great Apostasy and a growing belief that the First Vision itself was not necessarily identical with Joseph Smith's later reconstructions and interpretations of the vision, what one RLDS Church Historian has called " genuine historical sophistication.

Apostasy is considered the one unpardonable sin in Islam, so those who proselytize or otherwise encourage Muslims away from Islam may be put to death for blaspheming against Islam and Mohammed.

According to its text, the Book of Mormon contains the writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421, describes the visit of Jesus after his resurrection and his establishing his church among the indigenous people, and includes important gospel truths lost during the Great Apostasy.

Christians who believe that a Great Apostasy took place early in the church's history are particularly unlikely to employ this term.

There he planned the strategy of the Campaign of the Apostasy to deal with the various enemies who occupied the entire land of Arabia except for the small area in the possession of the Muslims.

# Apostasy: refers to members who " repeatedly act in clear, open, and deliberate public opposition to the Church or its leaders " and also includes those who repeatedly present information as church doctrine that is not church doctrine and those who repeatedly follow the teachings of apostate sects or those who formally join another church.