Most Christians ( Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Rite and Protestants alike ) accept the use of creeds, and subscribe to at least one of the creeds mentioned above.

Some liberal Christians do not accept a literal bodily resurrection, seeing the story as richly symbolic and spiritually nourishing myth.

Others state that for those who accept that Christians can be homosexual, the sexual ethic aspired to corresponds to the model indicated in scripture and the tradition of the church for heterosexuals ; this entails commitment and fidelity expressed through monogamy and lifelong partnership or union.

Therefore, just as Christianity does not accept that Mosaic Law has any authority over Christians, Judaism does not accept that the New Testament has any religious authority over Jews.

Some Christians agree that Jews who accept Jesus should still observe all of Torah, see for example Dual-covenant theology, based on warnings by Jesus to Jews not to use him as an excuse to disregard it, and they support efforts of those such as Messianic Jews ( Messianic Judaism is considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity ) to do that, but some Protestant forms of Christianity oppose all observance to the Mosaic law, even by Jews, which Luther criticised as Antinomianism, see Antinomianism # Antinomian Controversies in Lutheranism and Luther # Anti-Antinomianism for details.

Jews and Christians accept as valid and binding many of the same moral principles taught in the Torah.

Lutheran Christians recognize the first four councils, whereas most High Church Anglicans accept all seven as persuasive but not infallible.

Orthodox Christians use the term " Anagignoskomena " ( a Greek word that means " readable ", " worthy of reading ") for the ten books that they accept but that are not in the Protestant 39-book Old Testament canon.

" A notable exception to this is the ' sola fide ' belief of many mainstream Protestant Christians, which teaches that one does not have to live a perfectly " good life ," but that one must accept ( believe and put faith in ) Jesus Christ as one's saviour, and then Jesus Christ will assume the guilt of one's sins ; believers are believed to be forgiven regardless of any good or bad " works " they have participated in.

In contrast, they called themselves " true Spiritual Christians ", rather than " milk-drinkers ", because they could not accept the Russian Orthodox Church, nor the Protestant sects or the Catholic Church.

Christians who follow teachers such as John Calvin generally accept that God alone decides the eternal destinations of each person without regard to man's choices, so that their future actions or beliefs follow according to God's choice ( Romans 9: 14-16 ).

Pope Adrian IV's conditions for a union between the eastern and western church included recognition of his religious authority over Christians everywhere, and the Emperor's recognition of his secular authority ; neither East nor West could accept such conditions.

Recent studies have indicated that some Westerners accept the idea of reincarnation including certain contemporary Christians, modern Neopagans, followers of Spiritism, Theosophists and students of esoteric philosophies such as Kabbalah, and Gnostic and Esoteric Christianity as well as of Indian religions.

Christians who believe in the accuracy of the New Testament, would accept that " salvation is from the Jews ", since " those are the very words that Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well ".

Unitarian Christians reject the doctrine of some Christian denominations that God chooses to redeem or save only those certain individuals that accept the creeds of, or affiliate with, a specific church or religion, from a common ruin or corruption of the mass of humanity.

Most Orthodox Christians accept the First seven Ecumenical Councils.

In this instance Theodore argued against the exchange, as it would require that Christians be cast to barbarians, while Nikephoros urged the emperor to accept the treaty.

But, some Armenian Christians ( especially in the region of Cappadocia and Trebizond inside the Byzantine Empire ) did accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon and engaged in polemics against the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Those who did not accept the Chalcedonian Christology now call themselves non-Chalcedonian ; historically, they called themselves miaphysites or Cyrillians ( after St Cyril, whose writing On the Unity of Christ was co-opted by the Orientals, and taken as their standard ) and were called by orthodox Christians monophysites.

At the time of the conquest of Jerusalem the Christians asked that Umar come to Jerusalem to accept the surrender of the city.

There was much force in Uthman's argument, but in order to win the good will of the Christians, Umar decided to go to Jerusalem to accept the surrender of the city.

Even Christians that did not accept Islam as their religion, became increasingly Arabized in terms of culture.

Written originally for Jews to persuade them not to convert to Christianity, the work was eventually read by Christians.

By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah ( i. e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides ) was criticizing Christianity on the grounds of idol worship, in that Christians attributed divinity to Jesus who had a physical body.

Christians reject the Jewish Oral Torah, which was still in oral, and therefore unwritten, form in the time of Jesus.

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

Should Christians be Torah Observant ?, Netzari Press.

Christians believe that to Love God with all your heart, mind, and strength and Love your neighbor as yourself are the two most important things in life ( the greatest commandment of the Jewish Torah, according to Jesus ; cf.

Many of these prophets are also found in the texts of Judaism ( The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings ; collectively known as the Old Testament to Christians ) and Christianity.

While most traditional Christians deny that the ritual laws and specific civil laws of the Pentateuch apply to gentiles, certain passages regarding Torah observance in the New Testament are cited by Messianic believers as proof that Torah was not abolished for Jews.

One is the Torah / Mosaic Law ( from what Christians consider to be the Old Testament ) also called Divine Law or Biblical law, the most famous example being the Ten Commandments.

While this view is still held by a few conservative Christians and Jews, modern scholars argue that the whole of the Torah was composed in the mid-1st millennium BCE as a " prequel " to the prophetic books ( books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ).

He rejected in its entirety the view that Moses composed the first five books of the Bible, called the Pentateuch by Christians or Torah by Jews.

Abraham, Moses, Hebrew prophets, and Jesus were all prophets of Islam, but according to Muslim tradition their message and the texts of the Torah and the Gospels were corrupted by Jews and Christians.

# Adherence by Gentile Christians to the Torah Laws originally given to the Israelites ( i. e. the 613 Laws given to Israel at Sinai ).

# Adherence by Gentile Christians to Torah Laws intended for Gentiles.

The " three exceptions " resolved by the Council of Acts 15 indicate that the apostles accepted that those portions of the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) intended for Gentiles ( later known as the Laws of Noah ) would apply to Gentile Christians.

Thus, in spite of Paul's agreement at the Council of Jerusalem, Gentile Christianity came to understand that any Torah Laws ( with the exception of the Ten Commandments and Natural Law ) were anathema, not only to Gentile Christians but even to Christians of Jewish extraction.

According to Eusebius ' History of the Church 4. 5. 3-4: the first 15 Bishops of Jerusalem were " of the circumcision ", although this in all likelihood is simply stating that they were Jewish Christians ( as opposed to Gentile Christians ), and that they observed Biblical circumcision and thus likely the rest of Torah as well.

Peter baptizes the centurion, and later has to justify this decision to the other Christians.

In addition to his office, the archbishop also holds a number of other positions ; for example, he is Joint President of the Council of Christians and Jews in the United Kingdom.

Other Christians too, in particular Anglicans, Lutherans and some Protestant and other Christian communities use a rite of anointing the sick, without necessarily classifying it as a sacrament.

Abd al-Rahman continued to allow Jews and Christians and other monotheistic religions to retain and practice their faiths.

Support for Arius from powerful bishops like Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia, further illustrate how Arius ' subordinationist Christology was shared by other Christians in the Empire.

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.

Catholics maintain that the " one, holy, catholic and apostolic church " founded by Jesus subsists fully in the Roman Catholic Church, but also acknowledges other Christian churches and communities and works towards reconciliation among all Christians.

There are separate laws governing Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and followers of other religions.

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.

These groups, along with other Christians opposed to capital punishment, have cited Christ's Sermon on the Mount ( transcribed in Matthew Chapter 5 – 7 ) and Sermon on the Plain ( transcribed in Luke 6: 17 – 49 ).

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.

The Kyrios title for Jesus is central to the development of New Testament Christology, for the early Christians placed it at the center of their understanding, and from that center attempted to understand the other issues related to the Christian mysteries.

* Historical persecution by Christians-persecution of other groups by Christians

* Persecution of Christians-persecution of Christians by other groups

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

Some Jews contend that Christians cite commandments from the Old Testament to support one point of view but then ignore other commandments of a similar class that are also of equal weight.

This position has been softened by some adherents, or completely rejected by other churches where Jews are recognized to have a special status due to their covenant with God through Abraham, so this continues to be an area of ongoing dispute among Christians.

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 ).

Some of them claim to be the one true Catholic Church from which, in their view, other Christians, including those in communion with the Pope, have fallen away.

Since at least the 1940s, the approach of traditional Christians was to apply the meaning of cult such that it included those religious groups who use other scriptures beside the Bible or have teachings and practices deviating from traditional Christian teachings and practices.

Druzes and Christians grouped in political rather than religious parties so the party lines in Lebanon obliterated racial and religious lines and the people grouped themselves regardless of their religious affiliations, into one or the other of these two parties.