and to Mrs. Rozella Switzer, regional director of The National Conference of Christians and Jews, who asked them to serve as a committee for the fund.

Pastor and theologian Dr. Brian Abasciano claims " What Paul says about Jews, Gentiles, and Christians, whether of their place in God ’ s plan, or their election, or their salvation, or how they should think or behave, he says from a corporate perspective which views the group as primary and those he speaks about as embedded in the group.

Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

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.

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.

Two separate doors ( one for Jews and one for Christians ) on a house in Lengnau

Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).

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

Christians more often converted to Islam than Jews although there were converted Jews among the new followers of Islam.

In 837, he suppressed a revolt of Christians and Jews in Toledo.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

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.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

Bernard Lewis states that the Muslim laity and Islamic authorities have always had great difficulty in accommodating post-Islamic monotheistic religions such as the Bahá ' í Faith, since the followers of such religions cannot be dismissed either as benighted heathens, like the polytheists of Asia and the animists of Africa, nor as outdated precursors, like the Jews and Christians.

Three additional narratives are preserved in the Septuagint and the Theodotion versions, and are considered apocryphal by Protestant Christians and Jews, and deuterocanonical by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

Unlike many Jews, conservative Christians consider Daniel ’ s visions as prophetic.

A large number of Old Testament passages were regarded as messianic by the Jews, many more than are commonly considered messianic by Christians, and various groups of Jews assigned varying degrees of significance to them.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.

The site was completely destroyed by zealous Christians in an attempt to remove all traces of Paganism.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

He made his first attempt to learn Hebrew under the guidance of a converted Jew ; and he seems to have been in correspondence with Jewish Christians in Antioch.

In 1091, count Roger I of Sicily, made an initial attempt to establish Norman rule of Malta and was greeted by the few native Christians.

* Emperor Decius institutes the persecution of Christians in an attempt to restore the religion of Rome.

Theodore Drange, in his attempt to improve the argument ( see below ), claims there are many theists who do not view God as perfectly loving, and " some Christians think of him as an angry deity bent on punishing people for their sins.

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was an attempt to end the religious divisions among Christians in England, and is often seen as an important event in Anglican history, ultimately laying the foundations for the " via media " concept of Anglicanism.

This was a religious motive for many Christian missionaries, in attempt to save the souls of the " uncivilized " people, and of the idea that Christians and the people of the United Kingdom were morally superior.

The major split of biblical Scholarship into two opposing schools is strongly disapproved by non-fundamentalist biblical scholars, as being an attempt by so-called " conservative " Christians to portray the field as a bipolar argument, of which only one side is correct.

The spectacle aroused the wrath of the early Christians who interpreted it as a disguised attempt to ridicule their faith and prohibitions were issued against such displays under the reign of Flavius Augustus Honorius ( 395 – 423 ) and of Theodosius II ( 408 – 450 ).

This rather shocking attempt to rally the pro-Nazi elements among the German Christians backfired, as it now appeared to many Protestants that the State was attempting to intervene in the most central theological matters of the church, rather than in just matters of church organization and polity.

Some Christians define " proselytism " more narrowly as the attempt to convert people from one Christian tradition to another ; those who use the term in this way generally view the practice as illegitimate and in contrast to evangelism, which is converting non-Christians to Christianity.

* avoiding any statement whether Christ had one or two natures, in an attempt to appease both Non-Chalcedonian and Chalcedonian Orthodox Christians.

Some of his books or articles contain harsh criticisms of Islam as a whole ( among others " Wahi: the Supernatural Basis of Islam ", " From Ayodhya to Nazareth ", an article written in the form of an open letter to the Pope and Indian church Bishop Alan de Lastic, whom Elst calls " Your Eminences ", and in which he invites them to ask Muslims for repentance towards Christians, or " Ayodhya And After ", a book in which he delves into the realm of establishing a purported link between Ayodhya and the conflict between Palestinians and Israel-section 2. 2 Jerusalem and Ayodhya -, not an isolated attempt in some far-right European movements ; similarly, section 13. 2 of that book is called Islam and Nazism ).

" In it, Laubach urged Christians to attempt keeping God in mind for at least one second of every minute of the day.

In this way Christians can attempt the attitude of constant prayer spoken of in the Epistle to the Colossians.

For about a thousand years, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in human form, because early Christians believed that the words of Exodus 33: 20 " Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see Me and live " and of the Gospel of John 1: 18: " No man hath seen God at any time " were meant to apply not only to the Father, but to all attempts at the depiction of the Father.

The Three-Chapter Controversy came out of an attempt to reconcile the Non-Chalcedonian ( Monophysite ) Christians of the Middle East with the Catholic Church.

The Three-Chapter Controversy, a phase in the Chalcedonian controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the Non-Chalcedonian Christians of Syria ( Syriac Orthodox Church ) and Egypt ( Coptic Orthodox Church ) with Chalcedonian Eastern Orthodoxy, following the failure of the Henotikon.

The Crusades, which were first preached in 1095, were an attempt by western Christians to regain control of the Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish some Christian states in the Near East.

The organization attempts to counter the efforts of " Jews for Jesus " and other Messianic missionary organizations which believe Jesus to be God and one part of a Trinity, and attempt to proselytize Jews, claiming to be a legitimate form of Judaism, but considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity.

Although further persecutionary edicts followed, compelling the arrest of the Christian clergy and universal acts of sacrifice, the persecutionary edicts were ultimately unsuccessful ; most Christians escaped punishment, and pagans too were generally unsympathetic to the persecution.

It is the belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus.

After the expansion from its home in Bithynia, the Ottoman principality began incorporating other Turkish-speaking Muslims and non-Turkish Christians, becoming the Ottoman Turks and ultimately the Turks of the present.

This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater care of the city than that of the Christian God, inspiring St Augustine to write The City of God, alternative title " De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans ", in which he claimed that whilst the great ' city of Man ' had fallen, Christians were ultimately citizens of the ' city of God.

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.

In his research Zaken outlines three major eruptions that took place between 1843 and 1933 during which the Assyrian Christians lost their land and hegemony in their habitat in the Hakkārī ( or Julamerk ) region in southeastern Turkey and became refugees in other lands, notably Iran and Iraq, and ultimately in exiled communities in European and western countries ( the USA, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Sweden, France, to mention some of these countries ).

France did not however intervene in the Christian-supported Vietnamese rebellion in Bắc Bộ, despite the urging of missionaries, or in the subsequent slaughter of thousands of Christians after the rebellion, suggesting that although persecution of Christians was the prompt for the intervention, military and political reasons ultimately drove colonialism in Vietnam.

The Synod formally brought the Saint Thomas Christians into to Catholic Church ; however, the actions of the Portuguese over the ensuing years fueled resentment in segments of the community, and ultimately led to open resistance to their power.

It is the belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus.

It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to console Christians, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the Empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph.

After fighting many battles and maintaining order in the region although ultimately victorious he was killed fighting renegade Christians in a small Montenegrin village Mokro in Drobnjaci, Montenegro.

fans ultimately died as a result of their injuries, he joined forces with Paul McCartney, The Christians, Holly Johnson, and his production trio Stock, Aitken & Waterman on a new version of " Ferry Cross the Mersey "-recorded under the name Ferry Aid.

Augustine in his book " City of God " ultimately rejected the pagan and Christian idea that religion should have worldly benefits ; he developed the doctrine that the City of God in heaven, undamaged by mundane disasters, was the true objective of Christians.

:* A reaffirmation that salvation is ultimately for God's glory rather than man's, and that Christians everywhere should understand that they are under God's authority and act for his glory alone.

According to Christian anarchists, there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus.

Yoder defended himself against charges of incoherence and hypocrisy by arguing for the legitimacy of moral double standards, and by pointing out that since world affairs are ultimately governed by God's providence, Christians are better off being the Church, than following compromised moral systems that try to reconcile biblical revelation with the necessities of governance.

Traditionally, most Jews, Christians and Muslims have embraced monogenism in the form that all modern humans ultimately are descended from a single mating pair, named Adam and Eve.

Having thus figuratively equated " practical Judaism " and " huckstering ", Marx concludes that " the Christians have become Jews "; and, ultimately, it is mankind ( both Christians and Jews ) that needs to emancipate itself from (" practical ") Judaism.

Thus Palestine must ultimately become a state which guards the rights and interests of Moslems, Jews and Christians alike ; and accords to the inhabitants, as a whole, the fullest measure of self-government, consistent with the three paramount principles set forth above.