Christians teach that human beings inherit a corrupted or damaged human nature in which the tendency to do bad is greater than it would have been otherwise, so much so that human nature would not be capable now of participating in the afterlife with God.

Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and some Protestants teach the Sacrament of Baptism is the means by which each person's damaged human nature is healed and Sanctifying Grace ( capacity to enjoy and participate in the spiritual life of God ) is restored.

In Cangoxima, the first place Father Master Francisco stopped at, there were a good number of Christians, although there was no one there to teach them ; the shortage of laborers prevented the whole kingdom from becoming Christian.

Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the name Antinomian, maintaining that while non-Christians were still held to the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone, see also Law and Gospel.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

Some Protestant sects argue fiercely against Roman Catholicism, and fundamentalist Christians of all kinds teach that religious practices like those of paganism and witchcraft are pernicious.

* God created all things " very good " (), yet many Christians understand the Bible to teach that after the fall, all are sinful at birth ( Job ; ; Psalm ; John ) and from conception ().

Many Christians teach that sexual intercourse is meant to take place within the context of marriage, and that sexual abstinence is the norm outside of that.

Many Montagnards that currently reside in North and South Carolina are Christians and teach Christiany to their people in their language.

Many Christians consider it their obligation to follow what is often termed the Great Commission of Jesus, recorded in the final verses of the Gospel of Matthew: " Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

The British Resident, Colonel Munro, took the initiative for establishing a seminary in Kottayam for the theological education of Jacobite Christian priests and invited the Anglican missionaries to teach there ; thus started the relation of CMS with Saint Thomas Christians.

Some literalist or conservative Christians teach that the Bible lacks error in every way in all matters: chronology, history, biology, sociology, psychology, politics, physics, math, art, and so on.

Ripa returned to Naples from China with four young Chinese Christians, all teachers of their native language and formed the Institute sanctioned by Pope Clement XII to teach Chinese to missionaries and thus advance the propagation of Christianity in China.

For some charismatic Christians, deliverance ministries are activities carried out by individuals or groups aimed at solving problems related to demons and spirits, especially possession of the body and soul, but not the spirit as ministries like Ellel Ministries International, Don Dickerman Ministries and Neil T. Anderson explicitly teach that a Christian can not have demons in their spirit because the Holy Spirit lives there, though they can have demons in their body or soul due to inner emotional wounds, sexual abuse, or Satanic ritual abuse.

The commission from Jesus has been interpreted by evangelical Christians as meaning that his followers have the duty to go, teach, and baptize.

* The vast majority of all people who have ever lived will be saved, thus the relatively small number of true Christians of this age are predestined to be merely the early " firstfruits " of God's harvest to help teach the majority of humanity raised by the 2nd resurrection.

* The Holy Days of the Old Testament are still to be observed by Christians, and teach symbolically the seven steps of God's master plan of salvation for humanity.

And some Christians teach that the Son came from this higher god.

Even some Calvinistic Christians identify themselves as Amyraldians or " four point Calvinists " and teach an unlimited atonement.

He attempted to teach Christians how to live out their faith.

Lutherans teach that the means of grace are the ways that God the Holy Spirit creates faith in the hearts of Christians, forgives their sins, gives them eternal salvation and causes them to grow spiritually.

Its proponents teach that the doctrine is an aspect of the path to Christian dominion over society, arguing that God's promise of dominion to Israel applies to Christians today.

They maintain that Christians have been given power over creation because they are made in the image of God and teach that positive confession allows Christians to exercise dominion over their souls and material objects around them.

The first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God, while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom ; this section includes the Songs of the Suffering Servant, four separate passages referring to the nation of Israel, interpreted by Christians as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ.

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

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Against Heresies 3. 11. 7 acknowledges that many heterodox Christians use only one gospel while 3. 11. 9 acknowledges that some use more than four.

* Part four speaks of the bond that ties the people of the ' New Covenant ' ( Christians ) to Abraham's stock ( Jews ).

This edict divides Christians into four categories: priests, who are to be put to death ; senators and equestrians, who are to be stripped of their positions and their property confiscated ; nuns, who are to be exiled ; and imperial civil servants, who are condemned to forced labour.

In addition, four Hope Valley League football clubs are based in Buxton: Buxton Christians and Queens Reserves play at the Fairfield Centre with Blazing Rag and Buxton Town playing at the Kents Bank Recreation Ground.

* 1748-Roman Catholic Pedro Sanz and four other missionaries are executed, together with 14 Chinese Christians.

Although arguments about some potential New Testament books, such as the Shepherd of Hermas and Book of Revelation, continued well into the 4th century, four canonical gospels, attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were accepted among proto-orthodox Christians at least as early as the mid-2nd century.

Saturus, who is also said to have recorded his own vision, sees himself and Perpetua transported eastward by four angels to a beautiful garden, where they meet Jocundus, Saturninus, Artaius, and Quintus, four other Christians who are burnt alive during the same persecution ( xi-xii ).

The German Christians won handily ( 70 – 80 % of all seats in presbyteries and synods ), except within four regional churches and one provincial body of the united old-Prussian church: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria right of the river Rhine, the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover, Evangelical Reformed State Church of the Province of Hanover the Lutheran Evangelical State Church in Württemberg, and in the old-Prussian ecclesiastical province of Westphalia, where the German Christians gained no majorities.

Eastern Orthodox Christians use an ecclesiastical full moon that occurs four to five days later than the western ecclesiastical full moon.

Orthodox Christians should go to confession at least four times a year ; often during one of the four fasting periods ( Great Lent, Nativity Fast, Apostles ' Fast and Dormition Fast ).

With the institution in 1932 of a bicameral legislature in Travancore, four Saint Thomas Christians found a place in among the 24 seats of the lower house, but not comparable with other forward castes.

During the Middle Ages, four kilometres of walls and one hundred and thirty towers protected a population made up of Christians, Muslims and Jews.

The phrase is intended to set forth the four marks, or identifying signs, of the Christian Church — unity, holiness, universality, and apostolicity — and is based on the premise that all true Christians form a single united group founded by the apostles.

In the British Mandate census in 1922, the population rose to 1, 705 Muslims, four Christians and three Druze.

The early Christians adopted this symbolism and adapted it for the four Evangelists as the tetramorphs, which first appear in Christian art in the 5th century.

In 1935, three Bishops from the Church of Greece returned their dioceses to the Julian calendar, consecrated ( ordained ) four like-minded clergy to Episcopal dignity, created the church of the " Genuine Orthodox Christians " ( Greek: Εκκλησία των Γνησίων Ορθοδόξων Χριστιανών-Γ. Ο. Χ.

The four counties of Boka Kotorska have a total population of 71, 443 which has about 76 % Orthodox Christians and 11 % Catholic Christians: