Futurist Christians consider the " Abomination of Desolation " prophecy of Daniel mentioned by Jesus in and as referring to an event in the end time future, when a 7 year peace treaty will be signed between Israel and a world ruler called " the man of lawlessness ", or the " Antichrist " affirmed by the writings of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians.

The position that " Christian theological anti-Judaism is a phenomenon distinct from modern antisemitism, which is rooted in economic and racial thought, so that Christian teachings should not be held responsible for antisemitism " has been articulated, among other places, by Pope John Paul II in ' We Re member: A Reflection on the Shoah ,' and the Jewish declaration on Christianity, Dabru Emet .. Several scholars, including Susannah Heschel, Gavin I Langmuir and Uriel Tal the General Synod has affirmed that " the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ is for all and must be shared with all including people from other faiths or of no faith and that to do anything else would be to institutionalize discrimination ".

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

We believe that the Sabbath of the Bible, the seventh day of the week, is sacred time, a gift of God to all people, instituted at creation, affirmed in the Ten Commandments and reaffirmed in the teaching and example of Jesus and the apostles.

Marcion affirmed Jesus to be the saviour sent by the Heavenly Father, and Paul as his chief apostle.

Pope Pius XI in his encyclical letter Miserentissimus Redemptor ( on May 8, 1928 ) affirmed the Church's position with respect to Saint Margaret Mary's visions of Jesus Christ by stating that Jesus had " manifested Himself " to Saint Margaret and had " promised her that all those who rendered this honor to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces.

A minority of commentaries of Ismaili or rationalist ( falāsifa ) leaning affirmed the crucifixion by arguing that Jesus ' body had been crucified, but his spirit had ascended.

He affirmed and preached the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, the bodily resurrection of Christ, a literal devil and hell, and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

Jesusism, he argues, has " the potential to be theologically dangerous because it allows persons to perceive Jesus as an example of moral values or commitments that can be affirmed independently from this example.

At the Roman Council VI, 1079, Berengarius affirmed: " I, Berengarius, in my heart believe and with my lips confess that through the mystery of the sacred prayer and the words of our Redeemer the bread and wine which are placed on the altar are substantially changed into the true and proper and living flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord ..." ( Denziger § 355 ).

Although he affirmed Catholic teaching that Jesus is true Son of God, eternally begotten from God the Father and thus of one divine nature with the Father, he also proposed that Jesus, as the son of David, according to his human nature was the adopted rather than the natural son of God.

Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.

This line of thought affirmed the ethical teachings of Jesus but rejected the idea that he represented anything more than a highly accomplished human being.

The decision affirmed merging St. Stanislaus Kostka with Pope John Paul the Great Parish, and St. George and St. Patrick with Holy Name of Jesus.

In his 1928 encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pope Pius XI affirmed the Church's position regarding the credibility of her visions of Jesus Christ by speaking of Jesus as having " manifested Himself " to Saint Margaret Mary and having " promised her that all those who rendered this honour to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces ".

Jesus affirmed his Divine identity and ultimate authority, revealing God to humanity, continuing His work into the future as the Light ().

Among much broader goals, the Lollards affirmed a form of consubstantiation — that the Eucharist remained physically bread and wine, while becoming spiritually the body and blood of Christ.

The council affirmed and defined what it believed to be the teachings of the Apostles regarding who Christ is: that Christ is the one true God in deity with the Father.

As affirmed by the Articles of Religion, Methodists recognize two Sacraments as being ordained of Christ: Baptism and Holy Communion.

Vatican II further affirmed that salvation could be available to people who had not even heard of Christ ( cf.

He criticized radical liberation theology, saying, " this conception of Christ, as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth, does not tally with the Church's catechisms "; however, he did speak of " the ever increasing wealth of the rich at the expense of the ever increasing poverty of the poor ", and affirmed that the principle of private property " must lead to a more just and equitable distribution of goods ... and, if the common good demands it, there is no need to hesitate at expropriation, itself, done in the right way "; on balance, the Pope offered neither praise nor condemnation.

Luther affirmed a theology of the Eucharist called Real Presence, a doctrine of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist that affirms the real presence, yet holds that the bread and wine are not " changed " into the body and blood ; rather the divine elements adhere " in, with, and under " the earthly elements.

( Ref Opus cit Butler ) A certain Proclus ( or Proculus ), who had confessed the faith before the prosecutors and underwent torments in defence of it, subsequently was seduced into heresy by Asclepiodotus and Theodotus the banker, both disciples of Theodotus the Tanner, whom Victor, Zephyrinus's predecessor in the Chair of Peter, had excommunicated for reviving the heresy of Ebion that affirmed that Christ was only a mere man, though a prophet.

When the 1970 Roman Missal allowed laypeople to receive Holy Communion under the appearances of both bread and wine, it insisted that priests should use the occasion to teach the faithful the Catholic doctrine on the form of Communion, as affirmed by the Council of Trent: they were first to be reminded that they receive the whole Christ when they participate in the sacrament even under one kind alone, and thus are not then deprived of any grace necessary for salvation.

He added the title ' Queen of Peace ' to her Litany, and gave his support to an understanding of Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces ( by approving a Mass and office under this title for the dioceses of Belgium ) and affirmed that " together with Christ she redeemed the human race " by her immolation of Christ as his sorrowful mother ( in his apostolic letter Inter sodalicia ).

In these he strongly affirmed the existence of original sin, the need for infant baptism, the impossibility of a sinless life without Christ, and the necessity of Christ's grace.

The followers of John Wesley, the clergymen, have typically affirmed that the sacrament of Holy Communion is an instrumental Means of Grace through which the real presence of Christ is communicated to the believer, but have otherwise allowed the details to remain a mystery.

To the Glory of God, and in grateful commemoration of His servants, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, Prelates of the Church of England, who near this spot yielded their bodies to be burned, bearing witness to the sacred truths which they had affirmed and maintained against the errors of the Church of Rome, and rejoicing that to them it was given not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for His sake ; this monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord God, MDCCCXLI.

In 1887, he published a pamphlet entitled An Address to All Believers in Christ, in which he affirmed his testimony of the Book of Mormon, but denounced the other branches of the Latter Day Saint Movement.

After his religious conversion, however, Marvin affirmed that the only substance in his life from that moment on, besides the insulin he needed daily for his diabetes, was " Cristomicina ", a portmanteau of the name of Christ and erythromycin.

" He affirmed that the Holy Ghost is a distinct spirit being who is the Comforter and the Testifier of Truth, and that the " perfect unity between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost that binds these three into the oneness of the divine Godhead.

* Arminianism is Pelagian ( or Semi-Pelagian ), denying original sin and total depravity – No system of Arminianism founded on Arminius or Wesley denies original sin or total depravity ; both Arminius and Wesley strongly affirmed that man's basic condition is one in which he cannot be righteous, understand God, or seek God.

Furthermore the Council affirmed against Protestant doctrine that the grace of God can be forfeited through mortal sin.

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

" In 2000, the Church's General Assembly further affirmed that " human sexual orientations, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are a gift from God and part of the marvelous diversity of creation.

He affirmed the perfection of God and His creation, and credited intuition as well as reason as a way to bring Man closer to the universe.

Lutherans, however, rejected the iconoclasm of the 16th century, and affirmed the distinction between adoration due to the Triune God alone and all other forms of veneration ( CA 21 ).

In agreement with prominent medieval Jewish thinkers including Maimonides, Kaplan affirmed that God is not personal, and that all anthropomorphic descriptions of God are, at best, imperfect metaphors.

Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.

His later position affirmed the necessity of God granting grace in order for the desire for salvation to be awakened.

As recently as 1965 Vatican Council II affirmed, " the Church is the new people of God ," without intending to make " Israel according to the flesh ", the Jewish people, irrelevant in terms of eschatology ( see " Roman Catholicism, below ).

Elders are called by God, affirmed by the church, and ordained by a bishop to a ministry of Word, Sacrament, Order and Service within the church.

rightDeacons are called by God, affirmed by the church, and ordained by a bishop to servant leadership within the church.

She then affirmed an oath to defend the true religion and worship of God and to " withstand and despise all papistical superstitions, and whatsoever ceremonies and rites contrary to the word of God.

On November 12, 2010, in a unanimous decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston affirmed a ruling by a New Hampshire lower federal court which found that the pledge's reference to God doesn't violate students ' rights.