Most, however, interpret the genre as epic stories of early Christian miracles and conversions.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Most Protestants deny the doctrine of apostolic succession, believing that it is neither taught in Scripture nor necessary for Christian teaching, life, and practice.

Most of the Christian quarters are named after the Arab Ghassanid clans that settled there.

Most churches have long expressed ideals of being reconciled with each other, and in the 20th century Christian ecumenism advanced in two ways.

Most of this reconciliation has occurred between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church, and evangelical Christian organizations.

Most American members of the Christian Right consider homosexual acts as sinful and think it should not be accepted by society.

Most congregations also sing hymns, read from the Old and New Testaments of Christian Scripture, hear the word of God proclaimed through sermon or other medium and extend an invitation to become Christ's Disciples.

Most historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

Most historians agree that the emperors called the councils to force the Christian bishops to resolve divisive issues and reach consensus.

Most significantly, it resulted in the first, extra-biblical, uniform Christian doctrine, called the Creed of Nicaea.

Most scholars today accept that both Christian and Celtic traditions contributed to the legend's development, though many of the early Celtic-based arguments are largely discredited ( Loomis himself came to reject much of Weston and Nutt's work ).

* Most of the Polytheistic religious deities and texts of Pre-Western Americas, Oceania, and Africa, were destroyed by Christian missionaries and their converts.

Most of the manuscripts were created by Christian monks, who may well have been torn between the desire to record their native culture and their religious hostility to pagan beliefs resulting in some of the gods being euhemerized.

Most Christian denominations have also replaced it with the Gregorian calendar as the basis for their liturgical calendars.

It is safe to say that there is not one sentence in the New Testament in which the is wholly uniform .” Most of the variation took place within the first three Christian centuries.

Agapetus is said to have replied, " With eager longing have I come to gaze upon the Most Christian Emperor Justinian.

Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

* Eck, Diane ( 2001 ) A New Religious America: How a " Christian Country " Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation ( San Francisco: Harper ).

Most Solomon Islanders are Christian, with the Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, South Seas Evangelical, and Seventh-day Adventist faiths predominating.

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

Most historians look to this act as the final step in the initiation of the Great Schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches.

The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most Eastern Orthodox churches allow varying amounts of formalised laity and / or lower clergy influence on the choice of bishops.

Most non-denominational churches are organized along congregationalist lines.

* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".

Most Reformed churches would practice a balance between these, i. e., all believers who are united to a church of like faith and practice, and who are not living in sin, would be allowed to join in the Sacrament, sometimes with a requirement of pastoral or elder approval.

Most churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, also practice their own form of open communion, provided those who receive are baptized and believe in the Real Presence.

Most circuits have fewer ministers than churches, and the majority of services are led by lay local preachers, or by supernumerary ministers ( ministers who have retired, called supernumerary because they are not counted for official purposes in the numbers of ministers for the circuit in which they are listed ).

Most of the originally Protestant churches in Masuria are now used by the Polish Roman Catholic Church as the number of Lutherans in Masuria declined from 68, 500 in 1950 to 21, 174 in 1961 and further to 3, 536 in 1981.

Most Continuing Anglican churches do not ordain women to the priesthood.

Most Reformed churches who trace their history back to Scotland are either Presbyterian or Congregationalist in government.

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

Most of them were Protestant, but I went to other churches because my parents wanted me to try to figure out things for myself.

Most Gothic churches, unless they are entitled chapels, are of the Latin cross ( or " cruciform ") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, an extension which may be called the choir, chancel or presbytery.

The bastions, curtains and ravelins along with the beauty of its Baroque palaces, gardens and churches, led the ruling houses of Europe to give the city its nickname Superbissima — ' Most Proud '.

Most of these Anglo-Catholic " innovations " ( or, rather, revivals of dormant practices ) have since been accepted by mainstream Anglican churches, if not by Evangelical or Low Church Anglicans.

Most of these churches and basilicas are built in the Romanesque style, even though the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato is built in a rich and elaborate Baroque style.

Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places.

Most parish churches had been endowed with chantries, each maintaining a stipended priest to say mass for the souls of their donors.

Most similarly sized churches, largely cathedrals, took hundreds of years to build due to constant fund shortages, giving them a variety of different styles as exhibited by other East Anglian churches such as Ely or Peterborough.