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 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 Christian churches give some form of blessing to a marriage ; the wedding ceremony typically includes some sort of pledge by the community to support the couple's relationship.

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.

Most of the transmitter site is gone, however, as three quarters of the land it originally encompassed has been eroded into the sea.

Most Medicare enrollees do not pay a monthly Part A premium, because they ( or a spouse ) have had 40 or more 3-month quarters in which they paid Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes.

Most houses in early Looe would have been constructed with the living quarters upstairs above storage areas for boats, tools and fishing tackle.

Most of these villas consist of a roughly square plan with a small entrance hall with a staircase offset in the middle to one side, around which are placed the main rooms, there is then a less prominent Servants ' quarters in a wing attached to one side of the villa.

Most quarters of the city are located on the High Plateau and the surrounding hills, which have an average elevation of.

Most of the species are markedly territorial both in their summer and winter quarters.

Most modern dictionaries give one of the meanings for the word caravan as " a camper equipped with living quarters ".

Most of Rideau Hall is used for state affairs, only 500 m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 5, 400 sq ft ) of its area being dedicated to private living quarters, while additional areas serve as the offices of the Canadian Heraldic Authority and the principal workplace of the governor general and his or her staff either the term Rideau Hall, as a metonym, or the formal idiom Government House is employed to refer to this bureaucratic branch.

Most indoor soccer games are divided into four quarters of 15 minutes each for a total of 60 minutes of play time.

Most of these sizes were convenient for artists using standard office supplies: a US letter page could be folded in half to make a digest, or in quarters for a minicomic.

Most of the domestic barrack blocks, officers ’ mess, station headquarters, squadron offices and married quarters built at this time still stand and remain in use.

* Most modern house music is in tempo of 128 beats ( quarters ) per minute

Most high school games are played with four 8 minute quarters and college games are played in two 20-minute halves, while WNBA and FIBA games are played in four 10-minute quarters.

Most dramatically, on 3 October 1952, Dorothy fatally stabbed her husband, Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, with a hunting knife while he slept in their Army quarters in Japan.

Most supply vessels are provided with a " bridge " area for navigating and operating the ship, machinery spaces, living quarters, and an area for cooking and eating.

Most of the buildings, including the barracks, commissary, and officers quarters, are furnished to their original appearance.

Most often used to describe men whose living quarters are located here, officers being quartered in the stern-most areas of the ship ( near the quarterdeck ).

Most of the players in the first and third quarters should win the first round.

Most adult individuals of this species have shells which are 20 to 40 mm ( or about an inch, to an inch and three quarters ) in diameter.

Most newer vessels are air-conditioned, soundproofed from noisy machinery, and equipped with comfortable living quarters.

Rudolice < sup > map </ sup > is one of the quarters of Most.

Most of the victims could be counted in Cilicia, as well as the Eastern zone, and without ignoring Smyrna ( İzmir ) during what was reported as massacres and what followed with the burning of the Armenian and Greek quarters of the city ( see Great Fire of Smyrna ).

Most of the tank battles were fought in fairly close quarters as the Soviets learned from their defeat in the morning action.