Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.

Other Christians too, in particular Anglicans, Lutherans and some Protestant and other Christian communities use a rite of anointing the sick, without necessarily classifying it as a sacrament.

Other groups support or advocate for gay Christians and their relationships.

Other possibilities are that he was merely opposed to Christians who lived Jewishly, or deny that docetism threatened the church, or that his critical remarks were directed at an Ebionite or Cerinthian possessionist Christology, where God descended and took possession of Jesus's body.

Other scholars, including the former Attorney-General of Ethiopia, Bereket Habte Selassie, contend that, " religious tensions here and there ... were exploited by the British, most Eritreans ( Christians and Moslems ) were united in their goal of freedom and independence.

Other groups of Christians have historically excluded instrumental accompaniment, citing the absence of instruments in worship by the church in the first several centuries of its existence, and adhere to an unaccompanied a cappella congregational singing of hymns.

Other Protestant Christians also celebrate the holiday as Reformation Day, a day to remember the Protestant Reformation, alongside All Hallow's Eve or independently from it .< ref >

Other scholars, drawing upon distinctions between Jewish Christians, Pauline Christianity, and other groups such as and Marcionites, argue that early Christianity was always fragmented, with contemporaneous competing beliefs.

Other Christians saw the baptism of each new-born baby into the secular parish community and close links between church and state as the divinely-ordained means of holding society together.

Other Christians have held that there can be truth value and salvific value in other faith traditions.

Other Protestant churches are also existent in Wroclaw and include: Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Adventist and Free Christians.

Other Christians highly revere him but do not canonize or venerate saints.

Other Christians highly revere him but do not canonize or venerate saints.

Other Christians of Kerala, who were originally of the same East-Syrian tradition, passed instead to the West-Syrian tradition and now form part of Oriental Orthodoxy ( some from the Oriental Orthodox in India united with the Catholic Church in 1930 and became the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ).

Other sects emerged at this time, such as the Early Christians in Jerusalem and the Therapeutae in Egypt.

Other Christians from the period saw Isaac as a type of the " Word of God " who prefigured Christ.

Other scholars have concluded that early Christians considered abortion a sin at all stages ; though there is disagreement over their thoughts on what type of sin it was and how grave a sin it was held to be, it was seen as at least as grave as sexual immorality.

Other provisions frequently mentioned were a permission to sell meat to Christians, or employ Christian servants.

Other documents from the 3rd and 4th centuries, however, reveal that the customary practice was for Christians to consult their Jewish neighbors to determine when the week of Unleavened Bread would fall, and to set Easter on the Sunday that fell within that week.

Other Christians of Kerala, who were originally of the same East-Syrian tradition, passed instead to the West-Syrian tradition and now form part of Oriental Orthodoxy.

* The Other Pentecostals-There are 17 million of them in the world, but Oneness Pentecostals are not even considered Christians by some in the church.

Other religious groups represented in the K-12 private education sector include Protestants, Jews, Muslims and the Orthodox Christians.

Other Christians believe that the Scriptures are always right ( do not err ) only in fulfilling their primary purpose: revealing God, God's vision, God's purposes, and God's good news to humanity.

Other countries, however, have higher percentages of Christians and Protestants within their total populations.

Other Christians, including Wereka, Batwin, and Saba, died in later persecutions.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

Other questions studied in the philosophy of religion include what, if anything, would give us good reason to believe that a miracle has occurred, what is the relationship between faith and reason, what is the relationship between morality and religion, what is the status of religious language, and does petitionary prayer ( sometimes still called impetratory prayer ) make sense?

Other Visigoths, refusing to adopt the Muslim faith or live under their rule, fled north to the kingdom of the Franks, and Visigoths played key roles in the empire of Charlemagne a few generations later.

Other examples of this are the experience of a young man or woman leaving home to join the military, or a religious convert internalizing the beliefs and rituals of a new faith.

Other bands perform music influenced by their faith or containing Christian imagery, but see their audience as the general public.

Other writers ( e. g., Yu Hua ( 余华 ), Ge Fei ( 格非 ), Su Tong ( 苏童 ) experimented in a more avant-garde ( 先锋 ) mode of writing that was daring in form and language and showed a complete loss of faith in ideals of any sort.

Other westerners, Chakraverti said, on the other hand believe in spirituality but tend to put faith in a guru who is a swindler.

" Other members included Joseph Fielding and his sisters Mary and Mercy, who later also became prominent in the Latter Day Saint faith.

Other fragments of the Cross were further broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed ; in 348, in one of his Catecheses, Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the " whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ ," and in another, " The holy wood of the Cross bears witness, seen among us to this day, and from this place now almost filling the whole world, by means of those who in faith take portions from it.

Other faith traditions claim that they have not directly descended from any of these groups.

Other views include those of Zane C. Hodges who controversially suggested that it represents a place for those who make it to heaven based on their faith, but have failed to perform good works during their time on the earth.

Other evidence that will follow Spirit baptism include: the fruit of the Spirit, power to witness for Christ, power to endure the testings of faith and the oppositions of the world.

Other folk methods rely on Christian faith to break the enchantment: a stick from a rowan tree ( thought to be the wood from which the cross of Jesus Christ was built ) can break the curse, as can a simple phrase such as " what, in Heaven's name ", as in a 19th century tale from Carmarthenshire.

Other critics of Fowler have questioned whether his ordering of the stages really reflects his own commitment to a rather liberal Christian Protestant outlook, as if to say that people who adopt a similar viewpoint to Fowler are at higher stages of faith development.

Other churches allow volunteers to teach without training ; a profession of faith and a desire to teach is all that is required in such cases.

Other faith centers were Cythera, Malta, and Eryx in Sicily from which she became known to the Romans as Venus Erycina.

Other " apostolic faith assemblies " ( Parham disliked designating local Christian bodies as " churches ") were begun in the Galena area.

Other people of faith have adopted the position that faith is implicitly irrational and have embraced the putative irrationality of faith as a demonstration of devotion to one's beliefs and deity.

Other notable passages include the famous āyat al-kursī or " Throne Verse ", as well as the closing two verses which outline the six articles of belief before forming a prayer for forgiveness, divine mercy, and help against the enemies of faith.

Other attractions include an outdoor mass celebrating the French culture's loyalty to the Catholic faith, a large parade, car shows, sporting competitions and an arts and crafts flea market.