The Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) contends that the thousands of changes made to the original revelations as published in the Book of Commandments ( including the change of the church's name ) are not doctrinal and result from Joseph Smith's fall from his original calling.

The Presbyterian Church established in 1737 was a focal point for the community, and the lack of serious injuries when the church's balcony collapsed in 1759 was deemed to be an example of Divine Intervention, leading residents to change the area's name to New Providence.

After Lawson's death in 1961, a rising minister in the organization, William L. Bonner, proposed a change in the church's governmental structure.

Eastern Orthodox theologians state this change of the wording of the churches ' original creed, was done to address various teachings outside of the church in specific the Macedonius I of Constantinople teaching which the council claimed was a distortion of the church's teaching on the Holy Spirit.

" The Philadelphia Inquirer recalled how Krol was " iled by conservatives as a defender of the church's heritage and criticized by liberals as an opponent of change.

The service was preceded by a half-muffled quarter peal on the church's bells, rung by local ringers and members of the RAF and Royal Navy change ringing associations.

During the discussions which followed, Orthodox theologians warned that, according to church's doctrine, people who want to change the purpose of a plot of land where a church is destined to be built will be anathemized.

Because of the similarity between the name used by Gugulan's group and Soriano's group, the former filed a suit, which was resolved by the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 2001 in favor of Gugulan's group and Soriano's group was ordered to change their church's name .< ref >

Through an analysis of public responses to two separate but related events in contemporary Singapore — a church's claim that " homosexuals can change " and a former prime minister's published comments about openly gay civil servants in his administration — this article explores how a " gay community " has been imagined in Singapore, where homosexual acts remain illegal and where a " conservative majority " has been ideologically mobilized by the state and moral-religious entrepreneurs.

Another minority believed that Eddy intended various requirements for her consent ( in their view, " estoppels ") to effect the church's dissolution on her death, since they could no longer be followed literally.

* Christian Science Mark Twain's famous, vitriolic 1907 polemic mocking Mary Baker Eddy, her writings, and the church's financial arrangements.

Emily's health, like her sisters ', had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard.

Sexual acts played a fundamental role in the church's sacred rites, which were performed by Mary Ellen Tracy herself in her assumed role of High Priestess.

Marian's Aunt Mary ( John Berkley's sister ) was particularly active in the church's musical life and, noticing her niece's talent, convinced her to join the junior church choir at the age of six.

Throughout her teenage years, Marian remained active in her church's musical activities, now heavily involved in the adult choir.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

He referred to the writings by the church's Ante Nicene Fathers to suggest that these stories began as propaganda invented and circulated by Semiramis herself so her subjects would ascribe to her the status of virgin birth and view her child as the fulfillment of the " seed " prophecy in Genesis 3: 15.

Most significant was the apparition in Rianxo, Galicia, in 1931, in which she said that Jesus visited her, taught her two prayers and delivered a message to give to the church's hierarchy.

Untangling the church's property and debts from Emma's personal property and debts proved a long and potentially dangerous process for Emma and her family.

Many of the first minority who reject the 89th edition also believe that Eddy intended various requirements for her consent ( in their view, " estoppels ") to effect the church's dissolution on her death, since they could no longer be heeded literally.

Before forming Ace of Base, Malin sang in her church's choir.

She joined a company of her church's members for that trip, of which 150 died during snowstorms.

As Barbara Palmer of the Stanford Report stated, Stanford " had her religious beliefs literally carved into the church's sandstone walls ".

After two of her sons were involved in a string of arrests and eventually jailed, she related her story with her church's congregation.

The Jesuits were seen as church's soldiers, and, in the view of some, given free rein to use whatever methods as outlined in the forged anti-Catholic document Monita Secreta, also known as the " Secret Instructions of the Jesuits " published ( 1612 and 1614 ) in Kraków, and were also accused of using casuistry to obtain justifications for the unjustifiable in their work ( See: formulary controversy ; Blaise Pascals ' Lettres Provinciales ).

His restless and imperious ambition for the church's growth, come what might for the non-Christians, is suggested by his preaching ’.

Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

It is the church's de facto " official biography " of Eddy, though it was not published by the church.

Because much physical and spiritual violence was done to Jews in the name of Jesus and his followers, and because evangelism is still an active aspect of many church's activities, many Jews are uncomfortable with discussing Jesus and treat him as a non-person.

The Rotunda is located in the centre of the Anastasis, beneath the larger of the church's two domes.

A less grave sign of this state of affairs is located on a window ledge over the church's entrance.

The Roman Catholic Church does not consider the validity of an ecumenical council's teaching to be in any way dependent on where it is held or on the granting or withholding of prior authorization or legal status by any state, in line with the attitude of the 5th-century bishops who " saw the definition of the church's faith and canons as supremely their affair, with or without the leave of the Emperor " and who " needed no one to remind them that Synodical process pre-dated the Christianisation of the royal court by several centuries ".

However, many modern scholars disagree with Irenaeus, holding that while little is known of the circumstances of the church's founding, it was not founded by Paul.

The idea of freedom ( for the theatre against the dominance of its French model ; for religion from the church's dogma ) is his central theme throughout his life.

The church's headquarters is located in Unity Village, a self-contained, incorporated municipality lying east of the city near Lee's Summit.

'" The use of " Mormon " in other contexts is not generally considered offensive and is commonly used by the church's members.

Galatians 3. 28 and the Gender Dispute, Richard Hove argues that while Galatians 3: 28 means that one's sex does not affect salvation, " there remains a pattern of in which the wife is to emulate the church's submission to Christ () and the husband is to emulate Christ's love for the church.

It is revealed in " Deities " that he is a member of the Vu-Age Church, and is responsible for kidnapping Max on behalf of the church's leader.

This is derived from the name of the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, and was first used in 1974 by the American media.

In many churches in the United States, the title " Preacher " is synonymous with " Pastor " or " Minister ", and the church's minister is often referred to simply as " our / the preacher " or by name such as " Preacher Smith ".

Her case is to be heard by the church's court.