The first stand against capital punishment was taken by the church's Presiding High Council in 1995.

After publishing its own edition in 1979, the First Presidency announced in 1992 that the KJV was the church's official English Bible, stating " hile other Bible versions may be easier to read than the King James Version, in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations.

" In 2010 this was written into the church's Handbook, which directs official church policy and programs.

# The church's interpretation of the Bible was final.

The suit was thrown out by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1997, but a lingering discontent with the church's financial matters persists to this day.

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.

Pauline authorship was held to by many of the early church's prominent theologians, such as Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen of Alexandria and Eusebius.

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.

This group took an extreme view that argued that all papal teachings were infallible and that papal infallibility was the foundation of the church's infallibility.

Though their development was gradual, we can date the full-blown appearance and general ecclesiastical ( as opposed to simply popular or local ) acceptance of Christian images as venerated and miracle-working objects to the 6th century, when, as Hans Belting writes, " we first hear of the church's use of religious images.

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, established in 1863, believes Ellen G. White, one of the church's founders, was given the spiritual gift of prophecy, and are generally skeptical toward other claims.

The church's textbook, the Divine Principle does not include the teaching that Zacharias was the father of Jesus, however according to Ruth Tucker some members of the church hold that belief based on the work of Leslie Weatherhead.

This sparked a period of ecumenical activism which culminated in the UPCUSA's development of the Confession of 1967 which was the church's first new confession of faith in three centuries.

It was destroyed when the church's cloister was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century.

The church's official teachings, the Divine Principle, was first published as Wolli Wonbon in 1946.

Joseph R. Wilson served as the first permanent clerk of the southern church's General Assembly, was Stated Clerk from 1865 – 1898 and was Moderator of the PCUS General Assembly in 1879.

Subsequently construction on the cathedral was halted, because the then-bishop felt that the church's funds would better be spent on works of charity, and because the United States ' subsequent involvement with the Second World War greatly limited available manpower.

There was an inscription above the front door on the church's façade which used to say: " Stop your walking, traveller, and enter this sacred temple in which you will find the footprint of our Lord Jesus Christ when He met with St. Peter who escaped from the prison.

" Individual congregations (" wards ") are led by a Bishop or branch president who was called to his position through revelation by the church's hierarchical leadership, and he serves until released from the position.

Ironically, Mission Santa Cruz ( though ultimately ignored by the marauders ) was ignominiously sacked and vandalized by local residents who were entrusted with securing the church's valuables.

The church's boundaries are actually protected on one side by the Town Walls, although originally St. John's was a small Saxon building.

The one in the octagon at the east end of the chancel rests on the site of the medieval high altar which bore the silver reliquary casket containing the remains of St. Olav, the church's and the kingdom's patron saint, and is designed to recall in marble sculpture the essential form of this reliquary casket.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the church's interior, however, is its south window, designed as a Tree of Jesse by Augustus Pugin.

The church's exterior is notable for its 200-ft high spire, Wren's third highest and the only one that he designed in a medieval style ..

The imposing and luxurious St. Ignatius Chapel, located on the left side of the transept, is the church's masterpiece, designed by Andrea Pozzo between 1696 and 1700.

The church's nave and baptistry were opened in 1865, designed by the partnership of Mason & Clayton although it is not entirely clear if William Mason ( William Mason ( architect )) or W. H.

The altar and chairs in this chapel were designed by Bay Area artist Gail Fredell who decorated the chapel's altar by using Salvatti's original mosaics, which had been stored since the church's reconstruction following the 1906 earthquake.

The losses to Presbyterianism increased greatly in the decades in which the Plan of Union, designed by Connecticut Congregationalists and the Presbyterian General Assembly to avoid duplication of effort in evangelizing the frontier regions, was in effect, as numerous Congregational-founded parishes were annexed to presbyteries, usually through the pastor's affiliation and often without the local church's assent.

The layout may have been designed at least partially around the extant church, suggesting the church's importance to the colonial community's life.

It has a very tall bell-tower and the church's roof is covered in patented colorful Zsolnay " eozenic " porcelain tiles which were designed by Ignatz Oppenheimer.

The body of the church was designed by Daniel Stewart, the surveyor of the church's committee of management, and the façade by John Foster the senior surveyor of the Corporation of Liverpool.

Because it was the church's first temple ( save the roughly contemporaneous Bern Switzerland Temple ) built outside of an LDS-dominated settlement, the Los Angeles Temple was the first LDS temple explicitly designed for automobile accessibility: its parking facilities were larger than those of any temple built previously, and there is no direct pedestrian connection between the front doors and Santa Monica Boulevard.

According to Vicki Aznaran, former Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center, the church's highest ecclesiastical organization, The Way to Happiness Foundation is " a front group to get people into Scientology " and the book is designed " to make Scientology palatable to the masses.

At the east end is an apse, flanked by the church's most original features: two tribunes designed in imitation of the Erechtheum, with entablatures supported by caryatids.

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

After Smith's death, a succession crisis ensued, and the majority voted to accept the Quorum of the Twelve, led by Brigham Young, as the church's leading body.

Christian Science practitioners are listed in the Christian Science Journal, with the permission of the church's Board of Directors, their only form of official recognition by the church and among the Christian Science laity.

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.

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 ".

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.

But by first calling the final product Novum Instrumentum omne (" All of the New Teaching ") and later Novum Testamentum omne (" All of the New Testament ") he also indicated clearly that he considered a consistently parallelized version of both the Greek and the Latin texts as the essential dual core of the church's New Testament tradition.

Archbishop Heriger of Mainz offered to anoint Henry according to the usual ceremony, but he refused to be anointed by a high church official — the only King of his time not to undergo that rite — allegedly because he wished to be king not by the church's but by the people's acclaim.

The city became the church's new headquarters and gathering place, and it grew rapidly, fueled in part by converts immigrating from Europe.

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

Plural marriage became the faith's most sensational characteristic during the 19th century, but vigorous opposition by the United States Congress threatened the church's existence as a legal institution.

The regime responded by closing Roman Catholic publications and newspapers, expelling non-Paraguayan priests, and harassing the church's attempts to organize the rural poor.

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 ".

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.