All religion, including Catholicism, which teaches that salvation is by religious works or church dogma is false.

In addition, the church teaches sacred ordinances through which adherents make covenants with God, including baptism, confirmation, the sacrament ( holy communion ), endowment, and celestial marriage ( marriage blessings which extend beyond mortality ), which are of great significance to church members.

The Doctrine and Covenants teaches that " all things must be done in order, and by common consent in the church ."().

" Eastern Orthodoxy further teaches that " a clear understanding of the importance of Icons " was part of the church from its very beginning, and has never changed, although explanations of their importance may have developed over time.

* Jansenism Resources: Primary texts and discussions relating to the theology and history of Jansenism: context of Augustine of Hippo, Jesuit Order, liturgy, universalism and Second Vatican Council This site is maintained by a very conservative movement that challenges much of what the modern Roman Catholic church teaches and appears to be sympathetic to some Jansenist ideas.

Some of these, most notably the Seventh-day Adventist Church, have traditionally held that the apostate church formed when Bishop of Rome began to dominate and brought heathen corruption and allowed pagan idol worship and beliefs to come in, and formed the Roman Catholic Church, which teaches others traditions over Scripture, and to rest from their work on Sunday, instead of Sabbath, which is not in keeping with Scripture.

The LCMS, along with certain other Lutheran church bodies, also teaches the doctrine of the distinction between God's " Law " and God's " Gospel ".

COGIC teaches that Angels are messengers sent from God who served during the Creation, throughout the old testament, the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the establishment of the church and the ministry of the apostles, and are yet at work in the Kingdom of God.

COGIC teaches that the church is the community of Christian believers who have accepted Jesus Christ and submit to his lordship and authority in their lives.

The Roman Catholic church teaches that the Blessed Virgin Mary was, by a special grace of God, without sin her entire life.

The church professes to be the reestablishment of the original church founded by Jesus Christ and teaches that the original church was apostatized.

INC teaches that the apostate church is the Roman Catholic Church, and proclaims that Catholic beliefs shared by most Christians, such as the Trinity are proof of this apostasy.

The church teaches that the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus and of the Holy Spirit are not biblical.

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

The church teaches that Christians should believe in divine healing, but also teaches that medical knowledge comes to humanity through God's grace.

The church also disavows plural marriage, and is unique in the Latter Day Saint movement in that it teaches the existence of a bipartite god ( God the Father and Jesus Christ ), as opposed to the usual three part godhead of Mormonism ( God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit ).

The church teaches that it should be a place to:

The Church of Jesus Christ teaches that the church as set by Christ in the New Testament contains all doctrines and practices essential for salvation.

The church teaches that baptism must be in a natural body of water such as a river or lake, and not in a pool or other artificial structure.

The Church of Jesus Christ teaches that the structure of the early church and that apostles, evangelists, elders, teachers, and deacons should still lead the church today.

The gap between the ecumenical perspective and the parish perspective appears most starkly in a church in any of our comfortable suburbs.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

One of the most wholesome things you could schedule in your church would thus be a group confessional where people could admit of their inner tensions ''.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.

This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before.

Each church has its own doctrine and liturgy, based in most cases on that of the Church of England ; and each church has its own legislative process and overall episcopal polity, under the leadership of a local primate.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

It involved most church members — from simple believers, priests and monks to bishops, emperors and members of Rome's imperial family.

He endowed several church institutions, most prominently his family's Sorø Abbey.

In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

Replicas of the Axum tabot are kept in every Ethiopian church, each with its own dedication to a particular saint, the most popular of these include Mary, George and Michael.

However, most Methodists view apostolic succession outside its high church sense.

The Bishop of London — the most senior cleric of the church with the exception of the two archbishops — serves as Canterbury's provincial dean, the Bishop of Winchester as chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Salisbury as precentor, the Bishop of Worcester as chaplain and the Bishop of Rochester as cross-bearer.

The church has a two-manual pipe organ with pedal board that is used to accompany most services.

The church later evolved into the Monastery of Alcobaça, one of the most magnificent gothic monuments in the country.

The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book it is included here.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.

Saint Sava began the work on the Serbian Nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles, Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Ecumenical Councils ' documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors ' Novellae ( most were taken from Justinian's Novellae ).

Beside decrees that organized the life of church, there are various norms regarding civil life, most of them were taken from Prohiron.

Henry II's creation of a powerful and unified court system, which curbed somewhat the power of canonical ( church ) courts, brought him ( and England ) into conflict with the church, most famously with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.