Faith in Islam centers on faith in the fulfillment of prophecy by Muhammad, the prophet and messenger of the holy God Allah. For more, see: Faith in Islam ...

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Faith, Faith - Religious Faith, Faith - Judaism, Faith - Christianity, Faith - Islam, Faith - Buddhism, Faith - Rastafari, Faith - Neurobiological findings, Faith - Notes, Faith - Classic reflections on the nature of faith, Faith - The Reformation view of faith

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In religious contexts, "faith" has several different meanings. Sometimes, it means loyalty to one's religion. It is in the latter sense in which one can speak of, for example, "the Catholic faith" or "the Islamic faith." For creedal religions, faith also means that one accepts the religious tenets of the religion as true. For non-creedal religions, faith often means that one is loyal to a particular religious community. In general, faith means being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see with your ...

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The word faith has various uses; its central meaning is similar to "belief", "trust" or "confidence", but unlike these terms, "faith" tends to imply a transpersonal rather than interpersonal relationship – with God or a higher power. The object of faith can be a person (or even an inanimate object or state of affairs) or a proposition (or body of propositions, such as a religious credo). In each case, however, the faithful subject's faith is in an aspect of the object that cannot be rationally proven or objectively known. ...

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• Faith - Religious Faith
• Faith - Christianity
• Faith - Islam
• Faith - Buddhism
• Faith - Rastafari
• Faith - Neurobiological findings
• Faith - Notes
• Faith - Classic reflections on the nature of faith
• Faith - The Reformation view of faith

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Church of God in Christ, Mennonite is a Christian group of Anabaptist heritage; a 19th century offshot of the Old Order Mennonite Church. Among Mennonite groups, they are often referred to as Holdeman Mennonites, due to the original leadership of the John Holdeman. In Saskatchewan they are also known as Holderites. Church of God in Christ Mennonite - History. The congregations of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite are descendants of the Anabaptists of the "Radical Refo ...

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• Church of God in Christ Mennonite - History
• Church of God in Christ Mennonite - Faith and Practice
• Church of God in Christ Mennonite - Status
• Church of God in Christ Mennonite - Notes

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Christianity and world religions appear to share some elements. In a look at Christianity's relationship with other world religions, this article investigates the differences and similiarities of Christianity to other religions. Christianity and world religions - Relationship with Judaism. See also Comparing and contrasting Judaism and Christianity and Judeo-Christian Historically, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity has been strained, to say the least. In the past, ...

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• Christianity and world religions - Relationship with Judaism
• Christianity and world religions - Possible relationship with Zoroastrianism through Judaism
• Christianity and world religions - Relationship with Paganism
• Christianity and world religions - Relationship with Mithraism
• Christianity and world religions - Relationship with Islam
• Christianity and world religions - Relationship with the Bahá'í Faith
• Christianity and world religions - Relations with other faiths
• Christianity and world religions - Sociological Aspects
• Christianity and world religions - Syncretism
• Christianity and world religions - Notes

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The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) is an Evangelical Protestant denomination within Christianity. It was founded by Dr. Albert Benjamin Simpson in 1887, not as a denomination, but merely an alliance to unite Christians in foreign missionary efforts. An actual denomination from this alliance emerged in the mid 1900's. The US has nearly 2,000 C&MA churches and over 300,000 members. 400 of those churches are described as intercultural. In Canada, there are 378 churches, 59 of which are multicultural, and m ...

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• Christian and Missionary Alliance - What makes C&MA different?
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - History of the denomination
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - The FourFold Gospel
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - CAMA Services
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Prominent Members
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Complete Statement of Faith
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - C&MA seminaries and colleges
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - American C&MA college links
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Canadian C&MA college links
• Christian and Missionary Alliance - Notes

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Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; Spanish: Benedicto XVI; French: Benoît XVI), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger (April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany), is the 265th and reigning pope, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005, in a papal conclave over which he presided in his capacity as dean of the College of Cardinals. He celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cath ...

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• Pope Benedict XVI - Overview
• Pope Benedict XVI - Early life 1927–1951
• Pope Benedict XVI - Background and childhood 1927–1943
• Pope Benedict XVI - Military service 1943–1945
• Pope Benedict XVI - Education 1946–1951
• Pope Benedict XVI - Early church career 1951–1981
• Pope Benedict XVI - Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1981–2005
• Pope Benedict XVI - Health
• Pope Benedict XVI - Response to sex abuse scandal
• Pope Benedict XVI - Dialogue with non Christian religions
• Pope Benedict XVI - Ratzinger and Fatima
• Pope Benedict XVI - Papacy
• Pope Benedict XVI - Election to the Papacy
• Pope Benedict XVI - Choice of name
• Pope Benedict XVI - Early days of Papacy
• Pope Benedict XVI - Teachings
• Pope Benedict XVI - Curial appointments
• Pope Benedict XVI - Beatifications
• Pope Benedict XVI - Canonizations
• Pope Benedict XVI - Revival of traditional papal clothing
• Pope Benedict XVI - Apostolic journeys
• Pope Benedict XVI - Encyclicals
• Pope Benedict XVI - Pastoral Activities
• Pope Benedict XVI - Notes
• Pope Benedict XVI - Encyclicals
• Pope Benedict XVI - Books and theological writings
• Pope Benedict XVI - Literature
• Pope Benedict XVI - Biographies

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The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 CE. They were the successors in India of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek kings (the Euthydemids) founded by the military governor Diodotus around 250 BCE when he established the independence of his Bactrian territory from the Seleucid Empire. During the two centuries of their rule, the Indo-Greek kings combined the Greek and Indian languages and sym ...

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• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Historical outline
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Occupation of Northern India
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Consolidation
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Eastern territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Western territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The Indo-Greeks and Indian culture
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The Indo-Greeks and Buddhism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The conversion of Menander
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Buddhist proselytism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Buddhist symbolism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Representation of the Buddha
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Incipient Greco-Buddhist art
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The Indo-Greeks and other faiths
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Hinduism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Zoroastrianism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Indo-Greeks in the art of Gandhara
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Scythian and Kushan invasions
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Aftermaths
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Art and religion
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Astronomy
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Military role
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Linguistic legacy
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Influence of Indo-Greek coinage
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Genetic contribution
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Greco-Roman exchanges with India
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Main Indo-Greek kings timeline and territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Eastern territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Western territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Indo-Greek princelets Gandhara
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Notes

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Belief in the psychological sense, is a representational mental state that takes the form of a propositional attitude. In the religious sense, "belief" refers to a part of a wider spiritual or moral foundation, generally called faith; historically generated by a group's need to provide a functionally valid foundation to sustain them. The generally accepted faiths usually note that when oppressive states are generated by it being exercised, and not a fact of reality, it was ...

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• Belief - Belief knowledge and epistemology
• Belief - Belief as a psychological theory
• Belief - Is belief voluntary?
• Belief - Delusional beliefs

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The historicity of Jesus (i.e., his existence as an actual historical figure), is accepted by three major world religions, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith based on their respective scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. However, while Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith consider Jesus to be the Christ (Messiah) and Son of God, and Islam views him as a prophet, secular historians and followers of most other world religions (including Judaism) tend to regard him as an ordinary human, and a few dispute whe ...

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• Historicity of Jesus - Contemporary sources
• Historicity of Jesus - Christian writings
• Historicity of Jesus - Non-Christian writings
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus as historical figure
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus as myth
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus and syncretism
• Historicity of Jesus - Other views
• Historicity of Jesus - Notes

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Events Cairo Conference Vietnam War Protests Afghanistan War Protests Iraq War Protests Organizations ANSWER Coalition Anti-War Coalition Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Not in Our Name Stop the War Coalition United for Peace and Justice Veterans for Peace Vietnam Veterans Against the War Other anti-war organizations Media/propaganda Books Films Peace symbol Protest song C ...

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• Conscientious objector - Religious motives
• Conscientious objector - Alternatives for objectors
• Conscientious objector - United States
• Conscientious objector - Canada
• Conscientious objector - Communist Bloc
• Conscientious objector - Western Europe
• Conscientious objector - Hearings about the state of the conscience
• Conscientious objector - Common questions at hearings
• Conscientious objector - Criticism of such hearings
• Conscientious objector - Notes

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'80-'85 is Bad Religion's compilation album, released in November 1991 with a list of tracks from their older albums before the come-back of the 1987 release Suffer. '80-'85 - Track listing. "We're Only Gonna Die" "Latch Key Kids" "Part III" "Faith In God" "Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell" "Pity" "In The Night" "Damned To Be Free" "White Trash (Second Generation)" "American Dream" < ...

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• '80-'85 - Track listing
• '80-'85 - Notes

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Ásatrú (Icelandic "Æsir faith") is a new religious movement which is attempting to revive the pre-Christian (Viking Age) Nordic religion as described in the Eddas. It was established in the 1960s and early 1970s in Iceland, by the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið which was founded by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson. Ásatrú was recognized as an official religion by the governments of Iceland (in 1973), Denmark (in 2003) and Norway. The United States government does not officially endorse or recognize any religious group; however, numerous Ásatrú groups have been granted nonp ...

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• Ásatrú - Terminology
• Ásatrú - History
• Ásatrú - Politics
• Ásatrú - Notes
• Ásatrú - Related topics

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Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born February 11, 1923) is a British philosopher, known principally as a supporter of libertarianism and atheism. Antony Flew - Biography. Flew was born in London in 1923, the son of a Methodist minister. He was educated at St. Faith's Preparatory School, Cambridge followed by Kingswood School, Bath. During the Second World War he studied Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and was a Royal Air Force intelligence officer. After the war, Flew achieved ...

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• Antony Flew - Biography
• Antony Flew - Atheism and Deism
• Antony Flew - Works
• Antony Flew - Notes

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Christian views of Hanukkah. During the last few decades, some Christians (such as evangelical Christians and Messianic Judaism) have re-examined the Jewish roots of their faith. As a result, some have increasingly become aware of and adopted some aspects of some Jewish holiday, but within a Christian theological framework. In the case of Hanukkah, Christians began to recognize that Jesus, in fact, observed this holiday as noted in the twenty second and twenty third verse of the tenth chapter in the Gospel of John (“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it w ...

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Caleb, the son of Jephunneh is an important figure in the Hebrew Bible, noted for his faith in God when the Hebrew nation refuses to enter the "promised land" of Canaan. When the Hebrews came to the outskirts of Canaan, the land they believed had been promised them by God, after having fled slavery in Egypt, Moses (the Hebrew leader) sent twelve scouts (or spies, meraglim in Hebrew) into Canaan to report on what was there. Ten of the scouts returned to say that the land would be impossible to claim, and that giants lived ...

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• Caleb - External link

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Coenus (in Greek Koινoς; died 326 BC), a son of Polemocrates and son-in-law of Parmenion, was one of the ablest and most faithful generals of Alexander the Great in his eastern expedition. In the autumn of 334 BC, when Alexander was in Caria, and sent those of his soldiers who had been recently married, to Macedonia, to spend the ensuing winter with their wives there, Coenus was one of the commanders who led them back to Europe. In the spring of the year following (333 BC), Coenus returned with the Macedonians, and joined Al ...

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• Coenus - Note

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Matthew 24:45 depicts a "faithful and discreet slave" who is "appointed over" others to "give them their food at the proper time." In the early history of Jehovah's Witnesses, before they took that name, Charles Taze Russell (Pastor Russell) stated in private conversations that he was the "faithful and wise servant."[10] (Matthew 24:45 KJV) This understanding was applied to C.T. Russell throughout the 1920s in The Watchtower and Herald of Ch ...

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Faithful and Discreet Slave, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Current Doctrine, Faithful and Discreet Slave - History of Teaching Authority, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Effect of Current Doctrine on Teaching Authority, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Notes References Sources

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Although the Faithful and Discreet Slave is believed to be the earthly source of doctrine for Jehovah's Witnesses, very few from this group have any decision making authority regarding institution of doctrine, changes to doctrine, or decisions relative to Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide. All decision making authority with regard to doctrine is vested entirely in the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses. "'The faithful and discreet slave' seeks to preserve unity and makes it possible organizationally for 'all things ...

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Faithful and Discreet Slave, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Current Doctrine, Faithful and Discreet Slave - History of Teaching Authority, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Effect of Current Doctrine on Teaching Authority, Faithful and Discreet Slave - Notes References Sources

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