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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is substantially larger and differently composed than the Roman Catholic canon: , including the Hebrew protocanon, the Catholic deuterocanonical...
Christian and scholarly sources do not agree that "all of God's angels are men." Most theological treatments say angels are spirit beings without human sex and that masculine language in scripture oft...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon is substantially larger on the Old Testament side than Catholic (73 books) and Protestant (66 books) canons, including texts such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees and additio...
n Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves one of most expansive biblical canons—commonly counted as —distinct in both content and liturgical language from , , and Bibles . Those differences are not merely ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains about 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament) and is the largest traditional Christian canon; it includes works such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and 1–3 ...
The Eastern Orthodox Bible differs from the Protestant Bible primarily in its Old Testament contents: Orthodox churches accept the broader Septuagint-derived "longer canon" (including books Protestant...
Early church writers offered three main defenses against reading the “brothers” of as ’s biological children: and advanced the claim they were ’s children from an earlier marriage (making them step‑br...
Major Christian communions overwhelmingly critique the prosperity gospel as theologically flawed or heretical, but responses vary in tone and mechanism: historic churches (Catholic, Orthodox, mainline...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon is significantly larger and more varied than the Protestant and Catholic canons: commonly cited as 81 books (sometimes more in broader collections) versus the Pro...
uses an expanded traditionally counted at 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament), substantially larger than the 66‑book King James Version (KJV) canon (39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament) that ...
The core answer: not included in the Roman Catholic Old Testament are nonetheless treated as canonical by various — most notably 1 Esdras (Greek Esdras), the Prayer of Manasseh, 1–4 Maccabees (with 3–...
n Orthodox Tewahedo Bible includes the Catholic deuterocanonical books but goes further by canonizing works commonly labeled pseudepigraphal elsewhere (for example 1 Enoch and Jubilees) and by incorpo...
Cremation is embraced, discouraged, or forbidden depending on religion and local culture: Hinduism, many Buddhist communities, Sikhs and Jains commonly prescribe or accept cremation as normative (see ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains about 81 books (46 OT, 35 NT) and retains several works absent from most Septuagint-based traditions, notably 1 Enoch and Jubilees, because its Ge’ez Bib...
Christian denominations generally describe God as one supreme, personal Creator who is omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect, but they diverge sharply from Islamic teaching mainly over the person...
The Old Testament includes a set of books and additions commonly called the books: seven full books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach/ Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees) plus several Greek...
Since 2000 major Christian denominations have moved in divergent directions: many mainline Protestant bodies have broadened acceptance — allowing blessings, clergy participation, and formal same-sex m...
recognizes an expanded canon—commonly described as 81 books—that includes several works not found in or , most notably , , the three Ethiopian Meqabyan books, and a suite of ecclesiastical texts such ...
Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains books not accepted as canonical by either or —most notably , , (1–3 Meqabyan), and (often called 4 Baruch); some Ethiopian lists also include expanded Ezra materials a...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity overwhelmingly regards abortion as the deliberate taking of innocent human life and therefore a grave moral wrong, often described in canonical and patristic sources as m...