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    The Great Apostasy is a concept within Christianity to describe a perception that mainstream Christian Churches have fallen away from the original faith...
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  • Apostasy (/əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία, translit. apostasía, lit. "defection, revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation...
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    The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E. Talmage that summarizes the Great Apostasy from...
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  • Daniel and Revelation, pp. 437–449 Matthew 24:22 Newcomb, Harvey (2003). Great Apostasy: Being an Account of the Origin, Rise and Progress of Corruption and...
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    the sacrament of the Aeon." Anti-Catholicism Barbēlō Book of Daniel Great Apostasy Rastafari § Babylon and Zion The Two Babylons Woman of the Apocalypse...
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    Apostasy in Christianity is the repudiation of Christ and the central teachings of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian (Christ-follower)...
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    the crime of apostasy. The apostate can avoid prosecution and/or punishment if he or she confesses of having made a mistake of apostasy and rejoins Islam...
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    since the time of a "Great Apostasy" that began not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ. According to Mormons this apostasy involved the corruption...
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  • Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ردة, romanized: ridda or ارتداد, irtidād) is commonly defined as the abandonment of Islam by a Muslim, in thought, word, or...
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  • Restorationism emerged after the Second Great Awakening and collectively affirms belief in a Great Apostasy, thus promoting a belief in restoring what...
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  • to be a revival of "the great truths taught by Jesus and the Apostles". Watch Tower publications claim both the Great Apostasy and Russell's subsequent...
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  • a belief that historic Christianity lost the true faith during the Great Apostasy and that the Church needed to be restored. The term has been used in...
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  • frequently involve mutual accusations of heresy, and also that of the Great Apostasy. In Roman Catholic teaching, every heresy is a schism, while there may...
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    the original principles of Christianity, referred to by them as The Great Apostasy, occurred after the ascension of Jesus Christ, marked by the corruption...
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  • various priesthood authorities on them. According to the LDS Church, the Great Apostasy in Christianity began not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ....
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    Some Catholic critics[who?] state that Protestant acceptance of the Great Apostasy implies their non-acceptance of the apostolic succession in the Catholic...
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    prior to a thousand-year reign of the saints but subsequent to the Great Apostasy (and to any tribulation). Premillennialism is a view alternative to...
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  • believed in a restoration of national Israel, he believed there would be a great apostasy and that Christ would return to establish a literal earthly kingdom...
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    traditional Christianity, claiming all churches of his day were part of a Great Apostasy that had lost the authority to direct Christ's church. Mormonism does...
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    16th–18th centuries, felt that the Early Church had been led into the Great Apostasy by the Papacy and identified the Pope with the Antichrist. Luther declared...
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    mentioned in Hadith as the Greatest Armageddon or Al-Malhama Al-Kubra (the great battle). The "mount" of Megiddo in northern Israel is not actually a mountain...
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    v t e Palmarian Church History Catholic Church Great Apostasy (Modernism & Second Vatican Council) Traditionalist Catholicism Our Lady of Palmar Thục consecrations...
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    be followed by a final and ultimate temptation to sin – in this case, apostasy – caused by the antichrist. Yet there are three things that hasten the...
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    historicist view which identified the Roman Catholic Church as a persecuting apostasy. Due to resistance from Protestant historicists, the preterist view was...
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  • Anti-Catholicism Biblical criticism British-Israelism Christian eschatology Great Apostasy Historical criticism New historicism Shepherd's Rod Elliott, Edward...
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    similar to that tradition that the change of the sabbath was part of a Great Apostasy in the Christian faith. Some of these, most notably the Seventh-day...
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  • scholars, however, who discount the idea of a final apostasy, regarding the gospel conquest ignited by the Great Commission to be total and absolute, such that...
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    But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan,...
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    created him." He was especially interested in prophecy, but for him, "the great apostasy was trinitarianism." Newton tried unsuccessfully to obtain one of the...
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    restoration of the early Christian faith, which had been lost in the Great Apostasy. At first, Smith's church had little sense of hierarchy, and his religious...
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