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• The Trinity

  Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

• Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

  The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

• The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

  Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

• Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

  Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received Thomas’s confession that he is Lord and God.

• Was Jesus a Real Person?

  Yes. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Paul, the Gospels, Tacitus, and Josephus all place him there, while people who had known his family were still alive.

• My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

  Jesus was praying Psalm 22. The cry is the opening of a psalm in which God hears the sufferer, and it belongs to the Son bearing sin, not to a split inside God or to a crucifixion that never happened.

• The Resurrection of Jesus

  The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Do Catholics Believe?

  Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

• What Bible Do Catholics Use?

  The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

• How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?

  Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• What Do Christians Believe about Mary?

  The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

• Is Purgatory Biblical?

  The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

• What Does Messiah Mean?

  Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

• Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians Keep It?

  The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.

• Why Don’t Jews Believe Jesus Is the Messiah?

  Maimonides says the Messiah is a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the Temple, and gathers Israel, and that a king who was killed is not that redeemer. Christians say Jesus is that son of David, cut off and raised, and that he is God the Son.

• What Is the Difference between Judaism and Christianity?

  Jews and Christians share the God of Israel, the Shema, and the Hebrew Scriptures. Christians confess that Jesus is the Messiah and is God the Son, and that his death and resurrection are salvation.

• What Does the Eastern Orthodox Church Believe?

  Eastern Orthodox churches confess the Nicene faith. A Greek Orthodox Archdiocese teaching and the Orthodox Church in America catechism state Tradition, the mysteries, Mary, icons, and what they reject.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Catholic: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. They differ, in their own texts, on the filioque, the pope, Mary, purgatory, the cup for the laity, and clerical celibacy.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

• What Do Pentecostals Believe?

  The Assemblies of God and the Church of God confess the Trinity, Spirit baptism with tongues as the initial sign, healing, and a rapture before a thousand-year reign. The Bible’s tongues passages are quoted beside Westminster.

• What Is Calvinism (TULIP)?

  TULIP is a later name for five points the Synod of Dort stated against the Remonstrance. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Articles, the Baptist Faith and Message, and a Methodist article are quoted. The page does not decide.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

• Is the Rapture Biblical?

  The King James Version says believers will be caught up. The Assemblies of God and the Church of God teach a rapture and then a visible thousand-year reign. Westminster, the Catechism, and the Baptist Faith and Message describe one return and the judgment. The page does not decide.

• What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

  In 325 the bishops at Nicaea confessed the Son as true God from true God, of one substance with the Father, and anathematized the claim that there was a time when he was not. They also issued twenty disciplinary canons. They did not publish a list of biblical books.

• Who Wrote the Bible?

  God is the Bible’s author, and named people wrote its books. Moses, the prophets, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul are the writers the books and the early church name.

• Who Wrote Genesis in the Bible?

  Jesus and the books themselves name Moses as the writer of the law, Genesis through Deuteronomy. The documentary hypothesis reads those books as later sources woven together.

• Who Wrote Matthew, Mark, and Luke?

  Papias and Irenaeus name Mark as Peter’s interpreter, Matthew as the writer of a Gospel in Hebrew, and Luke as Paul’s companion. The books themselves do not open with those names.

• Who Wrote the Gospel of John?

  The Gospel says the beloved disciple wrote it. Irenaeus names John, the disciple who leaned on Jesus’ breast, publishing at Ephesus. Dionysius’s doubt about a second John is quoted from Eusebius.

• Who Wrote the Book of Acts?

  Luke wrote Acts for Theophilus, the same man addressed in his Gospel. The Muratorian fragment and Irenaeus say so. The book never says Paul wrote it.

• Who Wrote the Book of Revelation?

  The book names John, a brother on Patmos. Justin and Irenaeus say he was the apostle, and that the vision came near the end of Domitian’s reign. Dionysius hesitated to identify that John with the son of Zebedee.

• Which Bible Translation Is Most Accurate?

  The most accurate Bible is the Hebrew and Greek the English translates. Word-for-word English such as Young’s Literal stays closer to that wording. The New World Translation is the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible, and at John 1:1 it differs from the Greek and the King James.

• Is the Bible True?

  Christians receive the Bible as God’s word. Its text is early and well copied, Jesus treated the Scriptures as fulfilled in him, and the crucifixion is a public event. That is not a laboratory proof that God exists.

• Does the Bible Contradict Itself?

  Some Bible passages look as if they cannot both be true. Judas, the census numbers, and Matthew’s naming of Jeremy are real differences in the text. A contradiction is two claims that cannot both be true in the same way.

• What Is the Incarnation?

  The incarnation is the Son of God taking a human nature and remaining God. The Catechism says he became truly man while remaining truly God. John 1 says the Word was made flesh.

• What Is God’s Name?

  The King James Version prints God, Almighty, Lord, LORD, and in two places JEHOVAH. Jesus is given the name Philippians says is above every name. The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible prints Jehovah where the King James prints LORD.

• Who Was the First Pope?

  The Catechism says Jesus made Peter the rock and that the pope succeeds him. An Orthodox clergy answer says first among equals is not supremacy of jurisdiction. Westminster says Christ is the only head. This page does not decide.

• What Is the Prosperity Gospel?

  The Cape Town Commitment defines the prosperity gospel as a right to health and wealth obtained by positive confession and by sowing seeds. Teachers describe the same practices as faith in God’s promises. This page quotes both and does not decide.

• What Is the Word of Faith Movement?

  Kenneth Copeland Ministries tells readers to use the force of faith and the power of their words. Historians treat E. W. Kenyon as the main source and Kenneth Hagin as the popularizer, and they disagree about New Thought. This page quotes them and does not decide.

• What Is Positive Confession?

  Kenneth Copeland Ministries says Jesus said believers can have whatever they say. E. W. Kenyon tells a sick or broke believer not to confess the lack. The Assemblies of God say that extreme is contrary to Scripture. This page quotes them and does not decide.

• What Is Seed Faith?

  Oral Roberts, quoted by an Oral Roberts University journal from his book Is God Your Source?, says you sow it, God will grow it, and you will reap it. The Cape Town Commitment names the sowing of seeds in its definition of the prosperity gospel. This page quotes both and does not decide.

• Where Did the Prosperity Gospel Come From?

  Paul King says E. W. Kenyon is generally recognized as the originator and that historians disagree on whether New Thought formed him. Oral Roberts’s seed-faith book is dated 1970 by an ORU journal. Kenneth Copeland Ministries still publish the spoken confession. This page quotes the disagreement and does not decide it.

• What Do Churches Say about the Prosperity Gospel?

  The Cape Town Commitment, the Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention, and a Jesuit journal each publish a judgment on prosperity teaching. Cape Town also affirms a biblical vision of human prospering. This page quotes them and does not decide.

• Is the Prosperity Gospel Biblical?

  Teachers cite 3 John 2, Malachi 3:10, Deuteronomy 8:18, Mark 11:23–24, and John 10:10. Other churches cite 1 Timothy 6, Matthew 6, and Hebrews 11. This page reads each sentence in its chapter. It does not decide the dispute.

Catholic

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Do Catholics Believe?

  Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

• What Bible Do Catholics Use?

  The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

• How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?

  Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• What Do Christians Believe about Mary?

  The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

• Is Purgatory Biblical?

  The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

• What Does the Eastern Orthodox Church Believe?

  Eastern Orthodox churches confess the Nicene faith. A Greek Orthodox Archdiocese teaching and the Orthodox Church in America catechism state Tradition, the mysteries, Mary, icons, and what they reject.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Catholic: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. They differ, in their own texts, on the filioque, the pope, Mary, purgatory, the cup for the laity, and clerical celibacy.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

• Is the Rapture Biblical?

  The King James Version says believers will be caught up. The Assemblies of God and the Church of God teach a rapture and then a visible thousand-year reign. Westminster, the Catechism, and the Baptist Faith and Message describe one return and the judgment. The page does not decide.

• What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

  In 325 the bishops at Nicaea confessed the Son as true God from true God, of one substance with the Father, and anathematized the claim that there was a time when he was not. They also issued twenty disciplinary canons. They did not publish a list of biblical books.

• Who Was the First Pope?

  The Catechism says Jesus made Peter the rock and that the pope succeeds him. An Orthodox clergy answer says first among equals is not supremacy of jurisdiction. Westminster says Christ is the only head. This page does not decide.

• What Do Churches Say about the Prosperity Gospel?

  The Cape Town Commitment, the Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention, and a Jesuit journal each publish a judgment on prosperity teaching. Cape Town also affirms a biblical vision of human prospering. This page quotes them and does not decide.

Eastern Orthodox

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?

  Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• What Do Christians Believe about Mary?

  The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

• Is Purgatory Biblical?

  The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

• What Does the Eastern Orthodox Church Believe?

  Eastern Orthodox churches confess the Nicene faith. A Greek Orthodox Archdiocese teaching and the Orthodox Church in America catechism state Tradition, the mysteries, Mary, icons, and what they reject.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Catholic: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. They differ, in their own texts, on the filioque, the pope, Mary, purgatory, the cup for the laity, and clerical celibacy.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

• What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

  In 325 the bishops at Nicaea confessed the Son as true God from true God, of one substance with the Father, and anathematized the claim that there was a time when he was not. They also issued twenty disciplinary canons. They did not publish a list of biblical books.

• Who Was the First Pope?

  The Catechism says Jesus made Peter the rock and that the pope succeeds him. An Orthodox clergy answer says first among equals is not supremacy of jurisdiction. Westminster says Christ is the only head. This page does not decide.

Oriental Orthodox

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Anglican

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Do Catholics Believe?

  Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

• What Bible Do Catholics Use?

  The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

• How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?

  Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• What Do Christians Believe about Mary?

  The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

• Is Purgatory Biblical?

  The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

• What Is Calvinism (TULIP)?

  TULIP is a later name for five points the Synod of Dort stated against the Remonstrance. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Articles, the Baptist Faith and Message, and a Methodist article are quoted. The page does not decide.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

Lutheran

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Do Catholics Believe?

  Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

• What Bible Do Catholics Use?

  The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• What Do Christians Believe about Mary?

  The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

Reformed

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Do Catholics Believe?

  Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

• What Bible Do Catholics Use?

  The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

• How Was the Bible Canon Decided, and What Is the Apocrypha?

  Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

• Who Started the Catholic Church?

  The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

• Is Purgatory Biblical?

  The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

• What Do Pentecostals Believe?

  The Assemblies of God and the Church of God confess the Trinity, Spirit baptism with tongues as the initial sign, healing, and a rapture before a thousand-year reign. The Bible’s tongues passages are quoted beside Westminster.

• What Is Calvinism (TULIP)?

  TULIP is a later name for five points the Synod of Dort stated against the Remonstrance. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Articles, the Baptist Faith and Message, and a Methodist article are quoted. The page does not decide.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

• Is the Rapture Biblical?

  The King James Version says believers will be caught up. The Assemblies of God and the Church of God teach a rapture and then a visible thousand-year reign. Westminster, the Catechism, and the Baptist Faith and Message describe one return and the judgment. The page does not decide.

• Who Was the First Pope?

  The Catechism says Jesus made Peter the rock and that the pope succeeds him. An Orthodox clergy answer says first among equals is not supremacy of jurisdiction. Westminster says Christ is the only head. This page does not decide.

Baptist

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• Eastern Orthodox vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Both confess the Nicene faith. Their texts differ on Scripture and Tradition, justification, Mary and the saints, icons, and the filioque.

• What Is Calvinism (TULIP)?

  TULIP is a later name for five points the Synod of Dort stated against the Remonstrance. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Articles, the Baptist Faith and Message, and a Methodist article are quoted. The page does not decide.

• Is the Rapture Biblical?

  The King James Version says believers will be caught up. The Assemblies of God and the Church of God teach a rapture and then a visible thousand-year reign. Westminster, the Catechism, and the Baptist Faith and Message describe one return and the judgment. The page does not decide.

• What Do Churches Say about the Prosperity Gospel?

  The Cape Town Commitment, the Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention, and a Jesuit journal each publish a judgment on prosperity teaching. Cape Town also affirms a biblical vision of human prospering. This page quotes them and does not decide.

Methodist

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• Catholic vs Protestant: What's the Difference?

  Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

• What Is Calvinism (TULIP)?

  TULIP is a later name for five points the Synod of Dort stated against the Remonstrance. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Articles, the Baptist Faith and Message, and a Methodist article are quoted. The page does not decide.

• What Does the Bible Say about Predestination?

  Romans, Ephesians, and Acts say God predestined and ordained. Other verses say God wills all to be saved. Westminster, Dort, the Remonstrance, the Catechism, Article XVII, and an Orthodox essay read those lines differently. The page does not decide.

Pentecostal

• Can You Lose Your Salvation? What Each Church Teaches about "Once Saved, Always Saved"

  Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

• What Do Protestants Believe?

  Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

• What Do Pentecostals Believe?

  The Assemblies of God and the Church of God confess the Trinity, Spirit baptism with tongues as the initial sign, healing, and a rapture before a thousand-year reign. The Bible’s tongues passages are quoted beside Westminster.

• Is the Rapture Biblical?

  The King James Version says believers will be caught up. The Assemblies of God and the Church of God teach a rapture and then a visible thousand-year reign. Westminster, the Catechism, and the Baptist Faith and Message describe one return and the judgment. The page does not decide.

• What Do Churches Say about the Prosperity Gospel?

  The Cape Town Commitment, the Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention, and a Jesuit journal each publish a judgment on prosperity teaching. Cape Town also affirms a biblical vision of human prospering. This page quotes them and does not decide.

Islam

• Who Was Muhammad?

  Muhammad is the man Muslims call the Messenger of God and the seal of the prophets. He was born in Mecca, moved to Medina in 622, and died there on 8 June 632.

• How Many Wives Did Muhammad Have?

  The Qur’an permits Muhammad more wives than the four it allows other men. Muslim historians name Khadijah first, and Sunni hadith name Aisha among those who followed.

• How Old Was Aisha When She Married Muhammad?

  In Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Aisha says she was married at six and that the marriage was consummated at nine. Those reports also say she remained with him nine years, until his death at sixty-three.

• What Happened at the Battle of Badr?

  In 624 Muhammad’s people met a Meccan force at Badr. The Qur’an calls it a victory given while they were few, and it names the day the two armies met.

• What Happened to the Banu Qurayza?

  After the Battle of the Trench, Muhammad’s forces besieged the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. The Qur’an says a party was killed and a party taken captive. A Sunni hadith says Sa‘d judged that the warriors be killed and the women and children taken prisoner.

• How Did Muhammad Die?

  Muslim sources say Muhammad died in Medina in 632, at sixty-three, and that in his last illness he still felt the poison from a sheep he had eaten at Khaybar.

• What Are Hadith and Sira?

  A hadith is a report of what Muhammad said or did. The sira is the biographical tradition of his life. Sunni and Shia Muslims do not treat the same hadith books as their canon.

• Which Muslims Accept Which Hadith?

  Muslims share the Qur’an. Sunni Muslims add the Six Books. Shia Muslims add the Four Books. A reader who accepts only the Qur’an does not treat hadith as scripture. The sira is history, not a canon.

• What Do Christians Believe about Muhammad?

  Christians do not receive Muhammad as a prophet. They confess that Jesus is God, that he was crucified and raised, and that this gospel was already public before Muhammad was born.

• What Is the History of Islam?

  Islam’s first community runs from Muhammad’s preaching in Mecca to his death in Medina in 632. Sunni and Shia Muslims then divide on who should lead, and the Ottoman claim to the caliphate ends on 3 March 1924.

• When Was Islam Founded?

  Muslims date Muhammad’s public mission from about 610 and date the community’s calendar from the Hijra to Medina in 622. He died in 632. The Qur’an also calls Abraham a Muslim, meaning one who submits.

• What Is the Difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?

  Sunni and Shia Muslims share the Qur’an and divide on who should have led after Muhammad. Sunnis count the first four caliphs. Shia Muslims hold that leadership belonged to Ali and his descendants.

• What Is a Caliphate?

  A caliph is a successor in leadership of the Muslim community after Muhammad. Sunni Muslims count Abu Bakr first. Shia Muslims hold that leadership belonged to Ali. The Ottoman claim was abolished on 3 March 1924.

• What Do Sunni Muslims Believe?

  Sunni Muslims are the majority of Muslims. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, count the first four caliphs, and treat Bukhari and Muslim as the most authoritative hadith.

• What Do Shia Muslims Believe?

  Shia Muslims are the smaller branch of Islam. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, and they hold that leadership after him belonged to Ali and his descendants.

• The Islamic Dilemma: Does the Qur'an Confirm the Bible It Contradicts?

  What is the Islamic dilemma? The Qur'an calls the Torah and Gospel God's word and tells Christians to judge by them, yet they contradict Islam. The verses, hadith and answers.

• Jesus in the Qur'an and the Gospels

  The Qur’an calls Jesus the Messiah, born of Mary, and says he was not crucified; the Gospels tell that death, his burial, and his resurrection.

• What Does the Qur'an Say about the Bible?

  The Qur'an calls the Torah and the Gospel guidance, tells the People of the Scripture to judge by them, and says it confirms what was already with them.

• Has the Bible Been Changed? The Muslim Corruption Claim

  The Qur'an accuses some People of the Scripture of distorting words and of writing scripture with their own hands. It also speaks of the Torah and the Gospel as books still in their possession.

• What Is the Injil?

  Muslims hear the Injil as a book God gave to Jesus. The New Testament uses 'gospel' for the news about Christ, and the Qur'an tells the People of the Gospel to judge by what they have.

• Did Paul Invent Christianity?

  Muslims often say Paul turned the prophet Jesus into a divine saviour. The creed he says he received, and the apostles he names, are the test of that claim.

• Did Jesus Die on the Cross?

  The Qur'an is widely read as saying Jesus was not crucified. The Gospels, Paul, and two Roman-era historians say he was.

• Was Jesus a Muslim?

  No. Jesus was a Jew who worshipped Israel’s God, prayed to the Father, and was crucified. The Qur’an calls his disciples muslims in the sense of people who submit to God, which is not the religion of Muhammad.

• Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

  Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received Thomas’s confession that he is Lord and God.

• Was Jesus a Real Person?

  Yes. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Paul, the Gospels, Tacitus, and Josephus all place him there, while people who had known his family were still alive.

• My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

  Jesus was praying Psalm 22. The cry is the opening of a psalm in which God hears the sufferer, and it belongs to the Son bearing sin, not to a split inside God or to a crucifixion that never happened.

• Is Muhammad the Prophet of Deuteronomy 18?

  Qur'an 7:157 says the unlettered prophet is written in the Torah and the Gospel. Deuteronomy 18 is the passage most often offered.

• Is Muhammad the Paraclete or Ahmad?

  Some Muslims hear Muhammad in Jesus' promise of the Comforter, and in the name Ahmad in Qur'an 61:6. John 14–16 says who that person is.

• Does Jesus Do What Only God Does?

  The Qur'an says God gives life to the dead, is the First and the Last, and comes with the angels. The Gospel says Jesus does those things.

• If Jesus Is God, Why Did He Pray?

  Jesus prayed, said the Father is greater, and said he did not know the hour. The same Gospel says the Word was God and was made flesh.

• Can God Have a Son?

  The Qur'an condemns the claim that God has taken a son, especially a son by a consort. Christians deny that picture and still confess the eternal Son.

• Who Wrote the Qur'an? How It Was Compiled

  Muslims confess that God sent down the Qur'an and guards it. Sahih al-Bukhari also describes a collection after Muhammad's death and a standard copy under Uthman.

• Has the Qur’an Been Changed?

  Qur’an 15:9 says God guards the message. Sahih reports also describe a later collection, burned copies, and verses companions said they recited that are not in the book.

• How Many Versions of the Qur’an Are There?

  Bukhari reports seven ways of reciting. Sunni scholarship later counted seven, then ten, canonical readings. Hafs and Warsh, the two widespread printed texts, differ in wording.

• Tawhid and Christian Monotheism

  Muslims and Christians both say God is one. The argument is whether Father, Son, and Spirit are partners beside God or the one God.

• Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

  Is Allah the same God? Muslims and Christians both confess one Creator, the God of Abraham. They do not confess the same account of who that God is: Christians say Jesus is God, and the Qur'an denies it.

• The Trinity

  Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

• Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

  The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

• The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

  Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

• The Resurrection of Jesus

  The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.

• What Does Messiah Mean?

  Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

Jehovah's Witnesses

• John 1 and the Word

  Why the New World Translation reads John 1:1 as “a god,” what the Study Edition’s note says about a qualitative theos, and why Nicene Christians still say the Word was God.

• Is Jesus the Creator or a Creature?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses say a literal reading of Colossians 1:16 would make Jesus the Creator, so the New World Translation adds “other.” John 1:3 and Hebrews 1:10–12 do not leave him outside creation as a creature.

• Is Jesus Michael the Archangel?

  Insight on the Scriptures identifies Michael with Jesus by a chain of inferences. Hebrews 1 sets the Son over every angel.

• Should Jesus Be Worshipped, or Only Given Obeisance?

  The New World Translation uses “worship” for Jehovah and “do obeisance” for Jesus, though its own interlinear shows one Greek verb. Hebrews 1:6, Matthew 28, and Revelation 5 give the Son the honor angels refuse.

• What Does “Firstborn of All Creation” Mean?

  The New World Translation’s study note says Colossians 1:15 means Jesus is the first creature Jehovah made. In Scripture “firstborn” is also the title of the heir who ranks first, and the next verse says all things were created in him.

• Who Is the Alpha and the Omega?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses reserve “the Alpha and the Omega” for Jehovah. In the New World Translation the one who became dead says he is the First and the Last, and Revelation 22:13 joins that title to the Alpha and the Omega.

• Is the Holy Spirit a Person or an Impersonal Force?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the holy spirit is God’s active force, not a person. The New World Translation still has the Spirit speaking, being lied to, and being grieved, and it calls the lie a lie to God.

• Was Jesus Raised Bodily?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the risen Jesus is a spirit creature who materialized bodies of flesh. In the New World Translation he says a spirit does not have flesh and bones, and John says the body they would tear down is the body he would raise.

• Does “Jehovah” Belong in the New Testament?

  The New World Translation uses the name Jehovah 237 times in the New Testament. The Study Edition’s note on Acts 7:60 says the Greek manuscripts read “Lord.”

• How Reliable Is the New World Translation?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses present the New World Translation as a clear, faithful Bible. Its own study notes show where the English was chosen to fit the Society’s teaching.

• How Has the New World Translation Changed?

  Two edition differences that can be read on Watchtower Online Library: bracketed “[other]” in the 1984 Reference Bible, and Hebrews 1:6 moving from worship to obeisance.

• Has the New World Translation Been Changed to Fit Doctrine?

  John 1:1, John 8:58, Colossians 1, Luke 23:43, Hebrews 1:6, and Philippians 2:9 in the Greek, the King James Version, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New World Translation.

• How Have Watchtower Teachings Changed?

  1925, 1975, the generation of 1914, and organ transplants, in the Watch Tower’s own wording and in Rutherford’s 1920 booklet.

• How Do You Read Watchtower Language?

  Hedged sentences in Insight, the 1920 Millions booklet, the 1975 articles, and later Watchtower explanations, and the question each one leaves: which verse says that directly?

• Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

  The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

• Who Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses identify the faithful and discreet slave with the Governing Body. Matthew 24 and Luke 12 are the texts that have to carry that identification.

• The Watch Tower and Scripture

  Jehovah’s Witnesses hold the Bible as God’s word and the Watch Tower publications as the channel that explains it.

• Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Take Blood?

  Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse whole-blood transfusions because they read Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17, and Acts 15:29 as forbidding blood. On 18 September 2026 their Governing Body said the four main components are now a personal decision.

• Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Birthdays and Christmas?

  No. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays or Christmas. They say birthday parties have pagan roots and that the only birthday feasts in the Bible end in death, and they keep the Memorial of Jesus’ death instead.

• The Trinity

  Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

• The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

  Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

• Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

  Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received Thomas’s confession that he is Lord and God.

Latter-day Saints

• What Do Mormons Believe?

  Latter-day Saints believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost as three beings, and they receive the Book of Mormon beside the Bible. Nicene Christians confess one God.

• Do Mormons Celebrate Christmas and Easter?

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps Christmas as the season of Christ’s birth and Easter as the celebration of his resurrection, with Easter Sunday services.

• Why Can't Mormons Drink Coffee?

  Doctrine and Covenants 89 says hot drinks are not for the body. Latter-day prophets teach that this means tea and coffee. The church’s statements also name green tea and coffee-based products.

• Do Mormons Practice Polygamy?

  Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not enter plural marriage today. Doctrine and Covenants 132 taught it. The 1890 Manifesto told the Saints to stop.

• Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says ancient prophets wrote the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith translated it by the gift and power of God, with a seer stone. He says he returned the plates.

• Do Mormons Believe They Will Become Gods?

  Gospel Principles says exaltation is the kind of life God lives. The King Follett sermon says God was once as we are now, and that the faithful must learn to be gods. Isaiah 43:10 says no God was formed after the LORD.

• What Is the Difference between Mormons and Catholics?

  Catholics confess one God in three persons. Latter-day Saints teach three separate beings. In 2001 the Catholic Church answered that Latter-day Saint baptism is not valid.

• Is Mormonism a Cult?

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a large public church, and its style guide rejects the word Mormonism. The doctrinal disagreement is three beings, Joseph Smith’s revelations, and exaltation, not a slur.

• Do Mormons Believe in the Trinity?

  No. Latter-day Saints teach that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings, one in purpose. That is not the Nicene confession of one God in three persons.

• Are Mormons Christians?

  Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ and use his name. Their teaching of God, of Jesus, and of salvation is not the Nicene confession, so they are not a denomination inside Trinitarian Christianity.

• Joseph Smith and Revelation

  Latter-day Saints confess that God called Joseph Smith, that the apostolic church had been lost, and that scripture was restored through him.

• The Book of Mormon

  The Book of Mormon presents itself as an ancient record, translated by Joseph Smith, written to show that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.

• The Trinity

  Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

• The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

  Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

• Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

  Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received Thomas’s confession that he is Lord and God.

Judaism

• What Do Jews Believe?

  Jews confess the God of Israel, one and not a body, the Torah from heaven, a Messiah from the house of David who is still to finish his work, and the revival of the dead. That is Maimonides’ confession, read beside the Shema.

• Why Don’t Jews Believe Jesus Is the Messiah?

  Maimonides says the Messiah is a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the Temple, and gathers Israel, and that a king who was killed is not that redeemer. Christians say Jesus is that son of David, cut off and raised, and that he is God the Son.

• What Does Messiah Mean?

  Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

• What Is the Difference between Judaism and Christianity?

  Jews and Christians share the God of Israel, the Shema, and the Hebrew Scriptures. Christians confess that Jesus is the Messiah and is God the Son, and that his death and resurrection are salvation.

• Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians Keep It?

  The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.

• Does Judaism Believe in Heaven?

  The Mishnah says all Israel have a portion in the world to come. Maimonides says that world is life without a body, and that the righteous delight in the radiance of the Divine Presence. Daniel 12 says the dead will awake.

Christian Science

• What Is Christian Science? Is It Christian?

  Christian Science, founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, calls itself a Bible-based Christian religion. Its tenets and its own statement that it does not equate Jesus with God are not the Nicene confession.

Unitarian Universalism

• What Do Unitarians Believe?

  The Unitarian Universalist Association’s bylaws center Love and six values, and they forbid a required creed. That covenant does not confess the Trinity or that Jesus is God.

Hinduism

• What Do Hindus Believe?

  The Bhagavad Gita, in Edwin Arnold’s translation, has Krishna say he is unborn and that he takes visible shape from age to age. Christians confess one God, and that Jesus is God.

• How Many Gods Are in Hinduism?

  Swami Paramananda distinguishes Brahman, the One without a second, from Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, and says no one of those names fully represents the Whole.

Buddhism

• What Do Buddhists Believe?

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s translation of the Buddha’s first sermon states four noble truths: stress, its origin, its cessation, and the eightfold path.

• Do Buddhists Believe in God? Is Buddhism a Religion?

  The Buddha’s first sermon, in Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s translation, does not confess a creator. It teaches the end of further becoming. Christians confess the God who made the world.

Wicca and Paganism

• What Is Wicca? What Wiccans Believe

  The Pagan Federation says Wiccan-based Pagans see the goddesses as one Great Goddess and the gods as one Great God. The short Wiccan Rede advises doing what one will if it harms none.

• What Is Paganism? Modern Pagan Religion Explained

  The Pagan Federation defines a Pagan as a follower of a polytheistic or pantheistic nature-worshipping religion, and says its adherents venerate Nature and worship many deities.

• What Does the Bible Say about Witchcraft?

  Deuteronomy 18 forbids divination, enchantment, witchcraft, and consulting familiar spirits, and calls those practices an abomination to the LORD.

Sunni Islam

• What Do Sunni Muslims Believe?

  Sunni Muslims are the majority of Muslims. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, count the first four caliphs, and treat Bukhari and Muslim as the most authoritative hadith.

Shia Islam

• What Do Shia Muslims Believe?

  Shia Muslims are the smaller branch of Islam. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, and they hold that leadership after him belonged to Ali and his descendants.

Atheism

• What Do Atheists Believe?

  Atheist organizations say atheism is the lack of belief in gods. Some atheists also claim that no God exists. Those are different positions.

• What Do Atheists Argue against God?

  Atheist writers argue from a lack of good reasons to believe, and from suffering. This page is that case in their words, then the Christian claim.

Agnosticism

• What Is Agnosticism?

  Agnosticism is about what a person claims to know. Huxley coined the word. It covers weak and strong forms, and both agnostic theists and agnostic atheists.

• What Is the Difference between an Atheist and an Agnostic?

  Atheism is about belief. Agnosticism is about knowledge. A person can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist. Christians say God has made himself known.

God

• Does God Exist?

  Christians say everything that exists depends on God, who is not one more object inside the world, and they point to what has been made and to Jesus.

• The Problem of Evil

  Scripture records the protest against suffering. Christians answer from the cross and the resurrection, and they do not itemize a reason for each horror.

• Who Created God?

  Christians say God did not begin, so the question treats him as a creature. Psalm 90 says from everlasting to everlasting he is God, and John 1 says the Word was God and all things were made by him.

Other

• How to Use This Wiki

  Each article states a claim, quotes the texts it uses, and lists its sources. A short page is not a finished library.

• Charity in Disagreement

  Peter says to give a reason for the Christian hope with gentleness and respect, without pretending a real disagreement is small.

• What Do Seventh-day Adventists Believe?

  Seventh-day Adventists confess one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Jesus as truly God and truly man. They also teach a binding Saturday Sabbath, an investigative judgment from 1844, unconscious death, and Ellen G. White’s prophetic gift.

• Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians Keep It?

  The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.

Moral Questions

• What Does the Bible Say about Abortion?

  Historic Christianity treats the child in the womb as a human life that must not be killed. Churches differ on the rare case in which the mother’s life is in danger.

• What Does the Bible Say about Homosexuality?

  The historic Christian reading is that sexual intimacy belongs in the marriage of a man and a woman. Churches that confess the Trinity have not all published the same recent statements.

• What Does the Bible Say about Divorce?

  Jesus treats marriage as a covenant God joins. He names sexual immorality in Matthew 19:9. Churches disagree about desertion, abuse, and remarriage.

• Does the Bible Support Slavery?

  The Bible condemns kidnapping a person to sell them, and it says every person is made in God’s image. It also regulates slavery in ancient Israel and the Roman world.

• Is Hell Real? What the Bible Says about Hell

  Jesus speaks of everlasting punishment and of fire that is not quenched. Some churches, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, teach a different end for the wicked.

• Can Christians Believe in Evolution?

  Christians confess that God created the heavens and the earth and made humans in his image. They do not agree on the age of the earth or on the means.

• Does the Bible Say the Earth Is Flat?

  The Bible says four corners, a firmament, the circle of the earth, pillars, and foundations, and it says God hangs the earth upon nothing. The church texts fetched here do not teach a flat earth.

New Age

• What Is the New Age Movement?

  People use New Age for practices that treat human thought, numbers, or cards as a way to shape life or receive a message. Christians confess that God alone creates and reveals.

• Is Manifesting a Sin? Manifestation and the Law of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne says Wallace D. Wattles’s 1910 book gave her a glimpse of The Secret. Wattles wrote that a thought in a thinking substance creates the thing imagined. The Bible says the Word who was God made all things, and Paul learned contentment in want and in plenty.

• Are Angel Numbers Biblical? Angel Numbers, Numerology and Tarot

  Seeing 111 or 333 is not itself what Scripture forbids. The danger is when the number replaces God, works like fortune-telling, or becomes a sign you go looking for.