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What this means is clarified in Evangelical Convictions: A Theological Exposition of the Statement of Faith of the Evangelical Free Church of America, (34). the timing question, we have intentionally placed that in the category of silence. When addressing the age of the universe, i.e. These are the explicit essentials of creation we affirm. In Article 1 of our Statement of Faith, we affirm the following: We believe in one God, Creator of all things limitless knowledge and sovereign power has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory. We hold this as an integral part of our history and tradition, and on the basis of our understanding of biblical teaching." That is, Evangelical Free Churches are autonomous and self-governing. Here is how this is explained in Evangelical Convictions: A Theological Exposition of the Statement of Faith of the Evangelical Free Church of America (261): "Though not included among our central doctrinal convictions, the Evangelical Free Church of America is congregational. free from ecclesiastical and hierarchical control. Second, in reference to theology, it refers to our local church polity in that each local church is autonomous, i.e. First, in reference to history, it refers to the fact that in Europe, the Free Church was free from the state church control. All rights reserved.The term “Free” has two meanings. Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Only those will be damned who persist in what they know to be wrong among these are persons who resist the church when they know it to be the one, true church. The doctrine concerning persons not Catholic is that since God affords each human being light sufficient to attain salvation, all will be saved who persevere in what they believe to be good, regardless of ignorance. Nothing that God has created is evil in itself, but evil use may be made of it. The church teaches that the main motive for ethical behavior is the love of God. Self-renunciation is a necessary part of prayer (see fasting Lent). Different methods of prayer are recommended (see rosary Saint Ignatius of Loyola Thomas à Kempis).
Private prayer is also regarded as essential contemplation is the ideal (see mysticism), and all believers are expected to devote some time to prayer that is more than requesting favors. The Eucharist is the center of public worship, often embellished with solemn ceremony (see Mass). The ordinary Catholic frequents the sacraments of penance (required at least once a year) and the Eucharist (required once every Easter time see also sin). The church is seen as having from God a system of conveying God's grace direct to humanity (see sacrament). In addition the Roman Catholic Church stresses that since the members, living and dead, share in each other's merits, the Virgin Mary and other saints and the dead in purgatory are never forgotten (see church saint). The chief teachings of the Catholic church are: God's objective existence God's interest in individual human beings, who can enter into relations with God (through prayer) the Trinity the divinity of Jesus the immortality of the soul of each human being, each one being accountable at death for his or her actions in life, with the award of heaven or hell the resurrection of the dead the historicity of the Gospels and the divine commission of the church.
Many features of the traditional teaching (dogma) have been analyzed and restated, by the councils and by great theologians (see council, ecumenical creed Thomas Aquinas, Saint Trent, Council of Vatican Council, First Vatican Council, Second). The voice of the pope, either alone or in conjunction with his bishops in council, is regarded as infallible when speaking on matters of faith and morals taught in common with the bishops (see infallibility).
The doctrine of apostolic succession is one of the keystones of the Catholic faith it holds that the pope (the vicar of Christ) and the bishops have in varying degrees the spiritual authority Jesus assigned to his apostles. Adherents must also accept the church as possessing the fullness of revelation, and the church, according to the Roman Catholic catechism, is the only Christian body that is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Fundamental in this divine tradition is the Bible, its text determined and disseminated by the church. To belong to the church one must accept as factually true the gospel of Jesus as handed down in tradition and as interpreted by the bishops in union with the pope.
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