• The expression "one true church" refers to an ecclesiological position asserting that Jesus gave his authority in the Great Commission solely to a particular...
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  • branches, the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, both claim to be the "one true church" and that "outside the true Church there is no salvation";...
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    The True Jesus Church is currently one of the largest Christian groups in China and Taiwan, as well as one of the largest independent churches in the...
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  • itself to be the one true church and the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus, whereby all other Christian churches are apostate. According...
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    holds that those Churches that have preserved apostolic succession are part of the true Church. This is in contrast to the one true church applied to a specific...
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    the East, which all understand themselves as the one and only original church—the "one true church"—founded by Jesus Christ (though certain Protestant...
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  • True Orthodox church, True Orthodox Christians, True Orthodoxy or Genuine Orthodoxy, often pejoratively "Zealotry", are groups of traditionalist Eastern...
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  • "True Church": True Jesus Church True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints True Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) True Orthodox Church True Russian...
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  • that theirs represents the true visible Church. This mark derives from the Pauline epistles, which state that the Church is "one". In 1 Cor. 15:9, Paul the...
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  • Christian Church, though the terms of visible unity vary for each denomination of Christianity, as certain groups teach they are the one true church, or that...
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    the True Cross as objects of veneration. Historians generally dispute the authenticity of the relics, as do Protestant and other Christian churches, who...
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    The Catholic Church teaches that it is the "one true church", "the universal sacrament of salvation for the human race", and "the one true religion". According...
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    while others do not expect a union of all Christian churches on earth. See also One true church and Great Apostasy. Protestant groups, lacking the stronger...
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    member churches were legitimate and hence only members of ICOC churches had had their sins forgiven and were saved. This is known as the One True Church (OTC)...
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    largest church", which may be due to any one of these criteria. The reason the edifice was built was for Christian religious services (see Church (building)...
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    Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are...
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    "one true church". The unbroken continuity of the Great Church is affirmed also by the Eastern Orthodox Church: "Orthodoxy regards the Great Church in...
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  • belonging to the one true church. This allowed the Catholic party to say that the other church was founded by the founder, while the Catholic church was founded...
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    Pius XII spoke of baptism and profession of the true faith as what makes members of the one true church, which is the body of Jesus Christ himself, as...
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    opposition to local Orthodox churches over ecumenism and other matters. These jurisdictions sometimes refer to themselves as being "True Orthodox". In Russia...
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  • The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite is Conservative Mennonite that has distanced itself from other Conservative Mennonites because of its one true church...
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    true church of Jesus Christ had been lost and would be restored through him, and that he would be given the authority to organize and lead the true Church...
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    members worldwide. The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to the Nicene Christian tradition. Oriental Orthodoxy is one of the oldest branches in Christianity...
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  • No one can have God for his Father, who does not have the Church for his mother. — Saint Cyprian of Carthage, De catholicae Ecclesiae Unitate, 6: PL 4...
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    The Foursquare Church is an international Evangelical Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1923 by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Its headquarters...
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  • Catholic Church continued its claim to be the one true church, the churches that sprung out of the Magisterial Reformation denied the Church of Rome's...
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    executive minister, and registered on August 30, 1973. The church claims to be the "One True Church of Christ", with its beliefs coming from the Bible as the...
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    Latin Church is one of 24 churches sui iuris in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern Catholic Churches, and...
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    represents sin, and Princess Una as George's true love and an allegory representing the Protestant church as the one true faith, was told in altered fashion in...
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    betä krəstiyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Christian churches in sub-Saharan Africa originating before European colonization...
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