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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Introduction
From the moment he founded in 1830 the Church of Christ until his last breath, Joseph Smith broadened the models of biblical practice he started in his teen and young adult years. He thus established the important path that would forever differentiate his final devotees. As ‘mormonism’ developed from a concept into a society, the faith of Smith seemed to expand equally (Parry, 2004). He had hardly accomplished the Book of Mormon when he was inspired to make a move further, just as daring a deviation from long-established values. Putting his own understanding of ‘prophetic authority’ into the general ideas of scholarship...
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Church History Seven Churches in Bible...?Church History: Seven Churches in Bible Introduction: Christianity is presently the largest religion of the world. At present there are more than 2 billion followers of this religion and they are spread across the globe. From a general point of view, the origin of the Christianity was from Judaism. The person who according to the historian, was behind the birth of the Christian religion was Jesus Christ. He along with all his twelve disciples were Jew, therefore the belief is that the Christian culture and religion derived from Judaism. There are lots of theories on the nature of Christian religion and culture, but the main concept is entirely based on life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and most importantly monotheistic... to...
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Analysis of Seventh-day Adventists Website....
I learned that Seventh-day Adventists has global influences with churches, educational programs, health ministries and publications all over the world. The Seventh-day Adventists is a renowned organization, which has set up Bible study groups all over the world known as Sabbath School. It also develops its own materials for use. It has several departments to provide support to the organization, including auditing that ensure financial statements are true and fair and policies compliance are met. As for Jehovah's Witnesses, it also has similar global influences with its members increasing tremendously over the years as...
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The Adventist Church National City Concert Report...was held at the Paradise Valley, in the 7th Day Adventist Church National City. It was on a Sunday, 3rd March 2013. The concert kicked off at 7.00 pm and rolled through the night, with its activities extending to the next day. This was punctuated by some breaks.
The Program
The comprehensive program of the concert was organized as follows
Prologue (Castellaw Joel)
1. Scherzo (after act 1)
2. Incidental music (Act II. Scene 1: A wood near Athens—Enter Fairy and Puck
Fairies March (Act II. Scene 2: Enter Oberon and Titania—with their trains)
3. Song, with chorus (Act II. Scene 3)
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5. Intermezzo...
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