HISTORY 16A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syriac Orthodox Church, Real Presence Of Christ In The Eucharist, Plain People
29 Aug 2016
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Catholic=universal: the pope, one person is leader of christianity, most places had their bishop, bishop in rome (pope) was in the hierarchy at the time c. i. Orthodox in several ethnic or national churches (e. g. , syrian orthodox, egyptian. Disagree with: the pope, they have their own leaders: patriarchs, egyptian orthodox has their own pope, 46 books, greeks have 51 in the old testament. Ideal of celibacy but they allow some priests to marry: bishop can still not be married. A major disagreement between christians is whether a person can partially earn salvation through the performance of good deeds, the performance of religious rituals, and the performance of believing in jesus. Another major disagreement is whether a person is already destined for heaven or hell before the person is born (predestination of the saved and the damned). Below are the new testament / bible texts used to support each position: Salvation is partially earned by performing good deeds (catholic,
