World Religions

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1. shows gratitude for all the ways God has shown us grace via redemption, mercy, conversion, and
absorption into Christ's body.
2. commencing the "Great Schism," which resulted in the formation of the two major Christian
groups, the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths.
3. might go even farther and suggest doctrines from the early Church's Seven Ecumenical
Councils, the earliest of which was Nicaea. This was before the division of the Catholic,
Orthodox, and Evangelical denominations. However, some Protestants appear to be against all
of these doctrines for unknown reasons. Of course, members of all of these denominations read
the Bible, but this is a habit, not a conviction.