Compare the beliefs of Christian denominations

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Original sin
Anglican / Episcopal - "Original sin does not lie in following Adam ... but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man." 39 articles Anglican Communion
Assembly of God - "Man was created good and upright, since God said:" We make man in our image, after our likeness. "However, man by voluntary transgression fell and therefore suffered not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God." AG.org
Baptist - “At first man was innocent of sin ... By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through Satan's temptation, man transgressed God's command and inherited a nature and environment prone to sin. " SBC
Lutheran - "Sin came into the world from the fall of the first man ... In this fall not only himself, but also his natural offspring have lost original knowledge, justice and holiness, and therefore all men are already sinners by birth ... "LCMS
Methodist - "The original sin is not in following Adam (as the Pelagians speak in vain), but is the corruption of the nature of every man". UMC
Presbyterian - "Presbyterians believe in the Bible when he says that" all sinned and remained deprived of the glory of God. " (Romans 3:23) "PCUSA
Roman Catholic - "... Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin influenced human nature which they would later transmit in a fallen state. It is a sin that will be transmitted by propagation to all humanity, that is, by the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice ". Catechism - 404

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salvation
Anglican / Episcopal - “We are considered righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our works or merits. Therefore, that we are justified only by faith, it is a very salutary doctrine ... "39 Articles Anglican Communion
Assembly of God - “Salvation is received through repentance towards God and faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ. By washing the regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. " AG.org
Baptist - “Salvation implies the redemption of the whole man, and is freely offered to all those who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who with his own blood has obtained eternal redemption for the believer… There is no salvation if not personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord “. SBC
Lutheran - "Faith in Christ is the only way for men to obtain personal reconciliation with God, that is, the forgiveness of sins ..." LCMS
Methodist - “We are considered righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our works or merits. Therefore, that we are justified by faith, only ... "UMC
Presbyterian - "Presbyterians believe that God offered us salvation because of God's loving nature. It is not a right or a privilege to be earned by being" good enough "... we are all saved only by the grace of God ... For the greatest love and possible compassion, God has reached us and redeemed us through Jesus Christ, the only one who has ever been sinless. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God has triumphed over sin. " PCUSA
Roman Catholic - Salvation is received by virtue of the sacrament of Baptism. It can be lost from mortal sin and it can be regained from penance. THERE IS

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Atonement for sin
Anglican / Episcopal - "He came to be the spotless Lamb, who, once he had made the sacrifice of himself, would have had to take away the sins of the world ..." 39 Articles Anglican Communion
Assembly of God - "The only hope of the man of redemption is through the spilled blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God". AG.org
Baptist - "Christ honored the divine law with his personal obedience, and in his substitute death on the cross he made provision for the redemption of men from sin." SBC
Lutheran - “Jesus Christ is therefore 'true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary,' true God and true man in an indivisible and indivisible person. The purpose of this miraculous incarnation of The Son of God was that he could become the mediator between God and men, both fulfilling the divine Law and suffering and dying in the place of humanity. In this way, God reconciled the whole sinful world with himself. "LCMS
Methodist - “The offering of Christ, once made, is that perfect redemption, propitiation and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and current; and there is no other satisfaction for sin than that alone. " UMC
Presbyterian - "Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God triumphed over sin". PCUSA
Roman Catholic - "With his death and resurrection, Jesus Christ" opened "paradise for us". Catechism - 1026
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Will vs predestination
Anglican / Episcopal - "Predestination to life is the eternal purpose of God, according to which ... he has constantly decreed from his secret advice for us, to free from the curse and damnation those he has chosen ... to bring them from Christ to eternal salvation … ”39 Articles Anglican Communion
Assembly of God - “And on the basis of his foreknowledge believers are chosen in Christ. Thus God in his sovereignty provided the plan of salvation whereby everyone can be saved. In this plan man's will is taken into consideration. Salvation is available for "anyone who will. "AG.org
Baptist - “Election is the benign purpose of God, according to which it regenerates, justifies, sanctifies and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man ... "SBC
Lutheran - "... we reject ... the doctrine that conversion is not accomplished by the grace and power of God alone, but also partly by the cooperation of man himself ... or anything else on the basis of which the conversion and salvation of man is removed from the gentle hands of God and made dependent on what man does or leaves undone. We also reject the doctrine that man is able to decide for conversion through "powers imparted by grace" ... "LCMS
Methodist - “Man's condition after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn around and prepare himself, with his strength and his natural works, for faith and the call to God; therefore we do not have the power to do good works ... "UMC
Presbyterian - “There is nothing we can do to gain God's favor. Rather, our salvation comes from God alone. We are able to choose God because God chose us first. " PCUSA
Roman Catholic - "God foretells no one to go to hell" Catechism - 1037 See also "Concept of predestination" - EC

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Can Salvation Be Lost?
Anglican / Episcopal - “Holy Baptism is the full initiation of the water and the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, the Church. The bond that God establishes in Baptism is indissoluble ”. Common Prayer Book (PCB) 1979, p. 298.
Assembly of God - Assembly of God Christians believe that salvation can be lost. "The General Council of the Assemblies of God disapproves of the unconditional security position that claims that it is impossible to lose a person once saved." AG.org
Baptist - Baptists do not believe that salvation can be lost. “All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God accepted in Christ and sanctified by His Spirit will never depart from the state of grace, but will persevere to the end. " SBC
Lutheran - Lutherans believe that salvation can be lost when a believer does not persist in the faith. "... it is possible for a true believer to fall out of faith, since Scripture itself warns us soberly and repeatedly ... A person can be restored to faith in the same way he came to faith ... repenting of his sin and unbelief and complete trust in the life, death and resurrection of Christ only for forgiveness and salvation. " LCMS
Methodist - Methodists believe that salvation can be lost. "God accepts my choice ... and continues to reach me with the grace of repentance to bring me back on the path of salvation and sanctification". UMC
Presbyterian - With reformed theology at the center of Presbyterian beliefs, the church teaches that a person who has truly been regenerated by God will remain in God's place. PCUSA, Reformed.org
Roman Catholic - Catholics believe that salvation can be lost. "The first effect of mortal sin in man is to divert him from his true ultimate end and deprive his soul of sanctifying grace". CE Final perseverance is a gift from God, but man must cooperate with the gift. THERE IS
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Works
Anglican / Episcopal - "Even if good works ... cannot set aside our sins ... yet they are pleasant and acceptable to God in Christ, and necessarily arise from a true and living faith ..." 39 Articles Anglican Communion
Assembly of God - “Good works are very important for the believer. When we appear before the judgment seat of Christ, what we have done in the body, be it good or bad, will determine our reward. But good works can only emanate from our just relationship with Christ. " AG.org
Baptist - "All Christians have an obligation to try to make the will of Christ supreme in our lives and in human society ... We should work to provide for the orphans, the needy, the abused, the elderly, the defenseless and the sick ..." SBC
Lutheran - “Before God only those works are good that are made for the glory of God and the good of man, according to the rule of divine law. Such works, however, no man does if not first believe that God has forgiven him his sins and given him eternal life by grace ... "LCMS
Methodist - "Although good works ... cannot put aside our sins ... they are pleasant and acceptable for God in Christ, and are born of a true and living faith ..." UMC
Presbyterian - Still researching the Presbyterian position. Send documented sources only to this email.
Roman Catholic - The works have merit. “An indulgence is obtained through the Church which… intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens up to them the treasure of the metis of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishment due for their sins. So the Church does not simply want to come to the aid of these Christians, but also to encourage them to works of devotion ... (Indulgentarium Doctrina 5). Catholic answers

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XNUMX. Paradiso
Anglican / Episcopal - "By heaven we mean eternal life in our enjoyment of God". BCP (1979), p. 862.
Assembly of God - “But human language is inadequate to describe heaven or hell. The realities of both fall far beyond our most imaginative dreams. It is impossible to describe the glory and splendor of paradise ... paradise enjoys the total presence of God. " AG.org
Baptist - "The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord". SBC
Lutheran - "Eternal or eternal life ... is the end of faith, the last object of hope and struggle of a Christian ..." LCMS
Methodist - "John Wesley himself believed in an intermediate state between death and the final judgment, in which those who rejected Christ would have been aware of their impending destiny ... and the believers would have shared the" breast of Abraham "or" paradise ", also continuing to grow in holiness there. This belief, however, is not formally affirmed in Methodist doctrinal standards, which reject the idea of ​​purgatory but in addition to that keep silence on what lies between death and the last judgment. " UMC
Presbyterian - “If there is a Presbyterian narrative about life after death, it is like this: when you die, your soul goes to be with God, where he enjoys the glory of God and awaits the final judgment. At the final judgment the bodies reunite with souls, and eternal rewards and punishments are offered. " PCUSA
Roman Catholic - "Paradise is the ultimate goal and the realization of the deepest human desires, the state of supreme and definitive happiness". Catechism - 1024 "Living in paradise is" being with Christ ". Catechism - 1025
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Inferno
Anglican / Episcopal - "By hell we mean eternal death in our refusal of God". BCP (1979), p. 862.
Assembly of God - “But human language is inadequate to describe heaven or hell. The realities of both fall far beyond our most imaginative dreams. It is impossible to describe ... the terror and torment of hell ... Hell is a place where you will experience total separation from God ... "AG.org
Baptist - "The unrighteous will be delivered to hell, the place of eternal punishment". SBC
Lutheran - “The doctrine of eternal punishment, repugnant to natural man, has been repudiated by errors… but it is clearly revealed in Scripture. To deny this doctrine is to reject the authority of Scripture. " LCMS
Methodist - “John Wesley himself believed in an intermediate state between death and final judgment, in which those who rejected Christ would have been aware of their impending destiny… This belief, however, is not formally affirmed in the Methodist doctrinal norms, which reject the idea of ​​purgatory but beyond that keep silence on what is between death and the last judgment ". UMC
Presbyterian - “The only official Presbyterian statement that includes every comment on hell since 1930 is a 1974 card, universalism adopted by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Warns of judgment and promises of hope, acknowledging that these two ideas. seems to be "in tension or even in paradox". In the end, the affirmation admits, how God works redemption and judgment is a mystery. " PCUSA
Roman Catholic - “Dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell". Catechism - 1033

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Purgatorio
Anglican / Episcopal - Denies: "The Romanesque doctrine concerning Purgatory ... is an affectionate thing, invented in vain and based on no guarantee of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God". 39 articles Anglican communion
Assembly of God - Deny. Still Searching for the Assembly of God Position Send documented sources only to this email.
Battista - Deny. Still looking for the Baptist position. Send documented sources only to this email.
Lutheran - Nega: “Lutherans have always rejected the traditional Roman Catholic teaching regarding purgatory because 1) we cannot find a scriptural basis for it, and 2) is inconsistent, in our opinion, with the clear teaching of Scripture that after the death the soul goes directly to heaven (in the case of a Christian) or to hell (in the case of a non-Christian), not in an "intermediate" place or state. LCMS
Methodist - Denies: "Roman doctrine on purgatory ... is an affectionate thing, invented in vain and based on no mandate of Scripture, but repugnant to the Word of God". UMC
Presbyterian - Deny. Still looking for the Presbyterian position. Send documented sources only to this email.
Roman Catholic - states: “All those who die in the grace and friendship of God, but purified in an imperfect way, are effectively assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. .The Church gives the name of Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is completely different from the punishment of the damned ". Catechism 1030-1031
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End of times
Anglican / Episcopal - "We believe that Christ will come in glory and judge the living and the dead ... God will lift us from death in the fullness of our being, so that we can live with Christ in the communion of saints". BCP (1979), p. 862.
Assembly of God - "The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their translation together with those who are alive and remain at the coming of the Lord is the imminent and blessed hope of the church". AG.org Other information.
Baptist - "God, in his day ... will bring the world to its proper end ... Jesus Christ will return ... to earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men ... the unrighteous will be handed over to ... eternal punishment. The righteous ... will receive their reward and will abide forever in Paradise ... "SBC
Lutheran - "We reject all kinds of millennialism ... that Christ will visibly return to this earth a thousand years before the end of the world and establish dominance ..." LCMS
Methodist - "Christ truly rose from the dead and took back his body ... so he went up to heaven ... until he returned to judge all men on the last day". UMC
Presbyterian - “Presbyterians have a clear teaching ... about the end of the world. These fall into the theological category of eschatology ... But fundamental ... it is a refusal of idle speculations on "final times". Certainty that God's purposes will be fulfilled is sufficient for Presbyterians. PCUSA
Roman Catholic - “At the end of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its fullness. After the universal judgment, the righteous will reign forever with Christ ... The universe itself will be renewed: the Church ... will receive its perfection ... At that time, together with the human race, the universe itself ... will be perfectly restored in Christ ". Catechism - 1042