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: messiah
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: jesus
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: an ideal type of humanity
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Christian Science
: the ideal truth that comes as a divine manifestation of God to destroy incarnate error
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And last spring, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced its first temple in the Charlotte region would go up in Weddington.
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Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024
Norton Healthcare's beginning and growth Norton Healthcare started in 1886 as a single infirmary on the corner of Third and Oak streets named after Rev. John Norton, the associate rector of Christ Church Cathedral.
—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
In the Echternach Gospels, which illustrate the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, the sun and the moon take the form of human figures shrouding their faces in grief.
—Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 2020 Chestnut Ave., Carlsbad.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
The physical mass of Christ is important to the earliest days of Christianity.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
The fringe organization, while not affiliated with the church, is made up of LDS members who were preparing for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2024
By my second visit to Pittsburgh, in November, 2022, Vincent had decided to stay permanently in the U.S., been baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and added an AK-47 and two Sig Sauer handguns to his arsenal.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Today, Barkley Thompson’s sermon will concern resurrection of Christ, but also his own from a rare malady of the spine and cancer.
—Werner Trieschmann, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024
Norton Healthcare's beginning and growth Norton Healthcare started in 1886 as a single infirmary on the corner of Third and Oak streets named after Rev. John Norton, the associate rector of Christ Church Cathedral.
—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
In the Echternach Gospels, which illustrate the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, the sun and the moon take the form of human figures shrouding their faces in grief.
—Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 2020 Chestnut Ave., Carlsbad.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
The physical mass of Christ is important to the earliest days of Christianity.
—Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
The fringe organization, while not affiliated with the church, is made up of LDS members who were preparing for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2024
By my second visit to Pittsburgh, in November, 2022, Vincent had decided to stay permanently in the U.S., been baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and added an AK-47 and two Sig Sauer handguns to his arsenal.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Today, Barkley Thompson’s sermon will concern resurrection of Christ, but also his own from a rare malady of the spine and cancer.
—Werner Trieschmann, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
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“Christ.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Christ. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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