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		For the moment the definition of apostasy, and its distinction from heresy, is an important one to bear in mind.
		When we consider the greatness of this apostasy from God, we have to acknowledge that the recovery of a portion of mankind from this miserable state was an act of free-will on the part of God.
		I am alluding, of course, to the manifestation of this apostasy in the power of the Church of Rome, which growing from small beginnings led to the almost universal corruption of the doctrines and practices of the Christian faith in the medieval papacy.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?35 (5890 words)

	Apostasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apostasy (from Greek αποστασία, a defection or revolt from a military commander, from απο, apo, "away, apart", στασις, stasis, "standing") is a term generally employed to describe the formal renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy.
		Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates and they generally consider this term to be a pejorative.
		Paul of Tarsus was accused of apostasy by the council of James and the elders, for teaching apostasy from the law given by Moses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apostasy (3930 words)

	Heresy and Apostasy
		The words "heresy" and "apostasy" are two of the most often used words to refer to doctrinal error and practice in the Church Age.
		Apostasy is the deliberate act of a professing Christian who knowingly and deliberately rejects revealed truth regarding the deity of Jesus Christ, redemption through His atoning sacrifice, or any part of the doctrines related to Salvation.
		Some of the characteristics, or synonyms, of apostasy are mentioned in the Bible, including: seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, hypocritical lying, a seared conscience, forbidding of marriage and meats, and a form of godliness without the power thereof.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics/heresy.html (1126 words)

	Great Apostasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Apostasy surely was complete, for purposes of the Reformers, when the Council of Trent emphatically rejected even a modified form of Protestant reformation for the Roman Catholic Church.
		The fusion of church and state is a central theme of the Anabaptist view of the Great Apostasy, and of their consequent assertion during the Protestant Reformation that the churches of Catholic Europe needed not simply reform, but a radical re-establishment based on the Bible alone.
		The reception of the Reformation views of a general falling away from the Christian faith, by the Church of England and other churches of the Anglican and Episcopalian denomination is a historically complex subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Apostasy#Jehovah.27s_Witnesses (5666 words)

	Definition of Apostasy
		Apostasy belonged, therefore, to the class of sins for which the Church imposed perpetual penance and excommunication without hope of pardon, leaving the forgiveness of the sin to God alone.
		Apostasy constitutes an impediment to marriage, and the apostasy of husband or wife is a sufficient reason for separation a thoro et cohabitatione, which, according to many authorities, the ecclesiastical tribunal may make perpetual [Decretals of Gregory IX, IV, title 19, vi; (Friedberg, II, p.
		Apostasy is a grave sin, the absolution of which the superior may reserve to himself [Decree "Sanctissimus" of Clement VIII, 26 May, 1593, "Bullarum ampl.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/defnapos.htm (2000 words)

	Mahoney, 'The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy' - Irony and Clerisy - Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
		While, etymologically, "apostasy" may signify a standing-off or -away, it repeatedly figures a standing so precarious as finally to be indistinguishable from a falling—and not an isolated fall at that, but an always- or always-already falling that can be seen to occur with reference not merely to political principle but, far more unpredictably, literary language.
		To represent apostasy narratively entails an attempt to render the movement of standing away (the stepping from one stasis to the next) both consistent and stable, in order that the subject might be understood to have maintained a coherence of self in the interim.
		Apostasy is the crucial, or rather, the critical stage of Coleridge's paradigm because it is the first break in the stasis that precedes all paradigms, the standing away that precipitates the creation.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/irony/mahoney/stasis.html (4938 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Great Apostasy - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Great Apostasy is a belief held by most non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Christian denominations that at some point in history, the original teachings and practices of the primitive or original Christian church were greatly altered.
		The apostasy is considered to have become complete and total with the Council of Nicaea, when the Nicene Creed was adopted, enshrining the Trinity doctrine as orthodoxy.
		The Great Apostasy is considered by the Latter-day Saints to be one of many apostasies that have occurred from the time of Adam to the present although the Great Apostasy is the most notable.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/gr/Great_Apostasy (2420 words)

	Islam - Apostasy
		Another aspect of apostasy and blasphemy is the issuing of fatwas either by state Shari’ah courts, or by individual ulama demanding the death of the apostate: “His blood is permissible”.
		Accusations of apostasy, blasphemy, heresy, desecration of the Qur’an, insulting Islam or Muhammad are all part of the spectrum of weapons in the arsenal of the self-appointed guardians of “true” Islam.
		The field of apostasy and blasphemy and related “crimes” is thus obviously a complex syndrome within all Muslim societies which touches a raw nerve and always arouses great emotional outbursts against the perceived acts of treason, betrayal and attacks on Islam and its honour.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /islam_-_apostasy.htm (10902 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Apostasy
		apostasy is notorious, and are "irregular"; an infamy and an
		Apostasy is a grave sin, the absolution of which the superior may reserve to himself [Decree "Sanctissimus" of Clement VIII, 26 May, 1593, "Bullarum
		As modern canonists no longer treat of apostasy under a special heading, they must be consulted where they refer to ordinations and irregularities, the duties of the clerical state, the obligations of religious offenses and penalties, and, chiefly, when they write concerning heresy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01624b.htm (1397 words)

	Apostasy in the Christian Church
		Apostasy is a rebellion against God because it is a rebellion against truth.
		If there is indeed an apostasy occurring in the Christian Church, we would not know it unless we first examined the Bible closely and then compared the Church to the Word of God.
		Since apostasy is falling away from the truth, perhaps this means that the Christian church is what will commit apostasy.
	www.carm.org /church/apostacy.htm (2035 words)

	APOSTASY
		Apostasy (departure from the faith) is a definite possibility among Christians, even though it is sometimes vehemently denied by the security-in-sin teachers, better known as eternal security or the perseverance of the saints teachers.
		In fact, apostasy is taught so often throughout the New Testament that it is difficult to believe that anyone sincerely desiring truth could miss it.
		Below are specific verses showing the possibility of apostasy, or actual examples of such, in 25 of the 27 New Testament books—that is a total of 93% of the New Testament books which cite specific examples or imply the possibility that true Christians can go back to wickedness (and lose their salvation).
	www.evangelicaloutreach.org /everyNTbook.htm (1465 words)

	The Religion Report: 2 July 2003 - Islam and apostasy
		For Muslims, apostasy - the renunciation of one's religious faith - is a sin punishable by death in many parts of the Islamic world.
		In the earliest days of Christianity, apostasy was regarded as an unpardonable sin, and in many parts of the Islamic world, apostasy is still a capital offence.
		It’s part history of dissent and apostasy in Islam, and part collection of testimonials from former Muslims from all around the world, some writing anonymously, others willing to risk their lives by using their real names, and all writing about what it was about the Islamic faith that made them want to leave it.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s892997.htm (2252 words)

	Apostasy
		Apostasy has always resulted to some degree or another, but in the last century as never before in church history the escalation of apostasy is evident by the many pseudo Christian movements which have sprung up as tares amongst the wheat.
		This apostasy shall be the result of the church no longer loving and teaching the truth.
		This, sadly, is already the result as men teach that new knowledge, unfounded in Scripture, as being given by God known as "revelation knowledge" for this particular time in church history for revival and growth of the church.
	www.deceptioninthechurch.com /apostasy.html (1555 words)

	Apostasy or Riddah
		On the contrary, apostasy according to the provisions of the Shariah is a capital crime.
		Yet in relation to apostasy they have extended the cases in which the punishment can be carried out, through broadening the words and acts which might be considered as formal apostasy, to an extent entirely beyond the actual meaning of apostasy, the changing one's religion.
		But it must be remembered that unthreatening apostasy is an exceptional case, and the common thing is that apostasy is accompanied by some harmful actions against the society or state.
	www.muhammadanism.org /Government/Government_apostasy_1.htm (13818 words)

	Technorati Tag: apostasy
		Apostasy Occurs Among Christians Apostasy (departure from the faith) is a definite possibility among Christians.
		Arguments for Apostasy Promotion of apostasy, or the abandonment of one’s religious beliefs, includes reasons for apostasy, biblical critique and alternatives to religion.
		The Problem of Apostasy in Islam April 16th, 2006 Apostasy, or the rejection of religion, is a highly controversial issue in Islam.
	technorati.com /tag/apostasy (510 words)

	Gospel Link
		The English word "apostasy" derives from the Greek apostasía or apóstasis ("defection, revolt"; used in a political sense by Herodotus and Thucydides); it is mentioned in a religious context in the Septuagint and the New Testament (e.g., 2 Thes.
		This apostasy can be linked, in the allegory of Zenos, with the scattering of Israel when all the trees in the Lord´s vineyard had become corrupt (Jacob 5:39–48), and it was paralleled by the calamitous apostasy of the Nephites in the New World (1 Ne.
		LDS teachings on the early Christian apostasy have received additional support in the twentieth century as some scholars have argued that the primitive Church began as a centralized Judaic organization, was faced with the challenge of a Hellenized/Oriental, ascetic Gnostic Christianity, and became like its enemy in order to compete.
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /emmain.asp?number=18 (1432 words)

	Modern Apostasy in the Church - Personal Apostasy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus, individual apostasy is possible only for those who have first experienced salvation, regeneration, and renewing by the Holy Spirit (Luke 8:13; Heb.
		theological apostasy, i.e., a rejection of all or some of the original teachings of Christ and the apostles.
		Hence, the only safeguard against the peril of ultimate apostasy is found in the admonition: "Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb.
	apostasy.webvena.com /personal.html (683 words)

	24. Apostasy. Hebrews 6:4-6
		With their minds so biased by their views of apostasy, they have rather taken it for granted that this passage describes a true child of God, who, through turning his back upon Christ, ultimately perishes.
		If on the one hand, Arminians have been too ready to read into this passage their unscriptural dogma of the apostasy of a Christian, it must be confessed that many Calvinists have failed to grapple successfully with and interpret satisfactorily the most knotty points in these verses.
		The motive to obedience is drawn from the danger of apostasy (verses 4-6).
	www.pbministries.org /books/pink/Hebrews/hebrews_024.htm (5175 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: apostasy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apostasy may be merely interior, or exteriorly manifested as well.
		It may be formal (with full consciousness of the obligation to remain in the faith), or material (without such consciousness).
		Apostasy from religious life is the unauthorized departure from a religious house of an inmate under perpetual vows, with the intention of not returning; or, if the departure be legitimate, a subsequent refusal to return in order thus to withdraw from the obligations of religious obedience (canon 644).
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd00664.htm (119 words)

	eschatology.org: The Great Apostasy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The apostasy of 2 Thessalonians 2 is the same as that predicted in I Timothy 4; II Timothy 3-4, etc. But the apostasy of 2 Thessalonians is that foretold by Jesus in Matthew 24:10-12.
		This apostasy was in Asia and Africa; from Rome to Corinth, from Corinth to Jerusalem; North, South, East, and West.
		When it is acknowledged that Jesus predicted the Great Apostasy to occur in his generation, prior to his return, and when it is realized that apostasy did occur in the first century, one must also conclude that Christ came at the height of that apostasy just as predicted.
	www.eschatology.org /articles/matthew24/apostasy.htm (4508 words)

	Apostasy From Islam
		The second category of apostasy, i.e., actions committed by different parts of the body, includes prostrating to an idol, or prostrating to the sun or the moon, or prostrating to any other creation with the purpose of worshipping it.
		The scholars mentioned that the third category of apostasy, apostasy of sayings, is like the sea that has no shoreline--meaning the examples could go on and on, and they cited many examples in their books--again, a warning to people not to speak words similar to them.
		Then, if apostasy occurred from one, it is an obligation on him to immediately return to Islam by leaving out what caused him to apostate and uttering with the Testification of Faith (two shahadas) with the intention of clearing himself of apostasy.
	www.sunna.info /Lessons/islam_333.html (2476 words)

	www.myspace.com/apostasy
		Apostasy is currently working on recording the Dissection of Theocracy EP as well as writing material for an upcoming full-length which will be entitled The End of Paradise.
		Apostasy has played with such national and international acts as Strapping Young Lad, Misery Signals, The Agony Scene, Powerman 5000, Mushroomhead, Dope, Nocturne, Crossbreed, Obituary, Napalm Death, Dead to Fall, and Therion.
		Apostasy is so bad ass that I have bad dreams with them in it playing metal in my face as I'm tied up with metal chains!!!!
	www.myspace.com /apostasy (819 words)

	The Punishment of the Apostate According to Islamic Law (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His presentation of the subject is an unusually full and lucid exposition of the theological and legal foundations of the traditional understanding of the law of apostasy and its punishment in Islam and a contemporary rational justification for its continued implementation.
		A complete understanding of apostasy must also consider the civil consequences of apostasy as related to matters such as marriage, property, wills and inheritance as expressed unanimously or variously by the different Islamic schools of law in the past and present.
		Islamic jurisprudence is not confined to the punishment of apostasy.
	answering-islam.org.uk /Hahn/Mawdudi (19047 words)

	PFRS Eternal Security (OSAS)
		According to Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, "Apostasy" is defined as "the determined willful rejection of Christ and His teachings by a Christian Believer [Heb.
		This is different from false belief, or error, which is the result of ignorance." The nature of apostasy requires that one be a believer first, then turn away from God.
		The Apostle warns that apostasy will be so prevalent in the last generation, he calls it the "falling away." Paul did not originate this idea.
	www.pfrs.org /osas/osas01.html (1845 words)

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