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A Comparative Approach to the “Trinity”… A-S. Fatemi Hasanabadi and M. Islami / 15
The Bible contains the The Christian Organization
Christian religious beliefs and and its Rites
principles, which is called Christianity is divided into
“Canon” and in Greek means three major denominations:
scale, and in this sense, the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant.
Bible can be considered a The most important Christian
scale of Christian beliefs. denomination is the Catholic
(Ashtiani, 2011: 14) denomination, followed by the
Thus, the Christian Bible is Orthodox and Protestant denominations.
composed of the Old and New Apart from these three major
Testaments, which include the denomination, other religions
Torah and some of the various emerged in Christianity, numbering
epistles, and the New Testament, as many as 150 denominations
which contains the four and religions. The largest
Gospels of “Matthew”, “Mark”, Christian denomination today
“Luke”, “John” and it is also is Catholic, which the pope is
“Acts of the Apostles” and the its leader. (Moballeghi Abadani,
numerous letters and “Book of 1997: 784)
Revelation”, which is according There are also about 360
to what has been explained, denominations in Christianity,
this article tries to explain this each of which has its own
category in the Holy Quran, beliefs and is hostile bias to
the Bible and with the Lord of each other. (Kashif al-Ghita,
the Church, focusing on the 1974: 241)
“Trinity”; but before entering Another point is the main
the topic, it is necessary to rites and rituals of Christianity,
clarify the relation of some of which are briefly mentioned:
the concepts in Christianity - Baptism: It is a holy
that are related to this category bath and wash (Fazai,
as an entry to explain the 1982: 258) and is a
debate. purification from sin which
is called “Repentance”
in Islam. This is done to
