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A limited group rules with Christ in heaven, while most faithful ones hope for eternal life on earth.

World history is understood as fixed and recurring cycle.

Spiritual suffering is understood as temporary and oriented to learning, not as eternal condemnation without exit.

Many atheists define their position as not accepting belief in gods without sufficient evidence.

The tradition emphasizes the radical and absolute unity of God.

God is one, unique, indivisible, and without equals.

The religion forbids transfusions of whole blood and its major components, with internal ethical distinctions.

Nicaea, Constantinople I, and Ephesus are received as normative ecumenical councils.

The Holy Spirit acts in sanctification, gifts, comfort, and mission.

The inner path requires ethical discipline, spiritual etiquette, and formative fellowship.

God's justice is treated as a structuring theological principle.

Radical nonviolence is the most central ethical principle of the Jain tradition.

Ahura Mazda occupies the supreme position as source of wisdom, order, and good.

Reality includes soul and non-soul, with its own cosmological categories.

The Akilam is the main narrative, doctrinal, and cosmological source of the tradition.

The Eritrean tradition shares ancient Christian roots with the Aksumite and Tewahedo world.

The figure of al-Hakim plays a central and controversial role in the formation of Druze faith.

The Coptic tradition upholds the full unity of the incarnate Word in Cyrillian and Alexandrian language.

The tradition recognizes beneficial spiritual entities linked to divine attributes and cosmic order.

Amulets and vows express the search for protection, health, success, and safety.

The ancient Eucharistic anaphora is one of the central treasures of the Eastern Syriac liturgical tradition.

There is no permanent, independent, immutable self in the aggregates of experience.

Ancestors remain relevant to the moral, family, and ritual life of the living.

Ancestors and dead without rest can affect family and community life.