What's the difference between penteconter and pentecoster?
Penteconter
Definition:
(n.) A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
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Pentecoster
Definition:
(n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
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(1) In any period, however, there seem to have been marked individual and cultural differences in outlook; some of these differences are still evident today in the survival of belief in demonic possession in pentecostal sects.
(2) Aaron says his brother, who is a pentecostal Christian, disappeared five years ago when the military raided a house where he was praying with friends.
(3) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
(4) I wouldn’t describe myself as religious, although I was raised as an evangelical Pentecostal Christian in the south – a unique and fraught position.
(5) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
(6) Another Australian, Jasper Lawson, who was at Sara airstrip in the north of Pentecost island with fellow volunteers Robin Baker, from Wales, and Reuben Fremmer, from England, said that damage from the cyclone had been limited on Pentecost and the volunteer teachers “want to stay because the communities need help here”.
(7) Signatories included the Sydney Anglican archbishop Glenn Davies, his Catholic counterpart, archbishop Anthony Fisher, heads of Pentecostal and orthodox churches, senior rabbis and leaders from the Sunni and Shia Islamic communities.
(8) During the same period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals rose from 26 million to 42 million, and from 15% to 22% of the population.
(9) Brazil’s newest and most spectacular Pentecostal church, the Temple of Solomon, has been drawing throngs of worshippers and curious onlookers to its daily services since the $300m (£185m) building opened earlier this year and immediately became a symbol of the rising power of evangelical Christianity in this largely Catholic nation.
(10) As Pentecost suggests, it's a difficult community to categorise, partly because "the Russians" have become almost as large a group as "the French" or "the Americans" in London.
(11) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
(12) In her spare time, Biniam, now aged 17, sings in the choir at a Pentecostal church.
(13) This strange ceremony, known as the Ducasse de Mons, has medieval origins and is held every year on the first Sunday after Pentecost (that’s 31 May this year) on the main square.
(14) He has also called on the church to reflect on why it has lost so many former followers to secularism and Pentecostal faiths in recent years.
(15) Pentecost that "it is an established fact that 1 or more terminations of pregnancy are liable to result in more women coming in at 26 weeks with ruptured membranes" needs to be challenged.
(16) Even after psychosocial factors such as gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, negative life events, and social support were controlled for, the likelihood of major depression among Pentecostals was three times greater than among persons with other affiliations.
(17) But more than being a proselytist, this seems to be a pope that works toward unity, who adopts a new ecumenism, who embraces the Pentecostals – as he did as a cardinal in Argentina.
(18) Pentecostal, Methodist and other evangelical groups are also making inroads.
(19) Pentecost has lived in southwest London for 12 years and has Russian, British and Canadian passports.
(20) Jobs is a great showman, with the charisma of a Pentecostal evangelist or an Indian guru.