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Beliefs and Social Issues -
- What is the creed of the United Methodist Church?
- Why do we say creeds?
- Why do we say we believe in the "holy catholic church" in the Apostles' Creed? Is this a reference to the Catholic Church?
Inter-religious Issues
- Can United Methodists use the sign of the cross or is this a Catholic only practice?
- Do United Methodists believe in the saints?
- Does The United Methodist Church believe that Allah and God are the same?
- What does The United Methodist Church teach about the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth?
- What does The United Methodist Church teach about the Virgin Mary?
- What is the United Methodist view regarding Judaism and the Jewish people?
- Why doesn't my church have statues and a crucifix like the Catholic Church?
Salvation
- Did people go to heaven before Jesus?
- Do United Methodists believe that animals have souls and go to heaven?
- Do United Methodists believe that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary to go to heaven?
- Does The United Methodist Church believe in universal salvation?
- Does The United Methodist church believe that babies are born in sin?
- Is the concept “saved, born-again” unique to evangelicals or Baptists? Does it apply to Methodists?
- What does The United Methodist Church teach about the second coming?
- What does it mean to be saved, to accept Jesus as your personal savior?
- What happens immediately after a person dies? Do they go directly to heaven or hell or do they go to a holding place until Christ returns to earth for the final judgment?
- Where does the Rapture fit into the United Methodist Realm of beliefs?
Social Issues
- As a member of The United Methodist Church, do I have to agree with these statements?
- Can a divorced person serve as clergy in The United Methodist Church?
- Does The United Methodist Church believe that masturbation is OK?
- Does The United Methodist Church believe that premarital sex is OK?
- Does The United Methodist Church have a position on gun control?
- Does a person who commits suicide go to hell?
- How do statements become official positions of the Church?
- I have been married before. Can I get remarried and still be a member?
- The United Methodist Church accepts cremation and organ donation. How is this consistent with resurrection of the body?
- What is The United Methodist Church's position on cloning?
- What is The United Methodist Church's position on evolution?
- What is The United Methodist Church's position on gambling?
- What is the United Methodist position on abortion?
- What is the United Methodist view on the consumption of alcohol?
- What is the denomination's position on homosexuality?
- When church leaders speak out on a social issue, are they speaking for the Church?
- Why do church social policies and U.S. government policies or positions seem so far apart on some of these issues?
- Why does The United Methodist Church ordain women?
- Why is the Church getting involved in politics?