The followers of John Wesley, the clergymen, have typically affirmed that the sacrament of Holy Communion is an instrumental Means of Grace through which the real presence of Christ is communicated to the believer, but have otherwise allowed the details to remain a mystery.

The followers of John Wesley, himself an Anglican clergyman, have typically affirmed that the sacrament of Holy Communion is an instrumental Means of Grace through which the real presence of Christ is communicated to the believer, but have otherwise allowed the details to remain a mystery.

Credobaptists would admit that infants are in need of salvation but paedobaptists push the point a step further by arguing that it makes no theological sense for infants to need salvation but for God to make no provision for them to be saved ( See 1 Cor 7: 14 where Paul says that the children of a believer are holy-separated-and therefore, perhaps, would not need baptising even if baptism saved ).

Most reliabilists maintain that a belief can be justified, or can constitute knowledge, even if the believer does not know about or understand the process that makes the belief reliable.

It is in this real exchange which Mannermaa says " the union between Christ and the believer makes the latter a ‘ completely divine.

# Paul makes it clear that baptism is the external sign of faith in Christ ("... you were baptized into Christ ..."), and that through faith in Christ the believer is part of the Abrahamic covenant (" Abraham's seed ").

The race was founded by the rowing coach Steve Fairbairn who was a great believer in the importance of distance training over the winter (" Mileage makes champions " was a favourite phrase ).

Jamuna, a believer in destiny, writes down her address and telephone number on a Rs. 100 note and makes the payment at the cafe declaring that if the note comes back to Jagan then it means that he was destined to meet her.

Fairbairn was a strong believer in the benefits of distance training ; part of his philosophy was that " mileage makes champions ".

However, contributions are strictly confidential, including whether or not a believer makes one, and is up to individual discretion.

That verse makes a distinction between a Muslim and a believer.

A lifelong believer in the power of positive thought, the possibility of her enthusiastic smoking habit harming her was never something she took seriously.

Harrington became a believer in the existence of a Planet X beyond Pluto and undertook searches for it, with positive results coming from the IRAD probe in 1983.

As a positive position, their stance was that human reason is a sufficient guide when combined with the Holy Spirit for the determination of truth in doctrinal contests, and therefore that legal and doctrinal rulings that constrain reason and the freedom of the believer were neither necessary nor salutary.

Concluding his review on a positive note, Asilo wrote " After 15 songs, we couldn't seem to get enough of Mariah – and we became a believer!

In this use, a saint is therefore not a believer, but one who has been transformed by virtue.

The only requirement is that the intellectual virtue inclines the believer towards the truth.

General Lucius Clay stated " There is no choice between being a communist on 1, 500 calories a day and a believer in democracy on a thousand ".

He is not an unqualified believer in the predictions being made by the believers in global warming ( see below ).

In being born again, the believer is regenerated, justified, adopted into the family of God, and sanctified.

It is received by having faith in God's promise to fill the believer and in yielding the entire being to Christ.

Ball was also a believer in the Hollywood adage at the time that there should be only one pretty woman on the set and Ball, being the star of the show, was it.

* Armstrong taught that God's purpose in creating mankind was to " reproduce Himself ", and that the process of being " born again " was not instantaneous — that the believer ( as a result of baptism by immersion ) was only " begotten " until reborn as a spirit being at the return of Jesus.

Cuvier was a Protestant and a believer in monogenism who held that all men descended from the biblical Adam however his position was usually confused as being polygenist ( some writers who have studied his racial work have dubbed his position as " quasi-polygenist ") and most of his racial studies have influenced scientific racialism.

After Hanssen married, he converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism, becoming a fervent believer and being extensively involved in Opus Dei.

They believe in the " Eternal Security " of the true Bible-believing Christian with each believer being subject to " grace " and not " law ".

General Lucius Clay stated " There is no choice between being a communist on 1, 500 calories a day and a believer in democracy on a thousand.

The proof of this interpretation lies in the possibility of a person's being a religious believer, despite being aware of commodity fetishism, and being critical of its manifestations ; that toppling the Golden Calf might be integral to one's religiousness, that such iconoclasm would lead to opposing all manifestations of idolatry.

The Didascalia Apostolorum, written in Greek in the first half of the 3rd century, mentions the requirements of chastity on the part of both the bishop and his wife, and of the children being already brought up, when it quotes as requiring that, before someone is ordained a bishop, enquiry be made " whether he be chaste, and whether his wife also be a believer and chaste ; and whether he has brought up his children in the fear of God ".

As with the jinn, an ifrit may be either a believer or an unbeliever, good or evil, but he is most often depicted as a wicked and ruthless being.

For many years Edmonds has been a believer in Spiritualism, in particular the concept of Cosmic ordering a subject he became interested in after being introduced to the book ‘ The Cosmic Ordering Service-A Guide to Realising Your Dreams ’ by his reflexologist.

" " For the regenerated to do spiritual good — for the works of the believer being contributory to salvation and wrought by supernatural grace are properly called spiritual — it is necessary that he be guided and prevented by grace.

William was a great believer in university education being available to all, and championed the establishment of a university college in Southampton in 1902.

Despite his father, Govindan Nambiar, being a believer in the feudalism, Nayanar took to the national movement of the time at a very young age under the influence of his cousin, K. P. R.

Despite being an ardent socialist, Lange deplored the Marxian labor theory of value, being very much a believer in the Neoclassical theory of price.

The accusation is rejected by the Eastern Orthodox, which unlike these Western traditions was relatively uninfluenced by Augustine and holds that " for the regenerated to do spiritual good – for the works of the believer being contributory to salvation and wrought by supernatural grace are properly called spiritual – it is necessary that he be guided and prevented by grace … Consequently he is not able of himself to do any work worthy of a Christian life ".

Young is strong believer in user-generated content and open source software.

A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's Charles I persecuted religious dissenters.

Lewis himself was a strong believer in the intrinsic value of nature for itself, rather than as a resource to be exploited.

Thanks to a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism, among the dominant strains in the theology of the English church of his time, which rigidly divides humanity into the damned and the elect, which focuses on human sinfulness and inadequacy more than in the other denominations of Christianity.

Webb has stated, " I am a strong believer in God ... God is important to me.

A strong believer in the value of technical education, Whitworth backed the new Mechanics ' Institute in Manchester ( later UMIST ) and helped found the Manchester School of Design.

Raja Rajasekhara was in his previous birth a rich and pious ' Brahmin ' by name Vijayan who was a very strong believer and devotee of Lord Dharma Sastha.

As a civil libertarian, and a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, Robarts opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.

* George Lakoff ( one of America's foremost linguists, also ( like Erickson ) a strong believer in the significance of metaphor )

This was interpreted as a move away from a strong freedom of information law, as Irvine was thought not to be a firm believer in the concept.

A strong believer in the magic of necromancy, he also declared that he had been Grand Minister to the Emperor Yao during a previous incarnation.

( Shaw was a strong believer in presenting Shakespeare's plays uncut.

A strong believer in constitutional monarchism, Chénier believed that the French Revolution was already complete and that all that remained to be done was the inauguration of the reign of law.

He was a strong believer in the view that Islamic law owes its origins to Roman Law but in the opinion of Patricia Crone his arguments here are " uncharacteristically weak ".

In response, NPR further stated that according to Gore, she " wasn't out to censor the objectionable material " and quoted her as stating that she is " a strong believer in the First Amendment " who is calling for greater " consumer information in the marketplace.

While the Panthers had developed a loyal following, Taubman was a strong believer in the original spring football concept.

He had by now shed much of his socialist ideology of earlier years, though he was still a strong believer in state planning.

In this revolution, James II ( 1633 – 1701, reigning 1685-1688 ), a Catholic, a younger brother to Charles II, and a strong believer in the Divine right of kings, was forced to flee to France in 1688 by the Protestant Parliamentarian forces.

As a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, he opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.

He was also a strong believer in international law:

Although he had no military background he was a firm believer in strong defence and armed forces with a global capability.

His attempts to reduce conflict with Māori were undermined by Governor Grey, who had returned for another term, and was a strong believer in the need to confront Māori militarily.

* Mr. Gonzalez is the office manager at Levy Pants, meek and skittish in demeanor, but fervently loyal to the company and a strong believer in its philosophy, if it indeed has one.

He was a strong believer in the law of use and disuse — that an individual will slowly, over time, favor an anatomical part of its body so much that it will become stronger and larger as time progresses down the generations.