According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to some biblical scholars, the findings at Nag Hammadi have shown Irenaeus ' description of Gnosticism to be largely inaccurate and polemic in nature.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to Irenaeus, Christ, being born out of the Virgin Mary, created a totally new historical situation.

According to Irenaeus, Polycarp was a companion of Papias, another " hearer of John " as Irenaeus interprets Papias ' testimony, and a correspondent of Ignatius of Antioch.

According to Irenaeus, during the time his fellow Syrian, Anicetus, was Bishop of Rome, in the 150s or 160, Polycarp visited Rome to discuss the differences that existed between Asia and Rome " with regard to certain things " and especially about the time of the Easter festivals.

According to Irenaeus, it was during his pontificate that the aged Polycarp of Smyrna, a disciple of John the Evangelist, visited Rome to discuss the celebration of Passover with Anicetus.

According to Irenaeus, the Judaistic Ebionites charged less than one hundred years after the Apostles that the Christians overruled the authority of Scripture by failing to keep the Mosaic Law ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ).

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Melito was a Chiliast, and believed in a Millennial reign of Christ on Earth, and followed Irenaeus in his views.

According to Irenaeus the Aeon Autogenes emits the true and perfect Anthrôpos, also called Adamas ; he has a helpmate, " Perfect Knowledge ", and receives an irresistible force, so that all things rest in him.

According to Irenaeus, Polycarp told the story that John the Apostle, in particular, is said to have so detested Cerinthus that he once fled a bathhouse when he found out Cerinthus was inside, yelling " Let us flee, lest the building fall down ; for Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is inside!

According to Hippolytus, Basilides was apparently a pantheistic evolutionist ; and according to Irenaeus, a dualist and an emanationist.

According to the writings of Irenaeus ( d. c. 202 ), the Roman church had celebrated Easter on a Sunday at least since the time of Bishop Xystus ( Sixtus I, 115 – 125 ).

According to Hippolytus, Basilides was apparently a pantheistic evolutionist ; and according to Irenaeus, a dualist and an emanationist.

According to both Hippolytus and Irenaeus, the Basilidians denied that the God of the Jews was the supreme God.

According to Frederik Wisse ( 1981 ) all subsequent accounts appear to be largely dependent on Irenaeus.

According to Irenaeus, the Valentinians believed that at the beginning there was a Pleroma, also known as the ‘ fullness ’.

According to it the Gallican Rite was referred to an original brought to Lyon from Ephesus by St. Pothinus and St. Irenaeus, who had received it through St. Polycarp from St. John the Divine.

According to Irenaeus, Papias was " a hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp, a man of primitive times ," who wrote a volume in " five books.

Hippolytus summed up the Basilidians ' Gospel by saying: " According to them the Gospel is the knowledge of things above the world, which knowledge the Great Archon understood not: when then it was shewn to him that there exists the Holy Spirit, and the parts of the seed-mass and a God Who is the author of all these things, even the not-being One, he rejoiced at what was told him, and was exceeding glad: this is according to them the Gospel.

According to Clement of Alexandria, the Basilidians taught faith was a natural gift of understanding bestowed upon the soul before its union with the body and which some possessed and others did not.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God.

According to Blake, Disraeli believed in upholding Britain's greatness through a tough, " no nonsense " foreign policy that put Britain's interests above the " moral law " that advocated emancipation of small nations.

According to Massiter, Newton believed that CND was controlled by extreme left-wing activists and that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist, but Massiter found no evidence to support either opinion.

According to Hubbard, the majority of the people interested in the subject believed they could accomplish therapy alone.

According to Matthew Henry a Bible commentator who flourished in the 17th century, Ezekiel is also believed to have been known as Nazaratus Assyrius, a teacher to Pythagorus.

According to Karl Popper these experiments showed that the class of " hidden variables " Einstein believed in is erroneous.

According to Scheuering, some of them later said they believed they were signing a document in favour of action against climate change.

According to the 11th century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos an uncial manuscript of Matthew's Gospel, believed to be that found by Anthemios, was then still preserved in the Chapel of St Stephen in the imperial palace.

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

According to one poll, 33 % of American visitors to Scotland believed haggis to be an animal.

According to contemporary biographers Theodore Beza and Nicolas Colladon, Gérard believed his son would earn more money as a lawyer than as a priest.

According to files declassified by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mrs. Simpson was believed to be a regular guest at Ribbentrop's social gatherings at the German Embassy in London where it was thought the two struck up a romantic relationship.

According to the municipal administration of Rybno, after World War I Poles in Działdowo believed that they will be quickly joined with Poland, they organized secret gatherings during which the issue of rejoining Polish state with help of Polish military was discussed.

According to an 1892 letter, Casement believed that she was descended from the Catholic Jephson family of Mallow, County Cork.

According to Islam, the sawab ( rewards ) of fasting are many, but in this month they are believed to be multiplied.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed.

According to plate reconstructions, the island is believed to have been formed by the collision of terranes from the Asian Plate ( forming the west and southwest ), from the Australian Plate ( forming the southeast and Banggai ), and from island arcs previously in the Pacific ( forming the north and east peninsulas ).

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed is believed to have used the name ' Abdul Rahman ' to send a message to Ramzi bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, in which he wrote

According to Akhil Reed Amar, the framers and early supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it would ensure that the states would be required to recognize the individual rights the federal government was already required to respect in the Bill of Rights and in other constitutional provisions ; all of these rights were likely understood as falling within the " privileges or immunities " safeguarded by the amendment.

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.