According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

According to the LDS church, Christ's unwavering ability to obey truth, perceive light, and act in perfect love and faith, distinguishes his pre-mortal existence from the pre-mortal existence of the other spirit beings who were in the presence of the " Eternal Father ".

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the Great Apostasy started not long after Jesus ' ascension and continued until Joseph Smith's First Vision in 1820.

According to LDS tradition, the site is to be a gathering spot prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

According to LDS Church teachings, the true gospel will be taught in all parts of the world prior to the Second Coming.

" According to LDS doctrine, the Holy Spirit is believed to be a person, however having a body of spirit, he is able to pervade all worlds.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the Great Apostasy in Christianity began not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the largest Mormon group, all Priesthood keys necessary to administer Jesus Christ's church were given to Joseph Smith, Jr. who then organized that church to continue in perpetuity.

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

According to LDS beliefs, certain ordinances, such as baptism, are required of all those who hope to obtain exaltation.

According to LDS theology, ordinances can be performed vicariously ( i. e. post mortem ) on behalf of any person who would desire to accept the ordinance but was not able to receive it.

According to the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants, the President of the Church is the only man empowered to receive revelation for the entire church and to clarify doctrine.

According to LDS teachings, this theology is consistent with Smith's 1838 and subsequent accounts of the First Vision.

According to the LDS Church, the temple garments serve a number of purposes.

According to Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president, the LDS church continues to own one of Joseph Smith's seer stones.

According to Toscano, the actual reason was insubordination in refusing to curb his sharp criticism of LDS Church leaders ' preference for legalism, ecclesiastical tyranny, white-washed Mormon history, and hierarchical authoritarianism that privilege the image of the corporate LDS Church above its commitment to its members, to the teachings and revelations of Joseph Smith its founding Prophet, and to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), it is the site where Adam and Eve lived after being expelled from the Garden of Eden.

According to the traditional, literal LDS interpretation of the Book of Abraham, Kolob is an actual star or planet in this universe that is, or is near, the physical throne of God.

According to several LDS writers ( such as Cleon Skousen in his book The First 2000 Years ), the earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years, and then moved to its present position in our solar system.

According to LDS author, James Ferrell, the metaphorical interpretation is supported by the parallel construction of the passages in Abraham chapter three:

According to the LDS Church, the purpose of FHE is to help families strengthen bonds of love with each other as well as provide an atmosphere where parents can teach their children principles of the gospel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to Tylor, animism often includes " an idea of pervading life and will in nature "; i. e., a belief that natural objects other than humans have souls.

According to Malay culture, amok was rooted in a deep spiritual belief.

According to the subjectivist view, probability quantifies a " personal belief ".

According to Mintz, conspiracism denotes " belief in the primacy of conspiracies in the unfolding of history ":" Conspiracism serves the needs of diverse political and social groups in America and elsewhere.

According to Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, the purpose of modern Christology is to formulate the Christian belief that " God became man and that God-made-man is the individual Jesus Christ " in a manner that this statement can be understood consistently, without the confusions of past debates and mythologies.

According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

According to the theory that knowledge is justified true belief, in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not only believe the relevant true proposition, but one must also have a good reason for doing so.

According to reliabilism, a belief is justified ( or otherwise supported in such a way as to count towards knowledge ) only if it is produced by processes that typically yield a sufficiently high ratio of true to false beliefs.

According to Shinto belief, Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

According to Amnesty, in certain societies women who have not had the procedure are regarded as too unclean to handle food and water, and there is a belief that a woman's genitals might continue to grow without FGM, until they dangle between her legs.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to Hezbollah's Deputy-General, Na ' im Qasim, the struggle against Israel is a core belief of Hezbollah and the central rationale of Hezbollah's existence.

According to Strauss, historicism " rejects political philosophy " and is rooted in the belief that " all human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to William Scoresby ( 1820: p. 154 ), referring to the mistaken belief that the Dutch had discovered the island in 1611, Hull whalers discovered the island " about the same time " and named it " Trinity Island ".

According to Frazer, man begins with an unfounded belief in impersonal magical laws.

According to Western Christian belief, matzah was the bread used by Jesus in the Last Supper as there he was celebrating Passover ; Communion wafers used by Roman Catholics ( as well as in some Protestant traditions ) for the Eucharist are flat.

According to Phillips, the question of whether or not God exists cannot be " objectively " answered by philosophy because the categories of truth and falsity, which are necessary for asking the question, have no application in the religious contexts wherein religious belief has its sense and meaning.

Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".

" According to this belief, these purposes were explained and discussed in " councils in heaven ," followed by the War in Heaven where Satan rebelled against the plan of Heavenly Father.

* 2007: According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, " Myth: " 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.

" According to the latter, skepticism is treated as a problem to be solved, or challenge to be met, or threat to be parried ; skepticism's value on this view, insofar as it is deemed to have one, accrues from its role as a foil contrastively illuminating what is required for knowledge and justified belief.