According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, either " literal descendants of Aaron ", or worthy Melchizedek priesthood holders have the legal right to constitute the Presiding Bishopric under the authority of the First Presidency ().

According to the Book of Mormon, a religious text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Nephite () is a member of one of the four main groups of settlers of the ancient Americas.

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 official Latter-day Saint teaching, the Father, Son, and Spirit are three distinct " Gods " joined in purpose as " one Godhead ".

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 prominent 20th-century Latter-day Saint Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, those who have their calling and election made sure " receive the more sure word of prophecy, which means that the Lord seals their exaltation upon them while they are yet in this life.

According to Joseph Fielding Smith, at the time an Apostle-theologian in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the reasons were:

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 Latter-day Saint scripture, a bishop in the church does not need to be a high priest nor does he need counselors if he is a Levite and a direct descendant of Aaron, Moses ’ brother.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

According to Athanasius, the devil again resumed his war against Saint Anthony, only this time the phantoms were in the form of wild beasts, wolves, lions, snakes and scorpions.

According to Athanasius, Saint Anthony heard a voice telling him, " Go out and see.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to a tradition, Saint Basil ( an old school-mate of Julian ) had been imprisoned at the start of Julian's Sassanid campaign.

According to the general interpretation John was also that " other disciple " who with Peter followed Christ after the arrest into the palace of the high-priest ( John 18: 15 ). Saint John alone remained near his beloved Master at the foot of the Cross on Calvary with the Mother of Jesus and the pious women, and took the desolate Mother into his care as the last legacy of Christ ( John 19: 25-27 ).

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

Saint Augustine says the only one who can love you truly and fully is God, because love with a human only allows for flaws such as “ jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and contention .” According to Saint Augustine, to love God is “ to attain the peace which is yours .” ( Saint Augustine's Confessions )

According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness.

According to legend, the Armenian-born Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, died in Maastricht in 384 and was buried there along the Roman road, outside the castrum.

According to Gregory of Tours it was bishop Monulph who, around 570, built the first stone church on the grave of Servatius, the present-day Basilica of Saint Servatius.

According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

According to the apocryphal Acts of Saint Callixtus, Asterius, a priest of Rome, recovered the body of Callixtus after it had been tossed into a well and buried Callixtus ' body at night.

According to Ponza Islands legend, fishermen were in a small boat in a storm off Palmarola and they called on Saint Silverius for help.

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

According to a tradition that can be traced back at least to the 12th century, when it was recorded in the Codex Calixtinus, Saint James decided to return to Holy Land after preaching in Galicia.

According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised in a Christian family.

According to Saint historian Burl Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Holm, Uniatz, Orace and Teal, as they weren't appropriate for the post-war stories he was writing.

According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK ( a company that originally published only religious books ) and The Crime Club ( an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction ) in the United States.

According to his legends, Vajk was baptized a Christian by Saint Adalbert of Prague.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

According to legend, the Christianisation of the heathen tribes by Saint Boniface was marked by the oak's being replaced by the fir ( whose triangular shape symbolizes the Trinity ) as a " sacred " tree.

( 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.