According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer.

According to Yoruba and Vodou belief systems, Shango hurls bolts of lightning at the people chosen to be his followers, leaving behind imprints of stone axe blades on the Earth's crust.

According to Acts, Paul spent better than two years in Ephesus and was emotionally attached to the believers there.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

According to political scientist William Harpine in his study of the rhetoric of the 1896 campaign, " Bryan's speech cast a net for the true believers, but only for the true believers.

According to Ellingson, Fairchild ends his book with a denunciation of the ( always unnamed ) believers in primitivism or " The Noble Savage " -- whom he feels are threatening to unleash the dark forces of irrationality on civilization.

According to the Twelver's belief, after the last of these representatives died, the Imam Mahdi went into a state of Occultation ; while still alive, he was no longer accessible to his believers.

According to believers, the Sudarium and the Shroud took different routes.

According to its supporters, Livets Ord's primary goal is to help believers put into practice what the Bible says.

According to the statement of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council regarding Conversion, converts to Judaism do not in any way have a higher status within Messianic Judaism than the Messianic believers who are considered by the UMJC to still be gentiles who are attached to their communities.

According to Kramer, Jews are regarded as members of a legitimate community of believers in God, " people of the Book ", and therefore legally entitled to sufferance.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

According to the 2002 First General National Census of Georgia, there are 3, 541 Jewish believers in the country.

According to her fellow believers, she began to show evidence of mediumistic abilities in 1892, and claimed to communicate with Victor Hugo and Cagliostro.

In the Recovery Version, the translation used by the believers in the local churches, one footnote for 1 Corinthians 14: 34 reads :" According to 1 Corinthians 11: 5, women may prophesy ( both in public and meetings ), that is, ( mainly ) speak for the Lord and speak forth the Lord with their head covered, and Acts 2: 17, 18 and 21: 9 confirm that women did prophesy.

According to Lee, " every local church should receive all kinds of genuine believers in Christ ", and having a name, such as Baptist, Methodist or Catholic, was divisive and contrary to the oneness all the saints have inherited in Christ.

According to the theory, believers experienced tension following the failure of Jesus ' reappearance in 1844, which led to a variety of new explanations.

According to these believers, Jesus and the Apostles taught that the New Birth experience includes repentance ( the true Sinner's Prayer ), and baptism in both water and God's Spirit.

According to Johannes Quasten, “ In his eschatological ideas Justin shares the views of the Chiliasts concerning the millennium .” He maintains a premillennial distinctive, namely that there would be two resurrections, one of believers before Jesus ' reign and then a general resurrection afterwards.

According to Union statements, they believe " the true humanity and Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ ; the atonement made on the cross by our Lord for the sin of the world ; the person of the Holy Spirit as the one who sets apart, empowers, and imparts spiritual gifts to the church ; the inspiration of the Bible and its authority in all matters of faith and practice ; salvation and membership in the Church by faith in Christ alone ; membership of the church for the regenerate ; the immersion of believers as the scriptural form of water baptism.

According to Phil Zuckerman, " low response rates ", " non-random samples ", and " adverse political / cultural climates " are all persistent problems in establishing accurate numbers of religious believers in a given locality.

According to the 2001 census there are 14, 860 believers in the town ( 56. 2 % of the population ), out of whom 8, 916 ( 60 %) are Roman Catholics, 737 ( 5 %) Czech Brethren, 356 ( 2. 4 %) Jehovah's Witnesses and 1, 709 ( 11. 5 %) others, mainly Lutherans.

According to the 1999 Baptist World Alliance statistics, membership included 11, 100 believers in 245 congregations.

According to believers, these relics were ascertained to be genuine after they started emitting a liquid and strong scented myrrh.

According to his ministry, believers can become prosperous through tithing, giving offerings and using faith, as well as sound financial practices.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

According to Nicolaus of Damascus, Octavius wished to join Caesar's staff for his campaign in Africa but gave way when his mother protested.

According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber.

According to Claudian, Stilicho was in a position to destroy the Goths when he was ordered by Arcadius to leave Illyricum.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

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 the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively ( consistent with SI ), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte,

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

* According to one possible translation, the exorcist or diviner heals Nabonidus and pardons his sins, whereas in Daniel Nebuchadnezzar is cured when he " up eyes to heaven " and " that the Most High is sovereign ".

According to the scriptures, during his lifetime the Buddha remained silent when asked several metaphysical questions.

According to the " kindling " hypothesis, when people who are genetically predisposed toward bipolar disorder experience stressful events, the stress threshold at which mood changes occur becomes progressively lower, until the episodes eventually start ( and recur ) spontaneously.

According to Charles Aaron, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search and rescue operation.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.