According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to scripture, Nineveh was also the place where Sennacherib died at the hands of his two sons, who then fled to the land of ` rrt Urartu.

According to Jewish tradition and scripture ( 2 Chronicles 3: 1-2 ), the first temple was built by Solomon the son of David in 957 BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to the Book of Mormon, that scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement was originally written in reformed Egyptian characters on plates of " ore " by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as 2600 BC until as late as AD 421.

According to the scripture Sthala Purana, the legend of Venkateshwara's Avatar ( incarnation ) is as follows:

According to a remark by Origen ( Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 15. 3 ), Marcion " prohibited allegorical interpretations of the scripture ".

According to scripture Jesus commanded them to spread his teachings to all the world.

According to the Mormon scripture Joseph Smith — History, the transcript and its unusual " reformed Egyptian " characters were copied by Smith from the Golden Plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon.

According to the Buddhist scripture Mahavamsa, the presence of Brahmins have been recorded in Sri Lanka as early as 500BC when the first migrations from the Indian mainland supposedly took place.

According to Margaret Toscano, whose husband was among the September Six and who would also later be excommunicated, Gileadi's " books interpreting Mormon scripture challenged the exclusive right of leaders to define doctrine.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia in the registers, on the margin of the text of the record, the last sentence is noted as its real definition: " Declaratio quod subesse Romano Pontifici est omni humanae creaturae de necessitate salutis "; thus this phrase, like some in canonic scripture, may have moved from an original position as a marginal gloss to an integral part of the text as it has been accepted.

According to the Shulchan Aruch ( Rema, Yoreh Deah, 179 ), it is not a committal of the sin of necromancy to divine an answer using the " goral ", being the practice of opening the Chumash to see an answer to a question, or asking a child for the first piece of scripture that comes to his mind.

According to Vermes, attempts to interpret the expression as a hopeful reference to scripture provide indirect evidence that it is an authentic.

According to the original scripture written by Vyasa, Karna was cursed by a Brahmin for killing his cow.

According to Samuel Pepys, Sedley ` showed his nakedness-acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could he imagined, and abusing of scripture ... preaching a Mountebank sermon from that pulpit ... that being done, he took a glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off ; and then took another and drank the King's health '.

According to this scripture, Ashoka was the son of Kunala and Sampadi was the son of Ashoka, Brihaspati was the son of Sampadi, then Vrishasena, son of Brihaspati.

According to this Buddhist scripture, the Kathmandu Valley was a giant lake until the Bodhisattva Manjusri, with the aid of a holy sword, cut a gap in the surrounding hills and let the water out.

According to scripture, the duty of a Priest is to " preach, teach, expound, exhort, and baptize, and administer the sacrament ".

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 Chattopadhyaya, " discarding scripture orientation, they Indian physicians insist on the supreme importance of direct observation of natural phenomena and on the technique of rational processing of the empirical data.

According to Latter Day Saint scripture, the duty of an Elder is to " teach, expound, exhort, baptize, and watch over the church.

According to Akilattirattu Ammanai, the scripture of the Ayyavazhi religion, Ayya Vaikundar, the Incarnation of God in Kali Yukam, has five Seedar ( disciples ).

According to the testimony of scripture, such a precept was already made by Moses ( Lev. 19. 19 ; Deut. 22. 5. 11 )".

According to the Rites of Zhou there was no Xuzhou or Liangzhou, instead there was Youzhou ( 幽州 ) and Bingzhou ( 并州 ), but according to the Erya there was no Qingzhou or Liangzhou, instead there was Youzhou ( 幽州 ) and Yingzhou ( 營州 ).

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

* According to a 2006 survey of 1, 500 adults by Satio, a third of Belarusians use the Internet — 38 % of the urban population and 16 % of the rural population.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to many of Descartes ' specialists, including Étienne Gilson, the goal of Descartes in establishing this first truth is to demonstrate the capacity of his criterion — the immediate clarity and distinctiveness of self-evident propositions — to establish true and justified propositions despite having adopted a method of generalized doubt.

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

According to the International Monetary Fund, commercial banks in Eritrea — all government owned and operated — appear to be in compliance with prudent regulations.

According to epiphenomenalism, mental states like Pierre's pleasurable experience — or, at any rate, their distinctive qualia — are epiphenomena ; they are side-effects or by-products of physical processes in the body.

According to variant accounts, they emerged from an even more primordial level — from Nyx, " Night ".

According to Boztepe, his early days in Germany were difficult due to his Turkish heritage — he was a constant target for racial insults and, more often than not, verbal abuse would escalate into physical abuse.

According to Truffaut's theory, auteurs took material that was beneath their talents — a thriller, a pulpy action film, a romance — and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it.

" According to Crick, the experience of learning physics had taught him something important — hubris — and the conviction that since physics was already a success, great advances should also be possible in other sciences such as biology.

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 Alan Reid's account, Erwin had no concerns about policy — his anxiety was entirely focussed on Holt's leadership style, his parliamentary performance and his public image.