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 scripture Erya — chapter 17 Shiniao, Fenghuang is said to be made up of the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish.

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 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 some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to deontology, we have a duty to act in a way that does those things that are inherently good as acts (" truth-telling " for example ), or follow an objectively obligatory rule ( as in rule utilitarianism ).

According to Plenge, the " ideas of 1789 " that included rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism were being rejected in favour of " the ideas of 1914 " that included " German values " of duty, discipline, law, and order.

According to the Constitution of the Kingdom, serving in the Armed Forces is a duty of all Thai citizens.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " This and other similar doctrines found in the Zohar are now known to be much older than Christianity, but the Christian scholars who were led by the similarity of these teachings to certain Christian dogmas deemed it their duty to propagate the Zohar.

" Frequently Jewish fundamentalists refer to the Palestinians as the ' Amalekites ' … of today … According to the Old Testament, the Amalek … were regarded as the Israelites ' inveterate foe, whose ' annihilation ' became a sacred duty and against whom war should be waged until their ' memory be blotted out ' forever ( Ex 17: 16 ; Deut 25: 17-19 )….

According to the opinion of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, every citizen owes his Fatherland a duty of allegiance regarding information, and endeavours towards the enforcement of existing laws may be implemented only through the utilization of responsible domestic state organs, and never by appealing to foreign governments.

According to The Joy of Cooking, greens serve " garnish duty only " in a salad course.

According to the Dothan Chamber of Commerce, Dothan contains a civilian labor force of approximately 168, 000 persons, with an additional 4, 900 serving on active military duty in nearby Ft. Rucker.

According to Bushido, the Code of the Warrior in feudal Japan, honour was always seen as a duty by Samurai.

According to Adi Shankara in his Vivekachudamani morally right action ( characterised as humbly and compassionately performing the primary duty of good to others without expectation of material or spiritual reward ), helps " purify the heart " and provide mental tranquility but it alone does not give us " direct perception of the Reality ".

According to Royce, loyalty is a virtue, indeed a primary virtue, " the heart of all the virtues, the central duty amongst all the duties ".

According to gayaameen from the Darraji tribe of samarra, a few hours prior to the first bombing that occurred, ICDC troops ( Iraqi Civil Defence Corps ) accompanied by coalition troops, temporarily relieved the gayaameen of their duty.

According to his reasoning, we first have a perfect duty not to act by maxims that result in logical contradictions when we attempt to universalize them.

According to Kant, man has the imperfect duty to strengthen the feeling of compassion, since this feeling promotes morality in relation to other human beings.

According to democratic centralism, all leaders must be elected by the people and all proposals must be debated openly, but, once a decision has been reached, all people have a duty to obey that decision and all debate should end.

the one of Rule According to Higher Law ideas that the primary duty of the state is

According to Josiah, John Boydell caught a cold by going to the Old Bailey on a damp, foggy day to do his duty as an alderman.

According to the memoirs of Helena's daughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Helena was very intelligent, had an extremely strong sense of duty, and a genuine love of welfare work.

According to one article at the time, the Shmoo showed " Thrift, loyalty, trust, duty, truth and common cents add up to aid to his nation.

According to Tad Szulc, Hunt was assigned to temporary duty as the acting CIA station chief in Mexico City for the period of August and September 1963, at the time of Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged visit there.

According to Chandler's version of events, after he voted in favor of the war declaration, he called Secretary of War Henry Stimson and asked to be put on active duty.

According to a national law enforcement memorial organization in the UK, records show that since 1973 as many as 20 or more police officers in the United States have been killed on duty while manually deploying old-fashioned road spikes or similar manual tire-deflation devices.

According to Midrash Leviticus rabbah he said " As in a theater and circus the statues of the king must be kept clean by him to whom they have been entrusted, so the bathing of the body is a duty of man, who was created in the image of the almighty King of the world.

According to Livy and Ovid's Fasti we are told that he was chosen for this duty because he was the best of the Roman community.