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 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.

According to LDS belief, the celestial marriage covenant, as with other covenants, requires the continued righteousness of the couple to remain in effect after this life.

According to the Liberal Catholic Church's Statement of Principles, " The Liberal Catholic Church recognises seven fundamental sacraments, which it enumerates as follows: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Absolution, Holy Unction, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders.

According to the Statistical Yearbook of the Church, the Catholic Church's worldwide recorded membership at the end of 2005 was 1, 114, 966, 000.

According to them, after the death of the Apostles their simpler idea of God was lost and the doctrine of the Trinity took its place due to the Church's accommodation of pagan ideas.

" According to Smith's account, Christ accepted the Church's dedication of the temple, and promised blessings according to their obedience.

In Pinsky's The Gospel According to the Simpsons, one of the show's writers recounted to the author that the producers of The Simpsons had vetoed a planned episode on Scientology in fear of the Church's " reputation for suing and harassing opponents ".

According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, the LDS Church's stylized " CTR " abbreviation and shield with the CTR symbol are trademarked for use on finger ring jewelry by Intellectual Reserve.

According to the Church, the OSA is responsible for directing legal affairs, public relations, pursuing investigations, publicizing the Church's " social betterment works ," and " overseeits social reform programs ".

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to " Doctrine of the Mean ," Confucius also said, " Love of learning is akin to wisdom.

According to Buchanan and others, the Bush Doctrine was a radical departure from former United States foreign policies, and a continuation of the radical ideological roots of neoconservatism.

According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to a family tradition, given by William Turner, on settling at Norwich he went through Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ( 1712 ) with his congregation, adopted its view, and came forward ( 1737 ) in defence of a dissenting layman excommunicated for heterodoxy on this topic by James Sloss ( 1698 – 1772 ) of Nottingham, a pupil of John Simson.

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

First and foremost is the Buddhist ascesis as he rediscovered it following over two thousand years of obstruction of the Buddha's teachings ( The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts ).

According to Julius Evola, tradition in its purest form encompassed asceticism, which he described in The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts as a discipline.

# The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts ( 1943 )

According to Cutler, the misdeed that brought about the rejection of Joseph Smith's church was its failure to complete the Nauvoo temple within the " sufficient time " mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 124: 31-32 ; Joseph Smith's church had accordingly ceased to exist as a legitimate entity.

According to Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency ( New York: Henry Holt, 2004 ), application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to the Doctrine, any princely state or territory under the direct influence ( paramountcy ) of the British East India Company ( the dominant imperial power in the subcontinent ), as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System, would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either " manifestly incompetent or died without a direct heir ".

According to GOA the amendment blocked the Federal Communications Commission's ( FCC ) ability to use the Fairness Doctrine in order to radically limit the free speech allowed by organizations like GOA over the airwaves.

According to the Doctrine of the Holy Crown, all kings of Hungary are obliged to be crowned in this cathedral, and to take part in coronation ceremony on the surroundings of the cathedral.

According to Blavatsky, " The MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity ( the " narrow-brained " savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian ) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had " ( The Secret Doctrine, Vol.

The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts is a book by philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola.

Wojtyła completed his licentiate and later a doctorate in theology in 1948 with a thesis on the topic of faith in the works of St. John of the Cross entitled Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce ( The Doctrine of Faith According to Saint John of the Cross ).

According to Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, the NSA had been monitoring phone calls and emails between Khan and several Islamic radicals from the United States and England, including Ahmed Omar Abu Ali.

According to Charles Curran, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith systematically attempted to silence authors also critical of teachings on homosexuality, citing the " highlighting " of errors in McNeill's The Church and the Homosexual.