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According to the doctrine of Calvin ( Instit., III, ii, 4 ) good works are " impurities and defilement " ( inquinamenta et sordes ), but God covers their innate hideousness with the cloak of the merits of Christ, and imputes them to the predestined as good works in order that He may requite them not with life eternal, but at most with a temporal reward.
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According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.
According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.
According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.
According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the doctrine of Ahimsa does not say " Kill not " it says, " Love all ".
According to the doctrine of some Tibetan schools ( like Theravāda but for different reasons ), only the first of these is recognized.
According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.
According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.
According to the committee, these Lectures were included in the compilation " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation.
According to this doctrine, only God can judge an unjust king.
According to this doctrine, the gods of Olympus were not supernatural powers still actively intervening in the affairs of men, but great generals, statesmen and inventors of olden times commemorated after death in extraordinary ways.
According to U. S. Army doctrine, a machine gun is distinguished from an automatic rifle by how it is used: a machine gun is a crew-served weapon, while an automatic rifle is used by a single person.
According to Ann-Marie Gallagher, a professor of women's studies and long-time author of many books related to Wicca, " there is no moralistic doctrine or dogma other than the advice offered in the Wiccan Rede ...
According to Pelagian doctrine, because humans are sinners by choice, they are therefore criminals who need the atonement of Jesus Christ.
* According to Catholic doctrine, the Catholic Church is a visible identifiable body that is literally catholic, in the sense of universal (" for all people ").
According to military doctrine, to be successful an attacker generally requires a 3: 1 ratio of numerical superiority over the defender for foot soldiers ; in mountain warfare this ratio should be considerably higher as the terrain favours defence.
According to the doctrine of real presence, the substances of the body and the blood of Christ and of the bread and the wine were held to coexist together in the consecrated Host during the communion service.
According to the Estonian Security Police, Russian influence operations in Estonia form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in Republic of Estonia for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to Russian Federation and conducted under the doctrine of near abroad.
According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).
According to Malloch ( 1966 ), this doctrine of permissible " equivocation " did not originate with the Jesuits.
According to present doctrine, that of " treaty monism ", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing ; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a " dualistic " system ( such as the United Kingdom ).
According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle.
According to the President, his doctrine consisted of four " prongs ," three of them practical, and one idealistic.
According to French newspaper Le Monde, the Chinese military doctrine is to maintain a nuclear force allowing it to respond to a nuclear attack.
According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these " gods ", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki ( creating the " divine right of kings " doctrine ).
According to the church, “ The standard doctrine of the church is monogamy, as it always has been, as indicated in The Book of Mormon ( Jacob chapter 2 ): “ Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none.
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According to Calvin, these were people who felt that after being liberated through grace, they were exempted from both ecclesiastical and civil law.
According to ReservoirWatchDogs. com, Sacha Baron Cohen was cast in the role as gambler Scotty Harmony who wishes to purchase Django's wife from Calvin Candie.
According to Bauckham, the reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin repudiated the idea that Christians are bound to obey the Mosaic law, including the fourth commandment of the Decalogue concerning Sabbath, although they followed Aquinas's concept of natural law.
" According to Calvin, it is only because the sinner is able to obtain the good standing of the Son of God, through faith in him, and union with him, that sinners have any hope of pardon from, acceptance by, and peace with God.
According to Calvin, the idea that man has free will and is able to make choices independently of what God has already determined is based on our limited understanding of God's perfection and the delusion that God's purposes can be circumvented.
According to Calvin, predestination meant that God, acting of his own free will, elects some people to be saved and others to be damned — thus, the individual has no control over his own ultimate fate.
According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated.
According to the Washington Post, more than 800 faculty members, alumni, students and friends of the school signed a full-page ad in the Grand Rapids Press, saying that Bush's policies "... violate many deeply held principles of Calvin College.
According to an official statement released by Calvin, the concert was cancelled after several complaints were made due to the band's name referring to pornography.
According to a Princeton Review report ( in which students at 376 colleges rated their own colleges ), Calvin College is ranked 16th most LGBT-unfriendly.
According to Voltaire, men prefer to follow the teachings of " wretched authors " such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, or Huldrych Zwingli.
According to Calvin, how she addressed him in the original texts, translated as " sir ", was the typical form of address for lower class labourers in the period.
According to several historians, " Thomas Lincoln was " one of the five or six most important men " among the Indiana Separates, and it becomes clear that, for all effective purposes, Abraham Lincoln's life in Indiana was lived in an atmosphere of what William Barton called " a Calvinism that would have out-Calvined Calvin.
According to The Miami Herald and the West Hawaii Today, Calvin is blamed for the death of 34 deaths, which includes both direct and indirect.
According to Bert Blyleven, " A reporter asked him why he wanted to be player rep and Dave said, ' Because all the player reps under Calvin Griffith get traded.
According to John Calvin, God is here instituting " a regular vicissitude of days and nights.
According to A Brief Discourse, John Knox was sent as a minister to Frankfurt from Geneva by John Calvin in 1554 ; he led the opposition to the prayerbook faction.
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