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 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 this interpretation of the scriptures, face-to-face combat is highly meritorious and fighters who die in battle go to heaven.

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

According to S. N. Goenka, a teacher of Vipassana meditation, the original meaning of dhamma is " dharayati iti dharmaH ", or " one that contains, supports or upholds " and dharma in the Buddhist scriptures has a variety of meanings, including " phenomenon " and " nature " or " characteristic ".

According to the scriptures, Bahubali, also known as Gommateshvara, was the second of the one hundred sons of Rishabha and king of Podanpur.

According to the scriptures the reason the Buddha himself gave was that the admission of women would weaken the Sangha and shorten its lifetime, and he laid down strict rules subordinating nuns to monks ( The Eight Garudhammas ).

According to Hindu scriptures, a journey was made during the Mahabharata by Balrama along the banks of the Saraswati from Dwarka to Mathura.

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the " seizers ," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake.

According to Vajrayana scriptures Vajrayana refers to one of three vehicles or routes to enlightenment, the other two being the Theravada and Mahayana.

According to SubGenius dogma, " Bob " was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God ( JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures ) on a television set he had built himself.

According to these scriptures, Amitābha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakāra.

According to Hindu scriptures, Yama's divine assistant Lord Chitragupta maintains a record of the individual deeds of every living being in the world, and based on the complete audit of his deeds, dispatches the soul of the deceased either to Svarga ( Heaven ) or to the various Narakas according to the nature of their sins.

According to Islamic scriptures, the belief that Jesus is God or Son of God is shirk, or the association of partners with God, and thereby a rejection of God's divine oneness ( tawhid ) and the sole unpardonable sin.

According to the Hindu scriptures, Vishnu, out of love towards his devotees, incarnated as Venkateswara and appeared for the salvation and upliftment of humanity in this Kali Yuga age.

According to Hindu scriptures, the birthplace of the Hindu god Krishna, Mathura, was referred as Vadamadura and the city of Madurai was referred as Thenmadura ( southern Madura ).

According to scriptures, Maitreya will be a successor of the historic Śākyamuni Buddha.

According to Buddhist scriptures, after three days and three nights, Siddharta attained enlightenment and the answers that he had sought.

According to the Chronicon Paschale, the bones of the Persian Zoroaster were venerated, but the tradition of Zoroastrianism and its scriptures offer no support of this.

According to scriptures, through the times, there were several cathedrals in Speyer.

According to the author's conception, Jewish scriptures, rightly understood, contain no such injunctions ( chapters 9-10 ).

According to Matysa Purana, they are said to narrate five subjects, called Pancha Lakshana ( Sanskrit :) (" five distinguishing marks ", though some scholars have suggested that these are shared by other traditional religious scriptures ):

According to the scriptures, God saw that Leah was " unloved " and opened her womb as consolation.

" The church believes in a " God who has form ", separate from the form taken on by Christ, saying " According to these scriptures, God has a body, a form after which man has been created.

According to this movement's theology, that is the central message of the scriptures.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

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According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in history.

According to, it was because of these sins that " the Lord punishes Solomon by tearing the kingdom in two ":

According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

According to Time Lord law, unauthorised use of a TARDIS carries " only one penalty ", implied to be death (" The Invasion of Time ").

According to the Doctor, transdimensional engineering was " a key Time Lord discovery ".

According to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it previously belonged to a Time Lord named Marnal, who was, like the Doctor, something of a renegade.

According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Peter asked Jesus, " Lord, where are you going?

According to Latter Day Saints, in 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr. received a revelation to restore the practice of temple worship, in a " house of the Lord ".

According to Lord Holland, the Duke of Wellington had claimed that it was Lady Jersey who had selected Caroline as George's bride.

According to tradition, the rod of Aaron bore sweet almonds on one side and bitter on the other ; if the Israelites followed the Lord, the sweet almonds would be ripe and edible, but if they were to forsake the path of the Lord, the bitter almonds would predominate.

According to Giuseppe Bertoleoni, Charles Albert also ( verbally ) sanctioned the use of the title " Prince " for the oldest male heir, and the titles " Lord of the Islands " ( Signore delle Isole ) and " Lady of the Sea " ( Signora del Mare ) for the younger children of the king.

According to the author in the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Hobbits are " relatives " of the race of Men.

According to The Lord of the Rings, they have lost the genealogical details of how they are related to the Big People.

According to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Nazgûl arose as Sauron's most powerful servants in the Second Age of Middle-earth.

According to The Lord of the Rings, from this time onwards " there was never full peace again " in Gondor, and " its borders were under constant threat ".

According to one claim, Lamingtons were first served in Toowoomba when Lord Lamington took his entourage to Harlaxton House to escape the steamy heat of Brisbane.

According to Vietnamese myths the first Vietnamese peoples descended from the Dragon Lord Lạc Long Quân and the Immortal Fairy Âu Cơ.

According to the first census of 1788 as reported by Governor Phillip to Lord Sydney, the colony consisted of