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.

According to Aquinas, the universe cannot, at any particular moment, be causing itself.

According to observations of structures larger than solar systems, as well as Big Bang cosmology interpreted under the Friedmann equations and the FLRW metric, dark matter accounts for 23 % of the mass-energy content of the observable universe.

According to Ward the universe is composed of " psychic monads " of different levels, interacting for mutual self-betterment.

According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to Mani, the unfolding of the universe takes place with three " creations ":

According to the MWI, each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe.

According to Plato we live in an orderly universe.

According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead ( to the universe outside the box ) until the box is opened.

According to Hawking in particular, " M-theory is the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe.

According to the relationship of the system to the rest of the universe, one of three general types of ensembles may apply, in order of increasing complexity:

According to Thomas Kuhn, he and Descartes held the teleological principle that God conserved the amount of motion in the universe:

According to the de Broglie hypothesis, every object in the universe is a wave, a situation which gives rise to this phenomenon.

According to the researchers, the " discovery shows that water has been prevalent in the universe for nearly its entire existence.

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

According to Michael Levey, " Raphael gives his a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties ".

According to Cohen, those who took LSD " were not guilty of using illegal substances ... We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to Greek mythology, Antichthon was placed between Earth and the center of the universe, the throne of Zeus, to stop man from looking at the gods directly.

According to Islam, God, known in Arabic as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe.