Adherents of Mormonism believe that Moroni, as an angel, appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 and directed him to where the plates were hidden.

Adherents to magic believe that it may work by one or more of the following basic principles:

Adherents believe in a single god, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto, who is defined as the creator and caring parent of all mankind.

Adherents of Christian Science believe that Genesis ( creation ) contains two interleaved stories of creation, one spiritual, the other material and hold that the reality of all that God made is spiritual, and not material.

Adherents believe that the net effect of individuals cultivating their potential will bring about positive social change at large.

Adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ), commonly called Mormons, believe that founder Joseph Smith, Jr., was a prophet of God, chosen to restore the primitive, apostolic church established by Jesus, now " in its fullness ", rather than to reform the church or priesthood, which had ceased to exist in any substantial or authoritative sense shortly after the end of the apostolic age and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

Adherents of Romuva believe that the souls of those who die continue to exist in the afterlife and stay with the living family and descendants, prior to reincarnation.

Adherents to this belief may also believe that the original-language Hebrew and Greek can be corrected by the KJV.

Adherents believe that the church today should contain every element of the early church.

Adherents believe the Christian Bible is inerrant and hold its passages to be historically accurate, including the story of Noah's Ark, and that the Bible's internal chronology, which places the Flood about 6000 years ago, is reliable.

Adherents of the Bahá ' í Faith believe their founder, Bahá ' u ' lláh, to have been a descendant of both Keturah and Sarah.

Adherents of the Ascended Master Teachings believe that each person is an incarnation of an " Individualized Presence " of the " Most High Living God " — the " Mighty I AM Presence " — as part of humans ' very nature and being.

Adherents believe this Sound Current cannot be heard by the uninitiated ; it is made manifest at the time of initiation.

Adherents believe Surat Shabda Yoga has been expressed through the movements of many different masters.

Adherents believe this sets up the serpent's seed as an antitype to Jesus Christ.

Adherents of mandatory sentencing believe that it reduces crime, is fair for any criminals and ensures uniformity in sentencing.

Adherents also generally believe that as humankind gains greater understanding of the world, New Thought itself will evolve to assimilate new knowledge.

Adherents believe that salvation is through unity with the ‘ living one ’ by being united with the identity of Yashua Jesus.

Adherents of the beliefs of the United American Committee believe that citizens must take a role in the activities of the nation.

Adherents believe that their founder knew everything almost at birth due to his connection with / being a Divine Power.

Adherents believe that Shakyamuni Buddha was the first human to be awakened to the Dharma, which is believed to be an invisible entity that sustains, guides and improves the lives of all living things.

Adherents of Kemetic Orthodoxy believe that Siuda fills only this religious aspect of this title and position How much this title affects one ’ s personal worship varies from person to person.

Adherents of full preterism, however, dispute this assertion by pointing out that Paul's condemnation was written during a time in which the Resurrection was still in the future ( i. e., pre-A. D. 70 ).

Adherents of sola fide respond that Jesus was not instituting keeping a higher moral code as means of salvation, and tend to see the exclusion of " works of the law " ( as the means of obtaining justification ) as referring to any works of the Mosaic law, and by implication, any " works of righteousness which we have done " ( Titus 3: 5 ) or any system in which one earns eternal life on the basis of the merit of works.

Adherents teach that Michael sat on his throne with other wives than Eve, and that he was a polygamist.

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Adherents of this view for their part held that rather than any mortal " being " the Woman of the Apocalypse, that Mrs. Eddy typified that woman, that she was a type for, in Knapp's term, the " Woman of Prophecy ".

According to the surveys of Phil Zuckerman on Adherents. com in 1993 ; there was 59 % ( over 700 million ) of the Chinese population was irreligious and 8 % – 14 % was atheist ( from over 100 to 180 million ) as of 2005.

Adherents believed that signs indicated a " major energy shift " was about to occur, a turning point in Earth's collective karma and dharma, and that this energy was powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation.

Adherents of Sarmatism acknowledged the vital importance of Poland since it was considered an oasis of the Golden Liberty for Polish nobility, otherwise surrounded by antagonistic realms with absolutist governments.

Adherents of the traditional position date the Epistle to Titus from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete in Titus 1: 5.

Adherents of the common-law view that judges " found " the law ( in the people's customs or through reason ) had to argue either that earlier courts erred in adopting the principle from Roman law ( i. e., they argued that this wasn't actually the Romans ' rule ), or that the earlier rule was narrower in scope than its wording suggested.

Adherents claim that Luke's Gospel was targeted at Sadducee readers.

Adherents to this criticism state that al-Muqawqis was not a Patriarch but the Persian governor during the last days of the Persian occupation of Egypt.

The subbotnik was organised by Bolshevik party members, and it was stated in the Resolution of the General Council of Communists of the Subraion of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and Their Adherents that " the communists and their supporters again must spur themselves on and extract from their time off still another hour of work, i. e. they must increase their working day by an hour, add it up and on Saturday devote six hours at a stretch to physical labour, thereby producing immediately a real value.

Adherents of Anglicanism are called Anglicans.

Adherents of this theory argue that even when the two versions diverge, they both have similarities in vocabulary and writing style — suggesting that the two shared a common author.

Adherents of União do Vegetal call this brew hoasca, daime, or santo daime.

Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship.

Adherents of the Christian faith are known as Christians.

Adherents, referred to as Latter-day Saints or, more informally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as the central tenet of their religion.

Adherents would include the Reformed church, most of the Presbyterian church, some low church Anglicans, some Baptist churches, some Wesleyan / Methodist churches and certain Lutheran churches.

Adherents of radical environmentalism and ecological anarchism are involved in direct action campaigns to protect the environment.

Adherents of most historical models identify many of the same features of the Ancien Régime as being among the causes of the Revolution.

Adherents use several names to describe themselves, including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.

Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.

Adherents argue that the states can judge the constitutionality of central government laws and decrees.

Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.

Adherents of this view include Thomas Hobbes and many modern philosophers.

Adherents of the Goddess Spirituality movement typically envision a history-or " herstory "-of the world that is different from traditional narratives about the past, emphasising the role of women rather than that of men.

Adherents look for elements of this mythological history in " theological, anthropological, archaeological, historical, folkloric and hagiographic writings ", particularly the writings of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas.

Adherents. com estimates that there are roughly one million pagans worldwide ( as of 2000 ), including " Wicca, Magick, Druidism, Asatru, neo-Native American religion and others ".

Adherents are often called " B ' nei Noach " ( Children of Noah ) or " Noahides " and may often network in Jewish synagogues.

The Adherents. com website maintains a list of presidential affiliations, with subpages for each president.

Adherents of preterism are commonly known as preterists.

* Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents. com ( August 28, 2005 ) Retrieved December 22, 2005