Adherents of preterism are commonly known as preterists.

Adherents of Stepanich's Faery Wicca claim that it recovers the traditions of the Tuatha De Danaan, the mythological precursors to the Celtic people ; however, this is disputed by those familiar with ancient Celtic polytheism and mythology.

Adherents of recognized religious minorities are not required to register individually with the Government ; however, their community, religious, and cultural events and organizations, including schools, are monitored closely.

Adherents of catch and release dispute this charge, pointing out that fish commonly feed on hard and spiky prey items, and as such can be expected to have tough mouths, and also that some fish will re-take a lure they have just been hooked on, a behaviour that is unlikely if hooking were painful.

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Adherents also emphasise ancestor worship and hold that the spirits of the dead live side by side with the world of the living, each family of spirits having its own female priesthood, sometimes hereditary when is from mother to blood daughter.

Adherents of these religions insist that they would have to continue observing their holy days every seventh day, causing the worship days to drift by one day each year ( two on a leap year ), relative to The World Calendar week.

Below Sabbah, the Grand Headmaster of the Order, were those known as " Greater Propagandists ", followed by the normal " Propagandists ", the Rafiqs (" Companions "), and the Lasiqs (" Adherents ").

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

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 of Dongba had no places of worship, and so they were not officially recognized as a religion by the Communists following their arrival to the region.

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 this philosophy claim to improve policy and general politics by not harboring a bias toward the precedence of either markets or the state, as can be characterized of right-wing politics and left-wing politics respectively.

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

Adherents of the Czech Reformed Church ( Hussites ) opposed the Roman Catholic Habsburgs, who were in turn supported by the Czech and German Catholics.

Adherents of the school of philosophy founded by Kanada, considered the atom to be indestructible, and hence eternal.

Adherents of particular religions deal with the differing doctrines and practices espoused by other religions in a variety ways.

Adherents argue that the result of the death penalty – removing the criminal from society, enacting justice on the criminal, and bringing about feelings of revenge for those affected and the greater society – do not necessarily have to be accomplished by taking a life.

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

Adherents view it as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society democratically self-managed by workers.

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.

In " Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents " by John Heenage Jesse ( 1846 ) the family name is spelled " Dalziel ", as it deals with " Robert Dalziel ", the 5th Earl or Carnwath.

Adherents of intromission theory countered by saying that if emission theory were true, then someone with weak eyes should have his or her vision improved when someone with good eyes looks at the same objects.

Meanwhile, the gifts brought by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme, small metallic spheres, are revealed to contain robotic spiders that immediately work at disabling functions on Platform One.

Adherents to this view sometimes cite St. Paul's second letter to Timothy, and draw analogies to the late 20th / early 21st centuries.

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 millennialism, mostly Protestant Christians, regard the two passages as describing separate events: the " sheep and goats " judgment will determine the final status of those persons alive at the end of the Tribulation, and the " Great White Throne " judgment will be the final condemnation of the unrighteous dead at the end of all time, after the end of the world and before the beginning of the eternal period described in the final two chapters of Revelation.

Adherents of Mormonism believe that the molten sea in Solomon's Temple was a baptismal font.

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 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 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 gnosticism were most numerous during the second and third centuries.

Adherents to Neo-Confucianism focused on reforming society from the bottom up, not the top down, which can be seen in their efforts to promote small private academies during the Southern Song instead of the large state-controlled academies seen in the Northern Song era.

Adherents fleeing for the provinces away from Manila, where the Japanese forces were concentrated during the World War II, were used for evangelization.

Blue Crescent Adherents typically shave their hair bald, tattoo a blue Crescent on their foreheads, give up all personal property beyond what they can carry, and must visit the major locations that Mamoud once lived in the Badlands during their life.