Adherents also believed, as did other Christians, that martyrs and confessors also possessed this power.

Its claimed membership ( as quoted from 2010 Year Book ) includes 16, 938 active and 9, 190 retired officers, 1, 122, 326 soldiers, 189, 176 Adherents, 39, 071 Corps Cadets, 378, 009 Junior Soldiers, around 104, 977 other employees and more than 4. 5 million volunteers.

Adherents of different techniques ( for example, candlestick charting, Dow Theory, and Elliott wave theory ) may ignore the other approaches, yet many traders combine elements from more than one technique.

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

Adherents of the Toyota approach would say that the smooth flowing delivery of value achieves all the other improvements as side-effects.

Adherents are expected to attend communal services on the 1st and 15th of each lunar month and on other Buddhist holy days.

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

Adherents are dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as expressed in the physiques and feats of female athletes, martial artists and other powerfully built women in society, art and literature.

Adherents of gas emission have carried that belief to motorcycles, bicycles and " sports " cars, while all other disk brake users from the same automotive companies have no holes through the faces of their discs, although internal radial air passages are used.

Adherents included the famous Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce followers as well as Native people from other tribes in the region, such as the Wanapum.

Adherents of Abrahamic faiths often regard the various expressions of Buddhism as idolatrous, and occasionally react with violence in response to this perception.

Adherents of the classical world religions account for more than 75 % of the world's population, while adherence to indigenous tribal religions has fallen to 4 %.

Adherents of these religions object that intercalary days are counted outside the usual seven-day week and disrupt the traditional weekly cycle.

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.

Adherents of various religions change their name upon conversion or confirmation.

Adherents of the Sanatana Dharma see it as referring to the common truths in all religions, rather than simply their own faith.

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 may hold a diverse set of beliefs and claims that are ancillary to the core genealogical theory, but there are central tenets that all British Israelites follow, including Two House Theology, which is at the core of British Israelism.

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 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.

The economic liberals that refused to break ranks with the UDF launched the Independent Republican and Liberal Pole, which later merged with FD and the so-called ' Direct Adherents ' to form the New UDF.

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 meme theory see the similarity as more fundamental: each story advocates a certain power structure, which has led people in power to support the story that favors them, often oppressively and often using violence.

Some Salvation Army corps have a Promoted to Glory Board or ledger on which all members ( Soldiers or Adherents ) of that corps, who have died, are listed along with the year of their death.

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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 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.

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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 ".

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 fight this with modesty, presenting themselves as " cute " or " elegant " rather than " sexy ".

Adherents of Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism generally take images of angels as symbolic.

Adherents of Judaism make up a small, but historically significant, minority.

Adherents of Judaism too can be found scattered across Africa.

Adherents of Conservative and Reform Judaism do not usually follow these laws.

Adherents of Conservative and Reform Judaism do not generally abide by the laws of yichud.

Adherents of gnosticism were most numerous during the second and third centuries.

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 this belief were termed Meshichist.

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.

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, unlike members, were not publicly accountable for their Christian life and therefore did not usually attend weekly class meetings.

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

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

Adherents to the ideals of miyabi strove to rid the world of crude forms or aesthetics and emotions that were common in artworks of the period, such as those contained in the Man ' yōshū, the oldest extant collection of Japanese poetry.

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.