Others, especially Protestants, reject the authority of such traditions and instead hold to the principle of sola scriptura, which accepts only the Bible itself as the final rule of faith and practice.

Some Christian groups such as Catholics believe that faith is necessary for salvation but not sufficient ; that is, they assert that sola fide is an error because, in addition to believing, God also requires obedience and acts of love and charity as a prerequisite for acceptance into His kingdom, and for the reward of eternal life.

For instance, Jerisha questions whether God would send a " loving " character such as Keoki to Hell :-anybody familiar with the Five Points of Calvinism ( Abner and Jerusha were claimed to be Calvinist missionaries ) and the doctrine of sola gratia would know the answer to such a question in advance.

Quranism is similar to movements in other religions such as Karaite Judaism and the Sola scriptura.

Folklore, as used by such writers, really reflects images engraved into it by the very person using it.

Some believe that the word " chicamo " somehow became " chicano ", which ( unlike " chicamo ") reflects the grammatical conventions of Spanish-language ethno-and demonyms, such as " americano " or " castellano " or " peruano ".

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.

The acceptance of these alternatives to the word " cult " in Evangelicalism reflects, in part, the wider usage of such language in the sociology of religion.

Quantitative measures of dependence include correlation ( such as Pearson's r when both variables are continuous, or Spearman's rho if one or both are not ) and covariance ( which reflects the scale upon which variables are measured ).

Diana therefore reflects the heavenly world ( diuum means sky or open air ) in its sovereignty, supremacy, impassibility, and indifference towards such secular matters as the fates of mortals and states.

Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic Principle ".

The bill specifically exempts fantasy sports games, educational games, or any online contest that " has an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation ( but not chance ), and, in the case of a fantasy or simulation sports game, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting events, including any non-participant's individual performances in such sporting events ..."

To Christian monotheists, such formalized worship of an angelic or beatified figure as is present in Hinduism reflects the heresy of polytheism, henotheism, or monolatry.

Hogan's fiction also reflects anti-authoritarian social views and as such forms part of anarchist science fiction.

The mainstream pop punk of latter-day bands such as Blink-182 is criticized by many punk rock devotees ; in critic Christine Di Bella's words, " It's punk taken to its most accessible point, a point where it barely reflects its lineage at all, except in the three-chord song structures.

This often reflects historical circumstances, with the Primate located in what had been the capital when the country first became Christianized, and with such geographical disparity helping to preserve the Church's autonomy from the secular government.

An alternative and disputable definition of QoS, used especially in application layer services such as telephony and streaming video, is requirements on a metric that reflects or predicts the subjectively experienced quality.

The name of the pound sterling (£) reflects the fact it originally represented the value of one pound Tower weight of sterling silver ; other historical currencies, such as the French livre, have similar etymologies.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

The lack of consensus regarding a date and destination ... reflects a dilemma for this position: on the one hand, the date needs to be early enough for the letter to be have been accepted as Pauline ... the other hand, the date and destination need to be such that the author could be confident that no contemporary of 1 Thessalonians ... could have exposed 2 Thessalonians as a ...

A striking exception is Sanskrit, whose orthography reflects a wide variety of such features: thus tat " that " is written tat, tac, taj, tad, tan depending on what the first sound of the next word is.

Brownlee argues that disobedience in opposition to the decisions of non-governmental agencies such as trade unions, banks, and private universities can be justified if it reflects " a larger challenge to the legal system that permits those decisions to be taken ".

The Buddhist vinaya also reflects social contracts expected of the monks, one such instance is when the people of a certain town complained about monks felling saka trees, the Buddha tells his monks that they must stop and give way to social norms.

It also has some relevance to linguistic research, because it reflects certain developments in the Mongolian language, such as that of long vowels.

The episode reflects the ideas created in such works as Bicentennial Man and Asimov's Robot series ( which introduced the Three Laws Of Robotics ).

The names of the staff in some languages, such as the Italian pentagramma, reflects the importance of five lines.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

The contrast between the " careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme " and " the ridiculousness of the proposal " create a situation in which the reader has " to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional man to propose so perverse a plan ".

::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

The German strategy was one which relied upon chance to create opportunities for local victories, such as had happened against Beatty, whereas Jellicoe considered a careful approach always favoured the larger force.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

The naïve application of such calculations often produces diagrams whose amplitudes are infinite, because the short-distance particle interactions require a careful limiting procedure, to include particle self-interactions.

Petrie related the precision of the casing stones as to being " equal to opticians ' work of the present day, but on a scale of acres " and " to place such stones in exact contact would be careful work ; but to do so with cement in the joints seems almost impossible ".

By careful testing and adjusting the proportions and grinding time, powder from mills such as at Essonne outside Paris became the best in the world by 1788, and inexpensive.

A more careful argument in favor of price ceilings would statistically characterize the number of tenants who can afford housing at various levels based on income and choose a ceiling that achieves a specific goal, such as housing 80 % of the working families in the area.

Modern descriptions of such behavior begin with a careful definition of such quantities as displacement ( distance moved ), time, velocity, acceleration, mass, and force.

While search engine optimization can improve search engine ranking, consumers of such services should be careful to employ only reputable providers.

The general theory of these reactions involves careful analysis of such properties as the electron affinity of key atoms, bond strengths and steric hindrance.

As such, Orthodox Jews believe that one must be extremely careful in interpreting Jewish law.

Correct scientific technique emphasizes careful recording of observations, separating experimental observations from the conclusions drawn from them, and techniques such as blind or double blind experiments, to minimize observational bias.

Implementing such a policy, however, requires careful consideration of the relevant human factors.

The great Maginot Line was bypassed and battles that would have taken weeks of siege could now be avoided with the careful application of air power ( such as the German paratrooper capture of Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium, early in World War II ).

The rich characterization, the careful and caring social eye, the interplay of story line and character development announced that writers could take worn themes such as vampirism and make them fresh again.

" " Holmesian deduction " appears to consist primarily of drawing inferences based on either straightforward practical principles — which are the result of careful observation, such as Holmes's study of different kinds of cigar ashes — or inference to the best explanation.

In fact, the Fathers of the Constitution made careful use of the expressions " it is incumbent upon of the King ", deliberately omitting other expressions such as " powers ", " faculties " or " competences ", thus eliminating any notion of monarchical prerogatives within the parliamentary monarchy.

Even when laws are upheld, the complication of compliance with the First Amendment requires careful and cautious drafting of legislation, leading to laws that are still fairly limited in scope, especially in comparison to those of other countries such as the United Kingdom, France or Canada.

By such careful editing, the films compared and contrasted the forces of evil with America and its traditional values.

Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

It has been said during other student crises that this event strongly affected Jacques Chirac, who was hereafter careful about possible police violence during such demonstrations ( i. e. maybe explaining part of the decision to " promulgate without applying " the First Employment Contract ( CPE ) after large student demonstrations against it ).

Other old writings such as the Vedas ( 1500-800 BC ) demonstrate the careful observation of avian life histories and includes the earliest reference to the habit of brood parasitism by the Asian Koel ( Eudynamys scolopacea ).