Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Most Mainline Protestants recognize only two sacraments, the Eucharist and baptism ( though some Lutherans add confession ), deeming Anointing only a humanly-instituted rite.

Most Christians ( Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Rite and Protestants alike ) accept the use of creeds, and subscribe to at least one of the creeds mentioned above.

Most Protestants reject the doctrine of Purgatory on the basis that, according to the Protestant interpretation of Scripture, Christ has already made full atonement for our sins on the cross, thereby removing all obstacles which prevent us from coming directly into the presence of God after death.

Most Protestants also consider the concepts of the Trinity and Incarnation as defined at Nicaea ( in 325 ) and Chalcedon to be orthodox doctrine to which they adhere.

Most Protestants believe this salvific grace comes about at the moment of personal decision to follow Jesus, and that baptism is a symbol of the grace already received.

Most Donegal Protestants would trace their ancestors to settlers who arrived during the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th-century.

Most of Provence remained strongly Catholic, with only one enclave of Protestants, the principality of Orange, Vaucluse, an enclave ruled by Prince William of the House of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands, which was created in 1544 and was not incorporated into France until 1673.

Most importantly, he awarded equal rights to Protestants and Roman Catholics alike.

Most of the speakers were dispensationalists, and the Niagara Conference introduced many evangelical Protestants to dispensationalist teaching.

Most Protestants today recognize only Christ as a mediator between themselves and God ( 1 Timothy 2: 5 ).

Most of its support came from middle class and upper class Protestants.

Most of the oldest recognized movements, dating to late 18th and 19th centuries, fought for specific social groups, such as the working class, peasants, whites, aristocrats, Protestants, men.

Most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 28, 379 ( 92. 2 %), followed by Protestants with 1, 155 ( 3. 7 %) and the Jews with 1, 112 ( 3. 6 %).

Most Protestants do not believe in Christian perfection as Wesley described it and most Protestants also do not use the term theosis at all, though they refer to a similar doctrine by such terms as sanctification, " adoption as sons ", " union with Christ ", and " filled with the Spirit ".

Most modern Protestants neither teach nor believe in the Assumption of Mary, as they see no Biblical basis for it.

Most of the college's first students were white, middle class, Protestants.

Most Protestants had by that stage left the Southern Netherlands.

Most Protestants believe the soul is judged to go to Heaven or Hell immediately after death.

Most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 1, 484 ( 94 %), followed by the Jews with 67 ( 4. 2 %) and Protestants with 28 ( 1. 8 %).

Most Protestants believe that justification is a singular act in which God declares an unrighteous individual to be righteous, an act made possible because Christ was legally " made sin " while on the cross ( 2 Cor 5: 21 ).

Traditionally anti-catholicism amongst the Protestant population remained latent since the end of the 18th century: " Most Irish Protestants were deeply afraid of a repetition of the events of 1798 and the years just before.

Most people assumed that Roman Catholics would pass unhindered into the ranks of public office and enjoy equality with Protestants.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Most Christians deny that entry into Heaven can be properly earned, rather it is a gift that is solely God's to give through his unmerited grace.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

Most Christians, even those who deny that there is any real change in the elements used, recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite.

Most commonly associated with radiological or chemical materials, dirty bombs seek to kill or injure and then to deny access to a contaminated area until a thorough clean-up can be accomplished.

Most of these sections are bypasses of the larger towns on the route, where the need to deviate the route to construct the bypass made it practical to deny access from adjoining land and thus provide full freeway conditions.

Most modern biographies of Herod deny that the massacre took place.

Most physicalist responses deny that the premise of a zombie scenario is possible.

Most members, while allowing that " errors " were made, expressly deny the view of him by mainstream scholars as mass murderer and tyrant, claiming that his leadership helped defeat fascism, that the numbers killed by the policies in his era were far fewer than the many millions widely accepted, and that the rest resulted from a combination of the Russian Civil War, famine, and World War II.

Most Jews disagree with this, do not use the term and, where it appears to them to be calculated to deny the existence of a distinct Jewish identity in favour of reducing the Jewish diaspora to a religious entity, even consider it offensive.

Most intellectuals, even if they deny it, realise that most of what was said in the most recent Arab Human Development Report is true.

( Most notably, in the case Li v. Yellow Cab Co., 13 Cal. 3d 804 ( 1975 ), the California Supreme Court adopted the principle of comparative negligence in the face of a California Civil Code provision codifying the traditional common-law doctrine of contributory negligence.

Most Chinese emperors used a mix of Legalism and Confucianism as their ruling doctrine, often with the latter embellishing the former.

Most Arab countries were skeptical about the " Eisenhower doctrine " because they considered " Zionist imperialism " the real danger.

Most significantly, it resulted in the first, extra-biblical, uniform Christian doctrine, called the Creed of Nicaea.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

Most leaders arrested ( including, e. g., Faranda, Franceschini, Moretti, Morucci ) either retracted their doctrine ( as dissociati ), or collaborated with investigators in the capture of other BR members ( as " Collaboratori di giustizia ), obtaining important reductions in prison sentences.

Most Adventists make use of an officially produced " Sabbath School Lesson ", which deals with a particular biblical text or doctrine every quarter.

Most were trained under apprenticeships and were expected to have a basic knowledge of Latin, ritual and doctrine.

Most Anglo-Catholics encourage devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, particularly under her title of Our Lady of Walsingham, but not all Anglo-Catholics adhere to a high doctrine of Mariology.

Most of these activities are considered legal under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.

Most modern US doctrine is based around the concept of full spectrum operations.

Most of his later life was spent defending his doctrine against Catholic theologians who held that Catholicism came from the apostles and that Pelagius was spreading novelties in the Faith unknown to the apostolic tradition.

Most law courses are less about doctrine and more about learning how to analyze legal problems, read cases, distill facts and apply law to facts.

Most criminal cases within an adversarial system require that the prosecution proves its contentions beyond a reasonable doubt — a doctrine also called the " Burden of Proof ".

Most Christians attribute this inclination to sin to some variant of the doctrine of original sin, rather than to God directly.

Most Brethren groups maintain that the Bible is the sole authority and will revise their statement of faith if they perceive any difference between it and sound Biblical doctrine.

Most early Latter Day Saints came from a Protestant background, believing in the doctrine of Trinity that had been developed during the early centuries of Christianity.

Most of the poems are concerned with love — particularly of the mystical Sufi kind — though there are also poems propagating Shi ' i doctrine and Safavi politics.

Most states recognize the merger doctrine, which holds that a criminal assault cannot serve as the predicate felony for the felony murder rule.

Most NJIS programs are associated with its doctrine called the 3Cs: caring, communication, and curriculum.

Most Exclusive Brethren have traditionally been described as " Darbyite " as they in the main adhere to the original doctrines and teachings of John Darby, and do not accept the concept of a doctrine that evolves through the teachings of successive leaders.