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 Protestants deny the doctrine of apostolic succession, believing that it is neither taught in Scripture nor necessary for Christian teaching, life, and practice.

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 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 people do not realize that the congregation, as a gathered fellowship meeting regularly face to face, personally sharing in a common experience and expressing that experience in daily relationships with one another, is unique.

Most terrestrial caecilians that lay eggs do so in burrows or moist places on land near bodies of water.

Most importantly, the ' Altaic ' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship.

Most do not enter the World to Come immediately, but now experience a period of review of their earthly actions and they are made aware of what they have done wrong.

Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia ( 2010 Census ) are of mixed Japanese-Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it ( full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan ).

Most legal cases in adversarial systems do not go to trial ; this can lead to great injustice when the defendant has an unskilled or overworked attorney, which is likely to be the case when the defendant is poor.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

Most uses of diamonds in these technologies do not require large diamonds ; in fact, most diamonds that are gem-quality except for their small size, can find an industrial use.

Most in cognitive science, however, presumably do not believe their field is the study of anything as certain as the knowledge sought by Plato.

Most languages, however, do include one or more fricatives, with being the most common, and a liquid consonant or two, with the most common.

Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like Lynn Johnston's award-winning For Better or For Worse, the characters age as the years pass.

Most people guilty of embezzlement do not have criminal histories.

Most cycle deaths result from a collision with a car or heavy goods vehicle, both motorist and cyclist having been found responsible for collisions However, around a fifth of non-fatal injuries to cyclists do not involve any other person or vehicle.

Most CL implementations do offer tail-call optimization, although often only when the programmer uses an optimization directive.

Most chemical reactions are reversible, that is they can and do run in both directions.

Most 3D image editing programs can do this.

Most European conservatives writers do not accept American conservatism as genuine ; they consider it to be a variety of liberalism.

Most Southern Baptist and National Baptist congregations, by contrast, generally relate more closely to external groups such as mission agencies and educational institutions than do those of independent persuasion.

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

Most bacteria, when consumed, do not survive the acidic conditions of the human stomach.

Most who seek chiropractic care do so for low back pain.

Most waterway routes do not operate to regular schedules.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

Most of these nations agreed at first though some became unwilling to fulfill their end of the bargain after the end of the Scourge, wanting to have nothing to do with the bureaucratic nation run on political conflict and powered by slavery.

Most scholars hold that Ezra lived during the rule of Artaxerxes I, though some have difficulties with this assumption: Nehemiah and Ezra " seem to have no knowledge of each other ; their missions do not overlap ; and no reflection of Ezra's activity appears in Jerusalem of Nehemiah.