Some Christian believers have come to downplay the punishment of hell.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Some 16th-century anti-Trinitarian divines sought to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism ; on the basis of very similar arguments to those presented in the Gospel of Barnabas, arguing that if salvation remains unresolved until the end times, then any one of the three religions could be a valid path to heaven for their own believers.

Some believers claim that God, being omnipotent, simply altered things as needed and sustained Jonah-the same as in other miraculous accounts in the Hebrew scriptures.

Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection.

Some of the teachings of Schwenckfeld included opposition to war, secret societies, and oath-taking, that the government had no right to command one's conscience, that regeneration is by grace through inner work of the Spirit, that believers feed on Christ spiritually, and that believers must give evidence of regeneration.

Some Protestants have a similar understanding of those who died as believers prior to the crucifixion of Jesus residing in a place that is not Heaven, but not Hell.

Some Christian denominations would limit that and exclude those who receive a personal message not intended for the body of believers, but in the Bible on a number of occasions prophets were called to deliver personal messages.

Some religious believers take offense when what they consider to be historical aspects of their faith are labeled as " myth ".

Some of the basic beliefs are baptism of believers by immersion ;

" Some Messianic believers profess only a strict view of monotheism, rejecting Trinitarian doctrine, but this is not common.

Some actions against Orthodox priests and believers included torture ; being sent to prison camps, labour camps, or mental hospitals ; and execution.

On that day, during a prayer session with a group of Advent believers, Hiram Edson became convicted that “ light would be given ” and their “ disappointment explained .” Some years later, Edson reported on his experiences following that meeting: " While passing through a large field I was stopped about midway of the field.

Some believers will also consult a geomantic divination specialist, known as a babalawo ( Ifa Priest ) or Iyanifa ( Ifa's lady ), to mediate in their problems.

Some denominations do not practice it, considering it an external observance, but many individual believers choose to observe fasts at various times at their own behest.

Some outside observers find it difficult to distinguish these two levels of veneration in practice, but the distinction is maintained and taught by believers in many of the hymns and prayers that are sung and prayed throughout the liturgical year.

Some Protestants contend that utilizing the appellation of pastor to refer to an ordained minister contradicts the Protestant doctrine of the priesthood of all believers.

Some New Age believers consider that Jesus taught reincarnation but the Christian Church suppressed it.

Some people only saw the radiant colors, and others, including some believers, saw nothing at all.

Some Oneness believers consider that the text of Matthew 28: 19 is not original, quoting the early Church historian Eusebius, who referred to this passage at least eighteen times in his works.

Some groups count membership based on adult believers and baptized children of believers, while others only count adult baptized believers.

Some of the traditions from the Imams make taqiyya a central element of Shi ' ism: " He who has no taqiyya has no faith "; " he who forsakes taqiyya is like him who forsakes prayer "; " taqiyya is the believers shield, but for taqiyya, God would not have been worshipped ".

Some day we might see a Federation of Prison and Jail Inmates, with a leader busily trying to organize reformatory occupants, defendants out on bail, convicts opposed to probation officers, etc..

Some have serenity of mind, the ability to accept what they have, and make the most of it ( a wonderful gift to have, believe me ) -- some see only darkness, the bitter side of everything.

Some are so filled with gratitude, for the gift of life and the love of God, that their joy spills out on the paper and brightens the lives of thousands whom they have never known, and will never see.

Some of these beliefs, such as Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism ( see below ) are not considered to be within Arminian orthodoxy and are dealt with elsewhere.

Some activists, notably David Graeber, see the movement as opposed instead to neoliberalism or " corporate globalization ".

Some see them as a " popular university ", an occasion to make many people aware of the problems of globalization.

Some scholars see this war as destroying Arnulf's hopes at succeeding Charles.

Some authors see a centralized peer – review process as less relevant and publish on their home pages or on unreviewed sites like arXiv.

Some cited advantages satisfy tenets of green building, not independence per se ( see below ).

Some scholars see Adoptionist concepts in the Gospel of Mark and in the writings of the Apostle Paul.

Some websites allow play in real time and immediately show the opponents ' moves, while others use email to notify the players after each move ( see the links at the end of this article ).

Some scholars see Beowulf as a product of these early tales along with Gesta Danorum and Hrólfs saga kraka.

* Surrender ( only available as first decision of a hand ): Some games offer the option to " surrender ", usually in hole card games and directly after the dealer has checked for blackjack ( but see below for variations ).

Some biblical scholars believe Jonah's prayer () to be a later addition to the story ( see source criticism for more information on how such conclusions are drawn ).

Some tanks and other tracked vehicles have bogies as external suspension components ( see armoured fighting vehicle suspension ).

* Some curves that seem simple, such as the circle, cannot be described exactly by a Bézier or piecewise Bézier curve ; though a four-piece cubic Bézier curve can approximate a circle ( see Bézier spline ), with a maximum radial error of less than one part in a thousand, when each inner control point ( or offline point ) is the distance horizontally or vertically from an outer control point on a unit circle.

Some examples are in improving crop technology ( not a medical application per se ; see BioSystems Engineering ), the manufacture of synthetic human insulin through the use of modified bacteria, the manufacture of erythropoietin in hamster ovary cells, and the production of new types of experimental mice such as the oncomouse ( cancer mouse ) for research.

Some believe that Georg Cantor's set theory was not actually implicated by these paradoxes ( see Frápolli 1991 ); one difficulty in determining this with certainty is that Cantor did not provide an axiomatization of his system.

Some 20th-century ethnologists, like Julian Steward, have instead argued that such similarities reflected similar adaptations to similar environments ( see cultural evolution ).

Some questions in the study of visual perception, for example, include: ( 1 ) How are we able to recognize objects ?, ( 2 ) Why do we perceive a continuous visual environment, even though we only see small bits of it at any one time?

This may be the case for words such as church in rhotic dialects of English, although phoneticians differ in whether they consider this to be a syllabic consonant,, or a rhotic vowel,: Some distinguish an approximant that corresponds to a vowel, for rural as or ; others see these as a single phoneme,.

Some see the criminalization of " victimless crimes " as a pretext for imposing personal, religious or moral convictions on otherwise productive citizens or taxpayers.

Some commentators may see criminalization as a way to make potential criminals pay or suffer for their prospective crimes.

Some observers argued that this influenced the CRTC's June 2005 decision to ease Canadian content restrictions on satellite radio ( see above ).

Some theorems related to compactness ( see the glossary of topology for the definitions ):