Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in error — that every person must have two births — the natural birth of the physical body, the other of the water and the spirit.

In the 8th Circuit case of Treanor v. MCI Telecommunications, Inc., the court explained that the continuing violations doctrine " tolls freezes the statute of limitations in situations where a continuing pattern forms due to acts occurring over a period of time, as long as at least one incident … occurred within the limitations period ".

The Note is introduced by the following words: " A preliminary note of explanation is being given to the Council Fathers from higher authority, regarding the Modi bearing on Chapter III of the Schema de Ecclesia ; the doctrine set forth in Chapter III ought to be explained and understood in accordance with the meaning and intent of this explanatory note.

a judgment, in which both, the true view agreeing with God's word concerning the aforesaid five points of doctrine is explained and, the false view disagreeing with God's Word is rejected.

However, the political side of Soviet military doctrine, Western commentators Harriet F Scott and William Scott said, " best explained Soviet moves in the international arena ".

Karp Strigolnik, who in the 14th century preached the doctrine in Novgorod, explained that St. Paul had taught that simpleminded men should instruct one another ; therefore they elected their " teachers " from among themselves to be their spiritual guides, and had no special priests.

According to the doctrine of The New Church, as explained by Emanuel Swedenborg, there is no such thing as substitutionary atonement.

The first contains a collection and exegesis of all the texts in the New Testament relating to the doctrine of the Trinity ; in the second the doctrine is set forth at large, and explained in particular and distinct propositions ; and in the third the principal passages in the liturgy of the Church of England relating to the doctrine of the Trinity are considered.

The genesis of the doctrine has been explained ( for the first time ) under MONOPHYSITES, where an account of Philoponus's writings and those of Stephen Gobarus, another member of the sect, will be found.

The Pentecostal doctrine of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is most simply explained as:

LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized a portion of the doctrine explained in this discourse using a couplet, which is often repeated within the LDS Church:

He was absent from the important sitting of June 18, 1870, and did not send in his submission to the decrees until 1871, when he explained in a pastoral letter that the dogma “ referred only to doctrine given forth ex cathedra, and therein to the definitions proper only, but not to its proofs or explanations .”

To Monteverdi, the words must be " the mistress of the harmony ", and he explained this doctrine in his preface to his Fifth Book of Madrigals with his coinage of the term seconda pratica, in response to the fierce criticism of Giovanni Artusi, who defended the polyphonic style of the 16th century with its controlled dissonance and equal voice parts, and attacked the " barbaric " new style.

This veto, the core of the doctrine of nullification, was explained by Calhoun in the Exposition:

It also explained the authority of Church doctrine on moral matters, and advocated that civil governments follow the lead of the Church in this area.

* John Meyendorff, in Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes ( 1987 ) explained the doctrine of apocatastasis as " the idea that the whole of creation and all of humanity will ultimately be ' restored ' to their original state of bliss.

Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized another portion of the doctrine explained in the King Follett Discourse using a couplet:

Johnson explained containment doctrine by quoting the Bible: " Hitherto shalt thou come, but not further.

Reagan first explained the doctrine in his 1985 State of the Union Address: " We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives ... on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua ... to defy Soviet aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth.

* Publication of Edward Stone's The whole doctrine of parallaxes explained and illustrated by an arithmetical and geometrical construction of the transit of Venus over the sun, June 6th, 1761.

This doctrine was explained in terms of parables and similes concerning the manner in which a human being should live their life in order to achieve spiritual perfection and inherit eternal life with God.

In some of his books, he states that the present condition of humanity can be explained by the traditional doctrine of " cosmic cycles ", as it is described in Hindu doctrines.

Early modern defenders of absolutism such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean Bodin undermined the doctrine of the divine right of kings by arguing that the power of kings should be justified by reference to the people.

It was Contarini who led to the stating of a definition in connection with the article of justification in which occurs the famous formula " by faith alone are we justified ," with which was combined, however, the Roman Catholic doctrine of good works.

Jansen ’ s opponents ( mainly Jesuits ) condemned his teachings for their alleged similarities to Calvinism ( though, unlike Calvinism, Jansen rejected the doctrine of assurance and taught that even the justified could lose their salvation ).

Essentially, Reformed doctrine believes that the same God whose power justified the Christian believer is also at work in the continued sanctification of that believer.

Frankel proved that no Jewish doctrine justified such an assumption, and owing to his work a new regulation ( 13 February 1840 ) put the Jews on the same basis as Christians as regards testimony in court.

The doctrine was further justified by a previous Supreme Court decision in 1875, which limited the federal government's ability to intervene in state affairs, only guaranteeing Congress the power “ to restrain states from acts of racial discrimination and segregation.

In this way, the U. S. contended, Iraq presented a threat that it would be justified in removing, placing this as a new interpretation of the doctrine of self-defence.

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation.

" Embracing Cotton's doctrine of the Holy Ghost dwelling within a " justified person ," Hutchinson took the notion further, seeing herself as a " mystic participant in the transcendent power of the Almighty.

Many Marxist opponents of the war, such as Rosa Luxemburg, blamed the Second International's " betrayal " partly on its doctrine of the inevitability of socialism, which justified its attempt to reform existing capitalist states.

* Deism – The general doctrine that no faith is necessary for justified belief in God's existence and / or the doctrine that God does not intervene in earthly affairs ( contrasts with Fideism ).

His doctrine of aesthetics justified artistic work as a matter of highest importance in human society.

John Stuart Mill believed the restraint of trade doctrine was justified to preserve liberty and competition

The statement of St. Paul is said to confirm that those whom God effectually calls necessarily come to full salvation: "( T ) hose whom ( God ) predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified " ( Romans 8: 28, 30 ), but it is especially several verses from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, which contains a record of Jesus ' teaching on humanity's abilities and God's activities in salvation, that serves as the central proof text for the Calvinist doctrine:

The stained-glass ceiling is a particular aspect of a broader trend of gender segregation and discrimination in religious communities, by use defined social roles and barriers typically justified by either tradition, dogma, or doctrine of the church group.

Some members of fringe Christian groups like the Christian Identity movement, and the Ku Klux Klan ( an organization dedicated to the " empowerment of the white race "), and Christian Reconstructionists still argue that slavery is justified by Christian doctrine today.

Assurance is a Protestant Christian doctrine that states that the inner witness of the Holy Spirit allows the justified disciple to know they are saved.

Wherefore, that we are justified by faith, only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.

Using this interpretation of the Greek, the doctrine of " justified by faith " = " declared righteous by our faith " falls apart.

Berman argued that the NATO war in the former Yugoslavia in 1999 was justified by the doctrine of " liberal interventionism ": an intervention intended to rescue endangered populations from extreme oppression and to promote liberal and democratic freedom.

Calvo justified his doctrine as necessary to prevent the abuse of the jurisdiction of weak nations by more powerful nations.

Lower courts ruled that the City was justified under the doctrine of public necessity and that the City was not required to compensate Wegner.