The majority of Southern Baptists, including Billy Graham, accept Arminianism with an exception allowing for a doctrine of perseverance of the saints (" eternal security ").

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

* The atonement: The majority Christian interpretation of the Anselmian-Calvinist doctrine of the atonement as penal substitution has been criticized in mainstream Christianity since the 19th century, resulting in increasing rejection of traditional penal substitution.

This Gospel is considered by the majority of academics, including Christians and some Muslims ( such as Abbas el-Akkad ) to be late and pseudepigraphical ; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work ( perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic ), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine.

Under Calixte the majority of Garde personnel had adhered to the doctrine of political nonintervention that their Marine Corps trainers had stressed.

The majority rejected the traditional feudal development of the doctrine of tenure as inappropriate for Australia, and rather saw that upon acquisition of sovereignty the Crown acquired not an absolute but a radical title, and that title would be subject to native title rights where those rights had not been validly extinguished.

A majority of those leaders took advantage of a law that gave credits for renouncing the doctrine ( dissociato status ) and contributing to efforts by police and judiciary to prosecute its members (" collaboratore di giustizia ", also known as pentito ).

This mysterious Western, offshoot of Gnosticism had no single feature about it which could soften the hostility of a character such as Martin's, but he resisted the introduction of secular punishment for evil doctrine, and withdrew from communion with those bishops in Gaul, a large majority, who invoked the aid of Maximus against their erring brethren.

Calhoun proposed the theory of a concurrent majority through the doctrine of nullification —- " the right of a State to interpose, in the last resort, in order to arrest an unconstitutional act of the General Government, within its limits.

The movement claims to adhere to the correct understanding of the general Islamic doctrine of Tawhid, on the " uniqueness " and " unity " of God, shared by the majority of Islamic sects, but with an emphasis on advocating following of the Athari school of thought only.

The least hispanized of all the groups, this community spoke fluent Arabic, was well versed in Islamic doctrine and conserved the majority of cultural traits pertaining to Islamic Al Andalus: Dress, music, gastronomy, festivities etc ... After the War of Alpujarras ( 1568-1571 ) the Moriscos of Granada were deported to the various regions of the Kingdom of Castile, Extremadura and Andalusia.

The Homoousian doctrine, which defined Jesus as both God and man with the Hypostatic union of the 451 Council of Chalcedon, won out in the Church and was referred to as orthodoxy in most Christian contexts, since this was the viewpoint of the majority.

The majority reaffirmed the state action doctrine, and specifically reaffirmed the results reached in United States v. Harris ( 1883 ) and the Civil Rights Cases ( 1883 ), both decided fifteen years after the Fourteenth Amendment's ratification in 1868.

It seems that Parker spread his " two seeds " far and wide, and a goodly number of the " anti-missions " movement accepted his doctrine, though it never achieved anything near majority status.

The occasion was the development within the congregation of an Arminian majority that held to the six principles of Hebrew 6: 1-2-repentance from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms, the laying-on-of-hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

While the doctrine of some Old Regular Baptist would be in harmony with the majority of Primitive Baptist today, others among the Regulars hold to a more modified Calvinism, this difference led to the light-is-life split that took place in the Union Association.

The majority of Old Regular Baptists hold to a doctrine that is between these extremes, with absolutism the smallest minority.

Anan was to declare that his religion was different from Rabbinical Judaism, and that his followers entirely coincided with him in matters of religious doctrine ; which was an easy matter for Anan to say, because the majority of them were opposed to the rabbis.

: The first great heretic broke drastically with the faith of the early church in abandoning the doctrine of the imminent, personal return of Christ … Marcion did not believe in a real incarnation, and consequently there was no logical place in his system for a real Second Coming … Marcion expected the majority of mankind to be lost … he denied the validity of the Old Testament and its Law … As the first great heretic, Marcion developed and perfected his heterodox system before orthodoxy had fully defined itself … Marcion represents a movement that so radically transformed the Christian doctrine of God and Christ that it can hardly be said to be Christian.

Douglas defeated the proslavery Lecompton Constitution for Kansas because the majority of Kansans were antislavery, and Douglas ' popular sovereignty doctrine would allow the majority to vote slavery up or down as they chose.

The Civil Rights Cases and Rehnquist's opinion for the majority in United States v. Morrison referred to the Cruikshank state action doctrine.

Indeed, the majority of early Christians seem to have left this doctrine completely unquestioned.

It was held that, by adopting new standards of doctrine ( and particularly by abandoning its commitment to ‘ the establishment principle ’ – which was held to be fundamental to the Free Church ), the majority had violated the conditions on which the property of the Free Church was held.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

The majority is found within the president's lifeguard, while others patrol Bangui and the north-west parts of the country.

The struggle for independence was a war within the upper class, although the majority of troops on both sides consisted of conscripted mestizos and native Americans.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

Although water forms the large majority of the cytosol, its structure and properties within cells is not well understood.

The vast majority of DNA within the cell is the normal DNA structure.

In essence this led to a situation where a minority of this majority remained within the Central Committee ...

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Essentially the Damascus-headquartered DFLP under Hawatmeh was able to retain its external branches, whereas the majority of the organization within Palestine, mainly on the West Bank, was taken over by FIDA.

It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties ( thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages ), which significantly differ from the majority or official language ( thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as mere local dialects of the official or majority language ) and that either have a territorial basis ( and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State ) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole ( thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romani, which are used over a wide geographic area ).

In most individuals with expressive aphasia, the majority of recovery is seen within the first year following a stroke or injury.

A survey in conducted by the European Commission showed that within the European Union overall, the majority of EU citizens support their country's membership: over 50 % think their country's membership is " a good thing ", and only 15 % think it is " a bad thing ".

A 35mm Champion Matsuri copy was used for the majority of the film and the uncut 16mm internegative was spliced in for all the missing portions, on many occasions within the same shot as an incomplete Matsuri shot, resulting in missing frames and inconsistent quality.

The vast majority of the Earth's surface is underlain by gabbro within the oceanic crust, produced by basalt magmatism at mid-ocean ridges.

::: The King appoints and dismisses his ministers. The Federal Government offers its resignation to the King if the House of Representatives, by an absolute majority of its members, adopts a motion of no confidence proposing a successor to the prime minister for appointment by the King or proposes a successor to the prime minister for appointment by the King within three days of the rejection of a motion of confidence.

A referendum must then be held within three months, which requires a simple majority in favour to pass.

The majority of the LRS route, between Al-Mahatta ( in Amman ) and New Zarqa will be constructed within the existing Hedjaz Railway right-of-way ( 22. 2 kilometres ).

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

Lenin, who was trying to establish a permanent majority against Plekhanov within Iskra, expected Trotsky, then 23, to side with the new guard and wrote in March 1903: