They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

They seem to believe that a person will act automatically as soon as he contacts something new.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

They suspect it plays a role in the production of adrenal hormones, and they believe it is essential to the transport of fats throughout the circulatory system.

They believe that Christ visited spirit prison ( 1 Peter 3: 18-20 ) and opened the gate for those who repent to cross over to Paradise.

They believe that the soul belongs to the spiritual universe which has its origins in God.

They believe that it is more probable that Amos was from the North because it has conditions more suitable for the cultivation of sycamore figs than the Tekoa of the South.

* They hold that the practice within Independent groups of ordaining women demonstrates an understanding of Priesthood that they vindicate is totally unacceptable to the Catholic and Orthodox churches as they believe that the Universal Church does not possess such authority ; thus, they uphold that any ceremonies performed by these women should be considered being sacramentally invalid.

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving for those who believe and know the truth.

They believe that its current structure has made it more of an eyesore than a landmark ; some have dubbed it the " Mistake on the Lake ".

They believe that the Orthodox Jewish movements, on the theological right, have erred by slowing down, or stopping, the historical development of Jewish law: " Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halakhic authority can continue the halakhic evolution today.

They believe strongly in traditional values and traditional politics, and often have an urgent sense of nationalism.

They believe that the star, dubbed the " Champagne Supernova " by University of Oklahoma astronomer David R. Branch, may have been spinning so fast that centrifugal force allowed it to exceed the limit.

They view certain verses, which they believe refer only to homosexual rape, as not relevant to consensual homosexual relationships.

They believe that they play a role in determining their own behavior and so feel responsible for their own behavior.

They regard the Bible as inspired by God and, therefore, believe that, in its original form, it was error free ( errors in later copies are thought to be due to ' errors of transcription or translation ').

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

They believe he is the Son of Man, in that he inherited human nature ( with its inclination to sin ) from his mother, and the Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God.

They believe that God raised Jesus from death and gave him immortality, and he ascended to Heaven, God's dwelling place.

They do not believe we can be sure of being saved, believing instead that salvation comes as a result of a life of obedience to the commands of Christ After death, believers are in a state of non-existence, knowing nothing until the Resurrection at the return of Christ.

They believe that the word devil is a reference in the scriptures to sin and human nature in opposition to God, while the word satan is merely a reference to an adversary ( be it good or bad ).

They also contend that those who believe in paranormal phenomena do so for merely psychological reasons.

They believe that this is the only annual religious observance commanded for Christians in the Bible.

They realize that by acting in concert, rather than individually, they will not be picked out as objects of retaliation -- economic and otherwise.

They can even be rather grand, like Edward Land's monument to the astonishing success of Polaroid.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

They faced a rather small audience, as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures of the afternoon.

They are relatively robust herbaceous perennials with short rhizomes and leaves forming a rosette, individually linear-oblong, flat, rather fleshy.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

They were well-planned: vast sections or wings erected were finished in a single stage, rather than in increments.

They administered rather than governed.

They apparently live singly or in pairs, rather than in herds like most cattle, except when the cows are about to give birth.

They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.

They agree with communists that the means of production should be expropriated from private owners and converted to common property, but they advocate the ownership of this property to be vested by a loose group of decentralized communes rather than to be held in common by all of society.

They seek a new understanding of celibacy that is focused on God rather than a future marriage or a lifelong vow to the Church.

They were constituted as the conservators of public morality ; they were not simply to prevent crime or particular acts of immorality, but rather to maintain the traditional Roman character, ethics, and habits ( mos majorum )— regimen morum also encompassed this protection of traditional ways, which was called in the times of the empire cura (" supervision ") or praefectura (" command ").

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

They viewed the Chinese revolution in different terms than the Communists, claiming that China already went past its feudal stage and in a stagnation period rather than in another mode of production.

They often interpret passages of the Bible as being less a record of actual events, but rather stories illustrating how to live ethically and authentically in relation to God.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

They view the ecumenical councils as misguided human attempts to establish doctrine, and as attempts to divine dogmas by debate rather than by revelation.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

They support the predictions of quantum mechanics rather than the class of hidden variable theories supported by Einstein.

They have the ability to taunt enemies into focusing on them, rather than other party members who may be more susceptible to damage and death.

They underwent ecdysis in a similar manner to extant chelicerates, and most fossils are thought to be of exuviae, rather than cadavers.

They no longer represent the world of popular carnival, but rather a dark, dramatic realm of fantasy and nightmare.