According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to the 1991 census 28 % of houses in the borough were considered ' unfit ', chiefly those in Accrington and Church.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the body after resurrection is changed into a spiritual, imperishable body:

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

According to Church tradition, it was under Nero's persecution that Peter and Paul were each martyred in Rome.

According to the legend, King Abenner or Avenier in India persecuted the Christian Church in his realm, founded by the Apostle Thomas.

* According to the first theory the document was an effort to transform the existing missionary bishopric into a regular organization of the Catholic Church, that would cover all of Mieszko's state.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

According to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the liturgical year begins at 4: 00 pm on the Saturday preceding the fourth Sunday prior to 25 December.

According to both rabbinic tradition and the tradition of the Orthodox Church, this is the same individual as the prophet.

According to Cornwell, " the text, together with the Anti-Modernist Oath, became the means by which the Holy See was to establish and sustain the new, unequal, and unprecedented power relationship that had arisen between the papacy and the Church.

According to one premillennial Christian interpretation, the Messiah will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist ( the " beast ") and Satan the Devil in the Battle of Armageddon.

According to many accounts of Aggadah, unlike the Bible, it is Satan who is testing Isaac and not God.

According to Christian teaching and tradition, Pergamum is where Satan dwells and where his throne is.

" According to this belief, these purposes were explained and discussed in " councils in heaven ," followed by the War in Heaven where Satan rebelled against the plan of Heavenly Father.

According to author David W. Marshall, extreme and obsessive loathing of Christianity had long been the norm of black and death metal bands, but in the 1990s Bathory and many other bands began turning away from Satan as the primary opposition to Christianity, instead placing their faith in Vikings and Odin.

According to 14th-century legend, two mischievous imps were sent by Satan to do evil work on Earth.

According to the other legend, Satan came to Sarah disguised as an old man, and told her that Isaac had been sacrificed.

According to the Qur ' an, Satan deviated from the oneness of God in the story of creation of man by permitting his own hierarchical value system to supersede God's will: God asked the angels to bow to Adam, who he had created from clay.

According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles ( 30 km ) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

According to Wightman, the Bishop told him “ that unless I did recant my opinions he would burn me at a stake in Burton before Allholland day next .” The final verdict and list of charges included “ the wicked heresies of Ebion, Cerinthus, Valentinian, Arius, Macedonius, Simon Magus, Manichees, Photinus, and of the Anabaptists and other arch heretics, and moreover, of other cursed opinions belched by the instinct of Satan ”.

According to this view, the play demonstrates Calvin's " three-tiered concept of causation ," in which the damnation of Faustus is first willed by God, then by Satan, and finally, by himself.

According to Alma chapter 9, Satan held such control over them that they would not listen to Alma.

According to adherents, sickness is an attempt by Satan to rob believers of their divine right to total health.

According to a 14th-century legend two mischievous creatures called imps were sent by Satan to do evil work on Earth.

According to the account of his life in The Satan Seller, Warnke converted to Christianity during Navy boot camp.

According to Luke, Satan took possession of Judas and caused him to do these things.

According to John Jesus gave Judas some bread as a signal that Judas was the betrayer and that Judas was possessed by Satan and that Jesus told him to leave to go and betray him.

According to this letter, the Philadelphian Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the local Jews, whom Revelation calls " the synagogue of Satan " ().

According to traditional Christian belief in witchcraft, the pact is between a person and Satan or any other demon ( or demons ); the person offers his or her soul in exchange for diabolical favours.

According to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, Cain also entered a secret combination with Satan and became Master Mahan.