According to Maimonides ( III 22 – 23 ), each of Job's friends represents famous, distinct schools of thought concerning God and divine providence.

According to Maimonides, the correct view of providence lies with Elihu, who teaches Job that one must examine his religion ().

According to Maimonides, any Jew who rejects even one of these principles would be considered an apostate and a heretic.

According to Maimonides ( whose life began almost a hundred years after the end of the Gaonic era ), all Jewish communities during the Gaonic era formally accepted the Babylonian Talmud as binding upon themselves, and modern Jewish practice follows the Babylonian Talmud's conclusions on all areas in which the two Talmuds conflict.

According to Maimonides, Jesus of Nazareth is not the Messiah, as is claimed by Christians and Muslims.

According to Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah, the highest level of tzedakah is giving charity that will allow the poor to break out of the poverty cycle and become independent and productive members of society.

According to several authorities, a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

According to Maimonides, the Geonim were considered " unintelligible in our days, and there are but few who are able to comprehend them.

According to several authorities (" Yad Mal ' akhi " rule 26, pg 186 ), a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even though the latter apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

According to Maimonides himself, deducing law from the sources had already become a precarious proposition ( for a number of reasons )-even his own times.

According to Maimonides ( Isurei Biah 13: 15 ), in the days of Kings David and Solomon, Batei Dinim ( Jewish courts ) did not accept converts.

According to Kellner ( 1991 ) on Maimonides, a ger toshav ( or Noahide ) could be a transitional stage on the way to becoming a ger tzedek () or " righteous alien ", a convert to Judaism.

According to Maimonides ( based on Tractate Yevamot of the Babylonian Talmud 49b-50a ): " One whose merit surpasses his iniquity is a tzadik ".

According to Maimonides, about one hundred of the permanent 613 commandments based on the Torah, by rabbinical enumeration, directly concern sacrifices, ( excluding those commandments that concern the actual Temple and the priests themselves of which there are about another fifty )

According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide " to promote the true understanding of the real spirit of the Law, to guide those religious persons who, adhering to the Torah, have studied philosophy and are embarrassed by the contradictions between the teachings of philosophy and the literal sense of the Torah ,"

According to Fox, Maimonides carefully assembled the Guide " so as to protect people without a sound scientific and philosophical education from doctrines that they cannot understand and that would only harm them, while making the truths available to students with the proper personal and intellectual preparation.

According to Maimonides, to argue that " because I have never observed something coming into existence without coming from a substratum it cannot occur " is equivalent to arguing that " because I cannot empirically observe eternity it does not exist.

According to Moses Maimonides, it is only permitted to emigrate and resettle abroad in cases of severe hunger.

According to Maimonides, shaving the sidelocks was a heathen practice.

According to Maimonides, scalp and beard nega ' im are characterized by hair loss without any change to the skin of the bald spot The Tosefta, however, maintains that the skin of the bald spot does indeed become altered in a negah.

According to Maimonides, this law is a requirement for all kosher Torah scrolls.

According to Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed the prophets used metaphors and analogies and, except for Moses, their words are not to be taken literally.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.

According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, Demeter's greatest gifts to humankind were agriculture, particularly of cereals, and the Mysteries which give the initiate higher hopes in this life and the afterlife.

According to Herbert C. Brichtothe, writing in Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College Annual, the family tomb is the central concept in understanding biblical views of the afterlife.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to some sources, only through these acts can Osiris be fully enlivened in the afterlife and take his place as king of the dead, paralleling his son's role as king of the living.

" According to Hilda Ellis Davidson, while Valhalla " is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death ," the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as Ýdalir, and the goddess Freyja's afterlife location Fólkvangr has been lost.

According to the Pyramid Texts, Nephthys, along with Isis, was a force before whom demons trembled in fear, and whose magical spells were necessary for navigating the various levels of Duat, as the region of the afterlife was termed.

According to Donelley, " Twentieth century biblical scholarship largely agrees that the ancient Jews had little explicit notion of a personal afterlife until very late in the Old Testament period ," and " only the latest stratum of the Old Testament asserts even the resurrection of the body.

According to the Eleventh Tome of Klavek, Kahless returned from the dead still bearing a wound from the afterlife.

According to Oahspe, when mortals die their spirits continue to live, regardless of who they worshiped, or even whether they disbelieved in an afterlife.

According to mythology, the spirits of the dead travel to Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife to leap off the headland and climb the roots of the 800 year old tree and descend to the underworld to return to their traditional homeland of Hawaiki, using the Te Ara Wairua, the ' Spirits ' pathway '.

According to Dr. Sparrow, Fred's soul is consumed by the fires of resurrection, which Wesley interprets upon overhearing as soul destruction, seemingly making it impossible for her to return from the dead or enjoy an afterlife, although the specifics of this process are not elaborated.

According to popular mythology, Mount Osore ( literally " Mount Fear ") marks the entrance to Hell, with a small brook running to the neighboring Lake Usorisan that is equated to the Sanzu River, a river that deceased souls needed to cross of their way to the afterlife.

According to a Yoruba tradition, the death of a chief must be followed by the ritual suicide of the chief's horseman, because the horseman's spirit is essential to helping the chief's spirit ascend to the afterlife.

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today.

) According to the CIA, the European Union was added because the EU " continues to accrue more nation-like characteristics for itself ".

According to Adler, of all the great ideas, the idea of God has always been and continues to be the one that evokes the greatest concern among the widest group of men and women.

According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ( PTA ), Mobilink continues to lead the market with 35. 7 million subscribers, followed by Telenor with 29. 3 million, Ufone with 23. 1 million, Zong with 15. 6 million, and Warid Telecom with 14. 3 million.

According to its Web site, MLB. com, Major League Baseball continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4, 191, though independent research has revealed that two of Cobb's hits were counted twice.

According to Calvinism, God begins a good work in some and then continues it.

According to Human Rights Watch, Castro constructed a " repressive machinery " which continues to deprive Cubans of their basic rights.

According to the fourth century Italian writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon, the story continues as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.

According to the band's now-defunct website " his name continues the pattern of manipulating well known marketing slogans in order to present a political statement ".

According to the 2010 U. S. Census, however, the county's population exponentially increased to 77, 422 ( a 42. 6 % increase from 2000 ), making it the fastest growing county in Missouri and one of the fastest growing in the nation as the county becomes more suburban as booming growth continues in Springfield.

According to INSEE figures, household and family composition in metropolitan France continues to evolve.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau's 2004 estimates, the city continues to have a population of 12.

According to school district Treasurer Doug Beeman, revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, exceeded expenditures as the school system continues to manage the resources provided by the community.

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German political left.

According to Paglia, the major patterns of continuity in western culture find their origin in paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology and pop culture.

" According to 1UP. com, Metal Gear Solids cinematic style continues to influence modern action games such as Call of Duty.

According to Lee the record of God creating the universe is in Genesis 1: 1, “ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth .” The next verse continues with, “ And the earth became waste and empty ,” indicating something was lost in the original creation.

According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings. com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts ' overall game quality continues to fall ... Although market share has not declined dramatically to date, in years such as 2007, which promises to have tremendous competition, it seems likely if quality does not improve.

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Liebknecht and Luxemburg continues to play an important role among the German far-left.

According to tradition, this bardo is held to commence when the outer and inner signs presage that the onset of death is nigh, and continues through the dissolution or transmutation of the Mahabhuta until the external and internal breath has completed.

According to Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president, the LDS church continues to own one of Joseph Smith's seer stones.

According to Teilhard evolution does not cease here but continues on to its culmination and unification in the Omega Point, which he identifies with Christ.

According to www. korttipelit. net there are no standard rules to determine who continues the play after a challenge.

According to the programme, he continues to learn French, and has since performed more stand up in France ( predominantly in English, but with sections in French ).