Their doctrines were mostly based on apocalyptic salvation and also expressed strong anticommunism.
It has been called "a powerful blues prayer based on the salvation-train metaphor" of American folklore by biographer John McDermott.
This was the one great American city dating from the 17th century not founded as a haven from religious persecution; it was based on profit rather than salvation.
He has given half his life to the religion, he said, because "it works," and because it is not based on the promise of salvation, but on the premise that there are practical ways to improve lives.
In recent years, the old religious belief in hard-won salvation, based on prayer and good works, has begun to morph with the therapeutic language and formulas of the recovery movement.
Dr. André Hellegers, a French member of the commission who had submitted to it medical evidence that rhythm babies are apt to be born with defects, ruefully observed, "I cannot believe that salvation is based on the thermometer [a necessary tool of the rhythm method], or that damnation is based on rubber".
Norton explained Skousen's salvation narrative, based on the idea that throughout world history only the "people's law" of constitutionally limited government has been able to unleash man's creative energies and constrain the spread of "ruler's law," like Communism and progressivism.
His sermons that she heard as a girl in Finkin Street chapel are firmly based on a doctrine of individual salvation ("The Kingdom of God is within you" – the last word underlined three times) which she later transformed into a political doctrine of individual responsibility and self-reliance.
But the Bible is clear that salvation is not based on intelligence, knowledge, or understanding.
They assert that while the vast majority of Muslims are not evil, they have been deceived by a diabolical religion based on a flawed scripture that can never bring them salvation.
The tale, based on historical events, was, Singer once suggested, partly a response to his contemporaries who were seeking salvation in Communism and instead found themselves submerged in horror.
