God knew his tears were his to shed if he so desired, for it had not been with an egotist's rage for fame that he had held precious his naval career.

At the battle with Amalek, he is chosen with Hur to support the hand of Moses that held the " rod of God " ( Exodus 17: 9 ).

He held that not only was the Son of God consubstantial with the Father, but so was the Holy Spirit, which had a great deal of influence in the development of later doctrines regarding the Trinity.

* Joshua and the Israelites were able to defeat the people at Ai because Joshua followed the divine instruction to extend his sword ( Josh 8: 18 ), just as the people were able to defeat the Amalekites as long as Moses extended his hand that held " the staff of God " ( Ex.

The school appealed the IRS decision all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, arguing that the University met all other criteria for tax-exempt status and that the school's racial discrimination was based on sincerely held religious beliefs, that " God intended segregation of the races and that the Scriptures forbid interracial marriage.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

Some, such as Lord Herbert of Cherbury and William Wollaston, held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life.

Classical deism held that a human's relationship with God was impersonal: God created the world and set it in motion but does not actively intervene in individual human affairs but rather through Divine Providence.

The elder Smith was given the " keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth ", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.

He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

Some assessments suggest that Bruno's ideas about the universe played a smaller role in his trial than his pantheist beliefs, which differed from the interpretations and scope of God held by the Catholic Church.

Receive thou this pledge, and preserve it whole and unharmed until thy last breath, because thou shalt be held to an accounting therefore in the second and terrible Coming of our great Lord, God, and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Judaism has always held that people who are not Jews are obliged only to follow the seven Noahide Laws ; these are laws that the Oral Law derives from the covenant God made with Noah after the flood, which apply to all descendants of Noah ( all living people ).

The view held by Conservative Judaism is that while God is real, the Torah is not the word of God in a literal sense.

All these are held to directly contradict the " moral order which was established by God ".

This Barlaam held to be polytheistic, inasmuch as it postulated two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.

Müller made the term central to his criticism of Western theological and religious exceptionalism ( relative to Eastern religions ), focusing on a cultural dogma which held " monotheism " to be both fundamentally well-defined and inherently superior to differing conceptions of God.

But the report expressed concerns that the Roman Catholic dogmatic definitions of these concepts implies them to be " revealed by God ", stating: " The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held by believers as a matter of faith.

And when he realized that I was determined to study in privacy in some obscure place, and saw that he gained nothing by entreaty, he descended to cursing, and said that God would surely curse my peace if I held back from giving help at a time of such great need.

Justin actually finds fault with the view of hellenized Jews who held that the divine Logos is no more distinct from God than sunlight is from the sun and suggested, instead, that the Logos is more like a torch lit from another.

The Mewlānā festival is held over two weeks in December ; its culmination is on 17 December, the Urs of Mewlānā ( anniversary of Rumi's death ), called Šabe Arūs ( شب عروس ) ( Persian meaning " nuptial night "), the night of Rumi's union with God.

It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.

The position that " Christian theological anti-Judaism is a phenomenon distinct from modern antisemitism, which is rooted in economic and racial thought, so that Christian teachings should not be held responsible for antisemitism " has been articulated, among other places, by Pope John Paul II in ' We Re member: A Reflection on the Shoah ,' and the Jewish declaration on Christianity, Dabru Emet .. Several scholars, including Susannah Heschel, Gavin I Langmuir and Uriel Tal the General Synod has affirmed that " the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ is for all and must be shared with all including people from other faiths or of no faith and that to do anything else would be to institutionalize discrimination ".

Most branches of Christianity have historically held abortion to be generally wrong, referring to Old Testament passages such as Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1, as well as New Testament passages concerning both Jesus and John the Baptist while they were in utero.

Christadelphians reject a number of doctrines held by many other Christians, notably the immortality of the soul ( see also mortalism ; conditionalism ), trinitarianism, the personal pre-existence of Christ, the baptism of infants, the personhood of the Holy Spirit the divinity of Jesus and the present-day possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit ( see cessationism ).

* Prison of Christ-In the north-east side of the complex there is The Prison of Christ, alleged by the Franciscans to be where Jesus was held.

The Greek Orthodox allege that the real place that Jesus was held was the similarly named Prison of Christ, within their Monastery of the Praetorium, located near the Church of Ecce Homo, at the first station on the Via Dolorosa.

Other groups who were accused of docetism held that Jesus was a man in the flesh, but Christ was a separate entity, who entered Jesus ’ s body in the form of a dove at his baptism, empowered him to perform miracles, and abandoned him on his death on the cross.

Masses are being held, as in the last few decades, at the adr ( front ) of the Bom Jesus Basilica, due to lack of space within the Basilica.

Sam Fransisku Xaviera is a Konkani hymn, which is sung as the recessional hymn at most of the novenas held at Bom Jesus Basilica, Velha Goa, the place where the relics of St. Francis Xavier are kept.

It has become generally accepted that certain sayings in John are as old or older than their synoptic counterparts, that John's knowledge of things around Jerusalem is often superior to the synoptics, and that his presentation of Jesus ' agony in the garden and the prior meeting held by the Jewish authorities are possibly more historically accurate than their synoptic parallels.

Docetism held that Jesus ' humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation ( Deity becoming human ).

Arianism held that Jesus, while not merely mortal, was not eternally divine and was, therefore, of lesser status than the Father.

Many who have no love for Puritan doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of John Bunyan.

Among the early Judaistic Christian groups the Ebionites held that John, along with Jesus and James the Just — all of whom they revered — were vegetarians.

As a result, it can be argued that Mary Magdalene must have held a very central position among the followers of Jesus, whether as disciple or in some other capacity.

They point to the symbolism of wine and the importance it held in the mythology surrounding both Dionysus and Jesus Christ ; Wick argues that the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the Marriage at Cana at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superior to Dionysus.

When at his Last Supper, Jesus said: " This is my body ", what he held in his hands still had all the appearances of bread: these " accidents " remained unchanged.

* Mutio Vitelleschi of Rome ( 1563 – 1645 ), Superior General of the Society of Jesus, held post 1615-1645

* August 8 – During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of the Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is chosen as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

As Bryan spoke his final sentence, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus, he placed his hands to his temples, fingers extended ; with the final words, he extended his arms to his sides straight out to his body and held that pose for about five seconds as if offering himself as sacrifice for the cause, as the audience watched in dead silence.

James and John both held prominent positions for not only being the first of the disciples to be called but also because of their relationship to Jesus among the Apostles.

Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven ( see Acts 1: 1 ).