But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

There is still the position, based on the philosophical question of personal identity, termed open individualism, and in some ways similar to the old belief of monopsychism, that concludes that individual existence is illusory, and our consciousness continues existing after death in other conscious beings.

" For Sakharov the indeterminacy of the future supported his belief that he could, and should, take personal responsibility for it.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

According to the subjectivist view, probability quantifies a " personal belief ".

For subjectivists probability corresponds to a ' personal belief '.

The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.

Although Confucius the man may have been a believer in Chinese folk religion, Confucianism as an ideology is humanistic and non-theistic, and does not involve a belief in the supernatural or in a personal god.

Confucianism is humanistic, and does not involve a belief in the supernatural or in a personal god.

This attempt has produced a wide variety of personal beliefs under the broad classification of belief of " deism ".

Within the letter is also found an optimism where Paul's belief of his release is the basis upon which he promises to send Timothy to them for ministry ( 3. 19-23 ), and an anticipation to also pay them a personal visit ( 3. 24 ).

Carlyle stated that " The history of the world is but the biography of great men ", reflecting his belief that heroes shape history through both their personal attributes and divine inspiration.

The belief that " ye may not be a Witch alone " extends the idea that personal growth, both intellectually and spiritually, is dependent on and affects one's surroundings and the people therein.

His first biographer Jack Bracelin reports that this was a watershed in Gardner's life, and that a previous academic interest in spiritualism and life after death thereafter became a matter of firm personal belief for him.

is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God ".

* " the belief that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life ",

The definition makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless, in the sense of actual or personal sin.

Many contemporary chroniclers were not even sure quite how to describe his personal belief structure.

The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools and the Brahman religious belief is just seen as different paths to the one god.

When he realizes that his applications of these laws don't work, he gives up his belief in natural law, in favor of a belief in personal gods controlling nature — thus giving rise to religious myths.

Despite her rejection of religion, she continued to maintain a personal belief in a God of some sort, relating in her autobiography that she believed in " an unseen over-ruling Power ," " which science calls Nature and religion calls God.

The Olney Hymns are in part an expression of Newton and Cowper's personal religious faith and experience, and a reflection of the principal tenets of the Evangelical faith: the inherent sinfulness of man ; religious conversion ; atonement ; activism ; devotion to the Bible ; God's providence ; and the belief in an eternal life after death.

The significant emphasis with ' I ' within the hymns is an indication of Newton's view that the hymns are a product of his personal experience, a feature of his belief in personal repentance and Conversion, and his desire for a personal relationship with God.

The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah ( Christ ).

Christians believe that Christianity is the fulfillment and successor of Judaism, retaining much of its doctrine and many of its practices including monotheism, the belief in a Messiah, and certain forms of worship like prayer and reading from religious texts.

The number 666 had been identified in the Book of Revelation with the ultimate human despot to rule the world, but who would be replaced by the second coming of the Messiah ; this only added to the belief that the Fifth Monarchy was about to begin.

While the Jewish Messiah is considered to be one of the things that precede creation, he is not considered to be divine nor is he considered to be Jesus, in sharp contrast to Christian belief.

31-53 ) is believed to have had a Two Parousias Christology, characterized by the belief that Jesus first came in humility, in fulfillment of prophecy, and will return in glory as the Messiah to the Gentiles.

In its summary of the ruling, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the belief that Jesus is the Messiah " cannot be reconciled with Judaism " and " marks the clear separation between Judaism and Christianity.

The traditional Jewish belief was that the ( Jewish ) Messiah would be of the Davidic line, based on the's promise to David of an everlasting throne for his offspring (,,, ).

Certain congregations outside mainstream Messianic Jewish belief do not ascribe divinity to Jesus, with some considering him a man, fathered by the Holy Spirit, who became the Messiah.

Messianic Jews believe Jesus ' first role as Messiah was to rescue the world from spiritual bondage, and that he will return again to rescue the world from physical oppression and establish his unending Kingdom — again, a belief that is identical to the normative Christian view of the Messiah.

It was a general belief that if the Jewish Messiah arrived in Jerusalem, it would mean that the Kingdom of Heaven was imminent.

Shaw describes the text as " a meditation of our Lord as Messiah in Christian thought and belief ", and despite his reservations on Jennens's character, concedes that the finished wordbook " amounts to little short of a work of genius ".

The custom of standing for the " Hallelujah " chorus originates from a belief that, at the London premiere, King George II did so, but there is no convincing evidence that the king was present, or that he attended any subsequent performance of Messiah ; the first reference to the practice of standing appears in a letter dated 1756.

Some of Rabbi Schneerson's followers believed he was the Jewish Messiah, the " Moshiach ," and have persisted in that belief since his death.

During this time, the belief in Schneerson as the Messiah ( Moshiach ) became more widespread.

The belief that Schneerson is the Messiah ( Moshiach ) can be traced to the 1950s ; it picked up momentum during the decade preceding Schneerson's death in 1994, and has continued to develop since his death.

In Jewish history during the two centuries after Zevi's death in 1676, many Jews ( including some Jewish scholars ) who were horrified by Zevi's personal conversion to Islam nevertheless clung to the belief that Zevi was still the true Jewish Messiah.

According to Albo, " belief in the Messiah is only a ' twig ' unnecessary to the soundness of the trunk "; not essential to Judaism.

Christians believe that Jesus ( Hebrew Yeshua י ֵ ש ׁ ו ּ ע ַ) is the Messiah ( Christ ) foretold in the Old Testament prophecy, and believe in subsequent New Testament revelations based on the divine authority of Jesus in Christian belief ( as the Incarnation of God ).

Many Jews, ( see the Bartenura's explanation on Megillat Rut, and the Halakhic responsa of The Ch ' sam Sofer on Choshen Mishpat 6, Chapter 98 where this view is explicit ) especially Hasidim, adhere to the belief that there is a person born each generation with the potential to become Messiah, if the Jewish people warrant his coming ; this candidate is known as the Tzadik Ha-Dor, meaning Tzaddik ( a Hebrew term literally meaning " righteous one " but used to refer to holy men who can, for example, perform miracles or act as an intermediary between man and God ) of the Generation.

In Marcionite belief, Christ was not a Jewish Messiah, but a spiritual entity that was sent by the Monad to reveal the truth about existence, and thus allowing humanity to escape the earthly trap of the demiurge.

The Muslims also built a cemetery in front of the gate, in the belief that the precursor to the Messiah, Elijah, would not be able to pass through the Golden Gate and thus the Messiah would not come.

The belief in the imminent coming of the Jewish Messiah, the ingathering of the exiles and the re-establishment of the kingdom of Israel encouraged many who had few other options to make the perilous journey to the Land of Israel ( Eretz Yisrael ).