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

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.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

There is a difference in theological belief where there seems little chance of agreement.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

And his belief is not to his discredit.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

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.

The belief in a personal Messiah of the Davidic line is a universal tenet of faith among Orthodox Jews and one of Maimonides ' thirteen principles of faith.

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.

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 ).