The imperfection of life can also be explained through the belief that only through pain, both physical and emotional, can one move to a higher state of existence.

The birth mark portrays Nathaniel Hawthorne's belief in that human imperfection cannot be separated out of our humanity.

Their moral doctrine was based on the belief that the material world including the flesh was intrinsically evil as stemming from the evil principle or god.

During the Tōjō-regime this was suspended, arguably stemming from the popular belief that any defendant who risks his fate on the opinions of untrained laymen is almost certainly guilty.

His many conflicts with parliament, stemming from his belief in the divine right of kings and the many religious conflicts that permeated his reign, triggered the English Civil War.

His revolt was fueled by grievances stemming from Spanish taxation and abuses, and by his belief in self-government, that the administration and leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and government in the Ilocos be invested in trained Ilocano officials.

") These regulations were widely criticized by adult cyclists, like John Forester, as stemming from the belief that all bicycles are ridden by children and as providing the illusion of safety but actually creating a new hazard.

He struggled with depression for the rest of his life, stemming from his dependence on heroin, which he tried to deal with through a strong belief in Christianity.

Gender equality, also known as sex equality or sexual equality, is the goal of the equality of the genders, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality.

Lord Monboddo describes his translation of an ancient epigram that demonstrates malva was planted upon the graves of the ancients, stemming from the belief that the dead could feed on such perfect plants.

According to them, Neo-Catholics often support a " reform-of-the-reform " mentality which, they say, is the belief that there was nothing wrong with the Second Vatican Council or the changes to the Roman Missal stemming from that Council, but rather that small clarifications to the documents and an authentic interpretation or " hermeneutic of continuity " are all that is needed to retain orthodoxy.

Though named after God, it was named this before the advent of Christianity in Igboland, stemming from the belief in one supreme being.

Helion, however, clung to the belief that `` in escaping from the Stalag I had also escaped from Abstraction ''.

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.

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.

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.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

In his speech accepting the nomination, Johnson said that by taking a nominee from a seceding state, " the Union Party declared its belief that the rebellious states are still in the Union, that their loyal citizens are still citizens of the United States.

He also prepared ( but did not deliver ) an address to St. Andrews in which he professed a belief in " an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed ".

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

Between 1512 and the final draft in 1528, Dürer's belief developed from an understanding of human creativity as spontaneous or inspired to a concept of ' selective inward synthesis '.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

In Montpellier, where he lived from 1303 to 1306, he was much distressed by the prevalence of Aristotelian rationalism, which in his opinion, through the medium of the works of Maimonides, threatened the authority of the Old Testament, obedience to the law, and the belief in miracles and revelation.

There is a general belief amongst Hindus that no pilgrimage to the four principal pilgrim centres ( Char Dham ) namely, Badrināth, Jagannāth, Rāmeshwaram and Dwarka, would be complete without a blessing that comes from bathing in the holy Pushkar Lake.

* 2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Also in these books, Athanasius put forward the belief that the Son of God, the eternal Word through whom God created the world, entered that world in human form to lead men back into the harmony from which they had earlier fallen away.

While these plants are not sold anywhere for culinary use, their visual similarity to bay leaves has led to the oft-repeated belief that bay leaves should be removed from food after cooking because they are poisonous.

Richard Nelson explains: The needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as " divine warrior ," and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.

Job's friends do not waver from their belief that Job must have sinned to incite God's punishment.

He stated his belief that these trade deficits were not necessarily harmful to the economy at the time since the currency comes back to the country ( country A sells to country B, country B sells to country C who buys from country A, but the trade deficit only includes A and B ).

It needs to be clarified whether the ideal is union or link with ' Waheguru ' ( God ) or merger in God ( Hindu belief ).

The suggested merger in God ( Hindu belief ) in this state involves virtually a reversion to the first state of God being Self-absorbed.

It reflected Alfred's own belief in a doctrine of divine rewards and punishments rooted in a vision of a hierarchical Christian world order in which God is the Lord to whom kings owe obedience and through whom they derive their authority over their followers.

Napoleon Hill wrote that Carnegie asserted the importance of belief in " Infinite Intelligence ", a name Hill used to identify " God " or the " Supreme Being ".

From these postulates stems the belief that God periodically reveals his will through divine messengers, whose purpose is to transform the character of humankind and develop, within those who respond, moral and spiritual qualities.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

However, another interpretation is that Job's silence is defiant, and that what he gives up is not his belief that justice be done, but his confidence that God will behave justly.

" The prophet Jonah shows us where God shows concern for the people of Nineveh, while Nahum ’ s writing testifies to his belief in the righteousness / justice of God and how God dealt with those Assyrians in punishment according to " their cruelty " ( Nahum 3: 19 ).

This strengthened the belief that the Israelites, who understood themselves to be God ’ s chosen people, were even more culpable than other peoples for not living up to God ’ s statutes because they were to be a ‘ light unto the nations ’.

This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning.

The mainstream Christian belief is that Jesus is the Son of God, fully divine and fully human and the saviour of humanity.

* belief in God the Father, Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Holy Spirit

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

The core Christian belief is that through belief in and acceptance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, sinful humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.

In the words of the Athanasian Creed, an early statement of Christian belief, " the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God ".