Thus, he holds the heathen gods to be real beings, but subordinate to the supreme Christian God ; in a streak of gnosticism, he affirms that the human soul ( Book II, 14-62 ) is not the work of God, but of an intermediate being, and is not immortal by nature, but capable of putting on immortality as a grace.

Thus he overturned the belief that atoms are the indivisible, ultimate particles of matter.

Thus, means " belief / faith in the Æsir / gods ".

Thus, though knowledge requires justification, truth, and belief, the word " knowledge " can't be, according to Williamson's theory, accurately regarded as simply shorthand for " justified true belief.

Thus, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

Thus, while one might agree that there is no belief one can hold come what may, there are some for which there is ample practical ground to " hold more stubbornly at least ".

Thus, these origins for lycanthropy mingle a belief in reincarnation, a belief in the sharing of souls between living humans and beasts and a belief in human ghosts appearing as non-human animals after death.

Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen — when adopting the intentional stance — as an idea-replicator reproducing itself in a new host.

Thus, for Rand, the fact that consciousness must itself possess identity implies the rejection of both universal skepticism based on the " limits " of consciousness and any claim to revelation, emotion or faith based belief.

Thus, a belief is justified if and only if:

Thus, Schleiden and Schwann became the first to formulate what was then an informal belief as a principle of biology equal in importance to the atomic theory of chemistry.

Thus, a characteristic feature of cargo cults is the belief that spiritual agents will, at some future time, give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members.

What is more problematic is that it is possible to reach a point where “ if you believe it, then it isn ’ t a lie .” Thus, even letter-perfect bona fide certainty of belief is not equivalent to a certification of accuracy or even truthfulness.

Thus, even though the names given to the concept varied, there was a common belief that traditional definitions of intelligence were lacking in ability to fully explain performance outcomes.

Thus, with all Hindus, there is a strong belief in all paths being true religions that lead to one God or source, whatever one chooses to call the ultimate truth.

Thus the conference did not adopt any time zones, contrary to popular belief.

Thus, the representative parties would be unaware of the talents and abilities, ethnicity and gender, religion or belief system of the citizens they represent.

Thus, on this interpretation ( and as per Sextus ' own words ), the skeptic may well entertain the belief that God does or does not exist or that virtue is good.

Thus, the skeptic will, for example, believe the proposition that " Dion is in the room " if sense-data and ordinary reasoning led to the emergence of such a belief.

Thus, a thought of a chair can be about a chair without any implication of an intention or even a belief relating to the chair.

Many criticisms of Christianity can be found in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in particular Christian values of good and evil and its belief in an afterlife.

Thus the belief in the oneness of God is equated in the Qur ' an with the " belief in the unseen " ( Sura ).

Thus the image of God is that which makes a man a man and not an oyster ; ;

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

" Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

" Thus declaring that the burnt offering of both animals and humans ( which may have been practiced in Judah under Kings Ahaz and Manasseh ) is not necessary for God.

Thus, as church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. explained, the church believes the Bible to be the word of God " as far as it is translated correctly.

The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped … Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations … Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you .” 14: 2-5 In Matthew, Jesus says, " The sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Thus Jesus takes a firm stand on the permanence of marriage in the original will of God.

Thus, he implicitly emphasized that it is God-made (" God has joined together "), " male and female ," lifelong (" let no one separate "), and monogamous (" a man ... his wife ").

Thus usage of any form of contraception, in vitro fertilization, or birth control besides Natural Family Planning is a grave offense against the sanctity of marriage and ultimately against God.

Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.

Thus, it is easier to state what God is not, than to state what God is:

Thus, contemplation forever produces a mystified, imperfect knowledge of God.

Second, the message begins with " Thus says YHVH, God of your father David ..." rather than the more usual "... in the name of YHVH the God of Israel.

Thus when God doth work, who shall let ( i. e. prevent ) it?

Thus accounts such as that of the miraculous " Image Not Made by Hands ", and the weeping and moving " Mother of God of the Sign " of Novgorod are accepted as fact: " Church Tradition tells us, for example, of the existence of an Icon of the Savior during His lifetime ( the " Icon-Made-Without-Hands ") and of Icons of the Most-Holy Theotokos immediately after Him.

Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.

Thus, Judaism views Muslims as righteous people of God.

Thus, God caused a plant to grow where Jonah was lying to provide shade and comfort for him.

Thus, Muhammad, by saying this, clearly made it a point to the Arabs to not make any distinction between the great apostles of God.

Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.