Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

Thus, man then directs his path to that One, and the love for, and of, Christ guides man's very nature to become centered on the One, and on his neighbor as well.

Thus to kiss an icon of Christ, in the Eastern Orthodox view, is to show love towards Christ Jesus himself, not mere wood and paint making up the physical substance of the icon.

Thus fallen humanity is in need of the redemption that can be found in Christ.

Thus in Greek Joshua is called " Jesus son of Naue " () to differentiate him from Jesus Christ.

* " Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Thus, for Christians, Christ himself is the only high priest, and Christians have no priesthood independent or distinct from participation in the priesthood of Christ, the head of the Church.

Thus Andrew Lloyd Webber created two popular musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which filled traditional biblical stories with modern-day sensibilities ; and on a similar note, Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story shows a field of maize-corn in a Nazareth farming scene.

Thus, all who are truly born again are kept by God the Father for Jesus Christ, and can neither totally nor finally fall from the state of grace, but will persevere in their faith to the end, and be eternally saved.

Thus each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ ... The sufferings of Christ created the good of the world's redemption.

Thus its view is called conditional predestination, since the predetermination of the destiny of individuals is based on God's foreknowledge of the way in which they will either freely reject Christ or freely accept him.

Thus, from Eliade's perspective, the Christ story becomes the perfect myth for modern man.

Thus a cask standing on end represents the mountain on which Christ is tempted by the Devil ; thunder is imitated by the report of a gun ; in order to signify that the Devil had entered into him, Judas holds a bird of black plumage before his mouth and makes it flutter.

Thus 1 Corinthians 4: 1: " No one should regard us as anything else than ministers of Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God.

Thus the Orthodox emphasis would be that Christ died, not to appease an angry and vindictive Father, or to avert the wrath of God, but to change people so that they may become divine, that is to say, become God in his energies or operations but not in his essence or identity as God ( see theosis ).

Thus the controversy finally shifted to a speculative theological question: whether or not it was consonant with Catholic Faith to hold that Christ and the Apostles had no property individually or in common ; and while in the famous dispute at Narbonne in 1321 the inquisitor, John of Belna, claimed that it was heretical, Berengarius of Perpignan declared it a Catholic dogma in perfect accordance with the decretals of Nicholas III and Clement V.

Thus, the Lord ’ s recovery is the recovery of Christ as everything to us.

Thus, for instance, in “ The Dream of the Rood ” Christ is presented as a " heroic warrior, eagerly leaping on the Cross to do battle with death ; the Cross is a loyal retainer who is painfully and paradoxically forced to participate in his Lord's execution.

Thus, Sargon of Akkad described himself as " deputy of Ishtar ", just as the Pope is considered the " Vicar of Christ ".

Thus, one who refuses these other things has not complied with the biblical conditions for salvation, even if they do believe in Christ.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Thus there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus, the need for the B-70 as a strategic weapon system is doubtful.

Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.

Thus, there is an added incentive to stay on the job.

Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.

Thus T is not diagonalizable.

Thus Af is divisible by the minimal polynomial P of T, i.e., Af divides Af.

Thus, the study of the solutions to the equation Af is reduced to the study of the space of solutions of a differential equation of the form Af.

Thus in the three-dice example Af, Af, and the independence assumption imply that the probability that the three dice fall ace, not-ace, ace in that order is Af.

Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, and the random variable is not the number of successes.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.