Messianic claim

It is unclear whether their leaders made messianic claims.

They left out the commonplace saying to leave the emphasis on Jesus's apparent messianic claim.

There he again met Molcho, who had traveled to the East and made messianic claims.

And, of course, the more of them he fulfils, the more substantial becomes his own Messianic claim.

If this legal right could have been questioned Jesus' messianic claim would have been undercut immediately.

Between the years 1998-2004, the messianists have garnered support from rabbis to issue a Rabbinic ruling supporting their messianic claims.

It was alleged that these amulets recognized the messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi.

The messianic claim, Rabbi Schach said, was "total heresy," adding that those making it "will burn in hell."

The messianic claim of Ghulam Ahmad, in: Messianism, eds.

Others see Jesus as a teacher who worked with the gentiles and ascribe the messianic claims that Jews find objectionable to his later followers.

After the first tokens had been given that the nation would reject His Messianic claims, He had shunned all public recognition of them.

Sabbatai befriended Raphael Joseph, who became a supporter and promoter of his Messianic claims.

His involvement with Judaism led him to gematria, and a belief in Sabbatai Zevi, which may not have extended to his messianic claims.

He composed numerous letters and books in which he stated his messianic claims and defined his teachings, which constituted a new sharí'ah or religious law.

Sabbatai at once made the acquaintance of Raphael Joseph, who became one of the most zealous promulgators of his Messianic claims.

According to Justin Martyr and Eusebius, that had to do mostly with Christian converts, who opposed bar Kokhba's messianic claims.

The Messianic claim was less significant than the claim to divinity which caused the high priest's horrified accusation of blasphemy and the subsequent call for the death sentence.

However, he rejected the Shah's messianic claims and died before the latter put to death the Sunni scholars of the city for refusing to convert to the official creed.

I reflected on how many times I had encountered similar stories, especially among successful and thoughtful Jewish people who had specifically set out to refute Jesus' messianic claims.

In May 2012, Kurginyan published the book "Essence of Time: Philosophical justification of messianic claims of Russia in the 21st century".

The inference from Josephus is that Jesus was a Jewish sectarian with messianic claims and a substantial following which had survived his extinction: a nuisance to the empire, in fact.

In light of this, I asked Witherington, "Do you see any possible way this could have developed-especially so soon-if Jesus had never made transcendent and messianic claims about himself?"

The readiness of the Jews to believe the messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi may largely be explained by the desperate state of European Jewry in the mid-17th century.

And in an urgent Yechidus with Rabbi Tuvia Peles, the Rebbe rebuked those who were making Messianic claims about him, saying "they are taking a knife to my heart."

John endeavored to demonstrate from the Bible the Messianic claims and the divinity of Jesus, and the truth of the dogma of the Trinity and of other Christian doctrines.