Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character, state, or office of Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the world: also used of pretenders to a similar office or mission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or office of the Messiah.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Having the position of, or being ordained by God as
messiah . - noun His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of messiahship.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of messiah
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Examples
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Similarly, his support of Alroys messiahship is tinged with jealousy, he himself having failed a generation earlier to lead the people: I recall the glorious rapture of that sacred strife amid the rocks of Caucasus.
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Rabbi Boteach retorted that if Rabbi Wolf read his book he would see that in it he explicitly renounces Jesus' divinity and claims of messiahship, and rather embraces the Jesus that was Torah observant.
Eliyahu Federman: Shoving 'Kosher Jesus' Down Jews' Throats Eliyahu Federman 2012
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Although the book disclaims Jesus' divinity and messiahship, it also calls for the true Jesus to be embraced by Jews.
Eliyahu Federman: Shoving 'Kosher Jesus' Down Jews' Throats Eliyahu Federman 2012
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Rabbi Boteach retorted that if Rabbi Wolf read his book he would see that in it he explicitly renounces Jesus' divinity and claims of messiahship, and rather embraces the Jesus that was Torah observant.
Eliyahu Federman: Shoving 'Kosher Jesus' Down Jews' Throats Eliyahu Federman 2012
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Third, the book offers the textual proofs as to why Jews reject the divinity and messiahship of Jesus so that both Jews and Christians are well aware of what we can never embrace about Jesus.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: In The Discussion Of Jesus, Jews Should Go On Offense Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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Third, the book offers the textual proofs as to why Jews reject the divinity and messiahship of Jesus so that both Jews and Christians are well aware of what we can never embrace about Jesus.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: In The Discussion Of Jesus, Jews Should Go On Offense Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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Although the book disclaims Jesus' divinity and messiahship, it also calls for the true Jesus to be embraced by Jews.
Eliyahu Federman: Shoving 'Kosher Jesus' Down Jews' Throats Eliyahu Federman 2012
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Third, the book offers the textual proofs as to why Jews reject the divinity and messiahship of Jesus so that both Jews and Christians are well aware of what we can never embrace about Jesus.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: In The Discussion Of Jesus, Jews Should Go On Offense Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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Rosen founded Jews for Jesus in 1973 as an organization to "make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide," as stated on the group's website.
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But in trade, sovereign states became subject provinces and we all became property of a strong central government with delusions of messiahship.
Battlefield Earth Steve Perry 2010
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