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• Education In Bible Times
  ...lias, ed., <i> Psychology and Religious Education </i> ; T. H. Groome, <i> Christian Religious Education </i> ; M. Haran, <i> VTSup </i> 40 (1988): 81-95; <i> I .... </p> <p> In New Testament times churches met in the homes of members and Christian teaching was done there (&nbsp;Romans 16:3-5 ). </p> <p> While the synagogu
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• Crucifixion
  ...ir bodies taken down from the crosses ere 6 o’clock that evening, when the Sabbath would begin. [[Pilate]] consented, and the soldiers set about the brutal wo ...s the day following our Lord’s crucifixion was not only a Sabbath, but the Sabbath of [[Passover]] week, Pilate was persuaded to give orders that Jesus and th
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• Feasting
  ...ee Classical Dictionaries: E. Hatch, <i> The [[Organization]] of the Early Christian Churches </i> , 1881, Lecture ii. (gives reference to associations.); W. M.
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• Theology Of John
  ...find their perfect realization and issue in a consummation yet to come. No Christian teacher has understood the deep-lying unity between the material and the sp ...hn emphasizes the blessed presence of Jesus in Spirit and his gifts in the Christian community now. The church need not live troubled by Jesus' absence while it
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• Holiness
  ...the Bible; Issel, <i> Der Begriff d. Heiligkeit im NT </i> ; Askwith, <i> Christian [[Conception]] of Holiness </i> . </p> <p> J. G. Tasker. </p> ...es, sacrifices, and all that belonged to the Jewish church. And, under the Christian dispensation, every thing found in the simple services of Christ's church i
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• Congregationalists
  ...hes in the United States, in 1889, were 4569; members, 475,608; numbers in Sabbath-schools, 580,672; ministers, 3300. These figures do not include over 200 ch
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• Feast Of Pentecost
  ...st had been distinctly connected with the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So in Christian times its dependence on the [[Passover]] sacrifice of Christ, which led to
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• Norway
  .... Hist. 18th and -19th Centuries (see Index in vol. ii); Maclear, Hist. of Christian [[Missions]] in the Mid. Ages; Brit. and For. Ev. Rev. Oct. 1868, art. iii, ...unified by Harold Haarfager (A.D. 863-930), and subsequently welded into a Christian kingdom by his descendant St. Olaf. From 1536 it was held as a conquered pr
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• Apocryphal Acts
  ...in a manly voice denounced Simon and made him speechless until the next [[Sabbath]] day. Christ appeared in a vision of the night encouraging Peter, who when
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• Epistle To The Colossians
  ...ied form, recognizing a genuine Pauline Epistle, directed against a Jewish-Christian theosophy, but regarding it as having been expanded by a 2nd-cent. writer ( ...posed ordinances ‘Touch not, taste not, handle not’ is a life to which the Christian has died in Christ. He has risen to a new life whose centre and secret are
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• Rome
  ...ncient]] Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, do., 1889, [[Pagan]] and Christian Rome, do., 1892, and Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome, do., 1897. The ...atacombs is A.D. 71. </p> <p> Nothing is known of the first founder of the Christian Church at Rome. [[Christianity]] may, perhaps, have been introduced into th
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• Crime; Crimes
  ..., <i> ''''' blasphēmı́a ''''' </i> ) is represented as entirely unworthy a Christian character (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:31; &nbsp;1 Peter 4:4 , &nbsp;1 Peter 4:14; &n
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• Bishop Of Smyrna Polycarpus
  ...lebrated the martyrdom. But we do not know why Feb. 23 should be a "great" Sabbath. We believe the true explanation to be that the Latin date in this note is ...s,+bishop+of+smyrna Bishop Of Smyrna Polycarpus from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Authority In Religion
  ...al authority, so every individual was designed to be, and every individual Christian is, an executive agent of the Godhead. It is His constant contention that i ..., they posited the inerrancy and infallibility of the Bible, and the whole Christian faith was founded upon that dogma. "Holy Scripture is the judge, or rather
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• Law Of Moses
  ...g in. The law did not come up to the responsibilities of Christianity. The Christian has a higher standard, even Christ Himself. He is to walk 'worthy of the Lo ...Land Of Egypt."'' (Compare also the reason given for the observance of the Sabbath in &nbsp;Deuteronomy 5:15; and the historical prefaces of the delivery of t
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• Methodist Episcopal Church In Canada
  ...h Church property amounting to $2,149,776. Great attention is given to the Sabbath-school work. As nearly as can be estimated, from reports at hand, there are
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• Law Of God
  ...as Son of Man, He no less emphatically asserted His right to interpret the Sabbath law in the interest of man, for whose benefit it was framed (&nbsp;John 5:1
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• Animals
  ...tions (&nbsp;Leviticus 5:2 ) and were covered by the law of firstlings and Sabbath rest (&nbsp;Exodus 13:12; &nbsp;Exodus 20:12 ). Bullocks and calves were us ...14:5 ) and argued from this that he should free people from illness on the Sabbath. This sense of responsibility for the welfare of animals is summed up in &n
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...st observance of the law is enforced. The violation of the sanctity of the Sabbath countenanced under special circumstances in 1 Macc (2:39-48) is absolutely
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• Samaritan Liturgy.
  ...the next Sabbath, the women of the family watching near the grave. On the Sabbath it is visited by the whole congregation (except the near relations), who ea
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