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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...ved by vision or prophecy; in His own name He supplied what was wanting in Law and Prophets. He did not pronounce any book in Itself adequate to determine ...Epiphanes (168 B.C.) in persecuting the Jews sought out "the books of the law" and burnt them ( 1 Maccabees 1:56). To possess a book of the covenant
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• Biblical Theology
  ...tical theories. This is not to denigrate scholarship but to recognize that God's word, if living and true, calls for substantially (not totally) different a ...[[Return]] and the Maccabees, in which are seen at work the [[Levitical]] law, and various anti-legal tendencies. It must be obvious that attempts to int
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• Isaac
  ...common title (See [[Abimelech]] , i.e. my father a king. Isaac had obeyed God's vision in not going down to Egypt, a place of spiritual danger though abund ...er should serve the younger, but Rebekah, instead of leaving the matter in God's hands, contrived by a deceitful stratagem to get the blessing for Jacob ins
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• Heart
  ...remiah 17:1 ). In short, the heart needs to be educated by filling it with God's word ( Proverbs 22:17-18 ). In that way a person will grow in favor an ...e where God does His work in the individual. For instance, the work of the law is “written in their hearts,” and conscience is the proof of this (&nbs
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• The Johannine Theology
  ...al of the absoluteness of moral obligation, the repudiation of the eternal law upon which all moral life is based. In other words, to sin is to assert one
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• Blasphemy
  ...against any of the false gods whom his [[Egyptian]] father worshipped,—the law in the words now quoted is sufficiently explicit; and the circumstances of ...and God (εἰς Μωσῆν καὶ τὸν θεόν). </p> <p> According to the [[Levitical]] law the punishment for blaspheming the name of [[Jahweh]] was death by stoning
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• Paul
  ...nst the Christians. He considered that [[Stephen]] was a rebel against the law and that therefore he deserved execution (&nbsp;Acts 6:13; &nbsp;Acts 7:58; ...of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee’ (&nbsp;Philippians 3:5); and these terms betoken an intensel
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• Ezra
  ...f the Jewish people. Ezra is the true founder of Judaism. By investing the Law with a sanctity and influence that it had never before possessed, and makin ...of Jerusalem was rebuilt (&nbsp;Nehemiah 6:15), after which Ezra read the law to the people and explained its meaning (&nbsp;Nehemiah 8:1-2; &nbsp;Nehemi
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• Vicarious Sacrifice
  ...e sins of many (&nbsp;Hebrews 9:28). </p> <p> ‘Not the satisfaction of the law, the removal of the curse, the endurance of the penalty of sin, but a Divin
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• Wisdom
  ...omen who should decry love.… It is the forgetfulness of this psychological law which stultifies the so-called liberal Christianity. It is the realisation ...iestly ritual, ‘wisdom’ came to be defined as observance of the [[Mosaic]] Law ( Sir 19:20-24; Sir 24:23 ). </p> <p> On its Divine side, ‘wisdom’ was
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• Election Elect
  ...disciples’ preaching than the Jews, since to the latter had been given the Law and the Prophets. The justness of the objection may be granted. But against ...timate ends, but they suffer the consequences that attend the rejection of God's will. </p> <p> [[Walter]] A. Elwell </p> <p> <i> See also </i> Israel; Mess
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• Book Of Job
  ...s Job had. They must take a sacrifice, and Job must pray for them: Job was God's servant, and him God would accept. God blessed his latter end more than the ...ighteous?" and so the book is resolved into a theodicy, a justification of God's ways with man. Well the friends of Job do their best to make their interpre
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• Evil
  ...osition) sent by God that eventually destroyed Saul. The spirit, then, was God's instrument of judgment on Saul because of his rebellious attitude. Morally, ...for the perfection and order of the whole creation; only they, contrary to God's intention and command, have abused what was necessary for the perfection of
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• Josiah
  ...se in Jerusalem the three from Babylon were guests, from whom Zechariah by God's command took silver and gold to make crowns for the high priest Joshua's he ...ah gathered Jerusalem’s leading citizens together at the temple, where the law was read to them. He gained their support in renewing the nation’s covena
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• Image
  ...o those which follow, is found in &nbsp;Hebrews 10:1, where the [[Mosaic]] Law is spoken of as being a mere ‘shadow’ of the coming bliss, instead of r ...references to graven and molten images connected with idolatry, which the law strictly forbade the [[Israelites]] to make, the word is used in several im
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...God was thrown open by ‘another priest, who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life’ (&n ...</i> — they are taken into consideration, and hence their perversities and God's chastisements are prominent. These lead, in their spiritual significance, t
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• Spirit
  ...<p> The Spirit distributes gifts in the church which are designed to equip God's people for serving and building up the body of Christ (&nbsp;1 Corinthians ...rs must worship in spirit and in truth" (&nbsp;John 4:24 ). </p> <p> While God's Spirit is holy, reference is made to unclean, evil, and demonic spirits tha
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• Jewish. Scribes
  ...the Syrians, and check [[Hellenistic]] luxuries, these two doctors of the law enacted that contact with the soil of any foreign country, and the use of g
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• Light
  ...equence, infallible as the foundations of the universe and Nature’s oldest law, the light <i> returns </i> on you, this time, with <i> lightning </i> ’ ...bsp;Psalm 27:1; &nbsp;Isaiah 9:2; &nbsp;2 Corinthians 4:6 ) in contrast to God's judgment (&nbsp;Amos 5:18 ). Throughout the Old Testament light is regularl
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• Blood
  ...oth in the heavens and upon earth. Even the balance of nature will reflect God's hand of judgment as Christ takes up His reign. Nature off balance reflects ...d the flesh of animals to be a source of food for human beings, but in the law he set out for Israel, those who took an animal’s life had to acknowledge
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