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• Calvinism
  ...ity with the Lutherans. With them, in words, he taught the universality of God's good will; but it was a universality which he extended only to the <em> off ...hreefold economy: (1) Theeconomy before the law; (2) The economy under the law; (3) The economy of the Gospel. See his Summa Doctrine de Feedere et Testam
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• Abraham
  ...ousness"; but the faith that justified him was evinced, by his offering at God's command his son, to be not a dead but a living "faith that works by love." ...l persons with whom modern Christians are privileged to join in witness to God's power and his plan of salvation through Christ. While Christians can rejoic
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• Book Of Exodus
  ...y established his covenant with Israel as his chosen people, giving them a law-code and a religious order to govern their national life. The instructions ...of God's people prepares for worship (&nbsp;Exodus 40:1-33 ). </p> <p> E. God's presence fills the worship place continually for His obedient people (&nbsp
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• Propitiation
  ...ness rather than in any definite legal obligation; the Pauline idea of the law of righteousness is absent. If a Pauline philosophy of redemption lies behi ...do not mean by God's anger, any such passion, but the just declaration of God's will to punish, upon our provocation of him by our sins; we do not make the
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• Prophet
  ...parted and lots cast for His vesture," "His ears opened" to "come" and "do God's will" at all costs, when God would not have animal "sacrifice" (Psalm 22; P ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an
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• Salvation
  ...sp;Galatians 3:8 ). </p> <p> The objective basis and means of salvation is God's sovereign and gracious choice to be "God with us" in the person of Jesus Ch ...te us from God's love in Christ (&nbsp;Romans 8:35-39 ). [[Confidence]] in God's ability to keep those who have entrusted their lives to Christ is not, howe
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• Satan
  ...mission, faith, and so his end being blessed, as in Job's case. Man can in God's strength "resist Satan" (&nbsp;James 4:7); by withholding consent of the wi ...e sinner is translated out of "the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son." (&nbsp;Colossians 1:13) </p> <p> And there is another and a open
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• Regeneration
  ...4 ). The law of God has its place in producing this conviction of sin; but law alone will not produce spiritual contrition. See Repentance. For this there ...(&nbsp;Ephesians 2:1 ). [[Left]] to themselves, human beings will corrupt God's revelation of Himself and turn to gross forms of disobedience (&nbsp;Romans
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• Circumcision
  ...hether the members of that church were not seeking to be "justified by the law" upon their observing "days, and months, and times, and years." Had he done ...κατατέμνειν is used in the Septuagintof incisions forbidden by the Mosaic Law: <i> e.g. </i> κατετέμνοντο κατὰ τὸν ἐθισμὸν
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• Anthropology
  ...ndividuals. God's knowledge of people is intimate, personal, and profound. God's love is offered to human beings individually. The relationship between huma ...y must limit itself to a period of time inside of 100,000 years" (Orr, <i> God's Image </i> , etc., 176). Professor Tait of [[Edinburgh]] limited the range
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• Will Of God
  ...decision making. We are left "in the middle, " knowing that we are to seek God's guidance through the Scriptures, prayer, the counsel of Christian leaders,
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• Life
  ...protects the believer (&nbsp;Romans 8:7-39; &nbsp;Ephesians 6:10-18 ). The Law threatens this life by tempting people to believe that they can attain this ...is drained from the body, so is life. The connection is so strong that the law forbade the consumption of blood or meat with blood in it (&nbsp;Genesis 9:
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• Christianity
  ...precedents, Greek philosophy and intellectual habitudes, Roman polity and law, the superstitious ideas and observances of paganism—must be taken into a ...Jericho; Apollos, distinguished for eloquence; Paul, learned in the Jewish law; [[Sergius]] Paulus, governor of the island of Cyprus; Cornelius, a Roman c
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• Talmud
  ...36). It is clear from this that the Written Law of the Bible, and the Oral Law as contained in the Talmud, are of equal authority. The Talmud is again ref ...developed system for settling disputed questions of <i> halakah </i> (oral law). It includes commentary on all six major divisions of the Mishnah, but del
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• Priest
  ...parable in fact with that of the Rabbis, the masters and expounders of the Law. A sacrificial priest becomes an anachronism when his duties are in abeyanc ...receive is the redemption money of the firstborn, the right of taking the law from the chest, and of pronouncing the benediction in the synagogue. From s
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• Nehemiah
  ...arrying the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite. [[Zeal]] for the purity of God's worship, priesthood, and people, makes the act praiseworthy as one of faith ...<p> O. God's day must be respected (&nbsp;Nehemiah 13:15-22 ). </p> <p> P. God's way demands purity in marriage and in ministers (&nbsp;Nehemiah 13:23-31 ).
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• Christology Christ
  ...erse (‘and from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses, by him is justified every one that believeth’) St. Paul seems t ...ing into his family. Since Christ is the goal and end of the Old Testament Law, so "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through
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• Glory
  ...<i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> . </p> <p> [[Robert]] Law. </p> ...nd acknowledge it. In a number of passages it is difficult to know whether God's glory refers to his actual glory or to human recognition of it. This is tru
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• Aaron
  ...tainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his pontifical robes, and put them upo ...s, require here to be pointed out. </p> <p> Before the promulgation of the law by Moses, the fathers of every family, and the princes of every tribe, were
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• Elisha
  ...the law, foreruns the gentler Elisha, so John the greatest prophet of the law foreruns Jesus the gracious Savior. </p> ...s God (cf. &nbsp;Daniel 12:2 ), when they are brought into connection with God's true Prophet they will be restored to life as unexpectedly and as powerfull
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