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Atonement
...; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Christ was first elaborated, that this ‘met the spiritual need of the conversion ...t once for all’ (  Hebrews 10:10 ). See Propitiation, Reconciliation, Redemption. James Orr. 

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Redemption
...the liveliest gratitude. [[Whence]] ‘the church of God’ was thus acquired ‘by means of his own blood,’ we learn from the new songs of the Apocalypse. I ...[[Sin]] no longer has power over them, and they must show this to be true by the way they live ( Romans 8:2;  Galatians 3:13-14;  Galatia

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Jesus Christ
...nt of view, can be assigned its proper place in the scheme. Further, it is by no means clear that we are right in supposing that there was a JudÃ¦an mi ...;  21:15-16;  28:9,17 ). The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the

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Christianity
...iedel in the Encyc. Bibl . i. 752 ff., and that on ‘Christianity’ by T. M. [[Lindsay]] in the Encyc. Brit .9 [Note: designates the part ...h must have destroyed it, if it had not been founded in truth, and guarded by the protection of an almighty Providence. 

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Justification
...e. It is with reason that Schleiermacher speaks of the communication which Christ makes of Himself to believers as moulding t ...us," that is, being placed by an act of free forgiveness, through faith in Christ, in the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of th

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Church
...be a general resurrection, after which the wicked world would be destroyed by fire and the good would receive immortality. Some Church teachers regarded ...chal]] feast (  1 Corinthians 5:8 , cf.   Hebrews 13:10-16 ). In Christ those who are now fellow-citizens have a common access to the Father (&nbsp

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Baptism
...ing forth of Barnabas and Saul. (γ) The tasting of milk and honey by the newly-baptized after baptism (and communion) seems originally to have b ...with water and the Holy Spirit). As the ranks of the faithful are thinned by death (natural or violent), others step forward to be baptized to take thei

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Faith
...akes a believer a sharer in Christ’s salvation, makes him also a sharer in Christ’s mind and character. Literature.-H. Bushnell, The New Life ...t, and calls forth a full and satisfied faith, when beheld ‘in the face of Christ’ ( Rom 5:8 ,   2 Corinthians 4:6;   2 Corinthians 5:18-21 ). </

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Mediator
...ted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself’; the Cross, followed by the Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. ...ffectual for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled th

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Resurrection
...ne and the Johannine doctrine of the resurrection failed to be apprehended by the Church as a whole, although individuals such as Ignatius show clear tra ...Millennium.]] For the Resurrection of Christ, see, further, Jesus Christ, p. 456 ff. J. R. Willis. 

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Sanctification
...forces that prevent the influx of the new life are broken and overcome one by one ( Romans 8:13,  1 Thessalonians 3:10;  1 Thessalonians 4 ...llen See also [[Ethics]]; [[Spirituality]]; [[Union With Christ]] Bibliography . D. L. Alexander, ed., Christian Spir

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Messiah
...es the most representative type of Messianic expectation, if we understand by that term an anointed Jewish king who was to be the national deliverer. Thi ...d illustration of this is to be seen in the Johannine literature. Here the Christ is identified with the Logos, and His entire career is viewed as an illustr

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Offices Of Christ
...Introduction; Dorner, The Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ . ...ation, in which the three offices are not found constantly connected. Thus Christ remains in all respects, inseparably, the Revealer of the Father to man, th

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Death Of Christ
...ng to sin become alive unto God. Literature.—Denney, Death of Christ, Studies in Theol . chs. v., vi., Expositor , VI. iv. [1901] ...tt, The Cross of Christ ; R. S. Wallace, The Atoning Death of Christ . 

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Trinity
...f metaphysical abstraction. "God is a God that hideth himself." "We cannot by searching find out God." "Behold, God is great, and we know him not," ...ulation, we are confronted with this fact. It was regarded as a revelation by the men who shaped its intellectual expression; and it was only in the proc

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Sacrifice
...Apostolic Age2, do., 1897; W. H. Ward, ‘The NT Doctrine of the Relation of Christ’s Death ...of the devil and his prison of hell, remediless forever without mercy, nor by His mercy deliver us clearly without justice or payment of a just ransom; b

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Christology Christ
...versos in Psalms 16, he was guided in the interpretation he gave of v. 10 by any tradition concerning the Messiah. Nor was there in the fact of resurrec ...ed]] Messiah ; TAB, pp. 69-134; V. Taylor, The Person of Christ in New Testament Teaching ; J. Wenham, Redating Matthew, Mark and

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Christology
...rtment of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ. [[Christology]] . See Person of Christ. 

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Redemption Redeem
...ns]] in Theology, 1:15-80; B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ . ...demption from," the genitive case being used of the object from which the "redemption" is effected, not from the consequence of the transgressions, but from the

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Christ In The Middle Ages
Christ In The Middle Ages <ref name="term_55373" /> ...[Christi]] , 1853 (also English translation); works on Church History by [[K.]] Müller, Moller, Gieseler, Neander, Schaff, and Hase; art. on ‘Chr

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Worship
...ook of Hebrews, by means of typological interpretation, demonstrated Jesus Christ as the greater high priest (chaps. 5,7), the more perfect temple (chap. 9), ...ature of the Christian worship. The connection of the moments, represented by these signs, with the whole Christian life, the connection of inward and di

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Person Of Christ
...elp for the intelligence in the view that while a certain subordination of Christ indubitably forms part of NT teaching, we may still think of Him as being o [[Christology Christ]][[Jesus Christ]]

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Salvation
...hua is found also in  Sirach 46:1, and in Philo, who explains it by σωτηρία κυρίου ( de Mut. Nom . 21). The meaning of &n ...Biblical [[Doctrine]] of Salvation ; J. R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ . 

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Adoption
...assim (the general subject or this magnificent work is the Sonship of Christ); J. Pearson, On the Creed (ed. Burton, Oxford, 1864), articlei. p ...grace through Jesus Christ.  Ephesians 1:5 . [[Applied]] to believers by the Holy Spirit,  Galatians 4:6 .  Romans 8:15-16 . A blessing of

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Antichrist
...through the flames once more, Antichrist was the Roman Empire represented by a ruler who was hostile to Christianity because it refused to worship him a ...n is the premature counterfeit of the true unity, only to be realized when Christ, God's true [[Vicar]] on earth, shall appear, and all the earth shall "in a

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Miracles
...s see Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) and Dict. of Christ and the Gospels as above. A. J. Maclean. ...octrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradict Himself ( Deuteronomy 13:1-5;  G

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Incarnation
...at Christ was a truly human Person, and they were all decisively negatived by the Church in language which no doubt shows a distinct advance in theologic ...incarnate, was one Person in two natures—fully divine and fully human. See Christ. [[Walter]] D. Draughon III 

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Priest
...coat and a white cap ( Exodus 28:40-43). The high priest’s clothing, by contrast, was both distinctive and colourful. ...omans 10:5,  1 Corinthians 9:16; cf.  John 17:18), and selection by church leaders or ‘men of repute,’ with the consent of the church (&nbs

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Grace
...the mental part, but all the parts of a man’s self.]and of such a soul in Christ, like that of the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father.||[Note: | &n ...ng us to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and [[Savior]] Jesus Christ." The Book of Revelation also begins with a salutation and closes with a be

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Christ In Reformation Theology
Christ In Reformation Theology <ref name="term_55370" /> ...gious experience proved that alike in prayer, in worship, and in teaching, Christ filled the whole sphere of God. Jesus was God appearing in history and addr

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Sabbath
...the possession. Beside, he intended to inculcate humanity upon his people, by commanding that they should resign to the slaves, the poor, and the strange ...e Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the desir

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Reconciliation
...i> (v.); art. ‘Reconciliation’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; works by Stevens and Denney cited above. See also F. W. Robertson, Serm . i ...s, then, for us to be reconciled to God is to avail ourselves of the means by which the anger of God toward us is to be appeased, which the New [[Testame

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God
...ne of thought that produced the Fourth Gospel; and not to have been spoken by our Lord. (3) In support of this it is urged that as a matter of fact, the ...here suffice. It is perhaps enough to show that the revelation which Jesus Christ made caused an immeasurable enlargement of the world’s conception of God.

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Imputation
...may be defined thus: it is God's gracious donation of the righteousness of Christ to believers, and his acceptance of their persons as righteous on the accou ...of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.''' '''(3):''' ''' The act of imputing or charging; attribution; a

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Christ
...usand worlds. Surely, the reader will never think of the subject, in which Christ appears thus lovely and endeared, without crying out with the apostle, "Tha Some types of CHRIST: Aaron,  Exodus 28:2 (c) Adam,  Genesis 5:2 (c)

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Covenant
...iatory interpretation of the Saviour’s death (cf. Denney, The Death of Christ , pp. 65–85, where the preceding points are luminously discussed). < .../i> ; J. Murray, The Covenant of Grace ; O. P. Robertson, The Christ of the Covenants ; G. Van Groningen, MessianicRevelation in the Ol

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Ascension
...rist,’ ib. ii.; A. S. Martin, article‘Ascension,’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospels i.; J. G. Simpson, article‘Ascension,’ in Hast ...:39 ). An eternal character is thus given to the sacrifice of the death of Christ, which becomes efficacious through the exaltation of His crucified and rise

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Apostle
...le,’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) , Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] , Encyclopaedia Biblica , and Encyclo ...by men to maintain the law of Moses, but now an Apostle and envoy of Jesus Christ. &c. St. Jerom, though he does not believe that St. Paul had been

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Inspiration
...they say, asserts that the doctrines of Christianity were revealed to him by the almighty agency of God himself; and, finally, that the inspiration of t ...and the Bible , by R. F. Horton; A Tenable Theory of Insp ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s The Bible: its Origin a

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Gnosticism
...ficult to determine to what extent Christianity was permanently influenced by Gnosticism. Theological prejudice will always affect the answer, and some w ...however, large extracts from his independent reading of Gnostic works; and by Epiphanius, who also gives a few valuable additions from other sources. The

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Preaching Christ
Preaching Christ <ref name="term_56927" /> ...ouls: they live in Him, and all the functions of their life are determined by Him. St. Paul has confidence in the Lord toward the Thessalonians

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Parousia
...erations will be manifested at the visitation (ἐπισκοπῇ) of the Kingdom of Christ; the combination of  Isaiah 26:20 and  Ezekiel 37:12, possibly fr ...ich it will occur; but among those who still await a literal appearance of Christ in the air it is usual to regard the Parousia as likely to occur immediatel

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Gospel
...’ (cf. the Scots [[Paraphrase]] [56], ‘Thus faith approves itself sincere, by active virtue crowned’). But white all real opposition between the apostl ...> See also [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Faith]]; [[Grace]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Kerygma]] ; [[Salvation]] Bibliography . W.

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Love
...reserved for the description of the attitude of the world towards God and Christ and believers. The hatred of the world explains the righteous wrath of God ...d [[Testament]] the special love that God had for [[Israel]] was signified by the Hebrew word chesed. It is difficult to find an exact equivalent of this

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Book Of Ephesians
...k in wisdom ( Ephesians 5:15-21 ). [[C.]] The application of redemption in domestic life ( Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ) 1. [[Mutual]] duties

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Mary
...trong> (  Acts 12:12 ). 6. Mary , saluted by St. Paul (  Romans 16:6 ). [[Charles]] T. P. Grierson. ...ole united persons of the GODHEAD for those wonders of redemption by Jesus Christ. "Thanks be unto God, I would say, (will not the reader join my spirit in i

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Propitiation
...ayer of [[Manasseh]] 1:2, London, 1906, p. 31 ff.; J. Denney, The Death of Christ, do., 1902; G. Smeaton, The Apostles’ Doctrine of Atonement, Edinburgh, 1 ...but to be the vindication of the honour and rights of the offended person by such a way as he himself shall judge satisfactory to the ends of his govern

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Christ In Art
Christ In Art <ref name="term_55346" /> ...hn , Appendix iii., cites the Patristic authorities. The dictionaries by Smith-Cheetham ( [[Dc]] [[A]] [Note: [[Ca]] Dictionary of Christia

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Resurrection Of Christ
...in the NT, corroboration of the fact may be derived from the light thrown by it on what we are told of the Lord’s brethren after the Resurrection. Tha ...t especially a small but admirable [[Essay]] on the Resurrection of Christ by Mr. Dore. Bish. Horsely. 

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Regeneration
...in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)by J. V. Bartlet, in Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsby J. Denney, and literature there cited; works on NT Theolo ...nto the life the experience of the newborn child of God. ‘If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are bec

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Ethics
...quire knowledge of its own powers and mission. The new ideal was protected by its very unpopularity. Meanwhile there was the attempt to live a life of lo .... O. White See also [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[T

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Predestination
...re drawn up by Professor Whitaker; and though they were afterward approved by Archbishop Whitgift, and six or eight of the inferior clergy, in a meeting ...to Him when unknown to man-in every community and every congregation where Christ is preached, is an encouragement to faithful ministry, as it was to St. Pau

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Passover
...al connection of Christianity and Judaism is indubitably signified as year by year at the same time the Christian keeps Easter and the Jew Passover-thoug ...sp;Mark 14:8;  Mark 14:10-11). Christ's blood must be sprinkled on us by the hyssop of faith, else guilt and wrath remain ( Isaiah 53:7;  

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Christ In Modern Thought
Christ In Modern Thought <ref name="term_55375" /> ...on the meaning of the expression ‘Son of Man,’ he strives to reconstruct, by means of the historical data which the Gospels furnish us, the consciousnes

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Forgiveness
...also [[Atonement]]; [[Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit]]; [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Faith]]; [[Repentance]] Bibliography . A. Bü hler, ...John 19:30 ), is for this writer the guarantee not only that ‘the Death of Christ is the objective ground on which the sins of men are remitted’ (Dale, <em

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Body
...he bread which we break,’ he writes, ‘is it not a communion of the body of Christ?’ ( 1 Corinthians 10:16). In like manner he says that whosoever shal ...cal union of the individual with the Lord. The Bible knows of a union with Christ only as faith embodied in the realm of the church community and with the ch

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Head
...interesting light on the earlier ideas of the relation of the believer to Christ, even though they belong to the 2nd century. H. Wheeler Robinson. ...ership of ten mighty men, and that by these the world will be brought into complete subjection with the exception of GOD's people who refuse to thus bow. 

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Hope
...n ‘from heaven’ (  1 Thessalonians 1:9 f.), was half their religion. ‘By this hope’ were they ‘saved,’ being enabled in its strength to bear j ...eritance, so that we may finally come into full possession of the prize of redemption” ( Ephesians 1:14 Williams). “Hope never disappoints us; for throu

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Character Of Christ
Character Of Christ <ref name="term_55512" /> ...to His baptism, was spent within the family circle, and was characterized by two features. First, a loyal and affectionate discharge of the duties of a

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Law
...aw is new and glorified in his eyes; like Paul, he knows it as ‘the law of Christ.’ All the disciples of Jesus were one in the place they gave to that whic ...rnal punishment. It follows from this, that we have in the Gospel the most complete and perfect revelation of moral law ever given to men; and a more exact man

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Prayer
...beginning and close of Epistles. The NT closes with a threefold prayer for Christ’s coming (  Revelation 22:17;   Revelation 22:20 ). H. ...oes not know, nor add any thing to his essential and glorious perfections, by any services of ours; yet we should remember that he has appointed this as

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Mystery
...that is unquestionably historical, namely the claim for His teaching to be by revelation , a wisdom of God accessible to His ‘little ones’ t ...,   Luke 10:21 ). The communication of the gospel mystery is limited by the receptivity of the hearer, not the reserve of the speaker; addressed to

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Providence
...p. 147; Dykes, Manifesto of the King , p. 483; Dale, Laws of Christ , p. 157. J. C. Lambert. ...and wholly distinct from that general and incessant exertion of his power, by which he sustains the universe in existence. The doctrine of provi

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Calvinism
...marked how much like Calvin all those fathers speak whose words are quoted by Toplady in his "Historic Defence." Nor can the two Milners, in their "Histo ...ade Gottes (Elberf. 1631, 8vo). Writers on special topics, e. a. Election, Redemption, Predestination, etc., will be named under those heads respectively. (See A

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The Johannine Theology
...sed, indeed, in technical [[Levitical]] terms. The mode of action by which Christ accomplished and still accomplishes His mission as the Saviour of the world

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Moses
...nd the [[Gulf]] of Aqabah into the western part of the [[Arabian]] Desert. By such a decisive act, Moses demonstrated his total rejection of his Egyptian ...a certain plausibility, is that Jâ€³ [Note: Jahweh.] was a God recognized by Moses’ own tribe of Levi. From   Exodus 4:24;   Exodus 4:27 it

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Satan
...by God to fill up the lapsed places in the heavenly hierarchy, occasioned by the fall of Satan and his demons. ...n. It is also literally true that the light of the gospel and the power of Christ operate still in such cases to ‘destroy the works of darkness’ and expe

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Vicarious Sacrifice
...g to develop a righteous people, a holy race, and the process or method is by vicarious sacrifice. (2) In the [[Scriptures]] the doctrine is lar

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Blood
...o their Divine destination as children of God. The efficacy of the life of Christ thus given is continuous from the unseen world and in the purpose of God. T ...n earth. Even the balance of nature will reflect God's hand of judgment as Christ takes up His reign. Nature off balance reflects the disharmony between huma

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John The Baptist
...Himself. Literature.—Relative sections in works on Life of Christ by Neander, Keim, Renan, Weiss, Beyschlag, and Edersheim; Ewald, H I ...following criteria: The most general of them is the danger of being misled by false teachers,  3 John 1:3-4 . That which leads us nearer to the poin

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Parable
...rrowfully known to the owner; social relationship to the Kingdom indicated by the fact that the sheep was one of a hundred, the coin one of ten, and the

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Holiness
...His assurance that ‘in the world’ they should attain to holiness. Life in Christ is holiness. Literature.—In addition to the books mentioned in t ...is no otherwise holy, than as it derives that purity from Christ's person; Christ is all, and in all. Yea, heaven itself, into which Jesus is gone as the for

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Jerusalem
... 2 Chronicles 33:6). Jeremiah foretold God’s judgment on these people by announcing that in the place where they killed their children, they themsel ...hochab ("son of a star") who pretended to be the [[Messiah]] prophesied of by [[Balaam]] ( Numbers 24:17), "there shall come a star out of Jacob," w

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Cross
...e martyrdom, if called to it. The cross is also often put for the whole of Christ's sufferings,  Ephesians 2:16;  Hebrews 12:2; and the doctrine of ...rary. It was the wood; the wood they were to adore! Imbert replied, it was Christ, not the wood; for which he was cited before the archbishop of Bourdeaux, s

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Irenaeus
...Church, was coincident and conterminous with our own." But more then this, by the language which Irenaeus uses, we find the Church of his day harmonizing

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Irenæus
...Church, was coincident and conterminous with our own." But more then this, by the language which Irenaeus uses, we find the Church of his day harmonizing

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Transubstantiation
...Sacrament]] of the Lord's Supper;" and it has more recently been supported by Dr. Bell, in a treatise denominated "An Attempt to ascertain the Authority, ...4-25 . But we need not waste time in attempting to refute a doctrine which by its impious consequences refutes itself. See Smith's Errors of the

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Intercession
...ing, and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue, that faith may know what she obtains from the Lord, understanding w ...the complete deliverance that comes through salvation accomplished through Christ and notes that He is ever present in heaven to intercede for those who come

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Epistle To The Galatians
...e authenticity of the Epistle has been decisively rejected in this country by all the best critics. A. J. Maclean. ...style, and ofthe spiritual power of his argument. We see him deeply moved by the baneful influence of the Judaisers in Galatia and at their success. Ala

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Image
...52f., 60f.; H. R. Mackintosh, The [[Doctrine]] of the Person of Jesus Christ , 1912, pp. 65, 83; for man as the image of God, H. Wheeler Robinson, ...who will bear God’s image fully are those who by faith become united with Christ. Only Christians will be human as God intended. 

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Epistle To The Colossians
...ard Eng. work. Of recent Eng. [[Commentaries]] the most valuable are those by A. S. Peake ( Expositor’s Greek Testament , 1903), T. K. Abbott ...h 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 in heaven. He must

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Names And Titles Of Christ
Names And Titles Of Christ <ref name="term_56688" /> ...abolic names of Christ do not call for any special remark, as their use by Christ in the passages where they occur sufficiently explains their meaning. Such

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Assurance
... Hastings’ Single-vol. Dictionary of the Bible , and Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] ; article‘Certitude,’ in [[Catholic]] Ency ...ind. Some have concluded that we obtain it by inference, others by the direct testimony of the Holy Spirit to the mind. See [[Holy

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Pauline Theology
...in an unworthy manner ( 1 Corinthians 11:29-32 ): i.e. the union with Christ that is the center of Paul's theology he teaches to be established normally

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Adam
...shall much more abound in Christ's true followers unto eternal life. See [[Redemption]] . ...e article, the following may be consulted on the relation between Adam and Christ: Sanday-Headlam, Com. on [[Epistle]] to Romans (pp. 130–153); Be

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Apocrypha
...T. Phrases from some of them indicate, however, that these books were used by the writers in whom they occur, although there is no evidence that they reg ...and the doctrines promulgated in the early centuries of the Christian era, by means of such works. [[Ira]] [[Maurice]] Price. 

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Sacrament
...the thing thereby signified, but also words of institution, and a promise by which the two are connected together: and hence we reject five of the seven ...hat is believed to be an inward and spiritual grace, both were ordained by Christ himself, and in the reception of each does the [[Christian]] solemnly devot

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Epistle To The Romans
...ol. ii. col. 1620f.) is a final refutation of the Dutch school represented by van Manen. They have advanced as yet no solid reason for doubting the genui ...re is no evidence that Peter did so. It may have been carried to that city by some who were converted at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. 

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Fact And Theory
...p. 160–185, 230–276; Pfleiderer, Glaubens- u. Sittenlehre , §§ on Christ: Biedermann, Chr. Dogmatik , ii. § 815; [[A.]] Sabatier, Esqu

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Prophet
... ). See, further, art. Announcements of Death. It is assumed by some that Jesus commenced His ministry with ...the restoration, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Each adds some fresh trait to complete the delineation of Messiah.  Isaiah 52:13-15; Isaiah 53, is the most p

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Revelation
...all these, but is far more than them all. It is the religion of redemption, including salvation from sin, equipment for holiness, and provision for li ...earlier, as God works towards the completion of his purposes through Jesus Christ ( Ephesians 1:9-12;  Ephesians 3:3-11;  1 Peter 1:10-12; see

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First Epistle Of Peter
...ce, being deducible from Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Papias; and it is held by [[Dionysius]] of Corinth, IrenÃ¦us, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria ...ch judgement as the issue of God's moral government is imminent, is marked by the reference to the time of Noah, whose testimony in preparing the ark was

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Savior
...just as in the parallel in  2—Peter 1:11 , "our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (AV and RV); these passages are therefore a testimony to His deity;   Is a term applied preeminently to our Lord Jesus Christ, because, as the angel expressed it, he came to "save his people from their

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Angel
...he worshipping of demons in   1 Corinthians 10:21; in accordance with Christ’s teaching St. Paul speaks of the presence of angels at the Second Coming ...function has led to the concept of "guardian angels, " perhaps prompted by Christ's words in  Matthew 18:10 . It is not entirely clear whether each indi

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Epistle To Theephesians
...n  Ephesians 1:7 (cf.  Ephesians 2:13). The annulling of the Law by the Cross ( Ephesians 2:15) is the very point of St. Paul’s argument ...ayer followed by a reference to Tychicus as the bearer of the Epistle, and by the usual apostolic benediction . This Epistle was written during the earli

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Epistle To Thehebrews
...p. ad Heb. , 1825); [[Aquila]] (suggestion mentioned but not approved by Bleek, Der Brief an die Hebräer , i. 42); St. Peter (A. Welch, <i ...ion to a life of faith and obedience, and shows that it has ever been only by a spiritual recognition and worship of God that good men have participated

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Lutherans
...other passages I have used similar expressions. But these people will pass by all such passages, and will only seize upon those concerning a hidden Deity ...their religious opinions; and that no individual could be justly punished by the magistrate for his erroneous opinions, while he conducted himself like

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Anthropology
...ult, the church is called to minister and to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ to the total person. See [[Salvation]]; [[Sin]]; [[Ethics]]; [[Death]]; [[E ...ions of the human body. '''(3):''' (n.) That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. 

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Preaching
...ll these treatises. It is essential to the ministration of the divine word by public preaching, that preachers be allowed to form principles of their own ...02; J. M. E. Ross, The Christian Standpoint, 1911, p. 15; A. M. Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, 1893, p. 23. M. Scott Fletcher. 

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Salvation Save Saviour
...of the [[Nt]] antithesis, the writer says also: ‘We, having been called in Christ Jesus through His will, are justified not through ourselves nor through our

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