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• Mediator
  ...s righteousness, His disposition to treat men according to a perfect moral law. When sin is passed over, righteousness is not manifested. But it was demon ...ng by this person; that it is he who spake to the patriarchs, who gave the law by Moses, and who is called in the Old Testament, "the angel of the covenan
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• Adoption
  ...ὸν νόμον; the reference is not only to those who were under the [[Mosaic]] Law, but to all subject to any system of positive ordinances (so perhaps in &nb ...ry way great and extensive. </p> <p> 1. It implies great honour. They have God's name put upon them, and are described as "his people, called by his name, "
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• Marriage
  ...he qualified answer of v. 9. This answer really admits the validity of the law of &nbsp; Deuteronomy 24:1 , with its stricter interpretation (see p. 586 b ...marriage relationship. </p> <p> For marriage to function now according to God's ideal, believers in Christ need to marry only believers. Whenever God direc
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• Creation
  ...he stronger surviving the weaker in the struggle for existence, and by the law of "natural selection" assuming those members which it needed for its devel ...the world. Like many Old Testament passages, this passage in Hebrews links God's creative activity with His redemptive activity. </p> <p> The people of [[Ly
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• Righteousness
  ...ghteousness in the New Testament </i> ; P. Stulmacher, <i> Reconciliation, Law and Righteousness </i> ; J. A. Zeisler, <i> The Meaning of Righteousness in ...m> d </em> ) Since righteousness is conformity to the Divine will, and the Law which reveals that will is righteous in the whole and its parts (&nbsp; Psa
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• Miracles
  ...t an act is not less Divine because it is fundamentally in accordance with law’ ( <i> Life of Christ in Recent Research </i> , p. 218). </p> <p> It may ...is their being wrought, or not, in support of doctrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradi
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• Law Of Moses
  ...round. Christ glorified is the One whom God now recognises — He only suits God's glory. Hence every one that is not 'in Christ' is a sinner already condemne ...from Mount Sinai, that which may be called the rough outline of the Mosaic law is given by God, solemnly recorded by Moses, and accepted by the people. In
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• Scribes
  ...rs, and in stimulating hope for the future. The ordinances of the [[Oral]] Law were at last written down, and to their careful preservation by the Scribes ...d from the common herd, "people of the earth," "cursed" as not knowing the law (&nbsp;John 7:15; &nbsp;John 7:49). Fees were paid them for arbitrations (&
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• Forgiveness
  ...E. Ladd, <i> A [[Theology]] of the New Testament </i> ; E. A. Martens, <i> God's Design: A [[Focus]] on Old Testament Theology </i> ; J. Milgrom, <i> Cult a ...of His people (&nbsp; Leviticus 11:44 ). Thus the [[Pauline]] saying, ‘The law hath been our tutor to bring us to Christ’ (&nbsp; Galatians 3:24 ), is p
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• Angel
  .../i> ; A. C. Gaebelein, <i> The Angels of God </i> ; B. Graham, <i> Angels: God's [[Secret]] Agets </i> ; H. Lockyer, <i> The [[Mystery]] and [[Ministry]] of ...y be asked, are the holy angels made at all subservient to the purposes of God's government? This question is answered by St. Paul in his [[Epistle]] to the
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• Revelation
  ...ssible the operation of the human conscience, is sometimes called ‘natural law’ (&nbsp;Romans 2:15; see [[Conscience]] ). </p> <p> The revelation throug ...idence, is evident from the ideas it gives us of God's perfections, of the law of nature, of redemption, of the state of man, &c. As to its external evide
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• Reconciliation
  ...ile both unto God." This he did by the same act; abolishing the ceremonial law by becoming the antitype of all its sacrifices, and thus, by the sacrifice ...and love are harmonized. By Christ's sacrifice the sinner is brought into God's favor, which by sin he had justly forfeited. Hence his prayer is," God be p
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• Gospel
  ...i> vii. [1895-96] 297f., xii. [1900-01] 482b, xxi. [1909-10] 497f. For the Law in Hebrews, see A. S. Peake, <i> Hebrews </i> (Century Bible, 1902). p. 30f ...s 3:22,26; &nbsp;Galatians 2:16,20 ). One must believe the gospel for here God's salvation is mediated. (2) <i> [[Growing]] </i> . The gospel is both a mess
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• Deuteronomy
  ...> ) As He is God of the whole earth, Jahweh’s <em> will </em> is the moral law, and in connexion with its requirements He rewards and punishes (cf. the te ...settle down in an agriculturally fertile country. Moses’ repetition of the law therefore included adjustments to fit in with the people’s new way of lif
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• Worship
  ...ctive, and to this day the church continues to debate the relationship of "law" and "grace" in the life of the Christian. The second concerned the relatio ...arvest in the kingdom of grace; the law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embrace
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• Law In The Old Testament
  Law In The Old Testament <ref name="term_5919" /> ...osephus, <i> Ant. </i> , XX, viii, 8; ix, 2). </p> <p> (3) That the Mosaic law as to divorce was to give place to one more stringent appe </p>
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• Person Of Christ
  ...are the conditions of entrance. He put aside the ancient ordinances of the Law. He called all the weary to Himself for rest; most amazing of all, He claim ...s this Word, eternal in His subsistence, God's eternal fellow, the eternal God's self, that, as "come in the flesh," was Jesus Christ (&nbsp;1 John 4:2 ). "
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• Logos
  ...bringing life and light to men. He comes with a gospel that supersedes the Law of Moses, for it is a gospel of grace as well as of truth. Himself the Son ...Gospel Jesus spoke and acted as the incarnate <i> logos </i> , continuing God's creative and redemptive work. Hence, He could change water to wine, create
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• Holy Spirit
  ...p;2 Corinthians 3:17; &nbsp;Galatians 5:5; see [[Flesh]] ; [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] ). </p> <p> This change in the behaviour of believers does not happen aut ...e of God's personality and power, living in and divinely empowering all of God's true people in diverse and incomplete ways that foreshadow their complete,
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• Word
  ...desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" (&nbsp;Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, es ...ngs is summed up as the prophetic λόγος. In &nbsp;Galatians 5:14 the whole Law is said to be summed up in one λόγος, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour
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