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• Creation
  ...e reason and articulate speech; general words used by all prove in all the power of abstract reasoning; the absence of the former proves the absence of the ...ence between right and wrong. Having divided his own substance, the mighty Power became half male, half female. He whose powers are incomprehensible, having
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• Peter
  ...ssionary activities had brought him into contact with Gentiles. It was the work of the reactionary Judaizers that made the problem acute, but in the nascen ..., as to Peter ( Matthew 18:18;  John 20:23.) Peter exercised the power of the keys only in preaching, as on Pentecost (Acts 2), He never exercised
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• Arminian View Of The. Will
  ...will; if he cannot govern the world when much of its history is within the power of his creatures, when much that is, is determined and enacted by the free
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• Regeneration
  ...d in many passages of the Epistle and is represented as produced by Divine power. The blood of Christ cleanses the conscience from sin, and makes it possibl ...hrist with full and fast faith (  Ephesians 4:16 ). Last of all, this work of regeneration is completed when the soul is brought to the point of absol
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• Miracle
  ...st and his apostles, and were actual witnesses to their mighty works." The power of working miracles is supposed by some to have been continued no longer th ...r and refutes the "name it and claim it" heresy that tries to force God to work miracles upon demand, if only one exercises adequate faith. </p> <p> [[Crai
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• Justification
  ...al and justify the world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it ...vilege of justification is annexed, is such a belief of the Gospel, by the power of the Spirit of God, as leads us to come to Christ, to receive Christ, to
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• Elijah
  ...heir mouth," i.e. at, their word; &nbsp;1 Kings 17:1; &nbsp;2 Kings 1:10; "power to shut heaven that it rain not," &nbsp;James 5:17; &nbsp;Luke 4:25; and "t ...led after Moses and Elijah (&nbsp;Revelation 11:3-6 ). They were given the power to shut up the heavens and to bring the fire of judgment like Elijah in &nb
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• Resurrection
  ...Paul’s teaching. Hence we find two lines of thought of unequal strength at work in St. Paul’s treatment of the subject. </p> <p> (1) On the one hand, he ...en we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection to life is brought about (&nbsp; Romans 8:11 , &n
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• Church
  ...ip. Except in the form of ‘Mysteries,’ the old Greek religion had not much power; its gods and goddesses were openly ridiculed. But Mithraism was full of li ...sp; Luke 17:21 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ) in His own Person and work. It is revealed as a historical institution in the parables of the [[Tares]
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• Salvation
  ...ouraged the exercise of faith as a mere theoretical belief in supernatural power. The performance of a sign from heaven, such as men might have witnessed wi ...ile its present dimension is depicted in terms of the Spirit's sanctifying work. Its future dimension is said to be glorification, the culmination of the s
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• Grace
  ...God and Christ, working in the Pauline scheme as righteousness and wisdom, work here as light, life, love, driving away darkness, death, sin; restoring lif ...these attributes as "gifts" throughout the chapter implies that they are a work of grace as well, but the connection with grace is explicit in the parallel
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• Elisha
  ...l cell, upon a sudden inroad of the Moabite bands; a type of the vivifying power of Christ's dead body (&nbsp;Isaiah 26:19). Other antitypical resemblances .... The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp; 2 Kings 6:8 ff., &nb
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• Spirit
  ...to be so far identified that the former lived and acted ‘in spirit and in power’ (ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει, &nbsp;Luke 1:17), <i> i. ...Satan is called the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is at work in those who are disobedient (&nbsp;Ephesians 2:2 ). </p> <p> One of the pe
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• Faith
  ...he Apocalypse we have described for us in words and pictures the unity and power of God, the dominion of Christ over the Church and the world, and the trium ...ews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the redeeming work of Jesus in the cross. According to the whole tenor of the NT, the forgivin
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• Papacy
  ...ied about 886), who, however, is the author of the last biographies of the work only. It was edited by Busaeus (Mentz, 1602); Fabrotti (Paris, 1649); [[Bia
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• Merit
  ...<i> Lehre [[Jesu]] </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 1901 [English translation from 1st ed. 1893]; Anselm’s <i> Cu ...use no man can demand a right to it by his own righteousness, or any other power in himself, but by the free grace of God only, they say no man can merit Pa
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• Power Of Keys
  ...olders of the keys. To that extent, and in that sense, alone, is there the power of "legislating" within the kingdom. This is only interpreting and applying ....com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/keys,+power+of Power Of Keys from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• John The Baptist
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , art. ‘Johannes der Taufer’; Haupt, <i> [[Johannes]] der Tä ...11:3 ); but if John learnt from Jesus what was His ideal of the Messiah’s work, it may well be, as Garvie says, ‘that Jesus for a time at least raised J
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• Devil
  ...god of this world’ or age (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ), ‘the prince of the power of the air’ (&nbsp; Ephesians 2:2 ), ruling over the evil spirits who are ...ctful expressions of him they would punish with death, did not the Turkish power prevent them. Whenever they speak of him, it is with the utmost respect; an
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• Ordination
  ...assignment to them, under the direction of the Holy Ghost, of an extended work among the Gentiles, and all the accompaniments befitted this new departure. ...cy, Imposition Of Hands, Independents]] and [[Ministerial Call]] in this work; James Owen's [[Plea]] for Scripture Ordination; Doddridge's Tracts, 5: 2:
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