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• Law
  ...John 2:2; &nbsp; 1 John 4:10 virtually sustain the doctrine of St. Paul on law, sin, and sacrifice. </p> <p> G. G. Findlay. </p> ...more exact manifestation of the brightness, perfection, and glory of that law, under which angels and our progenitors in paradise were placed, and which
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• God
  ...t the custom of our Lord to make minute regulations, as did the [[Mosaic]] Law. He rather laid down general principles; and it would be somewhat remarkabl ...wn Law. In the [[Talmud]] He is represented as a great Rabbi, studying the Law, and keeping the [[Sabbath]] (Gilbert, in Hastings’ <em> DCG </em> <em> [
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• Justification
  ...nal. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of His own life, so that it holds in Him as its root. Into this new order o ...n the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of the law does not lie against them, and that they are the acknowledged objects of th
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• Atonement
  ...hey are saved from the power as well as the guilt of sin; freedom from the law of sin and death completes the release from its condemnation; the release f ...t secret of atonement. The innocent suffering with and for the guilty is a law from which Jesus did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidari
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• Sacrifice
  ...Christian teachers, because the animal victims and not the human servant, law and not prophecy, have given it significance; the OT system of ritual sacri ...eaningless. The [[Homily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His ju
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• Covenant
  ...offerings, this does not eliminate from them the element of expiation. The Law itself speaks of expiation in connexion with the burnt-offerings (&nbsp;Lev ...ent </i> ; G. Vos, <i> Biblical Theology </i> ; J. Zinkand, <i> Covenants: God's Claims </i> . </p>
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• Jesus Christ
  ...nd probably chief in importance, was the education in the home. The Jewish Law earnestly impressed upon parents, especially upon fathers, the duty of inst ...s by Jesus to represent deity. </p> <p> In other instances Jesus exercised God's authority in forgiving sins (&nbsp;Mark 2:1-12; &nbsp;Luke 7:44-49 ) and ac
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• Moses
  ...the <em> author </em> of the Pentateuch. Besides such expressions as ‘The law of Moses’ (&nbsp; Luke 2:22 ), ‘Moses enjoined’ (&nbsp; Matthew 8:4 )
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• Sanctification
  ...’ the ‘law’ of sin and death is done away altogether, and obedience to the law of God is merged in a higher and nobler loyalty to the God and Father of Je ...elievers are to "pursue" sanctification (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" (&nbsp;Hebrews
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• Inspiration
  ...reason, not only that the <em> matter </em> contained in the book of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designa ...utterance to this saying He Himself proceeds to repeal commandments of the Law, substituting for them His own better principles, and thus showing that wha
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• Providence
  ...necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but learn from the birds and t ...names for the unknown operations of providence; for it is certain that in God's universe nothing comes to pass causelessly, or in vain. Every event has its
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• Prayer
  ...( <em> e.g. </em> &nbsp; Genesis 28:20; see art. Vows). </p> <p> (ii.) The Law ( <em> i.e. </em> as codified and expanded in later times). The reticence a ...t not to be neglected. It is true there is no absolute command for this in God's word; yet from hints, allusions, and examples, we may learn that it was the
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• Trinity
  ...zed in the names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in one name, which is God's; and, therefore, though we be thrice put under water to represent the myste ...m, while <i> Ebonites </i> described Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt with God's power at baptism. <i> [[Arius]] </i> was also an influential theologian who
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• Ethics
  ...t (&nbsp;Matthew 7:24-27 ), and is due in part to a supposition that every law is for every man. The disciples, having a special task, might be under spec .../p> <p> <i> See also </i> [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[Ten Comman
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• Grace
  ...deals with sinful mankind not on the ground of merit or after the mode of Law, as though they were servants or subjects, but solely from His own natural ...asizes the free character of grace. The one reference in James links it to God's gift (4:6). Peter, who also includes it in his greeting, quotes the same Ol
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• Love
  ...James.-The Epistle of James by calling the commandment of love ‘the royal law’ (&nbsp;James 2:8) places love in the centre of religion. This love is no ...here and now. Christians love because they have been loved. In such love, God's eternal purposes are being experienced and carried out by his people (&nbsp
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• Sabbath
  ...f rest; and it was also strictly enjoined upon the [[Israelites]] in their law, both on the ground of its original institution, &nbsp;Exodus 20:8-11 , and ...seventh-day Sabbath is the desirable day and according to ‘an unchangeable Law of well-establisht Order both in the [[Revealed]] Word and in [[Created]] N
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• Predestination
  ...ace of God, they were absolutely incapacitated for obedience to the divine law. To get rid of this difficulty, Augustine, in some degree, transferred the ...braham, the Covenant with Israel, the discipline and growing revelation of Law and [[Prophets]] leads up (on predestination here, cf. &nbsp; Genesis 18:18
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• Faith
  ...und the expression: ‘Before the faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed’ (&nbsp;Galat ...sues appear under the terms Justification, Atonement, Propitiation, Grace, Law (in NT), etc. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev
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• Elijah
  ...ostdiluvial world, as Enoch's to the antediluvial, against their unbelief. God's voice, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," attests that the servants must b ...rk 9:4-5; &nbsp;Luke 9:30,33 ). Some have seen the two as representing the Law and the Prophets, which were now both considered to be subservient to Chris
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