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3061 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.25
… glorious church, a church without blemish, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing ( Ephesians 5:25 ff). This church clearly is not the actual church as we …
3062 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.27
… the church side by side with the apostles' teaching and the breaking of bread and prayers ( Acts 2:42 ). See COMMUNION. The koinonia at first carried with it a community …
3063 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.28
… churches, there was but one church. This truth comes to its complete expression in the epistles of Paul's imprisonment, with their vision of the church as …
3064 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.29
… the church are called saints even when the living evidences of sainthood are sadly lacking. Writing to the Corinthian church in which he found so much to …
3065 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.22
… church, which is his body ...." ( Ephesians 1:22 ); "the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven" ( Hebrews 12:23 ). Here we have "church" in …
3066 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.26
Church government in the New Testament applies only to the local bodies.
3067 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.29
… the church at Antioch as a loose aggregation of people for a passing purpose. The letters of Paul to the churches at Rome, Corinth, Philippi, Thessalonica, cannot …
3068 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.45
… the churches, by which there may be created an ascending series of rulers who shall govern the churches merged into one vast ecclesiastical organization …
3069 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Citizenship.9
… the body of which He is the immediate Sovereign." He had lived theocratically as a faithful member of the Jewish church, from which his enemies claimed he was …
3070 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.8
… the church in Colosse was subject to the assault of a body of Judaistic Christians who were seeking to overthrow the faith of the Colossians and weaken their …
3071 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.47
… the church. They listened to their teachers with itching ears, not as men who wished to learn, but as partisans who sought occasion either to applaud or to condemn …
3072 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Criticism of the Bible.43
… early church compared manuscripts of the New Testament books, noting their differences, and judging of the books themselves. The Reformers, it is well known …
3073 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Degree.2
… the church; but it probably means simply a position of moral weight and influence in the church gained by faithfulness in service (so Hort).
3074 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Discrepancies, Biblical.4
… Christian church has ever held to the essential unity of the Divine library of the Holy Scriptures. Moreover, the evangelical churches have recognized …
3075 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Doctrine.5
… the church developed the content of its experience into a system of thought, and came to regard such a system as an integral part of saving faith (compare the …
3076 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dogma.3
… the church as a condition of admission to its membership.
3077 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ebionism; Ebionites.32
… the body of Jesus was regarded as that of Adam revived. This body was crucified and rose again. They receive only the Gospel of Matthew in the form the Cerinthians …
3078 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Egypt.111
… the church came when it escaped from the Babylonian-Jewish formalism of the Captivity, which ruled at Jerusalem, and grew into the wider range of ideas of …
3079 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephesians, Epistle to The.19
… the church as the body of Christ, and the relation between them referred to in terms of husband and wife.
3080 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephesians, Epistle to The.24
… the church as the body of Christ, in spite of the fact that Christ is not thought of as the head of that body. The argument in the epistle does not deal with the …