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37121 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 361.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… distinct character of the burnt offering. Life was that part in creation which from the beginning God claimed as his. As such,-as being his claim on his creatures …
37122 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 361.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of the offering. Man’s duty to God is not the giving up of one faculty, but the entire surrender of all. So Christ sums up the first commandment …
37123 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 362.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… , Distinctive Character of.—In its contrast to the other offerings, it may be sufficient to enumerate two chief points: (1) It was a sweet savor offering; and, (2) The …
37124 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 362.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… official character, is satisfied also, and his children are satisfied with him. What a picture is here presented to us! The offerer feasts with God, with his …
37125 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 368.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… striking character. And then, as if in order that these lessons might be fully learned before the attention was diverted by the impartation of others, an interval …
37126 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 369.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… different characters and belonging to different classes, his function in one given sphere or direction. Thus the books of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Malachi exhibit …
37127 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 369.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… remarkable character, and hence called a prophet ( Matthew 24:15 ) in the same general sense as David is in Acts 2:30, nevertheless did not exercise the prophetic …
37128 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 374.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… of God, and not a personal being distinct from God, his acts are God’s acts. Sin, as Spinoza held, is simply privation, partial existence, this and no more. What a …
37129 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 415.1 (General Conference of SDA)
Prophecy, Character of.—It is opposed to the nature of God to force men to believe. He hides himself in history, as well as in nature, that he may be found of them …
37130 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 416.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… , Miraculous Character of.—Prophecy is a miracle of knowledge, a declaration, or description, or representation of something future, beyond the power of human …
37131 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 420.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… unfounded character of this view of prophecy, and therefore the unfounded character of the whole hypothesis. It is also opposed by everything which the …
37132 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 426.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of God, bearing witness to the time and place of the appearance of the promised Deliverer, the character of his person and mission, and the events that were …
37133 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 446.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… his character. Both have the advantage of logical consistency from certain premises, and seem to be the very perfection of the Romish form of piety and the …
37134 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 455.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… their character, as an institution prepared by Christ for our salvation (ex opere operato, scilicet a Christo, in place of quod operatus est Christus), that …
37135 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 466.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… his character, or in the springs of his existence, became at the same time mortal. Herein lay the necessity for the new creation through the intervention of …
37136 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 7.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of his saints to love his appearing ( 2 Timothy 4:8 ), and to look for “that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour …
37137 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 22.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of the event; that the sanctuary to be cleansed was not this earth, but the sanctuary in heaven, where Christ ministered as high priest; and that …
37138 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 31.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… of God’s prerogatives; he has appeared in the character of the lawless one, claiming to be above all law; he has been the persecutor of those who are faithful …
37139 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 81.8 (General Conference of SDA)
… in God. I find in it a consistent and wonderful revelation, from Genesis to Revelation, of the character of God, a God far removed from any of my natural imaginings …
37140 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 84.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… its character as a revelation from God; otherwise it would be no revelation, but would always require a class of inspired men to unfold and reveal its true …