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37301 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 267.1 (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 …
37302 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 307.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character of a system made up of certain definitive notions, but it is a fact in the religious and moral sphere, the joyful news ([Greek words], [ euangelion …
37303 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 309.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… and character of him to whom we look as our Saviour correspond with the predictions of the Old Testament prophets respecting the Messiah, the divine Deliverer …
37304 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 309.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… the character he claims to bear, and the offices he came to fulfil. With Thomas we are compelled to exclaim, “My Lord and my God.” John 20:28 .—“ Fulfilled Prophecy ,” Rev …
37305 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 318.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… apotelesmatic character of the prophecy, but has its foundation in the very nature of the thing itself. The prophetic perspective, by virtue of which the …
37306 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 338.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… their character; because the effect, reason dictates, will be characterized by the nature of its cause. Man has the same reason to expect that God will perform …
37307 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 338.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… , that God desired to reveal a religion to men, and wished them to recognize his character and his benevolence in giving that revelation. Suppose, further, that …
37308 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 348.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… special character of this passage to the divine intention which was claimed for it by Philip the evangelist? Such an inference would, of course, not be scientific …
37309 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 359.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… meet God’s requirements; the offering presents him in his character and work, as the victim by which the atonement was ratified; while the priest gives us …
37310 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 …
37311 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 …
37312 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 …
37313 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 …
37314 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 …
37315 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 …
37316 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 …
37317 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 …
37318 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 …
37319 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 …
37320 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 …