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5941 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.6 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Meaning of.—The church of Christ, therefore, is a body of which the Spirit of Jesus is the soul. It is a company of Christlike men and women, whom the Holy …
5942 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.9 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Defined by Bellarmine.—A body of men united together by the profession of the same Christian faith, and by participation in the same sacraments, under …
5943 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 110.10 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Defined in the Bull “Unam Sanctam.”—That there is one holy catholic and apostolic church we are impelled by our faith to believe and to hold-this we do …
5944 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.2 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Roman Catholic Idea of.—The Roman idea of a church was that it was a visible body in communion with the Roman see, and in which the ministers derived their …
5945 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.4 (General Conference of SDA)
Church, Historical Notes on the.—The word “church” (from Greek kyriakon, “the Lord’s,” i. e., “house” or “body”) meant in original Christian usage either the universal body …
5946 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church sketched above [the Roman Catholic view], was the Waldenses. They considered themselves members of the church of Christ and partakers of his salvation …
5947 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 111.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church radically opposed to that which had been developing was Wycliffe; and Huss followed him in it. According to him the church is the “totality of the …
5948 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 122.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church, by teaching the Catholics to reject a council which was neither legitimate in constitution, free in action, nor unanimous in doctrine, but to observe …
5949 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 125.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the body, and of the whole essence of the wine into the blood; which change the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation.
5950 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 168.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… heavenly bodies as literally engaged in acts of devotion. If these authorities are to be credited, the Gihon, one of the rivers of Paradise, was no other than …
5951 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 170.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… the Churches of Christ in America.”—The Federal Council was organized as the chief consummation of the National Federation of Churches at its first meeting …
5952 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 202.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… Catholic Church knows of one and only one test to determine this question of membership in Christ’s body. This test does not lie in the acceptance of this …
5953 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 212.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire are one and the same thing, in two aspects; and Catholicism, the principle of the universal Christian society, is also …
5954 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 239.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… the body; and asking whether it is expedient that the building should fall, the flock be scattered, the army routed, the stars darkened, the body prostrate?-“ On …
5955 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 242.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… teaching body; that is, by the bishops of the church.—“ Doctrinal Catechism ,” Rev. Stephen Keenan (previous to 1870).
5956 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 246.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church. The church, his permanent manifestation, is at once divine and human-she is the union of both. He it is who, concealed under earthly and human forms …
5957 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 254.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… particular church. A general personal interdict is one falling on a given body or group of people as a class, e. g., on a chapter, the clergy or people of a town, of …
5958 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 261.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… whole body, however, of the church at Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine revelation, given to men of approved piety there before the war, removed from …
5959 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 264.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… Catholic Church, founded in 1539. This society may be defined, in its original conception and well-avowed object, as a body of highly trained religious men …
5960 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 264.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… the church. Hitherto all regulars made a point of the choral office in choir. But as Ignatius conceived the church to be in a state of war, what was desirable …