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6781 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.62
… and spirit, the former of these being essentially evil, and the source from which all evil has arisen. (3) An attempt at the solution of the problems of creation …
6782 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.95
… of God in the renewal of the moral nature of man. Redemption is simply each man's efforts to secure emancipation from the flesh--from physical evil.
6783 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.125
… the spirit and the meaning of Gnosticism.
6784 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.126
… of evil in the world, the function of knowledge in religion, the difference between the letter and the spirit; but fragments of truth are not enough for a gospel …
6785 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.69
… of evil was thus found, by shifting all responsibility for evil from Yahweh to the demons. The unity and supremacy of God were maintained by the doubtful method …
6786 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.10
… inner spirits own not God, but the devil, as their father ( John 8:42 - 44 ). So their filial relation to God may be broken, but His nature and attitude are not changed …
6787 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.43
… " or evil spirits have superhuman powers in varying degree, but they remain persons with a human interest because of their human type. And, further, as men are …
6788 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.48
… remain spirits more or less vague, but spirits who care for men, who may be approached as a man approaches his ruler, spirits bound to man by close social ties …
6789 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.59
… an evil spirit; later critics have treated the whole institution as a clever device to deceive the people; but in view of the respect paid to the oracle through …
6790 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.68
… to spirits of the earth whose anger was to be feared; it might be offered when an army was going into battle, or when the crops were in danger of blight, or of drought …
6791 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.79
… the spirit of worship which underlay the outward acts. Nor does the command, "Be ye therefore holy, even as I am holy," find an echo in Greece. At the same time the …
6792 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.83
… Holy Spirit; then the candidates, dressed in white, wearing crowns, and carrying torches, proceeded to their first communion in which a mixture of honey and …
6793 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Guilt.6
… do evil, to learn to do well ( Isaiah 1:1 - 31 ). Thus the motive and the inner spirit come in ( Micah 6:8; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 58:1 - 12 ), and guilt gains a new depth and quality …
6794 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Guilt.8
… inner spirit, Jesus marks different degrees of guilt as depending upon a man's knowledge and motive ( Luke 11:29 - 32; Luke 12:47 - 48; 23:34 ). And yet Jesus does not lighten …
6795 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Har-magedon.2
… unclean spirits issuing from the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet, assemble here for "the war of the great day of God, the Almighty." Various …
6796 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.74
… Holy Spirit" ( Hebrews 2:4 ). Their conversion had been thorough, and their faith and Christian life had been of a high order. They had a sound knowledge of the first …
6797 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.49
… "the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily upon him." In 1 Samuel 16:14 we read "the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him." In …
6798 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.54
… Spirit and his own spirit would be the evil spirit. Or the "evil spirit from Yahweh" may have referred, in the prophet's mind, to an actual spirit of evil which …
6799 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.13
… the Spirit's presence and action are assumed. From time to time, reference is made to the Spirit for special reasons, but the action of the Spirit in and through …
6800 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.22
… Spirit or the Trinitarian implications in the teaching as to the Spirit. Here, however, we have a very suggestive hint toward a doctrine of the Spirit which …