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93781 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.44
2. Tendency to Degradation, not to Progress, in Ethnic Faiths:
93782 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.47
… Ethnic Faiths: For the most part, in ethnic religions, there is no recognized connection between religion and morality. The wide extension of phallic rites …
93783 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.48
… ethnic faith is compared with Christianity. Sacrifice, for instance, is an essential part of every religion. In Christianity none are now offered, except …
93784 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.51
… ethnic faith. Nothing of the kind was believed regarding Osiris, Adonis, Horus, Mithra, Krishna, Zoroaster. Of Buddha it is denied entirely in all the books of …
93785 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.54
… ethnic faiths no less than their aspirations show how great is man's need of Christ, and how utterly unable imagination has ever proved itself to be even …
93786 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Compassion.5
… Israel's faith in Yahweh. For it was out of His compassion that He, by a marvelous act of power, delivered them from Egyptian bondage and called them to be His …
93787 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Confession.3
… of faith and confession of sin. Confessions of faith are public acknowledgments of fidelity to God, and to the truth through which God is revealed, as 1 Kings …
93788 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Conscience.25
… by faith and because, in appearing before principalities and powers in vindication of their action, the Reformers took their stand on conscience, as Luther …
93789 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Contrite; Contrition.2
… of faith, but, as hatred of sin, combined with the purpose, by God's aid, to overcome it, grows with faith.
93790 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Conversion.9
… , repentance, faith, conversion are human acts although under the influence and by the power of the Divine agency. Thus, conversion denotes the human volition …
93791 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Conversion.10
… to faith in Jesus Christ. A sudden crisis is frequently witnessed in the case of persons who, having lived a life of flagrant sin, renounce their former life …
93792 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Conversion.11
… of faith. Repentance is conversion viewed from its starting-point, the turning from the former life; faith indicates the objective point of conversion, the …
93793 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.31
… good faith. The very difficulty created for a modern reader by the incomplete and allusive character of some of the references is itself a mark of genuineness …
93794 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.37
… the faith ( Acts 18:7 - 8; 1 Corinthians 1:14 - 16 ). The converts were drawn largely but not entirely from the lower or servile classes ( 1 Corinthians 1:26; 7:21 ); they included …
93795 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.41
… and faithful in their application. It is calm, full of reasoning, clear and balanced in judgment; very varied in its lights and shadows, in its kindness, its gravity …
93796 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.45
… the faith to the resurrection of Christ as historic fact, abundantly attested (verses 3-8), shows how all-essential it is to the Christian hope (verses 13-19), and …
93797 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.47
… the faith, they are giving way to "schisms" of a pettier and perhaps even more perilous kind, that appeal to the lowest elements in human nature, that cause scandal …
93798 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, Second Epistle to The.21
… good faith, that no doubt rises in the reader's mind but that he is in the sphere of reality, and that the voice he hears is the voice of the man whose heart and …
93799 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, Second Epistle to The.35
… a faithful and soul-winning servant of Christ (2:12-17). He does not indeed wish to enter upon any further apologies or self-commendation. Some believe greatly …
93800 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, Second Epistle to The.37
… the faith; for surely they must know whether Christ be in them. He earnestly prays for their goodness and honor; not to the end that no display of his power may …