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94021 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genealogy, 8 Part 2.125

… good faith more questioned than in these lists. Finding in his day the three guilds of singers claiming descent from David's three, and through these from …

94022 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 3.25

… Abraham's faith in his trust upon the Divine promise). In contrast to the first three thoughts which characterize God's relation to Abraham, the fourth is …

94023 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 3.29

… , Abraham's faith at its culminating point; compare Genesis 12 2:4a and what is in parentheses in the following: (i) Genesis 22:1 - 19, the sacrifice of Isaac ( Genesis …

94024 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.6

… of faith, which was centered on the one promise of the true heir, but that this is in reality a psychological impossibility. Over against this claim we can in …

94025 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.17

… mighty faith, a human being of flesh and blood, who can even doubt ( Genesis 15:2 f; Genesis 17:17 ); who can make use of sinful means to realize the promise ( Genesis …

94026 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.19

… which faith on the part of man is the counterpart; Jacob, the principle of Divine election; Joseph, that of the providential guidance of life; while Isaac, it …

94027 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.36

… a faithful adherence to the accounts of the civilization in the different countries and districts and at different times, such detailed accounts of foreign …

94028 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.40

… his faith to fail him. God, accordingly, repeats His promise at this very moment and does so with greater exactness (compare Genesis 13:7 with Genesis 13:1 ), and …

94029 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.42

… the faith of Israel to a new test. As the death of the last Edomite king is not mentioned (compare 36:39 in contrast to the preceding passage and to 1 Chronicles …

94030 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.46

… , and faith on the part of man; and because both grace and faith are in Genesis placed and emphasized at the very beginning of the history of mankind, and before …

94031 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gentiles.4

… their faith which culminated in the rigid exclusiveness we see in later times.

94032 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Glory.50

… , "His faithfulness to His people and His sovereign justice in the punishment of all," or it may refer only to the former of these qualities; but in any case, it is …

94033 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.58

… Christian faith. To the Gnostic the great question was not the intensely practical one, "What must I do to be saved from sin?" but "What is the origin of evil?" "How …

94034 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.62

… to faith, and as the special possession of the more enlightened, for ordinary Christians did not possess this secret and higher doctrine. (2) The essential …

94035 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.66

… Christian faith, which endeavored to attain the deliverance of the soul by "the neglecting of the body" ( Colossians 2:21, 23 the King James Version). These Gnostic …

94036 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.69

… Christian faith. But from incidental notices in epistles of Paul written at an earlier period, it can be seen how congenial was the soil into which Gnostic …

94037 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.70

… the faith." In other places in that epistle reference is made to tenets which are exactly those of Gnosticism. In 1:4 the apostle speaks of "fables and endless …

94038 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.75

… of faith, the outcome of which is brotherly love and a life in which the Christian walks even as Christ did ( 1 John 2:6 ). And thus also obedience and brotherly love …

94039 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.77

… Christian faith, the inevitable result was Docetism. Just because God cannot have any immediate contact with matter, therefore the incarnation of Almighty …

94040 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.89

… to faith, and which rises above the grasp of the understanding. "By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen …