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94181 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.146
… of faith grew up as the standard interpretation of Scripture. Above all was the episcopacy, which was supposed to preserve in unbroken tradition the unwritten …
94182 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.149
… of faith or morals" (Vatican Council, 1870, Session 4, cap. 4). This authority of the pope extends over all questions of knowledge and conduct, of discipline and …
94183 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.150
… Christian faith was founded upon that dogma. "Holy Scripture is the judge, or rather the voice of the supreme and infallible judge, the Holy Spirit, and the norm …
94184 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.165
… to faith or creed (Gnostics); the personal experience of faith (Luther); the testimony of the Holy Spirit (Calvin); the inner light (Quakers); individual experience …
94185 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.168
… of Faith and Freedom; Asia Minor Fairbairn, Catholicism, Roman and Anglican; Sabatier, The Religions of Authority; Watson, The Philosophical Basis of Religion …
94186 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Avail.2
… of faith "in Christ Jesus." Used also to express the efficacy of prayer ( James 5:16 ).
94187 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babel, Babylon (2).62
… Merodach’s faith. The shrine of Merodach therein, which was called E-kua, is said by Nebuchadrezzar to have been magnificently decorated, and into the temple …
94188 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia.81
… religious faith. It may have told of the joy experienced at the birth of an heir. It may even betray the suffering that was involved at the birth of the child …
94189 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.31
… this faith from which we have been able to secure a greater knowledge of it than of any other ancient oriental religion, except that of Israel. Yet the information …
94190 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.38
… the faith of the king, but also the faith of the state itself, the progress of the commonwealth to greater power oftentimes carried some local god into a new …
94191 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.39
… Sumerian faith before a union was formed with the Semites, we know very little indeed. But we may perhaps safely say that among that ancient people, beneath …
94192 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.40
… Sumerian faith is also lost in the past.
94193 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.119
… the faith of Yahweh, as professed by Israel. It seems now to be clearly demonstrated that the religion of Israel has borrowed various literary materials …
94194 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.120
… larger faith developed out of them. In Israel alone ethical monotheism arose, and ethical monotheism has no roots in Babylonia. The study of the religion …
94195 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bacchides.2
… a faithful friend of both Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius Soter, established at the request of the latter the rulership over Judea for Aleimus, who, desiring …
94196 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).25
… Jewish faith, common in the days of Christ, the baptism of John and of the disciples of Christ prior to the Day of Pentecost, and the Christian sacrament of baptism …
94197 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).31
… of faith" ( 1 Peter 1:9 ). This is a comprehensive statement, as in 1 Peter 3:21, of the blessing of baptism. Scripture also states, in detail, particular baptismal blessings …
94198 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).36
… their faith, as it had tried God’s patience. In like manner the water of baptism bears up the ark of the Christian church and saves its believing members, by …
94199 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).40
… by faith." On close inspection the difficulty is found to rest on the assumption that the above are records of baptismal formulas used on those occasions …
94200 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).41
… personal faith of any Christian at the present time; for there is no person living who has received Johannic baptism (Chemnitz). The entire subject and certain …