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94301 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.10
1. Faith
94302 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.25
… in faith and love and obedience. It is the holy and catholic church that is to be when the Bridegroom has completed the process of lustration, having fully …
94303 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.26
… is faith. It was to Peter confessing his faith in Christ that the promise came, "Upon this rock I will build my church" ( Matthew 16:18 ). Until Jesus found a man full …
94304 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.27
… faith in Christ is the fundamental note of the Christian society, the next is fellowship among the members. This follows from the very nature of faith as …
94305 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.28
… , one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all ( Ephesians 4:4 ff; Colossians 1:18; 3:11 ). And this unity, it is to be noticed, is conceived of as a visible unity. Jesus …
94306 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.24
… the faith." On the local sense see, further, Acts 8:1; 15:4; 16:5; 20:17; Romans 16:4; 1 Corinthians 12:1 - 31; 6:4; 11:16; Galatians 1:2, 22, and many other places.
94307 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.28
… God," "faithful brethren," "sanctified in Christ Jesus."
94308 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Citizenship.9
… a faithful member of the Jewish church, from which his enemies claimed he was an apostate. Thus Paul’s conception was a kind of blending of two ideas or feelings …
94309 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cleanse.5
… is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sin, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." The uncertainty lies in that the second clause may not, as in our …
94310 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.8
… the faith of the Colossians and weaken their regard for Paul (Zahn). This "heresy," as it is commonly called, has had many explanations. The Tubingen school taught …
94311 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.14
Thanksgiving for their faith in Christ, their love for the saints, their hope laid up in heaven, which they had in and through the gospel and of which he had heard from Epaphras.
94312 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.18
… are faithful to the hope of the gospel.
94313 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.22
… the faith; quickened and forgiven; who teach the obligation of the observance of various legal practices, strict asceticisms and angel worship. This exhortation …
94314 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Commerce.7
… new faith among the Gentiles. In James 4:13 we have a good representation of the life of a large number of Jews of this period, who would "go into such a city, and …
94315 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Common.2
… , "common faith" ( Titus 1:4 ), "common salvation" ( Jude 1:3 ), refer to that in which the experience of all Christians unites and is identical: "common," because there is but …
94316 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Communion; (Fellowship).12
… thy faith" ( Philemon 1:6 ). In three passages the relation of the fellowship is not entirely clear: the "fellowship of the Spirit" ( Philippians 2:1 ); "the communion …
94317 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.7
II. RELATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO ETHNIC FAITHS AND THEIR TENETS
94319 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.16
III. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ETHNIC FAITHS
94320 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.18
2. Tendency to Degradation, not to Progress, in Ethnic Faiths