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94321 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.20
4. Religion And Morality in Ethnic Faiths
94322 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.32
… ethnic faiths could prove their claim to--authority, holiness, revelation.
94323 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.33
II. Relation of Christianity to Ethnic Faiths and Their Tenets.
94324 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.35
… Indian faith explains how sin can be forgiven, evil be overruled for good, nor how, by trampling under foot their vices, men may rise higher (Aug., Sermo iii, De Ascensione …
94325 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.41
7. Faith: Krishnaism teaches unreasoning "devotion" (bhakti) of "mind, body, property" to certain supposed incarnations of Krishna (Vishnu), quite regardless of …
94326 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.43
… Ethnic Faiths. 1. Tenets Common to All Religions: In all religions we find, though in many various forms, certain common beliefs, such as: (1) the existence of some …
94327 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Comparative Religion.44
2. Tendency to Degradation, not to Progress, in Ethnic Faiths:
94328 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 …
94329 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 …
94330 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 …
94331 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 …
94332 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 …
94333 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 …
94334 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 …
94335 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.
94336 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 …
94337 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 …
94338 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 …
94339 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 …
94340 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 …