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94521 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 …
94522 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 …
94523 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gentiles.4
… their faith which culminated in the rigid exclusiveness we see in later times.
94524 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 …
94525 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 …
94526 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 …
94527 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 …
94528 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 …
94529 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 …
94530 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 …
94531 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 …
94532 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 …
94533 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.98
… humility, faith and dependence upon God's Spirit for guidance into truth is, in its inmost principle, opposed.
94534 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.102
… Christian faith had, at that early period, penetrated in literary and philosophical circles. Though it is true that Christianity at first influenced chiefly …
94535 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.109
Generally, the forms under which Gnosticism appeared varied greatly in different periods. Some went farther than others from the Christian faith.
94536 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.115
… on faith, not on knowledge. Marcion was the author of a book called the Anthitheses, which contrasted the Old Testament with the New Testament. He also drew …
94537 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.117
… Christian faith.
94538 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.120
… by faith, "Christ in you, the hope of glory" ( Colossians 1:27 ). "Docetism was not all folly. Rather we may regard it as one primitive form of the assertion of that mystical …
94539 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.122
… of faith, and his antitheses of the just God and the good, might without straining be termed its Ritschl" (Orr, The Progress of Dogma, 59).
94540 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Goatskins.2
… the faithful Christian, even as it had been of others. Ascetics of different religions, especially of the Moslem sects, are frequently seen going about Syria …