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94581 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 …
94582 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 …
94583 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 …
94584 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 …
94585 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 …
94586 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 …
94587 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.
94588 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 …
94589 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.
94590 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 …
94591 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.117
… Christian faith.
94592 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 …
94593 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).
94594 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 …
94595 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.52
… the faithful among the exiles had learned that Yahweh’s rule extended over many lands and nations. The foreign influences had been more favorable to Monotheism …
94596 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.53
… mercy, faithfulness and loving-kindness, forgiveness and redemption are His willing gifts to Israel. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so Yahweh pitieth …
94597 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.12
… by faith is but the scholastic form of the parable of the Prodigal Son. John’s one idea, that God is love, is but an abstract statement of His fatherhood. In complete …
94598 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.15
… through faith in Christ Jesus ( Galatians 3:26 ). "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God" ( Romans 8:14 ). These receive the spirit of adoption …
94599 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.30
… through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe" ( Romans 3:22 ) is the act of God, out of free grace, declaring and treating the sinner as righteous, that …
94600 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, Names of.31
… , e.g. faithfulness ( Isaiah 48:9 ), grace ( Psalms 23:3 ), His honor ( Psalms 79:9 ), etc. "Accordingly, since the name of God denotes this God Himself as He is revealed, and as …