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94761 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.100
… church's faith and the root and safeguard of its life. (a) This alone secures and guarantees the Christian revelation of God; with its denial that revelation …
94762 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.105
… Christian faith has been steadily advanced, its forgotten or neglected factors brought to remembrance. Old truths have been presented in new aspects and …
94763 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.106
… of faith, but is never spoken of as the Spirit of love or holiness. If those who are begotten of God cannot sin, it is not because God's Spirit, but because "his seed …
94764 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.5
… , repentance, faith, obedience or love; it is that of which they are the fruits and the evidences. Thus instead of "This do, and thou shalt live" ( Luke 10:28 ), John says …
94765 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.18
… of faith in Him ( 1 John 5:5 ). Thus the "world" (in this darker significance) is composed of those who still love the darkness rather than the light ( John 3:19 ), who, when …
94766 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.26
… by faith will be revealed in all the visible magnitude of their consequences.
94767 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.31
… Christian faith. There must be a day when all self-deception shall cease and all reality shall be manifested.
94768 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.34
… and faith will coincide. It will then have ceased to be expedient that Christ should go away in order that the Spirit of truth may come. We shall possess in the …
94769 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John the Baptist.54
… lost faith in the Messiahship of Jesus, but rather a perplexity at the course of events. The inquiry may have been in the interest of the faith of his disciples …
94770 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.28
3. Growth of Faith and Development of Unbelief
94771 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.30
(2) Growth of Faith in the Disciples
94772 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.33
… of faith and unbelief in His hearers and in the nation (1:19 through 12:50). (3) There is a more detailed account of the closing events of the Passion Week--of His farewell …
94773 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.57
… the faith of His disciples. If we were to ask him, when did he behold the glory of the incarnate Word, the answer would be, in all these scenes which are described …
94774 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.59
… how faith began, of how faith made progress, until he came to the knowledge of the Son of God. We can enter into the various crises through which he passed, through …
94775 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.61
… of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God. The Gospel can be understood from this point of view: it does not seem to us that it can be understood from any other …
94776 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.62
… , whose faith in Jesus as the Christ is likewise represented as complete from the beginning. In reality the opposite is the case. In the course of the Gospel …
94777 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.67
… of faith; rather it gives an additional ground for a rational faith.
94778 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.69
3. Growth of Faith and Development of Unbelief: As it is with the character of Jesus, so it is with the alleged absence of development in the faith of the disciples. Careful inquiry shows this objection also to be unfounded.
94779 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.71
… of Faith in the Disciples. Apart from what may be made of these early confessions, it may fairly be said that there are many signs of a growth of faith on the part …
94780 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.72
… the faith of His disciples, and made His deeds and His words both tests of faith, and a means for its growth. As the result of the words on the bread of life, we find …