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95241 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.6
3. Faith
95242 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.41
3. Faith: Hence, of the human conditions, whole-hearted trust in God is the most important. (Belief in God is, of course, never argued in the Bible.) Inconsistent with …
95243 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.45
… simply faithful to the Old Testament. Almost anything that can be found in the Old Testament--with the important exception of the note of joyousness of Deuteronomy …
95244 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.53
… of faith in the Son forfeits all blessings ( Mark 6:5 - 6; 9:23 ). Faith in Him brings instant forgiveness of sins ( Mark 2:5 ), and love directed to Him is an indisputable …
95245 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.61
… is faith a purely passive virtue, for man must be "obedient" to it ( Romans 1:5; 10:16; 1 Thessalonians 2:13 ). And for the necessary presence of love in faith compare …
95246 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.62
… of faith--specifically, faith in Christ (except Romans 4:1 - 25; Galatians 3:6 )--God does not visit the penalties of sins on believers, but treats them as if they were …
95247 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.63
… being faith. The question of the order of the steps is futile, for "to have faith," "to be in Christ," and "to have the Spirit" are convertible terms, i.e. in doctrinal …
95248 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Salvation.65
… of "faith" (6:29, especially), but this "faith" involves in turn human effort, for, without "abiding," faith is useless (8:30,31). (5) An advance on the Synoptists is found …
95249 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samaria, Country of.2
… of faith and life that heralded her doom ( Jeremiah 23:13; Hosea 7:1 ff, etc.). The Assyrians came as the scourge of God ( 2 Kings 17:5 - 23 ). Their attack centered on the capital …
95250 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samaria, Country of.3
… their faith. A further importation of pagan settlers took place under Esar-haddon and Osnappar ( Ezra 4:9 - 10 ). The latter is to be identified with Assur-bani-pal …
95251 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samson.4
… of faith ( Hebrews 11:32 ), and was in no ordinary sense an Old Testament worthy. He was good-natured, sarcastic, full of humor, and fought with his wits as well as with …
95252 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samson.24
… a faithful mirror of his times: "Every man did that which was right in his own eyes" ( Judges 17:6; 21:25 ). There was no king in those days, i.e. no central government. Each …
95253 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samson.25
… of faith ( Hebrews 11:32 ). He was a Nazirite, and therefore dedicated to God. He was given to revenge, yet he was ready to sacrifice himself in order that his own and …
95254 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Samuel, Books of.77
… good faith the writer set down the records as he found them, making extracts or quotations from his authorities on the several events as they occurred, and …
95255 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.30
… of "faith working through love" ( Galatians 5:6 ), it is having the mind of Christ ( Philippians 2:5 ). The sanctified life, then, is the life so fully surrendered to fellowship …
95256 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.34
… Christian faith is the moral surrender of our life to Him in whom truth and right come to us with authority to command. The meaning of that surrender is ethical …
95257 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.38
… his faith than this uncompromising idealism. On the other hand, how could he ask less than this? God cannot require less than the highest, but it is another question …
95258 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.52
… , by faith, here and now, was one of the doctrines by which John Wesley gave great offense to his clerical brethren in the Anglican church. From the beginning …
95259 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.53
… of faith in Christ, it reaches an instantaneous completion through the act of the Holy Spirit, the sanctifier: 2 Corinthians 7:1 "perfecting holiness," etc.; Ephesians …
95260 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sarah; Sarai.7
… lacked faith in God to protect his life and in cowardice sought his own safety at the price of his wife’s honor. The first of these occasions was in the earlier …