Search for: The Spirit of Christ—true faith
1041 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 8-12.7
… the Holy Spirit and then sent them on the mission of world conquest. In the Acts Luke records the waiting, the coming of the Holy Spirit, the planting of a powerful …
1042 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, General.71
… on the soil of Asia Minor. We see in them the Christian faith deeply tinged with the spirit of contemporary paganism; the faith in Christ the Saviour-God, which …
1043 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.19
… instead of wine at the Eucharist. Very characteristic of the Acts of Peter is the emphasis laid on the boundless mercy of God in Christ toward the backsliding …
1044 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astrology.61
… one of the chief living astrologers puts it, "The TRUE astrologer believes that the sun is the body of the Loges of this solar system, `in Him we live and move and …
1045 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptismal Regeneration.7
… in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit." For the due administration of this sacrament, personal …
1046 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.28
… vision of the church as a body of which Christ is the head, a body animated by one spirit, and having one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all ( Ephesians …
1047 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, First Epistle to The.47
… to the Christian life. The Corinthians were imbued with the party spirit of Greek democracy, and were infected also by the sporting spirit of the great games …
1048 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Corinthians, Second Epistle to The.37
… a spirited and even passionate polemic, in the course of which the Judaizing party in Corinth is vigorously assailed. The enemies of the apostle have charged …
1049 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Creed; Creeds.41
… of the Christian faith. The other creeds set forth the mercies of Revelation; this adds the danger of rejecting them. The others declare the faith; this …
1050 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eschatology of the New Testament, I-V.26
… the New Testament development, notably in the revelations accompanying the birth of Christ and in the earlier (synoptical) preaching of John the Baptist …
1051 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eschatology of the New Testament, I-V.30
… of the Spirit, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, the conversion of Israel and the preaching of the gospel to all the nations. The problem of the sequence …
1052 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eschatology of the New Testament, I-V.31
… the destruction of the temple exclusively, as the other half of the question speaks of the coming of Jesus and the end of the world. Evidently here not the two …
1053 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eschatology of the New Testament, VI-X.13
… in the air. But this passage does not speak of the judgment, only of the parousia and the meeting of believers with Christ. The judge is God ( Matthew 6:4, 6, 14, 18; 28 …
1054 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, III.44
… faith and love cannot be devoid of hope. Love is the first and last word of apostolic Christianity. No term is more expressive of the spirit of Christ. Love …
1055 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galatians, Epistle to The.60
… in "the Spirit" come through "works of the law" or the "hearing of faith"? Will the flesh consummate what the Spirit began ( Galatians 3:2 - 5 )? (a2) Abraham, they are told …
1056 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.62
… . (5) The denial of the personality of the Supreme God, and the denial also of the free will of man. (6) The teaching, on the one hand, of asceticism as the means of attaining …
1057 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.74
… knowledge of the first principles of Christ ( Hebrews 6:1 ff). They had become "partakers of Christ," and had need only to "hold fast the beginning of (their) confidence …
1058 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jesus Christ, 4f.4
… of the balance compared with the strength of the evidence for the fact. From the standpoint of faith, the resurrection of Jesus is the most credible of events …
1059 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 1.80
… , in the way both of statement and omission; in the 1st Epistle scarcely any other danger to the faith and life of the church is apprehended than the spreading …
1060 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.18
… the true nature of God and the Divine glory of Christ ( John 1:10; 17:25; 1 John 3:1 ); that it hates the children of God ( John 15:18 - 19; 17:14; 1 John 3:13 ); that the spirit of …