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1661 Fundamental Beliefs 1965, p. 5.8 (General Conference of SDA)

… the divine agency of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads to the Sin-Bearer, inducting the believer into the new covenant relationship, where the …

1662 Fundamental Beliefs 1975, p. 5.9 (Jesse O. Gibson)

… the divine agency of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads to the Sin-Bearer, inducting the believer into the new covenant relationship, where the …

1663 Fundamental Beliefs 1981, p. 7.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… its divinely ordained functions. According to the Scriptures, these gifts include such ministries as faith, healing, prophecy, proclamation, teaching, administration …

1664 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 214.6 (General Conference of SDA)

… universal agency which is exercised in the world at large, and which is directed upon Israel and Gentiles alike, is, by Elohim, the God of creation and of providence …

1665 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 338.3 (General Conference of SDA)

… and agencies, it would be impossible for man to discriminate between the acts of the Godhead and the acts of the manhood. And man, if he considered acts of a divine

1666 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 418.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… a divine origin. They are evidently nothing more than shrewd guesses into futurity, veiled in language capable of many different senses. And if some of them …

1667 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 427.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… their divine origin! Is it possible to conceive any human power or agency by which such a series of predictions, so clear and definite, so particular and minute …

1668 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 331.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… human agency, too often on human passion and intrigues; how completely wanting it was of any mark of the divine construction and care-the offspring of man …

1669 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 395.24 (General Conference of SDA)

… superintending divine agency in the affairs of men. To man the precise knowledge of future events would be anything but a blessing. It would produce a moral …

1670 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 488.5 (General Conference of SDA)

… human agency, nor was it, as might perhaps be supposed, by the compassion or the humanity of our rulers. For, so far from this, they were daily devising more and …

1671 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 549.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… a divine presence, and by a supernatural agency, which turned back the barbarian chiefs Attila and Genseric and others when within the very sight of its walls …

1672 In Defense of the Faith, p. 15.1 (William Henry Branson)

… the divine agency of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads to the Sin-bearer, inducting the believer into the new covenant relationship, where the …

1673 In Defense of the Faith, p. 370.4 (William Henry Branson)

… mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power. It is the Spirit that makes effectual …

1674 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 10.1 (Lewis Harrison Christian)

… only agency appointed by the Lord to save the lost. This is her special work, and only as she does this work will she fulfill her divine mission. The church of …

1675 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 138.5 (Lewis Harrison Christian)

… human agencies, and He Himself, by His Holy Spirit, qualified men and enabled them to do this work. He guided the mind in the selection of what to speak and what …

1676 The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 203.3 (Lewis Harrison Christian)

… mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power.”— The Desire of Ages, 671 .

1677 Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission, p. 306.9 (Pieter Gerard Damsteegt)

… the divine agency of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads to the Sin Bearer, inducting believers into the new-covenant relationship, where the law …

1678 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 551.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… two agencies, love and hate, as controlling the four elements. The history of the universe is, he held, oscillation to and fro between complete accord and total …

1679 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 724.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… a divine faculty of thought; as thinking and creative activity; as the result of thinking; the ideal world itself; and the active, divine principle, potency …

1680 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 483 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

1. DIVINE JUSTICE, AND MAN’S FREE MORAL AGENCY