Faith [N] [T] [E]Belief, trust, and loyalty to a person or thing. Christians find their security and hope in God as revealed in Jesus Christ, and say ...
Woman [T] [E]In an age of women's liberation, modern Bible readers have understandably scrutinized Scripture for its teachings on gender. Assessments ...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
Death, Mortality Death is the absence or withdrawal of breath and the life force that makes movement, metabolism, and interrelation with others possib...
Ministry, Minister It is reasonably clear in Scripture that (1) ministry means the service of God and his creatures; (2) the one essential ministry is...
Here is wisdom This phrase indicates that what follows constitutes a riddle of sorts requiring great wisdom to comprehend. A similar statement introd...
Old Testament in the New Testament, the The New Testament proclaims its indebtedness to the Old Testament on the very first page. Matthew begins with ...
The Book of PhilippiansChapter 1Verses:1:1Servants - St. Paul, writing familiarly to the Philippians, does not style himself an apostle. And under the...
COLOSSIANS, EPISTLE TO THE ko-losh'-ans, ko-los'-i-anz: This is one of the group of Paul's epistles known as the Captivity Epistles (see PHILEMON, EP...
Pharisees [N] [E] [H] [S]Jewish group mentioned, either collectively or as individuals, ninety-eight times in the New Testament, all but ten times in ...
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 pol, I. Sources 1. The Acts 2. The Thirteen Epistles (1) Pauline Authorship (2) Lightfoot's Grouping (a) First Group (1 and...
Elect, Election The term elect means essentially to choose. It involves discriminatory evaluation of individuals, means, ends, or objects with a view ...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life The divinely bestowed gift of blessedness in God's presence that endures without end. This relates especial...
Abraham [N] [E] [H] [S]The Old Testament. This man, whose name may mean the father is exalted, was the first of the great patriarchs of Israel. In th...
Soul [N]The Old Testament. The Hebrew word so rendered is nepes [v,p,n]. It appears 755 times in the Old Testament. The King James Version uses 42 dif...
David [N] [E] [H] [S]David was the founder of a dynasty that would rule in Jerusalem for over 350 years. His impact on the history of Israel is seen f...
Kingdom of God The heart of Jesus' teachings centers around the theme of the kingdom of God. Thisexpression is found in sixty-one separate sayings in ...
Offerings and Sacrifices The Old Testament regulations for offerings and sacrifices are renowned for their many and complicated details, and the overa...
Drink [N] [E]Palestine lacks fresh water rivers and lakes and its dependence upon rain after its yearly hot, dry period makes drought an ongoing possi...