Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 2 VI. Rationale of the Efficacy of Christ's Sacrifice. 1. Jesus' Teaching: Jesus emphasizes His voluntary spirit in...
Slave, Slavery State of being subjected to involuntary servitude. It usually included being legally owned as property by another person. Slavery in th...
FORGIVENESS for-giv'-nes (kaphar, nasa', calach; apoluein charizesthai, aphesis paresis): 1. Etymology 2. Pagan and Jewish Ideas 3. The Teaching of...
SON OF MAN, THE (ho huios tou anthropou) : 1. Use in the New Testament: Self-Designation of Jesus 2. Questions as to Meaning I. SOURCE OF THE TITL...
4.16.5.5.1 - What about the Physical Temple? When the Lamb of God (Isa. Isa. 53:7; John John 1:29; 1Pe. 1Pe. 1:19; Rev. Rev. 5:6+) was offered on the ...
SALVATION sal-va'-shun: I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. General 2. Individualism 3. Faith 4. Moral Law 5. Sacrifices 6. Ritual Law II. INTERMEDIATE...
Cross, Crucifixion The importance of the cross as a theological motif in the New Testament is impossible to overestimate. It stands as the center of t...
MEDIATION; MEDIATOR me-di-a'-shun, me'-di-a-ter: I. INTRODUCTORY 1. The Terms (1) Mediation (2) Mediator 2. The Principle of Mediation II. MEDIA...
Atonement [N] [E]That the Bible's central message is atonement, that is, that God has provided a way for humankind to come back into harmonious relati...
Rulers (Appointed and removed by God)See GOVERNMENT, GOD INChastised Daniel 4 See NATIONMonarchicalSee KINGSPatriarchal Genesis 27:29 Genesis 27:...
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 ...
Biblical Theology Study of the Bible that seeks to discover what the biblical writers, under divine guidance, believed, described, and taught in the c...
Joel, Theology of The Book of Joel has been dated by conservative scholars from the ninth to the fifthcenturies b.c.: more recent scholars tend to dat...
Person, Personhood The biblical view of humanity is critical to our understanding of the Scriptures and God. Anthropology is an essential element of t...
LIFE lif (chayyim, nephesh, ruach, chayah; zoe, psuche, bios, pneuma): I. THE TERMS II. THE OLD TESTAMENT TEACHING 1. Popular Use of the Term 2. C...
CHAPTER 8 John 8:1-11 . THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. 1, 2. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives--This should have formed the last verse of the...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
PART VI. SOTERIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION THROUGH THE WORK OF CHRIST AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. CHAPTER I. CHRISTOLOGY, OR THE REDEMPTION WRO...