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APOCRYPHA ( ̓Απόκρυφος, hidden ). Applied technically to the relationship of certain books to the Heb. Canon. In general it constitutes the excess of the LXX over the Heb. Scriptures, with the material concerned being written during the last two centuries b.c. and the 1st cent. a.d. 1. The concept of the Apocrypha.
Numerology is the general study of numbers. Biblical numerology is the study of how they are used in Scripture and what they reveal about God, his character and will, etc. Twelve, for example, is commonly used to denote our Creator's establishment of a foundation or to show his perfect authority like the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve ...
What does Galatians 3:29 mean? Paul has just described the incredible position of his Christian readers in Galatia. They, like all saved Christians, are full children of the Almighty God. They have been baptized into God's Spirit. They have put on Christ and are so completely covered by Him as to be fully identified by the Father with Christ.
Ebenezer is a Hebrew word that means “stone of help.”. The Hebrew transliteration shows the pronunciation as ‘ebhen ha ‘azer. This word originates as a boy’s name in the Hebrew culture, but is used biblically in the book of 1 Samuel. In Hebrew and English, Ebenezer has the same meaning. We find in the book of 1 Samuel that Ebenezer is ...
- The terms “justification” and “justify.” The noun or substantive “justification” (dikaiosis) is not used frequently in the Bible—only twice by Paul in his famous Epistle to the Romans, which may be regarded as the greatest single treatise in the Scriptures and in all lit.
- Justification according to the Apostle Paul. When the Apostle Paul preached the doctrine of justification in the ancient Rom. world it would seem that the term was readily understood by both Jew and Greek (Rom 1:14).
- Justification by works. In Romans 3, Paul answers the vital question, How is a man justified? How does he obtain a favorable judgment or acquittal? He writes: “Then what becomes of our boasting?
- Justification and the righteousness of God. In the broader concept of justification in both OT and NT, the idea of the righteousness of God (dikaiosyne theou) is closely related to God’s judicial act of salvation.
Answer: The words 'all nations' appear in Matthew 28.19.They're sometimes translated 'all peoples', which is an accurate rendering of the Greek original, 'panta ta ethne'.
GRACE (Gr. χάρις, G5921 ). In summary form the Christian message is “the gospel of the grace of God” ( Acts 20:24 ). While the single pregnant term “grace” expresses its central and distinctive message, Christianity practically created the word “love,” ἀγάπη, G27, although the verb ἀγαπάω, G26, was right there.
