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31 matching topics · Showing 1–31Baptism The necessary dipping or immersing of a believing penitent person in water in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Baptism is the means…
BAPTISM/IMMERSION: Acts 8:38; 22:16; Rom 6:3-5; Col 2:11-13
BAPTISM — GENERAL SCRIPTURE INVENTORY The principal baptism passages collectively establish subject, action, element, authority, purpose, union with Christ, and salvation context. No single proof text should carry…
BENEVOLENCE: church: Acts 2:44,45; 4:32-5:11; 6:1-6; 11:27-30; Rom 15:25-27; 1 Co 16:1-4; 2 Cor 8:4; 9:1,12; 1 Tim 5:3-16. Individual: 1 Tim 5:4,8,16; Matt 15:4-6; 25:31-46; Ester 2:7;…
BIBLE/UNDERSTANDABLE: Eph 3:4; 5:17; Jn 8:32; Lk 10:25-28; Psa 19:7ff
BIBLE FACTS The Bible is a collection of writings produced across many centuries in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek and preserved through a large manuscript tradition. Archaeological discoveries can…
BIBLE STUDY: 2 Tim 2:15; I Pet 2:2; Heb 5:12-14; Col 3:16; Acts 20:32; 2 Pet 3:18; Eph 5:17; Acts 17:11. Open-mindedness and humility are essential to good…
Day-Age Theory The Day-Age Theory interprets the creation “days” of Genesis 1 as long periods rather than ordinary days. Advocates appeal to the range of the Hebrew word…
EVOLUTION Gen 1:24-25. The theory (not established fact) that the development of all forms of life takes place through a series of modifications, the direction of which is…
GRACE AND WORKS – Ezra 9:8-9; James chapter 2
Hermeneutics The science of interpretation, the study of how one is to interpret the Scriptures. Good hermeneutics seeks to understand the message the original author intended in its…
Holy Spirit / Can Be Resisted The Holy Spirit is not merely an impersonal force. Scripture presents the Spirit as speaking, teaching, guiding, witnessing, interceding, and being grieved,…
Holy Spirit / Distinct The Holy Spirit is not merely an impersonal force. Scripture presents the Spirit as speaking, teaching, guiding, witnessing, interceding, and being grieved, resisted, and…
Holy Spirit / Godhead The Holy Spirit is not merely an impersonal force. Scripture presents the Spirit as speaking, teaching, guiding, witnessing, interceding, and being grieved, resisted, and…
Holy Spirit Baptism — John 3 Cross-Reference Jesus told Nicodemus that one must be born of water and of the Spirit to enter God's kingdom. The passage must…
JEWS/CHANGE THE CUSTOMS OF MOSES? Acts 21:21, 28
John 3:5 — Spirit Jesus told Nicodemus that one must be born of water and of the Spirit to enter God's kingdom. The passage must be read in…
John 3:5 — Water Jesus told Nicodemus that one must be born of water and of the Spirit to enter God's kingdom. The passage must be read in…
Meditation A spiritual concentration used in Bible study, in which one considers the context, meaning and applications of a particular passage of Scripture.
Names for Individual Christians The New Testament uses several inspired descriptions for Christ's people. Collectively they are called the church, body of Christ, household of God, temple of…
Names for the Church / Group The New Testament uses several inspired descriptions for Christ's people. Collectively they are called the church, body of Christ, household of God,…
The prepared NT library contains 250 reviewed phrase assignments. These are separate from the 48 NT color types, including the original 15 and the 100 Commands & Biblical…
The prepared OT list contains 350 contextual phrase assignments, not 350 unique verses. Both KJV views: open Color Bible Marking — show / hide and key, then Browse…
Once Saved, Always Saved The unscriptural, Calvinist doctrine that once a predestined child of God has been saved, he cannot for any reason thereafter be lost.
PREMELLENIALISM: Matt 13:24-30 (Explained 36-43) Verse 39 – End of the Age; 1 Cor 15:23-28; Josh 21:43; Neh 9:7-8; Jer 19:11, 22:30; Rev 3:21; 2 Tim 4:1; Heb…
Ritual A symbolic action, usually in the context of worship, that points to a spiritual truth.
Singing Eph 5:19; Col 3:16
Steps of the Faith Paul explicitly identifies the sword of the Spirit as the word of God. God's word is living and powerful and penetrates the heart. Revelation's…
Sword of the Spirit Paul explicitly identifies the sword of the Spirit as the word of God. God's word is living and powerful and penetrates the heart. Revelation's…
WORKS: Jas 2:14-17, 19, 24, 26, Jn 12:42, 14:15; Gal 5:6; Acts10:34-35; Matt 7:21; Heb 5:9; Psalm 119:172; 2 Cor 7:1
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