Faith and Obedience: Obedience is often seen as a demonstration of one's faith in God. The Bible teaches that faith without works is dead (James 2:26), meaning that genuine faith leads to obedient actions. Christians are called to demonstrate their faith through their actions and obedience to...
1. Meaning of Terms: In its simpler Old Testament meaning the word signifies "to hear," "to listen." It carries with it, however, the ethical significance of hearing with reverence and obedient assent. In the New Testament a different origin is suggestive of "hearing under" or of subordina...
3. A child, an apprentice, a pupil, a mariner, and a soldier, owe respectively obedience to the lawful commands of the parent, the master, the teacher, the captain of the ship, and the military officer having command; and in case of disobedience, submission may be enforced by correction...
When he had been forty years in this school of faith-obedience, God came to perfect his faith, and to crown it with His fullest blessing. Nothing could fit him for this but a crowning act of obedience. When he had bound his son on the altar, God came and said (Gen.22:12, 18), ...
I do, however, want to make a quick suggestion. Mostly for myself but others can benefit from it too. I think photos should be required to prove you completed the task. Now sure I could take photo’s with my phone app, but they don’t feel they have meaning when I do that so ...
Occasionally, some well meaning Baptists have asserted that belief in both the active and passive obedience of Christ as the ground of our justification is something foreign to Baptist life—perhaps something picked up from the Gospel Coalition, the now inactive T4G, or some other evangelical orga...
results in that being done which God does not will. God allows this. The disorder in the world is not a sign that God’s rule has been overthrown or forfeited. Rather, God gives time and space for the human creature to learn of God, to hear his Word, and freely to turn to God. ...
Meaning and analysis write a note reportSimilar quotes “When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America...
Why only the hair form the symbol of crown (as we have in Buddhist semiotics) and grow its meaning to the sign of puberty, pubic in "Nitya"? Why the question of hair is raised in "Nitya, which is merely senseless and a cluster of dead cells? Why the hair which lives and grows ...
Kashiwagi Gien, Nanbara Shigeru, and many others less well known - Miyata's work aims not at exposing cultural particularity but at showing how the modern Japanese Christian experience can give meaning to a theology and a political theory of how to live within the 'freedom of religious belief'...