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• James 1Bible

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• SufferingDoctrine & Theology

  Suffering is the pain and hardship that people experience. In Christianity the term refers especially to the Passion that Jesus Christ endured on the cross and to the trials believers face because of their faith or in the course of life.

• Felix and FestusPeople

  Felix and Festus were Roman governors of Judea who appear in Acts 23–26. While Paul was imprisoned at Caesarea, each in turn presided over his trial.

• Valley of RephaimBible

  The Valley of Rephaim was a valley southwest of Jerusalem that formed part of the boundary between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. It is known as the place where David twice defeated the Philistine army encamped there.

• Acts 25Bible

  Acts 25 is the chapter in which the new governor, Festus, tries Paul, who is imprisoned at Caesarea. It covers the events from Paul's appeal to Caesar (the Roman emperor) to Festus's presentation of Paul before King Agrippa.

• Galileo AffairHistory

  The Galileo affair was the episode in which the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, after defending heliocentrism, was convicted by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between science and faith.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13Bible Verses

  This verse teaches that God is faithful and "will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able," but will "make a way to escape." It is frequently cited as a comfort in times of trial, though interpreters debate whether "temptation" here refers to enticement to sin or to suffering.

• Cities of RefugeBible

  The cities of refuge were six towns designated by Old Testament law where a person who had killed someone unintentionally could escape blood vengeance, stand trial, and receive protection. Three were located east of the Jordan River and three west of it.

• Scopes TrialHistory

  The Scopes Trial was a 1925 case in Dayton, Tennessee, in which high school teacher John T. Scopes was tried for violating a state law, the Butler Act, that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. It is also known as the "Monkey Trial."

• Testing (Trial and Temptation)Christian Life

  In Christian usage, testing refers both to a trial that refines faith and to a temptation that leads toward sin. In Korean Protestant churches, the corresponding term is also widely used in the expression *siheom deulda* ("to fall into testing"), which describes a person whose faith has been shaken or whose feelings have been hurt.

• Job 2Bible

  Job 2 is the chapter in which Job, struck with sore boils over his entire body in a second trial, still does not sin with his lips, and in which his three friends come and sit with him in silence for seven days.

• Church DisciplineOrganization & Polity

  Church discipline is the practice by which a church examines the sins and wrongdoing of its members or officers, urges them to repent, and, when necessary, imposes censures in accordance with its church constitution. It is also referred to as church governance or, in its judicial form, ecclesiastical trial.

• Naboth's VineyardBible

  Naboth's vineyard is the episode in which King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel and his queen, Jezebel, had Naboth the Jezreelite put to death through a false trial in order to seize his vineyard. The account appears in 1 Kings 21.

• 105-Man IncidentHistory

  The 105-Man Incident was a 1911 case in which the Japanese Government-General of Korea fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested hundreds of members of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe) and Christians from Korea's northwestern provinces. Its name comes from the 105 defendants convicted at the first trial.

• Roman CitizenshipBible

  Roman citizenship was a legal status that the Roman Empire conferred on its citizens. In the New Testament, Paul invoked this status to avoid scourging and to appeal to Caesar, and the Epistle to the Philippians speaks of the believer's "heavenly citizenship."

• Witch HuntsHistory

  Witch hunts were the accusation, trial, and punishment of people suspected of harming others through witchcraft; they are also known as witch trials. They occurred on a large scale in both Catholic and Protestant regions of Europe from the late fifteenth century through the seventeenth century.

• Acts 24Bible

  Acts 24 is the chapter in which Paul stands trial before the governor Felix at Caesarea. The accusation brought by the high priest's party is followed by Paul's defense, and the chapter ends with Felix deferring judgment and keeping Paul in custody for two years.

• James 1:12–14Bible Verses

  James 1:12–14 promises that the one who endures trials will receive "the crown of life" and states that the temptation leading to sin comes not from God but from a person's own desire. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of perseverance in suffering and of responsibility for sin.

• Genesis 22:2Bible Verses

  Genesis 22:2 records God's command to Abraham to offer his beloved only son Isaac as a burnt offering in the land of Moriah. The verse is read as the height of faith and obedience, and it has long been debated for the ethical implications of God commanding the sacrifice of a human being.

• Job 2:10Bible Verses

  In this verse Job answers his wife, who has urged him in his suffering to curse God, with the words "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" The verse is often cited in discussions of faith amid suffering. Interpreters debate how Job's wife should be assessed and what the phrase "with his lips" means.