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Mephibosheth
[People]Mephibosheth, the grandson of King Saul and the son of Jonathan, became lame in both feet as a child. He appears in 2 Samuel and is best known for the account in which David, remembering his covenant with Jonathan, received him at the king's table.
Micah (son of Mephibosheth)
[People]Micah was the son of Saul's grandson Mephibosheth (Merib-baal). His name appears in 2 Samuel 9 and in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 8 and 9, which show that the house of Saul and Jonathan continued through him.
Merab
[People]Merab was the elder daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel. An Old Testament figure, she was promised to David as his wife but was instead given in marriage to Adriel the Meholathite. Her younger sister was Michal, who became David's wife.
Merit
[Doctrine & Theology]Merit (Korean Merit, gongno) is a theological term for an act that serves as the ground for receiving a reward or salvation from God, or for the value of such an act. Because it bears directly on the place of human works in salvation, it is one of the principal issues that divided Catholicism and Protestantism.
Barzillai (the Meholathite)
[People]Barzillai the Meholathite was the father of Adriel, who married Merab, the eldest daughter of Saul. He is an Old Testament figure named only once, in 2 Samuel 21:8, and is a different person from Barzillai the Gileadite, who aided David.
Grace
[Doctrine & Theology]Grace is the favor and gift that God freely bestows on those who do not deserve it. Protestantism holds that the basis on which a person attains salvation is not his or her own merit but the grace of God.
Adriel
[People]Adriel was an Israelite of the time of King Saul and the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He married Merab, Saul's elder daughter, who had been promised to David.
New Perspective on Paul
[Doctrine & Theology]The New Perspective on Paul is an approach to interpreting Paul that emerged in Anglo-American New Testament scholarship in the late 1970s. It reads the "works of the law" that Paul criticized not as an attempt to earn merit but as identity markers that separated Jews from Gentiles.
Theology of Glory
[Doctrine & Theology]The theology of glory refers to an outlook holding that human beings can know God and attain to God through human reason, merit, and success. Martin Luther used the term critically, setting it against the theology of the cross.
Michal
[People]Michal was the younger daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel, and the first wife of David. She appears in 1 and 2 Samuel and is known for helping David escape from her father Saul and for despising David as he danced before the Ark of the Covenant.
Works-Righteousness
[Doctrine & Theology]Works-righteousness is the attitude or belief that a person can obtain salvation or God's grace through his or her own good deeds and religious acts. The term is used mainly in Protestantism, usually in a critical sense.
Salvation
[Doctrine & Theology]In Christianity, salvation is deliverance from sin and its consequences—death and separation from God—so that human beings are reconciled to God and receive eternal life.
Five Solas
[Doctrine & Theology]The Five Solas are five slogans that summarize the central tenets of the Reformation using the Latin word sola ("alone"). They are Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, and glory to God alone.