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• Threefold Division of the LawDoctrine & Theology

  The threefold division of the law is a theological framework that divides the Old Testament law into moral, ceremonial, and civil (judicial) law in order to explain which parts remain binding on Christians.

• Judicial LawDoctrine & Theology

  In the theological tradition that divides the Mosaic law into moral, ceremonial, and judicial law, judicial law refers to the civil and criminal regulations that governed the national and social life of ancient Israel. It is also called civil law.

• Ceremonial LawDoctrine & Theology

  Ceremonial law is a theological term for the part of the Mosaic law that governed Israel's worship and religious rites, including the regulations concerning sacrifices, feasts, circumcision, food, and purity.

• Three Uses of the LawDoctrine & Theology

  The three uses of the law is a teaching of Reformation theology that organizes the work of God's law into three functions: restraining evil in society, bringing people to recognize their sin, and guiding the life of the believer.

• Leo TolstoyPeople

  Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and religious and moral thinker, the author of *War and Peace*, *Anna Karenina*, and *Resurrection*. He interpreted the teachings of Jesus as a call to nonviolence and nonresistance, and after criticizing the church he was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.

• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizPeople

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician. A Lutheran lay scholar, he wrote the *Theodicy*, a treatment of the problem of evil and suffering, and thereby popularized the term "theodicy."

• Common GraceDoctrine & Theology

  Common grace is a theological term for the grace God extends to all people and to the world, without distinction between believers and unbelievers. It is distinguished from special grace, which leads to salvation, and was developed chiefly within the Reformed tradition.

• Moral Influence TheoryDoctrine & Theology

  The moral influence theory is a theory of the atonement holding that the heart of the atonement lies in Christ's death on the cross revealing God's love, which moves human hearts and leads people to repentance and love.

• PelagianismHeresies & Cults

  Pelagianism refers to the teachings of the early fifth-century monk Pelagius and his followers. It denied original sin (the doctrine that Adam's sin is passed on to all people), emphasized human free will and moral responsibility, and was condemned as heresy by several councils of the ancient church.

• Ex Opere OperatoDoctrine & Theology

  *Ex opere operato* (Latin, "by the work performed") is the doctrine that a sacrament is efficacious when it is rightly performed as Christ instituted it, regardless of the faith or moral character of the minister.

• Judges 21:25Bible Verses

  Judges 21:25 is the final verse of the Book of Judges. It sums up the disorder of the period of the judges by stating that there was no king in Israel and that every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the monarchy, the rule of God, and moral relativism.

• Problem of EvilDoctrine & Theology

  The problem of evil is the theological and philosophical question of why evil and suffering exist in the world if God is omnipotent and perfectly good.

• Holiness of GodDoctrine & Theology

  The holiness of God is the divine attribute by which God is set apart from all creatures and is perfectly pure, unmixed with sin. On the basis of this holiness, Scripture calls God's people to live holy lives as well.

• Psalm 116Bible

  Psalm 116 is an individual psalm of thanksgiving in which a person delivered from mortal danger through answered prayer gives thanks to the LORD and resolves to pay his vows before the people in the temple.

• Psalm 146Bible

  Psalm 146 is a psalm of praise that begins and ends with "Hallelujah." It urges the reader not to trust in mortal human beings but in the LORD, who made heaven and earth, cares for the weak, and reigns forever.

• Papal InfallibilityDoctrine & Theology

  Papal infallibility is the Roman Catholic doctrine that the pope is free from error when, under certain conditions, he formally defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals; Protestants do not accept it.

• Job 4Bible

  Job 4 records the first speech of Eliphaz the Temanite to Job. Eliphaz argues from retribution that no one perishes without having sinned, and he relays words he says he heard in a night vision: "Shall mortal man be more just than God?"

• Romans 8:11Bible Verses

  In this verse Paul says that, just as God raised Jesus from the dead, he will also give life to believers' "mortal bodies" through the Spirit who dwells in them. The verse is often cited because it ties the resurrection of the body to the Holy Spirit. Interpreters disagree over whether it refers to the future resurrection or to new life in the present.

• 1 John 5:16Bible Verses

  First John 5:16 urges believers to pray for a brother who is sinning, while setting apart a "sin unto death." Because the verse does not identify that sin, it has been interpreted in several ways, including as apostasy, as physical death, and as mortal (grave) sin.