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Sin
In Christianity, sin refers both to acts that transgress God's will and law and to the state of having departed from a right relationship with God. The sin that all humanity is held to have inherited from Adam is called original sin.
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- Sin OfferingBible
The sin offering is one of the Old Testament sacrifices prescribed in Leviticus. It was offered for sins committed unknowingly and for ritual impurity, and its rite involved putting an animal's blood on the altar and sprinkling it. The New Testament connects it with the death of Christ.
- Sin of JeroboamBible
The sin of Jeroboam refers to the actions of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel, who set up golden calves at Bethel and Dan and altered the system of worship on his own authority. In the books of Kings, the expression became the standard by which the kings of the northern kingdom were evaluated.
- Sinlessness of ChristDoctrine & Theology
The sinlessness of Christ is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, though he lived as a true human being, never sinned in thought, word, or deed.
- Sinai CovenantBible
The Sinai Covenant is the covenant God made at Mount Sinai with the people of Israel after the Exodus, with Moses serving as mediator. Centered on the Ten Commandments and the law, it established Israel as "a kingdom of priests."
- Wilderness of SinaiBible
The Wilderness of Sinai is the wilderness where Israel, after the Exodus, encamped before Mount Sinai for nearly a year, received the Law, and set up the tabernacle. It is the setting of the narrative that runs from Exodus 19 through Numbers 10.
- Codex SinaiticusBible
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It was discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai and is known as the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament.
- Codex SinaiticusBible
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It is the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament and is a key source for the study of the biblical text.
- Sinyu PersecutionHistory
The Sinyu Persecution was a large-scale suppression of Catholics carried out by the Joseon court in 1801, the first year of King Sunjo's reign, while Queen Dowager Jeongsun governed on behalf of the young king. It also had a political dimension as an effort to drive the Namin faction from power. It is also known as the Sinyu Saok.
- Park Sin-ilPeople
Park Sin-il was the wife of Sohn Jeong-do, a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. She is known as a pastor's wife who supported her family through her own labor, sustaining her husband's theological studies and his independence work both in Korea and abroad.
- Mount SinaiBible
Mount Sinai is the mountain where Moses received God's call and where Israel received the Ten Commandments and the law and entered into covenant with God. Scripture also calls it Mount Horeb.
- Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of ZinBible
The Old Testament mentions two distinct wildernesses whose Hebrew names differ: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan. The Korean New Korean Revised Version renders both with the same name.
- Forgiveness of SinsDoctrine & Theology
The forgiveness of sins is God's pardoning of human sin, by which he no longer holds a person liable for the guilt and punishment that sin incurs. Protestants generally understand it as a grace grounded in the cross of Jesus Christ and received through repentance and faith.
- CelibacyChristian Life
Celibacy, or singleness, is the state of living unmarried. In Christianity the term can also refer to a life in which a person chooses not to marry in order to devote himself or herself to the service of God. Understandings and practices differ among denominations.
- TaesinjaChristian Life
*Taesinja* (胎信者) is a term used in Korean Protestant churches for a person whom a church member keeps in mind and prays for with the aim of evangelizing. It refers to someone who does not yet attend church but who, it is hoped, will one day become a believer. The word carries the sense of "a believer carried in the womb."
- Seoul Theological UniversityInstitutions
Seoul Theological University is a private theological university in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, affiliated with the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church. It traces its origins to a Bible institute founded in Seoul in 1911 by the Oriental Missionary Society.
- Kim Kyo-shinPeople
Kim Kyo-shin (金敎臣, 1901–1945) was a Korean Christian thinker and educator during the Japanese colonial period. An adherent of the Non-Church (Mukyokai) movement, he published the Bible-study magazine Seongseo Joseon (The Bible and Korea) and taught many students, including Sohn Kee-chung, at Yangjeong Higher Common School.
- ForgivenessDoctrine & Theology
Forgiveness is the act of restoring a relationship without holding the wrongdoer to account or taking revenge. In Christianity, it refers both to God's pardoning of human sin and to people forgiving one another's wrongs.
- Man of LawlessnessBible
The man of lawlessness is the figure whom Paul, in 2 Thessalonians 2, says will appear before the day of the Lord. He opposes God and exalts himself as God. He is commonly identified with the Antichrist.
- 1 John 1:9Bible Verses
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This verse is a leading text on the repentance and forgiveness of believers. It figures in discussions of the sacrament of penance, the Protestant practice of direct confession to God, and the question of whether saved believers must repent repeatedly.