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Job 14:4
[Bible Verses]Job 14:4 is part of Job's appeal to God concerning human frailty, in which he says that a "clean thing" cannot come out of an "unclean." In the Christian tradition, the verse is often cited as a proof text for original sin and the corruption of human nature.
Proverbs 6:23
[Bible Verses]Proverbs 6:23 compares a parent's teaching to a "lamp" and "light" and the "reproofs of instruction" to "the way of life." It is often quoted to express the idea that sound teaching and correction safeguard one's life, and it is commonly read alongside passages that liken the word of God to light.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
[Bible]The gifts of the Holy Spirit are the various abilities and ministries that the Holy Spirit distributes to believers for building up the church. Lists of them appear in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, Ephesians 4, and elsewhere.
Gallio
[People]Gallio was the Roman proconsul of the province of Achaia. In Acts 18, when the Jews of Corinth brought charges against Paul, he declined to hear the case, regarding it as a matter of Jewish law.
Discernment of Spirits
[Christian Life]Discernment of spirits is the act of determining whether a given utterance, phenomenon, or spiritual experience comes from the Holy Spirit. It is one of the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12:10.
Food Sacrificed to Idols
[Bible]Food sacrificed to idols is a New Testament term for meat and other food that had been offered to pagan gods and was then eaten or sold in the marketplace. Acts, 1 Corinthians, and Revelation address whether believers may eat it.
Smyrna
[Bible]Smyrna was a port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor and the home of one of the seven churches to which the risen Christ sent letters in Revelation 2. It corresponds to the modern city of İzmir, Türkiye.
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.
Rudolf Bultmann
[People]Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. His form-critical analysis of the Gospel traditions and his call for the "demythologization" of the New Testament had a major influence on twentieth-century biblical studies and theology, and they proved correspondingly controversial.
Food Offered to Idols
[Bible]Food offered to idols is a biblical term for food, especially meat, that had been sacrificed to pagan gods. Through the warnings of the Old Testament and the New Testament discussion in 1 Corinthians 8–10, it is treated as a matter of the believer's conscience and fellowship.
Doctor of the Church
[Church Offices]Doctor of the Church is a title the Catholic Church formally confers on saints who have made an outstanding contribution to teaching the faith and doctrine. Protestantism has no corresponding official office or title.
Novatian
[People]Novatian was a third-century presbyter and theologian of the church at Rome. He took a rigorist position on whether to readmit those who had renounced the faith during persecution, broke with Cornelius, bishop of Rome, and formed a separate church community.
Peter's Vision of the Sheet
[Bible]The vision the apostle Peter received while praying in Joppa, in which a great sheet containing unclean animals was let down from heaven (Acts 10). It led to the acceptance of the Gentile Cornelius.
Cainan
[People]Cainan is a name that appears twice in the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3. One Cainan is an antediluvian figure corresponding to Kenan in Genesis; the other is a son of Arphaxad who does not appear in the Hebrew text of Genesis.
Mendicant Orders
[History]The mendicant orders are a type of Catholic religious order that arose in thirteenth-century Western Europe. The term refers to orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, which held no corporate property, lived on the offerings and alms of the faithful, and preached as they traveled from town to town.
Clement of Rome
[People]Clement of Rome was a leader of the church in Rome in the late first century and an Apostolic Father, known as the author of a letter to the church in Corinth commonly called 1 Clement. The Catholic Church counts him as the fourth pope.
Fivefold Gospel
[Doctrine & Theology]The Fivefold Gospel is a summary of faith that presents five elements (regeneration, the fullness of the Holy Spirit, divine healing, blessing, and the Second Coming) as the core of the gospel given by Jesus Christ. Systematized by the Korean pastor David Yonggi Cho, it became the representative doctrine of Yoido Full Gospel Church and the Korea Assemblies of God.
Belial
[Bible]Belial is a Hebrew word in the Old Testament meaning "worthlessness" or "wickedness," used mainly in the expression "son (or man) of Belial" to describe a base or wicked person. In the New Testament it appears once, in 2 Corinthians 6:15, as a name for the power of evil opposed to Christ, that is, Satan.
Homiletics
[Doctrine & Theology]Homiletics is the discipline that studies the nature and purpose of preaching, the interpretation of biblical texts, and the methods of composing and delivering sermons. A branch of practical theology, it is a core subject in the training of pastors.
Gihon River
[Bible]The Gihon River is the second of the four rivers described in Genesis 2 as flowing out of Eden and parting into four heads. Scripture records that it "compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia" (Cush). Interpreters hold several views on which present-day river it corresponds to.