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• Isaiah 65

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 65 is a prophecy that contrasts judgment on a rebellious people who have forsaken God with the blessings promised to his remaining "servants," and that promises the creation of new heavens and a new earth.

• Habakkuk 1

  [Bible]

  Habakkuk 1 is the chapter in which the prophet Habakkuk cries out to God over injustice in Israel. When God answers that He will raise up the Chaldeans, the prophet questions Him again.

• Romans 10

  [Bible]

  Romans 10 states that Israel, being ignorant of God's righteousness, sought to establish its own righteousness. It explains that whoever confesses Jesus as Lord and believes is saved, with no difference between Jew and Greek, and that faith comes by hearing.

• Romans 12

  [Bible]

  Romans 12 opens with an appeal to present one's body to God as a living sacrifice and goes on to teach about the diverse gifts within one body, love without hypocrisy, and a life that overcomes enemies with good.

• Ephesians 1

  [Bible]

  Ephesians 1 opens with Paul's greeting, praises God for the election, redemption, and sealing with the Holy Spirit that believers have received in Christ, and continues with a prayer that the readers may come to know God more deeply.

• Church Dedication

  [Worship & Rites]

  A church dedication is a service in which a newly built church building is offered to God as a place of worship. In Korean Protestant churches, it is usually held after all construction debt has been paid off.

• Christian Wedding Service

  [Worship & Rites]

  A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and may be held in a church or a wedding hall.

• Arminianism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Arminianism is a Protestant theological tradition originating with the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius. It holds that God's grace comes first to human beings, who may either respond to it or resist it.

• Sin

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  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.

• Biblical Canon

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The canon is the list of books that the church has recognized as the Word of God and the standard for faith and life. Protestants regard sixty-six books as canonical and refer to certain books excluded from the canon as the Apocrypha.

• Dispensationalism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Dispensationalism is a theological system that reads biblical history as a series of "dispensations" (economies) through which God deals with humanity, and that distinguishes between Israel and the church. It originated in nineteenth-century Britain and has also significantly shaped the understanding of the end times in Korean churches.

• Priesthood of All Believers

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The priesthood of all believers is the Protestant teaching that every Christian is a priest who approaches God directly through Jesus Christ, without the mediation of another person. It is also called the universal priesthood of believers.

• Covenant Theology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Covenant theology is a theological system, developed within the Reformed tradition, that seeks to understand the whole of Scripture and the history of salvation as a unity centered on the covenants (relationships grounded in promise) that God has made with human beings.

• Biblical Inerrancy

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Biblical inerrancy is the doctrine that, because the Bible was written under the inspiration of God, its teaching is without error. It is often discussed together with verbal inspiration, the view that inspiration extends to every individual word.

• Moses

  [People]

  Moses is the Old Testament leader and prophet who led the people of Israel out of bondage in Egypt and received and delivered God's law at Mount Sinai.

• Eternal Life

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Eternal life means "everlasting life." In Christianity it refers to the new life enjoyed in relationship with God. It is understood as the substance of salvation, begun through faith in the present and brought to completion after the resurrection.

• Covenant

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  In the Bible, a covenant is a promise and relationship that God establishes with human beings, and it is a theme running through both the Old and New Testaments. The Reformed tradition treats it as the basic framework for interpreting Scripture.

• Philippians 2:12–13

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage that sets the exhortation "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" alongside the declaration that "it is God which worketh in you." Christian traditions differ in how they understand the way God's work and the human part in salvation fit together.

• Daniel 3:17–18

  [Bible Verses]

  Daniel 3:17–18 is the reply of Daniel's three friends before the fiery furnace: God was able to deliver them, "but if not," they would still not bow to the king's image. It is a classic passage on faith that holds firm regardless of the outcome and is often cited in discussions of faith under persecution and, in Korea, of the history of resistance to Shinto shrine worship.

• Genesis 28:20-22

  [Bible Verses]

  The vow Jacob made after his dream at Bethel, promising that if God would keep him, the LORD would be his God and he would give a tenth of all he received. The passage is often cited as an example of tithing before the Mosaic Law, and interpreters differ over the nature of a vow made with conditions attached.