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165 articles found for “Fall of Jericho”

• Eirene

  [Bible]

  Eirene (εἰρήνη) is the Greek word for "peace." In the New Testament it refers to reconciliation with God, peace between people, and inner peace of heart. The Korean Revised Version (New Revised Edition) renders it variously as pyeonggang, pyeongan, hwapyeong, and pyeonghwa.

• Jeremiah 27

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 27 is the chapter in which Jeremiah wears a yoke on his neck and tells Judah and five neighboring nations to serve the king of Babylon. He also warns that prophecies of the temple vessels' imminent return from Babylon are false.

• Infralapsarianism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Infralapsarianism is the view within Reformed teaching on predestination that God chose to save some from among humanity considered as already fallen.

• Double Predestination

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Double predestination is the doctrine that God decreed from eternity to elect some people to salvation and to leave others to perdition. It is taught chiefly in the Calvinist tradition and is not accepted by denominations in the Wesleyan tradition.

• Heresy Counseling

  [Heresies & Cults]

  Heresy counseling is a Protestant counseling and educational ministry that helps people who have joined groups designated by denominations as heretical or pseudo-religious return to established churches, and that educates church members in advance so they do not fall into such groups.