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Biblical Themes
Trace themes across Scripture and approved evidence connections.
Major Biblical Themes
38 themes are connected automatically to the installed unified study library. Each theme brings together its available Scripture references, original-language resources, concordance records, dictionaries, topical studies, and related content.
Biblical Theme
Creation
In its primary import, signifies the bringing into being something which did not exist before. The term is therefore most generally applied to the original production of the materials whereof the visible world is composed. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Covenant
The Greek word διαθήκη occurs often in the Septuagint, as the translation of a Hebrew word, which signifies _covenant_: it occurs also in the Gospels and the Epistles; and it is rendered in our English Bibles sometimes _covenant_, sometimes _testament_. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Faith
In Scripture, is presented to us under two leading views: the first is that of _assent_ or _persuasion_; the second, that of _confidence_ or _reliance_. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Grace
This word is understood in several senses: for beauty, graceful form, and agreeableness of person, Prov. i, 9; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Salvation
This word is used of the deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians (Ex. 14:13), and of deliverance generally from evil or danger. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Redemption
The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is apolutrosis, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom or price paid, i. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Messiah
The Greek word Χριϛὸς, from whence comes _Christ_ and _Christian_, exactly answers to the Hebrew _Messiah_, which signifies him that hath received unction, a prophet, a king, or a priest. See JESUS CHRIST. Messiah is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “anointed.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Jesus
Savior; deliverer Jesus is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “savior; deliverer.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Law
A rule of action; a precept or command, coming from a superior authority, which an inferior is bound to obey. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Sabbath
The obligation of a sabbatical institution upon Christians, as well as the extent of it, have been the subjects of much controversy. Christian churches themselves have differed; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Prayer
Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Worship
The Scriptural obligation of public worship is partly founded upon example, and partly upon precept; so that no person who admits that authority, can question this great duty without manifest and criminal inconsistency. This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Love
This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas," after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, "Lovest thou me? This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Justice
ADMINISTRATION OF. According to the Mosaic law, there were to be judges in all the cities, whose duty it was likewise to exercise judicial authority in the neighbouring villages; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Mercy
Compassion for the miserable. Its object is misery. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Forgiveness
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Repentance
There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance. (1. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Resurrection
The belief of a general resurrection of the dead, which will come to pass at the end of the world, and will be followed with an immortality either of happiness or misery, is an article of religion in common to Jews and Christians. It is very expressly taught both in the Old and New Testaments, Psalm xvi, 10; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Eternal Life
This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R. This unified study connects 2 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Sin
The transgression of the law, or want of conformity to the will of God, 1 John iii, 4. Original sin is that whereby our whole nature is corrupted, and rendered contrary to the nature and law of God; Sin is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “bush.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Atonement
The satisfaction offered to divine justice by the death of Christ for the sins of mankind, by virtue of which all true penitents who believe in Christ are personally reconciled to God, are freed from the penalty of their sins, and entitled to eternal life. The atonement for sin made by the death of Christ, is represented in the Christian system as the means by which mankind may be delivered from the awful catastrophe of eternal death; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Holiness
In the highest sense belongs to God (Isa. 6:3; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Wisdom
BOOK OF, an apocryphal book of Scripture, so called on account of the wise maxims contained in it. This book has been commonly ascribed to Solomon, either because the author imitated that king’s manner of writing, or because he sometimes speaks in his name. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Prophecy
The prediction of future events; it is especially understood of those predictions which are contained in the Holy Scriptures; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Judgment
DAY OF, is that important period which shall terminate the present dispensation of grace toward the fallen race of Adam, put an end to time, and introduce the eternal destinies of men and angels, Acts xvi, 31; 1 Cor. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Israel
A prince of God, or prevailing, or wrestling with God. This is the name which the angel gave Jacob, after having wrestled with him all night at Mahanaim, or Peniel, Genesis xxxii, 1, 2, 28, 29, 30; Israel is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “who prevails with God.” This unified study connects 9 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
Biblical Theme
Church
The Greek word ἐκκλησία, so rendered, denotes an assembly met about business, whether spiritual or temporal, Acts xix, 32, 39. It is understood also of the collective body of Christians, or all those over the face of the earth who profess to believe in Christ, and acknowledge him to be the Saviour of mankind; This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Discipleship
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Marriage
A civil and religious contract, by which a man is joined and united to a woman, for the ends of procreation. The essence of marriage consists in the mutual consent of the parties. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Family
This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Peace
This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Hope
One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Truth
Used in various senses in Scripture. In Prov. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Righteousness
Justice, holiness. The righteousness of God is the essential perfection of his nature; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Obedience
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Sacrifice
Properly so called, is the solemn infliction of death on a living creature, generally by the effusion of its blood, in a way of religious worship; and the presenting of this act to God, as a supplication for the pardon of sin, and a supposed means of compensation for the insult and injury thereby offered to his majesty and government. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Temple
The house of God; properly the temple of Solomon. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Passover
פסח, signifies _leap_, _passage_. The passover was a solemn festival of the Jews, instituted in commemoration of their coming out of Egypt; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.