The Christian Bible refers to Jesus being at the Jerusalem Temple during " the Feast of Dedication and it was winter " in John 10: 22-23, the Greek term used is " the renewals " ( Greek ta engkainia τὰ ἐγκαίνια ).

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

The Bible also refers to it as (, " the Eastern sea ") and (, " Sea of the Arabah ").

* The Qahal, an organisational structure mentioned in the masoretic text of the Bible, which the Septuagint refers to as the Ekklesia.

The Hebrew Bible refers to " Hittites " in several passages, ranging from Genesis to the post-Exilic Ezra-Nehemiah.

A 1761 " Brief Account of the various Translations of the Bible into English " refers to the 1611 version merely as a new, compleat, and more accurate Translation, despite referring to the Great Bible by that name, and despite using the name " Rhemish Testament " for the Douay – Rheims Bible version.

The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible.

However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish kings, and the Hebrew Bible refers to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, as a messiah.

The term " deposit of faith " refers to the entirety of Jesus Christ's revelation, and is passed to successive generations in two different forms, sacred scripture ( the Bible ) and sacred tradition.

In other Christian beliefs ( e. g. the beliefs of the Christadelphians ) the word " satan " in the Bible is not regarded as referring to a supernatural, personal being but to any " adversary " and figuratively refers to human sin and temptation.

The Hebrew Bible refers uncritically to slavery as an established institution.

In addition, targumim are used today as sources in text-critical editions of the Bible ( BHS refers to them with the abbreviation ).

The Bible refers to Leviathan and Rahab, from the Hebrew Tanakh, although ' great creatures of the sea ' ( NIV ) are also mentioned in Book of Genesis 1: 21.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Chirst, which Latter-day Saints believe is a companion book of scripture with the Bible, refers to temple building in the ancient Americas by a group of people called the Nephites.

Aaron's rod refers to any of the staves carried by Moses ' brother, Aaron, in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Elam as a personal name also refers to eight other figures appearing in the Hebrew Bible:

Easton's Bible Dictionary generally refers to the < cite > Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition </ cite >, by Matthew George Easton, M. A., D. D.

Zerah or Zérach ( ז ֶ ר ַ ח / ז ָ ר ַ ח " Sunrise ", Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ ) refers to five different people in the Hebrew Bible.

The location the Bible refers to is unknown, as its determination relies heavily on the location of Mount Sinai.

Trained neither as a theologian nor a naturalist and writing before the popular spread of evolutionary theory, Gobineau took the Bible to be an true telling of human history and accepted in An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races the day's prevailing Christian doctrine that all human beings shared the common ancestors Adam and Eve ( monogenism as opposed to polygenism ).

For example, the King James translation of Proverbs 24: 6 is " For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war "; the American Standard Bible translation is, " For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war "; the New American Standard Bible translation is " For by wise guidance you will wage war.

" In contrast The Jewish Study Bible published by Jewish Publication Society at Oxford University Press ( 2004 ) under the editing scrutiny of Michael Fishbane, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler reads " For by stratagems you wage war, and victory comes with much planning ".

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

The Bible is as obviously and truly food for the spirit as bread is food for the body.

-- Opportunities for study of the Christian faith and the Bible

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

The prison chaplain mistakes Alex's Bible studies for stirrings of faith ( Alex is actually reading Scripture for the violent passages ).

* For a utilitarian analysis of religion, see The ( F ) Utility of Religion: Who Needs God ( s )?– A Prospective Bible for Non-Believers at http :// bradmusil. kramernet. org

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.

) He read from the Bible frequently, finding it a comfort to him in his condition and a mainstay for his English.