Over the years, many of the IVP books have received recognition by Christianity Today, the Canadian Word Guild and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, among others.

Other measures of accuracy include Single Word Error Rate ( SWER ) and Command Success Rate ( CSR ).

Since accuracy was essential to his refutation of The True Word, most scholars agree that Origen is a reliable source for what Celsus said.

Now, if any part of the Bible is assuredly the very Word of God speaking through His servant, it is John's Gospel.

" When Jesus the Christ, who is the Word and the Bread of Life, comes a second time, the righteous will be raised incorruptible and will be taken in the clouds to meet their Lord.

* In " Every Kind Word " by Lackthereof, Danny Seim's project parallel to Menomena, Seim sings "... and your hair is long like Absalom.

Many believers in the Bible hold that only one of these families is trustworthy as transmitting the Word of God.

For who is your equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word?

By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is portrayed as being the Son of God from the time of birth, and finally the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word () as existing " in the beginning ".

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

" But for the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is need of a good life and a pure soul, and for Christian virtue to guide the mind to grasp, so far as human nature can, the truth concerning God the Word.

According to estimates of the Word Religion Database 2005 the share of Muslims is 1. 2 %.

In the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the term bishop is an expressive name for a Minister of Word and Sacrament who serves a congregation and exercises " the oversight of the flock of Christ.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

The Word in Rev 19: 13 is involved in judgment but in John 1: 1 the image is used to speak of a role in creation and redemption.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

Billy approves them, Billy condones them, Billy recommends them .... I think that Dr. Graham is doing more harm in the cause of Jesus Christ than any living man ; that he is leading foolish and untaught Christians, simple people that do not know the Word of God, into disobedience to the Word of God.

Religion that makes the words of its leader, be he Pope or other, equal with the Word of God is false.

" In the original Greek, Logos ( λόγος ) is used for " Word ," and is often used untranslated.

Although Calvin respected the work of the ecumenical councils, he considered them to be subject to God's Word, the teaching of scripture.

which was a combination of live recordings with hotel tapes and studio stopovers, but was not released by Word as with " songs like " Three Million Gods ," and " Cats Of The Coliseum ," discussing the Hindu religion and the early martyrdom of Christians in Rome, this album was not acceptable because it was considered too " avant garde ".

There are many possible interpretations as to why this discipline was originally called " kalām "; one is that the widest controversy in this discipline has been about whether the Word of God, as revealed in the Qur ' an, can be considered part of God's essence and therefore not created, or whether it was made into words in the normal sense of speech, and is therefore created.

Word groups that are also considered to be adverbials can also modify verbs: for example, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, a finite clause or a non-finite clause.

Traditionally, the narratives have been considered the inerrant Word of God.

In the BBC documentary The Most Hated Family in America, filmmaker Louis Theroux questioned Shirley Phelps-Roper as to whether she had considered that Westboro's technique of protests were more likely to " put people off the Word of Jesus Christ and the Bible ".

These interviews cover what the church believes to be the most important factors of personal morality and worthiness, including whether the person has a basic belief in key church doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus and the restoration ; whether the person attends church meetings and supports the leadership of the LDS Church ; whether the person affiliates with Mormon fundamentalists or other people considered by the church to be apostate ; whether the person is honest and lives the law of chastity and the Word of Wisdom ; whether the person abuses family members ; whether the person pays tithing and any applicable child support ; and whether the person has confessed to serious past sins.

* Waheguru, meaning Wonderful Teacher bringing light to remove darkness, this name is considered the greatest among Sikhs, and it is known as " Gurmantar ", the Guru's Word. Waheguru is the only way to meet god in Sikhism.

) epistolary formula, are often considered to be later additions as characteristically 3rd-century contentions appear in them: " This Word, Who was from the beginning ...".

As Kenneth Copeland's ministry has stated, the idea that God uses suffering for our benefit is considered to be " a deception of Satan " and " absolutely against the Word of God.

Word of the arrest reached the officers of the Decima, who considered marching on Mussolini's capital at Salò.

) and Gullah ( co-authored with Virginia Geraty, now under consideration by a university press ), " A Phonology, Morphology, and Classified Word List for the Samish Dialect of Straits Salish ( 1990 National Museum of Civilization, Canadian Ethnology Service, Mercury Series Paper # 116 ), a " Grammatical Sketch and Classified Word List of Upriver Halkomelem " ( 1980, Coqualeetza Education Training Centre ), a " Classified Word List of the Nooksack Language " ( co-authored with George Adams, 2008 ms. being sent to prospective publishers, plus an on-line version of the same ), " Nooksack Places " ( 2008, coauthored with Allan Richardson, an ethnogeography now being considered for University of British Columbia Press, First Nations Language series ), and about 100 descriptive articles and papers Halkomelem and Nooksack and several on Assiniboine and Samish.

Gurney was concerned that Friends had so thoroughly accepted the ideas of the inner light and of Christ as the Word of God that they no longer considered the actual text of the Bible and the New Testament Christ important enough.

However, Saw was to become a success at the box office, a feat that was considered unexpected in numerous media publications, and subsequently became a horror franchise ( Whannell refers to the original Saw film as an " underdog horror film " in his personal blog, " The Word in the Stone ").

It is considered to symbolise the " sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God " (); that is to say, the wearer's defending of the faith by smiting all that is impure and vicious.

" On the other hand, he considered fundamentalist / orthodox institutions to isolate themselves from modern society ; he commented, "... if they actually took the Bible seriously they would inevitably love the world more readily ... because the Word of God is free and active in the world.

Word got back to Foster, who considered this a breach of the agreement.

While a few of the recordings ( mostly those from the 1980 tour ) do feature a less-than-polished quality to them, The Word is Live is still considered a fine document of Yes in a concert setting.

* The Mavens Word of the Day: less / fewer

Monasticism, also known as anchoritism ( meaning " to withdraw ") was seen as an alternative to martyrdom, and was less about escaping the world than about fighting demons ( who were thought to live in the desert ) and about gaining liberation from our bodily passions in order to be open to the Word of God.

" The Formula of Concord teaches that when humans reject the calling of the Holy Spirit, it is not a result of the Word being less efficacious.

The Formula of Concord teaches that when humans reject the calling of the Holy Spirit, it is not a result of the Word being less efficacious.