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Here may also be classed the abbreviated forms for the name of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost; also for the names of the Blessed Virgin, the saints, etc.; likewise abbreviations used in the administration of the Sacraments, mortuary epitaphs, etc. (to which class belong the numerous Catacomb inscriptions); finally some miscellaneous ...
Baptists practice believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper (communion) as the ordinances instituted in Scripture (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26). [5] [additional citation(s) needed] Most Baptists call them "ordinances" (meaning "obedience to a command that Christ has given us") [6] [7] instead of "sacraments" (activities God uses to impart salvation or a means of grace to the participant).
Christian obedience is a free choice to surrender one's will to God, [6] and an act of homage. [3]Amongst the moral virtues obedience enjoys a primacy of honour. The reason is that the greater or lesser excellence of a moral virtue is determined by the greater or lesser value of the object which it qualifies one to put aside in order to give oneself to God.
International ALERT Academy, [24] a program for young men structured similar to military boot camp, consisting of Basic Training, Intermediate Training, and Advanced Training, during which the young man can choose from several disciplines such as Aviation, Construction, or Emergency Medical Technician, and receive training in that area.
[146] The teaching of Methodists aligned with the holiness movement is that outward holiness is a testimony of a Christian believer's regeneration, done in obedience to God. [147] This teaching was inherited by Holiness Pentecostalism at its inception, as Holiness Pentecostals inherited Wesleyan theology, apart from Holiness Pentecostalism's ...
Notarikon (Hebrew: נוֹטָרִיקוֹן, romanized: Noṭāriqon) is a Talmudic method of interpreting Biblical words as acronyms. The same term may also be used for a Kabbalistic method of using the acronym of a Biblical verse as a name for God.
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It is evident that the use of nomina sacra was an act of reverence rather than a purely practical space-saving device, [4]: 100, 104-106 as they were employed even where well-established abbreviations of far more frequent words such as and were avoided, [4]: 101 and the nomen sacrum itself was written with generous spacing.