Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 116
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 116.
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“The church as the body of Christ, therefore, is composed of every individual believer in this present age and is not constituted by membership in a local fellowship nor by subscribing to some creed or organizational arrangement. It is constituted by a work of God in grace in which the individual is taken out of his estate in Adam and placed in Christ, given eternal life, and made one not only with Christ but with all other believers.” (Page 294)
“It is most significant that in all the extant writings of Clement of Rome, Ignatius, and Polycarp—the three outstanding subapostolic fathers—there is no mention whatsoever to water baptism in any form.” (Page 139)
“All of this yes-and-no attitude toward the law can be avoided by a simple distinction between the eternal moral law of God and the Mosaic law. The first is as immutable as the character of God but the second was temporary and has been abolished.” (Page 229)
“He is not without law but is under ‘the law of Christ’ (Gal. 6:2), the ‘royal law’ of love (Jas. 2:8), ‘the law of liberty’ (Jas. 2:12), but he has nothing to do with the law of Moses (Rom. 7:4).” (Page 335)
“In the New Testament the church as the body of Christ, however, is represented as a new undertaking of God quite distinct from God’s plan and purpose for the nation Israel.” (Page 293)
- Title: Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 116
- Author: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Series: Bibliotheca Sacra
- Publisher: Dallas Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 1959
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_bsac_116
- Resource Type: Journal
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:35:55Z