DICTIONARY OF TERMS FOR STUDY THEOLOGICAL

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ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY:

The highest authority in someone's life; an authority that can not be refuted by appealing to a higher authority.

ARRANGEMENT:

Theory that biblical writers sometimes incidentally stated falsehoods that people of his time believed, as to not obscure the major points that were trying to develop.

ADOPTION:

Act of God which makes us members of his family.

ADOPTIONISM:

false teaching that Jesus lived as an ordinary man until his baptism, and then God "it adopted" as his "Son" and gave him supernatural powers; therefore, this teaching denies the existence and divine nature of Jesus.

WORSHIP:

Activity glorify God in your presence with our voices and hearts.

SOUL:

immaterial part of man; whose use is exchanged with "spirit".

Amillennialism:

Notion that there will be a body literal thousand-year reign of Christ on earth before the final judgment and the eternal state; According to this notion, the biblical references to the millennium in Revelation 20 actually describe the present age of the church.

LOVE:

When it is used about God, eternally doctrine that God gives himself to others.

OLD MAN:

Main ruling in a New Testament church (presbyteros Greek) group.

ANGEL:

Spiritual being created with moral judgment and high intelligence, but without physical body.

ANGEL OF THE LORD JEHOVAH'S ANGEL:

One way that God took on several occasions in the Bible in order to appear to humans.

annihilationism:

Teaching that after death the unbelievers suffer the penalty of God's wrath for a while, and then are "annihilated" or destroyed, so cease to exist. Some forms of this teaching argue that annihilation occurs immediately death.

ANTICHRIST:

"Man of sin" that will appear before the second coming of Christ and cause great suffering and persecution, but Jesus destroyed. The term is also used to describe other figures that incorporate such opposition to Christ and are precursors of the final Antichrist.

OLD COVENANT:

Expression that refers specifically to the Mosaic covenant established at Mount Sinai, which was an administration of laws given detailed written for a while to restrain the sins of the people and that was a custodian to lead people to Christ.

Apocrypha:

Collection of books included in the canon of the Bible by the Roman Catholic Church but not included in the canon by Protestants (from the Greek word apocrypha, "hidden things").

Apollinarianism:

The fourth century heresy which held that Christ had a human body but not mind or human spirit and the mind and spirit of Christ came from the divine nature of the Son of God.

APOLOGETICS:

Discipline that seeks to provide a defense of the truth of the Christian faith in order to convince those who are not believers.

APOSTLE:

recognized profession of the early church. The apostles are in many ways the counterpart of the New Testament to the Old Testament prophet and as such had authority to write the words of Scripture.

ARCHANGEL:

An angel with authority over other angels.

CIRCULAR ARGUMENT:

Argument tries to prove its conclusion by appealing to a statement that depends on the truth of the conclusion.

Cosmological Argument:

Argument for the existence of God based on the observation that, since everything known in the universe has a cause, the universe itself must also have had a cause, which can only be God. 

MORAL ARGUMENT:

Argument for the existence of God argues that there must be a God who is the source of human sense of right and wrong.

Ontological Argument:

Argument for God's existence begins with the idea of ​​God as the greatest of beings that imagination can conceive. As such, the characteristic of existence must belong to such a being, since it is larger exist than not to exist.

Teleological argument:

Argument for the existence of God argues that, since the universe displays evidence of order and design, there must be an intelligent God who purposely created it to function in this way.

Arminianism:

theological tradition that seeks to preserve the free decisions of human beings and denies God's providential control over the details of all events.

REPENTANCE:

Sadness of heart for sin, waiver, and a sincere purpose to forget it and walk in obedience to Christ.

ARIANISM:

erroneous doctrine that denies the full deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY:

In the Presbyterian form of church government, term to refer to national (or regional) governing body.

ASCENSION:

Jesus rise from earth to heaven forty days after his resurrection.

ASCETICISM:

Way of life that renounces the comforts of the material world.

aseity:

Another name for the attribute of independence and very existence of God.

"Bind and loose":

Jesus' words that refer to actions to impose or lift ecclesiastical discipline (Matthew 18: 17-18; 16: 9).

COMMUNICABLE ATTRIBUTES:

Aspects of God's character to us that he "communicates".

ATTRIBUTES OF BEING:

Aspects of God's character describing his essential mode of existence.

ATTRIBUTES OF PURPOSE:

Aspects of God's character and make decisions relating to realize them.

Incommunicable ATTRIBUTES:

Aspects of God's character that God does not give us.

Mental:

Aspects of God's character describing the nature of their knowledge and reasoning.

ATTRIBUTES MORALES:

Aspects of God's character describing their moral or ethical nature.

SUMMARIES ATTRIBUTES:

God's attributes of perfection, blessing, beauty and glory, which are called attributes "summary" in this book because they have to do to look and evaluate all the other attributes of God taken together as a whole.

AUTOATESTIGUAR:

Nature autoautentificadora of the Bible which convinces us that his words are God's words.

self-existence:

Another term for independence from God.

AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE:

Idea that all the words of the Bible are God so that not to believe them or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

AUTOGRAPHS:

original of a biblical document (auto, "same", and Grafé, writing).

FAST:

Discipline to refrain for a time from all or certain foods. In the Bible, fasting often accompanies prayer for the purpose of intense intercession, repentance, worship, or address search.

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BAPTISM OF BELIEVERS:

Notion that baptism is properly administered only to those who give a credible profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT:

A version of the phrase is also translated "baptism with the Holy Spirit."
The translation of the Greek preposition with the word may indicate that the Holy Spirit is the agent who performed the baptism, but the phrase refers more precisely the Spirit as the element in which (or "with" which) is' christen "believers in conversion.

INFANT BAPTISM:

See "paedobaptism".

BAPTISM BY THE HOLY SPIRIT:

Variation of the phrase is also translated "baptism in the Holy Spirit" or "baptism with the Holy Spirit."The translation of the Greek preposition with the word "pair" may seem to indicate that the Holy Spirit is the agent who baptizes, but the phrase more precisely refers to the Spirit as the element "in" which (or "with" which ) believers are (baptized) in the conversion.

BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT:

Phrase that the New Testament authors use to talk to enter the power of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. This would include the transmission of a new spiritual life (in regeneration), cleansing from sin, a break with the power and love of sin, and training for ministry.

BEAUTY:

Attribute of God by which he is the sum of all the desirable qualities.

BLESSINGS TEMPORARY:

Influence of the Holy Spirit and the church that makes unbelievers look or seem genuine believers when in fact they are not.

BLISS, BLESSING:

Doctrine that God is fully delight in himself and everything that reflects his character.

BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT:

Rejection and malicious slander and volunteers unusually against the Holy Spirit that bears witness to Christ, Satan attributing this work (see also "unpardonable sin").

GOODNESS:

Doctrine that God is the ultimate standard of right and that everything God is and does is worthy of approval.

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CALVINISM:

theological tradition that bears the name of the French sixteenth-century reformer John Calvin (1509-64), who emphasizes the sovereignty of God in all things, man's inability to do spiritual good before God, and the glory of God as the top of everything happening end.

CANON:

List of all the books belong in the Bible (Greek kanon, "reed, yardstick, standard measure ').

CANONICAL:

Term describing the preserved writings that are considered to have divine authorship and should therefore be included in the canon of Scripture as authoritative words of God in written form. 

SERVICE TRAINING:

primary aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit to give evidence of the presence of God and to bless.

CHARISMATIC:

Term that refers to any group or person who trace their historical origins to the charismatic renewal movement of the decades of 1960 and 1970. Such groups seek to practice all the spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament but, unlike many Pentecostal denominations, allow different views on whether the baptism in the Holy Spirit subsequent to conversion or tongues are a sign of baptism in the Holy Spirit.

CONSCIOUS ETERNAL PUNISHMENT:

Description of the nature of punishment in hell, which will be endless and the unconverted is fully conscious.

PRIMARY CAUSE:

divine, invisible, director of everything that happens cause.

SECONDARY CAUSE:

Properties and actions of created things that produce the events in the world. 

JEALOUSY:

Doctrine that God continually seeks to protect his honor.

LORD'S SUPPER:

One of the two ordinances that Jesus ordered his church observe. This is an ordinance to be observed repeatedly in the Christian life as a sign of continual communion with Christ. 

cessationist:

Someone who thinks that certain miraculous spiritual gifts ceased when the apostles died and the Bible was complete. 

HEAVEN:

Place where God makes known more fully their presence to bless. It is in heaven where God reveals more fully his glory, and where angels, other heavenly creatures and all the redeemed saints adore him. 

CLARITY OF THE BIBLE:

Idea that the Bible is written in such a way that his teachings can understand everyone who reads for God's help and is willing to follow. 

knowable:

Term that refers to the fact that we know certain things about God, and that we can know God himself, and not merely facts about him. 

COMMUNICATION FROM ATTRIBUTES:

Expression that refers to the granting of certain attributes of the divine nature of Jesus to his human nature (and vice versa) resulting from the union of two natures in one person, union each nature retained their unique properties. 

COMMUNITY OF THE COVENANT:

Community of God's people. Protestants proposing infant baptism see baptism as an input signal in the "covenant community" of the people of God. 

COMMUNION:

A term commonly used to refer to the Lord's Supper.

COMMUNION OF SAINTS:

Expression in the Apostles' Creed that refers to communion believers on earth have with believers in heaven under a common worship. 

compatibilism:

Another term for the notion of providence reformed. The term indicates that the absolute divine sovereignty is compatible with human significance and real human decisions. 

COMPLEMENTARY:

Notion that men and women are equal in value to God but that some government functions and teaching in the church are reserved for men. 

CONCURRENCE:

Aspect of the providence of God through which it cooperates with all created things in action, directing their distinctive properties to make them act as they act. 

CONFIDENCE:

Aspect of biblical faith or belief in which we not only know and agree with the facts about Jesus, but we put our personal confidence in him as a living person. 

KNOWLEDGE:

Doctrine that God fully knows himself and all actual and possible things in a unique and eternal act. 

TRUE KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge established beyond doubt or question. Because God knows all the facts of the universe and never lies, the only absolutely certain knowledge that we have is in the words of God in the Bible. 

HALF KNOWLEDGE:

Arminian notion of foreknowledge of God which teaches that because Days knows what every creature would do in a given set of circumstances, knows in advance everything that happens in the world by making take place the circumstances in which all creatures act. 

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:

On the doctrine of election, the personal and relational knowledge that God thought before the creation of certain people in a saving relationship with himself. This should be distinguished from mere knowledge of facts as a person. 

ORIGINAL POLLUTION:

Another expression that refers to our inherited sin nature (see "inherited corruption"). 

CONSISTORY:

Local board of elders in the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Reformed Church (sometimes called "session" in the Presbyterian system).

CONTRADICTION:

Set of two statements, one of which negates the other.

CONVERSION:

voluntary response to the call of the gospel, which we sincerely repent of our sins and put our trust in Christ as salvation. 

CORRUPTION INHERIT:

Sin nature, or tendency to sin, that everyone inherits because of the sin of Adam (often referred to as "original pollution '). This idea implies that (1) in our natures totally lacked something good before God; and(2) in our wholly incapable of doing spiritual good before God samas actions. 

CREATION:

Doctrine that God created from nothing the entire universe. The universe was originally very good; and God created to own glory.  

Creationism:

Notion that God creates a new soul for every person and sends it to the body of that person at some point between conception and birth. 

Creationism MATURE:

Theory of the creation of a "young earth" which argues that the original creation had a "look of old age" from the very beginning. It is also called the theory of "ideal time" that the appearance of old age really does not indicate real time. 

Progressive Creationism:

A theory of the "old earth" which holds that God created new types of plants and creatures animals at several different points of time in the history of the earth, and that among these points the life of plants and animals developed more diversity account own. belief: In contemporary culture the term usually refers to the acceptance of the truth of something, such as the facts concerning Christ, without including any necessary personal consecration or dependency element. In the New Testament this term often includes this sense of consecration (John 3:16; see also "faith"). 

TWO KINDS OF CHRISTIANITY:

Notion of the church that makes a division of believers into two categories, such as ordinary believers unlike believers "sanctified" or unlike ordinary believers baptized by the Spirit believers. 

BODY OF CHRIST:

biblical metaphor that refers to the church. This metaphor was used in two different ways, one that stresses the interdependence of the members of the body, and one that emphasizes that Christ is the head of the church.

SPIRITUAL BODY:

The type of body that we receive in our future resurrection, will not be "immaterial" but rather appropriate to receive and respond to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

INHERITED GUILT:

Idea that God considers the whole person guilty because of the sin of Adam often referred to as (original sin). 

BLAME ORIGINAL:

Another expression for "inherited guilt". 

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FREE DECISIONS:

Decisions made according to our free will (see "free will"). voluntary decisions: Decisions are made according to our wishes, without realizing restrictions imposed our will or against the will. 

DECREES OF GOD:

God's eternal plans for which, before the creation of the world, determined to make it happen everything that happens. 

DEFINITION OF CALCEDONIA:

Declaration produced by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD that most branches of Christianity has considered the orthodox definition of the biblical teaching on the person of Christ. 

DEISM:

Notion that God created the universe but now is not directly involved in creation. 

DEMONS:

Evil angels who sinned against God and now continually do evil in the world. 

demonized:

Be under demonic influence (Greek daimonizomai). The term often suggests extreme cases of demonic influence. Depravity: Another term for "inherited corruption". 

Total Depravity:

Traditional expression denoting the doctrine which referred to herein as "total incapacity". 

DETERMINISM:

Idea that the acts, events and decisions are inevitable results of any condition or previous decision to them that is independent of human will. 

DEACON:

Translation from the Greek word diakonos (server). In certain contexts the term refers to a church official whose responsibilities include various forms of worship, including financial supervision, management responsibilities and care for the physical needs of the congregation. 

DICHOTOMY:

Notion that man is made of two parts: body and soul or spirit. 

DICTATION:

Expressly idea that God dictated every word of the Bible to human authors. Difference in function: Idea that God gave men and women different primary functions in the family and in the church. 

DIOCESE:

In an episcopal system of church government, churches under the jurisdiction of a bishop. God: In the New Testament, translated from the Greek word theos, which usually, but not always, used to refer to God the Father. 

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

A form of the word of God in which he speaks directly to people on earth. 

DISPENSATIONALISM:

theological system that began in the nineteenth century with the writings of]. N. Darby. Among the general doctrines of this system are the distinction between Israel and the church as two groups in the overall plan of God, the pre-tribulation rapture of the church, a future literal fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies concerning Israel, and the division of biblical history into seven periods, or "dispensations" of God's ways of relating to his people. 

Discerning of Spirits:

special ability to recognize the influence of the Holy Spirit or demonic spirits in a person. 

INTELLIGENT DESIGN:

Directly notion that God created the world and its many forms of life that stands against the notion that new species emerged through an evolutionary process of random mutation. 

DISTORTION OF FUNCTIONS:

Idea that God punishments applied to Adam and Eve after their sin did not introduce new roles or functions, but introduced pain and distortion of the functions they had before. 

docetism:

heretical teaching that Jesus was not really man but only seemed to be (from the Greek verb dokeo, "apparently seems to be"). 

DOCTRINE:

What the Bible as a whole teaches us today about a particular topic.  

DOCTRINE MINOR:

Doctrine that has little impact on how we think in terms of other doctrines, and has very little impact on how we live the Christian life. 

HOME DOCTRINE:

Doctrine that has significant impact on our thinking and other doctrines, or has a significant impact on how we live the Christian life. 

DOGMA:

Synonymous with "doctrine". The term is often used to refer more specifically to doctrines that have the official endorsement of the church. 

GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:

Capabilities granted by the Holy Spirit for use in any ministry of the church. 

Miraculous Gifts:

Less common gifts given by the Holy Spirit and that arouse amazement and admiration of the people and testify of God.

GIFTS NO MIRACLE:

Dones which gives the Holy Spirit that are more common and appear to be more ordinary, such as service, teaching, encouragement and acts of mercy. 

DUALISM:

Idea that God and the material universe has eternally existed side by side as the two greatest forces in the universe. It implies that there is an eternal conflict between God and the bad aspects of the material universe. 

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AGE OF LIABILITY:

Expression used by some theologians to indicate the point in the life of the person before which (according to your point of view) is not considered responsible for their sin and therefore is not considered guilty before God. 

EKKLESIA:

Greek term translated "church" in the New Testament. The word literally means "assembly" and the Bible indicates the assembly or congregation of God's people. 

CHOICE:

Act of God before the creation in which some people choose to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of its sovereign goodwill. 

INCARNATION:

Son by act of God who took human nature. "In Christ": An expression that refers to a variety of relationships between believers and Christ through which believers receive the benefits of salvation. 

"IN, WITH AND BAJU '

descriptive phrase of the Lutheran notion of the Lord's Supper holding, contrary to the idea that the bread actually becomes the physical body of Christ, that the physical body of Christ, the bread is present "in, with and under" of the Lord's Supper. 

"IN THE HOLY SPIRIT":

State consciously dwell in an atmosphere of manifest presence of God. 

IN THE NAME OF CHRIST '

Expression that refers to the prayer of Jesus for authorization and according to his character. 

TEACHING:

In the New Testament, ability to explain the Scriptures and apply them to the life of people. 

ESCHATOLOGY:

Study of "the last things" or future events (the escatos Greek, "last"). 

GENERAL Eschatology:

Study of future events that affect the whole, such as the second coming of Christ, the millennium and the final judgment universe. 

PERSONAL Eschatology:

Studies of future events that happen to them individuals, such as death, intermediate state and glorification. 

SCRIPTURE:

Written (I Grafé Greek, Latin escriptura the Old and New Testaments, which historically have been recognized as the words of God in written form translates. It is another name for the Bible. 

EXPECT IN THE LORD:

Heart posture during prayer in which we hope quietly before God for some sense of direction in our prayer, and also for security of the presence of God and His answer to our prayer. 

SPIRIT:

immaterial part of man, a term used interchangeably with "soul". 

SPIRITUALITY:

Doctrine that God exists as a being that is not made of anything material, has no parts or dimensions, our bodily senses are unable to perceive, and is more excellent than any other kind of existence. 

HOLY SPIRIT:

One of the three persons of the Trinity whose work is to show the active presence of God in the world, and especially in the church. 

INTERMEDIATE STATE:

Condition or state of a person between the time of someone's death and the time when Christ returns to give believers new resurrection bodies. 

STATES OF JESUS ​​CHRIST:

The different relationships that Jesus has with God's law, the possession of authority, and to receiving honor for himself, during the various stages of his work. The two states of Jesus Christ are his humiliation and exaltation. 

ETERNITY:

When about God, doctrine that God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in his own being, and sees uniformly vivid all that time is used, however God sees events in time and acts in time. 

CHRISTIAN ETHICS:

Any study that answers the question: "What does God require of us and what we have today requires attitudes about a given situation?". 

EUCHARIST:

Synonymous with Lord's Supper (Greek Eucharist, "give thanks").

Eutychianism:

Another way of referring to monofisismo, by the monk Eutychus fifth century. 

EVANGELISM:

Proclamation of the gospel to the unconverted (the euangeizo Greek, "preach good news"). 

Darwinian Evolution:

general theory of evolution (see also "macroevolution") that explained Charles Darwin, British naturalist in 1859 in his book On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection. 

Theistic Evolution:

Theory that God used the process of evolution to produce all forms of life on earth. 

THRILL OF CHRIST:

One of the two "states" of Christ. The other is humiliation. The state of exaltation includes four aspects of his work: his resurrection, ascension to heaven, sitting at the right hand of God and return in glory and power. 

EXCOMMUNICATION:

end of ecclesiastical discipline step in which a person of fellowship, or "communion" of the church is excluded. 

EXEGESIS:

Process of interpreting a passage from the Bible.

Ex Nihilo:

Latin phrase that means "out of nothing"; It refers to the divine creation of the universe without the use of any previously existing material. 

EX OPERATE OPERATO:

Latin phrase meaning "for the work done." Roman Catholic teaching in the phrase is used to indicate that the sacraments, such as baptism, act under real activity done independently of the subjective attitude of faith participant. 

EXORCISM:

Action expelling an evil spirit through a verbal order.

EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD COVENANT:

less powerful and less extensive work of the Holy Spirit that characterized the old covenant before the day of Pentecost. 

EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NEW COVENANT:

The most powerful work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of people who started at Pentecost the disciples and now happens at the time of the conversion of believers.

ATONEMENT:

He works that Christ did in his life and death to win our salvation.

UNLIMITED ATONEMENT:

Notion that the death of Christ paid for the sins of all people who have ever lived. 

LIMITED ATONEMENT:

Reformed notion that Christ's death alone paid for the sins of those he knew that eventually would be saved. An expression that would be better is rather fully effective for certain people in particular "particular redemption" in which the power of the atonement is not limited, but.

Vicarious atonement:

He works that Christ did to earn our salvation to take our place in life and death. 

EXTREME UNCTION:

One of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic teaching, which involves anointing with oil that is administered to a dying man.

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FATALISM:

System in which the alternatives and human decisions do not really matter, because things will turn out as already been ordered. This is in contrast to the doctrine of election, in which people can take real decisions that have real consequences for which accounts will be required. 

FAITH:

Trust or reliance on God based on the fact that we believe in His Word and what he has said. (See also "saving faith"). 

FAITH AND PRACTICE:

Expression used by some that, by denying the inerrancy of the Bible, argues that the purpose of the Bible is only talk about these two issues. 

SAVING FAITH:

Trust in Jesus Christ as a living person about forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God. 

FIDELITY:

Doctrine that God will always do what he has said and will fulfill what he has promised. 

FILIOQUE:

Latin expression that means "and son", a term that refers to an inserted in the Nicene creed to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds not only from the Father but also the Son clause. The controversy emerged this doctrinal point contributed to the division between the Eastern and Western church in 1054 AD 

FORENSIC:

Term that means "concerning legal procedures". This term is used to describe justification as a legal declaration from God that in itself does not change our inner nature or character.

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GEOLOGY OF FLOOD:

Notion attributing this geological status of the land to the tremendous natural forces caused by the flood of Genesis.

GLORY:

Glow created around every manifestation of God. In another sense, it refers to God's honor. 

GLORIFICATION:

final step in the application of redemption. It will happen when Christ returns and resurrects the body of all believers of all time who have died and reunited with their souls, and change the body of all believers who are alive, which will give all believers while bodies perfect resurrection like his own. 

GOVERNMENT:

Aspect of God's providence indicating that God has a purpose in everything he does in the world and providentially governs or directs all things to fulfill their purposes. 

GOVERNMENT Congregational:

Form of church government in which the ultimate governing authority rests on the local congregation. 

EPISCOPAL GOVERNMENT:

hierarchical form of church government in which the bishops have governing authority over church groups (Greek episkopos (monitor), (bishop "). 

HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT:

episcopal form of church government in which the final authority for decision making resides outside the local church. 

PRESBYTERIAN GOVERNMENT:

Form of church government in which elders rule their local churches, and some elderly, by a presbytery and General Assembly, governing churches in a region and the denomination as a whole. 

GRACE:

Goodness of God to people who only deserve punishment.

COMMON GRACE:

God's grace that he gives people many blessings that are not part of salvation. 

SPECIAL GRACE:

Grace of God that brings people to salvation; also known as "saving grace". 

 IRRESISTIBLE GRACE:

Expression referring to the fact that God actually calls people and also gives them regeneration, both of which guarantee that we will respond with saving faith. This expression is subject to misunderstanding, since it seems to imply that people do not take a decision and expresses itself to respond to the gospel. 

GREAT COMMISSION:

end commandments of Jesus to the disciples, recorded in Matthew 28: 18-20.

Great Tribulation:

Matthew 24:21 expression that refers to a period of great adversity and suffering before the return of Christ. 

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SPEAK IN TONGUES:

Prayer or praise syllables that do not understand the speaker.

HERMENEUTICS:

Study of the correct methods for interpreting and translating texts.

SON OF GOD:

Title often given to Jesus to designate it as the heavenly Son, eternal, which is equal in nature to God. 

SON OF MAN:

Term that most often Jesus referred to himself. It has a background of the Old Testament, especially in the heavenly figure who was given eternal rule over the world in the vision of Daniel 7:13. 

SON eternally begotten:

Description of the eternal relationship that has existed within the Trinity between the Father and the Son, which the Son has been eternally related to the Father as Son. 

CHILDREN OF GOD:

Another name for angels Job 1: 6; twenty-one).

HISTORY OF REDEMPTION:

Series of events through history by God acted to produce the salvation of his people. 

Cro-Magnon:

Example old man, believed to have lived between 9000 BC and 35,000 BC (15E.3.b)

homoiousios:

Greek word that means "of a similar nature", used by Arius in the fourth century to assert that Christ was a supernatural celestial being, and to deny that outside the very nature of God the Father. 

homoousios:

Greek word that means "of the same nature," which was included in the Nicene Creed to teach that Christ was of the same exact nature of God the Father and was therefore fully divine and fully human. 

HOMO SAPIENS:

scientific designation of an early form of man (lit., "wise man"), which many believe lived sometime between 300,000 and 400,000 ac ac

HUMILIATION OF CHRIST:

One of the two "states" of Christ; the other is the exaltation. The state of humiliation includes four aspects of his work: his incarnation, suffering, death and burial.

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ICBI:

International Council on Biblical inerrancy, for its acronym in English. This organization drafted the "Chicago Statement on Biblical inerrancy" in 1978 which affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible and defined what most evangelicals meant by the term inerrancy. 

CHURCH:

Community of all true believers of all time.

INVISIBLE CHURCH:

The church as God sees it.

WEST CHURCH:

Expression referring to the Roman Catholic Church, which the Eastern Church (Orthodox) was separated in 1054 AD Later the Western Church was divided into Catholic and Protestant branches Roman. 

EASTERN CHURCH:

main segment of the church, now known as Orthodox Church, which split from the Western Church (Roman Catholic) in 1054 dc 

CHURCH VISIBLE:

The church as believers on earth see it. Because only God sees our hearts, the visible church always include some who are not believers. 

EQUALITY IN HIS PERSON:

Idea that men and women are created equally in the image of God and therefore are equally important and equally valuable to God for him. 

Ontological EQUALITY:

Phrase that describes the members of the Trinity as eternally equal in being or existence. 

EGALITARIAN:

Supporter of the notion that all functions and roles of the church are open to men and women alike. 

IMAGE OF GOD:

Nature of man that makes him like God and represent God. Imago dei: Latin phrase meaning "image of God". 

IMPASSIVITY:

Doctrine, often based on a misunderstanding of Acts 14:15, that God has no passions or emotions. The Bible teaches that God rather indeed have emotions, but not sinful passions and emotions.

IMPECCABILITY:

Doctrine that Christ could not sin and never sinned nor had evidence of transgression.

LAYING ON OF HANDS:

Practice that often accompanied prayer in the New Testament as a means of individuals ministry staff.

IMPUTE:

Attribute something to someone, and therefore make it to that person. God Adam's sin is ours, belongs to us. In justification God imputes the righteousness of Christ; for he is like ours and based on this relates to us. 

TOTAL DISABILITY:

total lack of spiritual good man and inability to do good before God (often referred to as "total depravity"). 

INCOMPREHENSIBLE:

You can not fully understand. When applying this to God means that God can not understand it fully or thoroughly, although we can know things that are true about God. 

INCORRUPTIBLE:

Nature of our future resurrection bodies, which are like the body of Christ's resurrection and therefore will not be spent, or grow old, or be subject to any kind of disease or infirmity. 

INDEPENDENCE:

Doctrine that God does not need us for anything or us or the rest of creation, and yet we and the rest of creation can glorify and give joy. 

INERRANCY:

Idea that the Bible in the original manuscripts does not assert anything contrary to the facts. 

INFALLIBILITY:

Idea that the Bible can not lead us astray in matters of faith and practice.

HELL:

Place of eternal conscious punishment for bad.

INFINITE:

When used about God it refers to the fact that is not subject to any of the limitations of humanity and of creation in general.

INFINITE RESPECT TO SPACE:

Another way of referring to the omnipresence of God.

INFINITE RESPECT TO TIME:

Another way of referring to God's eternity.

IMMANENT:

Exist or remain. The term is used in theology to speak of God's involvement in creation. 

IMMERSION:

Mode of baptism in the New Testament which is completely immersed in water at the person and then you get back. 

IMMINENT:

Term that refers to the fact that Christ can return at any time, and we must be prepared for him to come any day. 

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY:

Teaching that God has created people to have immortality (the power to live forever) only if they receive Christ as Savior. According to this notion, those who become believers will cease to exist at death or at the time of final judgment. 

IMMUTABILITY:

Doctrine that God is unchangeable in his being, perfections, purposes and promises, and yet in effect acts and feels emotions, and act and feel differently in response to different situations. It is another way of saying that God does not change. 

INSPIRATION:

Term that refers to the fact that the words of the Bible that God said. Due to weak sense of this word in ordinary use, this text prefers the term "God-breathed" to indicate that the words of the Bible are spoken by God.  

PLENARY INSPIRATION:

Idea that all the words of the Bible are God's words. Plenary means "that nothing is missing." 

INSPIRED BY GOD:

Translation theopneustos Greek, the Bible (2 Timothy 3: 16) used metaphorically to describe the words of the Bible as spoken by God. 

GO TO:

As an attribute of God, intensely doctrine that God hates all sin.

SPOTLESS, PERFECT:

Eye morally perfect God, entirely characteristic of those who follow the word of Days (Psalm 119: 1). 

INTERCESSION:

Jesus continued act of being in the presence of God and make requests to him in our favor as our great high priest. The term is also used to refer to the prayers of petition for ourselves or others. 

INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES:

Gift of the Spirit by which the church reported the general sense of something said in other languages.Invisibility: Doctrine that the whole essence of God, all his spiritual being, can never be seen by us; however, God shows us through the visible and created things. 

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JUDGMENT:

See (Final Judgement).

TRIAL BEFORE the Great White Throne:

Another way to refer to the final judgment that is mentioned in Revelation 2O: 11-15.

JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS:

In the notion of dispensational premillennialism, judgment to come between the tribulation and the beginning of the millennium, at which time the nations will be judged according to how they have treated the Jews during the Tribulation. 

FINAL JUDGMENT:

last and final proclamation that makes Jesus Christ the eternal destiny of all. Will take place after the millennium and rebellion happens at the end of everything. 

JUSTICE:

Doctrine that God always acts according to what is good and he is itself the ultimate standard of what is good. 

Infused JUSTICE:

Justice actually puts God within us and change us internally. The Roman Catholic Church believes that the justification includes such infusion, which differs from the notion of Protestantism that justification is a legal declaration from God. 

JUSTIFICATION:

Instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) considers forgiven our sins and the righteousness of Christ is ours, and (2) declares us righteous before his eyes. 

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KENOSIS:

Theory that Christ laid aside some of his divine attributes while on earth as a man (from the Greek verb kenoo, which means "empty"). 

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ANTHROPOMORPHIC LANGUAGE:

Language that speaks of God in human terms. natural law: Concerning the explanation of miracles, any of the "laws of nature" or inherent qualities of the natural order that some consider that work independently of God. 

FREEDOM:

Attribute of God by doing what pleases him.

FREE WILL:

(A) about God: All things that God decided to want but not need to want according to their nature.
(B) with respect to man ability to make their own decisions that have real effects (however, others define it in other ways, including the ability to make decisions that does not determine God). 

LIMBO:

According to a common notion of Roman Catholic theology, where the souls of believers who die before the resurrection of Christ going to wait until his work of redemption be complete (Latin limbus, "border"). 

CALL OF THE GOSPEL:

General gospel invitation to anyone who comes to him through the human proclamation of the gospel. It is also called "external appeal".

Effectual Calling:

Act of God the Father who speaks through human proclamation of the Gospel, in which he calls himself the people so that they respond with saving faith. 

EXTERNAL APPEAL:

General gospel invitation offered to everyone through human proclamation of the gospel. It is also called "general call" or "call of the gospel"; people can reject this call. 

INTERNAL CALL:

Term that stands for "cash call".

KEYS OF THE KINGDOM:

Phrase that Jesus used in Matthew 16:19 to refer to the authority to preach the gospel and exercise discipline within the church. 

FILLING THE HOLY SPIRIT:

Event subsequent to conversion in which the believer experiences that fills the freshness of the Holy Spirit which can result in a variety of consequences, including greater love for God, the greater victory over sin, the greater power to minister, and sometimes the reception new spiritual gifts. 

LOGOS:

Greek term translated (verb) or (word) {with which the apostle John refers to Jesus in John 1: 1. When applied to Jesus the term implies both the Old Testament concept of the powerful word of God and creator, as the Greek concept of organizing and unifying principle of the universe.

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MACRO EVOLUTION:

(General theory of evolution), or notion that all organisms emerged from an inert substance. 

DEMONSTRATION OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD ACTIVE:

Description of the work of the Holy Spirit, the member of the Trinity in the Bible more often seems to be present to do the work of God in the world.

MARANATA:

Aramaic term used in 1 Corinthians 16: 22, which means "see our Lord" and expresses an intense longing for the return of Christ. 

WONDER:

Biblical word denoting miracle (mopet translates the Hebrew word and the Greek word teras), and particularly refers to an event that makes people remain amazed or admired. 

CHURCH MARKS:

Distinctive features of the true church. In the Protestant tradition, usually these are recognized as the correct preaching of the Word of God and the proper administration of the sacraments (baptism and Lord's Supper). 

MARKS OF AN APOSTLE:

Phrase used by the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12: 12, which refers to the various things that distinguished him as a true apostle of others who were apostles false. Some who deny the continuation of miracles today use this phrase to argue that miracles were singularly distinguished signals to the apostles of ordinary believers. 

MATERIALISM:

Notion that the material universe is all that exists. 

MEDIATOR:

Role that Jesus plays to get between us and God to enable us to present ourselves to God's presence. 

MEANS OF GRACE:

Any activity within the communion of the church that God uses to give more grace believers. 

MESSENGER:

Another name given to angels (Daniel 4: 13, 17,23).

TREND MICRO:

Notion that within a species small developments without the emergence of new species occur. 

MIGUEL:

Archangel appearing as leader of the angelic army.

MIRACLE:

God activity less common type in which he arouses the astonishment and admiration of people and bears witness to himself. 

MILLENNIUM:

Term that refers to the period of a thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20: 4-5 as the time of the reign of Christ and believers on earth (Latin millennium, "a thousand years"). 

MERCY:

Goodness of God to those who are in distress and deplorable situation.

modalism:

heretical teaching which holds that God really is not three different people, but only one person who appears to people in different "modes" on different occasions. 

Modalistic Monarchianism:

Another way of referring to modalism.

MONISM:

Notion that man is only one element, and that your body is the person.

monophysitism:

Fifth century heresy which holds that Christ had only one nature, and that this was a mixture of divine and human nature (the monkeys Greek, "one," and physis, "nature"). 

DIE WITH CHRIST:

Phrase describing the breaking of a person with his old way of life by virtue of being united to Christ by faith. 

DEATH:

Termination of life as a result of the entrance of sin into the world. (For the believer death it brings the presence of God because Christ paid the penalty for our sins.) 

RANDOM MUTATION:

Notion that various forms of life resulted from an evolutionary process in which random changes occurred when the cells are reproduced.

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BORN OF WATER:

Phrase that Jesus used in John 3: 5 that refers to the spiritual cleansing of sin that comes with the divine work of regeneration (Ezekiel 36: 25-26). 

BORN AGAIN:

Expression Bible John 3: 3-8) which refers to the work of regeneration of God through which he imparts new life. 

BORN OF THE SPIRIT:

Another way to say "regeneration" indicating the special role of the Holy Spirit to impart new spiritual life.

VIRGIN BIRTH:

biblical teaching that Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother Mary by miraculous work of the Holy Spirit without human father.

ABSOLUTE NECESSITY CONSISTENT:

Notion that atonement was not absolutely necessary, but "consequence" of God's decision to save some human beings; Atonement was absolutely necessary. 

NEED FOR THE BIBLE:

Idea that the Bible is necessary to know the gospel, to maintain spiritual life, and to know the will of God, but it is not necessary to know that God exists or to know some things about the character of God and His moral laws . 

neocatastrophism:

Another way to refer to the notion of flood geology as geological status of the land. 

NEORTODOXIA:

twentieth century theological movement represented by the teachings of Karl Barth. Instead of orthodox position that all the words of the Bible were spoken by God, Barth taught that the Bible's words become words of God for us as we found them.

Nestorianism:

Heresy of the fifth century who taught that there were two persons in Christ, a human person and a divine person. 

NOTION Monothelite:

Position that Jesus was just a will, a notion that was rejected as heretical in the sixth century. 

NAMES OF GOD:

Several descriptions of the character of God that are in the Bible.

NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH:

Description entirely renovated building in which believers will dwell after the final judgment. 

NEW COVENANT:

Administration covenant of grace established after the death and resurrection of Christ, covenant in which the atoning death of Christ covers all sins of the believer and the Holy Spirit empowers the believer to enforce the just demands of the law. 

OR

ACTIVE OBEDIENCE:

Term that refers to the perfect obedience of Christ to God during his earthly life that won the righteousness that God accredits those who put their faith in Christ. 

PASSIVE OBEDIENCE:

Expression referring to the sufferings of Christ for us in which he took the punishment due to our sins and as a result died for our sins.

BISHOP:

Translation of the Greek word episcopos, which term is used interchangeably with "shepherd", "supervisor" and "old" to refer to the main governing trade in a local church in the New Testament. The term also refers to a prelate who has authority over a group of churches in an episcopal form of church government. 

OFFICIAL:

Someone who has been recognized as having the right and responsibility to perform certain functions for the benefit of the whole church.

JOB:

Cargo publicly recognized someone who has the right and responsibility to perform certain functions for the benefit of the whole church.

OMNIPOTENCE:

Doctrine that God can do all his holy will determines (from the Latin omni, "all", and potens, "powerful". 

OMNIPRESENCE:

Doctrine that God has no size or spatial dimensions, and is present at every point of space with his whole being; however, God acts differently in different places. 

OMNISCIENCE:

Doctrine that God fully knows himself and all actual and possible things in a simple act and eternal. 

PRAYER:

personal communication with God.

ORDER:

Another term used to refer to God's peace.

ORDINANCE:

A term often used to refer Baptist baptism and the Lord's Supper; other Protestants such as the Lutheran churches, Reformed and Anglican have preferred the word "sacraments" for these ceremonies. (See also "sacraments".) 

ORDER OF SALVATION:

theological expression that refers to a list of events in which God applies salvation to us in the specific order in which they are thought to occur in our lives (sometimes referred to by the Latin phrase Ardo salutis). 

HOLY ORDERS:

One of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic teaching, ordination to the priesthood or diaconate. 

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PATIENCE:

Goodness of God to hold for a period of time the applicable punishment to those who sin.

COVENANT:

immutable, legal agreement, divinely imposed between God and man that stipulates the conditions of their relations. 

COVENANT OF GRACE:

legal agreement between God and man, established by God after the fall of Adam, by which man could be saved. Although the specific provisions of this covenant varied at different times during the history of redemption, the essential condition required faith in Christ the Redeemer remained the same. 

Covenant of Works:

legal agreement between God and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden for which participation in the covenant blessings depend on obedience, or "works," Adam and Eve. 

COVENANT OF REDEMPTION:

Agreement between the members of the Trinity in which each agrees to fulfill their respective roles to achieve the salvation of human beings. 

paedobaptism:

Practice of baptizing infants (the "Paido" derives from the Greek prefix country, "child").

WORD OF KNOWLEDGE:

Ability to speak with knowledge of certain circumstances.

WORD OF GOD:

Phrase that refers to several different things in the Bible, including the Son of God, God's decrees, the words of God in personal conversations, the words of God, expressed by human lips, and the words of God in written form, Bible. In the latter form of the word of God focuses systematic theology, since it is the form that is available for the study, for public inspection, for repeated examination and as a basis for mutual dialogue.  

WORD OF WISDOM:

Ability to speak a wise word in different circumstances.

PANTHEISM:

Idea that the whole universe is God or part of God. 

PARADOX:

Apparently contradictory statement that all may be true; contradiction apparent but not real. 

PAROUSIA:

Second Coming of Christ (Greek parousia, "coming").

SHEPHERD:

Term is used interchangeably with "elder", "bishop" and "supervisor" to refer to the main government office of a local church in the New Testament. By translating the Greek poimen, the term identifies the task of shepherd with the office of elder. 

PEACE:

Doctrine that God is separate from all confusion and disorder in his being and in his actions, and yet is continually active in countless actions ordered, fully controlled and simultaneous good. 

SIN:

All that does not conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude or nature.

INHERITED SIN:

Guilt and tendency to sin that every person inherits because of the sin of Adam (often referred to as "original sin"). 

UNPARDONABLE SIN:

Volunteer and unusually malicious denial and defamation of the Holy Spirit testifies of Christ and Satan attribute this work. 

MORTAL SIN:

In Roman Catholic teaching, sin causes spiritual death and can not be forgiven. 

ORIGINAL SIN:

Traditional expression to the doctrine that in this text is referred to as "inherited sin". 

Venial:

In Roman Catholic teaching, a sin that can be forgiven, though perhaps after punishment in this life or in purgatory.

PELAGIO:

Fifth century monk who taught (Pelagianism) that man has the ability to obey the commandments of God and can give its own initiative the first and most important steps to salvation. 

PENTECOSTAL:

Any denomination or group that traces its historical origins to the Pentecostal revival that began in the United States in 1901 and holding the doctrinal positions:
(A) That the baptism in the Holy Spirit is usually a subsequent event to conversion:
(B) That baptism in the Holy Spirit is evidenced by the sign of speaking in tongues, and:
(C) That all spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament should be sought and used today. 

PENTECOST:

Jewish festival during which, after the ascension of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was poured in the fullness and power of the new covenant on the disciples. This day marked the transition point between the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit under the old covenant and the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit under the new covenant. 

SPOTLESS PERFECTION:

State of being completely free of sin; some claim that such a state is possible in this life. (See also "perfectionism.") 

INTERNAL PERCEPTION OF GOD:

instinctive consciousness of the existence of God that every human being.

PERFECTION:

Doctrine that God fully possesses all excellent qualities and lacks any of any quality that is desirable for him part. 

Perfectionism:

Notion that sinless perfection, or freedom of conscious sin is possible in this life for the believer. 

PERFECT, SPOTLESS:

Morally perfect eye of God, characteristic of those who follow completely the Word of God (Psalm 119: 1). 

Perseverance of the Saints:

Doctrine that all who truly been "born again" are kept by the power of God and persevere as believers until the end of their lives, and that only those who endure to the end were "born again" truly. 

perspicuity:

Old term that refers to the clarity of Scripture.

POWER OF THE CHURCH:

Authority that God gave the church to wage spiritual warfare, proclaim the gospel and exercise church discipline. 

DEMONIC POSSESSION:

ambiguous phrase found in some translations of the Bible that seems to suggest that the will of a person is completely dominated by a demon. The Greek term daimonizomai is best described as "under demonic influence ', which can range from mild to something or attack a strong influence results. 

postmillennialism:

Notion that Christ will return to earth after the millennium. According to this notion, the millennium is an age of peace and justice on earth, a result of the progress of the gospel and church growth. 

PREDESTINATION:

Another term that refers to the "choice"; Reformed theology in this generally is a broader term that includes not only the choice (of believers), but also the disapproval (of those who are not believers). 

premillennialism:

Term that includes several concepts that have in common the belief that Christ will return to earth before the millennium. 

Premillennialism DISPENSATIONAL:

Another expression that refers to "pretribulational premillennialism." The term "dispensational" is used because most of the proponents of this notion wish to maintain a clear distinction between the church and Israel, arguing that God deals with them under different arrangements, or "dispensations". 

HISTORICAL Premillennialism:

Notion that Christ will return to earth after a period of great tribulation and establish a millennial kingdom. At that time the believers who have died will be resurrected from the dead and the believers who are alive will receive glorified bodies of resurrection, and together they will reign with Christ on earth for a thousand years. 

Premillennialism pretribulational:

Notion that Christ will return secretly before the great tribulation to bring believers, and then again after the tribulation to rule on earth for a thousand years. 

Premillennialism POSTRIBULACIONISTA:

Another way of referring to historical premillennialism (or "classical premillennialism"). It differs from other premillennial notions by the idea that Christ will return after the great tribulation.

PRESBYTERY:

Group of elders from several churches in a region with authority to govern those churches. (See also "CIASE.") 

SPIRITUAL PRESENCE:

descriptive phrase of the notion reformed the Lord's Supper that believes that Christ is spiritually present in a special way when we partake of bread and wine. 

SYMBOLIC PRESENCE:

common Protestant notion that the bread and wine into the Lord's Supper symbolize the body and blood of Christ, rather than changed or somehow contain the body and blood of Christ. 

PRESERVATION:

Aspect of the providence of God by which he keeps in existence all created things and retains the properties that created them.

PRESUPPOSITION:

Something that is taken for granted and which forms the starting point of any study.

FIRST FRUITS:

First portion of the mature crop (Greek I parked). In describing Christ in his resurrection as the "first fruits" (1 Corinthians 15: 20), the Bible indicates that our resurrection bodies will be like yours when God raises us from the dead. 

PRIMOGENITURE:

Old Testament practice in which the first male child in any generation of a human family has the lead in the family for that generation. 

Principalities and powers:

Terms that some Bible verses used to refer to demonic powers.
WONDERS:
Biblical miracles term denoting (geburah translates the Hebrew and Greek dunamis), and refers to an act that manifests a large or divine power.

PROPHECY:

(As a spiritual gift in the New Testament): Gift of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament that includes saying something that God has spontaneously brought to mind. 

CREDIBLE PROFESSION OF FAITH:

central component of the "Baptist" notion of baptism, which holds that only those who give reasonable evidence to believe in Christ should be baptized. 

PROPHET:

One of the offices of Christ, office through which reveals more fully to God and tells us God's words. 

PROPITIATION:

Sacrifice that puts an end to the wrath of God, and in so doing changes for the wrath of God toward us. 

PROVIDENCE:

Doctrine that God continually intervenes in all created things so that:
(1) The remains there and maintains the properties that created them ;
(2) Cooperate with all created things in action, and directs its distinctive properties to make them act as they act; Y:
(3) The heads to fulfill God 's purposes. 

VALID TESTS:

Arguments for God's existence based on facts and lead to a correct conclusion. None of these tests, however, may be forced to agree with them all their consideration. 

PURITY OF THE CHURCH:

Degree to which the church is free of doctrine and wrong behavior, and its conformity with the will of God revealed to the church. 

PURGATORY:

In Roman Catholic doctrine, where the souls of believers go for further purification of sin until they are ready to be admitted to heaven. 

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CHERUB:

spiritual beings created which, among other things, guarding the entrance to the Garden of Eden. 

R

RAPTURE:

"Snatch" (Latin rapio, "catch, snatch and carry") of believers to be with Christ when he returns to earth. 

RAPTURE MIDTRIBULACIONISTA:

Variation of premillennial notion pretribulational in which Christ will return to the mid-seven-year tribulation to rescue believers, and then again after the tribulation to rule on earth for a thousand years. 

RAPTURE pretribulational:

The "rapture" of believers to heaven secretly during the first return of Christ before the great tribulation. 

RAPTURE POSTRIBULACIONISTA:

The "rapture" of believers after the great tribulation to be with Christ a few moments before his coming to earth to reign with them during the millennial reign (or, as the notion amillennialist during the eternal state). 

RECONCILIATION:

Removal of enmity and restoration of fellowship between two parties.

RECTITUDE:

Another term that refers to the righteousness of God.

RECTOR:

Officer in charge of a local parish in the Episcopal system of church government.

REDEMPTION:

saving work of Christ seen as an act of "buy back" sinners to deliver them from bondage to sin and Satan by paying a ransom (although the analogy should not be pressed to specify who was paid the ransom) . 

GENERAL REDEMPTION:

Another way to refer to an "unlimited atonement".

PARTICULAR REDEMPTION:

Best way to refer to the Reformed doctrine of "unlimited atonement".

RENOVATED:

Another term used to refer to the theological tradition known as Calvinism.

REGENERATION:

secret act of God which imparts new spiritual life; sometimes it called "new birth". 

REPROBATION:

sovereign decision of God before the creation of overlooking some people, and sadly decide not to save them and punish them for their sins and thus demonstrate his justice. 

RISEN IN GLORY:

Phrase that describes our future resurrection bodies, which exhibit a beauty and appropriate for the position of exaltation and government on the creation that God will give us in a manner similar to that of Christ brilliance. 

RAISED IN POWER:

Phrase describing how will our resurrection bodies, which exhibit the fullness of strength and power that God intended humans have in their bodies when he created them. 

Raised with Christ:

Phrase that describes the appearance of union with Christ by which a person receives spiritual life and a change in his character and personality after coming to faith. 

SPECIAL REVELATION:

God's words addressed to specific persons, including the words of the Bible. We must distinguish this general revelation, that every person is given in general. 

GENERAL REVELATION:

Knowledge of the existence of God, his character and moral law that is by creating all mankind. 

KING:

One of the three offices of Christ in which he rules over the church and the universe.

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Sabellianism:

Name is also given to modalism, term derived from Sabellius. Master of the third century spread this doctrine. 

WISDOM:

Doctrine that God always chooses the best goals and the best means toward those goals. 

PRIEST:

God person named in the Old Testament to offer sacrifices, prayers and praise to God on behalf of the people. Christ fulfilled this office, and has become the great High Priest of all believers. The term can also refer to a category of church officials in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, though each assigned different meanings to the word "priest". 

SACRAMENT:

In Protestant education, ceremony or ritual that the church observed as a sign of God's grace and as a means by which those who have already been justified given the continued grace of God in their lives. The two Protestant sacraments are baptism and the Lord's Supper. In Roman Catholic teaching there are seven sacraments, and understood as means to convey saving grace. (See also "Ordinance"). 

SACRIFICE:

Christ's death on the cross as seen from the point of view that he paid the penalty we deserved.  

BLOOD OF CHRIST:

Phrase that refers to the death of Christ in their saviors aspects, since the blood he shed on the cross was the clear external evidence that their vital blood was shed when he went through a sacrificial death to pay for our redemption. 

HEALTH:

Gift of the Spirit that works to restore health as a foretaste of the complete freedom of physical weakness and illness that Christ purchased for us by his death and resurrection. 

HOLINESS:

Doctrine that God is separate from sin and dedicated to seek their own honor.

SANCTIFICATION:

progressive work of God and man that makes us free from sin and more and more like Christ in our daily lives. 

SATAN:

Name of the chief of the demons.

SECOND COMING OF CHRIST:

sudden, personal, visible, bodily return of Christ to earth.

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION:

insight that can be based on some evidence in our lives that we "born again" truly and as believers persevere to the end of our life. 

ETERNAL SECURITY :

Another term used to refer to the "perseverance of the saints." However, this expression can misunderstand as indicating that all who once made a profession of faith have "eternal security" in their salvation when perhaps never have become really.

NATURAL SELECTION:

Idea that evolutionary theory assumes that living organisms that are more suited to their environment survive and multiply while others perish (also called the "survival of the fittest"). 

LIKENESS:

Term that refers to something that is similar but not identical to what it represents, and the fact that man was made in the "likeness" of God (Genesis 1: Z6, which translates the Hebrew word demut. 

SIGNAL:

Biblical term that refers to miracles (ot translates the Hebrew and Greek semeion), which specifically means something that indicates or suggests otherwise, especially the activity and power of God. 

MR:

In the New Testament, translated from the Greek word kurios which usually, but not always, used to refer to Christ. In the Greek translation of the Old Testament this word is used to translate the Hebrew YWHY, the personal name of God Almighty. 

SEPARATION:

With reference to the church, act of formal division between one group and another based on doctrinal differences, issues of conscience or practical considerations. The separation can take severe forms, such as refusing to cooperate or evade personal communion. 

SERAPH:

spiritual beings created of which are said to worship God continually.

LIVING CREATURES:

spiritual beings created appearance of a lion, ox, man and eagle is said to worship around the throne of God. 

SESSION:

The act of "sitting" of Christ at the right hand of God after His ascension, indicating that his work of redemption was complete and that Christ received authority over the universe. The term can also refer to a group of elders with government authority over a local church at a Presbyterian form of church government. 

SYNOD:

National Assembly ruler of a name (sometimes called a general assembly). 

Without recognizing the body:

Phrase used in 1 Corinthians 11: 29 to describe the Corinthian abuse regarding the Lord's Supper. In his selfish and inconsiderate of each other during the Lord's Supper conduct, did not understand the unity and interdependence of people in the church, which is the body of Christ. 

SOVEREIGNTY:

Exercise of the power of God over his creation.

Economic subordination:

Teaching that certain members of the Trinity have roles or functions that are subject to the authority in control of the other members. 

subordinationism:

heretical teaching that the Son was inferior or "subordinate" to be God the Father.

DREAM OF THE SOUL:

Doctrine that believers go to a state of unconscious existence when they die, and return to regain consciousness when Christ returns and resurrects into eternal life. 

ADEQUACY OF THE BIBLE:

Concept that the Bible contains all God's words that he wanted his people to have at every stage of the history of redemption, and now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, to trust fully in him, and obey perfectly.

MUTUAL SUBMISSION:

Phrase proponents of egalitarianism used to describe the kind of relationship they think should exist between husband and wife, in which each is subject to another in the same way. In this understanding of "mutual submission," the only authority that the Bible gives the husband in the marriage relationship is undermined. 

PENAL SUBSTITUTION:

Notion that Christ in His death took as our substitute dictates the just penalty for our sins God.  

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THEOPHANY:

"Appearance of God" in which he takes visible form to show to people.

Biblical Theology:

Study authors and teaching of individual sections of the Bible, and place of each instruction in the historical development of the Bible.

OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY:

Study authors and individual teaching sections of the Old Testament, and place of each instruction in the historical development of the Old Testament. 

THEOLOGY NEW TESTAMENT:

Study authors and teaching of individual sections of the New Testament, and place of each instruction in the historical development of the New Testament. 

Dogmatic Theology:

Systematic Theology.

PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY:

Study of theological issues that primarily employ the tools and methods of philosophical reasoning and what can be known about God by observing the universe. 

Historical Theology:

historical study of how Christians in different periods have understood several theological issues. 

Systematic Theology:

Any study that answers the question "what the whole Bible teaches us today?" About a given topic. 

Gap Theory:

Idea that between Genesis 1: 1 l: 2 there is a gap of millions of years during which God punished a previous creation. This was in "a tota chaos!", Which necessitated the second creation told in Genesis 1: 3 2: 3. 

THEORY OF CONCORDIA:

Another way of referring to the theory of age-days of creation, so called because it seeks agreement or "harmony" between the Bible and the scientific conclusions regarding the age of the earth. 

THEORY OF MORAL INFLUENCE:

Theory that Christ's death was not in payment for sins, but simply a demonstration of how much God loved humans identify with their suffering, even death. This becomes, then, an example designed to derive from us a response of gratitude. 

THEORY OF "YOUNG EARTH '

Creation theory which sees the earth as relatively young, which perhaps has only ten thousand and twenty thousand years. 

THEORY OF 'LAND OLD'

Creation theory that considers the very old earth, like maybe has four and a half billion years. 

THEORY OF THE DAY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS:

Notion that the six "days" of creation in Genesis 1 must be understood as literal days of twenty four hours.

PICTORIAL THEORY OF THE DAY:

Another expression to refer to the notion of literary work frame of Genesis 1.

THEORY OF RANSOM PAID TO SATAN:

Notion that Christ's atonement Satan paid a ransom to redeem his kingdom. 

DAYS AGE THEORY:

Theory of creation of the "old earth" that sees the days of Genesis 1 as "ages" extremely long time. 

THEORY OF EXAMPLE:

Notion that in the atonement Christ did not bring God's just penalty for our sins but merely provided us with an example of how we must trust and obey God perfectly, even if this leads to death. 

THEORY OF LITERARY FRAMEWORK:

Theory of creation of the "old earth" that sees the six days of Genesis 1, not as a chronological sequence of events, but as a "framework" that the author uses literature to show the creative activity of God. 

THEORY OF IDEAL TIME:

Another name of the "mature creationism." governmental theory: The theory that Christ's death was not in payment for our sins but demonstration of God from the fact that, since he is the moral Governor of the universe, some kind of penalty must be paid whenever their laws are violated. 

TRANSITIONAL TYPES:

Fossils show some characteristics of an animal and some of the following type in development, and that if he were, would provide evidence for evolutionary theory to fill the gaps between the different species of animals. 

Traducianism:

Notion that the child inherits from his father and mother's soul at the moment of conception.  

TRANSCENDENT:

Term used to describe God as being greater than the creation and independent of it. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION:

Roman Catholic teaching that the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper (often referred to as "Eucharist") actually become the body and blood of Christ. 

trichotomy:

Notion that man is made of three parts: body, soul and spirit.

TRINITY:

Doctrine that God exists eternally as three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each is fully God, and there is only one God.

tritheism:

Belief that there are three Gods.

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Ubiquity OF HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST:

Teaching exposed by Martin Luther in support of his notion of the Lord's Supper, that the human nature of Christ was present everywhere (ubiquitous) after his ascension. 

A SIMPLE AND ETERNAL ACT:

Expression that refers to an aspect of the knowledge of God by which he is always fully aware of everything and knowledge never changes or grows. 

UNIT:

Doctrine that God is not divided into parts, although we see different attributes of God highlighted in different occasions. 

UNITY OF THE CHURCH:

Degree of freedom for the church of divisions among true Christians.

ONLY BEGOTTEN:

imprecise translation of the Greek monogenes to (John 3: 16), which actually means "unique" or "one of a kind." The Arians used this word to deny the deity of Christ, but the rest of the church understood that meant the eternal Son is related to the Father as a son. 

Union with Christ:

Phrase summarizes several different relationships between believers and Christ, through which believers receive all the benefits of salvation. These relationships include the fact that we are in Christ, Christ is in us, we are like Christ, and we are with Christ.

HYPOSTATIC UNION:

Union of the divine and human natures of Christ in one person (the Greek hypostasis, "is"). 

MYSTICAL UNION:

Expression that refers to the union between the believer and Christ, whose results are not fully understood and are known only by God's revelation in the Bible. 

UNIVERSALISM:

Doctrine that all people will eventually be saved.

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TEXTUAL VARIATIONS:

Where different words appear in different copies of the same old Bible verse. 

VERACITY:

Doctrine that God is the true God and all his knowledge and words are both true and final standard of truth. 

TRUE:

Another term that denotes the truth of God

VICAR:

In the episcopal system of church government, church officer in charge of a local parish and acting in the place of a rector. 

VISION BEATIFIC:

true and real view, although not exhaustive, of God taking place in heaven (lit., "vision that makes blessed or happy").  

WILL:

Attribute of God by which he approves or determines produce any action necessary for the existence and activity of itself and all creation. 

WILL NEED:

The things that God must want according to their own nature.

WILL REVEALED:

God declared about what we should do or what God commands us to do will.

SECRET WILL:

hidden decrees of God by which he rules the universe and determines everything that happens.