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Providence: The care God shows for all his creation. God preserves our world, rescues His people, works for good, and controls history. Providence lets us trust and thank God.
Law Of God: The statement of what God wants from us. The law of God is a training guide for the new life of liberty.
Image Of God: The likeness of God in human beings. We see the image of God in us by our ruling over creation, by our fellowship with each other and by any right actions we do. The image of God means being like Christ.
Disorder: The loss of harmony and right relation in the universe. Disorder shows up in relations between God and humanity, between some humans and others, between humanity and nature, and even within individual human beings.
Repentance: The complete turning around of our lives. Repentance is like dying and then being born again.
Authority Of Scripture: The power of the Bible to influence our believing and acting. Because the Bible is our authority, it can even give commands that we must obey. The Bible is authoritative because God is its author and because only in the Bible do we find Jesus Christ, our rescuer.
Redemption: The belief that the death of Jesus had paid the price of justice for all human wrongs he led us to the land of Egypt to from Israel.
Image Of God: The likeness of God in human beings. We see the image of God in us by our ruling over creation, by our fellowship with each other and by any right actions we do. The image of God means being like Christ.
God's word: What God says in his speaking. Some of what Gods says is written down in the Bible. That is why the bible is sometimes called Gods word.Everything important about God is lived out by His Son Jesus Christ. That is why he is sometimes called the word of God.
Greatness Of God: An attribute of God meaning that God is awesome. God's greatness in the power behind His goodness.
Triune: Being a triple and a unit at the same time. To say that God is triune is to say that God is three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) but only one God. That is, God is a trinity.
Tragedy of the fall: The fact that the fall happens not to unimportant creatures (whose fall wouldn't matter so much), but to people made in God's image. The fall is also tragic because it includes trickery, foolishness, pride, and disastrous results.
Reconciliation: restoring peace and Harmony to estranged parties. Jesus Christ brings peace and reconciliation by acting as arbitrator, or mediator between God and Humanity.
Covenant Obligations: The duties God's people owe to God. Especially obediance, trust and thanks.
Doctrine: The churches teachings about God and our salvation, based on the Bible
Inspiration Of scripture: The process by which God "breathed" into the biblical writers what He wanted them to write. God moved, influenced, and inspired them by the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit now inspires us to receive and believe in the Bible.
Estrangement: A disorder in which persons or things that ought to be friends become strangers instead; for example, when people are estranged from God, they see God not only as a loving father, but as an embarrassment or even as an enemy.
Guilt: What we have when we brake God's law and deserve the law's penalty. Guilt includes not only what we have when we do wrong, it also includes what we have when we fail to do right. When we fail to do right, guilt is called debt.
God's speaking: Gods communication to us. God speaks in His word( including the Bible), and by His Son. God's speaking tells us that God is a personal, caring, and saving God. So when God speaks, we ought to respond.
Shame: A sense of humiliation after sin. People who are ashamed feel as if they'd like to crawl under something or have some covering hide them from view. The fall brings shame into the human race.
Grace: Loving kindness to a person in misery, especially when a person ismiserable because of his or her own sin. Grace is then undeserved favor or kindness.
Freedom: The removel of the things that drag is down and the opening up to joyful life in God. (Because if we are not slaves to him, we will be slaves to something else.)
Sanctification: The lifelong conversion by which Christians becoome gradually holier--that is, more like Jesus Christ. Sanctification is the solution to the problem od pollution. We want to live the life of holiness because of our desire for God, or gratitude to him, and our faith in him.
Confessions: Carefully organized, written statements of doctrine approved by the church.
Attributes of God: God's characteristics or qualities such as goodness and greatness. Describing God's attributes helps us understand, praise and imitate God.
Atonement: The process by which Jesus Christ out right what sin put wrong. Christs' suffereing and death are atonement, a making amends, for sin.
Goodness of God: An attribute of God meaning that he satisfies the needs of all his creatures.
Infallibility of Scripture: The quality of the Bible that means it wil not fail. By the Bib;es unfailingness or infallibility we mean it does not deceive us, make mistakes in presenting God's word, or fail to reach its goal of helping people get saved and then lead thankful lives.
The Fall: The event in which our first parents disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world.
Covenant: A solemn agreement or pact. In a covenant there are always promises on one side and often obligations on the other. Covenants are usually signed and sealed, sometimes by strange acts.
Creation: The sovereign act of God by which He brought into being the whole universe from nothing. Creation shows God's sovereignty, goodness, greatness, and His image in us.
Original Sin: The corruption and guilt that the human race has inherited from Adam and Eve. The doctrine of original sin tells us that sin is universal, that it keeps reproducing, and that it is extremely hard to get rid of.
The Kingdom Of God: God's reign over HId universal realm. Covenant, prophets, priests, human kings, and the church are all tools, or instruments, of the Kingdom of God. Like a mustard seed, the Kingdom starts out small but grows and grows. The things that Kingdom people cherish and value -- like humility, forgiveness, kindness __ seem "Upside - down to people who are not members of the Kingdom.
Bible: the book that contains the writings or scriptures that Christians recognize written word of God
Doctrine: The churches teachings about God and our salvation, based on the Bible
Providence: The care God shows for all his creation. God preserves our world, rescues His people, works for good, and controls history. Providence lets us trust and thank God.
Misery: The pain and suffering that comes from sin; the fallout that comes from the fall. Among the fallen world's miseries are disorders, estrangement, and death.
Bible: the book that contains the writings or scriptures that Christians recognize written word of God
Corruption: The seeping or flooding power of sin. Sin seeps into every part of human life, staining and spoiling thoughts, words, deeds, feelings, and inclinations.
Goodness of God: An attribute of God meaning that he satisfies the needs of all his creatures.
Greatness Of God: An attribute of God meaning that God is awesome. God's greatness in the power behind His goodness.
Sovereignty of God: The attribute of God which means that he is supreme and in control.
Forgiveness of Sins: The subtracting, or putting away, of sins so that they are no longer held against us. When God forgives our sins, we can be at peace with him.
Justification: God's acceptance of unacceptable
Circumcision: The visible sign of the covenant that God made with Abraham
reformed: To be Reformed is to confess the common Christian faith with a special accent. In particular, it means to accent such things as the authority of sricpture, the sovereignty of God, personal integrity in the life of holiness, and the need for a view of world intergrity (sometimes called a "world-and-life view" or :Kingdom vision".)
Triune: Being a triple and a unit at the same time. To say that God is triune is to say that God is three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) but only one God. That is, God is a trinity.
God's word: What God says in his speaking. Some of what Gods says is written down in the Bible. That is why the bible is sometimes called Gods word.Everything important about God is lived out by His Son Jesus Christ. That is why he is sometimes called the word of God.
Common Grace: God's way of partly stopping corruption so that human life can continue. Common grace explains why unbelievers often show good behavior - better than that of some Christians.
Evil: The combination of sin and misery that we see in the world around us. Evil originated in the angel world but comes to us through the fall of Adam and Eve.
Covenant Promises: God's promises in the covenant of Grace is that he will love his people and protect them and help them. He also promises to bless whole world.
God's speaking: Gods communication to us. God speaks in His word( including the Bible), and by His Son. God's speaking tells us that God is a personal, caring, and saving God. So when God speaks, we ought to respond.
Satisfaction: Giving someone what he has coming. To fil an empty place. Through his death, Christ satisfys God's justice by obeying God perfectly. We can not because by the suffering for our sins.
Creation: The sovereign act of God by which He brought into being the whole universe from nothing. Creation shows God's sovereignty, goodness, greatness, and His image in us.
Faith: The bond to Christ from our side. Faith includes belief in the promises fo God and trust in Jesus. Justification is recieved by faith.
Sovereignty of God: The attribute of God which means that he is supreme and in control.
Confessions: Carefully organized, written statements of doctrine approved by the church.
Inspiration Of scripture: The process by which God "breathed" into the biblical writers what He wanted them to write. God moved, influenced, and inspired them by the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit now inspires us to receive and believe in the Bible.
Incarnation: The event in which the eternal sons of God took on human flesh. Which we celebrate at chistmas
Attributes of God: God's characteristics or qualities such as goodness and greatness. Describing God's attributes helps us understand, praise and imitate God.

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