Reformed Vocab.
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- Infallibility of Scripture
- The quality of the Bible that means it will not fail. By the Bibl's unfailingness or infallitility 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 thenlead thankful lives.
- Doctrine
- The church's teachings about God and our salvation, Based on the Bible
- Corruption
- The seeping or floooding power of sin. Sin seeps into every part of human life, Staining and spoiling thoughts, Words, deeds, feelings and inclinations
- 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.
- Creation
- The sovereign act of God by which He Brought into being the whole universe from nothing. Creations shows God's Sovereignty, Goodness, Greatness, and his image in us.
- Bible
- The book that contains the writtings or scriptures that Christians recognize as the written word of God
- God's word
- What God says in his speaking. Some of what God says is written down in the bible. That is why the bible is somtimes called God's 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 is the power behind his goodness.
- Confessions
- Carefully organized, Written statements of doctrine approved by the church
- Original Sin
- The corruption and guilt that the human race has inherited from Adam and Eve. The dortrine of original sin tells us that sin is universal, that is keeps reproducing, and that is is extremely hard to get rid of.
- 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.
- Guilt
- What we have when we break Gods law and deserve the laws penalty.n Guilt includes not only what we have when we do wrong. It also inclueds what we have when we fail to do right. When we fail to do right guilt is called debt.
- Attributes of God
- God's characteristics or qualities such as goodness and greatness. Describing Gods attributes helps us uderstand, Prise and imitate God.
- Misery
- The pain and suffering that come from sin; The fallout that comes from the fall. Among the fallen worlds miseries are disorders, estrangement, and death.
- God's Speaking
- God's communication to us. God speaks in his world, in his word 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.
- Image of God
- The likenessof 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 action The image of God means being like Christ.
- The Fall
- The event in which our first parents disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world.
- 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 at once. Father son and Holy Spirit. But only one God that is, God is trinity
- 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 hid them from view. The fall brings shame into the human race.
- Evil
- The combination of sin and misery that we see in the world around us. Evil originated in the angel word but comes to us though the fall of Adam and Eve.
- 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 becuase only in the Bible do we find Jesus Christ our rescuer.
- 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.
- Goodness of God
- An attribute of God meaning that he satisfies the needs of all his creatures.
- Common Grace
- God's way of partly stopping corruption so that human life can continue. Comon grace explains why unbelievers often show good behavior better than that of some Christians.
- 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 incluedes trickery, foolishness, pride, and disastrous results
- Sovereignty of God
- The attribute of God which means that he is supreme and in control.