Reformed Doctrine

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Dr. Conrelius Plantinga
Calvin Seminary
Grand Rapids MI

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Shame: A sense of humiliation after sin. People who are ashamed feel as if they'd like to cral under something or have some covering hid them from view. The fall brings shame into the human race.
Freedom: The removal of the things that drag us 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.)
Authority of Scripture: The power of the bible to infulence our beieving and acting. Because the Bible is our authority, it can even give commands that mwe must ovey. The Bible is authoritatve because God is its author and because only in the Bible do we find Jesus Christ, our rescuer.
Disorder: The loss of harmondy and right relation in the universe. Disorder shows up in relations between God and humanity, between some humans and others, between humanity and nate, and even within indiviual human beings.
Attributes of God: God's characteristics or qualities such as goodness and greatness. Describing God's attributes helps us understand, praise and imitate God.
The Fall: The event in which our first parents disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world.
Misery: The pain and suffering that come from sin; the fallout that comes from the fall. Among the fallen world's miseries are disorders, estrangement, and death.
Satisfaction: giving someone what he has coming, so as to "fill up an emty place" in him. Thought his death Christ satisfies God's justice by obeying God perfectly, as we cannot, and by suffering the penalty for our disobedience.
Evil: The combination of sin and misery that we see in the world around us. Avil originated in the angel world but comes to us through the fall of Adam and Eve.
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.
Redemption: To rescue someone by paying a ransom. Just as God redeemed Israel from the land of Egypt, so Jesus Christ redeems us from the slavery of sin and death by paying the ransom price of His lifeblood.
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 God's law and deserve the laws penalty. Guilt includes not only what we have when we do wrong, it also includes what we have when we fail to do it right. When we fail to do right, guilt is called debt.
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.
Tragedy of the Fall: The fact that the call happens not to unimportant creatures (whose fall wouldn't matter so much) but to people made in God's image. The fall is also tragiv because in includes trickery, foolishness, pride, and disastrous results.
Bible: The book that contains the writings or scriptures that Christians recognize as the written word of God.
Greatness of God: An attribute of God meaning that God is awesome. God's greatness is the power behind his goodness.
Incarnation: The event in which the eternal sons of God took on human flesh. Which we celebrate at chistmas.
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 fellowhip with each other abnd by any right actions we do. the image of god means being like Christ
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. This is, God is trinity
Estrangement: A disorder in which persons or things that ought ot be friends become strangers instead, for example, when people are estraged fomr God, they see God not only as a loving father but as an embarrassment or even as an enemy.
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.
Covenant: A solemn agreement or pact. In a covenant there are always promises on one side and oftern obligations on the other. Covenants are usually signed and sealed, sometimes by strange acts.
Reconciliation: Restoring peace and harmony to estrange parties. Jesus Christ brings peace and reconiliation by acting as arbitrator, or mediator between God and humanity.
Atonement: The process by which Jesus Christ put right what sin put wrong. Christ's suffering and death are an atonement, a making amends, for sin.
Covenant Promises: God's Promises in the covenant of Grace is that he will love his people, protect them, and help them. God also promises to bless the whole worl though his people.
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 sometimes 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.
Goodness of God: An attribute of God meaning that he satisfies the needs of all his creatures.
Grace: Loving kindness to a person in misery, especially when a person is miserable because of his or her own sin. Grace is then undeserved favor or kindness.
Doctrine: The church's teachings about God and our salvation, based on the Bible
Repentance: The complete turning around of our lives. Repentance is like dying and then being born again.
Sanctification: The lifelong conversion by which Christians become 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.
Creation: The covereign 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.
God's Speaking: God's communication to us. God speaks in His world, 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.
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.
Sovereignty of God: The attribute of God which means that he is supreme and in control.
Justification: Gods acceptance of unacceptable people. Justification includes the forgiving of our sins and the adding to us of Jesus' righteousness.
Confessions: Carefully organized, written statements of dcctrine approved by the church.
Covenant Obligations: The duties God's people owe to God. These are especially obedience (because god is parent and King), trust (because God is Savior), and thanks (because od shows Grace).
Common Grace: God's way of partly stopping corruption so that human life can continure. Common grace explains why unbelievers often show good behavior. Better then that of some Christians.
Circumcision: The Old Testament sign and seal of the covenant of Grace.
Faith: the bond to Christ from our side. Faith includes belief in the promises of God and trust in Jesus. Justification is received by faith.
The Kingdom of God: God's reign over His 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.
Original Sin: The corruption and guit that the human race has inherited from Adam and Eve. The doctrine of original sin tells us that sins is universal, that it keeps reproduscing, and that it is extremely hard to get rid of.
Providence: The care God shows for all his creation. God preservers out world, rescues his people, works for good, and controls history. Providence lets us trust and thank God.
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".)

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