Reformed doctrine
This list was compiled from Dr. cornelius Plantinga Theology at Calcin Theolofical Seminary.
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- Justification
- "just as if I never sined"
- Covenant
- A solemn agreement or pact.
- Tragedy of the Fall
- It is a tragety of the fall includes foolishness, pride and disastous.
- Law of God
- The statement of what God wants from us.
- Grace
- Loving kindness to a personin misery, esoecially whn a person is misrible because of his or her own sin.
- Authority of Scripture
- The power of the bible to influence our belivubg abd acting. only in the bible do we find jesus Christ, our rescuer.
- Corruption
- The sleeping or flooding power of sin. Sin seeps into every part of the uman life.
- Creation
- God brought the into being the whole universe form nothing
- Satisfaction
- Giving someone what he has coming, so as to " fill up an empty place"
- Bible
- The book that contains the writing or scripture that christians recognize as the word of God.
- Original sin
- The corruption that and guilt that the human race has inherited form Adam and Eve.
- Goodness of God
- An attribute of God meaning that he satisfies the needs of all his creatures.
- Doctrine
- THe churc's teachings about God and our salvation, based on the Bible.
- Reconcilation
- Restoring peace and harmony to estranged parties.
- Disorder
- The loss of harmony and right relation in the uninivers
- Reformed
- To confess the comin christian faith, whith a special accent.
- Guilt
- What have when we break Gods law and deserve the laws penalty.
- Insperation of Scripture
- The procces by which God "breathed" into the biblical writers what he wanted them to say.
- Confessions
- Carefully organized, written statements of doctrine approved by the church.
- Providencve
- God preserves our world, rescues his people, works for good, and controls history. ( lets us trust and thank god)
- Incarnation
- The event in which the eternal Son of God took on human flesh, which we celebrate at christmas.
- Repentance
- The complete turning around of our lives.
- Covenant Promises
- Gods Promises in the covenant of Grace is that he will love his peole
- Covenant Obligations
- The duties Gods people owe.
- Redemption
- To rescue someone by paying a randsome.
- Evil
- The comnination of sin and misery that we sii in the world around us.
- Infallibility of Scripture
- The Qyality of the Bible that means it will never fail.
- Image of God
- The likeness of God in human beings. Means being like christ.
- God's word
- What God says in his speaking.
- Circumcision
- The Old testament sign and seal of the covenet.
- Atonement
- The process by which Jesus Christ put right what sin put wrong.
- Sovereignty of God
- The attribute of God which means that he is suprene and in control.
- Greatness of God
- A attribute of God meaning that God is awsome. Gods greatness is the power behind his goodness.
- Misery
- The pain and suffering that comes from sin; the fall out that comes from the fall.
- Attributes of God
- Gods Characteristics or qualities, Describing God's attributes help us understand him better.
- Sanctification
- The life long conversion by which christian become gradually holier.
- Forgiveness of sin
- The subtracting, or putting away of sin.
- Freedom
- The removes of things that drag us down and the opening to a joyful life in God.
- The Fall
- The event in which our first parents disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world
- Estrangement
- A disorder in which persons or things that ought to be friends become strangers instead.
- God's speaking
- God's communication to us ( the bible) Gods speaking tells us that God is a personal, caring, and saving God. so when he speaks we should respond.
- Shame
- Sense of humiliation after sin.
- Faith
- The bond to christ from our side.
- The kingdom of God
- Gods region over his universal realm.
- Triune
- It is to say that God is three persons ( Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
- Common Grace
- Gods way of partly stopping corruption so that human life can continue. Or explains why unbelivers often show Gods behavior better than that of some christians.