Reformed Vocab.
used with permission Dr.Cornelius Plantinga Calvin Seminary
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- Confessions
- Carefully organized, written statements of doctrine approved by the Chruch
- Gods 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.
- Sanctification
- The lifelong conversion by which Christians become gradually holier that is more like Jesus Christ. Sanctification is the solution to the problem of pollution. We want to live the like of holiness because of our desire for God, or gratitude to him, and our faith in him.
- Freedom
- The removal 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.)
- 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.
- Corruption
- The seeping or flooding power of sin. Sin seeps into every part of human life, straining and spoiling thoughts, words, deeds, feelings, and inclinations.
- Evil
- The combination of sin and misery that we see in the world around us. Evil orginated in the angel world but comes to us through the fall os Adam and Eve
- Guilt
- What we have when we break Gods law and deserve the laws penalty Guilt not only includes what we have when we do wrong but also includes what we have when we fail to do right. then guilt is called debt.
- 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 loing father but as an embarrassment or even as an enemy.
- Bible
- The book that contains the writings or scriptures that Christians recognize as the written word of God.
- Goodness of God
- an attribute of god meaning he satisfies the needs of all his creation
- Doctrine
- churches teachings about God and our salvation based on the bible
- the 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Greatness of God
- An attribute meaning that God is Awsome!
- 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.
- Inspiration of scriptures
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 extreamly hard to get rid of.
- Sovereignty of God
- (attribute) means that he is supreme and in control
- The fall
- The event in which our first parents disobeyed God and thus brought evil into the world.
- disorder
- the loss of harmony and right relation in the universe, disorder shows up in relations between God and Humanity. Between one human and another. between humanity and nature, even in one human being.
- 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.
- Gods 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.
- Providence
- The care God shows for all his creation.God preserves our world,rescuses his people,works for good,and controls history.providence lets us trust and thank God, 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.
- 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".)