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Dr. Etzel Theo 202
Vocabulary and Memory Verses for Theo 202-392 Intensive Jan 2010
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
01/14/2010

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Anthropology
Definition
the expression of thought about mankind
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Evolution
Definition
a naturalistic worldview that says that man descended from lower primates through natural processes controlled by inherent forces. A closed system.
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Fiat Creationism
Definition
everything was created ex nihilo by God’s spoken command. Days in Genesis 1 are literal 24 hr period. Holds to a young earth view (6,000-10,000 years)
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Deistic Evolution
Definition
God programmed the system but evolution continued the process. God is now absent from his creation
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Theistic Evolution
Definition
God started the process, evolution continues the process, God intervenes to modify the process
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Progressive Creationism
Definition
God created denovo “a new”
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Deism
Definition
God is not involved in the world anymore
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Image of God
Definition
man is like God and represents God
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pre-existence position
Definition
all human souls were created at the beginning of creation
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Creationism (as related to man's immaterial part)
Definition
the soul is directly and immediately created by God and implanted with in the individual somewhere between conception and birth
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Traducian
Definition
the immaterial and material aspects are passed by parents
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Trichotomy
Definition
man is composed of body, soul, and spirit
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Monism
Definition
man is only one substance
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Dichotomy
Definition
man is composed of a physical part and an immaterial part
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Heart of Man
Definition
the center of a person which controls thought and reflection, emotions, moral consciousness, and volition
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Soul
Definition
intellect, emotions and will. The more earthly section of man's immaterial part.
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Spirit
Definition
a higher faculty that comes alive when a person becomes a Christian
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Will
Definition
decision making and carrying out. Volition.
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Conscience
Definition
takes the knowledge we accumulate and determines the moral worth, but can’t motivate the life.
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masculinity
Definition
responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women
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femininity
Definition
disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men
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Genesis 1:26-27
Definition
let us make man in our image (Image of God)
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Romans 6:1-11
Definition
Dead to sin, Alive in Christ; burried with him in the likeness of his death, raised with him in the likeness of his resurrection
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Hebrews 4:12
Definition
scripture is sharper than any two-edged sword, able to separate bone from marrow, soul from spirit (Trichotomy view)
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Leviticus 17:11
Definition
the blood is the life of the flesh (so the heart is the center of man)
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Hamartiology
Definition
study of sin
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sin
Definition
anything that is contrary to the law of God
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The Fall
Definition
Adam sinned and broke the relationship between humans and God
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Gnostics
Definition
salvation is achieved through special knowledge
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Marcionites
Definition
believed the God of the Old Testament as not the same as the one in the New Testament
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Manicheans
Definition
Augustine was on before he was saved; believed salvation was through knowledge
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presumptuous sin
Definition
sins we know about but do anyway
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sins of ignorance
Definition
sins we did not know we were doing
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sins of commission
Definition
doing something God forbids
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sins of omission
Definition
not doing something God commands
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Original sin/imputed sin
Definition
all men are now guilty for Adam’s sin
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sin nature
Definition
a disposition towards sin
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Justification
Definition
to be declared righteous
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Regeneration
Definition
God gives man the enablement to do righteousness; rebirth
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Imputation
Definition
to reckon to. Adam’s sin is imputed to the human race, the sins of men were imputed to Christ, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to believers
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Federal View/Representative View
Definition
believes that Adam acted as a representative of the human race
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Augustinian/Seminal Head View
Definition
all humanity existed as a unity in Adam
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Salvation
Definition
deliverance, preservation
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I John 2:16
Definition
For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.
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Romans 5:12-21
Definition
Death through Adam, Life through Christ
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Genesis 3
Definition
The Fall of man
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I Corinthians 10:13
Definition
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
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Ephesians 4
Definition
22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Atonement
Definition
to cover; the blood of Christ cleanses the sinner; includes sacrifice, propitiation, substitution, and reconciliation
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Conversion
Definition
the human side of salvation
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Regeneration
Definition
God's side of salvation
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Union with Christ
Definition
that judicial act of placing a believer "in Christ" in the heavens
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Grace
Definition
instead of getting what we deserve, we are not only spared from our due punishment, but given a gift we do not deserve
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Justification
Definition
an act whereby our position in Heaven is changed and man is given a new standing before God
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Propitiation
Definition
satisfying the divine wrath of God
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Redemption
Definition
to buy back
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Reconciliation
Definition
to cover; mankind is in a saveable position
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Sanctification
Definition
to set apart; continual
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Repentance
Definition
to perceive afterwards; includes intellect, emotions, will
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Faith
Definition
reliance upon Christ for salvation
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Romans 1:18-20
Definition
General revelation; men are without excuse
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II Corinthians 5:19
Definition
that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
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Romans 5:8
Definition
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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I Corinthians 15:3, 4
Definition
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
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I John 2:2
Definition
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
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Romans 3:25, 26
Definition
Jesus was a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood
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II Corinthians 5:21
Definition
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Hebrews 9:22
Definition
without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness
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Titus 3:5
Definition
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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John 3
Definition
Jesus and Nicodemus talk about regeneration
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Ecclesiology
Definition
Study of the Church
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ecclesia
Definition
the assembly; called out ones
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Church
Definition
an assembly of professing believers
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Lord's Table
Definition
communion; bread and wine
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Baptism
Definition
an outward sign of the salvation that has taken place within the heart
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baptizo
Definition
to plunge; to make fully wet
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Universal Church
Definition
all believers
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Denomination
Definition
churches that believe the same things specifically about certain doctrines
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Congregational Church Government
Definition
The people of the church have the ultimate authority; direct democracy
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Episcopal Church Government
Definition
One person has the ultimate authority; monarchy
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Presbyterian Church Government
Definition
Elders are the ultimate authority in the church; representative democracy
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Indigenous Church
Definition
a church is self-directing, self-governing, and self-supporting
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elder
Definition
means older
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bishop
Definition
superintendent
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Matthew 16:16-18
Definition
first mention of the church; on this rock(Peter) I will build my church
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I Timothy 3:1-7
Definition
qualifications for elders and deacons
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Titus 1:5-9
Definition
appointed elders in Crete
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I Corinthians 15:1-5
Definition
The resurrection of Christ; importance to church doctrine
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Luke 22:14-20
Definition
The Last Supper; communion
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Ephesians 5:23-32
Definition
comparison of husband and wife to Christ and the church
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Acts 6:3-5
Definition
choosing elders
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eschatology
Definition
study of the end times
Term
central theme of theology
Definition
Jesus Christ
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Amillenial
Definition
there is no literal 1000 years, we are in the millenium now, when Christ returns there will be the final judgment
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postmillenial
Definition
through the preaching of the word of God, the entire world will be converted to Christianity and this will usher in the kingdom of Christ which is when Christ will return
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premillenial
Definition
there is a future literal millenium where Christ will rule.
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Preterist
Definition
"past"; Revelation speaks entirely of first century events
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Idealistic
Definition
Revelation is merely symbolic of the victory of Christ
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Historical
Definition
the book of Revelation surveys and presents the history of Israel over the past 2000 years. Prominent during the Reformation
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Futurist
Definition
most of the book of Revelation is yet future. Literal interpretation of scripture.
Term
rapture
Definition
caught up
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partial rapture
Definition
only believers who are watching and waiting for the Lord will be raptured at various times before and during the tribulation
Term
pre-tribulation theory
Definition
the rapture will occur before the tribulation
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mid-tribulation theory
Definition
believers in Christ are raptured in the middle of the tribulation period prior to the great tribulation
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post-tribulation view
Definition
the living believers are to be raptured at the 2nd coming of Christ, which will occur at the end of the tribulation
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tribulation
Definition
7 years where Holy Spirit does not restrain the devil. United political world. Antichrist is revealed. Chaos.
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Antichrist
Definition
a substitute for Jesus Christ who is a Jew. The beast.
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mark of the beast
Definition
something that will mark a person in the tribulation with the Antichrist. No one can buy or sell without it.
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Revelation 1:19
Definition
Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.
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Revelation 1:1
Definition
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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I Thessalonians 4:13-18
Definition
believers will be caught up
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II Corinthians 12:1-10
Definition
man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven
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Revelation 20
Definition
talks about millenium
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Romans 8:18-30
Definition
our present trials are nothing compared to our future glory
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Revelation 21, 22
Definition
What heaven will be like
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annihilation
Definition
hell is a form of instantaneous destruction
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reincarnation
Definition
denies the existence of hell by confining people to earth during various lifetimes. All eventually reach a state of heavenly bliss.
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purgatory
Definition
a place for cleansing between earth and heaven; not viewed as etneral
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universalism
Definition
there is a heaven and a hell, but God won't let anyone go to hell
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Luke 16:22-26
Definition
Rich man and Lazarus; no one can cross from heaven to hell or hell to heaven once they are there
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sheol
Definition
a Hebrew word for hell; used 65 times in the Old Testament; translated hell, grave, or pit
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Hades
Definition
Greek word for hell; a place of retribution for the wicked; burning, separation, conviction by memory, thirst, stench
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tartaros
Definition
the lowest of the nine levels of hell; the idea of being cast into the lowest part of hell could be an emphasis on the most severe of various degrees of punishment; associated with fallen angels
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Gehenna
Definition
most severe word for hell in Scripture; lake of fire
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weeping and gnashing of teeth
Definition
describes the personal anguish of individuals in hell; represents rage and hatred
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bottomless pit
Definition
description of hell closely associated with demons
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outer darkness
Definition
a description of hell where the individual is cut off from light
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Fire
Definition
most popular image of hell
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