A figure appearing in the Old Testament who speaks with the authority of God, accepts worship, and is identified with the Lord Himself. Many readers from the early church onward have recognized these as appearances of the preincarnate Son.
Christ's bodily return to the Father's presence forty days after the resurrection, marking the completion of His earthly ministry and the beginning of His exalted reign.
The judgment seat of Christ, a term drawn from the athletic games where a judge awarded prizes to victorious competitors; the evaluation of a believer's works for reward.
That the Son placed Himself under the law's requirements, redeeming law-breakers from within their own condition rather than from a position of exemption.
A binding relationship established by God with His people. Scripture moves through several, from Adam and Noah through Abraham, Moses, and David, culminating in the new covenant in Christ.
The valley outside Jerusalem with a history of child sacrifice, later a place of continually burning refuse; Jesus' most visceral image for eternal judgment.
The literary type of a passage. Scripture contains narrative, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, epistle, and apocalyptic, each with its own conventions.
The final, instantaneous transformation at Christ's return, when believers receive resurrected bodies no longer subject to sin, sickness, aging, or death.
That Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is entirely truthful and without error in everything it affirms, when properly interpreted according to its own intended meaning.
Paul's image in Romans 12:1. Under the old covenant sacrifices were dead animals on an altar; under the new, a living person offering daily choices, labour, relationships, and time.
Not the claim that infants are guilty of specific crimes, but that every human being inherits a nature bent away from God which will inevitably express itself in actual sins.
The word Jesus used for the Spirit, translated Helper, Comforter, or Advocate. A legal and relational term for one called alongside to assist, defend, and strengthen.
In Trinitarian usage, one of the three eternally distinct subsistences within the Godhead, distinguished by relationship rather than by division of substance.
A created being of high rank who fell through pride and now opposes God's purposes; also called the accuser, the tempter, the father of lies, the god of this age.
That Scripture contains everything necessary for salvation and for a life of faithful obedience, so no further revelation is required to supplement it.
The discipline that organizes the teaching of Scripture topically rather than book by book, gathering everything the Bible says on a subject from Genesis to Revelation and synthesizing it into one coherent picture.
Romans 8:29 to 30, linking foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and glorification so tightly that Paul speaks of the last as already accomplished.
The doctrine that sin has affected every part of human nature, leaving no faculty untouched. It does not mean every person is as wicked as they could possibly be.
Christ possesses two complete and undiminished natures, divine and human, in one Person. He is not two Persons, and the natures do not blend into a third hybrid thing.
