an undeserved gift
What is grace?
Hebrew word for "Anointed One" - also means Christos in Greek
What is Messiah?
the doctrine that teaches all humans are made in God's image, have special authority over the earth, and are the best part of God's creation.
What is the imago Dei?
this is something we inherited from Adam as a sort of spiritual disease
What is original sin?
confident expectation of a guaranteed future event
What is hope?
the act of being declared righteous or innocent because Jesus stepped in and paid the punishment for our crimes
What is justification?
the study of God
What is theology?
God decided in advance (before creation) who He would save, all for His pleasure and His glory.
What is predestination?
Hebrew word for peace - means wholeness, health, and relational harmony
What is Shalom?
someone who inherits the riches of another person
What is an heir?
God's rule over all things, including who comes to faith. This doctrine brings great comfort to us knowing that no matter what happens, God allowed it for our good and His glory.
What is sovereignty?
the act of Jesus taking our punishment on the cross and turning God's wrath away from us
What is propitiation?
perfectly obedient to God's law
What is righteous?
what we received when Christ purchased and ransomed us—at the price of his own life—delivering us from the slavery and punishment of sin
What is redemption?
the "great exchange" where Jesus takes our sin and guilt on himself and suffers the punishment for it all, and in exchange He gives us His righteousness so that when we are judged by God some day, God will see Jesus’ perfection instead of our sin.
What is imputation?
God's final removal of sin from the life of His children in the eternal state
the title for Jesus
What is the Christ?
FILL IN THE BLANKS:
As it is written: “None is _____, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does _____, not even one.”
righteous, good
What are the 5 "links" of the golden chain of salvation?
Foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified
For those whom [God] foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Fill in the blanks:
Ephesians 1:11 "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been _________ according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will..."
predestined