Theology
The reconciliation of mankind and God through the blood of Jesus
What is the Atonement?
Communion, baptism, marriage, and confirmation are considered this.
What are sacraments?
This person says that there is no God.
What is an athiest?
This is the class where we learn about the art of preaching.
What is homiletics?
This term is used to describe how God has already chosen certain people to be saved or not.
What is Divine Election or Predestination?
The doctrine that teaches God in three persons.
What is the trinity?
This is what the R.C. church calls communion.
What is the Eucharist?
This person worships many gods.
What is a polytheist?
This is the class where we focus solely on the Holy Spirit (it also contains the Latin of the root word for "wind")
What is a Pneumatology?
This term signifies those who have been chosen for salvation.
What are the elect?
This is the act of God declaring a sinner to be righteous based on their faith in Jesus as Lord?
What Justification?
This is the theological terminology for what the RC church believes happens to the Eucharist once it is blessed by the priest.
What is transubstantiation?
This person does not think it can be certain that God exists.
What is an agnostic?
This is the class where we study how to interpret scripture.
What is Hermeneutics?
In Calvinism, this is the "T" in TULIP that means humans are born completely sinful and are incapable of choosing God on their own.
What is Total Depravity?
What is glorification?
This is the set of authoritative beliefs set by church leaders that are considered essentials.
What are dogmas?
This is a person that worships only one God.
What is a monotheist?
What is Soteriology?
This is the terminology for the belief that time is split into eras and that God deals differently with his people in different eras.
What is dispensationalism?
The process that believers undergo as they mature in the Christian faith to make them holy.
What is sanctification?
This is the place below the earth, but not quite hell that is believed to be a place of purging after death.
What is purgatory?
This is the study that defends God's goodness and justice in light of the existence of evil.
What is theodicy?
In this class, we study the nature, origin, and consequences of SIN.
What is Hamartology?
This is the doctrine that most of the Gifts of the Spirit have ceased to operate since the Apostles' deaths.
What is cessasionism?