Terms to Know
This term means adhering rigidly to regulations to look good before God.
What is legalism?
These are the distinct characteristics of God that do not change.
What are attributes?
What does it mean that Jesus was made in the "likeness of men." (Philippians 2:7)
Became like a brother to all humans. Had a human body and soul and He resisted temptation as a human.
This is when the divine inspiration for the Bible happened.
What is when it was first written?
These are the two types of revelation.
What are general revelation and special revelation?
This term means God is carrying out His plan according to His will.
What is sovereignty?
What does the name Yahweh imply?
What is the self-existent one?
Jesus relied on this to to live a perfect life.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Define Infallibility.
What is the Bible cannot make an error?
Heresy is
a) a minor type of false teaching
b) a serious error that a true Christian cannot willfully follow
What is b?
a serious error
This term means reading out of a Bible passage what the author intended to communicate.
What is exegesis?
These are two temptations people tend to embrace to remove the mystery of God.
Jesus held the offices of Prophet, Priest and King. A "mouthpiece" is connected with this office.
What is prophet?
True or False. Since the Bible is not a detailed science or history textbook, we should expect errors on those topics in reading it.
What is false?
This is our source of doctrine.
What is biblical data?
This term means one supports a biblical passage that was taken out of context.
What is prooftexting?
True or False. Some doctrines are revealed slowly throughout the Bible as the story of the Bible progresses.
What is true?
This is the primary reason Jesus died on the cross.
What is to be a substitute for sinners and to make atonement for their sins?
Though this term is not used in the Bible, we believe that there is one God with three parts. Explain this doctrine.
What is the Trinity? This means that the one true God is made of three persons-Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though it doesn't say it-the Bible reveals this truth.
True or False:
Visions are not considered general revelation.
True-this would be special revelation.
Exegesis or Eisegesis?
When you read your own ideas into Scripture.
What is eisegesis?
How the Bible truths fit together and what the Bible teaches to be true. This is the definition of what term?
What is doctrine?
He added human nature to His divine nature.
What is reliance on the Holy Spirit's illumination and diligent study?
What is an advocate?