Dr. Alligood Theology II Exam 2 - Terms

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

The Spirit's work to unite all believers to Christ and the Church.

Holy Spirit's Deity

The Holy Spirit's identity as a divine person alongside the Father and the Son, depicted in at least four ways in Scripture.

Holy Spirit's Filling

The Holy Spirit's enabling believers to grow in maturity as they yield to his control over their lives.

Holy Spirit's Gifts

The Spirit's spiritual endowments and abilities given to God's people.

Holy Spirit's Indwelling

The Holy Spirit's taking up residence in and with believers in a special relationship.

Holy Spirit's Ministries

The holy Spirit's activities toward believers, especially his uniting us to Christ and empowering us to live for him.

Holy Spirit's Personality (or personhood)

The Holy Spirit's identity as a person, revealed in Scripture in at least three ways (Personal traits, performs ministries only a person can form, and is affected as a person).

Holy Spirit's Works

Actions the Spirit takes outside of salvation, including creating, giving Scripture, and working supernaturally in people's lives.

Holy Spirit's Names and Descriptions

Titles given in Scripture to the Holy Spirit that teach us his identity and roles - Holy Spirit of God, Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Lord God, Spirit of God, the Seven Spirits of God; Spirit of the Father, Spirit of the Son, Spirit of the Christ; eternal Spirit, Spirit of Grace, Spirit of holiness, Spirit of life, Spirit of wisdom, Spirit of counsel and strength, Spirit of truth, Spirit of glory; Counselor, Helper, Comforter, Advocate, Spirit of adoption, firstfruits, the down payment of our inheritance, Spirit of revelation, God's "seal"

Messiah

God's anointed Deliverer of Israel and the nations, Jesus Christ.

Pneumatology

In Christian theology, the study of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, including his personality, deity, works, and ministries.

Church Attributes - One

The church is this because believers have been united to Christ and to one another. This attribute transcends all distinctions of social status, ethnicity, or gender.

Church Attributes - Holy

The church is this because God dwells in believers corporately and individually.

Holy Attributes - Universal/Catholic

The church is this because it is not confined to any one location or people. Rather, it is made up of all God's people spread over the earth.

Holy Attributes - Apostolic

The church is this because it is based on the apostle's teachings. God's Word and the gospel are true, so we base our beliefs, teaching, and lives on them.

Church Marks

Identifying features used by the 16th-century Protestant Reformers and their heirs to distinguish true from false churches - pure preaching of the Word, the proper administration of the ordinances (sacraments), and the faithful exercise of church discipline.

Church Pictures - Body

The church is the body of Christ. He is the head of this body, the source of its spiritual life, and the church's ultimate authority whom we must obey. The Holy Spirit joins us to Christ and to one another in one body, Christ as the head and we as its members.

Church Pictures - Bride

The church is Christ's bride, spiritually married to him. This image is full of God's grace, for Christ initiates the marriage, offering himself up in death for his bride, the church, the object of his love. Christ loves us and claims us, for Paul is concerned lest we "be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ," our husband, into spiritual adultery. Instead, as a bride submits to her loving husband, so the church submits to Christ, its loving husband.

Church Pictures - Temple

The church is a temple of the Spirit. Paul says that the Spirit occupies the place of the god in a Greco-Roman temple. God's presence makes a church a church, for he dwells in us individually and communally. In Christ we are the temple of the living God, worshipping the triune God. Peter says the church is a living temple, with Christ as "a living stone," alive from death and the source of spiritual life.

Church Pictures - Family

The church is the family of God because God adopted us in Christ. Before adoption we were children of the devil and slaves of sin. But our gracious God made us his children. God sent his Son to redeem us by dying so that the Father might adopt us. We are now "heirs of God and coheirs with Christ". We will inherit God and the new heavens and new earth. Our adoption forever related us to God and connects us to one another as God's family.

Eschatology

In Christian theology, the study of the doctrine of last things, both of individuals and of the world. Individual _____ concerns death, the intermediate state, the resurrection, and eternal destiny. General _____ concerns the return of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and the eternal destinies of eternal life on the new earth or eternal punishment in hell.

Heaven

The final state of resurrected believers on the new earth.

Hell

The eternal suffering of unbelievers at the hands of God, the righteous Judge. The place where people suffer the just penalty for their sin.

Universalism

The view that, in the end, all human beings will be gathered into the love of God and be saved. Believers of this claim that a loving God would never allow anyone to suffer forever in hell.

Annihilationism

The view that lost people in hell will be destroyed after they pay the penalty for their sins. Also called conditional immortality, it's the idea that God gives immortality only to those he regenerates.

Intermediate State

The situation of human beings after death and before resurrection.

Last Days

The time between Christ's first and second comings.

Last Judgment

God's assigning people to their eternal destinies.

Millennium

The thousand years of Revelation 20:1-6

Amillennialism

Belief that holds that the millennium describes the souls of dead believers reigning now with Jesus in heaven. The millennium, then, is present and describes the intermediate state.

Postmillennialism

The view that holds that Christ will return after the millennium. Holds that Christ's return is a single even and that there will be one general resurrection of all people.

Historic Premillennialism

View the holds that the millennium is Christ's reign on earth for a thousand years after his return and before the eternal state. holds to two resurrections, one before and one after the millennium. Deceased saints will be raised before the millennium to participate in it. After the millennium, other believers who died during the thousand years will be raised along with all the wicked.

Dispensational Premillennialism

Holds that the millennium refers to Christ's thousand-year reign on earth after his return and before the new earth. Traditionally, teaches a Jewish character to the millennium, including a restored temple and blood sacrifices. Unique to this belief is the view that the Second Coming will occur in two stages: the mid-air rapture of the church before the tribulation and the Second Coming to earth after the tribulation and before the millennium. Also believes in a third resurrection: church saints, including resurrected ones, will be raptured to heaven before the great tribulation on earth.

New Heavens and New Earth

The future cleansed and renewed world and final state of the redeemed.

Resurrection

God's bringing the physically dead back to life, raising their bodies from the grave.

Second Coming

The return of Jesus Christ. It will be personal, visible, and glorious.

Premillennialism

Rejects the view that the world will be gradually Christianized as a majority of people believe the gospel. Instead, Christ's coming will usher in the millennium powerfully and immediately. The binding of Satan means he will be unable to deceive the nations during the future millennium. Maintains that Christ will come back before the thousand years.