Acts and Epistles Semester 2 Review

Gentiles

Anyone not Jewish by birth.

Righteousness

The perfection that God demands / provides.

Minister

One who serves.

Salvation

The state of being saved.

Predestined

Chosen by God for salvation / a gospel teaching.

Sanctify

The call to faith and then to live in faith.

Justify

To declare not guilty.

Sanctification

Living your life in love for God.

Means of grace

A vehicle / method by which God gives us His grace.

Dead to sin

The effect of conversion.

Dead in sin

Man’s state without Jesus / before conversion.

Natural knowledge of God

What we can know about God from the world around us.

The foolishness of God

The way God’s plan of salvation appears to the unbeliever.

Universal justification

The fact that Jesus paid for the sins of all people of all time.

Universalism

The false idea that all people will be saved in the end.

Tongues

Understandable language.

Total depravity

Complete moral corruption.

Absolute truth

Something that is always true; truths based upon God’s Word.

Relative truth

A 'truth' based upon an individual’s worldview.

(biblical) Prophecy

Speaking God’s Word.

Different gospel

A work righteous 'good news' / no gospel at all.

Legalism

Demanding certain works to be considered a Christian.

Judaizer

Those who required circumcision of Christians.

Giving offense

Leading someone into sin by your words or actions.

The mystery of God

God provides the same way to be saved for Jew and Gentile.

Adiaphora

Something neither commanded nor forbidden by God.

Conscience

An inner voice that guides us (not always correct).

Christian freedom

Freedom to and freedom from; because I can doesn’t mean I have to or always will.

The seal of the Holy Spirit

Faith in Jesus.

Holy

Without sin.

Persistent errorist

Someone refusing to turn from a particular sin.

The moral law

God’s commands that never change - 10 Commandments.

Elder in the NT church

Pastor.

The body of Christ

All believers; the holy Christian Church.

Ceremonial law

The OT laws dealing with things like worship and sacrifice.

Doxology

A hymn of praise.

Clique

A snobbish group of friends.

Atheist

Someone who says there is no God.

Agnostic

Someone unsure if there is a God.

Scriptural principles

What we 'know for sure' help us answer questions.

Gnostic

1st century heretic who doubted the person of Christ.

Scriptural divorce

Allowed in cases of sexual immorality / malicious desertion.

Romans

The righteousness from God.

I Timothy

Fight the good fight.

I Corinthians

Because of Christ.

Titus

Do what is good.

I Peter

Hope in Christ.

I John

God gives absolute truth.

Ephesians

The Church is the Body of Christ.

Colossians

Christ is Sufficient.