This week’s term: Calling – The work of God in summoning or bringing men to Himself. This is revealed to us in scripture in two basic senses: The gospel call, (general call) which goes forth in the Word of God and which is conveyed to men by preaching. This may be regarded as a general …
This week’s term: Imputation – The act of imputing or crediting to one’s account. It carries three basic senses in the Bible: The sin of Adam being credited or imputed to all offspring. The sin of the elect of Adam’s fallen race being imputed to Christ. The righteousness of Christ being imputed to the believer …
This week’s term: Substitution – One thing placed for, or in the stead of, another: Christ, putting Himself in our place to suffer the just vengeance of God upon sin, and standing in our stead before God, offering the righteousness which is required of us, but which we cannot ourselves offer. Last week’s term: Ransom – …
This week’s term: Ransom – Essentially the same as redemption; in fact, they are interchangeably translated from the Greek; to buy back, or to buy out of bondage. It is very akin to redemption and carries the idea of the price of a bond slave being paid by another, him thus being freed from his …
This week’s term: Redemption – To be purchased or bought back. It is a metaphorical term used in the New Testament to describe the release from the judicial bondage of sin, in which God’s elect inherently dwell. The Biblical idea of redemption carries a view which precludes the possibility of anyone who enjoys this redemption …
This week’s term: Reconciliation – The effect of atonement. Essentially, reconciliation is propitiation or atonement in the New Testament sense. That is to say, by the death of Christ we are reconciled to, and at peace with God. Note: The same Greek word is rendered atonement and reconciliation, which is most often true in the …
This week’s term: Propitiation – Essentially the same as atonement: covering, not in the sense of hiding, but in the sense of cancellation, as in mathematical or financial reconciliation. Last week’s term: Atonement – The work of God in washing away the sins of His elect, by the offering of Himself in the person of Jesus …
This week’s term: Atonement – The work of God in washing away the sins of His elect, by the offering of Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, thus, making them at-one with Himself, or making peace between God and His elect. Last week’s term: Prevenient Grace – Originally an Arminian (semi-*Pelagian) doctrine claiming a grace …
This week’s term: Prevenient Grace – Originally an Arminian (semi-*Pelagian) doctrine claiming a grace bestowed upon our depraved nature, which allowed us to cooperate with God in our salvation. They held that such a grace was demanded by divine justice. Wesley modified the theory, attempting to remove some of the Pelagian philosophy, yet it remained heresy, …
I squinted in the sunlight, holding my hand over my eyes as we wound our way up the gravel driveway to our trailer in West Virginia. I was in the passenger seat of a utility van, Terry was driving, and Patrick Woods, we all called him “Popeye” because he looked kinda like Popeye the cartoon, …
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