This week’s term: Temptation of Christ – The truth that Jesus suffered all the objective assaults that Satan ever hurls upon any man, but that He, not being a fallen creature, was never subjectively tempted. That is to say, He never felt any impulse or inclination to yield to Satan’s invitations.  Last week’s term:  Self-Limitation …

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This week’s term: Hypostatical Union of Christ – Hypo (below) and static (substance). This deals with the inexplicable union of Jesus Christ’s two natures, which underlies the visible or tangible, in which the divine and human, (very God and very man) were fully united, yet not mixed together, being neither compoundable nor divisible. Nor was the …

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This week’s term: Sovereignty: (Communicable, but only in a very limited measure.) – The state or quality of being totally independent, unaccountable, and unquestionable. The right and ability to do all that one purposes, without outside approval or accountability.  Note: I grew up in a Baptist church that taught the sovereignty of God. In recent …

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This weeks’ term: Impeccability (Non-Communicable) – The quality of being unable to fail, err, or sin in any desire or action: not merely a state of perfection, but incapable of imperfection. Unable to sin, err, or fail in any way. Last week’s term: Immutability (Non-Communicable) – Never changing or varying; unchangeable; the state of being beyond …

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