GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  1. ADJUSTMENTS TO GOD: There are three adjustments to the Plan of God: the Salvation adjustment, the Rebound adjustment, and the Maturity adjustment.
  2. ANGELIC CONFLICT: The conflict between positive volition and negative volition and its resolution.
  3. ANTEDILUVIAN: The period before Noah's Flood.
  4. ANTHROPOLOGY: Study of man in Scripture.
  5. ANTHROPOMORPHISM: The ascription to God of human anatomy such as hands, arms, eyes, etc.
  6. ANTHROPOPATHISM: The ascription to God of human emotions and feelings.
  7. BEMA SEAT: Greek noun (bh/ma, bema) for the Judgment Seat of Christ immediately following the Rapture for the purpose of evaluating the believer's works.
  8. BIBLE DOCTRINE (BD): The realm of truth revealed in the Bible.
  9. BRAIN COMPUTER: The biochemical human brain processes as distinguished from the immaterial soul energy.
  10. CANONICITY: Determination of which books are Scripture.
  11. CHRISTOLOGY: Study of the Person of Christ.
  12. CHPs: Common human problems we are all tested by.
  13. DIRECTIVE WILL: What God requires to be adjusted to His Plan.
  14. DISPENSATION: One of four periods of history administered according to God's will.
  15. DIVINE ESSENCE: The divine attributes of God who is immaterial, invisible and yet real. They include: Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, and Veracity.
  16. DIVINE VIEWPOINT: God's thoughts and wisdom versus man's.
  17. ESCHATOLOGY: Study of prophecy of the end times.
  18. EXEGESIS: Analysis of the Scripture from the original languages.
  19. FAITH REST: Trusting in God and His promises.
  20. FIFTH CYCLE: Death of a nation accomplished by God for unrepentant evil.
  21. FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: The immediate result of the confession of personal sin (1 John 1:9).
  22. GRACE APPARATUS FOR PERCEPTION: All that God provides so that positive volition can assimilate the entire realm of Bible Doctrine.
  23. HAMARTIALOGY: Study of all aspects of sin.
  24. HERMENEUTICS: The science of Biblical interpretation.
  25. HUMAN VIEWPOINT: Thinking and wisdom that finds its source in Satan and fallen man.
  26. HYPOSTATIC UNION: The union of the divine nature with the humanity of Jesus constituting the God-Man.
  27. ISAGOGICS: The study of the historical and cultural background to the text of Scripture.
  28. KENOSIS: The doctrine related to Jesus Christ's refusal to exercise the attributes of His deity to benefit His humanity during the period of His incarnation.
  29. LIVING GRACE: All that God supplies to sustain a believer's physical life.
  30. LUPE: Greek noun (lu,ph, lupe) meaning sorrow. Sorrow in the life of the believer.
  31. MARANATHA: Aramaic prayer meaning "Lord come!", found in 1 Corinthians 16:22.
  32. MILLENNIUM: The 1000 year reign of Christ following the Second Coming.
  33. MOST PRESSING RESPONSIBILITY: Believer's first priority. Assembly under face-to-face teaching in a local church.
  34. NEGATIVE VOLITION: Volition that is antagonistic to or indifferent to the Directive Will.
  35. NEW YOU: The inner man of Bible Doctrine.
  36. OLD SIN NATURE or OLD YOU: Human motivation or point of view that results in sin or human good.
  37. OVERRULING WILL: When God intervenes and stops a particular activity, as in the flood.
  38. PERMISSIVE WILL: What God permits.
  39. PHASE 1: (Ph1) Salvation.
  40. PHASE 2: (Ph2) From salvation to physical death.
  41. PHASE 3: (Ph3) The believer's eternal niche. Heaven.
  42. POSITIONAL TRUTH/SANCTIFICATION: Doctrine related to the believer's union with Christ.
  43. POSITIVE VOLITION: The will of man that seeks and desires to know God's Plan.
  44. POSTDELUVIAN: History since the Flood.
  45. RAPTURE: The resurrection of Church Age believers ending the present dispensation.
  46. REAL YOU: The soul.
  47. REBOUND: Confession of personal sins leading to restoration of fellowship (1 John 1:9).
  48. REVERSIONISM: The condition of being maladjusted to the Directive Will of God leading to divine discipline, the sin unto death, and loss of eternal rewards.
  49. SEPTUAGINT: The Greek Old Testament.
  50. STA: Sinful Trend of Adam. A synonym for Old Sin Nature.
  51. SIN UNTO DEATH: The removal of a believer from time for reversionism.
  52. SOTERIOLOGY: Study of the doctrines related to Salvation.
  53. SURPASSING GRACE: The special rewards awaiting believers in Ph3 for application of doctrine in Ph2.
  54. SYNOPTICS: The books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
  55. TRIBULATION: The seven-year period between the Rapture and the Second Advent.
  56. VERBAL PLENARY INSPIRATION: Asserts that inspiration extends to the very words of the original manuscripts of the Bible.

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