Glossary

The following definitions are taken from https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Abase
- to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem

Abhorrence
- a: the act or state of abhorring or despising something or someone
- b: a feeling of strong repugnance or disgust : LOATHING
an abhorrence of war

Abide
- a: to bear patiently : TOLERATE
cannot abide such bigots
- b: to endure without yielding : WITHSTAND
abide the onrush of the enemy

Abode
- the place where one lives : HOME

Abominable
- worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : DETESTABLE

Abomination
- something regarded with disgust or hatred : something abominable

Abyss
- an immeasurably deep gulf or great space

Admonition
- gentle or friendly reproof

Adultery
- voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person's current spouse or partner

Advent
- the coming of Christ at the Incarnation

Advocate
- one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal

Agnostic
- a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable

Alienated
- feeling withdrawn or separated from others or from society as a whole

Almighty
- having absolute power over all

Amen
- used to express solemn ratification (as of an expression of faith) or hearty approval (as of an assertion)

Annihilated
- to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains

Anoint
- 1: to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance
- 2 a: to apply oil to as part of a religious ceremony
- b: to choose by or as if by divine election

Antichrist
- one who denies or opposes Christ, specifically: a great antagonist expected to fill the world with wickedness but to be conquered forever by Christ at his second coming

Apologetics
- 1: systematic argumentative discourse (see DISCOURSE entry 1 sense 2a) in defense (as of a doctrine)
- 2: a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity

Apostasy
- 1: an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith
- 2: abandonment of a previous loyalty : DEFECTION

Apostle
- one sent on a mission: such as one of an authoritative New Testament group sent out to preach the gospel and made up especially of Christ's 12 original disciples and Paul

Archangel
- a chief angel

Assured / Assurance
- characterized by certainty or security : GUARANTEED

Atheist
- a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism

Atheism
- a: a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods
- b: a philosophical or religious position characterized by disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods

Atonement
- 1: reparation for an offense or injury : SATISFACTION
- 2: the reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ

Atone / Atoning
- to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome

Baptism
- a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community

Begotten
- brought into existence by or as if by a parent

Bestow
- to put to use : APPLY

Betrothed
- engaged to be married

Blaspheme / Blasphemy
- to speak in a way that shows irreverence for God or something sacred : to utter blasphemy

Brimstone
- sulfur

Cherub
- cherubim plural : an order of angels

Condemn
- to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil usually after weighing evidence and without reservation

Confess
- to tell or make known (something, such as something wrong or damaging to oneself) : ADMIT

Corrupt
- to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions

Covenant
- 1: a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement
- 2: a written agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action

Covet
- 1: to wish for earnestly
- 2: to desire (what belongs to another) inordinately or culpably

Crucify / Crucified
- to put to death by nailing or binding the wrists or hands and feet to a cross

Decree
- an order usually having the force of law

Defile
- a: to corrupt the purity or perfection of : DEBASE
- b: to violate the chastity or virginity of : DEFLOWER
- c: to make physically unclean especially with something unpleasant or contaminating

Deity
- 1a: the rank or essential nature of a god : DIVINITY
- b capitalized : GOD sense 1, SUPREME BEING
- 2: a god (see GOD entry 1 sense 2) or goddess
- 3: one exalted or revered as supremely good or powerful

Demon
- a: an evil spirit
- b: a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin

Dependent
- determined or conditioned by another

Disciple
- one who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrines of another: such as Christianity : one of the twelve in the inner circle of Christ's followers according to the Gospel accounts

Disobedience
- refusal or neglect to obey

Divine
- of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God

Doctrine
- a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief

Enmity
- positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will

Eternal
- having infinite duration : EVERLASTING

Evangelical
- of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Christian gospel especially as it is presented in the four Gospels

Evangelism
- the winning or revival of personal commitments to Christ

Faith
- belief and trust in and loyalty to God

Fallen
- to drop oneself to a lower position

Fellowship
- community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience

Forbearance
- a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due

Forbid
- to proscribe from or as if from the position of one in authority : command against

Fornication
- consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

Forsake
- to renounce or turn away from entirely

Glory
- a: praise, honor, or distinction extended by common consent : RENOWN
- b: worshipful praise, honor, and thanksgiving

Godhead
- divine nature or essence
- the nature of God especially as existing in three persons

Grace
- a: unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification
- b: a virtue coming from God
- c: a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance

Heresy
- adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma

Idiom
- an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided")

Idol
- a representation or symbol of an object of worship
- broadly: a false god

Inerrant
- free from error

Infallible
1: incapable of error: UNERRING
2: not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint: CERTAIN
3: incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals

Iniquity
- gross injustice: WICKEDNESS

Inspired
- outstanding or brilliant in a way or to a degree suggestive of divine inspiration

Inspiration
- a divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation

Judgment
- the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing

Justification
- the act or an instance of justifying something : VINDICATION
- to judge, regard, or treat as righteous and worthy of salvation

Lawless
- not restrained or controlled by law : UNRULY

Monergism
- the theological doctrine that regeneration is exclusively the work of the Holy Spirit

Netherworld
- the world of the dead

Offense
- something that outrages the moral or physical senses

Oracle
- a person through whom a deity is believed to speak

Ordinance
- an authoritative decree or direction : ORDER
- something ordained or decreed by fate or a deity

Predestined
- to destine, decree, determine, appoint, or settle beforehand

Predestinate
- to foreordain to an earthly or eternal lot or destiny by divine decree

Perish
- to become destroyed or ruined

Propitiation
- the act of gaining or regaining the favor or goodwill of someone or something : the act of propitiating : APPEASEMENT

Reconciled
- to restore to friendship or harmony

Redeem
- a: to buy back: REPURCHASE
- b: to get or win back

Regenerate
- 1: formed or created again
- 2: spiritually reborn or converted
- 3: restored to a better, higher, or more worthy state

Repent
- 1: to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life
- 2a: to feel regret or contrition
- b: to change one's mind

Resurrect
- to raise from the dead

Righteous
- acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin

Sabbath
- the seventh day of the week observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening as a day of rest and worship by Jews and some Christians

Salvation
- deliverance from the power and effects of sin

Sanctify
- 1: to set apart to a sacred purpose or to religious use: CONSECRATE
- 2: to free from sin: PURIFY

Seraphim
an order of angels

Sin
- transgression of the law of God

Romans 14:23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Soul
- the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life

Sovereignty
- freedom from external control : AUTONOMY

Transfiguration
- a: a change in form or appearance : METAMORPHOSIS
- b: an exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change

Transgression
- infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty

Trinity
- the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead according to Christian dogma

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