Sovereignty of God: the power God has to do whatever He chooses without restrictions or any 

necessary cause outside of Himself, His own character, and His purposes. He is totally in control 

but it does not mean He manipulates everything that happens or people’s choices. A simple 

summary is that God is never threatened, never surprised, and never at a loss for what to do or 

the ability to do it. 

 

Theology—systematic, Biblical, and others like practical or historical: the study of the truths 

that God wants to communicate with humanity through the Scriptures, organized in ways we can 

relate to. Systematic theology organizes the truths by our questions and philosophical categories. 

Biblical theology is a technical term in the field of Biblical studies for the study of the messages 

of the Bible writers in their own terms and context and then in the context of the messages of the 

other writers in the whole of the canon. Biblical theology is the conclusion of good exegesis* 

and the basis of good systematic theology, all of which are the basis of practical theology. 

Historical theology is basically the history of systematic theology or the teachings and 

theological issues of the church through its history. 

 

Sanctification: in Protestant theology, the subject of the working of God in the life of a 

Christian after salvation/justification*, making them more like Christ.

 

Prophetic: passages of the Scripture by prophets, especially those predicting future events OR it 

is often used in a general sense of some ministry that functions the way the one using the word 

understands the biblical purpose and ministry of a prophet to be, usually involving challenging 

authorities or cultures with God’s standards.

 

Pentecostal: an Evangelical*, holiness, healing, premillennial*, missionary, back-to-the-Bible, 

movement of Christians, beginning around 1900, of which the Assemblies of God is the largest 

denomination. Pentecostals believe God wants to baptize Christians in the Holy Spirit for the 

purpose of being His witnesses to the ends of the earth, with the accompanying outward sign of 

speaking in tongues, according to Acts 2. Pentecostals believe God wants to continue to work 

miraculously among His people and wants all His people to prophesy and be used in the other 

gifts of the Spirit, listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14, in their worship assemblies. They believe 

that physical and emotional expressions should be encouraged in worship. 

 

The Eucharist: the Lord’s Supper, Communion.

 

The exodus: the deliverance of the 12 tribes of Israel, under the leadership of Moses, from 

slavery in Egypt, by God, through the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. It is the great salvation 

event in their history, recorded in the book of Exodus.

 

Soteriology is the study of the doctrine of salvation. It is derived from the Greek word soterious which means salvation. Some of the subjects of soteriology are the atonement, imputation, and regeneration.

 

 

The soul is the immaterial part of a person from which flow the actions, thoughts, desires, reasoning, etc.  It is separate from the physical body.  It is the part of the person that makes a person what he is, alive, aware, able, etc.  It is the essence of personhood.  Biblical theology teaches that the soul is separate from the body and can exist independently of it (2 Corinthians 5:8).

We are to love the Lord our God with our souls (Deuteronomy 6:5; Matthew 22:37).  Our souls are alive (1 Samuel 25:26; 1 Corinthians 15:45), can despair (Deuteronomy 28:65), feel pain (Lamentations 3:51), be annoyed (Judges 16:16), grieved (1 Samuel 2:33; Isaiah 19:10), be bitter (Isaiah 38:15), scorn (Ezekiel 36:5), desire (1 Samuel 23:20), hate (2 Samuel 5:8), can love (Song 3:1,3), be troubled (2 Kings 4:27), can be redeemed (Job 33:28), be dismayed (Psalm 6:3), can hate (Psalm 11:5), can praise (Psalm 30:12), rejoice (Psalm 35:9 7), can desire evil (Proverbs 21:10), be weary (Proverbs 25:25), etc.

 

To be saved means that a person has been delivered from the righteous judgment of God.  A person who “is saved” is a Christian.  A person cannot be a Christian and not be “saved." We are not saved from ourselves.  We are saved from the righteous judgment of God.

 

The word savior means someone who saves a person or persons from something else, usually that which is harmful to them.  In the context of Christianity, Jesus is the Savior.  This means that he saves us from the righteous wrath of God the Father upon all who have sinned against him.  Sin is breaking the law of God (1 John 3:4).  The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) and separation from God (Isaiah 59:2).  Therefore, Jesus is the savior who saves us from eternal damnation.

 

 

Sin is anything that is contrary to the law or will of God. For example: if you lie, you have sinned. Why? Because God has said not to lie (Exodus 20:16). If you do what God has forbidden, then you have sinned. In addition, if you do not do what God has commanded, you sin (James 4:17). Either way, the result is eternal separation from God (Isaiah 59:2). Sin is lawlessness (1 John 1:3) and unrighteousness (1 John 5:17). Sin leads to bondage (Rom. 6:14-20) and death (Rom. 6:23).

Paul, in the book of Romans, discusses sin. He shows that everyone, both Jew and Greek, is under sin (Rom. 3:9). He shows that sin is not simply something that is done but a condition of the heart (Rom. 3:10-12). In Ephesians Paul says that we are "by nature children of wrath" (Eph. 2:3). Yet, "while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." (Rom. 5:6)