Test 6 Flashcards
Amanuensis
Scribe taking dictation from another person
Amillennial
No literal thousand year reign of Christ
Antichrist
The one who denies the Father and Son
Apocalypse
Reports things formerly hidden or secret
Aposta y
Believers drifting away from the gospel or perverting it
Boanerges
Name for James and John meaning Sons of Thunder
Chiliasm
Christ would establish a thousand year reign in earth
Chosen Lady
Dorm of address by John which perhaps denotes a church
Covenant
Promise or agreement
Diotrephes
Proud selfish inhospitable ambitious leader who disliked John
Discipline
May be accomplished by suffering
Domitian
Worshipped as a God and persecuted Christian’s intensely
Gaius
Johns dear friend to who third john is address
Hebrews
Distinct from Hellenists they were devout and didn’t speak Greek
Heresy
Teaching contrary to the rule of faith
Holiness
A way of life essential to seeing God
Homiletic midrash
Exposition of underlying significance of a Bible text
Invective rhetoric
Arguments characterized by verbal abuse and insults
Melchizedek
Key figure in Hebrews
Millennium
Reign of Christ for a thousand years
Origen
A third century Christian scholar
Patmos
Island where John was exiled when he wrote Revelation
Platonic thought
Ideas are real but material elements are nonreal and shadowy
Postmillennial
The age of the church is the millennium
Pre-Gnosticism
Influenced by Greek philosophy seeing spirit as trapped in the body
Premillennial
Second coming will be followed by the millennium
Qumran
Essene community where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found
Resident aliens
Strangers or non citizens living in a foreign land
Salome
Mother of the apostle John
Sarx
The flesh meaning desires of the body