Thursday, 28 March 2024, 1:19 PM
Site: Becker Bible Teacher Resources
Course: Becker Bible Teacher Resources (Scholar)
Glossary: Main Glossary
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Prayer

Dialogue and communion with the LORD God through a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ which leads to the fulfillment of His Will.

Prelapsarianism

The belief expressed by Theodore Beza and followers that the LORD God planned the division of the saved and damned of humanity before humanity first sinned

Premillennialism

The belief that there will be a seven-year period of great tribulation before the 1,000 year of earthly reign of peace by Jesus Christ. This belief maintains that the current age of mankind exists prior to the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon earth, which is after the Battle of Armageddon (where Jesus Christ and His armies from Heaven defeat the kings, beast, and false prophet). The Millennium is considered the period between the second coming of Christ and the last judgment. Jesus Christ is expected to return to establish a literal kingdom on earth to fulfill prophesy in the Old Testament; the promised rapture is a significant issue in this belief.
(Contrast Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, Pretribulationism)

Premise

A statement that is offered in support of the claim that is made. That claim is a conclusion from a statement that may be true or false.

Presupposition

A self-evident truth. Attitudes that form an assumption of belief.

Pretribulationism

The belief that Christians will be raptured before the beginning of the seven years of tribulation brought to the world prior to the Battle of Armageddon and the resulting 1,000 year earthly reign by Jesus Christ. The events that follow rapture are thought to be a time when ethnic Israel is brought to the Lord Jesus Christ.This view was introduced to the modern church by John Nelson Darby from is dispensationalism views.(Contrast Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, Premillennialism)

Primitivism

The belief those less technologically dependent cultures are inherently better than more technologically dependent ones

Prolegomena

"To go before" comes first in study and gives direction to the formation one's presupposition of belief

Proletariat

Exploited class containing the mass of workers who do not own the means of production. Karl Marx believed that conflict between the Bourgeoisie (capitalists) and Proletariat (workers) was the key to social change.

Publican

Backslidden Jewish businessman