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EPISTEMOLOGY (KNOWING)

Apostasy

Active rejection, desertion or revolt of previous belief.

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Apostate

A person that forsakes previous belief.

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Apperception, (Law of)

The law of apperception states that all learning is the association of new information with previously acquired knowledge or skill.  This universal learning technique takes place when previous knowledge and experience foundation is built upon with new learning.  Prerequisite skills must be mastered then linked to information from their minds to new information that is presented.

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Discipline

Instruction (direction that is often verbal, sometimes harsh and corrective), Inspiration (aggressively and simultaneously convicting and encouraging) and Intervention (corrects and restores both verbally and physically) are the three components to discipline functions directed by leaders.

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Hypothesis

A proposed unverified law (See Theory)
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Training

A prerequisite preparation stage of learning. It is facilitated primarily with the exercise of teacher-guided discipline which equips students with self-control and proper judgment to repeat new things taught.

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ESCHATOLOGY (LAST THINGS)

Amillennialism

The belief that there will be no literal thousand-year reign by Jesus Christ upon earth. This belief expresses the view that the millennium has already begun and is identical with the church age, with the final judgment of sinful mankind by Jesus Christ bringing to end the church age, and establishing a permanent physical reign. This belief regards the millennium as the time of the Church and connects the binding of Satan (Revelation 20:1-10) with the Lord Jesus Christ's past work. The concept of Rapture is not important in this belief. (Contrast Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Pretribulationism)
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Midtribulationism

The minority belief that faithful Christians will be raptured at a three and a half year midpoint during seven years of tribulation.
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Millennium

Literally a thousand years; also the name given to the era mentioned in Revelation 20:1-7.
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Montanism (New Prophecy)

An important Christian movement founded in the second half of the second century by a Phygian named Montanus. Montanus believed he was given a new revelation, which led to his appointment as leader of a church in the supposed final days before the return of Jesus Christ. His main disciples were two prophetesses named Prisca and Maximilla. The movement was called New Prophecy by the followers, and Montanism by the opponents. Ecstatic and wild demonstrations accompanied many of their prophetic expressions, but they did not preach any particular doctrines that were objected to by mainline Christians. Most of their prophecies were concerned with morality; they adhered to a strict and harsh way of life, and believed that post-baptismal sin could not be forgiven. The movement spread beyond Anatolia to Africa, where mystical rites were celebrated in secret, imitating the ecstatic trances of the prophetesses and resembling the pagan mystery religions. It remained in existence as a minor, secretive cult until the sixth century. (Hill, 64)

Reference:

Hill, Jonathan. "Early Christianity: A World Religion." Handbook to the History of Christianity. Zondervan, 2006.
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