Main Glossary
Words matter! Know the meanings of the words you speak, write, preach and teach to perfectly accomplish the things the LORD God wills.
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PrelapsarianismThe 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 | ||
PremiseA 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. | ||
PresuppositionA self-evident truth. Attitudes that form an assumption of belief. | ||
PretribulationismThe 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) | ||
PrimitivismThe 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 | ||
ProletariatExploited 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. | ||
PublicanBackslidden Jewish businessman | ||
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QuaranAlso known as the Koran. It is the sacred book of the Muslims filled with revelations purported to be given to the prophet Muhammad by God to form the foundation for Islam. | ||