Towns: Chapter IV
What is foretelling? prophesying, predicting future events p 182
What is forthtelling? a preacher to people
Why is it essential that Christ was born of a virgin? he would no be able to save himself because he would not be a sinless savior p 185; to have parents without a sin nature
What was Christ’s threefold office? prophet, priest, king p 180
What is the incarnation? "the word became flesh and dwelt among us" p 191; god took on human flesh p 191
What does the act of the kenosis as stated in Philippians 2 mean? made himself of no reputation; emptied himself; veiling his glory, accepting the limitations of human nature; voluntarily giving up the independent use of his comparative attributes p 191
"christ surrendered no attribute of deity but that he did voluntarily restrict their independent use in keeping with his purpose of living among men and their limitations p 192
What is hypostatic union? jesus is both god and man, the union of two distinct natures in one person, jesus christ the god man p 197-198
What does “temptability” mean? generally understood as the enticement of a person to commit sin by offering some seeming enticement p 208 to have an appeal
What does “impeccability” mean? christ could not and did not sin p 209
What is vicarious suffering? suffering endured by one person in the stead of another p 215
What is a vicar? a substitute, one who takes the place of the other and acts in his stead p 215
What does “redemption” mean? to be freed p 220 to buy back p 219
What does “propitiation” mean? the turning away of wrath by an offering p 220
How is every person a sinner on three counts? guilty of personal sin, imputed sin, sin nature p 224
What is the difference between judicial guilt and personal guilt? judicial: non experiential condition of the sinner who stands guilty before god (born in sin, has sin nature, personally commits sin); personal: experiential, how a sinner