Wouldn’t the kingdom of God be important to understand if you want to be a part of it? Here you can learn the characteristics of God’s kingdom and what it means to be a part of it. Traditional Legal Model – the reign of God on Earth. God’s rule over His people. Those who do […]
Note: this Glossary page is also part 12 of the Cleansing of the Sanctuary series. Traditional Legal Model – a legal account of every sin a person has committed and whether it has been pardoned or not to be used as the basis for judgment (Rev 20:12). “Better remember and confess every sin.” Biblical Healing […]
Traditional Legal Model – God condemns and has negative feelings towards sinners and will impose punishment on them if they don’t make things right. Biblical Healing Model – God does not condemn or have negative feelings towards sinners. His focus and efforts are always to heal and restore. A Modern Definition Condemnation (noun) the act […]
Wrath and anger, as the Bible uses them, are especially important words to understand correctly. Note that this is an especially-long definition page but a very important term to understand. Traditional Legal Model – God’s outrage at the wrong done to Him; at how He has been treated. It is directed towards the one who has […]
Traditional Legal Model – To be hardened is understood to be an individual’s action of resisting or refusing truth. Biblical Healing Model – The meaning is the same but the word is included in the glossary to clearly distinguish who is responsible for the hardening. From a Modern Dictionary: Hardened (adjective) made or become hard […]
Traditional Legal Model – judgment is the legal determination of guilt or innocence and pronouncement of arbitrarily-imposed punishment to match the crime which is understood to be death in every case of unconfessed sin – “The wages of sin is death…” (Rom 6:23) Biblical Healing Model – Judgment is not so much legal as it […]
Love is defined in a practical way by the life and words of Jesus Who came to show the true meaning of “God is love” (1 John 4:8). From the perspective of the two models of the gospel, the “definitions” below point out the major difference in how God’s love functions toward sinners. Traditional Legal […]