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Vocabulary for Lesson 4 (Vocab Quiz/Test 2a)
Write each bold word in the Vocabulary section of your notebook with room for a 2-3 line definition.
- God the Father
- The first person of the Holy Trinity to whom we
ascribe the work of creation, whose nature is love, and who, together with the
Son and the Holy Spirit, is one God, almighty and eternal.
- I AM
- The name God gave Himself at the burning bush, that shows Him to be the only true God of salvation
and the One who had called Abraham to faith.
- Lord
- The name for God which indicates that He has saved me and has dominion over me and all things.
It is the name often used of Jesus in the New Testament and to translate the name “I AM” from the Old Testament.
To address God by this name is to confess, “You are my God, I belong to you.”
- God's Attributes (The language that Scripture and the Church use in describing God:)
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- omnipotent
- “almighty, all-powerful”
- benevolent
- “good, kind, desiring our welfare”
- faithful
- “keeping promises”
- eternal
- “without beginning and without end”
- just
- “fair and impartial”
- gracious
- “showing undeserved kindness, forgiving”
- immutable
- “unchangeable”
- omniscient
- “all-knowing”
- holy
- “sinless and hating sin” or set apart
- omnipresent
- “present everywhere” or ubiquitous
- compassionate
- “full of pity”
- love
- grace
- The “fatherly, divine goodness and mercy” of God.
His gracious favor and undeserved love. It moved Him to create us out of
nothing and to save us while we were still sinners, and it still moves Him
today to provide us with “daily bread” and to give us the gifts of salvation
for Jesus’ sake.
- the creation
- All that God made out of nothing and which He alone sustains.
- God's providence
- The gracious activty of God by which He preserves, upholds, directs, and governs His creation.
- the image of God
- The gracious self-giving authority that God gave to man to have dominion over the creation,
and to be fruitful and multiply.
- The Creed
- The church’s unchanging, public, and universal confession of faith that is drawn from the Word of God.
It is the third of the five great songs of the Divine Service. Its very name means “I believe.”
- catholic
- This word means the one faith confessed in all times and in all places.
It is used to describe the one, holy, apostolic church, and also the true Christian faith.
Unfortunately, it has become a synonym for the Roman Catholic Church.
- the Apostles' Creed
- The ancient creed, usually associated with Holy Baptism, teaching the faith to children,
and the daily prayer life of Christians, which confesses the historic Christian and apostolic faith in simple language.