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Adoration

Adoration is the experience of worship, honor, and homage to a religious person or item.  Adoration is often expressed in prostration (physically lowering one’s body), heartfelt worship, and an attitude of high regard for the person or thing that is being...

Adultery

Adultery is when a married person has illicit sexual relations with someone who is not that person’s spouse.  It is a breaking of the marriage covenant and is a great sin.  Adultery is forbidden in the 10 Commandments (Exo. 20:14; Deut. 5:18; Lev. 18:20).  In...

Advent

Advent:  from the Latin, “coming.”  Advent means the coming of or the arrival of something very important as in the advent of Christ’s return. Advent is also a Christian time of preparation preceding Christmas.

Advocate

An advocate is someone who pleads the case or the cause of another person or persons–usually in a judicial court. The Greek word is παράκλητος, paraklatos, and occurs five times in the New Testament: John 14:16, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you...

Aesthetics

Aesthetics deals with conceptual issues, such as beauty, ugliness, art, etc.

Age of Accountability

The age of accountability is the idea that there is an age where an individual becomes responsible for being able to distinguish between right and wrong.  There is no biblical statement concerning this.  Nevertheless, children are all under the Fall of Adam.  Rom....

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is a philosophical position that the existence of God is not knowable. The word “agnosticism” comes from the Greek, a meaning without, and gnosis, meaning knowledge. It literally means “without knowledge” but is usually applied to the topic of...

Albigenses

Albigenses was a heresy during the Middle Ages that developed in the town Albi in Southern France. This error taught that there were two gods: the good god of light usually referred to as Jesus in the New Testament and the god of darkness and evil usually associated...

Allele

An allele is a different form of a gene that is located in a specific place on a chromosome that controls a specific trait and is responsible for genetic variation. Alleles are inherited from parents, two per gene, one from each parent. Therefore, an allele is one of...

Alms

Alms are charitable gifts given to the poor, usually in the form of money, food, or clothing. In the New Testament, Alms are often mentioned as an act of worship.