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Hexapla A work (now lost) of over 50 volumes written by Origen of Alexandria, in which he made a word-by-word comparison of various Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament |
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Hume Scottish skeptic philosopher who believed that our emotions, desires and mental categories always influence our thinking |
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Illumination The Holy Spirit’s work of conveying a proper understanding of Scripture to a human being |
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Immutable When referring to God, it means He does not change in His being, perfection, and purposes. |
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Inauguration In speaking of eschatology and the kingdom of God, this term is used to refer to Christ's first coming and to the ministries of His apostles and prophets. |
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Inspiration Theological term used to refer to the way in which the Holy Spirit moved human beings to write God’s revelation as Scripture and superintended their work in a way that made their writings infallible |
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Kant Philosopher who proposed that all knowledge involves both objective perception and subjective processing through our mental concepts that already exist in our minds |
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Mechanical View of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit essentially dictated the Bible and that the human writers passively recorded what He said |
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Morpheme The smallest unit of meaning in linguistics, a small feature of words that indicates things like singular and plural and verb tenses |
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Moses Man with whom God made a covenant, in which He codified the law to guide Israel, and through whom He established Israel and moved them to spread His kingdom throughout the earth. |
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