Vocab List 1

Question 1

accommodate (v.)

Answer 1

to adjust one thing to another

Question 2

apologetic (n.)

Answer 2

a presentation of reasons for believing the Christian faith

Question 3

assimilate (n.)

Answer 3

to become part of a country or community rather than remaining in a separate group

Question 4

communion (n.)

Answer 4

a state of sharing or exchanging thoughts and feelings

Question 5

covenant (n.) covenantal (adj.)

Answer 5

“an agreement between two parties, the obligations of which are mutually binding” (Cairns, 112)

Question 6

exhaustively (adv.)

Answer 6

in a manner covering all possibilities

Question 7

hermeneutical (adj.)

Answer 7

relating to the “science of Bible interpretation” (Cairns, 207)

Question 8

imperative (adj.)

Answer 8

necessary, inevitable

Question 9

integral (adj.)

Answer 9

being an essential part of something

Question 10

omnipotent (adj.)

Answer 10

of or related to “the all-powerfulness of God, His unlimited ability to act according to His own perfect will” (Cairns, 313)

Question 11

originate (v.) origin (n.)

Answer 11

to begin

Question 12

persist (v.)

Answer 12

to continue to exist

Question 13

presuppose (v.) presupposition (n.)

Answer 13

to assume as a first principle that goes before a viewpoint

Question 14

reconciliation (n.)

Answer 14

the act of being restored to fellowship or harmony

Question 15

redeeming (adj.)

redeem (v.)

Answer 15

of or related to “the deliverance of God’s elect from a state of sin into a state of salvation by the means and merit of the ransom paid by Christ on their behalf” (Cairns, 371)

Question 16

retain (v.)

Answer 16

to continue to have or use

Question 17

reveal (v.)

revelation (n.)

Answer 17

to make known

Question 18

sanctification (n.)

Answer 18

“Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness” (Shaw, quoted in Cairns, 397)

Question 19

scope (n.)

Answer 19

a general range or extent

Question 20

stable (adj.)

Answer 20

fixed; not changing

Question 21

Trinitarian (adj.)

Answer 21

of or related to “the self-revelation of God in Scripture that His indivisible, personal essence exists eternally and necessarily as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that these three are not merely nominal distinctions but personal subsistences in the divine essence” (Cairns, 494)