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Saturday, December 02, 2023

In other words, some isms

  • Adoptionism, noun. A (heretical) theological teaching within Christianity that holds that Jesus Christ was essentially nondivine, but that he was adopted by God the Father (e.g., at his birth, or at his baptism).
  • Bibliophilism, or Bibliophilia noun. The love of books.
  • Complementarianism, noun. The religious view that men and women are equal in value before God but that their God-given roles in the family and the church are distinct (e.g., that some governing and teaching roles in the church are reserved only for men).
  • Credentialism, noun. Undue emphasis on credentials (such as college degrees) as prerequisites to employment or promotion; Excessive trusting credentials in deciding what is correct or incorrect.
  • Egalitarianism, noun. The religious view that men and women are equal before God and that any and all the functions and roles in the church are open to men and women alike.
  • Exorcism, noun. The religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons and/or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person or place.
  • Experientialism, or experimentalism, noun. The doctrine or teaching that all our knowledge has its origin in experience, and must submit to the test of experience; the practice of relying on experimentation empiricism, or empirical evidence.
  • Mormonism, noun. A religion that originated with Joseph Smith in the United States in the 19th century, with teachings based on the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price; more formally known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
  • Open theism, noun. A movement that denies the historic Christian view of God’s omniscience; a teaching that God does not know the future exhaustively, because he cannot know for certain the choices and actions of free moral agents.
  • Pacificism, noun. The belief or teaching that peaceful relations should govern human intercourse and that methods such as arbitration, surrender, or migration should be used to resolve disputes; the rejection of all forms of warfare.
  • Presentism, noun. Interpreting the past or past phenomena in terms of current attitudes and experience; the belief that only current phenomena are relevant.
  • Presuppositionalism, or presuppositional apologetics, noun. An approach to apologetics that starts with the foundational axioms of the existence of God and his divine revelation given in Scripture.
  • Schism, noun. A separation or division into factions; in Christianity, a formal breach of union within a religious body.
  • Unitarianism, noun. A theological view that there is only one God (that is, as opposed to a Trinity) and that Jesus Christ was not divine, at least not in any literal sense.
  • Yahwehism, noun. The modern movement to replace Jehovah as the name of God with Yahweh as the name of God.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Brother
You do a good amount of interesting studies on this site.
I wanted to put in a request. It would be nice to see a clear
explanation of the modern move to change Jehovah to Yahwah.
Something simple enough a commoner could understand, not to
heavy into the Hebrew, which is a very difficult language.

Or maybe a link to someone who has already done this.
Lord Bless!
Jim

R. L. Vaughn said...

Hi, Jim,

Thanks for reading, as well as your comments and request.

I will see if I can do some research and maybe later post something on the the modern move to change Jehovah to Yahweh. This is something I don't like, but not something I know that much about, as far as reasons and motivations for doing so. And some of the little bit I have read is often complicated and confusing to me. Or, if I find a link to someone who has already done this work, I will post it.

Take care and God bless.

Anonymous said...

Hello,

T. Strouse has an article on it here:

http://www.bbc-cromwell.org/articles.shtml

Warmly,

J. Grassi
https://commonwealthbronx.org/

R. L. Vaughn said...

Brother Grassi,

Thanks so much for point out Brother Strouse's article on the new use of Yahweh. It looks like it will be very helpful.

I will put it in a links post next time I do one, and perhaps Jim will see it here before then.

Thanks again, and God bless.