Topical Index

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• 501(c)(3) see also Clericalism, Ecclesiology
  • institutional trappings rejected

A

• Aaron Chapter 28 see also Golden calf, Moses
• Abba, Father Appendix A1 see also Adoption, Assurance, Spirit of adoption
• Abomination of desolation see also Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70), Preterism, partial
  • fulfilled in AD 70 Appendix A6
• Abortion Chapter 14, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix B see also Birth control, Grace, Infant salvation
• Abraham Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix B see also Covenant of grace, Types and shadows
  • in the covenant of grace before the law Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Appendix A6
• Abrahamic covenant Chapter 8, Appendix B, Chapter 22 see also Circumcision, Covenant of grace, New covenant
• Absolute will of God Chapter 12, Chapter 12 see also Sovereignty of God
• Abstinence see also Christian liberty, Conscience, liberty of, Legalism
  • not a gospel requirement Chapter 21, Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Abuse, domestic see also Headship, Marriage
  • voids the claim to submission Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Accountability vs. responsibility see also Human responsibility, Reprobation
  • answerable but not duty-bound Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Appendix K, Chapter 23, Chapter 24
• Act and potency see also Aquinas, Thomas, Aristotle, Operational idealism
  • subsumed by operational idealism Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B
• Active obedience of Christ Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix I, Chapter 15, Chapter 20, Appendix A10 see also Imputation, Justification, Passive obedience of Christ, Righteousness of Christ
• Acts, book of see also Apostles, Conversion, House church
  • early church practice recorded accurately Chapter 9, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Appendix A10
• Adam Preface, Chapter 15, Chapter 17, Chapter 24, Appendix A4, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix B see also Fall, the, Federal headship, Image of God, Mutability, Original sin, Total depravity, Two seeds
  • authored to fall Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Appendix D
  • created with a sin nature, not righteous Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix I, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix C, Appendix A9
  • federal headship rejected Chapter 7, Chapter 25, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 11, Chapter 14, Appendix A3
• Addiction see also Firmware (metaphor), Means of grace, Sanctification
  • old firmware running a loop Appendix A11
• ADHD see also Autism, Body, authored, Neurodivergence
  • hardware variance, not sin Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Adiaphora see also Christian liberty, Liberty of conscience
  • matters where believers may differ Chapter 24, Appendix A8, Appendix A7
• Adoption Chapter 2, Chapter 19, Appendix E see also Assurance, Election, Fatherhood of God, Glorification, Justification, Perseverance of the saints, Prodigal son (parable), Providence, Resurrection body, Spirit of adoption, Union with Christ
  • the elect kept by the Father Appendix A2, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
  • predestined from eternity Chapter 7, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
  • the prodigal always a son Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 16, Chapter 20
  • redemption of the body awaited Chapter 27, Appendix A6
• Adultery of the heart Appendix A7 see also Lust, Masturbation
• Advance directives see also Conscience, Euthanasia
  • declining extraordinary means permitted Appendix A7
• Affections, regenerated see also Head and heart, Regeneration
  • God changes what you love Chapter 16, Appendix A4
• Age of the earth see also Apparent age, Genealogies, Young earth creationism
  • a rendering question, not substance Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Chapter 4, Appendix A1
• Agency, divine see also Foreknowledge of God, Monergism
  • runs from God to creature in salvation Appendix O
• Aging see also Death, Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Resurrection
  • increasing rendering constraints Appendix B
• Alexandrian school see also Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Platonism
  • fused Scripture with Middle Platonism Appendix N, Appendix N
• Allegorical interpretation see also Hermeneutics, Song of Solomon, Types and shadows
  • distinguished from typology Chapter 9, Chapter 26
• Already/not-yet see also Eschatology, Eternal justification, Glorification
  • experiential, not actual Chapter 15, Chapter 15
• Altar call see also Decisionism, Effectual calling, Sinner’s prayer
  • faith not generated by a decision Chapter 19, Appendix A1
• American evangelicalism see also Dispensationalism, Historicism
  • captured by dispensationalism Chapter 27
• Amillennialism Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix I see also Eschatology, Millennium, Preterism, partial, Revelation, book of
• Amos see also Authorship of evil, Problem of evil, Sovereignty of God
  • shall there be evil and the Lord not done it Chapter 13, Appendix N
• Amygdala see also Neuroscience and theology, Pre-propositional information
  • fires before the prefrontal cortex Preface, Appendix A12, Appendix I, Appendix E
• Anathema (Galatians 1) see also Another gospel, Judaizers
  • aimed at works-religion, not a brother Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix L, Appendix L
• Angel of the LORD see also Theophany
  • is God Himself, not a created angel Chapter 6, Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Angelology see also Aquinas, Thomas, Augustine of Hippo
  • hierarchical choirs as later systematization Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Angels see also Demons, Reprobation, Spirit world, Theophany
  • elect, created impeccable Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A1
  • spirits, non-physical renderings of thought Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A8, Appendix B
• Angels that sinned see also Demons, Satan
  • angelos as human messengers Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Animals see also Image of God
  • lack the application layer Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B
• Animals in the new creation see also New creation, Noahic covenant
  • the sleeping dog at the feast Appendix A1, Appendix L
• Annihilationism see also Authored persistence, Conditional immortality, Eternal conscious torment
  • rejected; the reprobate persists Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Anointing teaches the believer Chapter 20 see also Law written on the heart
• Another gospel see also Anathema (Galatians 1), Judaizers, Legalism
  • the Galatian curse is Christ-plus Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Anthropic principle see also Multiverse hypothesis
  • fine-tuning points to an Author Appendix A12
• Anthropology, theological see also Image of God, Platonism, Resurrection of the body, Soul
  • Christian, infected by Platonic dualism Appendix N, Appendix A4
  • the layered architecture of the soul Preface, Chapter 17, Appendix A4, Appendix B, Appendix J
• Antichrist see also Historicism, Roman Catholicism
  • many, identified with the papacy Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Anti-credentialism see also Self-taught theology, Sola Scriptura
  • no seminary, no degree Prologue, Preface, Preface, Appendix A12
• Anti-doctrinalism, charge of see also Doctrine as description
  • answered; doctrine describes the Savior Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Antilegomena see also Canon of Scripture, Homologoumena, James, Epistle of
  • disputed books distinction Chapter 12, Chapter 26, Chapter 21, Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Antinomianism see also Christian liberty, Law and gospel, Legalism
  • charge answered; the believer is dead to all law Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Appendix I, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix N
• Anxiety see also Foreknowledge of God, Providence, Suffering
  • all frames already authored Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Aorist tense see also Eternal justification, Golden chain (Romans 8:30)
  • the Author’s past tense Chapter 15, Chapter 15
• Apocalyptic literature see also Prophetic hyperbole, Revelation, book of
  • symbolic vision, not historical narrative Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Chapter 27
• Apollos see also Priscilla, Women in ministry
  • instructed by Priscilla and Aquila Chapter 24
• Apologetics see also Evangelism, Means of grace, Presuppositionalism, Regeneration, Simulation hypothesis
  • a bridge to the secular mind, not Bible-first How This Book Talks, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix J
  • clears the ground but cannot produce faith Prologue, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Afterword
• Apophatic vs. cataphatic see also Heaven, Personhood of God
  • a face, not only a frequency Afterword, Appendix I
• Apostasy see also Perseverance of the saints, Reprobation
  • the elect cannot finally fall away Chapter 25, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix L
• Apostles see also Inspiration of Scripture, Progressive rendering (metaphor)
  • low-resolution early understanding, not heresy Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 22, Chapter 26, Appendix A6
• Apostolic sign gifts see also Cessationism
  • authenticated the gospel; served the apostolic era Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Apparent age see also Age of the earth, Deception, divine, Young earth creationism
  • storytelling, not deception Chapter 4, Chapter 4, Appendix A1
• Appendices see also Derivation method, Glossary
  • the applied framework, as ongoing construction Preface, Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix I, Appendix O
• Application layer (metaphor) see also Conversion, Firmware (metaphor), Image of God, Metacognition, Total depravity
  • cannot override the firmware Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Chapter 15, Chapter 26, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix M
  • the conscious propositional mind How This Book Talks, Chapter 15, Chapter 25, Epilogue, Appendix M, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix E, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix I
• Aquinas, Thomas see also Act and potency, Aristotle, Classical theism, Scholasticism
  • imported Aristotle’s categories into theology Chapter 3, Appendix E, Appendix J, Chapter 13, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix I
• Argument from information see also Information theory, Intelligent design
  • no functional system from random processes Chapter 1
• Arianism Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Arius, Trinity
• Aristotle see also Aquinas, Thomas, Operational idealism
  • vocabulary of substance and essence Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Appendix I, Appendix J
• Arius Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Arianism
• Arminianism Preface, Chapter 26, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 27, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A12 see also Calvinism, Conditional salvation, Doctrines of grace, Free will, Human responsibility, Knowledge-Calvinist, Prevenient grace, Regeneration, Synergism, TULIP, Works-righteousness
  • adherents as brothers who rest in Christ alone Chapter 25, Chapter 30, Appendix L, Appendix M, Appendix N
  • as disguised works-salvation Chapter 7, Chapter 19
  • ordo salutis; faith before regeneration Chapter 15, Appendix E
• Arminianism in a TULIP sweatshirt see also Glorying in self, Knowledge-Calvinist, The Test
  • the creature’s performance made the test Chapter 30
• Artificial intelligence see also Election, Image of God, The sentence (metaphor)
  • a thought in the mind of God; personhood only if God authors it Chapter 27, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix B, Appendix J
• Ascension of Christ see also Exaltation of Christ, Resurrection, Session of Christ
  • a Man on the throne now Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 29, Afterword
• Asceticism see also Christian liberty, Platonism
  • refused by the framework Appendix A7, Appendix N
• Aseity see also Independence of God, Infinite regress
  • self-existent God needs no cause Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 18, Appendix A1, Appendix F, Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix O
• Assent without belief see also Cold orthodoxy, Faith
  • passing the exam without knowing the Teacher Appendix A4
• Assurance Preface, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A11 see also Author/story metaphor, Doubt, Empathy, Faith, Humility, Imputation, Justification, Knowledge-Calvinist, Love of God, Perseverance of the saints, Providence, Sealing of the Spirit, Who knows you (metaphor), Witness of the Spirit
  • the authored moment is intentional, not accidental Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A8, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
  • the danger of cold ontological certainty Chapter 2, Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Appendix L
  • grounded in the permanence of the firmware flash Chapter 25, Chapter 27, Appendix A2, Appendix A10
  • of the essence of faith (Westminster denial corrected) Chapter 21, Chapter 21
  • rests on Christ’s finished work, not on works or doctrinal completeness Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 14, Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix M
  • the right question is, does He know me Appendix O, Appendix O
• Atheism see also Materialism, No neutral ground, Pantheism
  • no Author at all; materialist presupposition Chapter 4, Chapter 6, Chapter 25, Afterword
• Athenagoras of Athens see also Eternal conscious torment, Immortality of the soul, Platonism
  • married Platonic soul-immortality to bodily resurrection Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Atonement see also Christus Victor, Covenant of redemption, Fall, the, Imputation, Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Limited atonement, Particular redemption, Penal substitution, Propitiation, Rendering (metaphor), Solus Christus
  • as shame-covering through blood (coats of skins) Appendix A6, Appendix A6
  • definite, for the elect only Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 12, Chapter 19, Appendix A3, Appendix I, Appendix K
  • a finished work no man can add to Appendix J, Appendix L
  • purposed in eternity, rendered on the cross Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Appendix A2, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix D, Appendix M
  • ransom-to-the-devil theory rejected Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix N
• Attributes of God see also Aseity, Holiness of God, Sovereignty of God
  • derived from the sentence Appendix A1
• Augustine of Hippo see also Neoplatonism, Perseverance of the saints, Platonism, Plotinus, Predestination, Sovereign grace
  • Neoplatonist who imported Plato’s axiom Chapter 1, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N
  • taught predestination yet a conditional system Chapter 8, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix F
• Authored persistence see also Annihilationism, Operational idealism, Reprobation
  • the reprobate persists by sustained authoring, not Platonic immortality Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A2
• Authority in the church see also Elders, Plural eldership, Titles and hierarchy
  • spiritual gift, not institutional office Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Authority of Scripture see also Canon of Scripture, Sola Scriptura
  • intrinsic, derived from God, not the church Chapter 10, Chapter 24, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A1
• Authorship as third category see also Author/story metaphor, Creator-creature distinction, Pantheism
  • between identity and separation Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Authorship of evil see also Problem of evil, Sovereignty of God, Theodicy
  • God authors evil but does not sin Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 27, Appendix M, Appendix M, Appendix N
• Author/story metaphor Prologue, Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix L, Appendix N, Appendix O, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 17, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix H see also Authorship as third category, Authorship of evil, Creator-creature distinction, Eternality of God, Filmstrip (metaphor), Hypostatic union, Incarnation, Mind of God, Operational idealism, Pantheism, Problem of evil, Programmer (metaphor), Providence, The sentence (metaphor), Vessels of wrath and mercy
  • the Author at the bedside, in the room Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix N
  • the Author is not the book (against pantheism) Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Appendix A1, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • Author sees the whole filmstrip at once How This Book Talks, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix G
  • the Author writes the villain Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 13, Appendix M, Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix M
  • the filmmaker steps into his own film (incarnation) Chapter 6, Chapter 21, Afterword, Appendix G, Appendix I
• Autism see also ADHD, Neurodivergence
  • authored neurodivergence Appendix A12
• Autobiography of the author see also Computer architecture (metaphor), Kraft, Brandan
  • forty years a programmer Preface, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 17, Chapter 20, Appendix A10
• Avenger of blood see also Cities of refuge, Law and gospel
  • the law demanding the manslayer’s life Chapter 9
• Axiom, Scripture as see also Epistemology, Presuppositionalism, Scripture as axiom
  • the axiom that accounts for reality Preface

B

• Babel, tower of (metaphor) Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Great apostasy, Number of the beast
• Babylon Appendix A8, Appendix D see also Providence
• Bahnsen, Greg Chapter 25 see also Presuppositionalism, Van Til, Cornelius
• Balaam Appendix A9 see also Balaam’s donkey
• Balaam’s donkey see also Miracles, The rendering (metaphor)
  • temporary rendering upgrade Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Bandwidth, human see also Mark of the beast, Surveillance state
  • surveillance limited historically by Chapter 27
• Baptism Prologue, Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 9, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix N, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix O see also Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Liberty of conscience, Means of grace, Operational idealism, Regeneration, Sacraments, Substance over form
  • mode a matter of conscience Chapter 22
  • not required for salvation Appendix A10, Appendix A6, Appendix N
  • Spirit precedes water Chapter 1, Chapter 22, Appendix B
• Baptism of Jesus see also Trinity
  • three persons present simultaneously Chapter 6
• Baptism of the Holy Spirit Chapter 23, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4 see also Body of Christ, Effectual calling, Regeneration
  • not a second blessing Appendix A4
• Baptismal regeneration Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 18, Chapter 22, Chapter 24, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix I, Appendix B see also Baptism, Materialism, Regeneration, Roman Catholicism
• Basil of Caesarea Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers
• Bearing one another’s burdens
  • fulfilling the law of Christ Chapter 30, Appendix L
• Beast and false prophet see also Demons, Lake of fire
  • in the lake of fire Chapter 28
• Beast, the Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Chapter 28 see also Antichrist, Decrees of God, Mark of the beast, Number of the beast, Providence, Roman Catholicism
  • as a thought decreed by God
• Beatific vision Chapter 9, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix G, Appendix L, Appendix O, Appendix O see also Glorification, Heaven, Hell
  • loss of, as poena damni Appendix A6
• Beauty see also Intelligibility of the universe
  • as evidence for God Chapter 25
• Beebe, Gilbert Appendix A2 see also False teachers
• Begotten language see also Arianism, Monogenes
  • refers to the economy Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Being right vs. being useful Preface see also Pastoral heart
• Believer see also Perseverance of the saints
  • cannot be demon possessed Appendix A2
• Believing and unbelieving spouse see also Reprobation, Unconditional election
  • bond ends at the seam Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Bell, John Stewart Appendix H see also Bell’s Theorem
• Bell’s Theorem Appendix H, Appendix H see also Hidden variables, Nonlocality
• Berean discipleship see also Tradition over Scripture
  • killed by tradition-over-Scripture Appendix N
• Berkeley, George Chapter 1, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J see also Idealism, Operational idealism
  • esse est percipi Appendix J, Appendix J
• Berkhof, Louis Preface, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Systematic theology
• Bethlehem see also Incarnation
  • birthplace of the incarnate Christ Afterword
• Bible see also Bibliology, Inspiration of Scripture
  • unity across authors and centuries Chapter 26
• Bible reading see also Sola Scriptura
  • without confession or seminary Epilogue
• Bible study see also Method, theological, Search-engine exegesis (method)
  • search-engine interface with the text Preface, Chapter 24
• Bible translation see also Bibliology, Operational idealism, The glass (metaphor)
  • as a rendering event How This Book Talks, Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Biblical inerrancy see also Scripture, authority of, Young earth creationism
  • made test of faith by creation debate Chapter 4
• Bibliology Appendix N, Appendix N see also Critical text, KJV-Onlyism
• Big Bang see also Creation ex nihilo, Idealism, Materialism
  • reinterpreted as a rendering event Appendix A1, Appendix B
• Big Tobacco see also Processed food industry, Smoking
  • concealed cancer risks Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Binding of Satan Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Amillennialism, Loosing of Satan, Millennium, Satan
  • the thousand years as the church age Appendix A2, Appendix A6
• Bioethics Appendix B, Appendix A7 see also Depression, Euthanasia
• Biological rationality see also Application layer (metaphor), Image of God
  • distinguished from the spiritual image Appendix I
• BIOS/firmware boot analogy (metaphor) Chapter 25 see also Boot parameters (metaphor)
• Bipolar disorder see also Depression, Neurodivergence
  • authored hardware variance Appendix A12
• Birth control Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B see also Abortion, Providence, Quiverfull movement
• Bishop see also Clericalism, Eldership
  • became a position of authority, not service Chapter 23, Chapter 24
• Bit from God (metaphor) Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Appendix B, Epilogue, Appendix A12, Appendix E see also It from bit, Operational idealism, Pre-propositional information
• Bivocational ministry see also Paid clergy
  • apostolic pattern Appendix A5, Appendix L
• Blood of Christ Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 14, Appendix A3, Chapter 19, Appendix A2, Appendix A7 see also Atonement, Definite atonement
  • poured out before the foundation Appendix A7
  • reserved for the bride Chapter 19, Chapter 14, Appendix A3
• Boasting see also Grace, Monergism
  • excluded by grace Chapter 19, Chapter 19
• Boaz see also Kinsman-redeemer, Redemption
  • picture of Christ the Redeemer Chapter 9
• Body, authored see also Gender dysphoria, Neurodivergence, Providence
  • every variance authored Appendix A12, Appendix A12
• Body of Christ Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Epilogue see also Church, Church membership, Ecclesiology, Participatory ecclesiology, Regeneration, Spiritual gifts
  • many members, each functioning Chapter 23, Chapter 24
  • membership by regeneration Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 23
• Body, theology of the Chapter 1, Chapter 26, Afterword, Afterword, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix A4 see also Asceticism, Gnosticism, Operational idealism, Platonism, Renderingism, Resurrection of the body
  • goodness of, against contempt for the physical Chapter 1, Afterword, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • matter is medium not contamination Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix A4
• Body-soul dualism see also Platonism, Resurrection of the body
  • as a Platonic costume Appendix N, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Bohmian mechanics see also Hidden variables, Many-worlds interpretation, Pilot wave theory
  • keeps realism via nonlocality Appendix H
• Book of Common Prayer Appendix N see also Marriage
• Book of life Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Predestination, Wheat and tares
• Books, the opened see also Final judgment
  • review of a life’s deeds Appendix L, Chapter 28
• Boot parameters (metaphor) How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 2, Chapter 16, Chapter 25, Appendix B, Chapter 26, Chapter 28, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix G, Appendix I, Appendix I see also Firmware (metaphor), Monergism, Presuppositionalism, Presuppositions, Regeneration
  • only the Spirit has root access Chapter 26, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
  • presuppositions beneath awareness Chapter 16, Chapter 28
• Borrowed capital argument see also Morality, objective, No neutral ground
  • materialist borrows from Christian framework Chapter 25, Chapter 25
• Bostrom, Nick Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix G see also Simulation hypothesis
• Bradford, John see also Humility, Martyrdom
  • “There but for the grace of God go I” Chapter 12
• Brain
  • hardware of the soul; computes but does not think Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix E, Chapter 17, Appendix E, Appendix J
• Branch (Messianic title) Chapter 9 see also Christ in the Old Testament, Types and shadows
• Brethren of Jesus see also Perpetual virginity of Mary
  • explained as cousins or stepchildren Appendix A3
• Bride of Christ Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Chapter 28, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix M see also Common grace, Covenant theology, Definite atonement, Particular love of God
  • Bridegroom not dishonored by general love Appendix M, Appendix K
• Bronze serpent see also Saving faith, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9
• Brotherhood across disagreement Chapter 22, Appendix N, Appendix L see also Christian liberty, Liberty of conscience
• Bucer, Martin Appendix A5 see also Diet of Regensburg (1541)
• Buddhism see also Other religions, The rendering (metaphor)
  • recognizing suffering of the rendering Appendix A9
• Building on predecessors (metaphor) see also Recovery of buried truth (metaphor), Reformation
  • shoulders of men Prologue
• Bunyan, John see also Iconoclasm
  • Pilgrim’s Progress vindicated Appendix N
• Burgundy (metaphor) see also Doctrines of grace, Why preach sovereign grace
  • sovereign grace as the richest experience Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Burial of Christ Chapter 6, Chapter 19 see also Death of Christ, Gospel, Resurrection of Christ
• Burning bush Chapter 6, Chapter 13 see also Moses, Theophany

C

• Cain Chapter 14 see also Sins crying out to heaven
• Calling see also Effectual calling, Irresistible grace
  • effectual Appendix B
• Calling, divine see also Credentials, argument from
  • of the unqualified Preface, Epilogue
• Calvin, John Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 23, Chapter 25, Appendix F, Appendix M, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Appendix I, Appendix N, Appendix J see also Augustine of Hippo, Calvinism, Reformation
• Calvinism Preface, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 14, Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Appendix A3, Appendix K, Appendix N, Appendix O, Appendix E see also Doctrines of grace, Hyper-Calvinism, Sovereign grace, TULIP
• Campless Preface, Chapter 26, Chapter 28, Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Confessionalism, Confessions of faith, Sola Scriptura
• Cannabis see also Conscience, Mastery principle
  • mastery principle and conscience Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Cannibal! (song) see also Church hurt, Crusading
  • the church eating its own Appendix A10
• Canon of Scripture Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix I, Chapter 26, Chapter 26 see also Antilegomena, Council of Carthage (397), Council of Hippo (393), Council of Trent, Homologoumena, James, Epistle of, Roman Catholicism, Self-authentication of Scripture
  • flat canon imposed by Trent Appendix A5, Appendix B
  • recognized, not created, by councils Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix B
  • self-authenticating Chapter 21, Chapter 12
• Canons of Dort Chapter 25, Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Calvinism, Equal ultimacy, TULIP
• Capernaum Chapter 14 see also Degrees of punishment, Sodom
• Capital punishment Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix B see also Capernaum, Civil government
• Cappadocian Fathers Chapter 6, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix N see also Neoplatonism, Nicene Creed, Origen
• Catechesis Chapter 24, Appendix O see also Baptismal regeneration, Tradition
• Catechism see also Christian unity, Confessionalism, Creeds and confessions
  • as a barrier to fellowship Appendix A10, Appendix L, Appendix L
• Caterpillar and butterfly (metaphor) Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 29 see also Firmware (metaphor), Glorification, Regeneration
• Celebrity pastors see also Clericalism
  • as substitute priests Appendix N
• Central bank digital currency Chapter 27 see also Mark of the beast
• Centurion at the cross
  • first-contact saving faith Appendix A1, Appendix O
• Ceremonial law Chapter 8, Chapter 20, Appendix M see also Law of Moses, Types and shadows
• Certainty, false eschatological Chapter 27, Chapter 28
• Cessationism see also Charismatic movement, Continuationism
  • rejected Appendix A4
• The chain (metaphor) Chapter 2 see also Pre-propositional information
• Chains of darkness see also Demons, Strong delusion
  • as strong delusion, not literal chains Appendix A2
• Chapter references (book structure) Epilogue, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix H
• Character and the Author (metaphor) Chapter 7, Chapter 14, Chapter 27 see also Author/story metaphor, Operational idealism, Potter and clay
• Charismata Chapter 24 see also Body of Christ, Spiritual gifts
• Charismatic movement Chapter 23, Appendix A2, Appendix A4 see also Continuationism
• Charity (1 Corinthians 13) see also Knowledge, Love
  • as diagnostic, not a poem Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Charity, principle of see also Confusion vs. rebellion
  • state the opposing view at its strongest Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Chastisement Appendix A7, Appendix A9 see also Corporal punishment, Suffering
• Chaver Chapter 27 see also Covenant companion (metaphor)
• Cheerful giving Appendix A8 see also Tithing
• Cheung, Vincent Appendix I see also Clark, Gordon
• Chief of sinners see also Childlike faith
  • saving faith believes I am the sinner Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Childlike faith see also Chief of sinners, Faith
  • a theology of three clauses Appendix L
• Children, Christ on see also Children who die young, Christ, tenderness of
  • of such is the kingdom Appendix A12, Chapter 24
• Children of God see also Adoption, Assurance, Fatherhood of God
  • claimed before birth Chapter 7
• Children of the devil Chapter 12 see also Seed of the serpent
• Children of wrath see also Total depravity, Wrath of God
  • temporal experience, not eternal standing Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Appendix A10
• Children who die young see also Election
  • salvation of Appendix A12, Appendix A12
• Christ Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Epilogue, Appendix A10, Appendix F, Appendix O see also Christ, person of, Seed of the woman
• Christ alone saves Preface, Appendix A10 see also Finished work of Christ, Monergism, Sovereign grace
• Christ and the church see also Marriage, One-flesh union
  • as great mystery Chapter 10, Appendix A7
• Christ as Author (metaphor) Appendix L, Appendix L see also Author/story metaphor
• Christ as sanctification Appendix C, Appendix I see also Sanctification, Union with Christ
• Christ as sustainer of creation Chapter 3, Appendix H, Appendix A12 see also Conservation, divine, Logos
• Christ as the covenant see also Covenant of grace, Covenant of redemption
  • the Person precedes the promise Chapter 6, Chapter 6
• Christ as the rule of life Chapter 20, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix M see also Christian liberty, Law, believer’s relation to
• Christ bearing the curse Chapter 20, Chapter 28 see also Curse of the law, Propitiation, Substitutionary atonement
• Christ, centrality of Chapter 24, Chapter 3, Chapter 30, Afterword see also Christocentrism
• Christ, foreordained before the foundation Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Epilogue see also Decrees of God, Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
• Christ in the Old Testament Chapter 9 see also Author/story metaphor, Types and shadows
• Christ, person of Prologue, Appendix A1, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix A1 see also Hypostatic union, Incarnation
• Christ saves through the cracks see also Childlike faith, Confusion vs. rebellion
  • through bad theology as easily as good Chapter 30, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
• Christ, suffering of see also Conformity to Christ, Suffering
  • learned obedience Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix A9
• Christ, surety of His people Chapter 15, Chapter 15 see also Federal headship, Substitutionary atonement
• Christ, tenderness of Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 30, Appendix L, Appendix L see also Compassion, Condescension of Christ
• Christ, the end of the law Chapter 20, Appendix A1, Appendix A8, Appendix I see also Christ as the rule of life
• Christ, the one gate Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix L see also Christ alone saves
• Christ the true Sabbath rest Appendix I, Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Sabbath
• Christ, two natures of Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Communicatio idiomatum, Council of Chalcedon, Hypostatic union
• Christ, work of Chapter 7, Chapter 25 see also Atonement, Covenant of redemption, Finished work of Christ
• Christ-consciousness see also Cosmic Christ heresy, Monism
  • the counterfeit cosmic Christ Afterword, Appendix J
• Christian growth see also Continuous sanctification, Knowledge of Christ
  • in knowledge, not status Chapter 18, Chapter 18
• Christian liberty Preface, Chapter 6, Chapter 10, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, Appendix M, Appendix N, Appendix O, Appendix B see also Adiaphora, Conscience, liberty of, Yoke of bondage
• Christian life How This Book Talks, Chapter 27, Appendix A10, Appendix A10 see also Christian liberty, Sanctification
• Christian unity see also Charity, principle of, Confessionalism
  • fellowship not a doctrinal exam Appendix O, Appendix O
• Christianity, uniqueness of Chapter 6, Appendix G, Appendix G see also Atheism, Deism, Pantheism
• Christmas Chapter 21, Chapter 21 see also Holy days
• Christocentrism Chapter 3, Epilogue, Appendix O see also Logos, Sola Scriptura
• Christology Preface, Chapter 6, Chapter 24, Appendix A3, Appendix B see also Christ, person of, Soteriology
• Christus Victor Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A2 see also Atonement, Satan
• Church see also Body of Christ, Ecclesiology, Ekklesia
  • as the body of Christ, not a building Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 25, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Epilogue, Epilogue, Epilogue
  • surviving the coming age Afterword, Appendix A9, Epilogue
• Church as pillar and ground of truth Chapter 23 see also Body of Christ, Institutional church
• Church discipline Chapter 23, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A10, Appendix L, Appendix O
• Church discipline, abuse of Preface, Chapter 21, Chapter 23 see also Legalism, Liberty of conscience
• Church history see also Egalitarianism, Patriarchy
  • misuse of Scripture against women Chapter 24
• Church hurt Appendix A11 see also Church discipline, abuse of
• Church membership see also Body of Christ, Regeneration, Visible and invisible church
  • a formality, not the means of entry Preface, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 23
• Church polity see also Clericalism, Participatory ecclesiology
  • participatory, no one-man pulpit Appendix I, Chapter 23
• Churches of Christ see also Baptismal regeneration
  • baptismal regeneration error Chapter 22
• Circular reasoning see also No neutral ground, Presuppositionalism
  • every epistemology circular at foundation Chapter 25, Appendix I
• Circumcision Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Appendix B see also Abrahamic covenant, Circumcision of the heart, Covenant signs
• Circumcision of the heart Chapter 22, Chapter 22 see also Holy Spirit, Monergism, Regeneration
• Cities of refuge see also High priest, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9, Chapter 9
• Civil disobedience Appendix A7, Appendix A8 see also Civil government
• Civil government Appendix A8 see also Capital punishment, Civil disobedience
• Civil law Chapter 20 see also Ceremonial law
• Clark, Gordon Prologue, Preface, Chapter 5, Chapter 16, Appendix D, Appendix I, Chapter 5, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Clarkianism, Presuppositionalism, Propositional revelation
  • all knowledge is propositional Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E
• Clarkianism Appendix E, Appendix E see also Clark, Gordon, Propositional revelation
• Classical apologetics see also Evidentialism, No neutral ground, Presuppositionalism
  • critique of neutral evidence claim Chapter 25, Afterword, Afterword
• Classical education see also Trivium
  • mirrors divine pedagogy Chapter 16
• Classical theism Chapter 6, Appendix A1 see also Impassibility, divine
• Clauser, John see also Copenhagen interpretation
• Cleansing from sin Chapter 14, Appendix L see also Atonement, Blood of Christ
• Cleansing of the temple Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10 see also Christ, Gentiles, inclusion of
• Clement of Alexandria see also Origen, Platonism
  • fused Scripture with Middle Platonism Appendix N
• Clergy-laity distinction see also Clericalism, Costume (metaphor)
  • as a Platonic costume Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix N
• Clericalism Chapter 23, Epilogue, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix N see also Celebrity pastors, One-man pulpit (metaphor)
• Coats of skins see also Atonement, Fall, the, Shame
  • first atonement as shame-covering Appendix A1, Appendix A6
• Code requires a coder (argument) Appendix A12, Appendix G, Chapter 12 see also Intelligent design
• Coercion see also Irresistible grace, Will, the
  • irresistible grace is not coercion Chapter 25, Appendix A6
• Cognitive behavioral therapy see also Conscious mind, Therapy
  • operates at the application layer Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A11
• Cognitive disability see also Condemnation of the gospel
  • condemnation has no target Appendix A3
• Coherence of the framework How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 26, Appendix O see also Derivation method, Self-authentication of Scripture
• Cold orthodoxy see also Faith, Regeneration
  • unregenerate assent without belief Appendix A4
• Cole Chapter 16, Epilogue see also Kraft, Brandan
• Collapse (metaphor) see also Compression (metaphor), Rendering (metaphor)
  • eternal expressed in finite Chapter 2, Appendix B, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 10
• Comfort, doctrine as Chapter 2 see also Assurance, Immutability, divine
• Comforting the grieving see also Compassion, Grief
  • presence before explanation Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Comma Johanneum see also Trinity
  • 1 John 5:7 cited as Trinitarian proof Chapter 6
• Commendation of the spirit Appendix A6 see also Death
• Common bounty see also Common grace, Prosperity of the wicked, Providence
  • providence to the wicked, not grace Appendix A3
• Common grace see also Common bounty, Free offer of the Gospel, Hyper-Calvinism, Particular love of God
  • denied Preface, Appendix K, Preface, Chapter 17, Chapter 19, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix I, Epilogue, Appendix A3, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix K, Appendix M, Appendix A11, Chapter 19, Appendix A12
• Common operations of the Spirit see also Holy Spirit, Reprobation
  • on the reprobate
• Communicatio idiomatum Chapter 6, Appendix A1 see also Hypostatic union, Impassibility, divine
• Communication with the dead Appendix B see also Necromancy, Spiritism
• Communion (Lord’s Supper) Chapter 22, Chapter 10, Appendix A6, Appendix N see also Consubstantiation, Operational idealism, Sacraments
• Communion of saints see also Body of Christ, Visible and invisible church
  • one church across all time Chapter 23, Appendix L
• Communion with God see also Peace, Prayer
  • conversation is the relationship Chapter 21, Appendix A4
• Community Rule (1QS) Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Appendix F see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Justification, Qumran community
• Comparative ordo salutis table see also Modified Covenant Theology, Ordo salutis
  • Arminian, Lutheran, Reformed, MCT Chapter 15
• Compassion see also Condescension of Christ, Grace, Humility
  • toward the sinner Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Appendix A6, Appendix A12
• Compatibilism see also Free will, Moral responsibility, Sovereignty of God
  • choices authored yet real Chapter 2, Chapter 14, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix A4, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Chapter 14
• Complementarianism Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Appendix I, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24 see also Egalitarianism, Headship, Order of creation, Women in ministry
• Compression (metaphor) see also Collapse (metaphor), Rendering (metaphor)
  • infinite expressed in finite Chapter 2
• Compulsory acknowledgment vs willing worship Chapter 28 see also Reprobation, Worship
• Computer architecture (metaphor) see also Firmware (metaphor), Four-layer model (metaphor)
  • layers of a system Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix E, Appendix E
• Computer science vocabulary in theology Epilogue see also Contextualization, Rendering engine (metaphor)
• Concurrence see also Providence, Sovereignty of God
  • nothing done without God Appendix F, Appendix J
• Condemnation of the devil see also Pride, Satan
  • 1 Timothy 3:6 genitive of source Appendix A2
• Condemnation of the gospel see also Curse of the law, Reprobation
  • eternal, exceeds the measured curse Chapter 12, Chapter 28, Appendix A3, Appendix I
• Condescension of Christ Afterword, Appendix J, Appendix L, Appendix L see also Christ, tenderness of, Incarnation
• Conditional immortality Chapter 28 see also Annihilationism, Conditionalism, Platonism
• Conditional salvation see also Arminianism, Finished work of Christ, Works-righteousness
  • rejected Chapter 7, Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Appendix F, Chapter 26, Appendix L
• Conditionalism see also Lordship salvation
  • James as its strongest text Chapter 26
• Confession of faith see also Regeneration
  • confessing Christ marks the saved Chapter 24, Appendix A10
• Confession of sin see also Kraft, Brandan, Pride
  • author’s, of weaponizing theology Chapter 14, Appendix A7, Appendix A10
• Confessionalism see also Campless, Christian unity, Creeds and confessions
  • adding tests the gospel does not demand Appendix I, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Confessions of faith see also Campless, Confessionalism, Sola Scriptura
  • not the ground of belief Preface, Afterword, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix M, Appendix M, Appendix O, Appendix N
• Configuration (metaphor) How This Book Talks see also Boot parameters (metaphor), Creation
• Conformity to Christ Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix A9 see also Glorification, Image of God, Predestination
• Confusing the layers (metaphor) see also Cognitive behavioral therapy, Four-layer model (metaphor)
  • telling a chemical imbalance to pray harder Appendix A11
• Confusion vs. rebellion see also Arminianism, Charity, principle of
  • distinguishing confused Arminians from hardened ones Chapter 30, Appendix A10
• Conscience see also Conscience, liberty of, Liberty of conscience
  • belongs to God, not church leaders Preface, Preface, Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Chapter 28
• Conscience, liberty of Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Appendix A5 see also Christian liberty, Head coverings, Holy days, Modesty
• Conscious agents (Hoffman) see also Consciousness creates reality, Idealism
  • impersonal network as fundamental reality Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix J
• Conscious mind see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Metacognition
  • as application layer Chapter 17, Appendix A12
• Consciousness see also Idealism, Materialism, Mind precedes matter
  • fundamental, not emergent Chapter 1, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Appendix A9, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix A3
• Consciousness creates reality see also Conscious agents (Hoffman)
  • rejected (New Age sense) Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix J
• Consent see also Corporal punishment, Marriage
  • the bed defiled by coercion Appendix A6
• Conservation, divine see also Continuous creation, Operational idealism, Providence
  • creation vanishes if God stops thinking it Chapter 4, Chapter 4, Appendix A10, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix I
• Consistency of creation see also Immutability, divine
  • God does not do sloppy work Chapter 4
• Consistent freewiller see also Arminianism, Free will
  • dethrones God, enthrones man Chapter 30
• Consubstantiation see also Communion (Lord’s Supper), Lutheranism
  • rejected (Lutheran) Appendix A6, Appendix N
• Consummation How This Book Talks see also Eschatology
• Contending for the faith see also Pride
  • misused as a cover for pride Chapter 30, Appendix A10
• Contextualization see also Computer science vocabulary in theology
  • borrowing vocabulary from the world Chapter 3, Appendix O
• Continuationism see also Cessationism, Charismatic movement
  • rejected Appendix A4, Appendix I
• Continuous creation see also Conservation, divine, Operational idealism
  • God thinks reality at every moment Chapter 12, Appendix A10, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Continuous sanctification see also Knowledge of Christ, Progressive sanctification
  • growth in knowledge, not status Chapter 18, Chapter 18
• Contract see also Conditional salvation, Courtroom (metaphor), Covenant
  • adversarial and conditional Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 7
• Conversion see also Eternal justification, Justification, Regeneration
  • the experience of an already-finished justification Chapter 2, Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 25, Appendix A1, Appendix A4, Appendix A10, Appendix B
• Conviction of sin Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Appendix A2 see also Holy Spirit, Shame, Total depravity
• Cook, Edward see also Dead Sea Scrolls
• Copenhagen interpretation Appendix H see also Clauser, John
• Coping vs. regeneration Chapter 17 see also Regeneration, Therapy
• Coptic Orthodox Church Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Cyril of Alexandria, Miaphysitism
• Corinthians, epistle to
  • athletic language How This Book Talks
• Cornelius Appendix A5, Appendix O, Appendix O see also Gentiles, inclusion of
• Corporal punishment see also Chastisement
  • the rod as guidance Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Cosmic Christ heresy see also Christ-consciousness, Monism
  • Christ as state of mind, not Man Afterword, Afterword, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Cosmic dualism see also Dualism, Manichaeism
  • two co-equal independent powers
• Cosmological argument Afterword, Appendix A1 see also Classical apologetics, Intelligent design
• Cosmology Appendix B see also Creation, Creation, informational
• Cost of conviction Prologue see also Persecution, Suffering
• Costume (metaphor) see also Clergy-laity distinction, Platonism
  • Platonic errors disguised as Christian doctrine How This Book Talks, Chapter 29, Appendix N
• Council of Carthage (397) Chapter 10, Chapter 26 see also Canon of Scripture, Council of Hippo (393)
• Council of Chalcedon see also Christ, two natures of, Hypostatic union
  • two natures, without confusion Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix I
• Council of Hippo (393) Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Appendix B see also Canon of Scripture, Council of Carthage (397)
• Council of Jerusalem see also Circumcision, Gentiles, inclusion of
  • Gentile inclusion debated Chapter 9
• Council of Nicaea see also Deity of Christ, Nicene Creed
  • deity of Christ not invented there Chapter 6
• Council of Trent see also Antilegomena, Canon of Scripture, Roman Catholicism
  • formalized the flat canon Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Counsel of God see also Decrees of God, Independence of God
  • stands forever Chapter 2
• Counterfeit gospel see also Cosmic Christ heresy
  • the near-agreement that deceives Afterword
• Courtroom (metaphor) see also Contract, Federal headship
  • contractual salvation as legal trial rejected Chapter 7, Chapter 19
• Covenant see also Contract, Covenant of grace, Marriage
  • personal promise versus legal contract How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 11, Epilogue, Epilogue, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 7, Chapter 29, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 19, Chapter 24, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix F
• Covenant before ceremony How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Chapter 10, Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A11 see also Baptism
• Covenant companion (metaphor) see also Chaver, Marriage, Resurrection
  • which bonds persist into the new creation Chapter 27, Appendix B, Chapter 27, Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Covenant of grace Prologue, Preface, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Appendix A1, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix C see also Abraham, Covenant, Covenant of redemption, David, Election, Federal headship, Marriage, Modified Covenant Theology, New Covenant
  • personal promise not legal contract Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 11, Epilogue, Epilogue, Chapter 2, Chapter 11
  • present in every age Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 8, Appendix C
• Covenant of redemption Prologue, Appendix C, Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 11, Chapter 15, Chapter 25, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix G see also Covenant of grace, Election, Trinity
• Covenant of works see also Federal headship, Modified Covenant Theology, Mosaic covenant
  • located at Sinai, not Eden Preface, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix C
• Covenant signs Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22 see also Baptism, Circumcision, Sabbath
• Covenant theology Prologue, Preface, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 25, Appendix A1, Appendix C, Appendix C, Appendix C, Appendix N see also Covenant of grace, Federal headship, Modified Covenant Theology
• Covenants of love see also Covenant of grace
  • holding all things together Prologue, Appendix A8, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A3, Appendix A12, Appendix I, Appendix O
• Cranmer, Thomas see also Book of Common Prayer, Platonism
  • vow language and Platonism Chapter 29, Appendix N
• Created intelligences see also Angels
  • cosmos populated beyond humanity Appendix A8, Appendix F
• Creation Prologue, How This Book Talks, Chapter 4, Epilogue, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix F, Appendix F, Appendix F, Appendix G, Appendix O see also Creator, God as, Decrees of God, Old earth creationism, Rendering (metaphor), Theistic evolution, Young earth creationism
  • age of the earth debate Chapter 4, Appendix B
• Creation by the Word of God see also Logos
  • creation through information, not mechanics Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 3
• Creation, doctrine of Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 3 see also Creation by the Word of God, Logos
• Creation ex nihilo see also Idealism, Mind precedes matter, Word of God
  • visible not made from things which appear Chapter 1, Appendix A1, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Creation, informational see also Operational idealism
  • reality is information, not matter Appendix A12, Appendix A12
• Creator, God as see also Creation, Glory of God
  • creation points to Him Chapter 4, Appendix A12, Appendix H
• Creator-creature distinction Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Appendix A1, Appendix J see also Aseity, Idealism, Pantheism
• Creature is the nature (concept) see also Moral responsibility, Sin nature
• Credentials, argument from see also Campless, Sola Scriptura
  • truth protected by the Author, not by credentials Preface, Chapter 28, Appendix A12, Appendix K, Appendix O
• Credobaptism see also Baptism, Immersion, Paedobaptism
  • baptism for believers only Chapter 22
• Creeds and confessions see also Campless, Confessionalism, Confessions of faith
  • function like the magisterium Afterword, Appendix B, Appendix M, Appendix O
• Critical text see also Platonism
  • Nestle-Aland elevated to Form Appendix N
• Critics of the framework see also Coherence of the framework
  • attack surface conclusions without the floor Appendix J, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Cross as equalizer (metaphor) Chapter 14, Appendix B see also Blood of Christ, Equality of sin before God
• Cross as hinge (metaphor) see also Cross of Christ, Rendering upgrade (metaphor)
  • points both ways Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Cross of Christ Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 27, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix B see also Atonement, Rendering upgrade (metaphor), Resurrection
• Crucifix see also Conscience, liberty of
  • as imagined rendering Appendix A5
• Crucifixion see also Decrees of God, Messianic prophecy, Providence, Theodicy
  • ordained yet performed by wicked hands Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 19, Chapter 26, Appendix A9
• Crucifixion, marks of see also Christ, person of, Resurrection body
  • wounds part of the information Appendix L, Appendix A9
• Crusading see also Cannibal! (song)
  • religion requiring an enemy Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Cry of dereliction see also Christ, suffering of, Crucifixion
  • real forsakenness, not theatrical Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Cultural accommodation see also Compassion
  • church capitulating to the age Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix A12, Appendix A12
• The curator (metaphor)
  • application layer managing self-presentation Chapter 28, Epilogue, Appendix A11, Appendix J
• Curse of the law see also Atonement, Condemnation of the gospel
  • measured, proportional, with a terminus Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A3, Appendix I
• Curse on creation Preface, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Fall, the
• Cynical nitpickery Appendix A10 see also Contending for the faith, Pride
• Cyril of Alexandria see also Coptic Orthodox Church, Council of Chalcedon
  • miaphysite formula Appendix A1

D

• Damasio, Antonio see also Pre-propositional information
  • somatic marker hypothesis Appendix E
• Damnation, shared see also Reprobation, Theological celebrity
  • “me too” across the chasm Appendix L, Appendix L
• Daniel see also Dreams, Messianic prophecy
  • prophetic timeline and dreams Chapter 26, Appendix A12
• Darby, John Nelson Chapter 27, Appendix A6 see also Dispensationalism, Plymouth Brethren
• Daughters of Philip see also Prophecy, Women in ministry
  • prophesied Chapter 24
• David Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 15, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Divine hiddenness, Imputation, Kingly office of Christ, Lament, Original sin
  • justified by faith before Christ Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Appendix A1
  • lament then trust in sovereignty Appendix A10, Appendix A11
  • shapen in iniquity Chapter 11, Chapter 14
• David and Jonathan see also Personal recognition of the saints
  • friendship persisting in glory Appendix A6
• Davidic covenant Chapter 8 see also Kingly office of Christ
• Day of Atonement see also Propitiation, Scapegoat, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9
• Day of judgment Chapter 14, Chapter 27 see also Degrees of punishment, Final judgment
• Day of slaughter (metaphor) Prologue, Appendix F see also Reprobation, Wrath of God
• Days of creation see also Old earth creationism, Yom, Young earth creationism
  • twenty-four-hour days or ages Chapter 4
• De Trinitate (Augustine) Appendix N see also Subordinationism, Trinity
• Dead Sea Scrolls Prologue, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Appendix F, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix N see also Qumran community, Sovereign grace, Teacher of Righteousness, Two seeds
• Death see also Fall, the, Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Intermediate state, Re-rendering (metaphor), Resurrection of the body
  • as a rendering constraint Chapter 1, Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A11, Appendix J
  • as a seam Appendix A4, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Death, as sleep see also Intermediate state, Soul sleep
  • metaphor for the body
• Death of a child Appendix A11, Appendix B see also Grief, Infant salvation
• Death of Christ see also Definite atonement, Hypostatic union, Operational idealism
  • the Author died inside His own thought Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Appendix G
• Death, time of, appointed by God Appendix A7 see also Euthanasia, Providence
• Decalogue see also Law, believer’s relation to, Moral law, Third use of the law
  • believer dead to it Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Appendix M, Appendix M
• Deception, divine see also Veracity of God
  • objection from apparent age Chapter 4
• Decisionism Appendix A5, Appendix A10 see also Altar call, Arminianism, Monergism
• Decrees of God Prologue, How This Book Talks, Appendix A5, Appendix F, Chapter 1, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 25, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A7, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Foreordination, Infralapsarianism, Operational idealism, Predestination, Providence, Sovereignty of God, Supralapsarianism
  • decree and rendering
  • order of (supralapsarian) Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix D, Appendix I
• Decretal theology Chapter 19, Appendix O see also Eternal justification, Unconditional election
• Decretive will vs. revealed will Appendix A3, Appendix A3 see also Two wills of God, Will of God
• Deep time see also Information as fundamental
  • inadequate to produce information Chapter 3
• Definite atonement Preface, Appendix K, Chapter 3, Chapter 11, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix A8, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Appendix L, Appendix M see also Limited atonement, Particular redemption, Unconditional election
• Degrees of punishment Chapter 14, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A6 see also Final judgment, Justice of God, Lex talionis
• Degrees of reward see also Heaven
  • rejected; Christ is the reward Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Deification Chapter 28, Chapter 28 see also Disposition vs. ontology, Eastern Orthodoxy
• Deism Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 6 see also Open Theism, Pantheism, Providence
• Deity of Christ Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Appendix A3, Appendix F see also Hypostatic union, Two natures of Christ
• Deja vu see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Operating system (metaphor)
  • layers of the soul desynchronized Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Deliverance ministry see also Charismatic movement, Sanctification
  • misdiagnoses the flesh as demonic Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Dementia see also Euthanasia
  • the person still a thought God thinks Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Demon possession Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix B see also Exorcism, Regeneration
• Demonic influence and oppression see also Deliverance ministry, Demon possession
  • distinguished from possession Appendix B
• Demons see also Angels, Hell, Lake of fire, Malicious code (metaphor), Providence, Reprobation, Satan, Spiritual warfare
  • as God’s instruments under permission Chapter 13, Appendix A8
  • created evil, not fallen angels Chapter 11, Appendix A8, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix I
  • quarantined in the final state Chapter 12, Appendix A6, Chapter 28
• Demons (subject to authored boundaries) Appendix A2 see also Satan, Spiritual warfare
• Dennett, Daniel see also Hard problem of consciousness, Materialism
  • eliminativism on consciousness Appendix J
• Dependency graph (Appendix B) Appendix M see also Derivation method
• Depression see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Means of grace
  • often a hardware-layer constraint Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Derivation method see also Sola Scriptura
  • positions derived from the sentence, not tradition How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks, Chapter 5, Appendix A3, Chapter 6, Chapter 11, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix A12, Appendix M, Appendix M
• Design argument Chapter 16, Afterword, Appendix G, Appendix G see also DNA as authored code, Fine-tuning argument, Intelligent design
• Designer vs. Author distinction Chapter 3, Chapter 4 see also Author/story metaphor, Intelligent design, Operational idealism
• Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70) Chapter 27, Appendix A6 see also Olivet Discourse
• Determinate counsel of God Chapter 14, Appendix A9 see also Crucifixion, Sovereignty of God
• Determinism, theological Chapter 13 see also Compatibilism, Decrees of God
• Deuterocanonical books Chapter 26 see also Canon of Scripture, Roman Catholicism
• Devil and his angels see also Demons, Reprobation
  • “his” by authoring, not choice
• Diaconate see also Phebe (Phoebe), Women in ministry
  • diakonos applied to Phebe Chapter 23
• Dichotomy vs. trichotomy Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix B see also Anthropology, theological, Renderingism, Trichotomy
• Diet of Regensburg (1541) Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Council of Trent, Eck, Johannes
• Dignity of persons Chapter 12 see also Sanctity of human life
• Diophysite Christology see also Miaphysitism, Two natures of Christ
  • two natures in one Person Appendix A1
• Diotrephes see also Gatekeeping
  • loved preeminence Chapter 30
• Direct authorship of each soul Chapter 7, Appendix A3, Appendix B see also Federal headship, Original sin
• Disability see also Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Providence
  • a rendering constraint, not a flaw in the thought Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Discernment see also Pride, Wisdom
  • distinguished from judgment Chapter 14, Chapter 17, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix E
• Disembodied soul (unbiblical heaven) Afterword see also Small heaven (metaphor), Spiritual body
• Dispensation of the fulness of times Chapter 27
• Dispensationalism Preface, Appendix C, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 29, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix N see also Covenant theology, Darby, John Nelson, Premillennialism
• Disposition vs. ontology see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Two seeds
  • Orthodox dispositional vs. framework ontological Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Divine delight see also New creation, Worship
  • God enjoys the saints’ enjoyment Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Divine hiddenness Appendix A11, Appendix B see also Doubt, Faith, Providence
• Divine immanence see also Operational idealism
  • zero distance from the Developer Appendix A10
• Divine names see also Elohim, Jehovah (divine name)
  • as renderings of substance Appendix A1
• Divine sovereignty in pre-Christian writers Chapter 9 see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Predestination, Sovereign grace
• Divine spark see also Gnosticism
  • the divinity-within lie Afterword
• Divine timelessness Appendix C see also Decrees of God, Eternal justification
• Divorce and remarriage Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix B, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Marriage, Remarriage
• DNA as authored code Chapter 1, Appendix G, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix J see also Design argument, Information as fundamental, Intelligent design
• Doctrine see also Assurance
  • inflated beyond its calling Chapter 1, Chapter 4, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A9
  • matters but does not save Chapter 24, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix M, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Doctrine as description Appendix O, Appendix O see also Propositionalism
• Doctrine of God see also Ontology
  • God named in the axiom Appendix I, Appendix I
• Doctrines of grace Prologue, Preface, Appendix K, Prologue, Chapter 25, Chapter 30, Appendix M see also Calvinism, Mechanics vs. mercy, Pride, Sovereign grace, TULIP
  • describe the mechanics, do not save Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix L, Appendix M
  • held with pride / misused as a fence Chapter 14, Chapter 30, Appendix L
• Dog-owner analogy (metaphor) see also Permission (divine), Problem of evil
  • permission as authorship in disguise Chapter 5, Appendix A3
• Dominion see also Application layer (metaphor), Image of God
  • requires the application layer Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Double effect, principle of Appendix A7 see also Euthanasia, Suffering
• Double predestination Prologue, Chapter 19, Appendix A3 see also Reprobation, Supralapsarianism, Unconditional election
• Double-slit experiment Chapter 3, Appendix H see also Observer effect, Wave function collapse
• Doubt see also Application layer (metaphor), Assurance, Faith
  • experienced with faith simultaneously How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Epilogue, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Doxology see also Worship
  • the sentence compressed Epilogue, Appendix A9
• Dreams see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Operating system (metaphor), Visions
  • OS processing without application-layer oversight Appendix A2, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Drugs see also Mastery principle, Sorcery
  • pharmakeia in the New Testament Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Drunkenness see also Mastery principle
  • loss of faculty as sin Appendix A7
• Dualism see also Manichaeism, Platonism
  • rejected by the framework Chapter 12, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Afterword
• Dutch Reformed tradition Appendix I see also Berkhof, Louis, Reformed theology
• Duty faith see also Free offer of the gospel, Human responsibility, Hyper-Calvinism
  • denial of Appendix A10, Appendix K, Appendix B
• Dynamic equivalence Appendix A1
• Dyslexia see also Neurodivergence
  • authored neurodivergence Appendix A12

E

• Each person a thought of God Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A12 see also Election, Operational idealism
• Early church see also Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70)
  • understood AD 70 fulfillment Chapter 27
• Eastern Orthodoxy Chapter 22, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix A9, Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers, Filioque, Gregory of Nyssa, Heaven and hell, River of fire, Roman Catholicism
  • river of fire; same reality, different response Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A6
• Eastern religion see also Monism, Panpsychism
  • monist syntheses Appendix J
• Easy-believism see also Sanctification, Saving faith
  • polemic against Appendix L
• Eating disorders Appendix A7 see also Gluttony, Mastery principle
• Ecclesiastes, Book of Chapter 26, Chapter 26 see also Materialism, Under the sun
• Ecclesiology How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A4, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix N see also Body of Christ, Church, Ekklesia, Institutional church, Participatory ecclesiology, Plural eldership
  • participatory, not institutional Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix I
• Eck, Johannes Appendix A5 see also Diet of Regensburg (1541), Melanchthon, Philipp
• Eden, original rendering Chapter 3, Appendix A4 see also Fall, the, New heavens and new earth
• Edification of the church Appendix A4 see also Spiritual gifts, Tongues, gift of
• Edwards, Jonathan Chapter 3, Appendix E, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix E see also Continuous creation, Idealism, Operational idealism
  • idealism never formalized Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Effectual calling Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix E, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 25, Chapter 29, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix L see also Firmware (metaphor), Irresistible grace, Means of grace, Monergism, Regeneration
• Effectual grace Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 26, Appendix E see also Irresistible grace, Monergism, Regeneration
• Efficient cause see also Means of grace, Monergism
  • the Spirit, not the means Chapter 16, Appendix A3
• Egalitarianism Chapter 24 see also Complementarianism, Women in ministry
• Einstein, Albert Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix H see also Entanglement, quantum, Wheeler, John Archibald
• Ekklesia Chapter 23 see also Church, Participatory ecclesiology, Priesthood of all believers
• El (divine name) see also Divine names
  • compounds Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Elders Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Appendix A7 see also Clericalism, Pastor, Plural eldership
• Eldership see also Plural eldership, Teaching authority in the church
  • lead by example, not hierarchy Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Elect angels Chapter 12, Chapter 27, Appendix A1, Appendix A2 see also Angels, Three groups in the final creation
• The elect sin Appendix A3 see also Sanctification, Total depravity
• Elect, the Chapter 17, Appendix A4, Appendix C see also Election, Image of God, Intermediate state
• Electing love Appendix A1, Afterword, Appendix A11 see also Definite atonement, Love of God
• Election Prologue, Preface, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 25, Appendix A10, Appendix M, Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix B, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Afterword, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix C, Appendix F, Appendix F, Appendix O see also Covenant of redemption, Effectual calling, Predestination, Reprobation, Sovereign grace
  • before the foundation of the world Chapter 2, Chapter 25, Appendix A10, Appendix M, Chapter 1, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix O
  • unconditional Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 8, Chapter 12, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix L, Appendix A11, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A11, Appendix L
• Elijah Appendix A12 see also Transfiguration
• Elohim Appendix A1 see also Divine names, Trinity
• Emanation Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Eternal generation of the Son, Neoplatonism, Plotinus
• Emmaus disciples Chapter 29 see also Signature (metaphor)
• Emotions see also Feelings, Holy Spirit, Pre-propositional information
  • feeling arrives before thought Chapter 17
• Empathy see also Humility, Pharisees
  • theology without empathy condemned Chapter 12, Chapter 12
• Empiricism Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix E see also Materialism, Positivism
• Empty tomb Chapter 19, Afterword, Chapter 24 see also Resurrection of Christ
• Enoch, books of Chapter 13, Chapter 13 see also Lucifer myth, Two seeds
• “Enough for Me” (song) Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Saving faith, Sola gratia
• Entanglement, quantum Preface, Appendix H, Appendix H see also Bell’s Theorem, Nonlocality, Rendering engine (metaphor)
• Entropy see also Curse on creation, Mortality
  • as rendering parameter of the fall Chapter 3
• Epistemology Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 25, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix A4 see also Clark, Gordon, Ontology, Presuppositionalism
• Equal ultimacy Chapter 1, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Chapter 5, Appendix B, Appendix I, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Appendix D, Appendix D see also Reprobation, Supralapsarianism
• Equality of sin before God Chapter 14, Chapter 14 see also Sin, gradation of, Total depravity
• Erkel, Darryl Chapter 23 see also Participatory ecclesiology, Zens, Jon
• Error see also Doctrine as description
  • as defective description, not defective substrate Appendix O
• Esau and Jacob Appendix N see also Reprobation, Unconditional election
• Eschatology Prologue, Preface, Appendix C, Appendix L, Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 12, Chapter 15, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Afterword, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix J, Appendix O see also Amillennialism, Heaven, Hell, Marriage supper of the Lamb, New creation, New heavens and new earth, Resurrection, Resurrection of the body, Second coming of Christ, The glass (metaphor)
  • held with open hands Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A6
  • history as downgrade then upgrade Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix A9
  • new earth, embodied Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix I, Chapter 10
• Essenes Appendix F, Appendix F see also Pharisees, Predestination, Qumran community
• Esther, Book of Chapter 26, Chapter 26 see also Antilegomena, Providence
• Eternal abstract goodness see also Aseity, Platonism
  • standing above God, rejected Chapter 30
• Eternal conscious torment Chapter 28, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix I see also Annihilationism, Hell, Two-consequences position
• Eternal decree Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 19, Appendix A5, Appendix F see also Counsel of God, Decrees of God, Foreordination
• Eternal generation of the Son Chapter 6, Appendix N, Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Emanation, Neoplatonism, Plotinus, Trinity
• Eternal justification Chapter 15, Appendix A5, Appendix C, Chapter 19, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix O see also Decrees of God, Gill, John, Imputation, Justification
• Eternal kingdom of Christ Chapter 8, Appendix F, Appendix F see also Davidic covenant, Deity of Christ, Messiah
• Eternal redemption Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Chapter 15 see also Atonement, Finished work of Christ, Particular redemption
• Eternal security Appendix A3, Appendix F, Appendix I, Appendix L see also Perseverance of the saints, Preservation of the saints
• Eternality of God Prologue, How This Book Talks, Chapter 5, Appendix G, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Appendix F, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Chapter 5, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Chapter 18, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Aseity, Author/story metaphor, Decrees of God, Filmstrip (metaphor)
  • sees every frame simultaneously How This Book Talks, Chapter 5, Appendix G, Chapter 5, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 19, Appendix A5
• Ethiopian eunuch see also Saving faith, Thief on the cross
  • minimal-content faith Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Euthanasia Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B see also Bioethics, Decrees of God, Suicide
• Eutyches Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Council of Chalcedon, Monophysitism
• Evangelicalism see also Cold orthodoxy, Humility
  • critiqued Chapter 21, Appendix A4, Appendix I
• Evangelism How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix I, Appendix I see also Apologetics, Free offer of the gospel, Gospel, Preaching
• Eve Chapter 3, Chapter 24, Chapter 28, Appendix A1 see also Adam, Curse on creation, Fall, the
• Evidentialism Chapter 25, Appendix I see also Classical apologetics, No neutral ground, Presuppositionalism
• Evil see also Neoplatonism, Problem of evil
  • as privation of good Appendix J
• Evolution Chapter 4 see also DNA as authored code, Materialism, Theistic evolution
• Evolutionary epistemology see also Hoffman, Donald, Reason, reliability of
  • fitness over truth undermines itself Appendix H, Appendix J
• Exaltation of Christ Chapter 6 see also Humiliation of Christ, Resurrection, Session of Christ
• Exclusive psalmody see also Music in worship, Worship
  • rejected Appendix A5
• Excommunication Prologue, Appendix O see also Church discipline, Reformation
• Exorcism see also Demon possession, New creation
  • as preview of higher-resolution rendering Appendix A2
• Expiation Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Appendix F see also Day of Atonement, Propitiation, Substitutionary atonement
• Exposure see also Heaven, Hell, Shame, The glass (metaphor)
  • glory for the elect, horror for the reprobate Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Extraterrestrial life Appendix B, Appendix J see also Angels, Operational idealism
• Ezekiel see also Federal headship, Imputation
  • repudiates inherited guilt Chapter 11

F

• Faculties of the soul see also Clark, Gordon, Unity of the soul
  • intellect and will as functions Appendix E
• Faith Preface, Chapter 2, Chapter 7, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix E, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix O see also Assurance, Duty faith, Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Free offer of the gospel, Fruit of the Spirit, Monergism, Regeneration, Sanctification, Thief on the cross
  • and minimal doctrine (the thief) Appendix A3
  • as fruit of the Spirit Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Appendix M, Appendix M
  • awareness that the firmware has been flashed Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Appendix A9
  • a gift, not a duty or condition Chapter 15, Appendix B, Appendix C, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix M
• Faith alone (sola fide) Appendix A10 see also Reformation
• Faith and doubt see also Assurance, Doubt
  • experienced simultaneously How This Book Talks, Chapter 21, Appendix A11
• Faith and evidence see also Apologetics, Self-authentication of Scripture
  • faith interprets evidence Chapter 3, Chapter 26
• Faith and works see also James, Epistle of, Justification, Sola Fide
  • James objection answered Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 26
• Faith comes by hearing Chapter 30 see also Means of grace, Word of God
• Faith healers see also Charismatic movement, Healing, gift of
  • distortion of the gift of healing Appendix A4
• Faithfulness of God Chapter 7, Appendix A9 see also Assurance, Covenant of grace
• Fall, the see also Adam, Curse on creation, Decrees of God, Original sin, Problem of evil, Providence, Rendering (metaphor), Shame, Supralapsarianism, Total depravity
  • as a rendering downgrade Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
  • authored by God Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix M, Appendix M
  • the original temptation to be God Afterword, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix A5
  • permitted vs. ordained Appendix D, Appendix D, Appendix D
  • revealed rather than created sin Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix B
• False conversion see also Decisionism, Regeneration, Soul winning
  • pressured profession Appendix A5, Chapter 21
• False gospel see also Arminianism, Heresy-hunting
  • willful teaching vs. sloppy speech Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• False religion see also New Age movement, Other religions, Reprobation
  • messages that contradict the gospel Appendix A1, Appendix A8, Appendix A9
• False teachers see also Angels that sinned, Beebe, Gilbert
  • the angels that sinned Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Falsifiability of the framework How This Book Talks, Chapter 25, Appendix A12, Appendix N see also Presuppositionalism
• Family of origin see also Grief
  • patterns of scanning the room Epilogue
• Farmer and seed (metaphor) see also Apologetics, Means of grace
  • apologist clears ground, Spirit plants Chapter 25
• Fasting Appendix A7 see also Means of grace
• Fatalism see also Providence, Sovereignty of God
  • distinguished from sovereignty Chapter 21, Appendix F
• Father, forgive them Chapter 30
• Father, God the Chapter 19 see also Resurrection of Christ, Trinity
• Father wound see also Fatherhood of God
  • not to be projected onto God Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Fatherhood of God Chapter 7, Appendix A1, Appendix A9 see also Adoption, Author/story metaphor, Love of God, Trinity
  • by adoption of the elect Appendix A1
  • by eternal relation to the Son Appendix A1
• Fattening before the slaughter (metaphor) see also Common grace, Reprobation
  • reprobate prosperity Appendix A3
• Fear and trembling see also Assurance, Working out salvation
  • awe at having salvation Chapter 18
• Fear of death see also Death, Intermediate state, Resurrection
  • thoughts do not end when the hardware stops Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Fear of hell see also Decisionism, Soul winning
  • refused as evangelistic tool Appendix A5
• Fear of man see also Identity in Christ
  • opinions as low-resolution renderings Appendix B
• Federal headship see also Active obedience of Christ, Adam, Contract, Covenant of works, Ezekiel, Imputation, Operational idealism
  • as legal fiction Chapter 7
  • one man’s disobedience, one man’s obedience (Rom 5:19) Chapter 15, Chapter 9
  • refuted by Ezekiel 18 Chapter 11
  • rejected Preface, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix C, Preface, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix I, Appendix A5, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • the standard Reformed position defined Chapter 7, Chapter 11
• Feeding the sheep see also Church, Vocation
  • the author’s calling Epilogue
• Feelings see also Discernment, Emotions, Holy Spirit, Pre-propositional information, Subconscious mind
  • as pre-propositional information Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E
  • three channels of origin Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 17
• Feelings precede thoughts see also Pre-propositional information
  • the processing delay
• Fellowship, church see also Christian liberty, Christian unity, Wide arms
  • grounded in the Author, not full agreement Chapter 6, Appendix O
• Feminism Appendix A7 see also Headship, Marriage
• Fence-policing see also Gatekeeping, Heresy-hunting, Legalism
  • guarding purity by exclusion Chapter 30, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Filioque see also Eastern Orthodoxy
  • dissolved by the framework Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Filling of the Spirit see also Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Sanctification
  • distinguished from baptism, continuous Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Filmmaker (metaphor) see also Author/story metaphor, Filmstrip (metaphor)
  • sees every frame at once Chapter 2, Chapter 4
• Filmstrip (metaphor) How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix G, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 9, Chapter 21, Appendix A7, Chapter 21, Appendix A11, Chapter 26, Chapter 28, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix L, Appendix M see also Author/story metaphor, Death, Decrees of God, Eternality of God, Foreknowledge of God, Foreordination, Providence, Rendering (metaphor), The seam (metaphor)
  • the Author sees the whole strip; the character one frame Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A10, Appendix A11
  • frame boundary at death Appendix A6
  • frames of the decree, authored before they render Chapter 2, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix M
• Filthy rags (metaphor) see also Assurance, Works-righteousness
  • works as Appendix A3
• Final judgment Chapter 2, Chapter 10, Appendix B, Chapter 27, Appendix A9, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix O see also Books, the opened, Condemnation of the gospel, Curse of the law, Degrees of punishment, Eschatology, Heaven, Hell, Justification
  • binary verdict with degreed intensity Chapter 14, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Chapter 19
  • public declaration of justification Chapter 10, Appendix B
  • the sort done correctly on the Day Chapter 30, Chapter 30
  • two consequences distinguished Appendix I
• Final rendering, the Appendix A3, Appendix A6 see also Glorification, Resurrection
• Final state Preface, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix L see also Beatific vision, Eschatology, Heaven and hell
• Fine-tuning argument Afterword, Appendix A12 see also Anthropic principle, Cosmological argument
• Finished work of Christ Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Preface, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Epilogue see also Atonement, Definite atonement, It is finished (tetelestai), Monergism
• Fire of God’s presence see also Firmware (metaphor), Heaven and hell, Hell, River of fire
  • same fire, different reception Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix I
• Firmware (metaphor) Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix A4, Appendix G, Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 15, Chapter 17, Chapter 20, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 29, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix E, Appendix N see also Boot parameters (metaphor), Effectual calling, Effectual grace, Heaven and hell, Holy Spirit, Old man / new man, Perseverance of the saints, Pornography, Regeneration, Reprobation, Sanctification, Two seeds
  • determines reception of the same reality Chapter 28, Chapter 30, Appendix A6, Appendix A9
  • permanent once flashed Chapter 25
  • root access; only the Designer can flash it Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Appendix A9, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix I
  • scriptural seeds (Jer 31:33; Ps 139:16) Chapter 28, Chapter 28
  • the Spirit flashes the firmware (regeneration) Chapter 3, Appendix H, Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Appendix I, Appendix J, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Appendix M, Appendix A3, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix G, Appendix I
  • trained and damaged by sin Appendix A7, Appendix A7
  • two competing chips (old man and new man) Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Appendix A12, Appendix E, Appendix E
• First principles see also Clark, Gordon, Presuppositionalism, Presuppositions
  • Clark’s term for presuppositions Chapter 16, Chapter 25
• The First (the young writer) see also Effectual calling, Justification
  • welcomed as faithful servant Appendix L
• Firstborn among many brethren see also Conformity to Christ
  • Christ Chapter 12
• Firstfruits see also Resurrection of the body
  • Christ as prototype
• Five points of Calvinism see also Assurance, Doctrines of grace, TULIP
  • not the source of assurance, not required for saving faith Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix M, Appendix O
• Five solas see also Reformation, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura
  • without the tradition Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix M
• Fixed gulf see also Final judgment
  • irreversibility of judgment Appendix L, Appendix L
• Flat canon see also Canon of Scripture, Council of Trent
  • every book at the same volume
• Flesh and Spirit, conflict of Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Appendix A2 see also Old man / new man, Sanctification, Suffering
• Flood, the see also Eschatology, Final judgment, Noah, Rendering (metaphor)
  • flood the preview, fire the feature Appendix A1
  • resetting the rendering Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B
• Floor swap (metaphor) Appendix N, Appendix N see also Operational idealism, Platonism
• Floor, the (metaphor) Appendix O, Appendix O see also Foundationalism, Ontology, The sentence (metaphor)
• Fog (metaphor) see also Monism, Mysticism
  • mysticism as fog with a face buried Afterword, Afterword
• Following logic past camp boundaries Preface see also Campless, Method, theological
• Foolishness of the gospel see also Natural man, Spiritual discernment
  • to the natural man Chapter 25
• For Further Study (apparatus) Chapter 29, Chapter 10
• Foreknowledge of God see also Decrees of God, Each person a thought of God, Election, Predestination
  • authorial knowing, not bare foresight Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 17, Appendix A3, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix O
  • basis of predestination (Rom 8:29) Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Appendix A9, Appendix F, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Epilogue
• Forensic justification see also Justification, Penal substitution
  • correct but not the whole story Appendix A1
• Foreordination Prologue, Chapter 2 see also Decrees of God, Predestination, Providence
• Forgiveness see also Decrees of God, Lord’s Prayer, Providence, Sovereign grace
  • forgiving the unrepentant Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix B
  • ordained alongside failure Epilogue, Appendix A6
• Forms (Platonic) Appendix N, Appendix N see also Idealism, Plato
• Fornication Appendix A7 see also Premarital sex
• Fortner, Don see also Prevenient grace
  • on prevenient mercy Appendix A3, Appendix A3
  • you get to doctrine by Christ, not Christ by doctrine Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Fossil record
  • as authored context, not deception
• Foundational error (metaphor) see also Justification
  • cracks everything built on top Chapter 15
• Foundationalism see also Ontology, Propositionalism
  • ontological vs. propositional floor Appendix O
• Four-layer model (metaphor) Preface, Chapter 17, Chapter 3, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 20, Appendix A2, Appendix A4, Appendix A12, Appendix I, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix H, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Animals, Anthropology, theological, Application layer (metaphor), Assurance, Computer architecture (metaphor), Firmware (metaphor), Hypostatic union, Operating system (metaphor), Operational idealism, Pre-propositional information
  • animals lack the application layer Appendix A1
  • explains faith, assurance, and doubt at different layers Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Appendix E
  • layers do not all do the same thing Preface, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A9
  • two layers in the Person of Christ Appendix A1
• Frailty of man see also Depression, Providence
  • He knoweth our frame, that we are dust Appendix A11
• Frame, John see also Presuppositionalism, Van Til, Cornelius
  • inherited Van Til’s ambiguity Appendix J
• Frame (metaphor) see also Filmstrip (metaphor)
  • three frames of one thought Chapter 2, Appendix A10
• Framework, the (metaphor) Chapter 1, Appendix A7, Appendix A10, Appendix G see also Operational idealism, Simulation hypothesis, Sola Scriptura, The sentence (metaphor)
  • predicts its own limits Appendix A2, Appendix J
• Free book / free truth see also Gospel, Means of grace, Paid clergy
  • the gospel given without charge Epilogue, Appendix A5, Appendix M, Appendix M
• Free offer of the gospel see also Common grace, Duty faith, Hyper-Calvinism
  • denied to the non-elect Chapter 19, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A5, Appendix A3, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix N
• Free will see also Arminianism, Augustine of Hippo, Author/story metaphor, Authorship of evil, Compatibilism, Effectual grace, False religion, Higby, Bob, Irresistible grace, Legalism, Monergism, Problem of evil, Reprobation, Roman Catholicism, Secondary causes, Sovereignty of God, Synergism, Theodicy, Total depravity, Tower of Babel
  • answer to the puppet objection Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 13, Appendix B
  • as Babel / works-based religion Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
  • as cause of salvation (rejected) Chapter 15, Appendix A3, Appendix M
  • as Roman compromise binding Protestantism to Rome Appendix A5
  • as the device that exonerates God (Plato’s relocation of evil) Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix N, Appendix N
  • compatibilism, not libertarian Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • God works the willing and the doing Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Chapter 25
  • libertarian free will surrendered by the framework Appendix H, Appendix B
  • the reprobate not given firmware to receive light Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 11, Chapter 13
• Free will, denial of see also Sole causality of God, Total depravity
  • the creature causes nothing independently Prologue, Chapter 14
• Free-willers see also Arminianism
  • called brothers, present among the saints in glory Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A6, Appendix L, Appendix M, Appendix N
• Friendship, theological see also Higby, Bob, Providence
  • with Higby, authored to produce the book Preface, Epilogue
• Fruit of the Spirit Preface, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Appendix M, Appendix A4, Appendix A10 see also Good works, Holy Spirit, Sanctification
• Fruit test see also Assurance, Love as evidence of regeneration
  • by their fruit ye shall know them Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Chapter 21
• Fulfillment of the law in Christ see also Active obedience of Christ, Law of Moses, New Covenant
  • removal of the Sinai overlay Chapter 8, Chapter 20
• Full preterism see also Resurrection of the body, Second coming of Christ
  • rejected (error of Hymenaeus and Philetus) Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Fullness of time Chapter 6 see also Incarnation
• Function versus ontology see also Artificial intelligence, Image of God
  • AI machinery without authoring Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Fundamentalism Appendix A8 see also Naturalism
• Futurism see also Full preterism, Historicism
  • as a Revelation framework Appendix A6, Appendix I

G

• Gadsby, William Preface see also Doctrines of grace
• Galatians, Epistle to the see also Judaizers, Law of Moses, Legalism
  • law as curse and schoolmaster Chapter 8, Chapter 20, Chapter 30
• Galileo affair see also Tradition over Scripture
  • church panic over science Appendix A9, Appendix N
• Garden of Eden
  • the opening scene authored, not a test Chapter 11, Afterword
• Garden/gardener (metaphor) see also Resurrection of the body
  • resurrection not pulling up the seed Chapter 29
• Gatekeeping Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix L, Appendix N see also Legalism, Shibboleths
• Gehenna see also Hell
  • Valley of Hinnom as cultural shame
• Gematria see also Beast, the, Number of the beast
  • Nero’s name equaling 666 Appendix A6
• Gender dysphoria see also Body, authored, Firmware (metaphor), Total depravity
  • located in fallen firmware Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Gendlin, Eugene see also Pre-propositional information
  • felt sense Appendix E
• Genealogies see also Age of the earth
  • may contain gaps Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B
• General call Preface see also Common grace, Effectual calling
• General relativity see also Einstein, Albert, Operational idealism, Quantum mechanics
  • as the rendering layer Appendix H
• General revelation Chapter 4, Chapter 17 see also Accountability vs. responsibility, Common grace, Reprobation
  • reprobate condemned by it Chapter 19, Chapter 19
• Genesis 6 (sons of God) Chapter 13 see also Watchers, the
• Genesis, book of Chapter 24, Appendix A4, Chapter 7, Appendix N see also Adam, Covenant of works
• Genetic engineering see also Providence, Secondary causes
  • a means God uses, not a replacement for authoring Appendix J
• Geneva Bible Appendix A1 see also King James Version, Tyndale, William
• Gentiles, inclusion of see also Council of Jerusalem
  • on same terms as Jews Chapter 9
• Gethsemane
  • not my will but thine Appendix A1
• Gideon Appendix A1
• Gill, John Prologue, Preface, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix I, Appendix N, Chapter 19, Appendix B, Appendix J see also Eternal justification, Hyper-Calvinism, Particular Baptists, Pride, Systematic theology, Toplady, Augustus
  • A Body of Doctrinal Divinity Appendix I
  • Darth Gill nickname
  • on eternal justification Appendix A5
  • quoted by cold men producing rotten fruit Chapter 30, Appendix A1
• Giving see also Stewardship, Tithing
  • fruit of the Spirit, not duty
• The glass (metaphor) Preface, Chapter 9, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix I, Epilogue see also Beatific vision, Curator (metaphor), Exposure, Final judgment, Firmware (metaphor), Heaven and hell, Rendering (metaphor), Resolution (metaphor), Shame
  • came down on the Son at Calvary Appendix A1
  • comes down for everyone at the end Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix A11
  • curator’s wall erected at the fall Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28
  • each translation a glass to look through Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Glorification How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Appendix A7, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 18, Appendix A1, Appendix F, Appendix G see also Beatific vision, Conformity to Christ, Election, Eschatology, Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Image of God, Rendering (metaphor), Resurrection, Resurrection body, Sanctification, Suffering
  • fully known, the glass is gone Appendix A11, Chapter 15, Chapter 15
  • higher-resolution rendering / rendering upgrade Chapter 15, Chapter 29, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Appendix A7, Appendix A4, Chapter 21, Chapter 28
  • resurrection body completes conformity Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Appendix L, Appendix A3
  • terminus of suffering and groaning Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Glorification of Christ see also Supralapsarianism
  • as first decree (supralapsarian) Appendix D
• Glorified body see also Resurrection body
  • properties beyond Adam’s original state Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix A3, Chapter 29, Afterword
• Glory of God see also Author/story metaphor, Equality of sin before God, Reprobation, Soli Deo Gloria, Theodicy, Two seeds
  • as the end of all decrees Chapter 5, Chapter 4, Appendix A10
  • infinite standard sin falls short of Chapter 14
  • requires both good and evil characters Chapter 13, Appendix M
  • revealed in mercy and justice together Chapter 12, Chapter 28, Chapter 5
• Glorying in self see also Knowledge-Calvinist, Pride
  • in doctrine as Arminian glories in choice Chapter 30
• Glossary see also Firmware (metaphor), Rendering engine (metaphor)
  • framework vocabulary Preface
• Gluttony see also Drunkenness, Mastery principle, Obesity
  • a mastery sin, not equated with body size Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Gnosticism Chapter 1, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Full preterism, Platonism, Resurrection body, Resurrection of the body
  • spiritualizing the resurrection refuted Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• God as Author see also Author/story metaphor, Inspiration of Scripture, Providence
  • wrote Scripture and the mind How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 15
• God as author of sin/evil see also Permission, divine, Problem of evil, Theodicy
  • distinguished from God sinning Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A3
• God as ground of causality see also Aseity
  • self-existent, needs no cause Appendix H
• God, doctrine of see also Immutability, divine
  • disposition independent of temporal events Chapter 15
• God of this world see also Satan
  • Satan’s title Appendix A2
• God, the Mind behind all information Appendix E, Appendix F, Appendix G see also Aseity, Operational idealism
• God thinks DNA, not designs it Chapter 3, Chapter 4 see also Laws of nature, Operational idealism
• God-of-the-gaps argument see also Intelligent design, Operational idealism
  • rebutted Chapter 3, Appendix H
• Goel (kinsman-redeemer) Chapter 9 see also Kinsman-redeemer, Redemption
• Gog and Magog Appendix A6 see also Loosing of Satan
• Golden calf see also Exposure, Moses, Shame
  • nakedness unto shame as preview of judgment Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Golden chain (Romans 8:30) see also Ordo salutis, Predestination
• Good pleasure of God see also Election, Sovereignty of God
  • salvation springs from God’s delight
• Good Shepherd see also Assurance, Election, Perseverance of the saints
  • loses no sheep, knows His own Appendix A3, Appendix O
• Good works see also Decrees of God, Fruit of the Spirit, Regeneration
  • fruit not root, foreordained Chapter 18, Chapter 18
• Goodness of the body Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix I see also Gnosticism, Platonism, Resurrection body
• Gospel see also Condemnation of the gospel, Finished work of Christ, Free offer of the gospel, Hyper-Calvinism, Justification, Means of grace, Monergism, Preaching, Sanctification, Union with Christ
  • as genuinely good news Chapter 15, Chapter 14, Chapter 16
  • as ordained means Appendix A3, Appendix A5
  • as proclamation, not offer Appendix A5, Appendix B, Chapter 19, Appendix C, Appendix I, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix B
  • holiness is Christ, not improvement Chapter 18
  • savour of death to reprobate, life to elect Chapter 12
  • unchanging amid changing vocabulary How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks
• Gospelism see also Fence-policing, Gatekeeping
  • gospel-as-form policing the saints Appendix A1, Appendix N, Appendix B
• Governance, church see also Complementarianism, Eldership
  • elder governance restricted to men
• Government and politics Appendix B see also Capital punishment
• Governmental theory of atonement Appendix N see also Atonement, Moral influence theory
• Grace Prologue, Chapter 2, Appendix M, Chapter 11, Appendix A7 see also Blood of Christ, Common grace, Covenant of redemption, Definite atonement, Election, Forgiveness, Irresistible grace, Justification, Knowledge of Christ, Monergism, Regeneration, Sanctification, Sovereign grace, Suffering
  • covers every sin equally Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Chapter 24, Appendix A10
  • growth in Chapter 18
  • particular and effectual Appendix A3, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Appendix A3
  • redemption not deletion Appendix G, Appendix G
  • sufficiency in weakness Appendix A9
  • total or nothing, not a sliding scale Chapter 14
• Grace to You Appendix K see also Johnson, Phil, MacArthur, John
• Grammar (Trivium stage) see also Trivium
  • vocabulary loaded before regeneration Appendix A10
• Gratitude see also Common grace, Fruit of the Spirit, Worship
  • motive for godly living, fruit of new firmware Chapter 17, Chapter 21, Appendix A10, Chapter 17
• Great apostasy see also Antichrist, Historicism, Remnant
  • progressive degradation of the rendering Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Great Commission see also Baptism, Evangelism, Itinerant preaching
  • go, teach, baptize Chapter 22, Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Great Schism (1054) see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Filioque
  • turned on the filioque Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Greek apologists see also Athenagoras of Athens, Platonism
  • imported Platonic metaphysics into Christianity Chapter 28
• Greek philosophy see also Deity of Christ, Neoplatonism, Patristics, Pharisees, Platonism
  • apotheosis charge against Christ’s deity Chapter 6
  • corrupting original Hebrew theology Chapter 5, Chapter 8, Chapter 13, Chapter 23, Appendix A3, Appendix A11
• Gregory Nazianzus Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers
• Gregory of Nyssa Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers, Eastern Orthodoxy
• Gregory the Great see also Angelology
  • nine choirs of angels Chapter 13
• Grief Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Appendix B, Epilogue, Appendix A9 see also Confusion vs. rebellion, Death, Feelings, Heaven, Intermediate state, Lament, Marriage, Materialism, Providence, Suffering, The seam (metaphor)
  • appropriate at the seam Appendix A6
  • the departed as a thought still thought Appendix A11, Afterword
  • misjudging a brother Chapter 30
  • predestination does not abolish feeling Appendix A10, Chapter 17
  • shamed by the small heaven Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Grieving the Spirit see also Unforgivable sin, Witness of the Spirit
  • as evidence of regeneration Appendix A3
• Groanings see also Eschatology, Holy Spirit
  • of the Spirit, creation, and the elect Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix A6
• Grudem, Wayne Chapter 28, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Berkhof, Louis
• Guidance, divine see also Holy Spirit, Illumination
  • the Spirit’s sudden impression Chapter 17
• Guilt see also Assurance, Justification, Legalism
  • produced by law-preaching Chapter 20, Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Gun control and self-defense Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix B see also Self-defense, Two swords, War

H

• Habit formation see also Operating system (metaphor), Sanctification, Subconscious mind
  • reaches the operating-system layer; managed by the subconscious Chapter 16, Chapter 17
• Hagar Chapter 6, Appendix A1 see also Angel of the LORD
• Hamartiology Appendix B see also Sin, Total depravity
• Hannah see also Providence, Sovereignty of God
  • the Lord kills and makes alive; womb closed for a season Chapter 13, Appendix A7, Appendix N
• Hard problem of consciousness Appendix J see also Consciousness, Materialism
• Hardening, divine Chapter 5, Chapter 13, Appendix A3, Appendix F see also Pharaoh, Reprobation, Sovereignty of God
  • of Pharaoh, rendered as authored nature Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Harder-softer test see also Monergism, When grace becomes law
  • a doctrine of grace that makes you harder is law Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix B
• Hardware interrupt (metaphor) Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix E, Appendix I see also Holy Spirit
• Hardware/software distinction (metaphor) Chapter 12, Chapter 21, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix E see also Firmware (metaphor), Four-layer model (metaphor)
• Has Jesus Been Lost in Your TULIP? (song) see also Heresy-hunting
  • doctrine as object of worship Appendix A10
• Hate of God toward the reprobate Appendix A7, Appendix N see also Esau and Jacob, Love of God, Reprobation
• Head and heart see also Cold orthodoxy, Faith
  • no dichotomy in saving faith Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Head coverings see also Headship, Liberty of conscience, Substance over form
  • governed by liberty; hair is the covering Chapter 21, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix B
• Headship Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Complementarianism, Marriage, Order of creation
• Healing, gift of see also Charismatic movement, Miracles of Christ, Providence
  • authored through providence and prayer; faith-healers a distortion Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Heart, circumcision of Chapter 8 see also Circumcision, Regeneration
• Heart, law written on see also Holy Spirit, Law written on the heart
• Heart, the see also Boot parameters (metaphor), Four-layer model (metaphor), Head and heart, Pre-propositional information
  • as one thing in Scripture; layers of one mind Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A4, Appendix B
  • seat of presuppositions; thinks before the head reasons Chapter 25, Appendix E, Appendix E
• Heaven Prologue, Chapter 3, Appendix A9, Appendix N, Appendix A12, Appendix A10 see also Degrees of reward, Eschatology, Hell, Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), New creation, Platonism, Resurrection body, Union with Christ
  • eschatological feast, embodied Appendix I, Chapter 29
  • not escape from the body but creation at full resolution Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix A6, Appendix L
  • the reward is Christ, not tiered Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Heaven and hell see also Firmware (metaphor), Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor)
  • same reality through different firmware (re-rendering, not relocation) Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix A6, Appendix J, Appendix J, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix I, Appendix B, Chapter 1
• Hebrew language see also Plain reading of Scripture, Yom
  • semantic range and the reading of Scripture Chapter 4, Chapter 4, Chapter 4
• Hebrew Scriptures see also Authorship of evil, Platonism, Sola Scriptura
  • counter-floor written against Plato Chapter 5, Appendix N, Chapter 13
• Hebrews, Epistle to see also Faith, Types and shadows
  • faith as substance; shadow and substance Chapter 9, Chapter 21, Appendix G, Appendix A3
• Hegel, G. W. F. Chapter 1, Appendix J, Appendix J see also Idealism, Liberalism, theological, Operational idealism
  • backbone of liberal Protestantism; framework distinguished from Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Heidelberg Catechism Chapter 30 see also Canons of Dort, Creeds and confessions, Westminster Confession
• Heisenberg uncertainty principle Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix H see also Quantum mechanics
• Hell Prologue, Chapter 27, Appendix A4, Appendix L see also Final judgment, Fire of God’s presence, Gehenna, Heaven, Lake of fire, Preservation of the saints, Reprobation, Rich man and Lazarus, Shame, Thief on the cross
  • conscious torment in the intermediate state Appendix A3
  • the elect never at risk of Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 22
  • not separation from God but His full presence as torment Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • shame before pain; uncovered exposure under God’s gaze Chapter 6, Appendix A6
• Hellenism see also Pharisees, Platonism
  • Greek philosophy corrupting Hebrew theology Chapter 8
• Heresy see also Tradition
  • defined by confession, not Bible Appendix L, Appendix M, Appendix O
• Heresy, accusation of see also Hyper-Calvinism, Persecution
  • against the author Prologue, Epilogue, Appendix A3
• Heresy-hunting Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Diotrephes, Gatekeeping, Pride, Sola Scriptura
  • syllogism and label without Scripture Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Hermeneutics see also Authority of Scripture, Homologoumena, Sola Scriptura
  • the clear interprets the unclear Chapter 26, Appendix A5, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26
  • the text says what it says; plain reading Chapter 24, Appendix B, Chapter 27
• Hidden decree see also Book of Life, Decrees of God, Indiscriminate preaching
  • we cannot see who is elect Chapter 19, Appendix A5
• Hidden God (Deus absconditus) Chapter 26 see also Providence
• Hidden variables Appendix H see also Bohmian mechanics
• Higby, Bob Prologue, Preface, Chapter 12, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix F, Appendix K, Appendix C, Epilogue, Preface see also Augustine of Hippo, Baptism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Infralapsarianism, Kraft, Brandan, Lord’s Supper, Modified Covenant Theology, Qumran community, Roman Catholicism, Supralapsarianism, Two seeds
  • critique of Augustine as another gospel Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix A6
  • Dead Sea Scrolls and the two seeds Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 9, Chapter 11
  • on infra- vs. supralapsarianism Appendix D
  • theology of wine and baptism Chapter 10, Chapter 22
• High priest see also Cities of refuge
  • death of, sets the manslayer free Chapter 9
• Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor) How This Book Talks, Chapter 12, Appendix H, Chapter 3, Chapter 29, Appendix A4, Appendix A11, Appendix C, Chapter 6, Chapter 19, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix A10, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Chapter 12, Chapter 6, Appendix A11, Appendix L see also Beatific vision, Christ and the church, Glorification, Rendering (metaphor), Resurrection, Resurrection body
  • Christ and His bride; the glass coming down Chapter 27, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Hinduism see also Operational idealism, Other religions
  • brushing against idealism Appendix A9
• The Hinge see also Sola gratia
  • if correct doctrine does not save, incorrect doctrine does not damn Chapter 30
• Hippo, Council of (393) Chapter 26
• Hireling problem Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Church discipline, Paid clergy
• Historic premillennialism Appendix I see also Amillennialism, Eschatology
• Historicism Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix I see also Amillennialism, Huss, John, Reformed eschatology
  • maps heresies and church history Chapter 27
• History see also Reformation, Rendering (metaphor), Time
  • real to characters, still authored Chapter 2, Appendix B
• Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns) Chapter 11, Appendix F, Appendix N see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran community
• Hodge, Charles see also Confessions of faith, Edwards, Jonathan, Horton, Michael, Pantheism
  • appeal to authority Preface
  • on Edwards’ idealism and pantheism Appendix J
• Hoeksema, Herman Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Common grace, Gill, John, Supralapsarianism
• Hoffman, Donald Appendix H, Appendix J see also Evolutionary epistemology, Interface theory, Operational idealism, Panpsychism, Pantheism, Spacetime
  • argument against materialism; “spacetime is doomed” Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix J
  • conscious realism and the pantheist exit Appendix J, Appendix J
• Holiness of Christ see also Cleansing from sin
  • purity that exposes all other purity as filth Appendix L
• Holiness of God Appendix A1, Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix J see also Author/story metaphor, Problem of evil
  • “reverend” belongs to God alone Appendix A5
• Holiness of the elect see also Election, Sanctification
  • chosen to be holy and without blame Chapter 2, Chapter 14
• Holloway, Pastor Richard see also Degrees of punishment, Light received
  • filmstrip of pulpit light Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix L
• Holographic principle Appendix J see also Simulation hypothesis
• Holy days see also Liberty of conscience, Substance and shadow
  • matters of conscience, not commandment; shadows fulfilled in Christ Chapter 21, Chapter 21
• Holy Spirit Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Preface see also Adoption, Assurance, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Covenant of grace, Covenant of redemption, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dreams, Effectual calling, Faith, Hardware interrupt (metaphor), House church, Illumination, Knowledge, Law written on the heart, Monergism, New covenant, Participatory ecclesiology, Regeneration, Sealing of the Spirit, Trinity
  • applies the benefits of the cross Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Appendix A4, Chapter 19
  • direct intervention as hardware interrupt Chapter 17, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix I
  • guides the gathered body Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 29
  • indwelling Old Testament saints; working in pre-Christian writers Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9
  • intercession and witness with our spirit Appendix E, Appendix E, Chapter 15
  • primary work is epistemological Appendix A3, Chapter 16
  • sign and seal of the covenant; baptism of Chapter 22, Appendix A4
  • sole agent of regeneration; flashes the firmware Chapter 14, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix A3, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix E, Appendix A10, Appendix M, Epilogue, How This Book Talks, Chapter 10
  • writes the law on the heart Chapter 20, Appendix A7, Appendix C, Appendix B
• Homologoumena see also Antilegomena, Canon of Scripture, James, Epistle of
  • undisputed books govern the disputed Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix B, Appendix A5
• Homosexuality see also Compassion, Ordination of sin, Sin nature
  • orientation ordained, not chosen; sin held with compassion Chapter 14, Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Honor-shame theology Appendix A6, Appendix A6 see also Shame, Soteriology
• Hope see also Grief, Lament, Salvation
  • carrying grief across; recalled intentionally in lament Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A9
  • the forward-vector of the saint Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Horton, Michael see also Edwards, Jonathan, Panentheism, Union with God
  • objection that Edwards’ idealism is panentheist Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Hosea see also Covenant of works
  • his marriage as type; “like Adam” disputed Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 11
• Hospice see also Euthanasia
  • a mercy through the created order Appendix A7
• Hospitality Chapter 24 see also Spiritual gifts
• House church Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 24 see also Institutional church, Participatory ecclesiology
• Human responsibility see also Free will, Monergism, Synergism
  • phrase absent from Scripture; back door for human contribution Chapter 19, Appendix C, Appendix K, Appendix M, Appendix A9
• Human uniqueness see also Application layer (metaphor), Image of God
  • the capacity to reflect Chapter 17, Appendix I
• Humanae Vitae Appendix A7 see also Birth control, Roman Catholicism
• Humiliation of Christ Chapter 6 see also Exaltation of Christ, Kenosis
• Humility see also Apologetics, Empathy, Grace
  • the apologist’s only posture Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 25
  • from feeling undeserved grace and proximity to sin Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Epilogue
• Huss, John see also Historicism
• Hymenaeus and Philetus Appendix A6 see also Full preterism
• Hynek, J. Allen Appendix A8
• Hyper-Calvinism Prologue, Preface, Preface, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix K see also Antinomianism, Calvinism, Clark, Gordon, Common grace, Free offer of the Gospel, Great Commission, Heresy-hunting, Sovereign grace
  • answered: doctrine and preaching not made irrelevant Chapter 9, Chapter 21, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix L
  • as a label-slap, not a Scriptural refutation Chapter 1, Chapter 19, Appendix A10, Appendix N, Appendix I, Appendix I
• Hypocrisy Chapter 14, Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Appendix O, Appendix L see also Legalism, Pharisaism, Self-righteousness
• Hypostatic union see also Author/story metaphor, Council of Chalcedon, Incarnation, Kenosis, Operational idealism, Two natures of Christ
  • Author becoming the character without ceasing to be Author Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 6
  • two natures in one person Appendix I, Appendix A1

I

• I am a thought (self-awareness) Epilogue see also Operational idealism, The sentence (metaphor)
• Iblis Chapter 13 see also Islam, Vita Adae et Evae
• Iconoclasm Appendix N, Appendix N see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Images of Christ, Second commandment
• Icons Appendix A5, Appendix N see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Images of Christ, Second commandment
• Idealism Prologue, Chapter 1, Appendix G, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix A9, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J see also Materialism, Mind of God, Operational idealism, Platonism, Rendering (metaphor), The sentence (metaphor)
  • Christian / theistic Preface, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
  • invisible more real than visible Preface, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Appendix N, Appendix A5
  • vindicated by physics / Big Bang Appendix A1, Appendix G
• Identity coding see also Idolatry
  • manhood located in a product Appendix A7
• Identity in Christ Preface, Appendix A11, Appendix A11 see also Union with Christ
• Idolatry Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, Appendix A9 see also Images of Christ, Physical worship, Pride, Second commandment
  • of the framework / doctrine Preface, Preface, Chapter 6, Appendix A10, Appendix O
• Illumination Chapter 16 see also Holy Spirit, Regeneration
• Image of God see also Application layer (metaphor), Artificial intelligence, Conformity to Christ, Glorification, Goodness of the body
  • as destination, not static possession Chapter 12, Chapter 12
  • basis for sanctity of life Appendix A8, Appendix A9
  • male and female, perfected not unmade Appendix A6, Appendix A6
  • ontological and particular to the elect Chapter 1, Chapter 12, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Chapter 17, Chapter 26, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix I, Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A1
• Image of the serpent see also Reprobation
  • borne by the reprobate Appendix A9
• Images of Christ Appendix A5 see also Icons, Idolatry, Second commandment
• Imitation of God Chapter 9 see also Patience, divine, Sanctification
• Immanence of Christ see also Heaven, Marriage supper of the Lamb
  • seated at the table with the saints Appendix L, Appendix L
• Immanence of God Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Appendix J see also Independence of God, Union with God
• Immersion see also Baptism, Credobaptism
  • mode of baptism Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Appendix I
• Immortality of the soul see also Annihilationism, Intermediate state, Operational idealism
  • Platonic premise rejected Chapter 28
• Immutability, divine Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Appendix A11, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 18, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix J see also Aseity, Decrees of God, Eternality of God, Faithfulness of God, Guilt, Justification
  • His thought about you does not change when you sin Appendix A11
• Immutability of decree see also Decrees of God, Predestination
  • destiny impossible to change Appendix F
• Impassibility, divine Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A3, Appendix J see also Aseity, Communicatio idiomatum, Two wills of God
• Impassibility of the blessed see also Fixed gulf, Heaven
  • neither rejoicing nor mourning the lost Appendix L
• Impeccability of elect angels Chapter 12, Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Chapter 12 see also Angels, Elect angels
• Impeccability of God see also Authorship of evil, Holiness of God, Theodicy
  • God cannot sin against Himself Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 5
• Impossibility argument see also Total depravity, Two natures of Christ
  • righteousness cannot produce sin Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Imprecatory psalms Chapter 28, Chapter 28 see also Justice of God
• Imputation Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Appendix A1, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 24, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix F see also Active obedience of Christ, Curse of the law, Eternal justification, Faith, Federal headship, Justification, Original sin, Penal substitution, Righteousness of Christ, Roman Catholicism, Substitutionary atonement
  • from eternity / non-imputation permanent Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Appendix C
  • imputed, not infused Chapter 15, Chapter 11
  • of Adam’s guilt rejected Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Appendix A3, Chapter 11, Chapter 11
  • of righteousness to Abraham Chapter 8
  • of sin to Christ Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Afterword, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Chapter 15
• Inability of man Chapter 7, Chapter 16, Appendix F see also Free will, Monergism, Total depravity
• Inability of the law see also Purpose of the law, Total depravity
  • to produce righteousness Chapter 20, Chapter 20
• Incarnation How This Book Talks, Appendix G, Chapter 2, Appendix I, Appendix I, Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Chapter 6, Appendix B, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Chapter 28, Afterword, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix G, Appendix N, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix L see also Author/story (metaphor), Extraterrestrial life, Hypostatic union, Operational idealism, Pre-propositional information, Two natures of Christ
  • information becoming matter Chapter 6, Appendix B, Appendix G
  • particular and located in human flesh Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix J
• Incomprehensibility of God Appendix A9, Appendix A12, Appendix O see also Knowledge of God
• Incorruption Chapter 29 see also Glorification, Resurrection of the body
• Independence of God How This Book Talks, Appendix A1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 see also Aseity, Creator-creature distinction
• Indiscriminate preaching Chapter 19 see also Free offer of the gospel, Preaching
• Indulgences Appendix N see also Reformation, Roman Catholicism
• Indwelling of the Spirit Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 27, Appendix A2, Appendix J see also Holy Spirit, Regeneration, Sealing of the Spirit
• Inerrancy Appendix A1 see also Authority of Scripture, Inspiration of Scripture
• Infant baptism Chapter 24, Appendix I see also Baptism, Credobaptism
• Infant salvation see also Death of a child, Federal headship
  • all dying infants are elect Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Infinite atonement see also Atonement, Equality of sin before God
  • every sin requires it equally Chapter 14
• Infinite regress see also Aseity
  • ends in a mind or never ends Chapter 3, Appendix H
• Infinity of God Appendix H, Chapter 14 see also Aseity, Holiness of God
• Information as fundamental Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix I see also Idealism, It from bit
• Information, reality as Preface, Appendix H, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 10, Chapter 25, Appendix A2, Appendix J, Appendix J see also DNA as authored code, It from bit, Operational idealism
• Information requires a mind Chapter 3, Appendix H, Appendix H see also DNA as authored code, Intelligent design, Materialism
• Information theory How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1 see also Pre-propositional information
• Information vs. knowledge Appendix E see also Clarkianism, Pre-propositional information
• Infralapsarianism Chapter 5, Appendix B, Appendix D, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 12, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix I, Appendix D see also Decrees of God, Supralapsarianism, Unconditional election
• Inheritance see also Heaven
  • the Lord Himself Appendix A3
• Inherited guilt see also Federal headship, Imputation, Original sin
  • distinguished from directly-authored sin Chapter 11
• Inspiration of Scripture How This Book Talks, Chapter 26, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 24, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix O see also Authority of Scripture, Inerrancy, Word of God
• Instinct see also Animals, Firmware (metaphor)
  • animal firmware
• Institutional church Prologue, Chapter 10, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 26, Epilogue, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Clergy-laity distinction, Ecclesiology, Roman Catholicism
• Intellectual assent see also Saving faith
  • even the devils believe Chapter 16
• Intelligent design see also DNA as authored code
  • distinguished from authorship Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 4
• Intelligibility of the universe Chapter 25, Appendix J see also Materialism, Reason, reliability of
• Intentionality of creation see also Providence
  • every atom a thought God chooses Appendix H
• Intercession of Christ Chapter 25, Appendix A2 see also Perseverance of the saints, Union with Christ
• Intercessory prayer Appendix L, Appendix L see also Forgiveness
• Interdimensional hypothesis see also Demons
  • UFO phenomena as spiritual Appendix A8
• Interface theory see also Hoffman, Donald, Rendering engine (metaphor)
  • desktop icons metaphor
• Interference pattern Chapter 3 see also Double-slit experiment, Observer effect
• Intermediate state see also Death, Resurrection, Soul sleep
  • conscious presence with the Lord Chapter 28, Afterword, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A6, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix L
• Internal testimony of the Holy Spirit Chapter 26 see also Regeneration, Self-authentication of Scripture
• Intrusive thoughts see also Old man / new man
  • old firmware, not demonic Appendix A2
• Invisible more real than the visible Preface, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 22, Appendix A5 see also Operational idealism, Platonism, Rendering (metaphor)
• Invisible precedes visible (principle) Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 26, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Operational idealism, Rendering (metaphor)
• Inward man renewed Appendix A11 see also Aging, Resurrection, Sanctification
• Iron sharpens iron see also Church hurt, Conformity to Christ
  • the wounding that shapes you
• Irresistible grace see also Effectual calling, Monergism, TULIP
  • the firmware flash Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A5
• Isaac see also Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
  • binding of, as type of the Lamb Appendix A1, Chapter 10, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Isaac the Syrian see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Gregory of Nyssa
  • same-reality view of heaven and hell Chapter 28
• Isaiah Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 21 see also Covenant of grace, Substitutionary atonement, Suffering Servant
• Isaiah 14 / Ezekiel 28 see also Angels that sinned, Satan
  • read as about human kings, not Satan’s fall Appendix A2, Appendix I
• Islam Chapter 13, Appendix A9 see also Decrees of God, Iblis, Other religions
• Israel and the church see also Covenant theology, Dispensationalism
  • not two separate programs Appendix A6, Appendix C, Appendix N
• It from bit Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix A12, Appendix G see also Information as fundamental, Wheeler, John Archibald
• It is finished (tetelestai) Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 30, Appendix B see also Assurance, Finished work of Christ
• Itinerant preaching see also Evangelism, Great Commission
  • the biblical model Appendix A5

J

• Jacob Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Chapter 15, Appendix A2 see also Angel of the LORD, Imputation, Predestination, Theophany
  • loved before born, covered by imputed righteousness Chapter 15, Appendix A11
• James, Epistle of see also Antilegomena, Canon of Scripture, Faith and works, Homologoumena, Luther, Martin
  • as antilegomenon Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Appendix B
  • faith without works is dead Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26
• James, William Appendix E see also Pre-propositional information
• Jehovah (divine name) Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Aseity, Divine names, Imputation, Tetragrammaton
  • compound names fulfilled in Christ Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Jeremiah see also Covenant of grace, Election, Ezekiel, Grief, Inherited guilt, Lament, New covenant, Singleness, Suffering
  • 31:29-30 denies inherited guilt Chapter 11
  • forbidden to marry Appendix A7
  • known before formed in the womb Chapter 11, Appendix A3, Chapter 14
  • lament over Jerusalem Chapter 13, Appendix A9, Appendix A10
  • new covenant written on the heart Chapter 21
• Jerusalem council Appendix A6 see also Judaizers
• Jesus Christ see also Hypostatic union, Incarnation, Penal substitution
  • life and ministry Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A7
• Jewish ceremonies see also Firmware (metaphor)
  • apostles observing temple worship in transition Chapter 22
• Job see also Lament, Suffering, Theodicy, Total depravity
  • answer was presence, not explanation Appendix A9, Appendix A10
  • upright yet a sinner Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix N
• Job’s friends see also Comforting the grieving, Suffering
  • silent presence as model Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• John, Gospel of see also Logos
  • 1:1-3, the Word and creation Appendix G, Appendix A1
• John, the Apostle Chapter 1, Chapter 19, Appendix A2, Appendix G see also Apocalyptic literature, Logos
• John the Baptist Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix E see also Pre-propositional information, Singleness
• Johnson, Phil Prologue, Appendix C, Appendix K, Chapter 5, Appendix K, Chapter 19, Appendix B, Appendix K see also Hyper-Calvinism, MacArthur, John, Pristine Grace (website)
• Jonah see also Resurrection
  • three days in the fish as type Chapter 9
• Joseph (husband of Mary) Appendix A3 see also Dreams, Perpetual virginity of Mary
• Joseph (patriarch) see also Dreams, Pharaoh, Providence, Sovereignty of God, Theodicy
  • dreams Appendix A12
  • meant for evil, God meant it for good Chapter 14, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Chapter 9
• Josephus, Flavius Appendix F see also Essenes, Predestination
• Joshua Chapter 9, Appendix A8, Chapter 30 see also War
• Jowett, Benjamin Chapter 1 see also Plato, Republic (Plato)
• Joy Chapter 10, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Epilogue, Appendix A4 see also Fruit of the Spirit, Kingdom of God, Peace
• Joy, divine see also Beatific vision
  • the laugh of Christ Appendix L
• Judaizers Chapter 20, Appendix A6, Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Appendix A6 see also Another gospel, Jerusalem council, Legalism
• Judas Iscariot Appendix A1, Appendix B, Chapter 30 see also Election, Particular love of God, Repentance, Reprobation, Two seeds, Universal love of God
  • contrasted with John under universal love Chapter 19
  • the most explicit reprobate, chosen as a devil Appendix A9
• Jude, Epistle of Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Appendix A2 see also Angels that sinned, Preservation of the saints
• Judge not see also Final judgment, Judging another’s servant
  • the measure used returns on the Day Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Judging another’s servant see also Discernment
  • the man belongs to God Chapter 14, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10
• Justice of God Chapter 2, Chapter 28, Appendix A1 see also Degrees of punishment, Propitiation, Wrath of God
• Justification Prologue, Chapter 3, Chapter 9, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Appendix M, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Appendix L, Appendix L, Chapter 30, Chapter 24, Chapter 18, Appendix A3 see also Active obedience of Christ, Atonement, David, Election, Eternal justification, Final judgment, Hermeneutics, Imputation, Legalism, Monergism, Operational idealism, Sola fide
  • cross as rendering, judgment as declaration Chapter 10, Appendix B
  • error of reversing the order (by works) Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 26
  • from eternity Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Appendix B, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix J, Chapter 6, Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix C, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix O, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 27, Appendix C, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix F, Appendix F, Chapter 22, Appendix A11, Appendix B
  • in Old Testament saints Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 14
• Justin Martyr Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Logos, Platonism

K

• Kahneman, Daniel see also Pre-propositional information
  • System 1 vs System 2 Appendix E
• Kallipolis see also Plato, Problem of evil
  • Plato’s ideal city Appendix N
• Kant, Immanuel see also Liberalism, theological
  • epistemology imported by liberalism Appendix J
• Karma Afterword see also Reincarnation
• Kenosis see also Humiliation of Christ, Two natures of Christ
  • emptying of reputation, not of nature Chapter 6
• Ketubah
  • Jewish marriage contract as public ratification Appendix A7
• King James Version see also KJV-Onlyism
  • preferred but not exclusive How This Book Talks, Appendix A1
• Kingdom of God Chapter 9, Chapter 14, Chapter 21, Appendix A8 see also Amillennialism, Eschatology, Final judgment, Joy, Peace, Regeneration
  • come as rendering upgrade Appendix A9
  • righteousness, peace, and joy Epilogue, Epilogue
  • spiritual, not physical Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Kingly office of Christ Chapter 6 see also Munus triplex, Two seeds
• Kinsman-redeemer see also Boaz, Redemption, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9, Appendix A1
• KJV-Onlyism see also Forms (Platonic), King James Version, Platonism
  • diagnosed as Platonism How This Book Talks, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Knowledge see also Empiricism, Epistemology
  • as presupposition of epistemology Chapter 16, Chapter 25
• Knowledge of Christ see also Continuous sanctification
  • growth in grace and knowledge Chapter 18
• Knowledge of God see also Foreknowledge of God
  • creaturely knowing is derivative Appendix O
• Knowledge of good and evil see also Adam, Total depravity
  • experiential not ontological change Chapter 11
• Knowledge of salvation see also Assurance, Witness of the Spirit
  • assurance, not hope or guess Appendix A3
• Knowledge-Calvinist see also Another gospel, Arminianism in a TULIP sweatshirt
  • doctrinal literacy substituted for faith Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Knox, John see also Historicism
  • held historicism Chapter 27
• Koine Greek Chapter 24, Appendix A1 see also Head coverings, Hermeneutics
• Kraft, Brandan Preface, Appendix C, Appendix F, Appendix I, Preface, Appendix L see also Firmware (metaphor), Marriage, Modified Covenant Theology, Operational idealism, Pride, Pristine Grace (website), Self-righteousness, Sola Scriptura
  • 2004 MCT article anticipating the framework Chapter 22, Afterword
  • calling and biography Prologue, Preface, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Appendix G
  • confession of doctrinal pride Chapter 14
  • marriage to Angie Preface, Chapter 10, Appendix N
  • vocation as programmer Preface, Appendix J

L

• Labeling as substitute for argument Preface, Appendix A10 see also Shibboleths
• Lake of fire see also Hell, Reprobation, Second death
  • God’s presence through corrupted firmware Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix A6
• Lamb of God see also Passover, Substitutionary atonement, Worship
  • Christ our passover Chapter 9, Appendix A6
• Lamb slain from the foundation of the world Chapter 6, Chapter 11, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix D, Appendix C, Chapter 11 see also Covenant of redemption, Decrees of God, Election, Eternal justification
• Lament see also Divine hiddenness, Grief, Suffering
  • not a failure of faith Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Lamentations see also Faithfulness of God, Mercy of God
  • mercies new every morning Appendix A9
• Last days see also Postmillennialism
  • perilous times shall come Chapter 27
• Last trumpet see also Rapture, Second coming of Christ
  • one trumpet, one coming Appendix A6
• Law and gospel Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Appendix B see also Firmware (metaphor), Means of grace, Monergism, Regeneration, Total depravity
  • law as external software on unregenerate hardware Chapter 21
• Law, believer’s relation to see also Antinomianism, Covenant of grace, Decalogue
  • dead to the law, under grace Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 20
• Law of God see also Active obedience of Christ, Antinomianism, Covenant of works, Finished work of Christ, Moral law, New Covenant Theology
  • ended in Christ Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix C, Chapter 9, Appendix A8
  • given to increase sin, not prevent it Chapter 11, Chapter 15, How This Book Talks
  • third use rejected Appendix I, Appendix M
• Law of Moses see also Covenant of works, Mosaic covenant
  • as schoolmaster and curse Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 20
• Law of Plato (metaphor) see also Firmware (metaphor), Platonism, Problem of evil, Theodicy
  • God cannot be the source of evil Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Appendix N
• Law of the Spirit of life Chapter 20 see also Christ as the rule of life
• Law written on the heart Chapter 20, Appendix C, Appendix C see also New covenant
• Laws of nature see also Intelligibility of the universe, Materialism, Miracles, Operational idealism, Providence, Rendering constraints (metaphor)
  • as adjustable settings, not necessities Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G
  • as patterns in God’s thinking Chapter 4, Appendix F, Appendix H, Appendix H
  • uniformity presupposed not explained by materialism Chapter 3, Chapter 25, Chapter 25
• Lazarus and the rich man see also Intermediate state, Recognition in heaven
  • recognition in the afterlife Appendix A12
• Lazarus of Bethany see also Christ, tenderness of, Grief, Soul sleep
  • Christ wept at his tomb Chapter 24, Appendix A6, Appendix A3
• LeDoux, Joseph see also Amygdala, Limbic system
  • two-pathway model Appendix E
• Left Behind novels Chapter 27 see also Dispensationalism
• Legal and ontological registers see also Remarriage
  • distinction in marriage Appendix A6
• Legalism Chapter 1, Chapter 18, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 21 see also Firmware (metaphor), Judaizers, Law and gospel, Liberty of conscience, Means of grace, Pharisees, Tithing, Total depravity, When grace becomes law, Yoke of bondage
  • application-layer interventions fail Appendix A7
  • fence-building instinct of the heart Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix B
  • grace converted into a boundary marker Chapter 30
  • imposers rebuked Appendix C, Chapter 21, Appendix A8, Appendix L
• Lent see also Holy days, Yoke of bondage
  • as imposed regulation rebuked Chapter 21
• Letter in a drawer (metaphor) see also Kraft, Brandan
  • book written for a future generation Afterword
• Levirate marriage Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A7 see also Marriage, Onan, Sadducees
• Levitical system see also Ceremonial law, Day of Atonement
  • shadow of which Christ is substance Chapter 9
• Lewis, C. S. Appendix J
• Lex talionis see also Curse of the law, Justice of God
  • rendering of the Author’s justice at lower resolution Chapter 28
• Liberalism, theological see also Hegel, G. W. F., Penal substitution
  • rooted in Hegelian idealism Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix N
• Libertarian free will see also Compatibilism, Free will
  • denied Chapter 2
• Libertinism Appendix A7 see also Antinomianism
• Liberty of conscience Preface, Appendix C, Chapter 4, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 24 see also Adiaphora, Antinomianism, Baptism, Christian liberty, Clericalism, Conscience, Ecclesiology, Libertinism, Marriage bed, Yoke of bondage
  • in marriage and disputable matters Appendix A6, Chapter 22, Appendix O
  • liberty is not license Chapter 20, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Chapter 21
  • no institution over the conscience Epilogue, Epilogue
• Light and darkness (metaphor) see also Glory of God, Purpose of reprobation, Vessels of wrath and mercy
  • mercy visible only against wrath Chapter 12, Chapter 28
• Light received see also Degrees of punishment, Final judgment
  • greater light, greater accountability Appendix A6
• Light, uncreated see also Beatific vision, Heaven
  • non-uniform glory in the vestibule Appendix L
• Limbic system Chapter 17, Appendix E see also Amygdala, Brain
• Limited atonement Chapter 25, Chapter 30, Appendix A5, Appendix I, Chapter 25, Chapter 14, Appendix A12 see also Covenant of redemption, Definite atonement, Hyper-Calvinism, Knowledge-Calvinist, TULIP
  • describes the mechanics, does not save Chapter 30, Chapter 25
  • narrowed beyond any confession Chapter 30
• Limits of natural theology see also Bell’s Theorem
  • physics dismantles the alternative, does not prove the Author Appendix H
• Limits of the framework see also Incomprehensibility of God, Theodicy
  • honest where Scripture is silent Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Lindsey, Hal Chapter 27 see also Dispensationalism
• Liturgy see also Tradition over Scripture, Worship
  • as catechesis that smuggles in theology Appendix N, Chapter 24
• Lived experience see also Doctrines of grace, Presuppositionalism
  • as a source of theological conviction Chapter 25
• Living theology see also Sovereign grace movement
  • prove, not defend Appendix A5, Appendix I
• Locality see also Bell’s Theorem, Nonlocality
  • dissolved by Bell’s Theorem Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix H
• Logic, reliability of see also Falsifiability of the framework, Intelligibility of the universe, Reason
  • grounded in a logical God Chapter 25, Appendix A12
• Logos see also Creation by the Word of God, Incarnation, Information as fundamental, Justin Martyr, Mind precedes matter, Word of God
  • identified as Christ Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix G, Appendix A1, Appendix N
  • the Word as information before matter Chapter 1, Chapter 1
• London Baptist Confession Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Baptism, Covenant of works, Creeds and confessions
• Loneliness see also Glorification, Grief
  • being a specific thought individually thought Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Loosing of Satan Appendix A6 see also Binding of Satan, Gog and Magog
• Lord’s Prayer see also Prayer
  • model, not liturgy Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Lord’s Supper Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Appendix A6, Chapter 23 see also Consubstantiation, Marriage supper of the Lamb, Means of grace, Memorialism, New Covenant, Real presence, Resurrection of Christ, Sacraments, Transubstantiation
  • as celebration, not funeral Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 10
  • real-presence error Appendix A6, Appendix N, Appendix N
  • renders the new covenant Chapter 8, Appendix B, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix N
• Lordship of Christ Chapter 17, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 28 see also Resurrection of Christ
• Lordship salvation Chapter 26 see also Faith and works
• Love see also Beauty, Effectual grace, Morality, objective, Sanctification
  • the destination of doctrine Prologue, Preface, How This Book Talks
  • engine of obedience over law Chapter 21
  • unaccounted for by materialism
• Love as evidence of regeneration Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A4 see also Fruit of the Spirit, Sanctification
• Love of Christ constraining Chapter 20, Chapter 20 see also Christ as the rule of life
• Love of enemies Appendix A8 see also Militarism, Retaliation
• Love of God see also Assurance, Children of wrath, Common grace, Covenant of grace, Covenant of redemption, Electing love, Eternal justification, Pantheism, Particular redemption, Trinity, Unconditional election
  • already in motion, not begun at conversion Chapter 15, Chapter 5
  • as covenant Appendix A1, Appendix A9
  • as the reason for existence Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix J
  • particular, electing, effectual Chapter 19, Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix A7, Appendix K
  • within the Godhead Chapter 7
• Loveless gatekeeping Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Sharpest doctrine, widest arms
• Lovingkindness of God see also Atonement, Sovereign grace
  • ground of salvation Appendix F
• Lucifer myth see also Satan
  • helel as title for king of Babylon Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Lust see also Pornography
  • feeling from old firmware Chapter 17, Appendix A7
• Luther, Martin Prologue, Preface, Chapter 23, Appendix F, Appendix M, Appendix A5, Appendix J, Appendix I, Appendix N see also Antilegomena, Canon of Scripture, James, Epistle of, Justification, Reformation, Roman Catholicism, Sola fide
  • and the canon Chapter 12, Chapter 21, Appendix A5, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix B, Chapter 26, Appendix A5, Preface
  • recovery of justification Appendix A6, Chapter 27
• Lutheranism Chapter 15, Chapter 30 see also Baptismal regeneration, Means of grace
• Lydia see also Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration
  • conversion of Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix B

M

• MacArthur, John Prologue, Prologue, Appendix K see also Hyper-Calvinism, Lordship salvation
• Made sin see also Gill, John, Imputation, Substitutionary atonement
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Magisterium see also Roman Catholicism, Sola Scriptura
  • confession functioning as Appendix M
• Mahan, Henry Chapter 6, Chapter 27, Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Mechanics vs. mercy, Mystery in theology, Sovereign grace movement
• Malicious code (metaphor) see also Demons, Firmware (metaphor), Satan
  • demons authored evil Chapter 12
• Manichaeism see also Dualism, Infralapsarianism
  • charge rebutted Chapter 12
• Manna see also Tabernacle, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ the bread of life Chapter 9
• Many within one (metaphor) Appendix A1 see also Author/story metaphor
• Many-worlds interpretation Appendix H see also Copenhagen interpretation, Pilot wave theory
• Map and territory
  • model is map, not territory Appendix E, Appendix E
• Map of the chapters
  • module map How This Book Talks
• Marian devotion Appendix N, Appendix A3 see also Perpetual virginity of Mary, Reformation, Roman Catholicism
• Marital sexuality Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix A11 see also Body, theology of the, Marriage bed
• Mark of the beast Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Antichrist
• Marks of grace see also Assurance, Fruit of the Spirit, Sanctification
  • holiness as proof of salvation Appendix L
• Marriage Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix A12 see also Complementarianism, Covenant, Covenant companion (metaphor), Covenant of grace, Eschatology, Grief, Headship, Mutual submission, One-flesh union, Operational idealism, Particular grace, Rendering (metaphor), Resurrection of the body
  • as particular love of God Chapter 19, Appendix A3
  • covenant carried through the grave Chapter 29, Appendix A11, Appendix N, Appendix N
  • covenant precedes ceremony Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 7, Chapter 10, Chapter 29, Chapter 29
  • persists into eternity Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix L, Appendix N
  • submission and headship Chapter 23, Appendix A7, Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Marriage bed Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A9, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Marriage, Union with Christ
• Marriage supper of the Lamb Chapter 10, Appendix O, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix N, Appendix O see also Eschatology, Heaven, Lord’s Supper, New creation
• Mars Hill sermon see also Common grace, Immanence of God, Paul, the Apostle
  • Paul quoting pagan poets How This Book Talks, Chapter 1
• Martyrdom see also Bradford, John
  • John Bradford burned at the stake Chapter 12
• Mary Magdalene see also Signature (metaphor)
  • recognizing Christ by voice Chapter 29, Chapter 24
• Mary, mother of Jesus Appendix A1, Appendix A3 see also Perpetual virginity of Mary, Roman Catholicism
• Mary Sutcliffe Chapter 30
• Mastery principle Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Drunkenness
• Masturbation Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B see also Conscience, Lust, Pornography
• Materialism How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 26, Appendix B, Appendix G, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 17, Chapter 20, Chapter 22, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Afterword, Afterword, Appendix A1, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Bell’s Theorem, Consciousness, Idealism, Information requires a mind, Mind precedes matter, Naturalism, No neutral ground, Operational idealism, Rendering (metaphor)
  • cannot explain consciousness, morality, or information Chapter 25, Appendix J, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix J, Appendix J, Chapter 25, Appendix H, Appendix H
  • falsified by quantum mechanics Appendix H, Appendix H
  • presumes neutral ground Chapter 25, Chapter 25
• Mathematics see also Information requires a mind, Intelligibility of the universe
  • reliability requires God Chapter 25, Appendix J, Appendix H
• Maturity, spiritual see also Discernment, Firmware (metaphor), Wisdom
  • discerning the channel Chapter 17, Appendix A12
• Maximus the Confessor Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers, Eastern Orthodoxy, Pseudo-Dionysius
• McGilchrist, Iain see also Pre-propositional information
  • right hemisphere pre-linguistic Appendix E
• Means and ends see also Predestination
  • end precedes means Appendix D
• Means of grace Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Appendix A11, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Appendix A11, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix L, Appendix N see also Effectual calling, Operational idealism, Preaching, Sacraments, Word of God
  • substance precedes formality Chapter 22, Chapter 22
• Mechanic vs. Manufacturer (metaphor) see also Depression, Regeneration, Therapy
  • therapy vs. regeneration Chapter 17, Appendix A12
• Mechanics vs. mercy Chapter 30 see also Christian life, Mahan, Henry
• Mechanism of regeneration see also Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration
  • where and how in the soul Appendix I
• Mediator see also Christ as the covenant, Penal substitution
  • Christ as Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Chapter 9, Appendix A6
• Medication see also Depression, Means of grace, Mental illness
  • as legitimate stewardship
• Meekness in correction Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10 see also Righteous anger
• Melanchthon, Philipp Appendix A5 see also Diet of Regensburg (1541), Eck, Johannes
• Memorialism Chapter 10, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Lord’s Supper, Sacraments, Zwingli, Ulrich
• Memory, continuity of see also Glorification
  • not erased at resurrection Chapter 29, Appendix A12, Appendix L
• Mental illness see also Depression
  • chemical imbalance is not lack of faith Appendix A11
• Mentally disabled see also Disability, Infant salvation
  • hardware constraints protect Appendix B
• Mercer, Danny Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix L see also Regeneration, Total depravity, Union with Christ
• Mercy of God Chapter 12, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Chapter 24 see also Glory of God, Sovereignty of God
• Mercy seat see also Day of Atonement, Propitiation
  • blood sprinkled in the Most Holy Place Chapter 9
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice see also Pre-propositional information
  • pre-reflective consciousness Appendix E
• Messiah see also Deity of Christ, Son of God
  • deity of Appendix F, Chapter 6
• Messianic prophecy Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 6 see also Deity of Christ, Prophecy and fulfillment
• Metacognition Chapter 17 see also Conscious mind, Image of God
• Method, theological see also Systematic theology
  • systems-analyst approach Prologue, Preface
• Methodism see also Lutheranism
  • elect found within Chapter 30
• Miaphysitism Appendix A1 see also Cyril of Alexandria, Monophysitism, Oriental Orthodoxy
• Michael (archangel) see also Angels, War in heaven
  • war in heaven Appendix A2
• Middle Platonism see also Alexandrian school, Neoplatonism, Platonism
  • fused with Scripture by the Alexandrians Appendix N
• Militarism see also Self-defense, Vocation, War
  • rejected Appendix A8, Appendix A8
• Millennium see also Amillennialism, Binding of Satan
  • symbolic church age Appendix A2, Appendix A6
• Milton, John see also Lucifer myth, Theodicy
  • Paradise Lost crowned the Lucifer myth Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Mind of God Prologue, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 6, Afterword, Afterword, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Author/story metaphor, Idealism, Operational idealism
• Mind precedes matter Chapter 25, Chapter 1, Chapter 17, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Consciousness, Idealism, Materialism, Operational idealism
• Mind, the see also Consciousness, Idealism, Sanctification
  • precedes the brain Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 16
• Mind uploading Appendix J see also Personal identity, Resurrection of the body
• Mind-body problem see also Idealism
  • dissolved in the framework Appendix I
• Minimal-content faith see also Ethiopian eunuch, Saving faith
  • the Person named, the work known in outline Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Ministering spirits see also Angels, Elect angels
• Miracles see also Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Providence, Rendering (metaphor)
  • as rendering-parameter adjustments Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix J, Chapter 29, Appendix A4, Chapter 19
• Miracles of Christ see also Higher-resolution rendering (metaphor), Two natures of Christ
  • as previews of higher-resolution rendering Chapter 29
• The mirror (metaphor) see also Assurance, Doctrine as description
  • diagnostic of one’s own floor Appendix O, Chapter 20
• Misogyny see also Complementarianism, Patriarchy
  • distinguished from theology Chapter 24
• Mistranslation of ekklesia Chapter 23 see also Church, Ekklesia
• Modalism Chapter 6, Appendix B see also Trinity
• Mode of baptism see also Baptism, Christian liberty
  • left to conscience Appendix I
• Modern translations
  • consulted for clarity How This Book Talks
• Modesty see also Conscience, liberty of, Legalism
  • heart posture, not dress code Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 21
• Modified Covenant Theology Prologue, Preface, Appendix C, Appendix K, Chapter 5, Appendix C, Appendix I, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Appendix B, Appendix I, Chapter 15 see also Covenant theology, Federal headship, Higby, Bob, Kraft, Brandan, New Covenant Theology, Supralapsarianism
  • only consistently supralapsarian system Chapter 5
  • rejects federal headship Chapter 5, Chapter 5
• Molech worship see also Gehenna, Hell
  • children burned in the Valley of Hinnom Appendix A6
• Monergism Prologue, Preface, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix F, Appendix I, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Appendix M, Chapter 16, Chapter 21, Epilogue, Chapter 17, Appendix A11, Chapter 17, Chapter 22, Chapter 26, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A9, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix G, Appendix L, Appendix O see also Effectual calling, Regeneration, Sola gratia, Sovereign grace, Total depravity
• Money changers see also Righteous anger
  • Christ overturning the tables Appendix A10
• Monism Afterword, Appendix J see also Mysticism, Pantheism
• Monogenes see also Begotten language
  • unique, not generated Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Monophysitism see also Eutyches, Miaphysitism
  • Eutyches distinguished Appendix A1
• Moral influence theory see also Atonement, Penal substitution
  • disembodied atonement Appendix N
• Moral law see also Antinomianism, Decalogue
  • believer dead to Appendix M
• Moral responsibility see also Free will, Sole causality of God, Theodicy
  • of the creature though not an independent agent Appendix A3
• Morality, objective see also Conscience, Materialism
  • requires God as standard Chapter 25, Chapter 25
• Mormonism see also Sacerdotalism
  • eternal marriage distinguished Appendix A6
• Mortality see also Curse on creation, Resurrection
  • as imposed constraint, not natural state Chapter 3
• Mortification of sin see also Sanctification
  • resisting old-firmware feelings Chapter 17
• Mosaic covenant Chapter 8, Chapter 22, Appendix B see also Covenant of works, Law of Moses, Sabbath
• Mosaic law Chapter 5, Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix C, Appendix M see also Covenant of works, Two laws (Spirit vs Moses)
• Moses Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Appendix N, Chapter 28, Appendix A1, Appendix A9, Appendix A12 see also Theophany, Transfiguration, Types and shadows
• Multiverse hypothesis see also Materialism, Simulation hypothesis
  • rejected Chapter 3, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix J
• Munus triplex see also Kingly office of Christ, Priestly office of Christ, Prophetic office of Christ
  • prophet, priest, king Chapter 6
• Murrell, Conrad Appendix A7 see also Hyper-Calvinism
• Music in worship Appendix A5, Appendix A5 see also Christian liberty, Worship
• Musk, Elon see also Bostrom, Nick, Simulation hypothesis
  • simulation hypothesis proponent Appendix G, Appendix J
• Mutability see also Adam, Posse peccare
  • of Adam, rejected as solution Chapter 11, Chapter 12
• Mutual submission Chapter 23, Appendix A7 see also Complementarianism, Headship, Participatory ecclesiology
• Mystery in theology see also Hypostatic union, Limits of the framework, Trinity
  • framework predicts its own limits Chapter 6, Chapter 26, Appendix A9
• Mysticism see also Monism, Pantheism
  • as coming threat to the faith Chapter 16, Afterword, Appendix J, Appendix O

N

• Names, divine Afterword, Appendix A1 see also Christ, person of, Personhood of God
• Naos Chapter 23 see also Ekklesia
• NASB Appendix A1
• Natural disasters Appendix B see also Problem of evil, Providence, Theodicy
• Natural law Appendix A4 see also Conscience
• Natural man Chapter 3, Chapter 26, Appendix A11 see also Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration, Total depravity
• Natural revelation Appendix A10, Appendix I see also Epistemology, Operational idealism, Rendering (metaphor)
• Naturalism Appendix A8 see also Materialism
• Nature determines action Chapter 11 see also Posse peccare, Total depravity
• Nebuchadnezzar see also Dreams
• Necromancy see also Intermediate state, Spiritism
• Nehemiah Appendix A8 see also Self-defense
• Neoplatonism Chapter 6, Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Augustine of Hippo, Emanation, Plotinus
• Nephesh Appendix A4 see also Soul
• Nephilim Appendix A2, Appendix B see also Sons of God, Two seeds, Unequal yoking
• Nero Appendix A6 see also Beast, the, Gematria
• Nestle-Aland text Appendix N see also Critical text, KJV-Onlyism, Textus Receptus
• Nestorianism Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Cyril of Alexandria, Two natures of Christ
• Neurodivergence Appendix A12 see also Body, authored
• Neuroscience and theology Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 17, Chapter 24, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix J see also Application layer (metaphor), Brain, Feelings, Firmware (metaphor), LeDoux, Joseph, Pre-propositional information
  • brain and soul architecture Appendix B, Epilogue
  • confirms the framework Appendix A7
  • feelings arrive before thoughts Appendix E, Appendix E
  • hardware layer Chapter 16, Chapter 17
• New Age movement Afterword, Appendix A8 see also Idolatry, Monism, Mysticism
• New birth Chapter 12, Chapter 18 see also Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration
• New covenant Chapter 8, Chapter 20, Appendix A4, Appendix B see also Covenant of grace, Election, Firmware (metaphor), Pentecost, Regeneration
  • law as firmware vs old covenant as software Appendix E
  • new in resolution, not substance Chapter 20
• New Covenant Theology Preface, Chapter 23, Appendix C, Chapter 5, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 8 see also Covenant theology, Federal headship, Modified Covenant Theology
• New creation Chapter 19, Chapter 29, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix E see also Animals, Glorification, Marriage supper of the Lamb, New heavens and new earth, Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ, Worship
  • peaceable kingdom and animals restored Appendix A1, Appendix A1
  • physicality of the resurrection feast Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix A6
• New earth Chapter 27, Appendix N see also Eschatology, Glorification, Heaven
• New heart Chapter 12, Chapter 28 see also Regeneration, Sanctification
• New heavens and new earth Chapter 3, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Appendix A9, Appendix H see also Eschatology
• New Jerusalem Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix A12 see also Heaven
• New Testament saint Chapter 27
• Newspaper exegesis Chapter 27 see also Dispensationalism, Prophecy charts
• Newton, Isaac Appendix E, Appendix H see also Edwards, Jonathan
• Nicene Creed Chapter 6, Afterword, Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers, Deity of Christ
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Chapter 17 see also Reprobation
• Nihilism Chapter 26, Appendix J see also Pantheism, Under the sun, Vanity / meaninglessness
• Ninety-five Theses Prologue see also Luther, Martin, Reformation
• NIV Appendix A1 see also Dynamic equivalence
• NLT Appendix A1 see also Dynamic equivalence
• No condemnation in Christ Appendix A11 see also Assurance, Justification, Union with Christ
• No neutral ground Chapter 25, Chapter 25 see also Circular reasoning, Clark, Gordon, Presuppositionalism
• Noah Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A2, Appendix A8 see also Common grace, Flood, the, Lord’s Supper, Remnant
  • planted a vineyard Chapter 10
• Noahic covenant Chapter 8, Chapter 22, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A8 see also Capital punishment, Covenant of grace, Providence
• Non-conformity Appendix L see also Ordination, Sectarianism
• Non-essential doctrines Appendix A3 see also Faith, Perpetual virginity of Mary
• Nonlocality Appendix H, Appendix H see also Bell’s Theorem, Entanglement, quantum
• Nous Appendix N see also Emanation, Plotinus
• Novelty objection Appendix A6, Appendix A6 see also Reformation, Sola fide, Tradition
• Number of the beast Appendix A6 see also Beast, the, Gematria

O

• Oak tree (metaphor) see also Doctrines of grace, Pocket watch (metaphor), Sovereign grace
  • doctrines of grace as fuller picture of the same gospel Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Obedience see also Guidance, divine, Holy Spirit
  • to the Spirit’s direct impression Chapter 17
• Obedience of Christ see also Christ, suffering of
  • learned through suffering Appendix A9
• Obesity see also Bioethics, Gluttony, Mastery principle
  • distinguished from gluttony Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Objection: Christ need not die if justified from eternity Chapter 15, Chapter 15 see also Atonement, Rendering (metaphor)
• Objection: gospel compromised by conditioning salvation on knowledge Chapter 30 see also Another gospel, The Hinge
• Objection: limited atonement makes God stingy Chapter 15, Chapter 15 see also Definite atonement, Particular redemption
• Objections and answers (method) Preface, How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks see also Method, theological
• Observer effect Preface, Chapter 3, Appendix H, Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix G see also Consciousness, Quantum mechanics, Rendering (metaphor)
• Occasionalism Appendix I see also Cheung, Vincent, Operational idealism
• Offense of the gospel see also Reprobation
  • reprobation always offensive Chapter 12
• Offer of salvation see also Free offer of the gospel, Gospel
  • implies an incomplete transaction Chapter 19
• Oikos see also Ekklesia
  • NT did not use for the church Chapter 23
• OJ the cat (metaphor) see also Grief, Sovereign grace, Unconditional election
  • chosen because unwanted Appendix A10, Appendix B
• Olam (Hebrew) see also Authored persistence, Conditional immortality
  • same word for everlasting life and everlasting shame Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Old and new covenants see also Covenant theology, Modified Covenant Theology, Mosaic law, New covenant
  • genuine distinction affirmed Preface, Preface, Chapter 20, Chapter 22
• Old earth creationism Chapter 4 see also Theistic evolution, Young earth creationism
• Old man / new man see also Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration, Sanctification, Total depravity
  • old firmware running in parallel How This Book Talks, Chapter 17, Appendix A2, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A12
• Old Testament
  • received by Jewish community before councils Chapter 26
• Old Testament typology Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 27, Appendix C see also Progressive revelation, Suffering Servant, Types and shadows
• Olivet Discourse
  • largely about temple’s destruction Chapter 27
• Omnipotence, divine Chapter 5, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix A3 see also Providence, Sovereignty of God
• Omnipresence, divine see also Attributes of God
  • informational, not spatial Chapter 28, Appendix A1, Appendix L
• Omniscience, divine Prologue, How This Book Talks, Chapter 21, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Appendix A3, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix F, Appendix A11, Appendix J, Appendix L, Epilogue see also Attributes of God, Decrees of God, Eternality of God, Filmstrip (metaphor)
• Onan see also Levirate marriage, Masturbation
  • sin was refusing levirate duty, misread as proof-text Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• One Christ, many descriptions see also Christ saves through the cracks, The true Christ
  • Spirit not bound by quality of description Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• The One (Neoplatonic) see also Emanation, Neoplatonism, Plotinus
  • top of the Plotinian hierarchy Appendix I, Appendix N
• One thought (final decree) see also Decrees of God, Supralapsarianism, The sentence (metaphor)
  • comprehensive, many within one Appendix A1, Appendix A3
• One-flesh union Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix N see also Christ and the church, Marriage, Song of Solomon, Union with Christ
• One-man pulpit (metaphor) Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Appendix A5 see also Clericalism, Participatory ecclesiology, Single-pastor model
• Oneness of God Chapter 6 see also Trinity
• Ontological difference between elect and reprobate see also Reprobation
  • difference of kind, not degree Chapter 12
• Ontology Prologue, Prologue, How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks, Chapter 8, Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix O see also Epistemology, Materialism, Operational idealism
  • of spirits in the framework Appendix A2
• Open hands, holding doctrine with Preface, Appendix I see also Christian liberty, Idolatry, Theological homelessness
• Open Theism see also Arminianism, Immutability, divine
  • refuted as deism with anxiety Chapter 2
• Operating system (metaphor) see also Firmware (metaphor), Four-layer model (metaphor), Subconscious mind
  • the subconscious processing layer Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A2, Appendix A11, Appendix A4, Appendix E, Appendix A10
• Operational idealism Prologue, Chapter 1, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix H, Appendix I, Appendix N, Appendix O, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 16, Chapter 16, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix N, Appendix A12 see also Assurance, Continuous creation, Creeds and confessions, Death of Christ, Firmware (metaphor), Hypostatic union, Idealism, Immortality of the soul, Incarnation, Invisible precedes visible (principle), Materialism, Means of grace, Mind of God, Providence, Rendering (metaphor), Rendering engine (metaphor), Right doctrine, wrong operation, Systematic theology
  • all things consist in God’s thought Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Appendix A10, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • applied to the death of Christ Chapter 6, Chapter 6
  • as productive of vocabulary Appendix J, Chapter 14, Appendix A3
  • invisible precedes visible Chapter 1, Chapter 20, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 27
  • not to be made into a confession Appendix A5
  • operation of the religion vs. the words Chapter 30
  • produces peace of zero distance Chapter 1
  • same thought at different rendering levels Chapter 26, Chapter 28, Appendix A3
  • universal pattern: substance precedes formality Chapter 10
• Oral law see also Legalism, Pharisees
  • Talmud and Mishnah Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Order in worship see also Participatory ecclesiology, Worship
  • order without hierarchy Chapter 23
• Order of creation see also Adam, Complementarianism, Eve
  • ground of complementarian principle Chapter 24, Appendix A7, Chapter 24
• Order of reality see also Materialism
  • reversed by baptismal regeneration Chapter 22
• Ordinances Chapter 22 see also Baptism, Lord’s Supper
• Ordination see also Ecclesiology, Plural eldership, Spiritual gifts
  • recognition not sacrament Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix L
• Ordination of sin see also Decrees of God, Permission, divine, Theodicy
  • ordained does not mean approved Chapter 14
• Ordo salutis Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix E, Chapter 30 see also Effectual calling, Glorification, Modified Covenant Theology, Regeneration
• Oriental Orthodoxy Appendix A1 see also Cyril of Alexandria, Miaphysitism
• Origen Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Appendix N see also Emanation, Neoplatonism, Patristics, Platonism
• Original perfection, rejected Appendix A5 see also Original sin
• Original sin see also Adam, Federal headship, Imputation, Total depravity
  • authored fresh in each soul, not inherited Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix I, Chapter 14, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix I
• Orthodoxy see also Propositionalism
  • as possession of the right list Appendix O
• Ostentation see also Humility, Modesty
  • Paul addresses display not skin Chapter 21
• Other religions see also Common grace, Evangelism, Reprobation
  • all authored by God Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Other sheep see also Effectual calling
  • the Shepherd brings His own Appendix A10
• Overdetermination of doctrine
  • not resting on one verse Chapter 28

P

• Pacifism see also Self-defense, Sermon on the Mount, War
  • rejected as a universal rule Appendix A8, Appendix A8
• Paedobaptism see also Baptism, Credobaptism, Infant baptism
  • water replaced circumcision, mandate condemned Chapter 18, Chapter 22, Chapter 30
• Pagan poets
  • quoted by Paul How This Book Talks
• Paid clergy see also Bivocational ministry, Hireling problem, Professionalization of ministry
  • Paul’s tentmaking as theology Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Painter metaphor Chapter 4 see also Author/story metaphor
• Panentheism see also Aseity, Pantheism
  • requires divine dependence on creation Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Panpsychism Appendix J, Appendix J see also Hoffman, Donald, Monism, Pantheism
• Pantheism see also Creator-creature distinction, Monism, Operational idealism, Panentheism
  • distinguished from operational idealism Chapter 1, Epilogue, Chapter 6, Appendix J, Afterword, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Papacy see also Antichrist, Beast, the, Roman Catholicism
  • as antichrist Appendix A6, Appendix M, Appendix N
• Parable see also Author/story metaphor, Iconoclasm
  • as theological vehicle Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix N
• Parable of the sower see also Contextualization, Preparatory grace
  • as contextualized vocabulary; prepared soil Chapter 3, Appendix A3
• Parable of the talents
  • about stewardship, not reward tiers Appendix A3, Appendix A3
• Parables of Christ see also Iconoclasm, Second Commandment
  • Christ depicting Himself narratively Appendix N
• Paradise see also Heaven, Intermediate state, Thief on the cross
  • the waiting room with the Person Appendix A3, Appendix A6
• Parenting see also Cole, Corporal punishment, Personal recognition of the saints
  • writing for a son; covenant enduring in glory Chapter 5, Appendix A6, Appendix A7
• Parsimony see also Multiverse hypothesis
  • one Mind vs. infinite universes Appendix A12
• Participatory ecclesiology see also Body of Christ, One-man pulpit (metaphor), Plural eldership, Priesthood of all believers, Prophecy, Spiritual gifts
  • every member contributes; 1 Corinthians 14 pattern Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A5
  • teaching as conversation Chapter 23, Chapter 23
• Participatory universe Chapter 3 see also It from bit, Observer effect
• Particular Baptists see also Gill, John, Reformed theology
  • John Gill’s tradition Chapter 19, Appendix I, Appendix I
• Particular grace see also Common grace, Effectual calling, Grace
• Particular love of God see also Common grace
  • covenantal and specific Chapter 19
• Particular redemption Preface, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Appendix B, Chapter 19, Chapter 15, Appendix A8, Appendix N see also Definite atonement, Limited atonement, Unconditional election
• Passive obedience of Christ Appendix A1 see also Active obedience of Christ
• Passover see also Lord’s Supper, Mosaic covenant, Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Appendix B
• Past lives see also Reincarnation
  • rejected Appendix A12
• Pastor see also Clericalism, Elders, Paid clergy
  • professionalized, not a gifted brother Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 24
• Pastor as gardener (metaphor) Appendix O, Appendix O see also Means of grace
• Pastoral heart see also Spurgeon, Charles
  • presenting vs. defending truth Preface, Preface
• Paterfamilias see also Headship, Patriarchy
  • Roman dominion rejected Appendix A7
• Patience see also Assurance, Hope, Suffering
  • waiting on the Lord Prologue, Chapter 27, Appendix A9
• Patience, divine see also Progressive rendering (metaphor), Sanctification
  • with incomplete understanding Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 9
• Patmos Appendix A2 see also Apocalyptic literature
• Patriarchy see also Complementarianism, Headship, Paterfamilias
  • control rejected as headship standard Chapter 24, Appendix A7
• Patristics see also Augustine of Hippo, Origen, Platonism
  • educated in Greek philosophy Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 13
• Pattern recognition Preface, Chapter 17, Chapter 27 see also Operating system (metaphor), Subconscious mind
• Patterns matching across domains Preface see also Method, theological, Operational idealism
• Paul, the Apostle Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Chapter 28, Appendix A12 see also Anathema (Galatians 1), Christian liberty, Contextualization, Death, Inspiration of Scripture, Intermediate state, Judaizers, Law of Moses, Paid clergy, Peter, the Apostle, Preservation of the saints, Progressive rendering (metaphor), Reprobation, Singleness, Suffering, Vocation
  • adapted vocabulary to his audience How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Appendix E
  • defends liberty with force; anathema reserved once Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
  • desire to depart and be with Christ Appendix A3, Appendix A11
  • forsaken yet upheld Epilogue, Epilogue
  • on the purpose and curse of the law Chapter 11, Chapter 20, Chapter 20
  • received revelation directly; clearest rendering Chapter 9, Chapter 9
  • strongest witness on reprobation Chapter 12, Chapter 25
  • tentmaker who refused support Appendix A5, Appendix A12, Appendix A3, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Peace see also Assurance, Joy, Operational idealism
  • of zero distance; surpassing understanding Chapter 1, Epilogue, Epilogue, Chapter 21
• Pelagianism Chapter 9, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A7, Appendix B, Appendix B see also Federal headship, Free will, Pelagius
• Pelagius Appendix A1 see also Pelagianism
  • Augustine defended sovereignty against Appendix A1
• Penal substitution Chapter 6, Appendix A6, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Appendix A9, Appendix A1, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix N see also Atonement, Definite atonement, Imputation, Justification, Propitiation
  • all sins past, present and future already punished
• Peniel Appendix A2 see also Angel of the LORD, Jacob, Theophany
• Penrose, Roger see also Quantum consciousness
  • quantum consciousness theory Appendix J
• Pentecost see also Covenant of grace, Holy Spirit, Progressive rendering (metaphor)
  • uniqueness and the apostles at low resolution Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 24
• Pentecostalism see also Arminianism, Emotions, Mysticism
  • experiential view of the Spirit Chapter 16, Chapter 30, Appendix A10
• Perception see also Emmaus disciples, Firmware (metaphor)
  • change in the seer, not the seen Chapter 29
• Perfect righteousness see also Active obedience of Christ, Imputation, Righteousness of Christ
  • not partial, not progressive Chapter 15, Chapter 20
• Perfectionism see also Imputation, Sanctification, Union with Christ
  • perfected for ever by one offering Chapter 18, Chapter 18
• Permission (divine) see also Authorship of evil, Problem of evil, Secondary causes
  • rejected as a device to clear God of authorship Chapter 1, Chapter 11, Appendix M, Chapter 5, Chapter 30, Appendix I, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A12, Appendix M, Appendix N
• Perpetual virginity of Mary see also Roman Catholicism, Virgin birth
  • non-essential Appendix A3, Appendix B
• Persecution see also Pharisees
  • of sovereign-grace teachers and dissenters Prologue, Chapter 9, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix F
• Persecution of believers by believers Chapter 30, Epilogue
• Persecution under Rome see also Roman Empire
  • early Revelation fulfillment Chapter 27
• Perseverance of the saints Chapter 2, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix F, Appendix A2, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix L see also Assurance, Covenant of grace, Firmware (metaphor), Justification, Monergism, Preservation of the saints, Regeneration, TULIP, Trinity
  • held by the covenant, not holding it Appendix O
  • manner of death cannot separate Appendix A3, Appendix A3
  • the Spirit’s firmware flashed and never uninstalled Chapter 25, Appendix A11
  • versus Augustine’s conditional system Appendix A1, Chapter 25
• Persistence of the thought in God’s mind Appendix J see also Operational idealism, Soul sleep
• Persistent vegetative state see also Death, time of appointed by God, Euthanasia
  • withdrawal of machines permitted Appendix A7
• Person of Christ see also Hypostatic union, Incarnation
  • incarnation as Author entering the rendering Appendix B, Afterword
• Person, the (framework concept)
  • infinite thought rendered into a body Chapter 29
• Personal covenants of love (metaphor) Preface, Epilogue, Appendix A11 see also Covenant of grace, The sentence (metaphor)
• Personal election (thought of God) see also Unconditional election
• Personal ethics see also Conscience
• Personal identity see also Mind uploading, Resurrection of the body, The seam (metaphor)
  • continuity across the seam; located in the Author’s rendering Chapter 29, Afterword, Afterword, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J
• Personal recognition of the saints see also Heaven
  • knowing one another in glory Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Personhood see also Recognition in heaven, Resurrection of the body
  • persists into the new creation Appendix A6
• Personhood of God see also Simulation hypothesis, Trinity
  • a Mind, not a machine Afterword, Appendix G
• Personhood of the unborn see also Act and potency, Pro-life position
  • a thought, not a potential person Appendix A1, Chapter 14
• Peter, the Apostle Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Appendix A2, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, Appendix A12 see also Elders, Lordship of Christ, Patience, divine, Paul, the Apostle, Pentecost, Progressive rendering (metaphor)
  • errors at lower resolution Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
  • Pentecost proclamation of Christ as Lord Chapter 19, Chapter 19
• Phaedo Appendix N see also Plato
• Pharaoh see also Authorship of evil, Reprobation
  • hardening of his heart Chapter 13, Chapter 17, Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Pharisaism see also Legalism, Pride, Self-righteousness
  • produced by progressive sanctification Chapter 18, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Pharisee and the publican Chapter 21 see also Humility, Justification, Self-righteousness
• Pharisees Prologue, Chapter 20, Appendix F, Appendix A1 see also Children of the devil, Dead Sea Scrolls, Free will, Gatekeeping, Hellenism, Hypocrisy, Legalism, Oral law, Persecution, Platonism, Pride, Seed of the serpent, Self-righteousness
  • as seed of the serpent, religious yet reprobate Chapter 12
  • corrupted Hebrew theology with Greek philosophy Chapter 8, Appendix F
  • doctrinally rigorous yet rotten-hearted Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A8, Appendix A10, Appendix N, Appendix N
  • softening sovereignty toward synergism Prologue, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Appendix F, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Appendix F
• Pharmakeia see also Drugs, Sorcery
  • sorcery as drug-induced spiritual experience Appendix A7
• Phebe (Phoebe) Chapter 24, Chapter 24 see also Diaconate, Women in ministry
• Philip the Evangelist Appendix A5, Appendix O see also Baptism, Ethiopian eunuch
• Philippian jailer see also Saving faith, Thief on the cross
  • saved without reciting the five points Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Philosophy and theology see also Contextualization, Platonism
  • the distinction a modern invention How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 19
• Photon Chapter 3 see also Observer effect, Wave-particle duality
• Physical worship see also Idolatry, Religious relics
  • objects as distractions Appendix A5
• Physicalism see also Consciousness, Materialism, Psychology
  • rejected as starting point Appendix G, Chapter 17, Chapter 17
• Physics see also Quantum mechanics, Sola Scriptura, The rendering (metaphor)
  • as confirmation, not foundation How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 26, Appendix I, Appendix B
• Picture/portrait analogy see also Lord’s Supper, Rendering (metaphor)
  • renders a person without being the person Chapter 10, Chapter 29
• Pilate, Pontius Chapter 27 see also Kingdom of God
• Pilgrim’s Progress see also Bunyan, John, Iconoclasm
  • condemned by the strictest iconoclasts Appendix N
• Pillar of cloud and fire Chapter 6 see also Rendering (metaphor), Theophany
• Pilot wave theory Appendix H see also Bohmian mechanics, Many-worlds interpretation
• Pixels (metaphor) Appendix H see also Rendering engine (metaphor)
• Plain reading of Scripture see also Hebrew language, Yom
  • assumes English captures Hebrew nuance Chapter 4
• Platform-building (critique) see also Evangelicalism, Humility
  • the evangelical machine vs. quietness Chapter 21
• Plato Chapter 1, Chapter 7, Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Epilogue, Appendix A4, Appendix A11, Appendix N, Chapter 30, Appendix A11 see also Augustine of Hippo, Forms, Platonic, Gnosticism, Idealism, Operational idealism, Platonism, Plotinus, Problem of evil, Sola Scriptura, Substance dualism, Two seeds
  • antithesis to the God of Scripture Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Chapter 11
  • ontology accepted, ethics rejected Chapter 1, Chapter 29, Appendix J
  • the Republic ethic on God and evil Chapter 5, Appendix A12, Appendix M, Appendix M
  • Theory of Forms / idealism Chapter 1, Appendix J, Appendix I, Appendix J
• The Platonic floor (metaphor) Appendix B see also Operational idealism, Platonism
• Platonism Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix N, Appendix O, Appendix N see also Augustine of Hippo, Authorship of evil, Gnosticism, Idealism, Immortality of the soul, Neoplatonism, Operational idealism, Patristics, Plato, Privation theory of evil, Problem of evil, Song of Solomon, Substance dualism, Theodicy
  • absorbed into Christian theology as Scripture Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 18, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix A6, Appendix N
  • body lesser than spirit, an alien assumption Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Chapter 29, Afterword, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A11
  • King James Onlyism as a Platonic costume How This Book Talks
  • the law of Plato (God may not author evil) Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 11, Appendix A3, Appendix A12, Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Appendix A12, Appendix M, Chapter 19, Chapter 30, Appendix I, Appendix M, Appendix N
  • Plato in the pews Chapter 26, Chapter 28
• Plotinus Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix A4, Appendix N, Appendix I, Appendix O, Appendix J see also Augustine of Hippo, Emanation, Neoplatonism
• Plural eldership see also Participatory ecclesiology, Single-pastor model
  • the New Testament norm Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Plymouth Brethren Appendix A6 see also Darby, John Nelson, Dispensationalism
• Pneuma see also Soul, Spiritual body
  • new firmware, power of God
• Pneumatology see also Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Spiritual gifts
  • the Spirit and how He works Chapter 23, Appendix A4, Appendix B
• Pocket watch (metaphor) see also Simple Gospel, The sentence (metaphor)
  • simplicity by clean design Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Podcast, Pristine Grace Chapter 9 see also Apostles
• Pointing believers to the law see also Christ as the rule of life, Legalism
  • takes eyes off Christ Chapter 20
• Poisoning the well
  • attacking the person Appendix A10
• Polanyi, Michael see also Pre-propositional information, Tacit knowing
  • tacit knowing Appendix E
• Polemics, theological see also Doctrine as description, Heresy
  • naming opponents from the pulpit; not a gatekeeping tool Appendix L, Appendix O
• Politics in the church see also House church
  • present even where two or three gather Chapter 23
• Pope Appendix M see also Magisterium, Roman Catholicism
• Popularity is not an argument see also Historicism
  • length of tradition establishes nothing Chapter 27
• Pornography see also Idolatry, Lust, Rendering (metaphor)
  • inverts the invisible/visible order Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Positional sanctification Chapter 15, Appendix A10 see also Imputation, Justification, Sanctification
• Positivism see also Empiricism
  • objection that firmware cannot be inspected Appendix E
• Posse peccare see also Adam, Mutability
• Posthuman augmentation see also Personal identity, Substance dualism
  • framework not staked on substrate Appendix J, Appendix J
• Postmillennialism see also Amillennialism, Triumphalism
  • a future golden age; triumphalism Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix B
• Potosi, Missouri see also Kraft, Brandan
  • author’s hometown Preface
• Potter and clay see also Reprobation, Sovereignty of God
  • the clay has no standing to accuse Chapter 1, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 25, Appendix A11, Chapter 5, Chapter 14, Chapter 11, Chapter 12
• Poythress, Vern see also Operational idealism
  • information precedes matter Appendix J, Appendix J
• Prayer Chapter 1, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix J, Appendix L see also Believing and unbelieving spouse, Communion with God, Decrees of God, Groanings, Holy Spirit, Humility, Hypocrisy, Means of grace, Mediator, Peace, Pharisees, Sovereignty of God, Suffering
  • the broken believer’s groan is the prayer Appendix E
  • communion is the point Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Appendix A11, Epilogue
  • for an unbelieving spouse Appendix A6, Appendix A6
  • in the closet vs. Pharisees on corners Chapter 21
  • ordained means, not changing God’s mind Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
• Prayer to saints see also Mediator, Roman Catholicism
  • violates one-mediator principle Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Preaching see also Effectual calling, Gospel, Legalism, Means of grace, Pointing believers to the law, Proclamation mood, Regeneration, Word of God
  • as the central labor of a life Chapter 22, Appendix L
  • as the occasion the Spirit uses, not the cause Chapter 16, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix O
  • indiscriminate, the content of proclamation Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Appendix A3
  • the law to Christians critiqued Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 14
• Preaching against straw men Appendix A10 see also Charity, principle of, Straw men
• predestinarian.net Prologue, Chapter 19 see also Gill, John, Hyper-Calvinism, Pristine Grace (website)
• Predestination Chapter 15, Chapter 1, Epilogue, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Appendix D, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A9, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 30, Chapter 25, Appendix A2, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix B see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Decrees of God, Fatalism, Foreknowledge of God, Free will, Grief, Prayer, Providence, Reprobation, Sovereign grace, Sovereignty of God, Teacher of Righteousness, Third position (method)
  • and real human agency (third position) Appendix B
  • compatible with real grief Appendix A10
  • in pre-Christian Judaism Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Appendix F, Appendix F, Appendix F
  • objection that prayer is pointless Chapter 21, Chapter 21
• Predictive framework vs. gaps see also Operational idealism
  • the sentence generates confirmed predictions Appendix H
• Pre-fall state see also Adam, Curse on creation, Eden, original rendering
  • no predation before the fall
• Prefrontal cortex see also Amygdala, Application layer (metaphor), Neuroscience and theology
  • slower than the amygdala Preface, Appendix I, Appendix E
• Pre-incarnate Christ see also Angel of the LORD, Theophany
  • as the Angel of the LORD Chapter 6
• Premarital sex see also Fornication, Singleness
  • two categories distinguished Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Premillennialism see also Amillennialism, Dispensationalism
  • dispensational, rejected Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Preparatory grace see also Common grace, Effectual calling, Election
  • the Spirit preparing the soul Chapter 16, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
• Pre-propositional information Preface, Chapter 17, Appendix A4, Appendix E, Chapter 2, Chapter 17, Epilogue, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix I, Appendix I see also Clark, Gordon, Feelings, Firmware (metaphor), Propositional knowledge
  • distinguished from propositional knowledge Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix I, Appendix E
• Preservation of Scripture see also Bibliology, Critical text, Textus Receptus
  • across more than one line of transmission Appendix N
• Preservation of the saints Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix A10, Appendix J, Appendix L see also Effectual calling, Election, Eternal justification, Justification, Perseverance of the saints
  • preservation is justification applied Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Afterword
• Presuppositionalism Preface, Chapter 25, Appendix A5, How This Book Talks, Chapter 2, Chapter 16, Appendix B, Appendix J, Appendix J, Chapter 25, Appendix B, Appendix I see also Boot parameters (metaphor), Clark, Gordon, Epistemology, Van Til, Cornelius
• Presuppositions see also Boot parameters (metaphor), Firmware (metaphor), Regeneration
  • installed before choice, beneath awareness Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix E
• Pretemporal decree see also Covenant of redemption, Decrees of God
  • sin and salvation in the same thought Chapter 11
• Pre-temporal love see also Eternality of God, Love of God
  • the love was from eternity Chapter 7
• Preterism, partial see also Amillennialism, Full preterism, Historicism, Olivet Discourse
  • AD 70 fulfillment Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix B, Appendix I
• Preterition Appendix D see also Equal ultimacy, Reprobation
• Pretribulational rapture see also Darby, John Nelson, Dispensationalism
  • a Darbyite innovation Chapter 27
• Prevenient grace see also Arminianism, Effectual calling, Fortner, Don
  • reclaimed in a Calvinist sense Chapter 15, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix B
• Preview versus finished product (metaphor) see also Intermediate state, Rendering (metaphor)
  • the intermediate state Appendix A3
• Pride see also Clergy-laity distinction, Condemnation of the devil, Knowledge-Calvinist, Lucifer myth, Pharisaism, Progressive sanctification, Self-righteousness
  • as alleged cause of Satan’s fall Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix D
  • doctrinal, in sovereign grace circles Preface, Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Appendix O
  • fed by clerical titles Appendix A5, Appendix A5
  • fruit of progressive sanctification Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 18
• Pride monster (metaphor)
  • feeding on others’ failures Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Priesthood of all believers Chapter 10, Chapter 23, Appendix A5, Appendix N see also Clergy-laity distinction, Participatory ecclesiology
• Priestly office of Christ Chapter 6 see also Atonement, Munus triplex
• Primitive Baptists see also Modalism, Trinity
  • oneness position, three manifestations Chapter 6
• Prince of this world see also Christus Victor, God of this world, Satan
  • cast out at the cross Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Principalities and powers Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A2 see also Christus Victor, Demons, Spiritual warfare
• Principle of charity see also Charity, principle of, Straw men
  • state the opposing view at its strongest Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Priority of mind see also Idealism, Operational idealism
  • the Mind is always first Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Afterword
• Priscilla Chapter 24 see also Women in ministry
• Pristine Grace (website) Prologue, Appendix K, Preface, Chapter 14, Chapter 22, Chapter 25, Appendix A12, Epilogue see also Kraft, Brandan, Modified Covenant Theology, predestinarian.net
• Privation theory of evil Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Appendix N, Appendix N see also Augustine of Hippo, Eastern Orthodoxy, Platonism
• Problem of evil Chapter 1, Chapter 7, Chapter 30, Appendix A9, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix D, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix N see also Authorship of evil, Permission (divine), Plato, Sovereignty of God, Theodicy
  • God as author of evil (Isaiah 45:7) Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 13, Appendix A12, Appendix D, Appendix J, Appendix A11, Appendix I, Appendix O, Appendix O
  • God needs no alibi Chapter 14, Appendix A1
• Processed food industry see also Gluttony, Obesity
  • engineered hyper-palatable products Appendix A7
• Processing delay (metaphor) see also Application layer (metaphor), Firmware (metaphor)
  • lag between flash and awareness
• Proclamation mood see also Gospel
  • the only mood the gospel has had Chapter 19
• Prodigal son (parable) see also Adoption, Conversion, Fatherhood of God
  • realizing he is still a son Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Appendix A1
• Professionalization of ministry see also Clergy-laity distinction, Paid clergy
• Programmer (metaphor) see also Incarnation, Simulation hypothesis
  • the Architect behind the rendering Chapter 17, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix G
• Programmer’s vantage point see also Vocation
  • author’s qualification to read the metaphors Chapter 28, Epilogue
• Progressive Christianity see also Gender dysphoria, Pacifism
  • pacifism and baptizing speculation Appendix A8, Appendix A12
• Progressive rendering (metaphor) Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Chapter 9, Appendix B, Chapter 22, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, Appendix A8, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix C see also Covenant of grace, The rendering (metaphor), The true Christ, Types and shadows
  • resolution increased over time, the Spirit correcting Chapter 9, Chapter 30
  • resolution increases, substance unchanged Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 18, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix H, Appendix L
• Progressive revelation see also Covenant of grace, Progressive rendering (metaphor)
  • timelessness decompressing into time Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Appendix C
• Progressive sanctification see also Continuous sanctification, Pharisaism, Sanctification
  • rejected; produces pride or despair Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Epilogue, Appendix A10
• Prohibitionism see also Legalism
  • refused as a rule Appendix A7
• Pro-life position see also Abortion
  • grounded in ontology, not politics Chapter 14, Chapter 14
• Prophecy see also Daughters of Philip, Spiritual gifts
  • tested by the group; not new revelation Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Prophecy and fulfillment see also Messianic prophecy, Self-authentication of Scripture
  • as evidence of a single Author Chapter 26, Chapter 26
• Prophecy charts see also Dispensationalism, Newspaper exegesis
  • ministries built on date-setting Chapter 27
• Prophetic hyperbole
  • cosmic language for political events Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Prophetic office of Christ Chapter 6 see also Munus triplex
• Propitiation Preface, Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix A9 see also Atonement, Day of Atonement, Expiation, Justification, Penal substitution, Substitutionary atonement, Wrath of God
  • rendered by the slain goat / Passover Chapter 9, Chapter 6
  • satisfies divine justice in Christ Chapter 27, Chapter 30, Appendix B
• Propositional knowledge Appendix E, Appendix I see also Clark, Gordon, Pre-propositional information
• Propositional revelation see also Gospel, Knowledge
• Propositionalism see also Doctrine as description, Orthodoxy
  • doctrine treated as substrate Appendix O
• Proselytes see also Degrees of punishment, Evangelism, Legalism
  • made twofold more the child of hell Appendix A6, Appendix A5
• Proselytizing see also Evangelism, Soul winning
  • distinguished from evangelizing Appendix A5
• Prosperity gospel see also Obesity, Pharisees, Wealth and poverty
  • the Pharisee with a bank account Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A8
• Prosperity of the wicked see also Common grace, Wrath of God
  • accumulated judgment Chapter 19
• Protestant Reformed Churches Appendix I see also Common grace, Hoeksema, Herman
• Protestantism see also Flat canon, Reformation, Roman Catholicism
  • surrendered the hermeneutical tool Appendix A3, Appendix A5
• Protoevangelium see also Fall, the, Seed of the woman, Two seeds
  • two seeds from Genesis 3:15 Chapter 8, Appendix A1, Appendix A2
• Providence Prologue, Appendix F, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 15, Chapter 27, Appendix A9, Appendix N see also Author/story metaphor, Authorship of evil, Continuous creation, Decrees of God, Effectual calling, Esther, Book of, Immanence of God, Operational idealism, Permission (divine), Predestination, Preservation of the saints, Problem of evil, Secondary causes, Sovereignty of God, Suffering, Theodicy
  • as the decrees in action Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 30, Appendix D
  • authoring evil, not merely permitting Chapter 13, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
  • continuous sustaining of creation Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 4, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Chapter 6, Appendix J, Chapter 19, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix M, Appendix M, Appendix O
  • God ordains failures and forgiveness Epilogue, Chapter 15
  • hidden, in Esther Chapter 26, Chapter 26
  • in suffering and pastoral comfort Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix N
  • no accidental people; ordering of every life Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 14, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A11, Appendix A6, Appendix A9
  • realist gap requires secondary causes Appendix J
  • Spirit arranging circumstances before faith Chapter 16
• Providential grace Appendix A3 see also Prevenient grace, Providence
• Pseudo-Dionysius Appendix N see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Neoplatonism
• Psychology see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Materialism
  • materialist assumptions critiqued; four-layer model Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix B, Appendix I
• Psychotropic medication see also Materialism, Therapy
  • adjusting hardware to fix software Chapter 17
• Public profession of faith see also Baptism, Credobaptism
  • water baptism as public declaration Chapter 22
• Pulpit, one-man see also Clericalism, Participatory ecclesiology, Plural eldership
  • unbiblical institution Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Chapter 23
• Purgatory see also Intermediate state, Roman Catholicism
  • denial of
• Puritans see also Progressive sanctification, Supralapsarianism
  • taught progressive sanctification Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Appendix A1
• Purity tests see also Gatekeeping, Shibboleths, Tribalism
  • every tribe’s, exposed by the thief
• Purpose of God see also Decrees of God, The sentence (metaphor)
  • authorship of all things Prologue
• Purpose of reprobation see also Glory of God, Reprobation
  • display of wrath and power Chapter 12
• Purpose of the law see also Schoolmaster, law as
  • added because of transgressions Chapter 20, Chapter 20
• Pursuit of holiness see also Knowledge of Christ, Sanctification
  • means pursuing Christ Chapter 18

Q

• QBism Appendix H see also Operational idealism
• Quantum consciousness Appendix J see also Consciousness, Hard problem of consciousness
• Quantum mechanics Prologue, Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Appendix H, Epilogue, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix H see also Consciousness, It from bit, Observer effect, Operational idealism, Pixels (metaphor), The rendering engine (metaphor)
  • observer effect and collapse Appendix G, Appendix B
  • quantization and quanta Appendix H, Appendix H
• Quarantine (metaphor) see also Annihilationism, Binding of Satan, Demons, Malicious code (metaphor)
  • Satan and demons contained, not destroyed Chapter 12, Appendix A2
• Quarks (analogy) see also Firmware (metaphor)
  • inferred from effects, not seen directly Appendix E
• Quickening see also Means of grace, Regeneration
  • by the precepts Appendix A3
• Quiverfull movement Appendix A7 see also Birth control
• Qumran community Prologue, Chapter 9, Appendix F, Appendix F see also Community Rule (1QS), Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenes, Justification, Problem of evil, Sovereignty of God
  • authorship of evil and the Two Spirits Chapter 13, Appendix N
  • justification language before Christ Chapter 11, Chapter 15

R

• Raelian movement Appendix A8 see also New Age movement
• Rainbow see also Noahic covenant, Providence
  • sign of continuity, not salvation Chapter 8
• Randomness degrades information Chapter 3 see also DNA as authored code
• Ransom see also Atonement, Particular redemption, Satan, Second ransom (rejected)
  • Christ alone, for the elect Chapter 12, Chapter 12
  • no transaction with Satan Chapter 12
• Ransom theory of atonement see also Atonement, Penal substitution, Tradition over Scripture
  • ransom paid to the devil, rejected Chapter 13, Appendix N
• Rapture see also Dispensationalism, Second coming of Christ
  • secret pretribulational, rejected Appendix B, Appendix N
• Real presence see also Lord’s Supper, Memorialism, Transubstantiation
  • the rendering view between transubstantiation and memorialism Chapter 10, Appendix A6, Appendix N
• Realism (metaphysical) Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 6, Chapter 25, Afterword, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix N, Appendix O see also Augustine of Hippo, Idealism, Materialism, Neoplatonism, Operational idealism, Platonism, Providence, Secondary causes
  • inherited by the Reformed from Augustine Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Appendix N
  • requires a gap between God and world Appendix J, Appendix J, Afterword
• Reason see also Conscious mind, Metacognition
  • the application layer Chapter 17, Chapter 25
• Reason, reliability of see also Evolutionary epistemology, Presuppositionalism
  • requires a truthful Author Appendix J
• Rebekah Chapter 10, Appendix A7 see also Isaac
• Rebuilt temple
  • required by dispensationalism, rejected Chapter 27
• Recapitulation (atonement) see also Atonement, Penal substitution
  • integrated with substitution Appendix N
• Recognition in heaven see also Communion of saints, Glorification, Resurrection
  • identity persists
• Reconciliation Appendix A1, Chapter 19, Chapter 19 see also Adoption, Substitutionary atonement
• Recovery of buried truth (metaphor) Prologue, Chapter 11 see also Qumran community, Reformation, Repentance
• Redemption Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Appendix A1, Appendix D, Appendix G see also Atonement, Covenant of redemption, Kinsman-redeemer, Particular redemption
• Redemption, history of see also Covenant of grace, Filmstrip (metaphor), Glass (metaphor)
  • the dismantling of the glass Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Reductionism see also Holy Spirit, Mysticism
  • objection that the Spirit is reduced to information transfer Chapter 16
• Reformation Prologue, Appendix F, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix M, Appendix M see also Calvin, John, Five solas, Floor swap (metaphor), Historicism, Justification, Luther, Martin, Platonism, Roman Catholicism, Sola Scriptura, Sola fide, Tradition over Scripture
  • historicist eschatology Chapter 27, Chapter 27
  • recovered soteriology but kept the floor Chapter 23, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix M, Appendix M, Appendix N, Appendix N
  • recovery of justification Chapter 26, Appendix A10
  • Scripture over tradition and men Preface, Preface, Appendix N, Chapter 13, Chapter 5
• Reformed covenant theology see also Covenant of grace, Covenant theology, Modified Covenant Theology
  • flattens the covenants Preface
• Reformed Dogmatics (Hoeksema) Appendix I see also Hoeksema, Herman
• Reformed eschatology see also Historicism
  • historicism as original framework Chapter 27
• Reformed theology Preface, Chapter 7, Chapter 15, Chapter 23, Appendix K see also Assurance, Augustine of Hippo, Calvinism, Federal headship, Modified Covenant Theology, Operational idealism, Platonism, Sovereign grace theology, TULIP, Tradition, Westminster Confession
  • critiqued on the law and assurance Chapter 17, Chapter 20, Chapter 21
  • foundation corrected, not rejected Chapter 11, Appendix A12, Appendix C
  • Platonic assumptions never purged Chapter 13, Appendix J, Appendix N
  • the Reformers built a new tradition Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix M
• Refuge in Christ see also Cities of refuge, Law and gospel
  • fleeing from the avenger Chapter 9
• Regeneration Chapter 29, Chapter 8, Appendix A7 see also Assurance, Body of Christ, Conversion, Effectual calling, Effectual grace, Faith, Firmware (metaphor), Fruit of the Spirit, Good works, Holy Spirit, Internal testimony of the Holy Spirit, Law and gospel, Means of grace, Monergism, Union with Christ, Word of God
  • as firmware flash How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 12, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 21, Chapter 25, Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Chapter 28, Appendix A1, Appendix A4, Appendix E, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix A8, Appendix E, Appendix J, Appendix J
  • cannot be legislated Chapter 14, Chapter 14
  • collapsed into the conversion experience (error) Chapter 2, Appendix E
  • evidenced by good works Chapter 18, Chapter 18
  • monergistic, only the Spirit’s work Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 30, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix G
  • precedes faith Chapter 1, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix E, Appendix M, Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Chapter 9, Chapter 19, Appendix A5, Appendix L
  • precedes recognition of Scripture Chapter 26
  • the Spirit places one in the body of Christ Chapter 23
  • through and beneath the Word Appendix A3, Appendix E
• Regulative principle of worship Appendix A5 see also Music in worship, Sola Scriptura, Worship
• Reign of Christ see also Kingdom of God, Session of Christ
  • present since the ascension Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Reign of the saints see also Eschatology, Heaven
  • equal, not tiered Chapter 27
• Reincarnation see also Monism, Mysticism, Two-seed ontology
  • rejected; rendered once Afterword, Appendix A12
• Relational interpretation (quantum) Appendix H see also Operational idealism, QBism
• Relativism see also Mysticism, Truth
  • refused by the framework Appendix O
• Religion, Reason and Revelation (Clark) Appendix I see also Clark, Gordon
• Religious relics see also Images of Christ, Physical worship, Types and shadows
  • shadows fulfilled in Christ Appendix B
• Remarriage see also Legal and ontological registers, Widows
  • after death of a spouse permitted Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix N
• Remnant see also Great apostasy, Unconditional election
  • according to the election of grace Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Render unto Caesar Appendix A8 see also Civil government, Two kingdoms
• Rendering constraints (metaphor) Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Appendix A1, Appendix H see also Decrees of God, Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• Rendering downgrade (metaphor) Chapter 3, Appendix E, Appendix E see also Curse on creation, Fall, the, Groanings
• Rendering engine (metaphor) Chapter 1, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix J, Appendix G, Appendix G see also Firmware (metaphor), Observer effect, Operational idealism, Simulation hypothesis
• Rendering (metaphor) Preface, Epilogue, Appendix C, Appendix H, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 25, Chapter 27, Afterword, Appendix A4, Appendix A10, Appendix I, Appendix N see also Atonement, Author/story metaphor, Eternal justification, Firmware (metaphor), Idealism, Marriage, Miracles, Operational idealism, Providence, Resurrection body, Sacraments, Substance and shadow, The sentence (metaphor), Union with Christ
  • ceremony and worship as visible rendering Chapter 1, Chapter 8, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 24, Appendix A5, Appendix A5
  • cross as rendering of eternal justification Chapter 15, Chapter 19, Chapter 19
  • marriage renders the gospel Appendix A7
  • matter real as a rendering is real Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 6
  • miracles as rendering adjustments Appendix G, Appendix G
  • the rendering does not leak Epilogue
• Rendering upgrade (metaphor) Chapter 3, Chapter 15, Appendix G see also Glorification, New heavens and new earth, Resurrection
• Renderingism see also Operational idealism, Substance dualism, Trichotomy
  • the soul as render tracks, not substances Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Render-on-demand (metaphor) Appendix H, Appendix H see also Observer effect
• Renewing of the mind Chapter 17, Chapter 17 see also Sanctification
• Renormalization see also Theory of everything
  • infinities that cannot be renormalized Appendix H
• Repentance Afterword, Appendix L see also Conversion, Conviction of sin, Faith, False religion, Judas Iscariot, Monergism
  • a gift, not a condition Appendix A1, Appendix A10
  • inseparable from faith, one motion Appendix A1
  • legal versus evangelical Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Repentance, divine (denied) see also Faithfulness of God
  • God does not change His mind Chapter 7
• Reprobation Prologue, Chapter 12, Epilogue, Appendix C, Appendix F, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 9, Chapter 25, Chapter 28, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A12, Appendix D, Appendix D, Appendix F, Appendix M, Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix O see also Common grace, Equal ultimacy, Glass (metaphor), Hell, Image of God, Lake of fire, Predestination, Preterition, Theodicy, Two seeds, Unforgivable sin
  • and common grace denied Appendix A3, Appendix C, Appendix K
  • as preterition (passing over) Appendix D
  • experience of God’s presence as torment Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix J
  • incapacity for repentance Appendix A3, Appendix K, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix O
  • ontological, not behavioral Chapter 12, Chapter 30, Appendix A1, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix C, Appendix I
• Republic (Plato) see also Plato, Platonism
  • Book II as the source axiom on God and evil Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Appendix O
• Re-rendering (metaphor) Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 28, Appendix J, Appendix J see also New heavens and new earth, Quarantine (metaphor)
• Resolution (metaphor) see also Hell
  • the glass as rendering constraint Chapter 9, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix L
• Resting in Christ see also Assurance, Finished work of Christ
  • rest over earning, the single test of belonging Epilogue, Appendix A7, Appendix A10, Appendix J, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Restoration (church discipline) see also Church discipline
  • goal is restoration, not punishment Appendix A5
• Restoration of the kingdom to Israel Appendix A6 see also Dispensationalism, Two-peoples theology
• Resurrection Chapter 3, Chapter 11, Chapter 21, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix L see also Glorification, Materialism, Resurrection body, Sadducees
  • denial of (Sadducees) Chapter 29
• Resurrection body see also Glorification
  • physical, with rendering constraints removed Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Chapter 29, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix H, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix L, Chapter 19
• Resurrection of Christ Chapter 7, Chapter 10, Chapter 19, Afterword, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Chapter 24 see also Begotten language, Christ, work of, Empty tomb, Incarnation, Justification
  • begotten language applied to Appendix A1
  • for our justification Chapter 19, Chapter 19
• Resurrection of the body Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 29, Appendix O, Afterword, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A6, Appendix J, Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix O see also Eschatology, Glorification, Gnosticism, Incarnation, Intermediate state
  • Christ ate fish and was touched (anti-Gnostic) Appendix J, Appendix J, Chapter 29
• Resurrection of the reprobate see also Final judgment, Hell, Shame
  • to shame and contempt Appendix A6
• Retaliation see also Self-defense, Sermon on the Mount
  • forbidden; vengeance is God’s Appendix A8
• Reuben, Gad, and half-tribe of Manasseh see also Confusion vs. rebellion
  • the altar of witness misjudged Chapter 30
• Reunion of the redeemed Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix L see also Communion of saints, Heaven
• Revealed will see also Two wills of God
  • alleged desire to save all Appendix A3
• Revelation, book of see also Amillennialism, Dispensationalism, Historicism
  • apocalyptic, not chart-puzzle Chapter 13, Chapter 26, Appendix N
• Reverence for creation see also Animals
  • permission held with reverence Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Reversal of order (error pattern) see also Idolatry
  • making the visible the source of the invisible Chapter 10
• Rich man and Lazarus see also Hell, Intermediate state
  • conscious after death Appendix A3
• Right doctrine, wrong operation Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Harder-softer test, Knowledge-Calvinist, Operational idealism
• Righteous anger see also Cleansing of the temple, Gatekeeping, Harder-softer test
  • aimed at gatekeepers, not the confused Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A10
• Righteousness of Christ see also Active obedience of Christ, Imputation, Justification
  • imputed, not infused Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Appendix A11, Chapter 15
• Righteousness of the law fulfilled in us see also Sanctification
  • in us, not by us
• Risk asymmetry see also Judging another’s servant, Union with Christ
  • the lesser error is to err in love Chapter 30
• River of fire see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Fire of God’s presence
  • God’s love warming or burning by reception Chapter 28
• Rock in the river (metaphor)
  • Christ the current breaks around
• Roe v. Wade see also Law and gospel, Pro-life position
  • overturning saved no soul Chapter 14
• Roman Catholicism Preface, Chapter 10, Prologue see also Baptismal regeneration, Birth control, Council of Trent, Eastern Orthodoxy, Great Schism (1054), Imputation, Justification, Lord’s Supper, Luther, Martin, Magisterium, Perpetual virginity of Mary, Platonism, Prayer to saints, Righteousness of Christ, Sacraments, Sola Scriptura, Tradition over Scripture, Transubstantiation
  • filioque dispute Appendix A1
  • infused vs. imputed righteousness Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix B
  • Marian dogma and prayer to saints Appendix A3
  • real presence and baptismal regeneration Chapter 22, Appendix A6, Appendix N
  • sexual ethics critiqued Appendix A7, Appendix A7
  • tradition and magisterium over Scripture Preface, Appendix N, Chapter 26, Appendix A5, Appendix M, Appendix E
• Roman Empire see also Crucifixion, Providence
  • unwitting fulfiller of prophecy Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Appendix A8
• Romans, epistle to the see also Justification
  • Paul’s legal vocabulary for his audience Prologue, How This Book Talks, Appendix L
• Ruach Appendix A4 see also Soul, Trichotomy
• Ruth and Boaz see also Remarriage, Widows
  • scriptural remarriage example Appendix A6, Appendix A6

S

• Sabbatarianism see also Christian liberty, Legalism
  • keeping the Sabbath not required Chapter 21, Chapter 24
• Sabbath Chapter 8, Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 24, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix I see also Ceremonial law, Christian liberty, Law of Moses
• Sabbath rest of God see also Supralapsarianism, Sustaining of creation
  • completion of planning, not cessation of sustaining Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Sacerdotalism see also Lord’s Supper
  • no priest required at the table Chapter 10, Appendix A6
• Sacrament see also Means of grace, Sacerdotalism
  • operational-idealism definition: points, not causes Appendix A6, Appendix N, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Sacrament of marriage see also Marriage, Sacerdotalism
  • the marriage bed without a priest Appendix A6, Chapter 29
• Sacramental theology, medieval see also Marriage, Sacraments
  • sign dissolves when eternal reality arrives Chapter 29, Appendix N, Appendix J
• Sacraments see also Baptism, Lord’s Supper, Rendering (metaphor), Sign and thing signified
  • as rendering, sign points to the substance Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 29, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix J, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22
• Sacred ordinary see also Self-disclosure
  • the deck, coffee, the wife’s laugh Appendix A10, Epilogue
• Sacrificial system see also Ceremonial law, Substitutionary atonement
  • fulfilled in Christ Chapter 20
• Sadducees
  • levirate trap on the resurrection Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix F, Appendix N
• Saints reigning with Christ see also Eschatology, New creation
  • in the re-rendered creation Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Chapter 28, Appendix A12, Appendix I
• Salvation Prologue, Preface, Chapter 19, Chapter 23, Chapter 27, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix D, Appendix O, Appendix J, Appendix I see also Finished work of Christ, Monergism, Soteriology
• Salvation by Christ alone Chapter 22, Appendix L, Appendix L, Appendix O see also Solus Christus, Thief on the cross
• Salvation of infants Chapter 6 see also Sovereign grace, Thief on the cross
• Salvation of the mentally disabled see also Sovereign grace
• Salvation of those who never hear the gospel Appendix A3 see also Sovereign grace
• Samaritan woman at the well see also Saving faith
  • first-contact saving faith Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Samson Appendix A3
• Samuel see also Saul (at Endor), Spiritism
  • appearance at Endor authored by God Appendix A7, Appendix A9
• Sanctification Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Appendix C, Appendix M, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Appendix A1, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix E, Appendix O, Appendix O see also Effectual grace, Firmware (metaphor), Glorification, Holy Spirit, Justification, Perfectionism, Providence, Regeneration, Suffering, Union with Christ
  • inside-out, by the Spirit not the law Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Appendix I
  • positional, complete and finished in Christ Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Appendix C, Appendix M, Chapter 18, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix M, Appendix N
  • progressive sanctification rejected Chapter 12, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Epilogue, Appendix M, Appendix O, Appendix O
  • through suffering and painful providence Preface, Preface, Preface, Appendix A9, Appendix A11
• Sanctity of human life Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Appendix A8 see also Abortion, Thought in the mind of God
• Sanctity of the body see also One-flesh union, Platonism
  • against Platonic shame Chapter 10, Chapter 26
• Sanhedrin Appendix A7, Appendix A10 see also Thief on the cross
• Sarum Use
  • ‘till death us depart’ source Appendix N
• Satan see also Authorship of evil, Demons, Devil and his angels, Lucifer myth, Providence, Second ransom (rejected)
  • the accuser and slanderer Appendix A2, Appendix A2
  • as God’s tool, not rival Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Chapter 12, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix A2, Appendix A6
  • created evil, never fell Appendix B, Chapter 11, Appendix C, Appendix I, Appendix D, Chapter 13, Chapter 13
  • created righteous, fell by pride (the rival view) Chapter 3
  • the dragon, the slanderer Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Satisfaction (atonement) see also Propitiation, Substitutionary atonement
  • wrath satisfied at Calvary Appendix A1, Chapter 30
• Saul (at Endor) see also Samuel, Spiritism
  • consulted the medium, judged for it Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Saul, King see also Demons, Providence
  • the evil spirit from the Lord Chapter 13, Chapter 13
• Saving faith Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 16, Chapter 30, Appendix O, Appendix A4, Appendix K, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix A10 see also Assurance, Monergism, Simple Gospel
  • in the Person, not the proposition Chapter 30, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Scapegoat Chapter 9 see also Day of Atonement, Expiation
• Scars of Christ see also Resurrection of Christ, Spiritual body
  • kept in the risen body Afterword, Appendix J, Chapter 28
• Schadenfreude, religious see also Slander and reproach
  • relief at another’s condemnation Appendix L, Appendix A10
• Scholasticism see also Aquinas, Thomas, Substance metaphysics
  • Aquinas systematized angelic doctrine Chapter 13, Appendix J
• Schoolmaster, law as see also Purpose of the law
  • student graduates after faith Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 20
• Science see also Common grace, General revelation
  • as study of God’s engineering Appendix J, Appendix J, Chapter 5, Appendix G, Appendix N
• Science, possibility of see also Laws of nature, Operational idealism
  • rests on the Author rendering consistently Appendix H, Appendix H
• Scofield Reference Bible see also Darby, John Nelson, Dispensationalism
  • popularized dispensationalism Chapter 27
• Script (metaphor) see also Prayer
  • prayer written into the script Chapter 21
• Scripture see also Sola Scriptura, Word of God
  • as source of doctrine Prologue, Prologue, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
• Scripture, antiquity of
  • anticipates modern physics Appendix G, Appendix O
• Scripture as axiom Preface, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix I see also Clark, Gordon, Presuppositionalism, Sola Scriptura
• Scripture, authority of Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Appendix M see also Canon of Scripture, Sola Scriptura
• Scripture, sufficiency of Chapter 2, Chapter 26, Appendix A1, Appendix K, Appendix O, Appendix A3 see also Authority of Scripture, Self-authentication of Scripture
• Sea, no more see also New creation
  • new creation Chapter 27
• Sealing of the Spirit see also Holy Spirit, Perseverance of the saints
  • sealed for the day of redemption Chapter 22, Chapter 25, Appendix A2
• Seals, trumpets, and plagues see also Historicism, Revelation, book of
  • correspond to historical events Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• The seam (metaphor) see also Rendering (metaphor)
  • edge between renderings Appendix A6
• Search-engine exegesis (method) see also Method, theological, Self-taught theology
  • querying the corpus vs commentaries Preface
• Searching Together Chapter 23 see also Zens, Jon
• Second blessing doctrine see also Sanctification, Spiritual gifts
  • rejected Appendix A4
• Second Coming Appendix B, Chapter 27 see also Eschatology, Final judgment
• Second coming of Christ see also Final judgment
  • bodily, visible, single final event Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Second Commandment see also Idolatry, Images of Christ
  • forbids idolatrous images, not narrative renderings Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix N
• The Second (Danny Mercer) see also Salvation by Christ alone
  • the dissolute convert received Appendix L
• Second death see also Hell
  • consumes the curse, not the reprobate Chapter 28, Chapter 28
• Second ransom (rejected) Chapter 12 see also Particular redemption, Ransom, Satan
• Secondary causes see also Decrees of God, Permission (divine), Sole causality of God
  • rejected as evasion Chapter 1, Chapter 14, Appendix J, Appendix M, Appendix N, Appendix J
• Sectarianism see also Sociology of religion
  • non-conformist separatism Appendix L, Appendix L
• Sectarianism, Jewish see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran community
  • Qumran nonconformists before Christ Chapter 9, Appendix F
• Secular humanism see also Materialism
  • authored by God Appendix A9, Appendix B
• Secular on-ramp see also Apologetics, Simulation hypothesis
  • bridge to the unbeliever Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix J
• Secularization see also Materialism, Simulation hypothesis
  • people walking away from materialism Afterword, Chapter 3
• Seed (biblical term) see also Federal headship
  • as real lineage, not metaphor Chapter 12, Chapter 9, Chapter 29
• Seed of the serpent Chapter 12 see also Reprobation
• Seed of the woman Chapter 8, Chapter 12, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9 see also Election, Protoevangelium
• Seeking see also Assurance, Effectual grace
  • as evidence of grace at work Appendix A3, Appendix A10, Appendix A9
• Selection vs. election Chapter 3 see also Election, Reprobation
• Self, the Chapter 17, Afterword, Appendix J, Appendix J see also Consciousness, Regeneration, Sin
• Self-authenticating work of the Spirit see also Assurance, Effectual grace
  • unmistakable mode of operation Chapter 22
• Self-authentication of Scripture Chapter 12, Chapter 26, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A5, Appendix I, Chapter 26, Appendix J see also Canon of Scripture, Internal testimony of the Holy Spirit
• Self-deception see also Spiritual elitism
  • the flesh in the clothes of the Spirit Chapter 30, Appendix A7
• Self-defense see also Sermon on the Mount
  • permitted, distinct from retaliation Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A8
• Self-disclosure see also Sacred ordinary, Self-taught theology
  • the man speaks, not the theologian Epilogue, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix A10
• Self-examination see also Assurance, Self-test (the Mirror)
  • not the ground of assurance Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A2
• Self-existence of God (aseity) Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Appendix H, Epilogue, Appendix A11, Appendix A11 see also Aseity, Independence of God, Substrate, God as
• Self-organizing complexity
  • as secular evasion Chapter 3
• Self-preaching see also Assurance, The sentence (metaphor)
  • preaching the sentence to oneself Appendix A11, Appendix E
• Self-predicted rejection of the system see also Natural man, Total depravity
  • the natural man cannot receive it Chapter 25, Appendix I, Appendix G, Appendix G
• Self-refutation see also Circular reasoning, Materialism
  • materialism saws off its own branch
• Self-revelation of God see also Prophetic office of Christ, Word made flesh
  • Christ as the epistemology of God Chapter 6
• Self-righteousness Chapter 14, Chapter 18, Appendix A7, Appendix L see also Pharisee and the publican, Pride
• Self-taught theology see also Search-engine exegesis (method), Sola Scriptura
  • no seminary required to see truth Prologue, Epilogue, Epilogue
• Self-test (the Mirror) see also Assurance, Self-examination
  • diagnostic questions Appendix N, Appendix A6
• Sensory reality of heaven see also New creation, Spiritual body
  • the smell of bread Appendix L, Afterword
• The sentence (metaphor) Prologue, Prologue, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 10, Appendix A1, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix C, How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 6, Chapter 13, Chapter 18, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix A2, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix H, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix M, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix O, Chapter 28 see also Operational idealism, TULIP, Thought in the mind of God
  • generates the five points Chapter 25
• Sentimental universal love see also Love of God, Particular redemption
  • corrected Appendix A1, Appendix L, Appendix L
• Septuagint see also Canon of Scripture
  • apocrypha not canonical Chapter 13
• Sermon on the Mount see also Self-defense
  • turn the other cheek as personal, not civic Appendix A8
• Serpent see also Satan
  • placed in the garden by God Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix A8, Afterword, Afterword
• Servant leadership see also Shepherding, Spiritual leadership
  • the greatest shall be servant Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Session of Christ see also Exaltation of Christ
  • right hand of the Father as authority, not location Chapter 6
• Seven churches of Revelation Appendix A2, Appendix A2 see also Historicism, Revelation, book of
• Seventy weeks see also Daniel, Speculation, theological
  • detail held loosely Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Sex reassignment surgery see also Firmware (metaphor), Sexuality, biblical view of
  • altering authored body to match fallen firmware Appendix A12
• Sexual shame Appendix A11, Appendix B see also Platonism, Shame
• Sexuality, biblical view of Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Marriage, One-flesh union, Song of Solomon
• Shame see also Atonement, Hell
  • borne by Christ; the eternal state of the reprobate Preface, Chapter 28, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Chapter 6
• Sharpest doctrine, widest arms Chapter 30, Appendix A10, Chapter 30, Appendix I, Chapter 27 see also Doctrine, Sovereign grace
• Sheep of Christ see also Definite atonement, Particular redemption
  • He died for His sheep, lost none Chapter 19
• Shema see also Trinity
  • the LORD our God is one, echad Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Shepherd vs. prosecutor see also Spiritual abuse
  • the author gave a prosecutor Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Shepherding see also Elders, Spiritual leadership
  • feed the flock willingly, not for filthy lucre Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A5
• Shibboleths see also Sociology of religion, Straw men
  • sovereign grace catchphrases Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix A10
• Sign and thing signified Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Appendix B see also Sacraments, Substance and shadow
• Sign gifts see also Cessationism, Spiritual gifts
  • served the apostolic era Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Signature (metaphor)
  • preserved over surface appearance Chapter 29, Chapter 28
• Signs of the Times see also Beebe, Gilbert
  • Beebe’s periodical Appendix A2
• Simple Gospel Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Salvation by Christ alone, Saving faith
• Simplicity that is in Christ see also Saving faith, Simple Gospel
  • needs no hedge or box Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Simulation cosmology Appendix I, Appendix I see also Information theory, Simulation hypothesis
• Simulation hypothesis How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Appendix B, Chapter 11, Chapter 23, Chapter 28, Afterword, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix G, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix H, Appendix A12, Appendix I, Appendix I see also Idealism, Materialism, Operational idealism
• The Simulator is personal Chapter 3, Chapter 1 see also Personhood of God, Simulation hypothesis, Sovereignty of God
• Sin Chapter 1, Chapter 13, Chapter 8, Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 24, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix B, Appendix J see also Holiness of God, Original sin, Total depravity
• Sin, gradation of see also Degrees of punishment, Equality of sin before God
  • degrees of punishment not degrees of grace Chapter 14, Chapter 14
• Sin nature see also Firmware (metaphor), Glorification, Ordination of sin, Predestination, Regeneration, Reprobation
  • authored and ordained for God’s purpose Chapter 14, Appendix A7
  • of the elect, temporary firmware Chapter 12, Chapter 9
  • of the reprobate, permanent Chapter 28
• Sinai see also Mosaic law, Moses
  • law delivered at Chapter 20, Appendix A9
• Sinai covenant see also Law of Moses, Tithing
  • tithing as part of the law Appendix A9
• Sincerity of faith Appendix L see also Saving faith
• Singleness see also Marriage, Vocation
  • as a vocation, not a waiting room Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Single-pastor model see also Eldership
  • an institutional invention Appendix A5
• Sinner’s prayer see also Soul winning
  • a formula that replaces the Spirit’s work Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A5
• Sins crying out to heaven see also Degrees of punishment, Equality of sin before God
  • temporal response, not eternal weight Chapter 14
• Slander and reproach see also Schadenfreude, religious, Social media
  • public accusation without prior contact Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Sleep see also Assurance, Operational idealism
  • peace of zero distance Chapter 1
• Small heaven (metaphor)
  • disembodied spirit privileged over the feast Appendix A9, Afterword
• Smith, James K. A. see also Subconscious mind
  • liturgy shapes the heart Appendix E
• Smoking see also Christian liberty, Stewardship of the body
  • stewardship of the body Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7
• Social credit system see also Mark of the beast, Surveillance state
  • as economic-control mechanism Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Social media see also Slander and reproach
  • theology wielded as a weapon on Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Sociology of religion see also Sectarianism, Shibboleths
  • why theological tribes form and fail Appendix B, Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Sodom see also Degrees of punishment, Final judgment
  • more tolerable than Capernaum Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Appendix A2
• Sodom and Gomorrah see also Degrees of punishment
  • as example of judgment Appendix A2, Chapter 14
• Software of the soul (metaphor) Chapter 17, Chapter 9, Appendix A11 see also Firmware (metaphor)
• Sola fide Prologue, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Chapter 26, Appendix A10, Appendix M, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Reformation
• Sola gratia Chapter 21, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix F, Appendix M see also Grace, Justification, Sola fide
• Sola Scriptura Prologue, Preface, Chapter 26, Appendix M, Preface, Appendix A12, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 14, Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Chapter 18, Chapter 27, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 24, Appendix A2, Appendix A5, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B, Appendix N, Appendix J, Appendix O see also Authority of Scripture, Reformation, Scripture
• Sole causality of God see also Operational idealism
  • the creature causes nothing independently Chapter 14
• Soli Deo Gloria Appendix M
• Solomon Chapter 9, Chapter 26, Chapter 26 see also Song of Solomon, Temple, Types and shadows
• Solus Christus Appendix B, Appendix L, Appendix M see also Salvation by Christ alone, Union with Christ
• Son of God Chapter 3, Appendix F see also Christ, Incarnation
• Song of Solomon see also Christ and the church, One-flesh union, Platonism
  • both literal and spiritual Chapter 10, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Chapter 26, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix N, Appendix A6
• Songs and podcasts (pristinegrace.org)
  • free content given away Epilogue
• Sons of God see also Election, Seed of the woman
  • the elect line, not fallen angels Appendix A2, Chapter 2
• Sorcery see also Spiritism
  • drugs for spiritual experience Appendix A7
• Soteriological equality see also Body of Christ
  • versus functional distinction Chapter 24
• Soteriology Preface, How This Book Talks, Appendix B, Appendix J see also Ordo salutis, Salvation
• Soul see also Anthropology, theological, Four-layer model (metaphor), Immortality of the soul, Soul sleep, Spirit (firmware), Spiritual body, Subconscious mind
  • as information that does not cease at death Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
  • has a layered architecture Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A12, Appendix A3, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Appendix A12, Chapter 25, Chapter 27
  • psyche vs pneuma
• Soul curved inward / outward (metaphor) Chapter 17, Chapter 17 see also Regeneration, Sin, Total depravity
• Soul sleep see also Immortality of the soul, Intermediate state
  • denied Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A10, Appendix A4
• Soul winning see also Sinner’s prayer
  • inverts the gospel into persuasion Appendix A5, Appendix A10
• Sour grapes proverb Chapter 11 see also Ezekiel, Federal headship, Imputation
• Source code / user interface (metaphor) see also Operational idealism, Substrate, God as
  • different layers of one program Appendix H, Chapter 17
• Southern Baptist tradition see also Charismatic movement
  • author’s childhood
• Sovereign grace Prologue, Preface, Chapter 2, Appendix F, Preface, Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 30, Afterword, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix K, Appendix K, Appendix L, Chapter 20 see also Doctrines of grace, Monergism, Sovereignty of God
• Sovereign grace Baptists see also Sovereign grace movement
  • the anti-doctrinal charge Appendix O
• Sovereign grace movement see also Eternal justification, Progressive sanctification
  • errors and decline Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Chapter 27, Appendix A5, Epilogue, Epilogue
• Sovereign grace theology see also Modified Covenant Theology, New Covenant Theology
  • the proper name for the framework Chapter 23, Appendix K, Appendix K
• Sovereignty of God Prologue, Chapter 3, Prologue, Chapter 7, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix D, Appendix F, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 27, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix D, Appendix E, Appendix F, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix O, Appendix N see also Authorship of evil, Common grace, Decrees of God, General revelation, Monergism, Permission (divine), Prayer, Predestination, Problem of evil, Providence, Unconditional election
  • misused to dismiss science Chapter 17, Chapter 17
  • over evil and sin Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 13, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 14
  • over salvation Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19, Chapter 19
  • prayer participates in, does not alter, the decree Chapter 21, Chapter 21
• Spacetime see also Special relativity
  • not fundamental Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix H
• Sparrow, the fallen see also Providence
  • not a sparrow falls without the Father Chapter 5
• Spatial separation view of hell see also Hell
  • Augustine and the Western tradition Chapter 28
• Special relativity see also Information theory, Spacetime
  • speed-of-light limit on information Appendix H, Appendix H, Appendix G
• Special revelation see also General revelation, Scripture
  • Scripture’s selective scope Appendix A8
• Speculation, theological see also Liberty of conscience
  • labeled and held loosely Chapter 27, Appendix A12, Chapter 27
• Spin see also Bit from God (metaphor)
  • two states, binary at foundation
• Spirit / matter distinction Afterword, Appendix A2 see also Materialism, Operational idealism
• Spirit baptism see also Baptism, Holy Spirit, Union with Christ
  • as the real baptism Chapter 22
• Spirit (firmware) see also Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Holy Spirit
  • the firmware layer of the person Appendix N, Preface, Chapter 15, Appendix A2
• Spirit of adoption see also Adoption, Holy Spirit
  • reveals, does not create Chapter 15, Chapter 15
• Spirit, witness of see also Assurance, Spirit of adoption
  • settled knowledge of sonship no argument produced Appendix E
• Spirit world Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Chapter 13 see also Angelology, Demons, Spiritual warfare
• Spiritism see also Sorcery, Spiritual discernment
  • séances, mediums, channeling Appendix A9, Appendix A8
• Spiritual abuse see also Church discipline, abuse of
  • by elders; sermons that made a believer feel stupid Preface, Chapter 23, Appendix L
• Spiritual body see also Scars of Christ
  • animated by the Spirit, not immaterial Chapter 29, Afterword, Appendix J
• Spiritual discernment see also Illumination, Natural man, Total depravity
  • things of God spiritually discerned Chapter 16, Chapter 25, Appendix A8
• Spiritual disciplines see also Spiritual elitism
  • elevated as higher activity Appendix N
• Spiritual DNA (metaphor) Chapter 12 see also Seed (biblical term)
• Spiritual elitism see also Self-deception, Spiritual disciplines
  • the spiritual Christian as higher Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix A10
• Spiritual gifts Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix A4 see also Body of Christ, Participatory ecclesiology
• Spiritual leadership see also Authority in the church, Eldership
  • by gift and example, not appointment Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Spiritual warfare see also Demons, Providence
  • authored powers within authored boundaries Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Sprinkling and pouring see also Immersion, Paedobaptism
  • paedobaptist mode tied to purification rites Chapter 22
• Spurgeon, Charles Chapter 28, Chapter 27, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix A9 see also Calvinism, Pastoral heart
• Stage and play (metaphor) see also Common bounty, Providence
  • creation maintained for the elect Chapter 4, Chapter 19, Appendix A1, Appendix A8, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 11, Epilogue, Epilogue
• Standard for right and wrong see also Law written on the heart
  • supplied by the Spirit, not written code Chapter 20, Appendix I
• Standing on the shoulders of predecessors see also Systematic theology
  • the framework builds on prior systems Appendix I
• Stars as thoughts (metaphor) Appendix A2 see also Laws of nature, Operational idealism
• Stewardship see also Stewardship of the body, Vocation
  • not ownership Appendix A8, Appendix A8, Appendix A7
• Stewardship of the body Chapter 17, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Appendix A12, Appendix A7, Appendix A7 see also Common grace, Smoking, Vocation
• Stolen vocabulary see also Simulation hypothesis
  • the enemy uses Christian language Afterword, Chapter 28
• Stone the builders rejected see also Types and shadows
  • as type of Christ Chapter 9
• Story between fall and restoration see also Decrees of God, Eschatology
  • as part of the thought Chapter 3
• Straw men see also Shibboleths
  • as firmware filter Appendix A10
• Stress-testing the framework see also Method, theological
  • no Scripture or argument has broken it Preface, Preface, Chapter 5
• String theory
• Strong delusion see also Providence
  • sent by God Chapter 13, Appendix A2
• Study to be quiet see also Sectarianism
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Appendix A10, Appendix L
• Subconscious mind see also Operating system (metaphor), Regeneration
  • the Spirit works there before conscious act Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Appendix A12
• Submission see also Headship, Liberty of conscience, Marriage
  • in marriage; limited by conscience Appendix A8, Appendix B, Appendix F
• Subordination of will to conscience see also Liberty of conscience
  • submission limited by conscience Appendix A8
• Subordinationism see also Trinity
  • latent hierarchy beneath eternal generation Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Substance and shadow see also Covenant of grace, Rendering (metaphor), Sacraments
  • substance precedes the ceremony How This Book Talks, Chapter 22, Chapter 27, Chapter 8, Chapter 21, Appendix B, Chapter 21, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Chapter 3, Appendix E, Chapter 23, Chapter 22
• Substance dualism see also Operational idealism, Soul
  • rejected as increasingly hard to defend Appendix A4, Appendix J
• Substance metaphysics see also Operational idealism, Scholasticism
  • Aristotelian categories constraining philosophy Appendix J
• Substance over form
  • institutions substitute structure for substance Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Substitutionary atonement Preface, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 30, Chapter 15, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Imputation, Particular redemption, Propitiation
• Substrate, God as Chapter 2, Chapter 30, Appendix H see also Aseity, Operational idealism, Source code / user interface (metaphor)
• Sudden death, unpreparedness for see also Death, Saving faith
  • the unfinished sentence Appendix L
• Suffering see also Problem of evil, Providence, Theodicy
  • authored within a covenant of love, not permitted Prologue, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 13, Chapter 15, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A9, Appendix A11, Appendix A11, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, Appendix E
• Suffering, marital see also Marriage, Suffering
  • the hard marriage authored, not wasted Appendix A6, Appendix L
• Suffering of Christ see also Death of Christ, Shame
  • physical and spiritual on the cross Chapter 6
• Suffering Servant see also Messianic prophecy, Substitutionary atonement
  • of Isaiah 53 Chapter 9, Chapter 26
• Sufficiency of Christ’s blood Appendix A9 see also Substitutionary atonement
• Sufficiency of grace see also Grace, Suffering
  • perfected in weakness Appendix A9, Appendix A9
• Sufficient/efficient distinction (rejected) see also Limited atonement, Particular redemption
  • replaced by curse/condemnation distinction Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Suicide see also Providence, Reprobation
  • authored, the elect are covered Appendix A3, Appendix A7, Appendix A7, Appendix B, Appendix A9
• Sun analogy (metaphor) see also Self-authentication of Scripture, Total depravity
  • self-luminous but unseen by the blind Chapter 26, Chapter 28
• Superposition see also Observer effect, Rendering engine (metaphor)
  • collapsed by observation Preface, Appendix H
• Suppression of the truth Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Appendix A3 see also Materialism, Secularization
• Supralapsarianism Prologue, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 30, Epilogue, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix I, Chapter 5, Appendix B, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 24, Chapter 30, Appendix D, Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Clark, Gordon, Decrees of God, Infralapsarianism
• Surgeon vs mirror (metaphor) see also Law and gospel
  • the Spirit heals, the law only reflects Chapter 20, Appendix N, Appendix A6
• Surveillance state see also Artificial intelligence, Mark of the beast
  • AI removes the human-bandwidth limit Chapter 27, Chapter 27, Chapter 27
• Sustaining of creation see also Aseity, Operational idealism, Providence
  • all things consist in Christ Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Chapter 3, Appendix A1, Chapter 5, Appendix B, Appendix D, Appendix G
• Sutcliffe, Mary see also Saving faith, Simple Gospel
  • the simple believer received Chapter 30, Appendix B, Appendix L
• Swap the floor (method) see also Method, theological, Substrate, God as
  • four-step re-derivation method Appendix J
• Swindoll, Chuck Preface see also Dispensationalism
• Symbolic numbers see also Revelation, book of
  • in Revelation
• Symbolism of baptism see also Baptism, Sign and thing signified, Spirit baptism
  • points to the Spirit’s work, not to itself Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22
• Synagoge see also Ekklesia, Mistranslation of ekklesia
  • deliberately not chosen by NT writers Chapter 23
• Synergism see also Monergism
  • human contribution to salvation rejected Appendix B, Appendix M
• System that explains everything explains nothing see also Speculation, theological
  • epistemic humility of the framework Chapter 28, Appendix A12, Appendix I
• Systematic theology see also Method, theological, The sentence (metaphor)
  • as derivation from one sentence, not a survey Prologue, Preface, How This Book Talks, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix B, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix J
• Systematic Theology (Berkhof) Appendix I see also Berkhof, Louis
• Systematic theology must address AI Appendix A9, Appendix A9 see also Artificial intelligence, Surveillance state

T

• Tabernacle see also Types and shadows
  • as rendering of Christ Chapter 9
• Tacit knowing Appendix E see also Polanyi, Michael, Pre-propositional information
• Tamar see also Levirate marriage, Onan
  • the widow Onan wronged Appendix A7
• Tasting versus eating (metaphor) Appendix A3 see also Reprobation, Warning passages
• Tautology see also Circular reasoning
  • charge against presuppositionalism
• Teacher of Righteousness Prologue, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Appendix F, Appendix A5, Appendix A6, Appendix F, Appendix A6, Appendix A12 see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran community, Sovereign grace
• Teaching authority in the church see also Eldership, Order of creation
  • restricted to men Chapter 24
• Tegmark, Max see also Mathematics, Simulation hypothesis
  • mathematical universe hypothesis Appendix J
• Television metaphor see also Brain, Consciousness
  • brain receives, does not produce the signal Chapter 17, Chapter 17
• Temple see also Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70), Olivet Discourse
  • destruction foretold and fulfilled Chapter 27, Chapter 9
• Temptation see also Providence
  • as application-layer influence Appendix A9
• Tenderness see also Spiritual gifts
  • as gift carried by women Chapter 24
• Tentmaking see also Vocation
  • Paul made tents, author writes software Epilogue, Epilogue, Epilogue, Epilogue, Epilogue
• Tertullian Chapter 13 see also Lucifer myth, Origen
• The Test see also Assurance, Saving faith
  • Who are you resting in? Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Test suite (metaphor)
  • objections shipped with the source How This Book Talks
• Testing the spirits see also Discernment, Feelings
  • which channel did it come from Appendix A12, Appendix E
• Tetelestai (“It is finished”) see also Finished work of Christ
• Tetragrammaton see also Aseity, Jehovah (divine name)
  • renders aseity Appendix A1
• Textus Receptus see also Critical text, KJV-Onlyism
  • versus critical text Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Theistic evolution Chapter 4 see also Evolution, Old earth creationism
• Theodicy Chapter 7, Chapter 1, Chapter 7, Appendix M, Appendix A9, Appendix B, Appendix D, Appendix G, Appendix J see also Authorship of evil, Crucifixion, Job, Ordination of sin, Permission, divine, Platonism, Problem of evil, Providence, Sovereignty of God
  • God as Judge, not defendant Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Appendix A3, Appendix A10
  • Plato’s sentence rejected as its premise Chapter 13, Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix N, Appendix J
  • two layers of one event, evil and purpose Chapter 14, Epilogue, Appendix A7, Appendix A11, Appendix A11
• Theological celebrity see also Reprobation
  • the admired teacher on the wrong side Appendix L
• Theological credentials see also Campless, Scripture, sufficiency of
  • argument apart from degree or backing Appendix K, How This Book Talks
• Theological homelessness see also Campless
  • camplessness Preface, Appendix I
• Theological method see also Doctrine as description, Worship
  • thinking God’s thoughts after Him Appendix O, Appendix O
• Theological vocabulary, novelty defended Chapter 3, Chapter 4 see also Firmware (metaphor), Novelty objection, Rendering (metaphor)
• Theologizing too fast see also Comforting the grieving, Using theology as a weapon
  • temptation in grief Appendix A10
• Theophany see also Angel of the LORD, Incarnation
  • the Author rendered into the scene Chapter 6, Appendix A2, Appendix B
• Theory of everything see also Operational idealism, Quantum mechanics
  • unification is the Thinker Appendix B, Appendix H, Appendix H
• Therapy see also Psychology, Regeneration
  • operates at the application layer Chapter 17, Appendix J
• Thief on the cross Chapter 6, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix O see also Assurance, Baptismal regeneration, Intermediate state, Saving faith, Sovereign grace, Unconditional election
  • paradigm of the book’s soteriology Appendix A10
• Third of the stars see also Apocalyptic literature, War in heaven
  • Revelation 12:4 symbolic, not literal angels Appendix A2
• Third position (method) see also Operational idealism, The Platonic floor (metaphor)
  • replacing the floor under a binary Preface, Appendix B, Appendix B
• Third use of the law see also Moral law, Solus Christus
  • survived the Reformation intact Appendix M
• Thomas, the Apostle see also Resurrection of Christ
  • touching the wounds Chapter 29, Appendix A6
• Those who never hear the gospel see also Effectual calling, Infant salvation
  • Spirit has root access Appendix B
• Thought in the mind of God Preface, Appendix O, Chapter 18, Appendix A7, Appendix A8, Epilogue see also Operational idealism, Providence, The sentence (metaphor)
• The thought is analog, the rendering is digital Appendix H, Appendix H see also It from bit
• Thoughts in the mind of God (metaphor) see also Author/story metaphor, Election, Image of God
  • characters have no independent existence Chapter 7, Chapter 7, Chapter 29
  • the elect written to reflect Him Chapter 17, Chapter 14
• Three channels (firmware model) Preface, Preface, Chapter 17, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix E see also Four-layer model (metaphor), Holy Spirit
• Three groups in the final creation see also Elect angels, Election, Eschatology, Reprobation
  • elect angels, elect humans, reprobate Chapter 12, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 27, Appendix A6
• Three hours of darkness Chapter 6 see also Hell
• Threefold division of the law see also Decalogue, Mosaic law, Reformed theology
  • rejected Chapter 20, Appendix B, Appendix I
• Throne-worship see also New creation, Worship
  • real but not the entire eternal state Appendix A6
• Tier list of sins (metaphor) see also Equality of sin before God, Self-righteousness
  • every sin equidistant from grace Appendix A7
• Time see also Eternality of God, Filmstrip (metaphor), Rendering (metaphor)
  • as a rendering constraint Chapter 2, Appendix A12
  • as creation, not God’s environment Chapter 2, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix N
• Time travel see also Eternality of God, Filmstrip (metaphor)
  • impossible for a creature Appendix A12, Appendix B
• Timelessness of God see also Eternality of God, Gill, John
  • no sequence in God’s mind Prologue
• Tithing see also Christian liberty, Covenant of works, Legalism
  • not binding on believers Preface, Chapter 21, Chapter 23, Appendix A11, Appendix B
• Titles and hierarchy see also Clericalism, Priesthood of all believers
  • forbidden honorifics Chapter 23, Chapter 23
• Tobacco see also Christian liberty, Mastery principle
  • Scripture is silent on Appendix A7, Appendix B
• Tom the cook (metaphor) see also Christ saves through the cracks, The true Christ
  • knowing a person through a wrong description Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Tongues, gift of see also Charismatic movement, Pentecost, Spiritual gifts
  • are known human languages, not ecstatic utterance Chapter 23, Chapter 23, Appendix B, Appendix A4, Appendix A4
• Too generous error see also Judas Iscariot, Risk asymmetry
  • embracing a goat as a sheep Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Toplady, Augustus Preface, Chapter 30, Appendix F see also Doctrines of grace, Gill, John
• Torah see also Inherited guilt
  • witness against inherited guilt predates Ezekiel Chapter 11
• Total depravity Prologue, Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Appendix F, Chapter 18, Appendix L see also Chief of sinners, Children of wrath, Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Monergism, Natural man, Original sin, Regeneration, Reprobation, Saving faith, Sin nature, TULIP, Two seeds
  • as authored firmware Chapter 17, Chapter 25, Appendix A9, Appendix A12
  • created sinful directly, not transmitted Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Appendix C, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Appendix A1, Appendix A7
  • dead in trespasses, children of wrath Chapter 15, Chapter 12, Appendix A10, Appendix A8
  • moral inability of the natural man Chapter 3, Chapter 16, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 20, Chapter 25, Appendix A12, Appendix F, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Appendix A11, Appendix E, Appendix E, Appendix G, Appendix J
  • saving faith confesses chief of sinners Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix A7
• Tower of Babel see also Idolatry
  • the sin of centralization Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Tower of Siloam Appendix A9 see also Natural disasters, Suffering
• Tradition see also Platonism, Roman Catholicism, Sola Scriptura
  • must yield to Scripture Prologue, Chapter 2, Chapter 7, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 18, Chapter 24, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix J, Appendix J, Appendix M
• Tradition over Scripture see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Sola Scriptura
  • the appeal-to-Church conversation-closer Appendix N, Appendix N, Appendix N
• Traducianism see also Original sin
  • rejected Chapter 7
• Transfiguration see also Recognition in heaven
  • Moses and Elijah recognized Appendix A12
• Transporter scenarios see also Mind uploading, Personal identity
  • the Author renders, atoms do not determine Appendix J
• Transubstantiation see also Lord’s Supper, Real presence, Roman Catholicism
  • rejected Chapter 10, Appendix A6, Appendix N
• Trash-can icon (metaphor) see also Interface theory
  • useful fiction hiding the machinery Appendix H
• Treatise on the Two Spirits Chapter 11, Chapter 11 see also Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran community, Two seeds
• Tree and fruit (metaphor) Chapter 18, Chapter 21 see also Fruit of the Spirit, Good works, Sanctification
• Tree of life see also New Jerusalem, New creation
  • for the healing of the nations Appendix A6
• Tribalism see also Doctrine as description, Gatekeeping, Sharpest doctrine, widest arms
  • in the sovereign grace world Prologue, Appendix A10, Appendix B, Appendix O, Appendix O
• Tribulation see also Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70), Preterism, partial
  • fulfilled in AD 70 Appendix A6, Appendix B
• Trichotomy see also Anthropology, theological
  • soul and spirit as functions, not substances Appendix A4, Appendix A4, Appendix N
• Trinity Chapter 1, Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix B, Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Baptism, Covenant of redemption, Decrees of God, Great Commission, Logos, New creation, Nicene Creed, Perseverance of the saints
  • baptismal formula Appendix A5
  • covenant among the persons Appendix C, Appendix C, Chapter 25
  • Father decrees, Son accomplishes, Spirit applies Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Appendix A1, Chapter 19
  • still creates in the new creation Appendix A12
• Triumphalism see also Postmillennialism, Pride
  • a kind of pride Chapter 27
• Trivium see also Classical education
  • grammar, logic, rhetoric mirror regeneration
• True and false gospel Chapter 9 see also Sola fide
• The true Christ see also Doctrine as description, One Christ, many descriptions
  • the Person, not the tradition naming Him Chapter 30, Chapter 30, Appendix O
• Truth see also Apologetics, Doctrine as description, Recovery of buried truth (metaphor)
  • located in the Author’s thought, not articulation Prologue, Preface, Preface, Appendix A10, Chapter 28
• Truth over tribe Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also Tribalism
• TULIP Chapter 15, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Chapter 25, Appendix A12, Appendix B, Appendix B see also Calvinism, Doctrines of grace, Hyper-Calvinism, Legalism, Operational idealism
  • as a box or hedge Appendix A1, Appendix A1
• Two covenants running simultaneously Chapter 8 see also Covenant of grace, Covenant of works
• Two kingdoms see also Civil government, Kingdom of God
  • Caesar’s and God’s Appendix A8
• Two laws (Spirit vs. Moses) Chapter 20 see also Law of the Spirit of life, Mosaic law
• Two natures of Christ Prologue, Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix I, Appendix A1, Appendix N see also Author/story metaphor, Council of Chalcedon, Humiliation of Christ, Hypostatic union, Incarnation, Resurrection of Christ, Resurrection of the body
  • in time yet outside it Chapter 2, Chapter 6
  • incarnation as Author entering the story Chapter 21
  • resurrection body has flesh and bones Appendix A2
• Two Readings Compared see also Novelty objection
  • which reading strains less Chapter 29, Appendix A6, Appendix A6
• Two render tracks (metaphor) see also Renderingism, Soul
  • picture and sound Appendix A4
• Two seeds Prologue, Chapter 26, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix F, Chapter 1, Chapter 5, Chapter 28, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Appendix F, Chapter 12, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Chapter 28, Chapter 27, Chapter 30, Appendix C, Appendix A2, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix A7, Appendix A9, Appendix B, Appendix G, Appendix I, Appendix M, Appendix O see also Covenant of grace, Reprobation, Seed of the woman
  • personal covenants particular to the elect Preface
• Two Seeds (Chapter 12) see also Reprobation, Two seeds
  • named the most dangerous chapter Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Two states of Christ see also Exaltation of Christ, Humiliation of Christ
  • humiliation and exaltation Chapter 6
• Two swords see also Civil government, Self-defense, War
  • state’s sword and household’s sword Appendix A8, Appendix A8
• Two wills of God see also Unconditional election, Will of God
  • rejected Appendix A3
• Two windows (metaphor) see also Resurrection of Christ
  • same event, metaphysics and gospel Chapter 19
• Two-consequences position see also Annihilationism, Curse of the law, Eternal conscious torment
  • the framework’s third position
• Two-natures analogy (code and image) see also Four-layer model (metaphor)
  • one system, two layers Appendix H, Epilogue
• Two-peoples theology see also Dispensationalism, Israel and the church
  • apostolic rejection of Appendix A6
• Two-seed ontology see also Children who die young, Election, Reprobation
  • not collapsed into universalism Appendix A12, Appendix A10
• Two-stage return see also Pretribulational rapture, Second coming of Christ
  • text does not describe it Chapter 27
• Tyndale, William Appendix A1, Appendix A1 see also King James Version
• Types and shadows Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Chapter 9, Appendix A5, Appendix N see also Old Testament typology, Progressive rendering (metaphor)
• Tyre
  • referent of Ezekiel 28 Appendix C

U

• Unbelief see also Accountability vs. responsibility, Reprobation
  • sinner accountable, not duty-bound Chapter 19
• Unbelief disguised as devotion Chapter 30, Chapter 30 see also Gatekeeping, Pride, Self-deception
• Uncertainty principle see also Observer effect, Quantum mechanics, Rendering (metaphor)
  • as rendering constraint Preface, Appendix B
• Unconditional election Prologue, Preface, Appendix C, Chapter 7, Chapter 15, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Appendix A6, Appendix D, Chapter 14, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Appendix A6, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A10, Appendix A12, Appendix D, Appendix M, Appendix N, Appendix O see also Covenant of redemption, Definite atonement, Effectual calling, Firmware (metaphor), Predestination, Reprobation, Sovereign grace, TULIP, Two wills of God
  • distinction ontological, not decretal Chapter 25, Chapter 25
  • given to the Son before the foundation of the world Chapter 25
  • two wills invented to soften it Appendix A3
  • whose firmware gets flashed Chapter 25
• Under the sun see also Ecclesiastes, Book of, Rendering (metaphor)
• Unequal yoking see also Flood, the, Nephilim, Two seeds
  • intermarriage corrupting the elect line Appendix A2, Appendix A2
• Unforgivable sin Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix B see also Holy Spirit, Perseverance of the saints, Reprobation
• Unified field theory of theology see also Operational idealism, Theory of everything
  • framework anticipated before it had a name Chapter 22, Appendix H
• Union with Christ Chapter 2, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 20, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Appendix A4, Appendix M see also Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Eternal justification, Imputation, Justification, Lord’s Supper, Means of grace, Perseverance of the saints, Sanctification
  • clothed in Christ, exposure made safe Appendix A6, Chapter 24
  • elect preserved in Christ before believing Appendix I, Chapter 15
  • feeding on Christ Chapter 9
  • married to another, even to Him Chapter 20
• Union with God see also Assurance, Operational idealism
  • indwelling, not separation Appendix J, Appendix J
• Unity of the soul see also Faculties of the soul
  • layers as functions, not substances Appendix E
• Universal atonement see also Arminianism, Limited atonement, Particular redemption
  • refuted Chapter 15, Chapter 15, Appendix A5
• Universal final judgment see also Final judgment, Lordship of Christ, Wrath of God
  • every knee bows, compulsory not willing Chapter 19, Chapter 28
• Universal image-bearing see also Elect, the, Image of God
  • critiqued Chapter 17
• Universal love of God see also Common grace, Particular love of God
  • rendered meaningless Chapter 19
• Universalism Preface, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix A6 see also Eastern Orthodoxy, Reprobation, Universal atonement
• Universality of sin Chapter 11, Chapter 14 see also Equality of sin before God, Total depravity
• Unmediated relationship before the fall Chapter 28 see also The glass (metaphor)
• Unreal Engine (metaphor) see also Rendering (metaphor)
  • human worlds vs. the Author’s render Appendix A10
• Unrendered thought, the (metaphor) Appendix H see also Superposition
• Upgraded bodies (metaphor) Appendix L see also Glorification, Resurrection body
• Using theology as a weapon see also Gatekeeping, Pride
  • author’s confession Appendix A10

V

• Van Til, Cornelius Chapter 16, Chapter 25, Appendix J, Appendix J see also Frame, John, Operational idealism, Presuppositionalism
• Van Weelden, Mary Chapter 27 see also Postmillennialism, Remnant
• Vanity / meaninglessness Chapter 26 see also Ecclesiastes, Book of, Materialism, Under the sun
• Veil (metaphor) Chapter 8 see also Rendering (metaphor), Types and shadows
• Veracity of God Chapter 7 see also Faithfulness of God
• Verification of the atonement Chapter 19 see also Resurrection of Christ
• Vermes, Geza see also Dead Sea Scrolls
• “Very good” see also Decrees of God, Problem of evil
  • purposeful, not sinless Chapter 11
• Vessels of wrath and mercy Chapter 5, Chapter 12, Epilogue, Chapter 19, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 19, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Epilogue, Appendix A9, Appendix D, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix A9, Appendix A12 see also Reprobation
• Victory of the cross Chapter 13 see also Binding of Satan, War in heaven
• Video game analogy (metaphor) Chapter 3 see also Observer effect, Rendering (metaphor)
• Vile affections Chapter 14 see also Homosexuality
• Vindication Appendix K see also Apologetics
• Virgin birth Chapter 6, Appendix A3, Appendix A3 see also Incarnation, Perpetual virginity of Mary
• Visible and invisible see also Materialism, Operational idealism
  • law producing invisible reality Chapter 20
• Visible and invisible church see also Body of Christ, Church
  • distinction rejected Chapter 23, Chapter 23
• Visible church see also Reprobation, Warning passages
  • reprobate within Appendix A3, Appendix A3
• Visible sign and invisible reality Chapter 8, Appendix A4 see also Circumcision, Operational idealism, Rendering (metaphor)
• Visions Appendix A12 see also Dreams, Prophecy
• Vita Adae et Evae Chapter 13 see also Islam
• Vitalism Appendix A7 see also Euthanasia, Roman Catholicism
• Vocabulary, technical Prologue, Preface, Appendix A10 see also Application layer (metaphor), Evangelism, Firmware (metaphor), Glossary, Paul, the Apostle
  • adapted for audience (Paul’s method) How This Book Talks
• Vocation Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Epilogue, Appendix A1, Appendix A8, Appendix B see also Decrees of God, Providence, Simple Gospel, Singleness
  • preacher’s faithfulness Chapter 30
  • purpose revealed frame by frame Appendix A11
  • singleness as a calling Appendix A7
• Vows, marriage Appendix A6 see also Marriage

W

• Waiting on the Lord see also Monergism, Sovereignty of God
  • presenting truth softly Preface, Chapter 27, Epilogue
• Walking on water see also Miracles of Christ, Re-rendering (metaphor)
  • rendering constraints removed Appendix J
• Walking-around-the-statue (metaphor) see also Bibliology, KJV-Onlyism
  • multiple translations seen in three dimensions Appendix N
• Wandering sheep (metaphor) see also Other sheep, Preservation of the saints
  • the one who returns is still a sheep Appendix A10
• War see also Civil government, Providence
  • authored and used by God Appendix A8, Appendix B
• War in heaven Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A2 see also Atonement, Binding of Satan, Revelation, book of
• Warning passages see also Apostasy, Reprobation, Visible church
  • directed at the reprobate Appendix A3
• Watchers, the Chapter 13
• Watchmaker God see also Deism, Sustaining of creation
  • rejected Chapter 1
• Wave function collapse Chapter 3, Appendix H see also Observer effect
• Wave-and-ocean image (metaphor) see also Monism
  • self dissolved back into the One Afterword
• Wave-particle duality Chapter 3 see also Observer effect, Quantum mechanics
• Wealth and poverty see also Providence, Stewardship
  • both authored by God Appendix A8, Appendix B
• Well-meant offer of the gospel see also Common grace, Hyper-Calvinism
  • denied Appendix I, Appendix K
• Westboro Baptist Church see also Hyper-Calvinism, Reprobation
• Western art Jesus see also Images of Christ
  • blond blue-eyed as European projection Appendix A5
• Western theology see also Augustine of Hippo, Imputation, Original sin
  • transmission-of-guilt installed by Augustine Chapter 11, Chapter 23, Appendix A4, Appendix C
• Westminster Confession Chapter 20, Chapter 25, Appendix M, Chapter 21, Chapter 26 see also Augustine of Hippo, Creeds and confessions, Decrees of God, Effectual calling, Federal headship, Reformed theology
  • agreement on decrees, disagreement on federal headship Appendix A5, Appendix A5
  • built on Augustine Chapter 30, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix I, Appendix N, Appendix J, Chapter 27
  • effectual calling through the Word Appendix E
• What hast thou that thou didst not receive see also Sola gratia, Sovereignty of God
  • all is gift, no ground for boasting Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Wheat and tares Chapter 12, Chapter 19, Chapter 27, Appendix A2, Appendix A8 see also Reprobation, Two seeds
• Wheeler, John Archibald Chapter 3, Appendix H, Chapter 3, Appendix A12, Appendix B see also Information, reality as, It from bit
• When grace becomes law see also Legalism
  • grace held as a fence is no longer grace Chapter 30
• Whitewashed tombs see also Hypocrisy, Pharisees
  • impeccable doctrine, rotten hearts Chapter 14, Chapter 14
• Who knows you (metaphor) see also Election, Foreknowledge of God
  • the framework’s soteriology in four words Appendix O
• Whole-person renewal see also Regeneration, Sanctification
  • Spirit changes the whole person Appendix A4
• Why preach sovereign grace see also Doctrines of grace, Worship
  • because it is true and glorifies God Chapter 30, Chapter 30
• Wicked, the see also Compatibilism, Crucifixion, Reprobation
  • made for the day of evil Chapter 11, Appendix A9, Chapter 14
• Wide arms see also Christian unity, Saving faith
  • logical consequence of relocated doctrine Appendix O
• Widows Appendix A6, Appendix A7 see also Grief, Remarriage, Singleness
• Will, bondage of the How This Book Talks see also Firmware (metaphor), Monergism, Total depravity
• Will of God see also Sovereignty of God, Trinity
  • one will shared by the three persons Chapter 6, Appendix A3, Appendix B, Prologue
• Will, the see also Irresistible grace, Regeneration
  • wants changed, not overpowered Chapter 25, Chapter 17
• Wine, water into see also Miracles, Rendering (metaphor)
  • miracle as parameter change Appendix G
• Wisdom see also Discernment, Feelings
  • discerning the channel of a feeling Chapter 17
• Wise, Abegg, and Cook see also Community Rule (1QS), Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Dead Sea Scrolls translation cited Chapter 18
• Witch of Endor Appendix A9 see also Necromancy, Samuel
• Witness of the Spirit Chapter 2, Appendix A3, Appendix A11, Appendix A11 see also Adoption, Assurance, Effectual calling
• Wittenberg Prologue see also Luther, Martin, Reformation
• Wolves, false teachers as Appendix L see also Heresy
• Women, first witnesses of the resurrection Chapter 24 see also Empty tomb, Mary Magdalene, Phebe (Phoebe), Resurrection of Christ, Women in ministry
• Women in ministry Chapter 24, Chapter 24, Appendix B, Appendix I, Chapter 23 see also Church polity, Complementarianism, Participatory ecclesiology
• Wonder see also Rendering (metaphor), Worship
  • framework produces wonder, not mere seriousness Appendix A10, Appendix A10
• Word made flesh Chapter 2, Chapter 6, Chapter 26, Appendix B see also Incarnation, Logos, The sentence (metaphor)
• Word of God Chapter 1, Chapter 4, Chapter 26 see also Authority of Scripture, Effectual calling, Inspiration of Scripture, Logos, Means of grace, Operational idealism
  • as instrument of the Spirit Chapter 25, Appendix E, Appendix O
  • Scripture as the thought of God in ink Appendix A1, Appendix A4
• Word of God’s power see also Continuous creation, Providence
  • sustaining every atom Appendix J
• Working out salvation see also Monergism
  • Philippians 2:12-13 Chapter 18
• Works, salvation not by Chapter 19, Chapter 21, Appendix A10, Appendix L see also Justification, Sola Fide
• Works-righteousness Chapter 7 see also Arminianism, Legalism
• World as rendering of God’s thought Chapter 28 see also Operational idealism
• World-Soul (Plotinian) see also Emanation, Plotinus
  • mapped to the Spirit
• Worldview see also No neutral ground, Presuppositionalism
  • competing presuppositional frameworks Chapter 25
• Worm that dies not Chapter 6, Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Chapter 28 see also Hell, Shame
• Worship Chapter 4, Chapter 4, Chapter 21, Appendix M see also Angel of the LORD, Deity of Christ, Doxology, Glory of God, Heaven, New creation, Order in worship, Participatory ecclesiology, Religious relics, The sentence (metaphor), Theological method
  • as the proper home of theology Appendix O, Appendix A12, Appendix A9
  • living as worship in the new creation Appendix A6, Appendix N, Appendix L
  • of Christ Chapter 6, Appendix F, Appendix L
  • participatory versus institutional Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 23, Epilogue
  • substance is a heart in love with Christ Appendix A5, Appendix A5, Appendix B
• Wounds of Christ, glorified Chapter 29, Appendix L see also Atonement
• Wrath of God Prologue, Appendix A1, Appendix F, Chapter 28, Chapter 28 see also Children of wrath, Hell, Imputation, Justification, Propitiation, Reprobation, Shame, Two seeds
  • displayed in the reprobate Chapter 12, Chapter 19, Appendix A1
  • felt as shame Appendix A6
  • never aimed at the elect Chapter 15
  • substituted in Christ’s atonement Preface, Chapter 9
• Wycliffe, John see also Historicism

Y

• Yoke of bondage see also Christian liberty, Judaizers, Legalism
  • law and man-made requirements as Chapter 20, Chapter 21
• Yom see also Creation
  • semantic range of Chapter 4
• Young earth creationism Chapter 4 see also Creation, Old earth creationism
• Your Knowledge Won’t Save You (song) Appendix A10

Z

• Zens, Jon Chapter 23 see also Participatory ecclesiology
• Zion Chapter 27 see also Remnant
• Zwingli, Ulrich Chapter 10 see also Lord’s Supper, Memorialism