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

A

• Aaron Chapter 28 see also Golden calf, Moses
• Abba, Father Chapter 15, Chapter 16, 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 Chapter 27, 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, Chapter 5, Chapter 5, Appendix D, Appendix I, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Appendix A1, Appendix C, Appendix A9
  • federal headship rejected Chapter 7, Chapter 25, Chapter 8, Chapter 8, Chapter 11, 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, Chapter 21, 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 A11, 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, Chapter 17, 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, 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 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 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, Chapter 21, Appendix B, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix N
• Anxiety see also Foreknowledge of God, Providence, Suffering
  • all frames already authored Chapter 17, 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 16, 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, 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 21, Chapter 26, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix M
  • the conscious propositional mind Preface, How This Book Talks, Chapter 15, Chapter 25, Epilogue, Appendix M, Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 18, Chapter 21, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A9, 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, Appendix I
• 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 Prologue, Preface, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Appendix A4, 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 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, Chapter 18, Appendix A3, Appendix I, Appendix K
  • a finished work no man can add to Afterword, 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 Chapter 16, 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, Appendix M
• 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 4, 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 F, 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 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 13, Appendix M, Chapter 13, 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, How This Book Talks

B

• Babel, tower of (metaphor) Appendix A6, Appendix A6, Appendix B see also Great apostasy, Number of the beast
• Babylon Appendix A8, Appendix C, Appendix D see also Providence
• Bahnsen, Greg Chapter 25 see also Presuppositionalism, Van Til, Cornelius
• Balaam Chapter 15, Chapter 15, 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, Chapter 27
• Baptism Prologue, Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 9, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 22, Chapter 24, 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, Chapter 24, 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 A1, Appendix B see also Baptism, Materialism, Regeneration, Roman Catholicism
• Basil of Caesarea Appendix A1, 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, Chapter 27, Appendix A6, 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 Appendix A6
• Beatific vision Chapter 9, 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) Preface, 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, 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, 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 A1, 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, Appendix M
• 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, Appendix A7 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, Appendix G 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 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 2, 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, 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 Appendix H 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 Preface, 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 Chapter 19, Chapter 19, Appendix A3, Appendix C
• 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 C, Appendix I, Appendix M, Epilogue, Appendix A3, 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 Appendix A3
• Communicatio idiomatum Chapter 6, Appendix A1, Appendix G see also Hypostatic union, Impassibility, divine
• Communication with the dead Appendix A9, 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, 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 16, Chapter 17, Appendix E, Appendix E
• Computer science vocabulary in theology How This Book Talks, Chapter 3, 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, 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, Epilogue, Afterword, Appendix A5, Appendix B, Appendix M, Appendix M, Appendix O, Appendix A1, 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, 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, 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 16, 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, 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 I, 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 I, 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 16, 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 Chapter 12
• 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 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 8, Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A5, Appendix A8, 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 A4, 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 1, Chapter 4, 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) Chapter 14 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 Chapter 29, 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, 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 3, 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 Appendix A3
• 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 Chapter 19, 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 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, 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 Chapter 3, Chapter 14
  • 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 12, 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 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 A2, Appendix A2, 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, Appendix A2, Chapter 13, Appendix A2, Appendix A2, Appendix B, Appendix I
  • quarantined in the final state Chapter 12, Appendix A6, Appendix I, 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) How This Book Talks, 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, 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, Appendix H 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 Appendix A2
• Diaconate see also Phebe (Phoebe), Women in ministry
  • diakonos applied to Phebe Chapter 23, Chapter 24
• 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, 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, 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 Prologue, 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 A11, Appendix B, Appendix G, 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, 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, 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 Chapter 24, Appendix A5, Appendix A5
• Elect angels Chapter 12, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Appendix A1, Appendix A6, 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, Chapter 21, Chapter 26, 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 G, 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 C, 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 16, Chapter 17, 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, Chapter 26, 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, 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, Chapter 21, 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 A1, 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, Chapter 26, 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 3, Chapter 4, Appendix A10 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, 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 A8, 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 8, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, 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 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) Chapter 9, 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 1, 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 A11, 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, Chapter 11, 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, Appendix I
  • three channels of origin Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Chapter 17
• Feelings precede thoughts see also Pre-propositional information
  • the processing delay Appendix A10
• 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, 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 28, Chapter 30, Chapter 30
  • two consequences distinguished Appendix I
• Final rendering, the Appendix A12, 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 Chapter 25, Afterword, Appendix A12 see also Anthropic principle, Cosmological argument
• Finished work of Christ Preface, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Preface, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 24, 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 21, 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 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, 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, Chapter 25, Appendix M, Appendix A1, Appendix A3, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix A10, Appendix A11, Appendix A12, 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 Chapter 29
• 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 Appendix A5
• 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, Appendix A1
  • resetting the rendering Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A1, Appendix A2, 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 A11, 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 Chapter 4
• 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 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 A8, 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 A1, 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 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 A10, Appendix B, Appendix L, Appendix N see also Legalism, Shibboleths
• Gehenna see also Hell
  • Valley of Hinnom as cultural shame Appendix A6
• 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 Chapter 19
  • 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 Appendix A8
• 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 15, Chapter 29, Appendix A2, Appendix A6, Appendix A12, Appendix G, Appendix A7, Appendix A4, Chapter 21, Chapter 28
  • resurrection body completes conformity Chapter 12, 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) Chapter 15 see also Ordo salutis, Predestination
• Good pleasure of God see also Election, Sovereignty of God
  • salvation springs from God’s delight Chapter 7
• 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, 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 Chapter 19, 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 Chapter 24
• 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 Chapter 16, 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 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 A1, Appendix N see also Cappadocian Fathers
• Gregory of Nyssa Chapter 28, Appendix A1, 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, Appendix A7
  • 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 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 21, Appendix A3, Appendix A3, Appendix A4, Appendix A11, 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 A4, Appendix A10, Appendix L, Chapter 29
• Heart, circumcision of Chapter 8 see also Circumcision, Regeneration
• Heart, law written on Appendix I 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, 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, Appendix A5 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 11, 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 10, 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, 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, Appendix F
• 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, Chapter 21
• Holy Spirit Appendix A1, 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 A1, 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 Chapter 16, Appendix A3, Chapter 16, 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 I, Appendix M, Epilogue, How This Book Talks, Chapter 10
  • writes the law on the heart Chapter 20, Appendix A7, Appendix C, Appendix B, Appendix I
• 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, 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 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 Chapter 27 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 Chapter 6, Appendix I, Appendix A1, Appendix G

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 A12, 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, How This Book Talks, 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, Chapter 17, Appendix B, Chapter 17, Chapter 26, Appendix A8, Appendix A9, Appendix I, Chapter 12, Chapter 17, Chapter 17, Appendix A1, Chapter 26
• 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, Appendix A11
• Immutability, divine Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 21, Appendix A11, Chapter 2, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 18, Appendix A11, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 15, Epilogue, Appendix A1, 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 Preface, Chapter 2, Chapter 15, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 21, Appendix A1, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, 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, Appendix I, Appendix I see also DNA as authored code, Intelligent design, Materialism
• Information theory How This Book Talks, How This Book Talks, Chapter 1, Chapter 1, Appendix I, Appendix I 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 Preface, 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 Chapter 17
• 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, Chapter 25
• 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 Appendix H
• 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, How This Book Talks, 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 Appendix A11
• 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, Appendix M
• 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 Chapter 27, 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, Chapter 30, Appendix B see also Assurance, Finished work of Christ
• Itinerant preaching see also Evangelism, Great Commission
  • the biblical model Appendix A5