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These are some terms I have found that seem to have taken on new meanings outside of the bible. I think it necessary to understand these terms when phrasing questions and reading explanations concerning God or the bible. I can provide a study for each of these words that underline their biblical usage, if anyone is interested I'll be happy to go over them with you line by line if need be.
Sin, Anything not in the Expressed Will of God.
Expressed Will of God, God's verbal, or written command; The Law of God.
Evil, A malicious intent to sin.
Not all sin is evil, but all evil is indeed sin.
Free Will, The ability to be outside of God's expressed will. In otherwords it is the ability to sin.
Free Will as outlined by the bible is not the ability to choose our own path. That is based on a Greek philosophy, and has some how been transposed to supposed biblical doctrine.
The Moral Law, The Law pertaining to how one is to live under God. Most of the 10 commandments are considered Moral law. The Moral Law is the only Part of OT law that gets carried over to the NT.
The Civil Law, Was written to the OT Jews that governed societal life. Marriages, Families responsibility, Slaves, Hospitality, housing, the family hierarchy, etc..
The Ceremonial Law, This aspect of OT Judaism governed the practices of the temple, The temple, priests, and all of the ceremonies, Holy day observances, and regulations their in. Only the Moral Law was carried over to Christianity. Why? Because Christ did not authorize the continuation of OT Judaism under the New covenant of atonement. Meaning rather than trying to seek righteousness through adherence we are to seek atonement. The law does not disappear, matter of fact it gets way more stringent. So rather than seek to find righteousness through works we must accept the gift of atonement He has provided.
Righteousness, the Perfect Measure or Standard of God.
True Righteousness, Without Sin.
Atonement, Forgiveness through the blood sacrifice offered by Christ.
Morality, Man's attempt to create his own personal version of righteousness that allows for the sins he or his society are willing to accept. Most versions of modern morality excludes the need for any type of atonement.
Self Righteousness, Is one's own personal version of righteousness.
Legalism, A doctrine that states one must strictly adhear to the law of God to obtain righteousness. (legalism is condemned by Christ and the rest of scripture.)
Christianity, God's only effort to reach out and atone for the sins of man, thus allowing a personal relationship possible.
Biblical Christianity, is defined by the source material that governs said Christian relationship with God.
Popular Christianity, is any version of the religion based on precepts not found in the bible.
Religion, Man's effort (ceremony, adherences, traditional observances and the like) to worship God. Religious efforts in of themselves are meaningless in God's economy. Even religious efforts based in christianity.
There's some in here that I've never heard of being defined as that. I'm just wondering if they can all be Biblically backed up, or did the meanings develop as you got a better understanding of the Bible? I'm not asking for you to justify them through scripture but just wondering how you arrived to these definitions.
As you know the bible is not a text book so it doesn't have an offical glossary. So what I did was take words (popular christian terms that I have noticed were being used in many different ways repersent many different understandings) and paired them with a consistent biblical repersentation of the term, or in some cases I go back to the Greek/Hebrew to define a concept or term. My thread on Agape was such an example.
If you wish to go over any of them I'd be happy to show you several verses or orginal greek/hebrew words that help compiled any of these definations.
