[hap’-aks luh-gawm‘-uh-nawn’]
(Greek hapax, “once” + Greek legein, “to count” or ”to say” = ”once said”)
This is a word that only occurs once in a particular body of literature. With regards to the Scriptures, exegetes will often find a word that only appears one time. In the New Testament alone, there are 1,932 words that occur only once (USB). […]

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(Latin liberum arbitrium)
The belief that the human will is free from any necessitating constraint (necessitas coactio). This is often referred to as “the power of contrary choice.” In this, whatever decisions are made, its alternative decisions are viable options. The alternative to libertarianism is fatalism, divine determinism, or self-determinism. The reformers believed that the faculty […]

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[sep-too’-uh-jint]
(Latin septuaginta, “seventy”)
Commonly, “LXX.” The Greek translation of the Old Testament produced around 200B.C. for the Hellenized Jews. By the New Testament times, the LXX was in common use. While the quality of the translation varies depending on the book, it serves as a valuable witness to the text of the Old Testament. The earliest […]

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Philosophical movement rising out of the early 20th century which espoused that the only propositions worthy of belief were those that could be verified empirically (through the senses) by means of a finite procedure. Logical positivists rejected any theological or metaphysical propositions believing that they could not be verified by their method of inquiry. Logical positivism suffers […]

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