Every symbol defined in this handbook, alphabetically (leading articles ignored), with its receipts and owning section.
- born a Christian = the study's term for the moral difference between Christ and us — from birth "that holy thing," set apart by the Spirit, living in unbroken surrender to the Father, holy, harmless, undefiled, learning obedience and overcoming by the Spirit and the Word; the difference was never the nature He bore but the life He lived (John 8:29; Luke 1:35; Heb. 5:8; Heb. 7:26). — defined in "The Nature He Took — Full Fallen Nature, Yet Without Sin".
- the Comforter = Christ's own continuing presence with His people by the Spirit — "another Comforter" of His own kind whom Jesus identifies with Himself ("I will come to you"), the Spirit of truth sent by the Father in Christ's name to teach His words, glorify Him, and abide for ever (John 14:16-18, 23, 26; 16:13-14). — defined in "The Spirit of God — the Presence of the Father and the Son".
- the Comforter / another Comforter = the Holy Spirit whom the Father gives at the Son's request, by whom the Father and the Son make their abode in the believer — Christ's own return, His representative who makes real in us what He accomplished on the cross (John 14:16-18; John 14:23; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 John 4:13). — defined in "The Father, the Son, and the Spirit in the Plan of Salvation".
- emptied himself / "made himself of no reputation" (kenosis) = not a divesting of deity but a veiling of His glory and a laying aside of the independent exercise of His divine power, to live as a dependent man, while keeping full Godhead (Phil. 2:6-8; John 5:19, 30; John 14:10; John 6:57; Col. 2:9; John 14:9; John 1:14). — defined in "He Emptied Himself — Veiled, but Never Divested".
- the Father = the one supreme, self-existent God — the single fountain and source of all being ("of whom are all things"), the only true God, the one God and Father of all, and the Head even of Christ; He alone has life underived as Source (the unoriginated Fountain), Christ being the Son to whom the Father GAVE to have life in Himself, the one Lord and agent "by whom" all things come (1 Cor. 8:6; Eph. 4:6; John 17:3; John 5:26; 1 Cor. 11:3; Rom. 11:36). — defined in "The Father — the One Supreme, Self-Existent God".
- firstborn / firstbegotten = a title of preeminence, heirship, and express-image standing — NOT first in creation; "higher than the kings of the earth" (Ps. 89:27), the firstborn of every creature is the Creator of all (Col. 1:16), and the firstbegotten receives the worship of angels (Heb. 1:6). — defined in "The Son — Begotten, Not Created; Did Christ Have a Beginning?".
- the Godhead = the divine nature/being itself — the eternal power and deity seen through creation, the fulness of which dwells bodily in Christ; the shared divine nature, distinguished from the Persons who possess it (Rom. 1:20; Col. 2:9; John 1:1; Matt. 28:19). — defined in "One God the Father, and One Lord Jesus Christ".
- Immanuel = "God with us" (Scripture's own gloss, Matt. 1:23) — the name of the virgin-born son, marking the human child as God Himself, "The mighty God," come to dwell with His people (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23; Isa. 9:6; Luke 1:35). — defined in "The Word Made Flesh — Truly God and Truly Man".
- the likeness of sinful flesh = the full fallen human nature Christ assumed — the real flesh and blood of the race (Heb. 2:14), the seed of Abraham and David after four thousand years of degeneracy (Heb. 2:16; Rom. 1:3), bearing all our infirmities, weaknesses, and liabilities (Heb. 2:17; 4:15), yet not the guilt of sin; "in the likeness of SINFUL flesh," not merely "of flesh" (Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14, 16, 17; Rom. 1:3; Gal. 4:4; Phil. 2:7). — defined in "The Nature He Took — Full Fallen Nature, Yet Without Sin".
- the man Christ Jesus (permanent humanity / mediator) = the Son retains His humanity forever as our mediator and high priest; the incarnation is permanent (1 Tim. 2:5; Luke 24:39; Acts 1:11; Heb. 7:24-25; 4:14-15; 2:16-17; 13:8). — defined in "He Emptied Himself — Veiled, but Never Divested".
- the one God (= the Father) = the supreme, self-existent Source and fountain of all being, "of whom are all things"; the only true God, the God and Father above all, greater than the Son who proceeds from Him (1 Cor. 8:6; John 17:3; Eph. 4:6; John 14:28; Deut. 6:4). — defined in "One God the Father, and One Lord Jesus Christ".
- the one Lord (= Jesus Christ the Son) = a distinct divine Person, the Word who was with God and was God, the express image of the Father's Person, the agent "by whom are all things," the one Mediator; the begotten Son who shares the divine nature, not a second self-existent God nor a mode of the Father (1 Cor. 8:6; John 1:1; Heb. 1:3; 1 Tim. 2:5; Eph. 4:5). — defined in "One God the Father, and One Lord Jesus Christ".
- only begotten / begotten not created = truly brought forth OF the Father (not made, not created), and therefore of the very substance and nature of God, sharing His attributes by birth; the word Scripture uses is "begotten," said of no angel, placing the Son above all creation as Creator (John 1:14; John 1:18; Heb. 1:5; Ps. 2:7; Col. 1:15-16; John 8:42). — defined in "The Son — Begotten, Not Created; Did Christ Have a Beginning?".
- the plan of salvation = the joint work of Father, Son, and Spirit — the Father loves and gives/sends His only begotten Son, the Son redeems by taking our nature and dying, the Holy Ghost renews and applies the salvation; one saving act, three divine Persons (John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10; Gal. 4:4-6; Titus 3:4-6). — defined in "The Father, the Son, and the Spirit in the Plan of Salvation".
- self-existent (the I AM) = having life in oneself, deriving being from no other and giving being to none above oneself — the property of God alone, who simply IS (Exo. 3:14; Ps. 90:2; John 5:26). The Son's life, though "original, unborrowed, underived" in nature (DA 530.3), is GIVEN Him by the Father (John 5:26) and so is not "self-existent" in this I-AM sense. — defined in "The Father — the One Supreme, Self-Existent God".
- the Son / the Word = the literal, only-begotten divine Person, distinct from the Father yet "with God" and "was God," of the Father's own substance; existed "in the beginning," came forth from the Father in the days of eternity, and was made flesh as the only begotten (John 1:1; John 1:14; Micah 5:2; John 8:58; Col. 1:17). — defined in "The Son — Begotten, Not Created; Did Christ Have a Beginning?".
- the Spirit of God = the divine presence, life, knowledge, and power of the Father and the Son — God's own inmost self reaching into the believer; named interchangeably "the Spirit of God" and "the Spirit of Christ," and "the Lord is that Spirit" (Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 2:10-11; 2 Cor. 3:17; 1 Cor. 3:16; Gal. 4:6). — defined in "The Spirit of God — the Presence of the Father and the Son".
- the victory = Christ's overcoming in our own fallen nature, made ours by faith and applied by the indwelling Spirit; the righteousness of the law fulfilled in us through faith that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 5:4-5; Rom. 8:3-4; Heb. 2:18). — defined in "The Father, the Son, and the Spirit in the Plan of Salvation".
- without sin = sinlessness defined by the life lived, not by a different nature: tempted in all points as we are "yet without sin" (Heb. 4:15), never consenting to temptation, doing no sin and speaking no guile (1 Pet. 2:22), knowing no sin (2 Cor. 5:21), with no sin in Him (1 John 3:5), holy, harmless, undefiled in conduct (Heb. 7:26) — no guilt, no act of sin, though He bore our fallen flesh. — defined in "The Nature He Took — Full Fallen Nature, Yet Without Sin".
- the Word made flesh = the eternal Son, the Logos who was with God and was God, made truly human without ceasing to be God — two natures in one Person, all the fulness of the Godhead bodily dwelling in One who partook of flesh and blood like His brethren (John 1:1, 14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9; Heb. 2:14, 17; Phil. 2:6-8; Gal. 4:4). — defined in "The Word Made Flesh — Truly God and Truly Man".