blasphemy
blasphemous:
1. uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
2. expressing or involving impiousness or gross irreverence towards God, a divine being, or something sacred.
salvation (in theology):
1. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.
2. Being “saved” among Christians (see also Christian); salvation is freedom from the effects of the Fall of Man. This freedom comes through faith in Jesus, who is called in the New Testament “the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” The Apostles taught that those who experience salvation in their lifetime on Earth and continue in their friendship with God will inherit eternal happiness in heaven.
3. In Christianity, union or friendship with God and deliverance from original sin (see also original sin) and damnation. Jesus promised salvation to his followers. (See more here on salvation here.)
Tetragrammaton:
1. the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
2. Bible the Hebrew name for God revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3), consisting of the four consonants Y H V H (or Y H W H) and regarded by Jews as too sacred to be pronounced. It is usually transliterated as Jehovah or Yahweh.
Sometimes shortened to: Tetragram. Compare Yahweh.
theology:
1. the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
2. a particular form, system, branch, or course of this study.
3. the disciplined study of religious questions, such as the nature of God, sin, and salvation (see next). (See more on theology here.)
Yahweh:
1. a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
2. Old Testament. a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton, used esp by Christian theologians. Origin: from Hebrew, from YHVH, with conjectural vowels; perhaps related to hāwāh to be; see also Jehovah.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English blasphemie < Late Latin blasphēmia < Greek. See blasphemous, blaspheme.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
2. expressing or involving impiousness or gross irreverence towards God, a divine being, or something sacred.
salvation (in theology):
1. deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.
2. Being “saved” among Christians (see also Christian); salvation is freedom from the effects of the Fall of Man. This freedom comes through faith in Jesus, who is called in the New Testament “the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” The Apostles taught that those who experience salvation in their lifetime on Earth and continue in their friendship with God will inherit eternal happiness in heaven.
3. In Christianity, union or friendship with God and deliverance from original sin (see also original sin) and damnation. Jesus promised salvation to his followers. (See more here on salvation here.)
Tetragrammaton:
1. the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
2. Bible the Hebrew name for God revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3), consisting of the four consonants Y H V H (or Y H W H) and regarded by Jews as too sacred to be pronounced. It is usually transliterated as Jehovah or Yahweh.
Sometimes shortened to: Tetragram. Compare Yahweh.
theology:
1. the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
2. a particular form, system, branch, or course of this study.
3. the disciplined study of religious questions, such as the nature of God, sin, and salvation (see next). (See more on theology here.)
Yahweh:
1. a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
2. Old Testament. a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton, used esp by Christian theologians. Origin: from Hebrew, from YHVH, with conjectural vowels; perhaps related to hāwāh to be; see also Jehovah.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English blasphemie < Late Latin blasphēmia < Greek. See blasphemous, blaspheme.
Sources: 1, 2.