Definitions

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Definitions

1. Apostasy
   Apostasy is having departed from the faith that one has professed. Having departed from the faith that one has professed does not imply that having professed a faith the one making the profession was ever truly a member of the faith.
2. Hermeneutics
   A term used to denote either the study and statement of the principles on which a biblical text is to be understood or the interpretation of a text in order to express its meaning to someone else.
   
   
   
3. Exegesis:
   1. An explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)
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   2. The act of reading the words of the bible and receiving the truth that God put there.


4. Eisegesis
   The act of reading the words of the bible and only receiving what agrees with your own ideas.


5. Theology
   The discovery, systematising, and presentation of the truths about God.