Bible Version Information – Missing Words

missing words in modern bibles

“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” [Matthew 5:18]

Yes, the word “damnation” is nowhere to be found in the New King James Version. But you will find it in many verses in the “old” or 1611 King James Version:

1. Matthew 23:14

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Matthew 23:13-15 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter)

2. Matthew 23:33

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Matthew 23:32-34 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter)

3. Mark 3:29

“But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Mark 3:28-30 (in Context) Mark 3 (Whole Chapter)

4. Mark 12:40

“Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Mark 12:39-41 (in Context) Mark 12 (Whole Chapter)

5. Luke 20:47

“Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Luke 20:46-47 (in Context) Luke 20 (Whole Chapter)

6. John 5:29

“And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: John 5:28-30 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter)

7. Romans 3:8

“And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Romans 3:7-9 (in Context) Romans 3 (Whole Chapter)

8. Romans 13:2

“Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: Romans 13:1-3 (in Context) Romans 13 (Whole Chapter)

9. 1 Corinthians 11:29

“For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: 1 Corinthians 11:28-30 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 11 (Whole Chapter)

10. 1 Timothy 5:12

“Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: 1 Timothy 5:11-13 (in Context) 1 Timothy 5 (Whole Chapter)

11. 2 Peter 2:3

“And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

Click the Bible verse link to view: 2 Peter 2:2-4 (in Context) 2 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)

Which Bible Verses Did The NIV Delete?

Several readers have asked me this question so I thought it worthwhile to include my response here. Please note that these are only WHOLE verses that the NIV deletes. This list does not include the many words and phrases that were completely deleted from the NIV–it deletes over 64,000 words including words like mercyseat, Jehovah, and Godhead. It removes meaningful, well-known Bible words like Calvary, Lucifer, new testament, regeneration, etc. Most of the modern Bibles line up very closely with the NIV–and so does the New World Translation–the Bible of the Jehovah’s Witnesses which predates the NIV!

When you read below where I say that a verse is COMPLETELY deleted, I mean clean/bald-headed/gone/vanished deleted. For instance, if you search for Acts 8:37 in the NIV you will read,

36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”

38 And he ordered the chariot to stop. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.

Verse 37 is CLEAN, BALD-HEADED, GONE, VANISHED, MY FRIENDS (and it is a powerful verse)! Some foolish people have written me saying, “But it says something in the footnotes.” I have three responses. (1) When you are reading your Bible do you look at the footnotes after every verse? Do you say “I am reading verse 3 so let me look below and see if something in verse 3 is missing.”? Even if you did do that (which you don’t) the footnotes say that the “best manuscripts” don’t have the verse–will you then agree with them that the verse doesn’t belong? If not, then why are you reading an NIV? (2) Not all the word deletions are found in the footnotes of the NIV so don’t think for a second that they are letting you know all the changes they made. (3) The next logical step will be for the NIV to omit the footnotes and just reorder everthing. In the example above verse 38 would become verse 37 so it wouldn’t look funny. Look at the J.B. Phillips translation–that heretick didn’t number the individual verses so you don’t know what you’re missing. It’s paragraph style. The NIV may go that way too. They are desensitizing you to the changing of the very words of God. In summary, they’ll either renumber or go to that paragraph format.

Wait a minute, hold the presses! I got the following from Bill W. one of our dear readers:

“I was in the Christian Book store today. I saw some thing that shocked me. I look through the Bibles often. I looked at the CHILDREN’S NIV. I looked up the missing verses and there was something I could not believe. I looked up Matt 17:21 and of course it is missing BUT in this Children’s Bible it was typed out like this 20/21 and the 21st verse was still missing. They make you think that you read the 21st verse but it still is just the 20th verse! Can you believe it???!!! If you want to look for yourself find the CHILDREN’S NIV BIBLE, and see for yourself. I did look in the other NIV’s to see if they did the same thing. They DID NOT do that, BUT how long before they do?????!”

They are already sneaking the deletions into the children’s Bibles! This is the second time that I’ve heard of those foxes pulling one over on little helpless children. The other thing I’ve seen them do is retranslate the kids’ and prisoners’ Bibles to make them gender neutral. Of course those foxes didn’t market them that way, they just snuck in the gender inclusivity. See this article for details.

Another update! I just opened the JW “Bible”, the New World Translation (1961 ed.), and looked up all the verses that the NIV completely deletes. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESS BIBLE DELETES THE EXACT SAME ONES!!!! I mean ALL of ’em!

The only difference between the NIV and the New World Translation deletions is that the JW Bible does not include any footnotes!

Isn’t that what I said above, that the NIV would eventually delete the footnotes? To learn more about the Jehovah’s Witnesses and their damnable doctrines go to our article on cults.

Our illiterate, lazy culture has spilled over to many professing Christians who have embraced the ways of the sluggard (and their want shall come upon them as an armed man). They are willing to read a Satanic “Bible” version missing what God says so they can be lazy and not do their due diligence. Your modern Bible perversion was written by men using dynamic equivalence. In other words, they are telling you their interpretation and their doctrine–NOT what the manuscripts really say. Don’t believe me? Look at the article on the NIV using gender inclusive language. Gender inclusivity wasn’t in the “originals”–it is a modern, feminist concept born of REBELLION.

A number of brothers and sisters, after examining the facts, have said, “I’m getting a King James!” Many have shared what a blessing the King James Bible has been to them and their spiritual life. The King James isn’t hard. I’ve seen one and two year olds quoting it and I am not exaggerating. I’ve taught it to people who cannot read and to children whose second language is English. I actually find the modern Bibles more difficult to read than the King James.

If you read a modern Bible, don’t let your pride get in the way of really looking at this information. Some people get hostile because I’m sharing these facts. Look up the verses and see that what you call the Bible is not the Bible. Get a real Bible. The King James conformable to the edition of 1611–NOT the New King James or the KJ21, etc. they are not King James Bibles.

WHOLE Bible verses deleted in the NIV

The following WHOLE verses have been removed in the NIV–whether in the text or footnotes…over 40 IN ALL!!!

Matthew 17:21 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

Matthew 18:11 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”

Matthew 21:44 — removed in the footnotes

Matthew 23:14 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”

Mark 7:16 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.”

Mark 9:44 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”

Mark 9:46 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”

Mark 11:26 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

Mark 15:28 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.”

Mark 16:9-20 (all 12 verses) — There is a line separating the last 12 verses of Mark from the main text. Right under the line it says: [The two most reliable early manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20] (NIV, 1978 ed.) The Jehovah’s Witness “Bible” also places the last 12 verses of Mark as an appendix of sorts.

Luke 17:36 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”

Luke 22:44 — removed in the footnotes

Luke 22:43 — removed in the footnotes

Luke 23:17 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)”

John 5:4 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”

John 7:53-8:11 — removed in the footnotes

Acts 8:37 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. It’s deletion makes one think that people can be baptized and saved without believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Sounds Catholic. What are you NIV readers missing?

“And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

Acts 15:34 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.”

Acts 24:7 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”

Acts 28:29 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.”

Romans 16:24 — COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. What are you NIV readers missing?

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”

I John 5:7 — Vitally important phrase COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah’s Witness “Bible”]. In the NIV it says,

“For there are three that testify:”

Compare the NIV reading with the following Jehovah’s Witness reading–

“For there are three witness bearers,”

What are you NIV readers missing? What does the real Bible say?

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

This is one of the GREATEST verses testifying of the trinity. That is why the Jehovah’s Witnesses leave it out. They do not believe in the trinity and they do not believe that Jesus is God. Why does the NIV leave it out…? Whole books have been written on the manuscript evidence that supports inclusion of this verse in the Bible. Reader, do you believe in the triunity of God? If so, then this deletion should offend you. People are playing around with the Bible and it ain’t funny.

NIV Reader: Do you have enough confidence in the NIV to…

tell God, OUT LOUD, that these verses do not belong in the Bible?

If not, you need to get a King James Bible so you can have some confidence.

He said, I said One writer said to me, “You [do not] talk about the large section of Mark [referring to Mark 16:9-20] which was INCLUDED with the provison that the earliest reliable manuscripts did not include that section.”

I said to him, That “provisional” statement is, at best, casting doubt on the word of God and at worst deleting the information in the footnotes.

You say that the NIV says, the MOST RELIABLE manuscripts don’t have it.

That is as good as saying, “If you accept this rendering you are accepting an inferior, unreliable manuscript.”

What they DON’T tell you is that those same “reliable” manuscripts DON’T EVEN INCLUDE THE WHOLE BOOK OF REVELATION!!!

If [their most reliable] manuscript is so reliable, then why didn’t they take out the WHOLE book of Revelation? Mmm? Selective deletion? Why not be true to what they say are the earliest and most reliable manuscripts? I have no respect for this.

Obtained from: http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/nivdelet.htm

Words They Never Taught Me In Sunday School

“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.”
[Psalms 119:99]

bible words dictionary terms terminology definitions meanings

From personal experience, I can say with a great degree of certainty that most Christians are not taught some very important words that are in use by pastors and bible teachers. Also, there are many bible doctrines and fields of study that are very helpful for Christians to be aware of, yet their pastors, elders and other teachers in their local church are either ignorant of or not willing to take the time to teach their fellow brothers and sisters. In addition, if your church leaders are aware of these words and terms listed below, they may very well have been incorrectly taught the meaning of these words and associated doctrines, in whatever Bible school or seminary they attended, if any.

To eliminate the mystery surrounding these words, and to encourage you to further study the issues that the words pertain to, the following list has been constructed. If you take proper responsibility for discipling yourself and study these words and investigate the doctrines and issues they pertain to, then you, like the psalmist will be able to declare: “I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.” – [Psalms 119:99].

WORD	MEANING
Agnosticism	The view that we cannot know for sure if God (a supernatural omipotent diety) exists.
Amillennialism	The view that there will NOT be a LITERAL 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ on earth at some point in the future. But rather that Christ is presently reigning through the Church, and that the “1000 years” mentioned in Revelation 20:1-6 is a metaphorical reference to the present Church age which will end at the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amyraldism	Amyraldism is an off-shoot of Calvinistic theology (sometimes called “4-point Calvinism” or “moderate Calvinism”). It is named after its creator, Moses Amyraut, a 16th-century French theologian, who was influential in the development of the doctrine of “hypothetical redemption” or “hypothetical universalism.” This doctrine, in essence, softens the Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement. Amyraldism asserts that Christ died for the sins of all people, but because God knew that not all would respond (due to man’s total depravity, to which Amyraldians do hold), He elected some to whom He would impart saving faith. — http://www.gotquestions.org/Amyraldism.html The problem with this idea is that Christ’s atonment paid for all the sins of all God’s people and no more. If the atonement paid for all the sins of all people then no one would have to spend eternity in hell – if their sins were atoned for.
Animism	Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a spirit that connects them to each other.
Anthropomorphism	Anthropomorphism is the process of assigning human characteristics to God. Things such as God’s actions, emotions and appearance, (all of which are described throughout the Bible), are spoken of in terminology normally associated with humans.
Antinomianism	The false teaching that says a person can become a Christian but they are not under any obligation to obey any moral or spiritual laws. Those who subscribe to this teaching believe that to be “under grace” is indeed a license to sin.
Apologetics	The study and defense of the Christian faith and its various doctrines.
Arianism	A false teaching by a man named Arius that sprang up during the early days of the Church that denied Christ’s divinity and instead viewed Jesus as the highest of God’s creatures, a teaching similar to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and some other cults.
Arminianism	The belief that unsaved man has a free will to choose that which is right and holy and true and therefore he has the ability in himself to choose to become saved by inviting Christ into his life. This is a false teaching. The five points of Arminianism (from Jacobus Arminius 1559-1609) are in contrast to the five points of Calvinism. The five points of Arminianism are: Human Free Will – The view that man is spiritually fallen, but he is not totally incapacitated by his sinful nature and so he still has the ability to freely choose God. His will is not completely enslaved by his sinful nature. Conditional Election – The idea that God chose people for salvation based on His foreknowledge of them choosing Him, where God looked down the corridors of time into the future to see who would respond to the Gospel message. Universal Atonement – The view that Jesus Christ bore all the sins of everyone who ever lived or ever will live. Resistable Grace – The belief that the grace of God can be resisted so as to reject salvation in Jesus Christ. Fall from Grace – The teaching that a person can fall from grace and lose his salvation.
Atheism	The view that God does not exist. See also Dystheism and Misotheism (many professing atheists act more like dystheists and misotheists).
Augustinianism	The system of doctrine promoted by Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century and by Luther and Calvin during the Protestant Reformation. It is the Biblical view of salvation as expounded by the apostle Paul in many of his epistles including most notably, Ephesians chapter one and Romans chapter nine. It is the historical, orthodox view of God’s sovereignty in salvation and unregenerated mankind’s total inability to seek God (see Romans 3:11)
Baptismal regeneration	The belief that water baptism causes a person to become saved, i.e. it regenerates their soul. This is a false teaching and is taught by the Catholic church and the Church of Christ.
Calvinism	The Bible doctrines outlining 5 basic tenets of salvation, that roughly state that man is dead in his sins and he cannot and will not seek God until he has become saved (been made spiritually alive by the power of the Holy Spirit). These 5 tenets are commonly known by the acronym “TULIP”, which stands for Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance Of The Saints. Calvinism is often referred to as “The Doctrines Of Grace”.
Cessationism	Cessationism is the belief that the charismatic gifts (a.k.a. sign gifts) of the Holy Spirit (a.k.a. sign gifts) – in particular, the gifts of tongues, prophecy and healing, ceased being practiced early on in the history of the Christian Church. The alternative view is referred to as “Continuationism”
Charismatic	A group of professing Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, who are preoccupied with supernatural spiritual gifts and phenomenon such as speaking in tongues, prophetic messages, dreams and visions, supernatural healings, etc. They tend to be almost exclusively Arminian (free-will) in their view of salvation.
Christophany	A Christophany refers to a non-physical manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ, such as visions of Jesus Christ after his ascension into Heaven, such as the bright light that the apostle Paul witnessed on the road to Damascus.
Common Grace	Common Grace refers to the “good” things that happen to all of mankind. It is “common” because its benefits are experienced by the whole human race without distinction between one person and another, believers or unbelievers. It is referred to as “grace” because it is viewed as undeserved favor sovereignly bestowed by God. In this sense, it is distinguished from the Calvinistic understanding of “saving” grace, which extends only to those whom God has chosen to save. This idea of “common grace” is often used as a springboard to teach that the good things which the reprobate receive in this life are proof of God’s love for them.
Compatibilism	Compatibilism is the belief that free-will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that a person can believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Compatibilism seeks to show that God’s exhaustive sovereignty is compatible with human freedom.
Consequentialism	The doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences.
Continuationism	Continuationism is the view that the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues, healings, and miracles – have not ceased and are gifts that God is still bestowing upon believers today. The alternative view is referred to as “Cessationism”.
Covenant Theology	A view of the history of God’s interaction with mankind as a series of agreements, pacts or covenants such as the Adamic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, etc. This view of Bible history is prevelant among Reformed (Calvinist) churches. (see also “Replacement Theology”)
Deism	A false view of God as divine creator while rejecting His continuing involvement with the world. Deists believe in God but they believe He is detached from His creation and unknowable. Many early founders of the United States were Deists.
Demiurge	A view of the creator of the universe as a being that fashioned the universe out of elements that themselves were pre-existing or eternal.
Determinism	Determinism is the philosophical view that every event in the universe is caused and controlled by natural laws. This would dictate that there is no free will in humans and that all events are the result of natural and physical laws.
Dispensationalism	A view of the history of the world as periods of time (dispensations) in which God dealt with the world and His people in different ways. Dispensationalists commonly believe that the Bible timeline can be broken down into seven distinct dispensations.
Doctrines of grace	Another term for Calvinism and for the Bible doctrines of salvation by God’s grace alone.
Duty-Faith	The idea that it is the duty of the natural man to believe unto eternal salvation, even if it is impossible for him to do so in his spiritually dead condition.
Dystheism	The belief that God is not truly as good as is commonly believed.
Ecclesiology	Study of the church – church structure, worship format, etc.
Ecumenical	The practice of various churches and denominations joining together, setting their theological differences aside, at the expense of truth, for some social cause, etc.,
Efficacy of Christ’s atonement	Efficacy refers to “producing a result”. Those who rightly understand Christ’s atonement on the cross understand that it was efficacious. It produced the result of forgiveness of sins for the elect. The atonement is efficacious (i.e. fully effective) grace in action.
Eisegesis	Adding ideas to a specific biblical text, according to one’s bias, that are not meant to be derived from that text.
Eschatology	Study of end time events such as end of the world prophecies, the rapture of the Church, the tribulation period, the millennial kingdom, the return of the Lord Jesus Christ and Judgment Day.
Exegesis	To expound on the meaning of a passage of scripture, usually by examining the passage in all its parts and in consideration of how words used in that passage are used elsewhere in the Bible.
Fatalism	The doctrine that our actions and decisions make no difference to the course of events – outcomes of events will occur no matter what decisions a person makes.
Futurism	The view that most prophecies regarding the End times, and passages referring to the Last Days, the Great Tribulation, and Judgment Day are still future events that will immediately precede the return of Christ.
Gap Theory	A false teaching that there were gaps of time in the order of millions of years between the 6 days of creation mentioned in Genesis chapter one. It is an attempt by corrupt theologians to deny the literal 6 day creation account in the Bible, substituting it with long time periods that evolutionists claim are necessary for their false theory of origins to be believable. Evolutionists want us to believe that the passage of time is all that is necessary to make the impossible possible.
Gnosticism	A false teaching that salvation comes through knowledge and liberation from the material, earthly world. This movement first became prevalent in the second century.
Heresy	A belief or theory that is strongly at odds with established beliefs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization.
Hermeneutics	Methods of Bible interpretation
Heterodoxy	Any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position. So it would mean an unorthodox point of view.
Homiletics	Homiletics is the methodology of preparing sermons and preaching.
Infralapsarianism & Supralapsarianism	Infralapsarianism has to do with the belief that the fall of Adam was an event that God merely foresaw but did not predestine and when He foresaw the fall, He then permitted it or at least responded to it with His plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. Whereas supralapsarianism is the belief that God, in His Sovereignty, planned the fall of Adam for His glory and for the implementation of His plan of salvation through the atonement of Jesus Christ. Many (but not all) Calvinists are supralapsarians. Most, if not all Arminians and free-willers are infralapsarians.
Irresistible grace	A Bible doctrine that states that those who will become saved are drawn to God by His grace and that drawing is something they cannot resist.
Limited atonement	A Bible doctrine that states that Christ’s atonement, His sin payment was for only His elect children.
Misotheism	The hatred of God or gods. Some polytheists believe they can inflict punishment on one of their gods/godesses by ceasing to worship him or her. Many who claim to be atheists actually act and talk more like misotheists (people who hate God). They say that if they were God, they would not have created a world with suffering, hardships, death, disease, etc. Most likely they have this view because they do not believe in the fall of Adam and the resulting curse from that fall.
Modalism	Modalism, also known as Sabellianism, is the unorthodox belief that God is one person who has revealed himself in three forms or modes. Modalism is perhaps the most common theological error concerning the nature of God. It is a denial of the Trinity – where God is one being eternally existing in three persons. According to Modalism, during the incarnation (the appearance of Jesus Christ in the flesh on the earth), Jesus was simply God acting in one mode or role, and the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was God acting in a different mode. Thus, Modalism teaches that God does not exist as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at the same time. Rather, He is one person who manifests himself in these three modes at various times. Modalism therefore denies the basic distinctiveness and coexistence of the three persons of the Trinity.
Molinism	Molinism is the idea that God is completely sovereign while man also has a free will, which is a view that lies somewhere in between Arminianism and Calvinism.
Monergistic gospel	A one-way view of the Gospel… God reaches out to man. Man does not and cannot reach out to God. Man does not cooperate with God in salvation. This is the “reformed” (Calvinistic) view of salvation, the biblical view of salvation in spite of what the Arminians and Free-willers say.
Oneness Pentecostalism	affirms that there exists only one God in all the universe. It affirms the deity of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. However, Oneness theology denies the Trinity and that the Son of God existing from eternity past. They call God the Father “Jesus”, viewing Him as someone separate from the Son of God. Oneness Pentecostals believe that in order to be saved, a person must be baptized and by immersion. They also believe that speaking in tongues is a necessary manifestation of the Holy Spirit and that only those who have spoken in tongues are really saved.
Open Theism	Open theism, also referred to as free-will theism and openness theology, is an idea that asserts that God does not exercise meticulous control over the universe but leaves it “open” for people to make significant choices – which also assumes that God has not predetermined the future. Proponents of open theism believe that God is omniscient (all knowing), but deny that this means that God knows everything that will eventually happen, so their view of God is that He is only as all knowing as they say He is.
Original Sin	Original sin is the view, based upon scripture, that every person born into the world is tainted by the Fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, such that all of humanity is now morally corrupt at birth, and are powerless to rehabilitate themselves or even come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ unless God first intervenes and graciously saves and regenerates them.
Orthodoxy	A doctrine or practice that is generally accepted throughout the Christian Church as true or correct.
Paedo baptism	Infant baptism (Presbyterians are one of many groups of Christians referred to as paedo Baptists since they baptize infants).
Paraclete	Paraclete means advocate or helper. In Christianity, paraclete commonly refers to the Holy Spirit.
Pantheism	Pantheism typically has to do with worship of nature as if all of the Universe and everything in it forms one massive diety. It boils down to worshipping the creation rather than the Creator.
Pelagianism	A false teaching of a British monk by the name of Pelagius who taught that man is not totally corrupt and lost in sin, so he has the capacity in himself to become saved by an act of his own will. This teaching contradicts the Bible’s declaration that the unsaved are “dead in their sins” (Eph 2:1) and “there are none [among the unsaved] who seeketh after God” (Romans 3:11).
Pentecostalism	A branch of Protestant Christianity that overemphasizes supernatural spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, being slain in the spirit (falling backwards), prophesizing not realizing that Matthew 16:4 applies to them.
Perseverance of the Saints	Also known as Preservation of the saints, is a Bible doctrine that states that those who become saved by God cannot lose their salvation, they will unquestionably endure to the end, they will persevere to the last day and God will be the cause of that. He will preserve them, keep them from falling and present them faultless (Jude 24).
Postmillennialism	The belief that Christ’s second coming will occur after the “millennium,” a golden age of Christian prosperity and dominance.
Premillenialism	The view that Christ’s second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that the millennial kingdom is a literal 1000-year reign of Christ on earth.
Preterism	The view that certain biblical prophecies have occurred in the past, and therefore are considered to already have been fulfilled. This is a good field of study for those who wish to investigate alternative views to the common (popular) views on Dispensationalism.
Prevenient Grace	This unbiblical idea consists of the belief that the human race, through the fall of Adam became depraved so that they cannot now turn of themselves by their own natural strength to call God to become saved, so they therefore need God to provide the enabling power (i.e. the prevenient grace) to call upon Him for salvation and that this enabling grace precedes regeneration and that some sinners by their own “free will” will utilize this grace to call upon God and become saved, but other sinners will not call upon God, even though they have been given just as much of this enabling or “prevenient” grace. This erroneous concept was developed and promoted by those who preach the false free-will gospel of salvation. It ignores many passages of scripture that state that the unsaved are spiritually dead, not spiritually neutral as the proponents of Prevenient Grace believe. The spiritually dead person requires regeneration by God to be able to even see his own wretched spiritual condition and to be able to realize his need for Christ. So, in other words, the change that is required for a sinner to be cognizant of these things requires the new birth and nothing less. Only a new creature in Christ will have the eyes to see his own true spiritual condition before a thrice-holy God and only a new creature in Christ will want the remedy (Jesus Christ) for his lost spiritual condition.
Propitiation	Propitiation, which is also called expiation, is the act of appeasing a deity (i.e. God), and thereby incurring divine favor (e.g. salvation) or avoiding divine retribution (God’s wrath). Propitiation regarding the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, means that Jesus paid the complete and unconditional pardon of those for whom He came to save (i.e. God’s “Elect”).
Prosperity gospel	A teaching that God wants all Christians to be financially prosperous and physically healthy. All that is required of the Christian is that they have enough faith in the promises of God about prosperity found in the Bible. This teaching takes scripture passages out of context and ignores Christ’s teachings about the persecution and hardship associated with taking up one’s cross and following Him.
Puritans	Originally a term used for the Protestants of the Reformation who sought to purify the church of England of errors, primarily those unbiblical doctrines and practices originating in the Roman Catholic church. Nowadays, this term is often applied to many Protestants of the past who where seeking to live and promote godly lives and sound biblical doctrine.
Reconstructionism	The belief that by the preaching of the Gospel and teaching biblical principles, it is possible to change (reconstruct) society around biblical laws. There are many groups and individuals in America today who are trying to bring America “back” to its Christian roots and heritage, not realizing that the mission of the Church is not to make the heathen act Christian but rather the mission is to preach God’s word and let God convict and convert whom He wills, when He wills.
Replacement Theology	Also referred to as supersessionism, Replacement Theology teaches that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan and is the Israel being referred to in many prophetic events that have yet to take place.
Reformed theology	The various doctrines adhered to and taught by the reformers (Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Huss, etc.) during the protestant reformation, primarily the five points of Calvinism.
Reformers	Those Christians who sought to correct (reform) the doctrinal errors being spread by the Catholic church, primarily during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Semi-Pelagianism	A false doctrine regarding the spiritual state of man that says unsaved men are not totally corrupt spiritually, they are not spiritually dead and unable to respond to God, but rather they are corrupted by sin and are given the ability, by God, to accept salvation when they hear the Gospel. Whereas, the Bible teaches that God must give us His Spirit before we turn to Him (Ezek. 36:25-27) and before we can “see” or enter into His kingdom (John 3:3)
Social gospel	An overemphasis on social causes to the neglect of the preaching of the Gospel. Some churches and organizations that preach a social gospel believe that doing good works in the name of Christ is in and of itself evangelism of a sort, not realizing that the word of God must be preached in order for souls to be saved, since “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God”.
Socinianism	A set of beliefs based on the teaching of a man named Fausto Sozzini, who denied the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin. He also believed that salvation is granted to those who adopt Christ’s virtues which is yet another works gospel.
Soteriology	The study of God’s plan of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Sovereignty of God in salvation	God’s sovereignty in salvation means that He saves whom He wills when He wills if He wills. Sinners are saved because God graciously chose them in eternity and regenerated and called them in history. They cannot even take credit for their faith because it is the gift that He Himself sovereignly bestows.
Syncretism (religious syncretism)	Religious syncretism usually involves the addition of a few essential parts of one religion to a dominant religion, resulting in a new religious system.
Synergistic gospel	A “two-way” view of the gospel that believes that man cooperates with God (i.e. God reaching out to man and man reaching out to God). This is the Armenian (free-will) view of the gospel and it is unbiblical.
Theonomy	A Christian form of government in which society is ruled by divine law – including the judicial laws of the Old Testament.
Theophany	The appearance of God to a person in the physical realm, typically in a human form.
Total depravity	A Bible doctrine that states that man is totally corrupt and cannot possibly worship God in spirit and in truth until and unless God gives him a new heart. And until and unless God grants salvation, no man or woman can turn to God in their spiritually dead unregenerated state of their own “free-will”.
Trinitarianism	The teaching that God has revealed Himself to be three co-equal and co-eternal Persons..
TULIP	An acronym made up of the first letter of each word in the 5 points of Calvinism (Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints). The 5 points of Calvinism were written up in response to the 5 points of Arminianism.
Unconditional election	A Bible doctrine that states that those who become saved are chosen by God from before the foundation of the world, based solely on the good pleasure of God and based upon no merits of there own nor on any foreknowledge of them choosing to get right with God.
Universal atonement	The erroneous belief that Christ’s atonement was for the whole world and therefore all will be saved. This belief is unbiblical.
Well-Meant Offer	The well-meant offer (a.k.a. free offer) of the Gospel is the teaching that salvation in Jesus Christ is offered to all people. This idea conflicts with God’s elective plan of salvation and this teaching was rejected by the framers of the Canons of Dordt in 1618.

Other Sources For Definitions Of Theological Terms:

The Missing Commandment

The Catholic Church Threw Out One Of The Ten Commandments

The ten commandments taught by the Catholic church to her followers are DIFFERENT than the ten commandments mentioned in the Catholic bible. The commandments they teach, OMIT the commandment forbidding statues (also referred to as graven images). They then split the tenth commandmant (You shall not covet) into two commandments (“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” and “You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods”).

Here are the ten commandments that the Catholic church teachers its members:

I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not kill.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

Source: http://www.beginningcatholic.com/catholic-ten-commandments.html

The Catholic bible still contains all ten of the ten commandments including the one that forbids making and adoring [literally bowing down to] statues as highlighted below.

Exodus Chapter 20, verses 3 through 17 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition):

Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Do you think that perhaps the Catholic Church removed the commandment regarding making statues because they make money selling statues? Perhaps they don’t want to let go of statues they borrowed from pagan gods and goddesses of ancient Rome.

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