A-Z: General definitions
- Exhortative
- Exile
- Existential
- Existentialism
- Exodus
- Exophoric
- Exorcism
- Expiation
- Exposition
- Expostulate
- Expressionism
- Expressionist
- Extemporary
- Extended metaphor
- Extenuate
- Extirpate
- extra benefits
- Extreme Unction
- Eye hath not seen '
- Eye rhyme
- Ezekiel
- Ezra
- Ezra Pound
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A-Z: General definitions: Expiation
Definition
To make amends for wrongdoing. The term is used in describing how Jesus 'satisfied' God's requirement that human sin should be punished, by dying in the place of sinful believers.
The name given to the man believed by Christians to be the Son of God. Also given the title Christ, meaning 'anointed one' or Messiah. His life is recorded most fully in the Four Gospels.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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