Many associate the term " born again " with the revelation of a new concept, or an experience of conversion, defined as mental assent to the acceptance of Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior ; though some believe that this experience or mental assent ( See Gnosticism ) is not alone sufficient to merit Christian salvation.

Gnosticism ( from gnostikos, " learned ", from gnōsis, knowledge ) is a modern scholarly term for a set of religious beliefs and spiritual practices found among some early Christian and non-Christian groups called " gnostic " (" knowing ") by Irenaeus and other early Christian leaders.

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

From the dialogue, it appears that the word had an origin in the Platonic and Hellenistic tradition long before the group calling themselves " Gnostics " -- or the group covered under the modern term " Gnosticism " -- ever appeared.

In late antiquity the term archon was used in Gnosticism to refer to several servants of the Demiurge, the " creator god " that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis.

In the 2nd century the term appears in several writers alien to Gnosticism.

* Sophia ( wisdom ), a central term in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism, Orthodox Christianity, Esoteric Christianity, and Christian mysticism

Tibet's lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death, Christ, mysticism, Aleister Crowley ( Tibet borrowed the term " 93 Current " from Crowley-the 93 Current being the current of Thelema or Agape ), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes, swastikas, Noddy, The Wicker Man, and a variety of occult notions.

In other religions, such as Judaism, Islam, and Gnosticism, the term " the fall " is not recognised and varying interpretations of the Eden narrative are presented.

" In his over sixty books and hundreds of held conferences, he describes a teaching called " Gnosis ", the Greek word for " knowledge ", from which is derived the name " Gnosticism ", which is a term also used to designate various sects such as the Ophites which appeared at the beginning of the Christian Era who were considered heretics by the Catholic Church.

Church Fathers opposed a literal reading of Genesis and notions appearing in pre-Christian creation myths and in Gnosticism — notions of creation by a demiurge out of a primordial state of matter ( known in religious studies as chaos after the Greek term used by Hesiod in his Theogony ).

What does it mean to be creative, a term we hear with increasing frequency these days??

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

The term " aviation " is sometimes used interchangeably with aeronautics, although " aeronautics " includes lighter-than-air craft such as airships, and includes ballistic vehicles while " aviation " does not.

It does not, of course, forbid the use of other names, for example the more archaic term " Unction of the Sick " or the term " Extreme Unction ".

The term " anti-globalization " does not distinguish the international left-wing anti-globalization position from a strictly nationalist anti-globalization position.

The alcoholic beverage industry does not use the term " alcopop.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

The term " corn " did not refer to maize as it does in the United States.

The name of the god may have been derived from bragr, or the term bragr may have been formed to describe ' what Bragi does '.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

Such a formula is indeed satisfiable if and only if at least one of its terms is satisfiable, and a term is satisfiable if and only if it does not contain both x and NOT x for some variable x.

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.

Some people automatically connect cross-dressing behavior to transgender identity or sexual, fetishist, and homosexual behavior, but the term cross-dressing itself does not imply any motives.

This is a rare term, but probably does equate to castrato.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

The term is of recent use but is not commonly used in psychology, and according to one analyst, " has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary ".

Note: in Greek, the term for " consul " is " ypatos ", which translates as " supreme one ", and hence does not necessarily imply a joint office.

The second proof does not need this because showing that the error term vanishes proves the existence of the limit directly.

Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative.

In the United States and Canada, the term Conservative, as applied, does not always indicate that a congregation is affliliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movement's central institution and the one to which the term, without qualifier, usually refers.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering ; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

From the Shockley ideal diode equation given above, it might appear that the voltage has a positive temperature coefficient ( at a constant current ), but usually the variation of the reverse saturation current term is more significant than the variation in the thermal voltage term.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

" Epipaleolithic " is a term used for the " final Upper Palaeolithic industries occurring at the end of the final glaciation which appear to merge technologically into the Mesolithic ".

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

The term should be distinguished from " false cognates ", which are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin ( whatever their current meaning ) but actually do not.

Coriolis's name began to appear in the meteorological literature at the end of the 19th century, although the term " Coriolis force " was not used until the beginning of the 20th century.

Jacob Grimm theorized that Hel ( whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-Germanic form of the term ) is essentially an " image of a greedy, unrestoring, female deity " and that " the higher we are allowed to penetrate into our antiquities, the less hellish and more godlike may Halja appear.

Critics have argued that the term " hate speech " is a modern example of Newspeak, used to silence critics of social policies that have been poorly implemented in a rush to appear politically correct.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

) Note that we have omitted the Π < sub > j </ sub > n < sub > j </ sub > term, because each single-particle state can appear only once in a fermionic state.

Neither this term nor the equivalent for " eunuch " occurs in the Qur ' an, but the term does appear in the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad, which have a secondary status to the central text.

The term was in common enough use to appear in a fictional movie about the US space program.

Like other religious terms, such as " Trinity ", the term " Limbo " does not appear in the Bible.

In the spring term, passing grades ( A, B, C ) appear on the transcript while non-passing grades are again not recorded.

The term " Mesolithic " is in competition with another term, " Epipaleolithic ", which means the " final Upper Palaeolithic industries occurring at the end of the final glaciation which appear to merge technologically into the Mesolithic ".

An explanation of this is that although the logarithm of the lognormal density function is quadratic in, yielding a " bowed " shape in a log-log plot, if the quadratic term is small relative to the linear term then the result can appear almost linear.