Theology 1 Final - Alligood

Natural Revelation is _____________________.

What God reveals about himself through his creation and what he has made

Natural Revelation does not contain enough info for mankind _________________.

To be reconciled to God

What can be discerned through Natural Revelation? (6 things)

- God exists.

- All that is created exists because of God.

- Mankind exists because of God.

- All creation is dependent upon God.

- Mankind participates in God's existence by way of dependence upon him.

- Morality is implied in creation.

Define Special Revelation

What God has revealed about himself through his word through specific ways to mankind.

The greatest revelation of God comes to us in ________________________.

The incarnation of the eternal son.

What does theopneustos mean?

God-breathed

What term best express the Verbal Plenary View of Inspiration?

Concursive Inspiration

Which 2 theories of Inerrancy fit with the Verbal Plenary View?

- Absolute Inerrancy

- Full Inerrancy

What does norma normans mean?

The rule that rules

What is true concerning Creation and God's eternal decree? (2 things)

- God creates everything from nothing and does so from an eternal decree

- Creation is an eternal divine idea in the mind of God

God's decree is that which is ad intra in __________ and ad extra in ___________.

Eternity ; Economy

Ex Nihilo (Creation)

From or out of nothing (means God creates from nothing)

How does the triune God create?

Inseparably

God's Creation Order - First?

Time. (In the beginning)

God's Creation Order - Second?

Universe. (God created the heavens and the earth)

God's Creation Order - Third?

Forms and Fills. (The Earth was formless and void)

We understand God's created order by faith. (Why?)

We take this truth by faith because no one can account for origins.

What should we hold as true concerning creation and beauty? (4 things)

- God is beautiful and the fountain of beauty

- God calls his creation good and then, very good

- We need to be attuned to the beauty of creation

- We should pause and consider our relation to creation and the way in which is directs us to the beauty of God and worship of him

How does God's Transcendence relate to his Creation?

God is over Creation and providential care.

Orthodox View

God created the world and is providentially involved (pure act) with his creation.

Materialism View

Only what is physical is real

Pantheism View

Everything that is real is divine

Dualism View

- Material and spiritual or physical and spiritual are always in conflict

- Gnosticism is a form of dualism that promotes the goodness of the spiritual and evil of the physical

Deism View

God creates and then steps back from his Creation

Yom can mean?

era, age, or literal day

As in the Age-Day theory the idea that is that Yom doesn't necessarily account _________.

as the 24-hour period

What are the models of meaning?

- Naturalism

- Nihilism

- Supernaturalism

- Biblical-Theological

Naturalism (Model of Meaning)

Life is essentially only physical

Nihilism (Model of Meaning)

Life cannot achieve meaning

Supernaturalism (Model of Meaning)

- God and soul exist

- In this model either one or both are accepted and thus life is meaningful because of their existence

Biblical-Theological (Model of Meaning)

Christians take a supernatural view, but we ground the meaning in the narrative and theology of Scripture.

What is the chief end of man?

To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Define imago Dei.

Image of God

What are the views of imago Dei?

- The Substantive View

- The Relational View

- The Functional View

- The Ontological View

The Substantive View (imago Dei)

The imago is some definite characteristic or quality within the makeup of human nature.

The Relational View (imago Dei)

The imago is not resident within human nature, but rather an experience of relationship.

The Functional View (imago Dei)

The imago is not resident within human nature but has something to do with the dominion mandate as reflecting the image of God.

The Ontological View (imago Dei)

- The ontological view stats that humanity is the imago Dei.

- The being of mankind in all that it is, is the imago Dei.

Mankind is the _______ of God's Creation.

Pinnacle

Able not to sin is true of which state of man?

Grace (Third State)

What are the three theories of human composition?

- Trichotomism

- Dichotomism

- Monism

Trichotomism

- Body, soul, and spirit.

- Soul and body related through the spirit.

Dichotomism

- Body and soul (in unity).

- Counter Trichotomism.

- Holds that soul and spirit can be used interchangeably.

- While a distinction is made between body and spirit (inner and outer man in the Bible) they are unified as a whole person.

Monism

- Not composed of parts, but a profound unity.

- More than the unity of body and soul, monism makes no distinction at all.

The incarnated Christ is the _____________ man.

True and ideal

In what stages of salvation are we united with Christ?

- Justification

- Sanctification

- Glorification

What it is true of our glorified state?

We're not looking back to the Garden of Eden; we are looking to something greater, we will be perfected and sin will no longer reign.

The beatific vision means that we will ________________.

We will see Jesus as He is in all His glory, and in His face see the glory of the Triune God, behold the glory of the triune God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The hope of glorification is essential to our faith because faith believes what?

Promises of God

Hamartiology

The study of sin.

God did not create evil but evil is a privation of ______?

Good

What three things does sin do?

Disrupts our relation with

- God

- Man

- Creation

Total depravity implies ?

Man is unable to reconcile himself with God, mankind is sinful.

Who is Adam the federal head of?

Mankind

We are not sinners because we sin, ____________________________.

We sin because we are sinners.

What is the only hope we have for our sin to be dealt with us?

- The perfect life of Christ we could not live (His active obedience).

- The death of Christ where he receives the justice of the Triune God we deserved (His passive obedience).

- His resurrection in which he conquered sin and death (which gives us the assurance of our own resurrection, ascension).