test #2 - doctrine of God, creation, and humanity

3 points of John 8:58-59 for the Trinity doctrine

Pharisees’ reaction was to stone Him

Jesus claims to predate Abraham

Use of “I am” to call back to eigo eimi and Exodus 3:14

3 language alternatives

univocal - predicates (stuff after subject) are the same regardless of the subject

equivocal - predicates are not the same as when the subject is God vs. when the subject is creation

analogical - predicates are the same, just to different degrees (i.e. God exists —> I exist)

• good for incommunicable attributes

anthropopatheia

use of human emotion and feeling terms applied to God in order ot attempt to convey God’s posture towards a situation

list of incommunicable attributes

simplicity/unity, aseity/self-sufficiency, immutability/unchangeableness, impassability (God’s xp don’t come upon him as they come upon us)

list of communicable attributes (derivative, not inherent)

knowledge/wisdom, goodness, holiness/glory

3 promises when Moses was sent to Pharoah:

I am, that God would be with him, and Moses would worship on that mountain

Matthew 3 as KEY TEXT

shows all three persons of the trinity are active at the same time

Matthew 28:16-20 as KEY TEXT

baptismal formula, offers 3 in 1 singularity against tri-theism

Athanasius vs. Arius

Arius viewed Jesus as the firstborn of creation —> not around for all eternity like God was, but this questions Jesus’ deity and therefore the entire foundation for our salvation. Can be refuted with John 8:58-59 and 1:1-14.

numbers in Genesis

use of bara 7x

God says something and it happens 10x

God says creation is good 7x

best evidence for literal 6-day creation

“morning and evening” for every day

3 heresies on Trinity

modalism - one God expressing self differently in different situations

arianism - God created the Son and Spirit

tritheism - 3 gods/parts to make 1

what word most encompasses God’s attributes and character?

holiness for attributes, faithfulness for character

vocab review?

4 creation perspectives

creationism - earth 6-20k years old, literal account

progressive creationism - God only created in 1:1, rest of time are long ages; Adam and Eve not a product of evolution, but created by God as image bearers

theistic evolution - poetry/artistic prose and not literal, used evolution and natural selection, humans evolved and God breathed special condition into them

historical creationism - literal account, Gen 1 is preparation of land and 2 is the garden, age of earth is unknown

imago dei views?