Dr. Bennett (Cedarville) Theology 1 Final Exam

A ______ as a faith-filled community to make definitive statements about God and his implications in an accurate, coherent, relevant way, based on personal faith in God's self-revelations, viewed through the lens of the biblical gospel and to the end of living in Christ by the power, guidance, and illumination of the Spirit .

disciplined effort

A disciplined effort as a faith-filled community to make ______ about God and his implications in an accurate, coherent, relevant way, based on personal faith in God's self-revelations, viewed through the lens of the biblical gospel and to the end of living in Christ by the power, guidance, and illumination of the Spirit .

definitive statements

A disciplined effort as a faith-filled community to make definitive statements about God and his implications in an accurate, coherent, relevant way, based on _______ in God's self-revelations, viewed through the lens of the biblical gospel and to the end of living in Christ by the power, guidance, and illumination of the Spirit .

personal faith

A disciplined effort as a faith-filled community to make definitive statements about God and his implications in an accurate, coherent, relevant way, based on personal faith in God's self-revelations, viewed through the lens of the _________ and to the end of living in Christ by the power, guidance, and illumination of the Spirit .

biblical gospel

A disciplined effort as a faith-filled community to make definitive statements about God and his implications in an accurate, coherent, relevant way, based on personal faith in God's self-revelations, viewed through the lens of the biblical gospel and to the end of living in Christ by the power, guidance, and ________.

illumination of the spirit

While we were describing our approach to Bible reading, we discussed what your professor called a Humble-Realist approach to theology (Similar to the Critical-Realism position we discussed). There were FOUR PRINCIPLES we included in our Humble-Realist approach that are listed below. CHOOSE THE ONE THAT DOES NOT BELONG.

Bible Reading and Re-reading

Hope

Prayer

Humility and Charity

Faith

hope

What does it mean that "Theology is derivative?"

Theology is a human enterprise, trying to order and understand revelation.

1 Corinthians 15:1-5 is Paul's summary of:

the gospel

The Grand Biblical Narrative as described in class is composed of FOUR MAJOR headings.

creation, fall, redemption, restoration/new creation

Jesus appeals to the entire Old Testament on being centered on and pointing to himself in what text?

Luke 24:13-53

The Grand Biblical Narrative concludes by presenting the Christian with the hope that humans will go away to heaven to spend eternity with Jesus. True or False?

false

The protoevangelion or Gospel-in-advance begins the "Fall" section of the Grand Biblical Narrative, appearing in which text:

Genesis 3:15

The foundation of the Theological Pyramid is what the rest of the pyramid is built upon. What is the FOUNDATION?

Biblical Authority, Inerrency, Sufficiency, and Inspiration

Which layer of the theological pyramid is concerned with asking the question, "What does the Bible say about ________?"

systematic theology

Which layer of the Theological Pyramid is concerned with asking the question, "How does what the Bible says apply today and to this circumstance?"

applied theology

David Clark is an author we quoted in the beginning of the semester as one who described the theological task as being composed of two parts: orthodoxy and orthopraxy. In his words, he said that the goal of theology is what two pursuits:

to know God, to love God

In class we argued that there is one central purpose for which humanity was created. What is the purpose for human beings that we ascertained from Genesis 2:15?

[Think of the diagram with three-layers of circles: What was in the middle?]

to worship God

Genesis 2:15 uses the words 'abad and shamar which most of our English Bibles translate as "work and keep." In class we discussed an additional layer of meaning for these two words that help us to understand God's purpose for placing Adam and his wife in the garden; What were those two meanings that informed our understanding of human purpose?

to worship and obey

If we live lives that are rightly centered on the human purpose we extrapolated from Genesis 2:15, there are four results that we discussed that are rightly orienting us to God and his world. What are the four results that formed the second layer of the diagram we looked at in class (These would be the first layer of outcomes when we are rightly centered on God - the top, right, bottom, and left circles in the diagram)?

to know God, to love God, to reveal God, to obey God

In class we said that good theology should be three things. What are those three things that make up "good theology?"

biblical, holistic, beautiful/doxological

Which text teaches us that humanity has an internal longing for eternity and that God has placed eternity in the hearts of humanity?

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Our class discussed the weighty reality of the status of the unevangelized. In so doing, we concluded that:

If humans are genuinely seeking God in response to the revelation available to them, God may send someone with Special revelation (ex. Peter and Cornelius)

Special Revelation includes the following FOUR categories:

Prophetic Writings, Divine Speech, Canon of Scripture, The incarnation

The content of revelation is, at its most fundamental level:

God himself

According to which text is everyone guilty before God for suppressing the revelation that is available to them?

Romans 1:18-25

The Bible says that God is love, therefore God cannot pour out wrath on humans. Our doctrines of hell and eternal damnation for sinners are antiquated and mistaken. True or false?

false

Theologically speaking, our class said it is important to recognize that the ultimate form of special revelation is the incarnate son of God. True or False?

true

In class we discussed four aspects of our doctrine of Special Revelation. Which aspect did we say was the most influential one in terms of our approach to Scripture?

inspiration

Romans 1:20 tells us that every human knows two aspects of God: What are they?

Eternal power, Divine Nature

When God speaks, he does not merely convey knowledge, but actually affects change in the world. We referred to this in class as what?

speech acts

The doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture teaches that the Bible's words are God's words that are mechanically written down by the authors of Scripture such that their personalities, culture, and vocabulary are inconsequential. True or False?

true

The early church created the Bible by choosing 66 books to be included. They made the canon of Scripture that we know today in 367 CE at the Council of Athenasius. True or False?

false

Exodus 3.7-9 depicts God as a:

coming down sort-of God

God declares his personal name to YHWH in

Exodus 3:14-15

God establishes his covenant promise to be the God of Israel and to make them his people in

Exodus 19-24

Exodus 34:6-7

Explains YHWH's character

The book of Exodus as a whole explains that YHWH is

"God with us", Faithful to his Covenant, Transcendent and Imminent (both other than us and near to us), the God of the Exodus who delivered His people

In class we discussed God's incommunicable attributes as His

simplicity/unity

aseity/self existence

impassibility/immunity to suffering

Immutability/unchangableness

In class we discussed God's Communicable attributes as His:

holiness, knowledge and wisdom, goodness

God needs the universe in order to express his love and relational qualities. true or false

false

God's unity/simplicity is incompatible with the idea of Trinity. true or false

false

God's attributes vary in centrality, and his love overpowers his wrath against sin. true or false

false

God's attributes, all taken together, are the sum total of his essence. true or false

false

God's attributes provide us with distinct windows into his essence. true or false

true

Deuteronomy 6:4 shows us that the Old Testament God is not Trinitarian. true or false

false

An analogical understanding of how language works means

predicates mean the same kind of thing, but to different degrees

a univocal understanding of how language works means

predicates mean the same thing when the subject is God or creation

an equivocal understanding of how language works means

predicates cannot mean the same thing when applied to God as they do when applied to the created world

Romans 11:33-36 shows us that when Paul approaches the threshold of his mortal capacities for knowledge of God and his ways he responds with

worship

the doctrine of the Trinity can be succinctly summarized by saying that God is one essence in Three Persons. true or false

true

the doctrine of the trinity is kind of like...

STOP IT

(can not compare to anything without taking away the full power of it)

In class we said that the best place to begin studying the biblical doctrine of the Trinty is

the incarnation

the book of Matthew book-ends Jesus's ministry with the Trinity seen in which passages

Matthew 3:13-17

Matthew 28:16-20

Give three reasons that John 8:59 is important to our understanding of Jesus's claims about himself

he pre-dates himself before abraham

he claims himself to be the "I AM"

The Pharisees recognize him as God and therefore planned to stone him (important because they are religious leaders and felt threatened by him)

What is the strongest evidence that would cause us to doubt that Genesis 1:1 should be read as title

Genesus 1.2 begins with the conjunction 'and'

according to our lectures and Michael Bird's plagiarism of John Calvin, creation is

the theater of God's glory

Three essentials in Cedarville's creation stance are

creation ex nihilo

direct, special creation of humans

creation in six, literal, consecutive, 24 hour periods

what two textual indicators in Genesis 1.1-2.4 provide evidence that we should hold to six literal and consecutive 24 hour periods?

The repeated phrase, "and there was evening and there was morning"

the reference to day 7 being the day of rest

the Hebrew word translated "in the beginning" (bereshiyt), refers to a specific moment in time, NOT necessarily a potentially flexible period of time. true or false

false

the Hebrew word 'bara' translated "create" is used throughout scripture, but it is unique because

God is the only subject of this verb

Jan Sailhamer sees the phrase "the heavens and the earth" in Genesis 1.1 as a megrims, meaning

it is inclusive of every creation thing

The phrase often translated as 'formless and void' tohu wa bohu is taken by John Sailhamer to mean that the land was

uninhabitable

Young Earth Creationism teaches that:

Genesis account is a literal, chronological account of the events of creation as they occurred

The universe was created in six days of 24 hours

Discrepancies in the geological record likely stem from Genesis 6-9, not Genesis 1

the Earth is between 6,000-20,000 years old

Historical Creationism as proposed by John Sailhamer, teaches the following

Humans are directly and specially created by God, not the product of evolution

Genesis 1.1 establishes that God created the universe from nothing a time known as the beginning, then in Genesus 1.2-2.4, Moses focuses on the preparation and ordering of the promised land

Genesis account is literal, chronological, and sequential as it records the events of creation as they occured

the universe is of an unknown age

Genesis 1.1-2.4 uses the phrase "God said" how many times?

10

Genesis 1.1-2.4 uses the word, bara', "create" how many times?

7

Humanity was made in God's image, but after the fall God's image has been removed from humans. true or false

false

Humanity retains the image of God after the fall, though its display is distorted. true or false

true

Jesus Christ rightly bears the Image of God and sanctification is the process of being restored into the image of Christ so as to better reflect the image of God. true or false

true

Ephesians 5.22-33 discusses how certain male-female relationships display the mystery of the Gospel in what two covenant envrionments

marriage and the church

In class, we defined sin fundamentally as being _______; in other words, sin is misdirected _______.

idolatry, worship

Isaiah 25.6-9 promises that death will be swallowed up - long before Jesus was born, before Jesus was raised from the dead, and long before the New Testament was written. This vision of the death of death is reaffirmed in which New Testament passage

Revelation 21:4

In discussing the ethical orientation of our lives, we utilized the imagery of:

a compass pointing to True North

All of humanity stands condemned as guilty of breaking the law of God based on which of the 10 Commandments

the first commandment

Fundementally the temptation to Eve at the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil offered

autonomy

that which God withheld

God-likeness

Before Adam ate the fruit, what was his failure

he did not silence the serpent

he did not lead or help his wife to reject falsehood

he stood silent and watched

what direction in the Bible is often symbolic of moving away from the presence of God

east

What TWO passages have we considered as we've looked at the creation mandate which we have referred to as the Culture/Worhship Mandate

Genesis 1.28-31 and Genesis 2:15

The words 'abad and shamar found in Genesis 2:15 are translated in most English Bibles as "work" and "till/keep." In class we have argued, using John Sailhamer's work, that these words are also and more importantly used to describe the following two commands:

worship and obey

Jamie Smith spoke about humans as being liturgical beings. What does he mean by this?

We are always worshipping/loving things, and our habits are developed and directed towards what we love

Satan's personal name is Lucifer. true or false

false

Satan caused Eve to sin and is to blame for her choice. He continues to cause humans to sin today and is the one who is ultimately guilty for human sin. true or false

false

Which passage gives us a certain and clear narrative account of Satan's original fall?

none of the above

all of the above

isaiah 14

ezekiel 28

revelation 12

matthew 6

none of the above

The lack of information provided in scripture about the satan character leads us to discard the idea and reality of the existence of a true adversary of our souls. We conclude that Satan/the Devil is really just a later development in traditional explanation for the origins of evil. There is no true antagonist according to the Bible. true or false

false

In the lectures we proposed the idea that one reason the Bible doesn't spend much time providing details about the satan character is ultimately because the story of the Bible is not about the adversary, but about God; the satan is just a bit-character in God's story of his glory. true or false

true

We said that it is OK if we deny the biblical teaching that all of humanity has inherited Adamic sin and corruption and are justified in noting that it is unfair for one person to represent many people. true or false

false

In addressing the question of the unforgivable sin, we looked at Matthew 12:31-32. We concluded, based upon the context of Jesus's discussion with the pharisees, that the sin he deems to be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the sustained, knowing attribution of the work of the Spirit to the hand of the satan. It is attributing the Spirit's work to the satan, as the pharisees attributed Jesus's casting out of demons to Beelzebul. true or false

true

In class we discussed the following two options that seemed possible for interpreting Hebrews 6:4-6 in light of the rest of the book of Hebrews and in light of the rest of Scripture.

Those who turn away were true believers, but they forfeited eternal rewards while yet still being saved

Those who turn away were not true believers, but had simply understood and experienced the benefits of salvation through the believing community, and in turning away will find no other source of salvation

In the lectures we discussed the "sins that lead to death" referenced in 1 John 3:16-17. Which of the interpretations did the professor endorse?

That the sins that lead to death are sins that result in someone physically dying

Which passage includes the details on how to perform the Day of Atonement rituals?

Levitcus 16

Which passage includes the rationale as to why the presentation of the blood is important to the Day of Atonement ritual?

Leviticus 17

The Day of Atonement ritual involves a symbolic representative of the people of Israel killing sacrificial animals and then presenting their blood in the presence of YHWH in the holy of holies. The animals that are killed represent _______________ The blood presented before YHWH is a symbol of life which cleanses the camp and its people from the impurity that comes from their sins causing them to be polluted by association with death . The result of the ritual is that sins are forgiven and impurity is cleansed and God's presence remains among his people .

the substitutionary death that people's sins have earned

The Day of Atonement ritual involves a symbolic representative of the people of Israel killing sacrificial animals and then presenting their blood in the presence of YHWH in the holy of holies. The animals that are killed represent the substitutionary death that people's sins have earned . The blood presented before YHWH is a symbol of ____________________ The result of the ritual is that sins are forgiven and impurity is cleansed and God's presence remains among his people .

life which cleanses the camp and its people from the impurity that comes from their sins causing them to be polluted by association with death .

The Day of Atonement ritual involves a symbolic representative of the people of Israel killing sacrificial animals and then presenting their blood in the presence of YHWH in the holy of holies. The animals that are killed represent the substitutionary death that people's sins have earned . The blood presented before YHWH is a symbol of life which cleanses the camp and its people from the impurity that comes from their sins causing them to be polluted by association with death . The result of the ritual is that _______________________.

sins are forgiven and impurity is cleansed and God's presence remains among his people .

Know how our discussion of sin affects us in the following areas:

- appreciation for the Gospel

- Your sense of the gravity of sin

- Your desire to fight sin and pursue Christ

(pick the choice with the same thing on it)

Know how our discussion of sin affects us in the following areas:

- appreciation for the Gospel

- Your sense of the gravity of sin

- Your desire to fight sin and pursue Christ

(pick the choice with the same thing on it)