theology i unit exam 1 stetina

Dualism

The idea that both God and the material universe have eternally existed side by side as two ultimate forces in the universe.

Monism

one ultimate reality

God's Incomprehensibility

we are unable to fully understand God

God's Inexhaustibility

we can never know God completely which implies we can never run out of things to know about God

Heresies

Adoptionism

Modalism

Arianism

Tritheism 

God's foreknowledge

open theism- God sets the future but doesn't exactly know how we get there because it is up to us

arminianism- our salvation is based upon our free will

calvinism- predestination, God chooses who will go to heaven and hell

Theology

the study of God and his relationship with creation

Why read beyond what the NT tells us about Jesus

faith has a need to understand itself

faith has the need to express itself

identifying presuppositions 

Main arguments for the existence of God

Cosmological

Teleological

Moral

Ontological

Communicable Attributes

attributes we share with God

Incommunicable Attributes

attributes we do not share with God

Process Theology and its challenges

everything is changing so God must also be changing. this implies we cannot rely on God because he isn't consistent 

challenge: contradicts his incommunicable attribute of being unchanging

God's Impassibility

God has no passion or emotion

If God created us at his image why then do we feel passion and emotion if he has none

God's Will

free will- God did something because he wanted to not because he had to

necessary will- things that correspond to God's nature

secret will- we can't know all of God's plans

revealed will- creation and redemption, Bible

Trinity

three persons one substance

doctrine of tritheism controversial because it could easily be seen as tritheism

Logos Christology

Christology focusing on Christ as God's word

John 1

Challenges of the Trinity

all the heresies

Adoptionism

Jesus was a adopted by God when he was baptized which implies Jesus was man before baptism and denies that he is fully God

Modalism

God is one person presented in three roles: Father, Son and Holy Spirit which denies the unity of the Holy Spirit

Arianism

Jesus was created by God so Jesus can create the word which denies Jesus' deity. This implies Jesus is a god not God

Tritheism

three gods denies the unity of the trinity

Cosmological

since every known thing has a cause, the universe must have a cause

Teleological

since the universe exhibits order and design there must be an intelligent and purposeful God (design argument)

Moral

there must be a God who is the source of Man's sense of right and wrong

Ontological

you can't think of anything greater than God so he is the greatest being

Filique clause

"and from the Son"

Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father AND the Son

this caused the Eastern Orthodox Church to separate from the western because western accepted it

economic trinity

the way God reveals himself in history

transcendence

correspondence to the way God revealed himself and the way God really is