THEO 201 Exam 2

Psalm 19

Creation

Human conscience

Imago Dei, Rom. 2:14-15

The Word Made Flesh

Christ, Jn. 1:14, 2 Cor. 4:6

General Revelation ____________

Compliments

Two Ways God reveals Himself

General and Special Revelation

General Revelation includes?

Nature, history, conscience.

Special Revelation includes?

The Proclaimed Word (2 Tim. 3:14), The Written Word, 2 Tim. 3:15-16, and the Living Word- Jesus, Tit. 2:11-12.
Instruction, Inspiration, Incarnation

God’s Grace embodied has brought

Salvation

Who is the primary agent for inspiration?

Holy Spirit

God speaks primarily through

What He has written, the Bible

Who was the Bishop of Lyon?

Irenaeus, the Unifier of the Church and Defender of the Faith

What was the worldview of Gnosticism?

Dualism

4 C’s

Clergy, Creeds, Canon, Complete in Christ

What three people taught heresy in the early church?

Montanus, Marcion, Arius

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting and training in righteousness.

The Holy Spirit is the ? in ? Revelation

Primary actor, biblical revelation

What verse talks about humans being instruments of God?

2 Peter 1:21

Manifestation

God acts within human history.

Inspiration

God speaks words.

Inerrancy

God’s Spirit enabled writers to record an accurate account.

Infallible

God preserves the Bible

Canonicity

God superintends collection

Illumination and interpretation

God’s Spirit helps us understand and make sense.

What revelation makes Christianity unique?

Special

2 Peter 1:19-21

Scripture is not by human origin or speculation, but its writers superintended by God’s Spirit, recorded without error.

1 Corinthians 2:11-12

God the Spirit alone knows and can reveal and illumine biblical truths so that we may explain it.

TItus 2:11-13

Jesus Himself is Grace Incarnate

Concept of Inerrancy: Absolute

Every detail and data entry in the Bible can be verified.

Inerrancy Concept: Full

The Bible’s theological and spiritual message is true, and seeming discrepancies can be explained.

Inerrancy Concept: Limited

The Bible’s technical details and language are restricted to its own time, yet true for our salvation, faith, and practice.

The Bible has ? books, ? authors, written in ? languages across ? years, and across ? continents

66, 40, 3, 1600, 3

Infallibility

The Bible, as truth, cannot fail but will achieve God’s purpose.

Canonicity

“Rule”; the Spirit enables the Church to standardize 66 books.

Illumination

the Spirit guides our understanding and application of the Bible.

Interpretation

Hermeneutics through exegesis

Inspiration relates primarily to the book’s

Writer, author.

The Spirit ? the author’s ?

accommodated, personality

God’s ? is both in the act of preservation and transmission of the Bible

Providence.

Establishing Biblical Canonicity at the Council of?

Carthage, AD 397

Canon means ?

The rule for faith and practice

3 Criteria for Canonicity

A

Apostolicity

Inspired OT, Jesus’ apostle’s authorship or endorsement.U

Universality

Catholicity, accepted by ecumenical churches.

Unity/Consistency

Orthodoxy

5 Reasons for the Bible’s credibility.

Prophesy, Accuracy, Consistency, Bibliographical, Archaeological.

Five Theories of Inspiration

Intuition Theory

Very specially gifted humans wrote 66 books.

Illumination

All authors had high degree of inner perception.

Dynamic

God’s thoughts being expressed through the writers.

Verbal

God exactly selected every word used.

Dictation

God used authors to transcirbe.

What is the integrative approach?

Recognizes that the Spirit providentially led writers to use words that are particular and precise to convey God’s message with clarity and translatability.

The Bible is credible because..

Clarity, coherence, consistency, and self-critical.

Charlotte “?” Moon was a ? missionary

Lottie, Chinese

Why study creationism?

Biblical assertion, theological significance, and apologetic approaches.

God created everything ? and gave it order and ? that reflects His Being

Ex nihilo, order and rationality.

What two stories depict God’s Holy Love?

Isaiah 6, Lk. 5

4 Concepts of Biblical Creationism

Ex Nihilo, All inclusive, The Trinity’s Work, Teleios (God’s goals)

What is theodicy?

Defending God’s just character despite suffering and evil.

Agency and noncompetetive agency

Define it.

Two kinds of providence?

General and Specific

What is general providence?

God governs the flow of history and destiny.

What is specific providence?

God superintends free agency.

3 Views on how God works in His world

Su

Supernaturalism

God created and is active governing-sustaining His world even against nature.

Providentialism

God put a system within nature that does not need His miraculous intervention.

Occasionalism

God consistently acts out His will each moment.

3 Aspects of God’s Will

Perfect, prescriptive, and pleasurabe.

What is the perfect aspect?

God’s sovereignty.

What is prescriptive?

God’s laws.

What is pleasurable?

God shows us what is pleasing to Him

3 Reasons for Human Suffering

Hu

Humans failure to ?

Obey God

Required for ?

Human progress

Evil is a ?

Necessary accompaniment to free will.

God is vulnerable

He chose to endow free will.

God is a victim.

Jesus’s Crucifixion

God is Victorious

Christ’s death and resurrection.

What are the three trees?

Tree of Knowledge, Life, and the Man on the Middle Tree.

What does theodicy ask?

Is God Just?

David Hume

Suffering points to an impotent God; there is no god.

Young-Earth Creationism

The earth is 6000 years old.

Old-Earth Creationism

The Earth is billions of years old.

Evolutionary Creationism

God superintended the evolutionary process.

Naturalistic Evolution

The Big Bang

God’s Providence ?, ?, and ? details of natural events.

Guides, superintends, and determines.

Miracles are signs to ? God, manifest His ?, and authenticate His ?

glorify, power, word.

Christianity is world-?

Affirming

Hinduism is ?theistic.

Pantheistic

Buddhism is ?theistic

Nontheistic.

Jehovah Witnesses stress God’s ? over immanence

Transcendence, Arianism.

Mormonism is ?theistic

Polytheistic.