• Organized study of God
• the topical & logical study of God's revealed nature and purposes.

• Not the same as theology
• Set of beliefs, attitudes and practices

• Do not use the Bible
• Christianity & Philo don't mix
• Used to be Theo's twin sister.
• Without the propper exegesis can be dangerous.

• In the light of exegetical data.

1. Doctrinal check-and-balance
2. Illustrative methodologies

• Creedalism (statements of faith ARE NOT the Bible).

• The study of God in His relationship to the men as an organization as a systematic whole.
• High degree of intengration (not perfect).
• Hebrews 11.6
• Only one truth and have to be as a accurately as possible.

• Is organized around the chronological and cultural development of the biblical writter in his historical  and cultural context. 

1. Unbiblical movement b/w 40's-60's.
2. The theological content of the OT & NT.
3. Faithful to the teachings of the Bible.

• Its aim & organizing principle.
• ST: produces normative guides to spiritual reality
• ST: organizes it topically and logically (more comprehensive on this way).

• Our final goal is a systematic biblical [exegetical] theology.
• With the right exegetical work, a systematic theology is a biblical theology.

• a.k.a. General Revelation
• Enviromental [Creation] & historical
• (Job 12:7-10; Psalm 19:1-6)
• Epistemologically & soteriologically insufficient.

• Hebrews 1:1-4
• Historically God has revealed Himself.
• Bibliologically too (Hebrews 1:1) 
• Christologically too

The emphasis on 2 Timothy 3:15-17 is on the:

a) Power

b) Product

c) Purpose 

d) Process

b) Product

The emphasis on 2 Peter 1:19-21 is on:

a) Power

b) Product

c) Purpose

d) Process

d) Process

1. Inscripturation
2. Illumination 
3. Santification

The primary factor in recognizing the divine auhtority of these books was ____________ .

authorship by a tested and verified prophet

• Its main purpose is to recovered the original NT text. 

1. Human language is inadequate
2. Unbridled hermeneutics

• It is the study of the being, attributes and works of the Trinity.

• His personality

 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.’” - Ex 3.14

God is __________.

self-conscious

• Unknowable

1. Self-Existent (Aseity)
2. Infinite (Eternal, O-present, O-scient, O-potent).
3. Immutable
4. Incomprehensible

1. The perfection of God
2. The holiness of God
3. The justice of God
4. The grace of God
5. The fidelity of God

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9

This passage emphasizes in God's ________________.

that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him,though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and[a]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ - Acts 17:27-28

This passage emphasizes in God's _______________.

• Uniqueness and Oneness
• One God; three persons

Monarchianism

What are the 3 types?

1. Adoptionism- Jesus adopted as son of God in baptism/resurrection/ascension. 
2. Modalism-one person/3 different manifestation.
3. Patripassianism-Father suffer with the son.

Arianism

Challenger:_________.

Champion:__________.

Council:__________.

Arianism- Christ was not fully divine (creation).

Challenger: Arius

Champion: Athanasius

Council: Nicea, 325 A.D.

• The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
• Council of Toledo, 589 A.D.

• Rejected the pre-existence of Christ.
• Christ did not exists until His human birth.
• Reformation period.

• This was the view of the early fathers in U.S.
• Jesus was a great human teacher but not Lord

• Star Wars
• God is only one person.

• Jesus only.

In the biblical context, this term, is a figure of speech for the creative source of ideas, the fountainhead of planning goals, and the initiator of the materak relationships and activities.

a) The Father; b) The Son; c) The Holy Spirit

• Christ's human nature viewed as hupostasis [subsistence]

Cerintianism and docetism viewed Christ's human nature as _________.

The acceptable interpretation for Christ's human nature viewed is as:

a) Hupostasis

b) Anhupostasis

c) Enhupostasis

d) b & c

c) Enhupostasis 

The 3 A's for the Holy Spirit in Bibliology are:

1. Author
2. Attestor 
3. Applier

What relationship in the NT has the Holy Spirit and the Church corporately? 

1. ____________ &

2. ____________

1. Created the Church
2. Constitute the Church

What is the essential difference of the Spirit's relationship between the OT and NT believers?

The spiritual baptism into one body.

To validate the prophet and the message

Individually, the Holy Spirit works on

1) _____________ &

2) _____________

1. Initial regeneration
2. Continual sanctification