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| The Question being answered in the Doctrine of Creation: |
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| What is the significance of God's creation of the world? |
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| Three main points to understand before studying the Doctrine of Creation: |
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1. It is a confession of faith.
2. It is based upon divine revelation.
3. It starts from the action of the triune God. |
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| 6 implications of creatio ex nihilo: |
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1. God and creation are distinct.
2. God did not need to create the world.
3. God's act of creation was a free act.
4. God's act of creation was intentional and purposeful.
5. Creation is good and makes us relational.
6. Our existence is marked by grace from top to bottom. |
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| The fact that God and creation are distinct rules out which two heresies? |
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| Pantheism and Emanationism |
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| Pantheism is the belief that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God, or that the Universe (or Nature) is identical with divinity. |
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| In Emanationism, all things are derived from the first reality or perfect God by steps of degradation to lesser degrees of the first reality or God, and at every step the emanating beings are less pure, less perfect, and less divine. |
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| The fact that God did not need to create the world rules out which heresy? |
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| In some forms of panentheism, the cosmos exists within God, who in turn "pervades" or is "in" the cosmos. While pantheism asserts that 'All is God', panentheism goes further to claim that God is greater than the universe. In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God. |
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| The fact that God's act of creation was intentional and purposeful rules out which heresy? |
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| The fact that God's act of creation was intentional and purposeful rules out which heresy? |
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| Gnosticism is the thought and practice, especially of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries, distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis. |
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| The fact that relation is good and makes us relational rules out which heresy? |
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| Deism is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a creator, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge. It likens God to a watchmaker setting a watch and letting it go. |
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| According to the Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, how have we been sinfully degrading creation? |
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-land degradation
-deforestation
-species extinction
-water degradation
-global toxification
-the alteration of atmosphere
-human and cultural degradation |
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| The Question being answered in the Doctrine of Providence: |
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| How does God relate to creation? |
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| What are the three categories of divine providence? |
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1. Preservation
2. Accompaniment
3. Government |
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| What are the four main views within the Accompaniment category of divine providence? |
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1. Determinism
2. Free Will Theism
3. Open Theism
4. Process Theism |
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| What are the two subcategories of Determinism? |
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1. Strict Determinism
2. Compatibilism |
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| To which creation heresy can strict determinism lead? |
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| Which providence views are deemed competitive? |
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| Strict Determinism and Free Will Theism |
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| Which providence view is deemed non-competitive? |
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| Simply put, the view that everything that happens, good or bad, is determined in advance by God, including the salvation or damnation of individuals. |
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| Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both without being logically inconsistent. |
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| The belief that God does not determine our free will actions, but that he does foreknow them. |
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| The belief that God chooses not to foreknow our free will actions. |
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| The belief that God does not have the power to stop evil. |
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| A strict determinist's explanation for moral evil: |
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| God acts through humans to glorify Himself, all actions lead to the the greater good. |
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| A strict determinist's explanation for natural evil: |
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| God displays his attributes for his glory, two of which are judgement and mercy. Natural evil reminds us of the judgment we all deserve and his mercy in sparing us now and later. |
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| A Compatibilist's explanation for moral evil: |
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| God and the human act. God is good while the human is sinful. God is sovereign, the human has free will; it's a mystery. |
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| A Compatibilist's explanation for natural evil: |
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| There is a certain incomprehensibility to God. We should focus on what God has done to defeat evil in general. |
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| A Free Will Theist's explanation for moral evil: |
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| Human acts can be contrary to God's will. |
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| A Free Will Theist's explanation for natural evil: |
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| Natural Evil results from human sin. |
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| The Question being answered in the Doctrine of Theological Anthropology (Imago Dei): |
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| What does it mean to be human? |
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| What are the three views of the relationship between the body, soul, and spirit? |
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1. Dualism
2. Monism
3. Psychosomatic Unity |
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| Dualism claims that we are a soul in a body. |
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| Monism claims that we are only bodily creatures. |
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| Psychosomatic Unity claims that a human being is body and soul. |
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| What are the three views of what it means to be made in the image of God? |
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1. The Substance View
2. The Functional View
3. The Relational View |
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| Imago Dei - The Substance View |
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| We were given the capacity (a rational soul) to know God, which means the fall included the twisting of our minds. |
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| Imago Dei - The Functional View |
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| We were given a commission (stewardship) to care for creation, which means the fall included the thwarting of our commission. |
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| Imago Dei- The Relational View |
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| We were made to be in communion and community with God and other human beings, which means the fall resulted in broken relationships. |
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| What are the three main stances in the gender debate? |
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1. Patriarchal
2. Egalitarian
3. Complementarian |
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| The Patriarchal view on gender |
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| Women are of a lesser being than men. |
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| The Egalitarian view on gender |
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| Women are equal to mean, which means all roles are open to women. |
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| The Complementarian view on gender |
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| Women are equal in being to men but not all roles are open. |
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| The Question being answered in the Doctrine of Sin: |
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| What is the problem we are being saved from? |
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| What are the two different fundamental views of sin? |
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1. Sin as action
2. Sin as being (original sin, total depravity) |
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1. We start as a blank slate
2. We jump into sin because of bad examples.
3. Grace helps us climb out of the pit of sin toward Jesus. |
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1. We start dead in our sins.
2. By God's grace, Jesus pulls us out of our sin. |
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1. Sin is not about breaking rules.
2. All sin is against God.
3. Sin is enmity toward God.
4. The consequence of sin is death.
5. Sin cannot be recognized without grace.
6. God's grace is more powerful than human sin. |
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1. It is a reflection of his love and holiness
2. It is personal
3. It reveals the true depth of our sin.
4. It reveals the true meaning of salvation.
5. It signals our need for a mediator.
6. It will end for Christians. |
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| The Question that the Doctrine of Christology answers: |
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| He is one person in two natures without division, separation, confusion, or change. |
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| The heretical view that Jesus only appeared to be human. |
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| The heretical view that says Jesus' "rational soul" was the Logos dwelling in man: think "God-in-a-bod". |
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| The heretical view claiming that Jesus is both "truly human" and "truly divine" as the result of a moral union between two distinct subjects, the son of God and the Son of Man, each of whom retained their own will. |
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| The heretical belief that Jesus is both "truly human" and "truly divine" because he was the hybrid of two natures - human and deity - in one person: the Son of God. |
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| What are the three main views on how many wills Jesus has? |
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1. Two wills/Two minds
2. Kenosis theory
3. Willed Non-Use theory |
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| This theory states that Jesus gave up some of his divine attributes (emptied himself) while he was a man here on earth. |
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| Council of Nicea (325): Figures Involved |
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| Arius, Alexander, Athanasius |
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| Council of Nicea (325): Issue Debated |
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| Council of Nicea (325): Decision |
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| Council of Constantinople (381): Figures Involved |
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| Gregory of Nazianzus, Eunomius |
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| Council of Constantinople (381): Issue Debated |
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| Arianism, Apollinarianism |
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| Council of Constantinople (381): Decision |
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| Council of Ephesus (431): Figures Involved |
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| Nestorius, Cyril of Alexandria |
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| Council of Ephesus (431): Issue Debated |
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| Council of Ephesus (431): Decision |
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| Council of Chalcedon (451): Figures Involved |
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| Eutyches, Pope Leo the Great |
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| Council of Chalcedon (451): Issue Debated |
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| Council of Chalcedon (451): Decison |
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| Second Council of Constantinople (533) "The Cleanup Council": Figures Involved |
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| Theodore of Mopsuestia, Emperor Justinian, Origen |
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| Second Council of Constantinople (533) "The Cleanup Council": Issue Debated |
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| Theodore of Moepsuestia's writings (Nestorianism) |
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| Second Council of Constantinople (533) "The Cleanup Council": Decision |
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| Theodore declared a heretic, his writings banned. |
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| Third Council of Constantinople (680): Figures Involved |
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| Third Council of Constantinople (680): Issue Debated |
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| How many wills (minds) does Jesus have? Monothelitism - Jesus has one will. |
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| Third Council of Constantinople (680): Decision |
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| Jesus has two wills (minds). |
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| Second Council of Nicea (787): Figures Involved |
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| Second Council of Nicea (787): Issue Debated |
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| Second Council of Nicea (787): Decision |
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| Veneration of Icons is acceptable, but not worship. |
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| Why did God become human? |
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| For us and for our salvation. The "for us" means that Jesus showed us how to live, while the "for our salvation" refers to Jesus' death and resurrection. |
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| Eastern Orthodox tendency on the trinity |
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| Threeness at the expense of oneness, subordinationism, tritheism |
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| Western tendency on the trinity |
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| Oneness at the expense of threeness, modalism |
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| Orthodox view of the trinity |
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| One in three/three in one, Three persons, each distinct from the others, one God, completely indivisible. |
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