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| God is one Lord; unification of the nature of God |
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| God is our resting place and has been so throughout all generations |
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| Man cannot look upon the face of God because it is too holy; burning bush; one cannot approach the Lord in his purest form |
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| God has been around since the beginning of time; God is three persons: the one he has sent, God in heaven, and God's spirit |
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| God is used in the plural sense; Trinitarian; confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel |
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| God's Spirit revealed; God's essence described as a spirit |
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| Trinity; Jesus' Baptism, God's statement of being "well-pleased"; Spirit descended as a dove |
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| Trinity Great Commission; in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit |
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| Trinity; closing in name of Son, Father, and Holy Spirit |
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| Holiness, Righteousness and Justice, and Goodness; communicable |
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| Non-Moral Attributes of God |
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| Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Immutability; incommunicable |
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| Non-moral attribute; his immensity towards all space; God is not IN everything but he transcends all barriers |
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| Non-moral Attribute; infinite in knowledge; knows himself and all else perfectly; all is possible and actual |
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| Non-moral attribute; all powerful; able to do whatever he wills, but he only wills what is in harmony with His perfections (no absurd/ contradictory things); has absolute (creation/miracles) and ordinate (providence/secondary cause) power |
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| Non-moral Attribute; God=unchangeable in his essence, attributes, consciousness, and will; God always does right and adapts the treatment of his creatures to their character and conduct |
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Moral Attribute; God is separate from moral evil and sin; God is perfect in what he is; all attributes are perfect in harmony;
1) sin separates man from God
2) Man must approach God through Christ
3) Man must have reverence and awe |
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| Righteousness and Justice |
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| Moral Attribute; holiness seen in his treatment of his creatures; we are secure in Christ's righteousness; punishment maintains God's justice |
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| Moral Attribute; all of the qualities of an ideal person (holiness, righteousness, truth, love, benevolence, mercy, and grace) |
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| includes spirituality, self existence, immensity, and eternity |
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1) immaterial and incorporeal
2) invisible
3) he is alive
4) he is a person |
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| God's existence isn't dependent on anything outside of himself; grounded in his nature as the uncaused being |
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| infinite in relation to space and is complete everywhere |
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| infinite in relation to time; no beginning or end; God created time which began with creation |
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| the ascription of bodily parts to God to merit understanding; i.e. hand of God, face of God, feet of God, etc. |
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| the ascription of human feelings to God to understand his nature; i.e. anger, love, happiness, etc. |
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| modal trinity idea; God exists at different times as the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit |
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| the doctrine taught that Christ the Son and God the Father are of the same substance; reinforces the equality of the persons of the Trinity |
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| heretical teaching that God the Father rules over Christ the Son; Son is subordinate to the Father |
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| General Statements and Allusions of the New Testament |
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| Jesus' Baptism; Promise of Comforter; Baptismal formula |
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| General Statements and Allusions for Trinity in the OT |
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| Plural pronouns; different uses of "Lord"; son distinguished from Father; Spirit Distinguished from Father; Triple Holy of Seraphim; Messenger of Jehovah ID'd as YHWH |
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| 3 persons in One essence complete in all forms; 3 eternal distinctions in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost |
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| three persons in one essence; indivisible |
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| God's eternal purpose; based on God's wise counsel; for his own Glory; ordained permissively; includes material, spiritual, moral, and physical |
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| Glorification first; then happiness of the creature and holiness |
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| they have content and order that follow a specific way |
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| decrees to save some and not others; decrees to create both kinds of man; permits the fall and provides redemption; send Holy Spirit to apply to redeem the elect |
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| God created everyone; permitted the fall; elected some to salvation; he provided redemption to the elect and sent the H.S. |
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| created things; allowed the fall; provided salvation sufficient for all; elected some; sent the H.S. |
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| Arguments against Calvinism |
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1) God permitted sin for a wise and holy purpose
2) God overruled it for good
3) God offers to save from sin
4) God determined to reward servants and punish the disobedience |
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| free act of God in the beginning and it was instantaneous and ex nihilio |
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| shapes, adapts, and combines existing material |
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| Revelatory Theory of Days |
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| it took Moses 6 days to be instructed on the creation |
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| Geological ages for each day (evolution) |
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| light and dark, day and night, interdependence of the universe, numerals mean the solar day |
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| 6,000-30,000 years old; creation with the appearance of age |
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T- Total Depravity
U- Unconditional Election
L- Limited Atonement
I- Irresistible Grace
P- Perseverance of the Saints |
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