apologetics midterm study guide Flashcards
what is the Kingdom of God?
God’s Holy people in God’s Holy place under God’s Holy rule
what are incommunicable and communicable attributes? what’s the difference?
Incommunicable Attributes (characteristics only belonging to God such as being Holy, Eternal, Unchanging, etc)
Communicable Attributes (characteristics that both God and humans share such as wisdom, righteousness, love, mercy, and grace)
how do we know that God is personal?
○ the entirety of the Bible is the story of God interacting personally with his Creation
○ since the very idea of personhood comes from God, the value and dignity that He imparts cannot be changed by any other person or circumstance
what are the 3 aspects of God’s character?
God is “Self-Existent” (Aseity)
God is “Spirit” (immaterial)
God is Personal
what does it mean that God is both Transcendent and Immanent
Immanent: God is within and among His creation (He is active in the universe & accessible to us
Transcendent: God is both above and outside His creation (He is above all the heavens and outside of time, space, and matter)
What are the 3 o’s of God’s Character and what do they mean?
Omniscient- God is all-knowing
Omnipresent- God is everywhere
Omnipotent- God is all-powerful
what is objective and subjective truth? give an example of both
Objective: based on facts
2+2=4, that’s a fact and every other answer is wrong
Subjective: based on opinions, rather than reality (moral relativism)
The Rams are the best team in the NFL
what is moral relativism and give an example
Moral relativism is the idea that morals are relative to an individual and/or culture
the two types are individual and societal/cultural.
○ example: “I believe stealing is right because I’m poor”
what are the 5 parts of the Biblical metanarrative?
Creation: Genesis 1
Fall: Genesis 3
Redemption: Genesis 3-Malachi
Restoration: Matthew-Jude
Consummation: Revelation
summarize the Bible in one word
Immanuel-God with us
what is exegesis?
○ The approach to reading the Bible involving pulling info from what it says
○ interpreting it’s true meaning by using the 5 questions
○ “Exe means out of”
what is eisegesis
○ approach the Bible and insert our own ideas on what it says
○ “Eise” means into
○ using bias
○ we’ll bend the words to justify our own personal beliefs
what is hermeneutics
○ the art/science of interpretation
○ the greek root “to interpret”
what’s the overall goal of hermeneutics
to discover the author’s intended meaning of the passage so that we could effectively apply it to our lives
what questions should i ask when going through the hermeneutic process
- What would this have meant to the author?
- What would this have meant to the original reader it was meant for?
- Who wrote it?
- What kind/genre of literature is it? (wisdom, prophecy, etc)
- What was the cultural background?
how many books are in the Bible? OT and NT?
○ 66 total
○ 39 OT
○ 27 NT
what are the main questions I would ask when engaging in the “columbo tactic”
○ “what do you mean by that?”
○ “what made you come to that conclusion”
