Bible Midterm Flashcards

1
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Out of nothing

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Ex Nihilo

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2
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“Kovod”

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glory

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3
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General Revelation

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Made known to everyone (ex. creation)

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4
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Special Revelation

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Revelation at specific times for specific people (ex. prophets, Jesus, dreams)

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5
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self-centered thinking

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ego-centric thinking

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6
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Epistemology

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Theory of knowledge-when, how, what we know

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7
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Metaphysics

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Nature of reality

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8
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Ethics

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Knowledge of right and wrong morals

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9
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Coherentists

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Believe beliefs are justified by how well they fit with each other

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10
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Foundationalists

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Some of our beliefs are properly basic or justified independetly (ex. we hold these truths to be self evident)

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11
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Ontology

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Deals with first things

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12
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Cosmology

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study of the universe

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13
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“cosmos”

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universe

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14
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Deism

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Believe God is an “absentee landlord”

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15
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Pantheism

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God is all, all is God

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16
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Atheism

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there is no God

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17
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Thanatology

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Study of what happens after death

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18
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“orgay”

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wrath

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19
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“tzedakah”

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faithfulness/righteousness

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20
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dikaioumenoi”

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declared righteous

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21
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Teleological argument

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he world has created order and design so it must have a designer

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22
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Cosmological Argument

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Cause of the universe

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23
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Antinomianism

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Belief that it doesn’t matter how we live if we have grace (“anti-law”)

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24
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Universalism

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Belief that everyone goes to heaven

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25
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Foreknowledge

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God’s prescience of or foresight concerning future events

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26
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Predestination

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Single: teaching God designates only those will be saved
Double: Teaching that God chooses
Calvinists: God chooses
Arminianism: only those who believe are saved, everyone has the choice

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27
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Effectual vs. Internal call

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E: call that results in favorable response by the one called
I: call that comes from inner working of the Holy Spirit

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28
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Justified

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Declaration that humans are restored to righteousness in God’s sight

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29
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Glorification

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The final step in the process of salvation; completion of sanctification and removal of spiritual defects

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30
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“dokimazo”

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to test

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31
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Paul’s opponents in Acts 17

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Epicureans, Stoics

32
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Practical athiests: E or S

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Epicureans

33
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Pantheists: E or S

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Stoics

34
Q

What is stoa pokile

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the porch on which they met

35
Q

Transcendence

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God is above and apart from His creation

36
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Immanence

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God is present within and is not absent from creation

37
Q

What does “external reality” focus on

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What’s around us

38
Q

Who is it he prime reality in CHristian theism

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God (for athiests it’s matter)

39
Q

3 reasons humans are highly valued creation

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  1. origin (who made us)
  2. design (made in God’s image)
  3. purpose (have relationship with God)
40
Q

2 purposes of humanity

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  1. Have relationship with God

2. Have dominion

41
Q

Weakness of secular humanisms view of human dignity

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They have no significant base/absolute laws

42
Q

3 branches of philosophy

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Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics

43
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2 branches of epistemology

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foundationalist and coherentists

44
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2 branches of metaphysics

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ontology and cosmology

45
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3 views of epistemology

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Optimistic (more than we think), Pessimistic (less than we think), Radical Pessimistic (nothing)

46
Q

The meaning of history

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A story of man’s potential and man’s failure

47
Q

How many days to renew the mind?

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63

48
Q

Differences in Philosophy and Worldview

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P: theoretical, acquired intentionally, not everyone, through intellectual reasoning
WV: everyone, practical, automatic, informs behavior

49
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Paul’s 3 tasks

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  1. Ministry
  2. Human
  3. Intellectual
50
Q

4 questions

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Who am I? Where am I? What’s wrong? What’s the remedy?

51
Q

Apologetics in Romans 1

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Cosmological, Paul, teleological

52
Q

Required in response to the gospel message

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Faith

53
Q

What is hypocrisy

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Jews saw themselves as possessors, protectors and providers of the truth, but were hypocrites in that the teacher was not a learner, the preachers ignored their own message

54
Q

theme of Romans 1-3

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condemnation

55
Q

Romans 1 is to? Romans 2?

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1: Gentiles, 2 Jews

56
Q

3 ways Abraham acted on faith

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  1. Almost sacrificing Isaac
  2. Moving away
  3. Waiting for a child
57
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Why is Adam as a historic figure important?

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Explains human sin nature that we repeat

58
Q

3 reasons for Paul’s joy

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The trinity

59
Q

What is the purpose of suffering

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To strenghten and prove our faith

60
Q

Christian’s past, present, and future situations

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Past: no condemnation for sin, Romans 8;1
Presnt: sufferings, Romans 8: 28
Future: glorification, Romans 8:35-39

61
Q

5 aspects of salvation

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Foreknowledge, Predestined, Called, Justified, Glorified

62
Q

4 Jewish priveleges

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  1. adopted as God’s kids
  2. given the law
  3. given the temple
  4. given the presence of God
63
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ESSAY: Explain how the Christian worldview answers questions regarding epistemology, metaphysics (Romans 1:21), ethics (rom. 5:8), huumanity, thanatology (rom. 8), and history (Romans 11-14)

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God made us intellectual beings, but the fall caused our thinking to be darkened. He provides us special revelation regarding metaphysics through studies of the universe (its orders and design) and ethics. He is the ultimate Prime Reality.
Ethics: we pursue to have community like the trinity
Humanity: in his image, broken bc sin
Than: death is a passageway
History: mankinds potential

64
Q

Why were Christians killed and thrown to lions

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They were viewed as rebels because they had other citizenship and a significant base for their beliefs

65
Q

Distortions for Christianity in the Middle Ages and their effects

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Authority in the church took precedence over the teaching of the Bible and salvation was believed to be based on works of man, not God; lead to Gods law vs. church and conflicts

66
Q

What did Aquinas think about the Fall?

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He thought every part of man was fallen except the intellect this lead to creativity in the renaissance

67
Q

value system of humanism is rooted in…

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self

68
Q

New perspectives and how it creates humanism

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It put man at the center and made man “good”

69
Q

What worldview shaped the French Revolution

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secular humanism/atheism

70
Q

How did the Reformation bring individual freedom

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Freedom in human dignity

71
Q

Revivals that helped England stay out of their own version of the French Revolution

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Weslyan

72
Q

Far reaching and logical conclusion of humanist thinking and survival of the fittest lead to? Who lead the Gestapo?

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The nazi movment, Heinrich Himmler

73
Q

Karl Barth

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Believed that the Bible had many mistakes but saw it as non-reason work of literature, not a work of God

74
Q

Who said God is Dead first?

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Friedrich Nietzsche, it means everything that God gives answer to is also dead

75
Q

Jackson Pollock

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He dropped different paint cans randomly,