Bible Midterm Flashcards
Out of nothing
Ex Nihilo
“Kovod”
glory
General Revelation
Made known to everyone (ex. creation)
Special Revelation
Revelation at specific times for specific people (ex. prophets, Jesus, dreams)
self-centered thinking
ego-centric thinking
Epistemology
Theory of knowledge-when, how, what we know
Metaphysics
Nature of reality
Ethics
Knowledge of right and wrong morals
Coherentists
Believe beliefs are justified by how well they fit with each other
Foundationalists
Some of our beliefs are properly basic or justified independetly (ex. we hold these truths to be self evident)
Ontology
Deals with first things
Cosmology
study of the universe
“cosmos”
universe
Deism
Believe God is an “absentee landlord”
Pantheism
God is all, all is God
Atheism
there is no God
Thanatology
Study of what happens after death
“orgay”
wrath
“tzedakah”
faithfulness/righteousness
dikaioumenoi”
declared righteous
Teleological argument
he world has created order and design so it must have a designer
Cosmological Argument
Cause of the universe
Antinomianism
Belief that it doesn’t matter how we live if we have grace (“anti-law”)
Universalism
Belief that everyone goes to heaven
Foreknowledge
God’s prescience of or foresight concerning future events
Predestination
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
Effectual vs. Internal call
E: call that results in favorable response by the one called
I: call that comes from inner working of the Holy Spirit
Justified
Declaration that humans are restored to righteousness in God’s sight
Glorification
The final step in the process of salvation; completion of sanctification and removal of spiritual defects
“dokimazo”
to test