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
Paul’s opponents in Acts 17
Epicureans, Stoics
Practical athiests: E or S
Epicureans
Pantheists: E or S
Stoics
What is stoa pokile
the porch on which they met
Transcendence
God is above and apart from His creation
Immanence
God is present within and is not absent from creation
What does “external reality” focus on
What’s around us
Who is it he prime reality in CHristian theism
God (for athiests it’s matter)
3 reasons humans are highly valued creation
- origin (who made us)
- design (made in God’s image)
- purpose (have relationship with God)
2 purposes of humanity
- Have relationship with God
2. Have dominion
Weakness of secular humanisms view of human dignity
They have no significant base/absolute laws
3 branches of philosophy
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics
2 branches of epistemology
foundationalist and coherentists
2 branches of metaphysics
ontology and cosmology
3 views of epistemology
Optimistic (more than we think), Pessimistic (less than we think), Radical Pessimistic (nothing)
The meaning of history
A story of man’s potential and man’s failure
How many days to renew the mind?
63
Differences in Philosophy and Worldview
P: theoretical, acquired intentionally, not everyone, through intellectual reasoning
WV: everyone, practical, automatic, informs behavior
Paul’s 3 tasks
- Ministry
- Human
- Intellectual
4 questions
Who am I? Where am I? What’s wrong? What’s the remedy?
Apologetics in Romans 1
Cosmological, Paul, teleological
Required in response to the gospel message
Faith
What is hypocrisy
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
theme of Romans 1-3
condemnation
Romans 1 is to? Romans 2?
1: Gentiles, 2 Jews
3 ways Abraham acted on faith
- Almost sacrificing Isaac
- Moving away
- Waiting for a child
Why is Adam as a historic figure important?
Explains human sin nature that we repeat
3 reasons for Paul’s joy
The trinity
What is the purpose of suffering
To strenghten and prove our faith
Christian’s past, present, and future situations
Past: no condemnation for sin, Romans 8;1
Presnt: sufferings, Romans 8: 28
Future: glorification, Romans 8:35-39
5 aspects of salvation
Foreknowledge, Predestined, Called, Justified, Glorified
4 Jewish priveleges
- adopted as God’s kids
- given the law
- given the temple
- given the presence of God
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)
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
Why were Christians killed and thrown to lions
They were viewed as rebels because they had other citizenship and a significant base for their beliefs
Distortions for Christianity in the Middle Ages and their effects
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
What did Aquinas think about the Fall?
He thought every part of man was fallen except the intellect this lead to creativity in the renaissance
value system of humanism is rooted in…
self
New perspectives and how it creates humanism
It put man at the center and made man “good”
What worldview shaped the French Revolution
secular humanism/atheism
How did the Reformation bring individual freedom
Freedom in human dignity
Revivals that helped England stay out of their own version of the French Revolution
Weslyan
Far reaching and logical conclusion of humanist thinking and survival of the fittest lead to? Who lead the Gestapo?
The nazi movment, Heinrich Himmler
Karl Barth
Believed that the Bible had many mistakes but saw it as non-reason work of literature, not a work of God
Who said God is Dead first?
Friedrich Nietzsche, it means everything that God gives answer to is also dead
Jackson Pollock
He dropped different paint cans randomly,
