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Creation, Man, Sin Flashcards

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Ex nihilo?

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  • Out of nothing.
  • Hebrews 11:3
  • Separates biblical creation from other myths where God made the world out of preexisting material or chaos.
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Can man create?

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  • Strictly speaking, only God can create.
  • Man can form.
  • Psalm 96:5 “For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens”
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Did God create in time?

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  • God created with time, not in time. “in the beginning”
  • God created time.
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Why is Regeneration necessary to see God’s glory in creation?

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  • John 3:3 “you must be born again to see the kingdom of heaven”
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How is light central in creation, salvation, and eschatology?

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  • God creates the light first (Gen 1)
  • Christ bring light to men (John 1)
  • Christ is the light of the New heavens and New earth (Rev 22)
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Tree of life in Gen and Rev?

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In Gen it signifies the promise of eternal life, and in Rev the fulfillment of eternal life.

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Temple in Gen and Rev?

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  • Garden is the place where men fellowship with God (Gen 3, Temple)
  • Revelation 21 “tabernacle of God is with men”
  • Revelation is a return to the garden, yet a better garden.
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What are the theological issues surrounding creation views?

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  • Creation ex nihilo
  • Federal headship of Adam
  • belief in Cov of works
  • Sabbath
  • Sufficiency and perspicuity of Scripture
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Animums imponentis

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The intend of a body adopting a document.

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Difference between men and angels.

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  • Angels: Spiritual beings, no federal head, know Jesus as creator
  • Men: spirit and body, federal head, know Jesus as creator and redeemer.
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First sin of the Devils?

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  • Pride
  • Jude, 1 Timothy 3
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Can devils know the future?

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no

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Why are Ephesians 4:24 and Col. 3:10 important for a theology of the image of God?

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We know more about the image of God through redemption than creation.

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Broad vs narrow image of God

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Broad: capacity to know God.
Narrow: attributes reflected in an ethical sense.

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Two ways Christ is the image of God

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Essential image; Hebrews 1:3
Created image; John 1:14, and other texts proving his human nature.

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Biblical gender and sexuality vs modern movements

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Feminism: disregards gender roles; 1 Tim 2
Homosexual movement: disregards biblical sexuality; Romans 1:26, 27
Transgenderism: disregards connection between gender and biology, and God’s design. It is also impossible and a lie.

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Biblical view of sexuality

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Right components: Man and Woman
Right covenant: Mal. 2 “covenant of companionship”

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Two bible texts against homosexuality

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Lev. 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”
Romans 1:26, 27

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Proof that the body is important in salvation

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Romans 12:1 “present your bodies as a living sacrifice”

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Why was it necessary for Christ to take on a true body and a reasonable soul?

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  • He saved whole people body and soul. He needed to have our full humanity to save us.
  • His resurection (reunion of body and soul) points to ours.
  • 1 Corinthians 15
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Three faculties of the soul

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  • Intellect
  • will
  • affections
  • Romans 6:17 “Bud God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed (will) from the heart (affections) that form of doctrine to which you were delivered (intellect).
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Traducianism or creationism

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  • creationism
  • Ecc 12:7 “then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it”
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Relation of science and scripture

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  • Scripture is not a science textbook.
  • Science must be done within the bounds of biblical exegesis.
  • If it is against scripture it is wrong.
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Arguments against historic adam.
Defend the historic adam.

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Against: His name stands for the human race, Gen 1 and 2 are not literal, the serpent is a mythological indicator.
For: Adam sinned (races don’t sin, people do), Gen 1 and 2 must be read literally by the vav consecutive style, there must be an Adam to be a Christ.
Romans 5

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Creation ordinances

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  • marriage, work, sabbath
  • Since they were before sin, we can conclude that they are part of the intent of creation.
  • They will not be abrogated but fulfilled in the new heavens and earth
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Covenant of Works

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Parties: God and Adam
Condition: obedience
Threats and promises: death and life
Sacraments: two trees
Federal representation: Romans 5:23; 1 Cor 15:22

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1 Cor 15:22

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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive

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Relation of Law and covenants

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  • The Law and the Covenant of work are not the same.
  • If they were, then the third use of the Law in the covenant of grace would be impossible.
  • God’s character is behind the use of the law in each covenant.
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Relation of Covenant of Work with that of Grace

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Christ keeps the stipulations of the Covenant of Works and we receive his righteousness by the Covenant of Grace

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Two readings of Kline on the republication of the covenant of works under the Mosaic covenant?

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Substantive republication: the Covenant of Works makes Moses a strictly legal covenant

Administrative republication: Moses is the Covenant of Grace with a legal principle pervading it containing the land promises with the Covenant of Works embedded into the Law.

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What are the primary points of agreement and differences between Reformed and Lutheran views of the Law and the gospel?

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  • We both agree we are justified by faith alone apart from the law.
  • We both agree that one seeking to be justified by the law is condemned
  • Lutherans use the law/gospel as a hermeneutic through the bible looking for law verses and gospel verses.
  • Reformed see the law as pointing to Christ as a shadow of the good to come.
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Relationship between Noahic covenant and the covenant of grace?

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Belongs to the covenant of grace with common grace benefits to mankind in preserving the earth that the seed might come. However, it doesn’t make an improvement on the promises of the covenant of grace.

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Two primary characteristics of Two Kingdom theology?

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  • Natural law is more general in content than moral law
  • the Noahic covenant is a universal natural law covenant (a covenant of common grace)
  • Natural law is properly understood as moral law. No view of law can be broader than moral law.
  • Noahic covenant does have common grace benefits, but it is not strictly a common grace covenant.
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What is the scope of providence?

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Preservation, governance, and concurrence.
Gen 50

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What are the grounds and the ends of providence?

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Grounds: holy and wise foreknowledge according to the His free immutable will (Ephesians 1:11)
Ends: the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy (Romans 9)

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Relationship between providence and secondary causes?

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He uses secondary causes to fulfill his will.

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Why is “bare permission” a bad notion?

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It implies that God permitted something he didn’t want to happen, but salvaged a bad situation.

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How does providence relate to the temptations and sins of believers?

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The confession says God often leaves his children to many temptations for a season, to the curruption of their own hearts. He does this to chastise them for their sins, to show them the remaining sin, and to increase their dependance on Him in godly humility.

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What is the nature of God’s providence in relation to the sins of the wicked?

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He gives them over to sin. Romans 1 “God gave them up to uncleanness”

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What is the difference between providence and fate?

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Providence is personal and fate is impersonal.

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Why is providence a remedy to anxiety?

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Philippians 4 shows a broad range of applications on this. God controls all things, we can depend on him to purpose everything for good. This is why prayer in dependance on God soothes anxiety.

Philippians 4:6, 7 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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How does providence set our lives on the right track in affliction?

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  • We do not know the end, but we are sure the Lord governs our steps.
  • Romans 8:28
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Romans 8:28

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“and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose”

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How does providence increase our Communion with Christ by the Spirit under affliction?

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  • We bear up for affliction what is lacking in Christ; Colossians 1:24 “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church”
  • We have a sympathetic High Priest; Hebrews 4
  • The Spirit forms Christ in us through affliction.
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How does providence and affliction relate to the persons of the Trinity?

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  • Father: loves and disciplines; Hebrews 12
  • Son: sympathies, disciplines, and intercedes; Hebrews 4
  • Spirit form Christ in us through affliction; Colossians 1
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Colossians 1:24

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I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church

44
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How did Adam and Eve fall into sin?
Is there an element of mystery in this?

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  • Our first parents fell from the state wherein they were created by eating the forbidden fruit; Gen 3; 2 Corinthians 11:3 “… as the serpent beguiled Eve…”
  • Two mysteries: (1) how Adam moved from a sinless state to a state of sin. (2) how God is not the author of sin. Neither necessitate contradictions, but both seem beyond our capacity for knowledge.
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What does it mean that sin is the privation of good?
What does it not mean if understood properly?

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  • It means that there is nothing good in and of itself; man has been deprived of being good.
  • Wrongly understood, it means that sin is an illusion, it is non-being.
  • Sin can not be an illusion, it is real.
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What does original sin include?

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  • The guilt of Adam’s first transgression, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his entire nature.
  • Romans 5:12-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:21,22
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1 Corinthians 15:22

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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive

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How is sin propagated from Adam to his posterity? Different views?

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  • Realism: we were present in seed from in Adam; related to traducianism
  • Federalism: due to Adam’s headship, we are counted as being in Adam by representation.
  • Reformed
    a. typically held to a “realistic federalism;” we receive his curuption in nature, body and soul; we receive imputed guilt for Adam’s sin.
    b. We receive his sin as our federal head, his corruption as natural head, and we ad our own sin to the mix.
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What does total depravity mean in light of Scripture?

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  • The corruption of the entire man and his whole inclination to sin; Ephesians 2:1
  • Doe not mean man is as bad as he could be.
50
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What is the nature of actual sin?

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Actual sins proceed form original sin. We sin because we are sinners.

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What is the seat of sin?

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The heart. This is the point of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7); sin comes from the heart.

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Are there degrees of actual sin?

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  • WLC 150 says some are more heinous in the sight of God than others.
  • This is not a mortal/venial distinction because all are mortal.
  • John 19:11 Jesus says “he who delivered me to you has the greater sin”
  • Proverbs 6 “These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him”
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What was the nature of Adam’s temptation and fall into sin?

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  • inordinate desire
  • the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the boastful pride of life
54
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Similarities and Differences between Christ’s temptation and our.

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Similarities: tempted with the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the boastful pride of life. Hebrews 12 says Christ was tempted yet unscathed, tempted in all ways as we are.
Differences: it was a redemptive historical act for Christ, not for us. We fall into sin, he never did.

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What is the nature of the Sin against the Holy Spirit?

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  • The warning agains this sin is found in Matthew 12 and Luke 12.
  • It seems to be conscious, intentional, unrepentant, and hardness of heart toward the Spirit’s illumination of the heart unto convicion.
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In light of Hebrews 6:4-6, how is the sin against the Holy Spirit related to apostasy?

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  • The sin mentioned in Hebrews 6:4-6, “for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened…if they fall away to renew them again to repentance…,” seems to be the sin against the Holy Spirit.
  • But this does not mean that all apostasy is the sin agains the Spirit, but rather Hebrews 6 is talking of a subcategory.
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Why should we be cautious in identifying the sin against the Spirit?

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We do not have assurance that people have committed it and we do not want to convince true believers that they have committed it.

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Distinction between total depravity and total inability?

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Total depravity: heart is depraved and nature is corrupt; Ephesians 2:1
Total inability: because of our condition we can not please God in any way: Romans 3:10

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Romans 3:10

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There is none righteous, no, not one

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What is the scope of the misery that sin brought upon humanity?

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Every misery in this life and the next is divine punishment for sin. WLC .27; Romans 6:32 “the wages of sin is death”

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Romans 6:23

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the wages of sin is death

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Inward and outward miseries that sin brings in this life.

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Inward: blindness of mind, reprobate sense, strong delusions, a hardness of heart, and vile affections; Romans 1
Outward: hardness of the earth (Gen 3, Rom 8), evils to our bodies, our names our relations, our employments, and death.

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What is the condition of man’s will under sin?

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  • Bondage.
  • John 8:34 “most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.”
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What is the condition of man’s will under grace?

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  • Able to sin, able not to sin, but not the same way that Adam was before the fall.
  • Sin no longer reigns, but is still present.
  • Romans 7 details the man under grace with remaining sin by showing Paul’s own experience.
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Why does the covenant of redemption encompass the covenant of works?

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  • In the covenant of redemption Christ fulfills the covenant of works.
  • God puts His Son under the Law to redeem those under the Law—covenant of works (Galatians 4:3-7)
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Why does encompassing the historical covenant of works into the eternal covenant of redemption avoid a false law/gospel distinction?

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  • It shows that all covenants have law and grace in them.
  • The Reformed do not use the lutheran law/gospel hermeneutic.
  • Encompassing the covenant of works into the covenant of redemption does not turn it into a works based covenant.

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