Doctrine 2 - Exam 1 - Saterlee

Question 1

What does it mean to say that mankind is created in the image of God?

Answer 1

We are made in God’s image, and can enter into full fellowship with him and with one another. God is mirrored in the gift of human personality we are living beings with individuality, autonomy, and reason, while we long for deep spiritual communion with God. Human relationships reflect the nature of the Trinity and steadfast love of God. This is expressed when loving relationships are based on the making and keeping up covenants. We are gifted with the potential for creativity in the ability to appreciate beauty. The image of God is reflected in the working conscience and expressed in the possibility of holiness of character through God’s sanctifying to find work in our lives.

Question 2

What is origin of sin?

Answer 2

And intrusion into human life originated in human disobedience to God’s command; because sin had been committed, evil was known, good had been lost and was recognized and longed for.

Question 3

What is the nature of sin?

Answer 3

Failure to believe and trust in God, and to desire to be independent of him. It is idolatry and failure to live according to the high standard of love for God and one another that true humanity demands. It is contrary to the known will of God.

Question 4

What is original sin?

Answer 4

It emphasizes the origin and radical consequences of the fall. Sin is in born in our tendency is to send. The ‘born in sin’ rather refers to our condition under the power of sin.

Question 5

What is depravity?

Answer 5

It refers to the moral condition of fallen humanity rather then to the beginning of sin, also called total depravity. The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the total personality, concerned with the breath and influence of sin in human life. No area of human nature remains unaffected.

Question 6

What did God’s original intention for humankind include?

Answer 6

God’s intention was that we would live in a state of love and harmony with him, with one another and with the rest of creation. He also made us free, wanting us to love him voluntarily, not as puppets.

Question 7

Identify and explain the consequences of sin.

Answer 7

The universal consequence of sin is separation from God and the loss of fellowship with him. The separation is caused by her disobedience, with resulting guilt and fear. The separation threatens our relationships with each other and the created world through isolation and fragmentation.

It is our own sin that brings the wrath of God upon us. For God’s part, the consequence of sin is the punishment of the disobedient. The wrath of God is a powerful expression of his love and holiness, not uncontrolled anger. In his wrath of God judges, condemns, and is unable to tolerate sin, while in his love he seeks to bring us to repentance. The wrath of God is purposeful and disciplinary, designed to lead us to repentance.

Question 8

What is anthropology?

Answer 8

The study of man, the study of humanity

Question 9

What is a hamartiology?

Answer 9

The study of sin

Question 10

What is soteriology?

Answer 10

The study of salvation

Question 11

What is redemption?

Answer 11

To buy back; restore what is lost; the total saving work of God in Christ

Question 12

Know the six truths about the nature of sin.

Answer 12

1. Sin is rooted in a shifting of attention from the creator to the creature.
2. Sin is often a matter of asserting self sovereignty against the divine.
3. Sin quickly weaves it’s web throughout the social – corporate dimension of humanity.
4. Sin involves the breaking of relationship and the attempt to hide.
5. Sin involves the denial of responsibility.
6. Sin becomes a destructive factor in all our relationships.

Question 13

What is Christus Victor?

Answer 13

It is atonement theory emphasizing Jesus and his death became victorious over Satan and the powers of evil.

Question 14

What is sacrifice?

Answer 14

It is an atonement theory emphasizing the self offering of Jesus for the sake of humanity. Christ gave himself for our sin. This was a vicarious sacrifice, made on behalf of others.

Question 15

What is moral influence?

Answer 15

It is an atonement theory emphasizing that Christ’s humility in his death provided an example for that same humility in mankind, from which we can learn. This was restated by Peter Abelard who said that the incarnation and death of Christ are viewed as the highest expression of God’s love.

Question 16

What is satisfaction?

Answer 16

It is an atonement theory that emphasizes up balancing of accounts which settled the difference between the standards of God and human inability to satisfy them. Without the satisfaction, the fellowship between God and humanity could not be restored.

Question 17

What is substitution?

Answer 17

It is an atonement theory that emphasizes that Christ pays the penalty due for the sins of those on whose behalf he died. Sometimes referred to as penal substitution.

Question 18

What is ransom?

Answer 18

It is an atonement theory that makes reference to the slave markets of the ancient world where a slave would be set free through the payment, by another, or redemptive price. (The price – Christ’s life, results in the liberation of our life.)

Question 19

Describe the nature of Christ’s humiliation.

Answer 19

The nature of Christ humiliation was suffering physically through beatings and abuse; socially through rejection and mocking of the crowd; emotionally through the agony in the garden; and spiritually through abandonment and sense of separation from the father. Another aspect of the nature of Christ humiliation was death, dying is the savior of humankind through a physical death (pericardial sac and burial) that is a historical fact. Through his death, he fulfilled the ternal he ordained mission ordained before creation and according to Scripture.

Question 20

Discuss the idea of Prevenient Grace held by John Wesley.

Answer 20

Wesley’s theology included a distinctively optimistic understanding of the working of God’s grace before one is born again, which theologians call “prevenient grace.” Wesley held that because of their fallen nature, humans are powerless to choose good or evil solely on their own. However, all humans benefit from God’s prevenient grace. Voss, Grace available before coming to Christ. Through this grace humans are enable to choose good, and ultimately by faith to except God’s saving grace. Salvation by grace through faith begins then with preventing or enabling Grace Grace which can be resisted by free will, but if accepted, become the beginning of the path of salvation.

Question 21

Recite Doctrine 5.

Answer 21

We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly leave exposed to the wrath of God.

Question 22

Recite doctrine six.

Answer 22

We believe that the person of Jesus Christ has by his suffering and death made atonement for the whole world so that whosoever may be saved.

Question 23

Why is human life sacred?

Answer 23

Human life is sacred because we have been created as the crown of God’s creativity, to love, worship, serve, and enjoy Him forever.