Doctrine of Scripture Flashcards
Revelation
God revealing thinks and taking away “hiddenness:
General Revelation
Available to everyone. Sufficient to condemn, but not to save.
Natural Revelation
God has revealed himself in nature.
Special Revelation
Only available to particular people. Not as effective as Christ’s fullness of revelation.
Theophany
God speaking - another form of revelation.
Incarnation as Revelation
The incarnation of Christ is a type of revelation.
Circular Reasoning
You must use the Bible as evidence of the Bible’s authority.
Theopneustos
God-breathed
Six Views of Inspiration
Intuition, Illumination, Dynamic, Dictation, Encounter, Verbal-Plenary
Intuition Theory of Inspiration
No activity from God, only human activity. Lack of inspiration.
Illumination Theory of Inspiration
Some activity from God, but mostly human activity.
Dynamic Theory of Inspiration
Concepts are inspired, but words are not
Dictation Theory of Inspiration
Spirit literally dictates what He wants the authors to write down.
Encounter Theory of Inspiration
The text does not have meaning, but inspiration comes when you read it.
Verbal-Plenary Theory of Inspiration
Actual words are inspired, but high view of human authorship.
Concursive Inspiration
Teaches that the divine inspiration of the text works in harmony with the creative human acts.
Dual Authorship
The human author and God wrote every word of all of the Bible.
Absolute Inerrancy
Everything in the Bible is inerrant.
Full Inerrancy
Truth does not imply exact precision. The Bible is entirely true, but has room for varying ways to describe phenomena.
Limited Inerrancy
Doctrine is inerrant, but moral and scientific claims are outdated.
The Chicago Statement on Inerrancy
Group that wrote 19 affirmations and denials on inerrancy.
The Sufficiency of the Bible
The Bible is sufficient for God’s Glory, man’s salvation, and faith in life.
The Authority of the Bible
The Scripture as the right to command our belief and our action.
Three Orders of Authority
First order (rule that rules and is not ruled), second order (rule that is ruled), third order (ruled).
Sola Scriptura
Scripture is the final authority on all things.
The Perspicuity of the Bible
The Bible has clarity (but that doesn’t mean that it is easy).
Latin Vulgate
The Bible in the common language. Translated by Gerome.
Canon / Canonicity
The authoritative set of texts. The Bible is the Christian Cannon.
Marcion
Early church heretic. Denounced OT, Matthew, Mark, and John.
Textual Transmission
Box system for letter count.
Autograph
Original work.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Found in 1946.
Septuagint / LXX
Greek translation of the old testament.
Formal Equivalence
Word-for-word.
Dynamic Equivalence
Thought-for-thought.
Paraphrase Translation
Not the Word of God. Retelling of the Bible, not the actual thing.
Hermeneutics
Process of drawing out the meaning of Scripture.
Senses Plenior
The text cannot mean today what it never meant in the past (you cannot add meaning to the text).
Illumination
The Spirit must illuminate the text for us so that it can be read in its fullest sense.
