Exam 1 -- Bibliology, Theology Flashcards by Shirley Wang

Bibliology

Revelation, Inspiration, Inerrancy, Canonicity, and Illumination

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Revelation Definition (1/6)

God’s manifestation of Himself to man in such a way that man can know and fellowship with Him.

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Revelation includes (2/6)

General and Special revelation

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Revelation (verses) (3/6)

1) God’s revelation of Himself

Matthew 11:27

Amos 3:7

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Revelation (verses) (4/6)

2) General revelation

a) Nature; Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:19-20
b) History; Acts 17:26-27; Daniel 4:32
c) Inner being of the Human person;
Romans 2:14-15; Romans 1:21

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Revelation (verses) (5/6)

3) Special Revelation

a) Theophanies; Genesis 12:7; Exodus 3:2-4
b) Direct communication; Exodus 3:14;
Acts 9:4-5
c) Dreams and Visions; 1 Kings 3:5;
Matthew 1:20
d) Angels; Acts 7:53; Luke 2:10
e) Miracles; Acts 2:22; Mark 2:1-12
f) Scripture; John 5:39-40; 2 Tim. 3:16
g) Incarnation; Hebrews 1:2; John 14:9

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Revelation (oppositions) (6/6)

1) Postmodernism– denies the reality of an ultimate truth and therefore rejects its pursuit. There is no universal truth out there to seek; each person creates truth for himself or herself.
2) Neo-Orthodoxy – This revelation did not consist of words or truths about God; what was revealed was God Himself. The Scriptures are the authoritative witness to this revelatory encounter in God’s once-for-all saving acts, but they are not the revelation itself.

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Inspiration Definition (1/7)

The supernatural work of the H.S. on the writers of the Scriptures so that, fully using their own personalities and writing styles, they wrote precisely what God intended them to write and therefore are God’s words as well as man’s words.

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Inspiration includes (2/7)

1) the concepts of God, Christ, Man, and salvation; 2) the evidence of prophecy; 3) written and spoken word of God the Father and of Jesus Christ; 4) the OT and NT as the Word of God

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Inspiration verses (3/7)
1) the concepts of God, Christ, Man, and salvation

(God – 1 Chronicles 29:11; Psalm 145:8-9); (Christ – John 8:46-47; Matthew 7:29); (Man – Genesis 2:7; Genesis 1:27); (Salvation – Romans 3:25-26; 1 Corinthians 1:23-25)

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Inspiration verses (4/7)
2) the evidence of prophecy

Isaiah 48:3

Genesis 15:13-16

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Inspiration verses (5/7)
3) written and spoken word of the Father and of Jesus Christ

(God’s spoken word: Exodus 4:15-16; Jeremiah 1:7-8); (God’s written word: Deut. 9:10; Ex. 24:12); (Jesus as the Word of God: John 1:1; Matt 5:17)

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Inspiration verses (6/7)
4) OT/NT as Word of God

(OT: 2 Tim. 3:16; Hebrews 4:12); (NT: Matt 3:17; Acts 9:4)

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Inspiration (oppositions) (7/7)

1) Liberal rationalists: the writers of the Bible were individuals who were naturally gifted with insight in religion, and that their ‘inspiration’ is comparable to what we might associate with an ‘inspired’ artist, poet, or musician
2) Hans Kung: the Bible “is unequivocally man’s word: collected written down, given varied emphasis, sentence by sentence by quite definite individuals and developed in different ways. Hence it is not without shortcoming and mistakes, concealment and confusion, limitations and errors.

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Inerrancy Definition (1/4)

The Bible, when correctly interpreted in light of the level to which culture and the means of communication had developed at the time it was written, and in view of the purposes for which it was given, is fully truthful in all that it affirms.

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Inerrancy includes (2/4)

1) Meaning of “truth” in the OT
2) Meaning of “truth” in the NT
3) The Bible’s testimony to its truth

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Inerrancy verses (3/4)

1) Meaning of “truth” in the OT: Psalm 91:4; Psalm 111:7.
2) Meaning of “truth” in the NT: Romans 3:3-4; John 17:3.
3) The Bible’s testimony to its truth: Matthew 5:18; John 10:35

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Inerrancy (opposition) (4/4)

“We have no inerrant manuscripts; therefore, talk about an inerrant Bible is mislead”. For over 99% of the words of the Bible, we know what the original manuscript said.

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Canonicity Definiton (1/4)

the Scriptures as the list of books acknowledged by God’s people as belonging to the Bible.

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Canonicity includes (2/4)

1) the OT canon
2) the NT gives validation to the OT canon
3) the NT canon

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Canonicity verses (3/4)

1) the OT canon: Joshua 24:26; Deut. 4:2.
2) the NT gives validation to the OT canon: John 2:22; Acts 18:24.
3) the NT canon: John 14:26; John 16:13-14

Canonicity (opposition) (4/4)

1) Roman Catholics claimed that they represents the infallible authority of Christ, therefore they could determine what should go into the Bible.
2) The NT used of non-canonical books; but just because the authors of the Bible quoted other books doesn’t mean those books should be viewed as part of the Scripture.

Illumination Def (1/5)

Illumination is the work of the H.S. as a person reads and hears the Word of God, so the person can understand the spiritual meaning of the Scripture.

Illumination includes (2/5)

1) the H.S. teaches believers to remember the teaching of Jesus; and to know words to say when putting on trial due to persecution.
2) The H.S. reveals specific info to ppl
3) The H.S. enables believers to have wisdom

``` Illumination verses (3/5) 1) the H.S. teachers believers ```

a) to remember the teaching of Jesus; John 14:26; John 16:13; b) to know words to say when putting on trial due to persecution; Luke 12:12; Matthew 10:20

Illumination verses (4/5)

2) the H.S. reveals specific info to ppl: Luke 2:26; Acts 11:28 3) the H.S. enables believers to have wisdom: 1 Corinthians 2:12; Ephesians 1:17-19

Illumination (opposition) (5/5)

Daniel Fuller: sin only affected man's will, not his reason. But the H.S. opens up both the heart and mind of a person, a man couldn't really be separated from their reason and will.

Theology

Immutability, Eternity, Foreknowledge (Omniscience), Love, Holiness, and Trinity

Immutability Def (1/4)

God doesn't change; He is unchanging and unchangeable; His plans and purposes are not subject to alteration or modification.

Immutability includes (2/4)

1) God is unchanging and unchangeable in the OT; 2) in the NT

Immutability verses (3/4)

1) OT: Malachi 3:6; Psalm 89:34. | 2) NT: James 1:17; Hebrews 13:8

Immutability opposition (4/4)

Seeing God as inactive, like the Greek ideas; and that God would change His minds.

Eternity Def (1/4)

God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in his own being, and he sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time and acts in time.

Eternity includes (2/4)

1) He is timeless in His own being; 2) He sees all time equally vividly; 3) He sees events in time and acts in time

Eternity verses (3/4)

1) timeless in His own being: Psalm 90:2; Job 36:26. 2) time equally vividly: Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8. 3) sees event and acts in time: Galatians 4:4-5; Acts 17:30-31.

Eternity opposition (4/4)

"God cannot be 'timelessly eternal', b/c the moment he creates something, he is acting in time and therefore he must exist in time". (but what about the no beginning, end point)

Foreknowledge/Omniscience Def (1/4)

by His divine nature and without the effort of learning -- knows all things, past, present, and future

Omniscience includes (2/4)

1) God knows all things that exist in actuality; 2) God knows all future events; 3) God knows things that might have happened had the variables been different

Omniscience verses (3/4)

1) all things that exist in actuality: Hebrews 4:13; Psalm 139:3-4. 2) all future events: Isaiah 45:1-3; Ephesians 1:11; 3) variables: Matthew 11:21

Omniscience opposition (4/4)

"all that God does not know is the content of future free decisions, and this is because decisions are not there to know until they occur"

Love Def (1/4)

The love of God is His joyful self-determination to reflect the goodness of His will and glory by meeting the needs of mankind

Love includes (2/4)

Benevolence, grace, mercy, persistence

Love verses (3/4)

Benevolence: John 3:16; Deut 7:7-8. Grace: Exo 34:6; Eph 2:7-9. Mercy: Psalm 103:13; Mark 1:41. Persistence: Psalm 86:15; 2 Peter 3:9.

Love opp (4/4)

"how do we reconcile the justice of God's judgment with His love?"

Holiness def (1/3)

1) He is totally separate from all of creation | 2) He is absolute purity or goodness

Holiness includes (2/3)

1) separate from all: Exo 15:11; Psalm 99:3. | 2) absolute purity: Haba 1:13; James 1:13.

Holiness opp (3/3)

according to "pantheism, God is everything, and everything is God"

Trinity def (1/4)

God eternally exists as three persons: Father, Son, and H.S., and each person is fully God, and there is one God

Trinity includes (2/4)

Evidences of 1) Oneness; 2) Threeness; 3) Triunity

Trinity verses (3/4)

1) Oneness: Deut 6:4; Exo 20:3. 2) Threeness: God -- 1 Cor. 8:6; John 6:27. Christ -- Romans 9:5; John 20:28. H.S.--Acts 5:3-4; 1 Cor. 2:10. 3) Triunity: Isaiah 9:6; 2 Cor. 13:14.

Trinity opp (4/4)

Origen argued that the Son is subordinate to the Father, ad the H.S. is sub to the Son