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Exam 2 Flashcards

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What are the aspects of special revelation?

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  • God’s revealing of Himself in various specific ways to mankind
  • General principle: God speaks
    – sometimes personally
    – sometimes in visions
  • Special revelation that God intends for His people is always through inspired writers
  • What we have in scripture (even accounts of special revelation) are what He intended for us to have
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What is a theophany?

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A special appearance of God in time to humanity
- Carl Henry: theophany is a special mode of revelational miracle, a supernatural appearance in which God directly communicated His message

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What does the incarnation as revelation mean?

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  • The greatest revelation of God to us comes in the incarnation of the eternal son (John 1:14-18)
  • Revelation is Christocentric
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What does the Bible say about itself?

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  • 2 Timothy 3: God breathed
  • 2 Peter 1:3-4, 16-21: Sufficient & inspired & authoritative
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What about circular reasoning?

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  • Circular reasoning in and of itself can be called a logical fallacy
  • But one must determine if an argument is circular or not
  • Virtuous circle: does the system hold together internally? If prove with empirical evidence, then those become the authority
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What are the general aspects of inspiration?

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  • Theopneustos: “God-breathed” or “breathed out by God” (2 Timothy 3)
  • BB Warfield: by this passage Scriptures are a Divine Product, without an indication of how God has operated in producing them
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What is the intuition theory of inspiration?

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High degree of insight
(more based on natural rather than supernatural ability)

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What is the illumination theory of inspiration?

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The Holy Spirit illuminates the mind of the author

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What is the dynamic theory of inspiration?

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combination of divine and human elements without dual authorship, like a tradeoff. Some of human, some of God.

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What is the dictation theory of inspiration?

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God speaks, man writes (at times this is true, but not always)

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What is the encounter theory (neo-orthodoxy) of inspiration?

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The Bible is inspired as you interact with it, as you are inspired it is inspired.

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What is the verbal-plenary theory of inspiration?

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The text (verbal) is inspired (God-breathed) and it is inspired as the whole (plenary)

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What is concursive inspiration?

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“concursive” seems to be a better way of expressing the verbal-plenary view (2 Peter 1:20-21)
- Carson & Woodbridge: God in sovereignty superintended the freely composed human writings we call the Scriptures that they result was nothing less than God’s word and therefore entirely truthful
- Moo: The human author freely wrote what he wanted while the divine author at the same time superintended and guided that writing
- This is why we speak of dual authorship

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What is the unity and diversity of the inspiration of Scripture?

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  • Though there are a variety of human authors because of God’s superintended work though those authors there is no sense in which the authors contradict one another
  • Infact, we see the way in which the authors refer to other parts of Scripture (all see others authoritative)
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What does inerrancy apply to and what are Ericksons thee types?

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Applies to the original autographs
- Absolute inerrancy
- Full inerrancy
- Limited inerrancy

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What is absolute inerrancy?

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The Bible, which includes rather detailed treatment of matters both scientific an historical, is fully true (5,000 on the dot)

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What is full inerrancy?

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The Bible is completely true. While the Bible does not primarily aim to give scientific and historical data, such scientific and historical assertions as it does make are fully true (5,000ish)

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What is limited inerrancy?

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The Bible as inerrant and infallible but generally in its salvific doctrinal references

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What is the Chicago statement on inerrancy?

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Seeing decline mainline churches’ view infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture there were a group of pastors and scholars who got together and formed a committee on inerrancy
“is of infallible of divine authority in all matters upon which it touches”

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What is sufficiency? What is the controversy?

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  • the nature of scripture as God’s breathed word to us concerning the provision of what we need for his glory and for our salvation, and life and godliness (2 Pet 1:3)
  • Controversy is in the question: in what way is the Bible sufficient?
  • Sola Scriptura, but not the only authority by which we understand who God is and all things in relation to him
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What is the authority attribute of Scripture?

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  • Norma Normans
    – Scripture is the rule that rules
  • Norma Normata
    – Creeds and Confessions are a rule that is ruled
  • Sola Scriptura: three levels of tradition
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What is the perspicuity attribute of Sripture?

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Perspicuity means clarity
- not all parts are as clear as others
- Clearer parts interpret the less clear parts

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What is canon/canonicity?

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  • How did we get the Bible we now have?
  • Vanhoozer: not history alone, also need theology
  • Kruger: three standards by which the canon is received
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What is Kruger’s first standard?

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The divine qualities of the canon
- beauty and excellency of scripture
- efficacy and power of scripture
- unity and harmony of scripture
*Doctrinal unity
*Redemptive-historical unity

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What is Kruger’s second standard?

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The apostolic Origins of the Canon
- They are not regarded as Canon because the church receives them; the church received them because they are already canon by virtue of their apostolic authority
- Structural Framework for Canon: Covenant
- Rational for Canon: Redemption
- Agents of Canon: Apostles

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What is Kruger’s third standard?

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Corporate reception of the Canon

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What is important to know about textual transmission?

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  • We do not have access to the original autographs
  • Way of transmission important know very few mistakes
  • God superintends the preservation of His word
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What about variants in textual transmission?

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  • No cardinal doctrine ever effected
  • Think added for clarity not subtraction
  • Something “subtracted” aligns with other areas of scripture
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What is another name for Septuagint?

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  • LXX from supposed number of translators
  • Greek translation of OT Jesus and disciples quoted (even they quoted a translation)
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What are the aspects of biblical interpretation?

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  • Hermeneutics: the art and science of biblical interpretation
  • Sensus Plenior: “fuller meaning”
    – revelation is progressive
    – God superintends the process of revelation in such a way that the human author may not be aware of the fullness of what God is intending
    – illumination: the way in which the Spirit works in us through God’s Word as we study it
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What are the aspects of God’s decree?

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  • The triune God is eternal and needs nothing
  • Creation is an eternal divine idea in the mind of God
  • Divine ideas: that which is eternally in the mind of God
  • God creates everything from nothing and does so from an eternal decree
  • God’s council is an eternal Trinitarian council for which we account for time because time did not yet exist–God is outside of and not bound by time
  • God’s decree is that which is ad intra an eternity and ad extra in economy
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What are the aspects of Creation Ex Nihilo?

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  • Ex Nihilo: out of nothing
  • Webster’s theology: The study of God and all things related to Him - always make creator/creation distinction
  • Creation Ex Nihilo is also Trinitarian: though there are personal appropriations, the Triune God creates inseparably
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What is the creation order?

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  • First: time - in the beginning
  • Second: the universe - and God created the heavens and the earth
  • Third: forms and fills - and the earth was formless and void
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How does faith relate to creation?

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Because no one can account for origins, we take this truth by faith (Heb 11:3)

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What are the aspects of creation and beauty?

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  • God is beautiful and the fountain of beauty
  • God calls His creation good and then very good
  • We need to be attuned to the beauty of creation
  • We should pause and consider our relation to creation and the way in which is directs us to the beauty of God and worship of Him
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Creation Ex Nihilo: How does God’s transcendence and immanence relate to His creation?

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  • Transcendence: God is over His creation in
    – His creation power and
    – providential care
  • Immanence: Due to His providential care, He is also near
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What is the orthodox view of how God relates to His creation?

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God created the world and is providentially involved (pure act) with His creation (opera ad extra)

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What is the materialism view of how God relates to His creation?

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Only what is physical is real

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What is the pantheism view of how God relates to His creation?

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Everything that is real is divine

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What is the dualism view of how God relates to His creation?

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Material/physical and spiritual are always in conflict
- ie Gnosticism: Spirit Good, physical bad

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What is the deism view of how God relates to His creation?

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God creates and then steps back from Creation

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What is the gap theory of creation?

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  • The idea that a gap exists between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2
  • There was a completed creation that had a catastrophic event then God recreated what was made formless and void
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What is the flood theory of creation?

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  • Generally, this theory holds to a literal six-day creation
  • God created the earth and it is less than 10,000 years old. Strata formations, fossil deposits, due to the flood of Noah’s day
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What is the Ideal-time theory of creation?

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God created in six days and created the universe with age

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What is the age-day theory of creation?

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  • Hebrew word for day (yom) can also mean ages
  • God created over long periods of time thus accounting for apparent age of the earth
46
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What is the pictorial-day theory or literal-framework theory of creation?

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The six days are more of a logical recounting than a linear recounting

47
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What is the argument of Yom?

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  • As era or age: as in the Day-Age theory idea that Yom doesn’t necessarily mean 24 hours
  • As literal day: many hold Yom as 24 hrs: the pattern of morning and evening
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What is the naturalism model of meaning?

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Life is essentially only physical
- moderate: God and soul may exist but contribute little if anything to meaning
- extreme: No God and soul, they must be rejected, meaning only from expereince

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What is the nihilism model of meaning?

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(Pessimism) Life cannot achieve meaning
- no measures of morality so no meaning

50
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What is the supernaturalism model of meaning?

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“God” and “soul” exist. In this model either one or both are accepted and thus life is meaningful becuase of their existence

51
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What is the Biblical-theological model of meaning?

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  • Christians take a supernatural view, but we ground the meaning in the narrative and theology of Scripture
  • Westminster Shorter Catechism Q1: What is the chief end of man?
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When studying theological anthropology, what must we keep in mind?
What is a definition of theological anthropology?
One more point?

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  • We must keep the Creator/creature distinction
  • The study of mankind in relation to God and the rest of His creative works
  • God created mankind as the pinnacle of His creation
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What are the points of the creation of mankind?

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  • The creation of mankind is set apart from the way in which God creates the rest of creation
  • It seems best to understand that there is a “personal” aspect to the way in which God creates mankind
  • The intent of special creation is tied to the decree of making mankind in the image of God
  • Thomas Boston: the lord inspires with reasonable soul
  • Bavinck: creation culmination in humanity where the spiritual and material are joined together
  • We are psychosomatic beings we are constituted of the material and immaterial
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What are the points of creating mankind male and female?

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  • Eve is the first being to be created from another living being
  • She is to correspond to Adam: physically/biologically, relationally and in all ways in the image of God
  • God creates what we call marriage
  • Mankind being created in this way highlights the commission that God drives mankind highlights not only his uniqueness in all creation, but also his primacy compared to the rest of creation
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What is imago dei?

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  • Latin for image of God
  • Taken from Gen 1:26-27
  • There are various views by which people understand this
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What is the Substantive View of Imago Dei?

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The imago is some definite characteristic or quality within the make up of human nature

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What is the Relational View of Imago Dei?

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The imago is not resident within human nature, but rather an experience of relationship

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What is the Functional View of Imago Dei?

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The imago is not resident within human nature, but has something to do with the dominion mandate as reflecting the image of God.

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What is the Ontological View of Imago Dei?

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Humanity is the imago Dei. The being of mankind in all that it is, is the imago Dei.

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Why does Imago Dei matter?

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  • Because of the dignity humanity deserves, even if some or all of the other qualities outside of the ontological view are missing
  • If one cannot identify what qualities are required (as in substantive) or if someone is lacking concerning the relational or functional view, some humans can be seen as lesser (abortion, genocide)
  • Falleness/sinfulness does not erase or mar the imago Dei, but rather veils it
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What is the Fourfold State of Human Nature?

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1) Innocence/holiness (not perfection): able to sin, able not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)
2) Nature (fallenness): Not able not to sin (non posse non peccare)
3) Grace (justification & sanctification): able not to sin (posse non pecare)
4) Eternity (glorification or eternal condemnation): Unable to sin (non posse peccare)

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What is the trichotomism view of human composition?

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  • Body, Soul, Sprit (Heb 4:12)
  • Soul and body are related through the Spirit
  • Berkhof: material part of man’s nature, soul for psychological/Animal life, Spirit: spiritual/how we relate to God
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What is the dichotomism view of human composition?

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  • Body and soul (in unity)
  • Counter the trichotomism (Luke 10:27, 1 Thes 4:15-17)
  • Soul and Spirit interchangeable
  • While a distinction is made between body and spirit (inner and outer man in the Bible)
  • They are united as a whole person
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What is the monism view of human composition?

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  • not composed of parts, but a profound unity
  • More than the unity of body and Soul, monism makes no distinction at all
65
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Why does human composition matter?
What happens at death?
What happens at the resurrection?

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  • Matters: the fall, resurrection, death
  • Death: 1 Cor 7:1, 5:8 - body dead, soul with God, temporary separation
  • Resurrection: 1 Cor 15:50-55, bodies will be made imperishable
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When considering union with Christ, who is Christ?

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The ideal/true/protological man
- the only one who kept the law of God perfectly and lived the life we could not (also making Him the perfect sacrifice)
- the triune God covenants before the foundation of the world, that the Son would be the sacrifice for humanity (pactum salutis)
- Cortez: Heb 1-2, further than full humanity, His humanity is paradigmatic of true humanity
- The blueprint for ideal humanity: humanity is created with the potential for the “idealness” but also that He is the blueprint of the actual “ideal” of the imago Dei

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What is union with Christ?

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  • Robert Letham: expressed in representational terms of atonement (purified, made one with Christ) and justification (declared righteous), and transformatively–gradually in this era and fully at the eschaton
  • Imputation of Christ’s righteousness
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What does it mean that mankind has been imputed Christ’s righteousness?

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  • We are declared righteous by the active obedience of Christ imputed to our account
  • We understand this as the first step of our salvation, which we call justification (1 Cor 1:30, 2 Cor 5:21)
  • This is also true in regard to our sanctification
    – definitive sanctification: what we already are in Christ set apart unto God (2 Cor 5:17)
    – progressive sanctification (better growth in holiness): being conformed to the image of Christ
  • This is also true for our glorification (Rom 8:30)
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What is glorification according to Irenaeus and Gill?

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  • Irenaeus: Christ became what we are to bring us to be what He is
  • Gill: conformity to Christ in His human nature, both here and hereafter (renewal of sprit vs of the body)
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What is important to glorification?

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  • We are not going back to the Garden of Eden; we are looking to something greater
  • We will be perfected
  • sin will no longer reign in any sense
  • The idea of already/not yet: there are aspects of our redemption already complete, but also aspects of our redemption which are not yet, that which we await
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What does the Bible say about our glorification?

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  • “we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is”
  • Phil 3:21 “ Christ will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body
  • Paul tells us that our glorification not merely characteristic conforming, but rather the entirety of who we are body and soul will be changed
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What is a definition of glorification?

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The final stage of the Triune God’s overarching work of salvation in believers in which He fully conforms them to the image of the glorified human nature of the Son and by which they will be totally free from sin and its effects

  • It is Anthropological telos
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What about hope and glorification?

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The hope of glorification is essential to our faith because faith believes the promise of God
- the object of our faith is a person–Jesus Christ and His promise that he will come again and receive us unto Himself and be with him always. When we see Him, we will be like Him
- We will behold the beatific vision

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What is the beatific vision with respect to glorification?

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We will see Jesus as He is in all His glory and in His face see the glory of the Triune God. Seeing Jesus in His glorified state is the embodied vision of God

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What is hamaritology? What does the name come from?

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  • The study of the doctrine of sin
  • from “hamartia”: a departure from either human or divine standards of uprightness
  • 2 LBC parents sinned and death came to all (Rom 3:23, Titus 1:15, Gen 6:5, Jer 17:9)
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What is evil and sin?

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  • Evil is a privation of good (not created)
  • Berkhof: “sin is a moral evil” (effects of fall are evil but not sin - hurricane)
  • Providence of God and mankind’s sin must be understood as compatibilism (Acts 2:23 - crucifixion is the predetermined plan of God)
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What is sin’s effect on creation?

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  • R.C. Sproul: sin is an “upheaval to the entire cosmos”
  • Concerning creation’s corruption God says that the ground is under a curse, not mankind
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How has sin affected mankind’s relationships?

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  • Sin causes disruption in mankind’s relationship with
    – God (Rom 5:10, Eph 2:1-3)
    – Mankind (Gen 4:18, Rom 1:28-31)
  • Sin undermines love of God and love of neighbor (what is written on our hearts)
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What did sin break?

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  • Mankind breaks God’s covenant: the covenant of works
80
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What words in the Hebrew language are used for sin?

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  • Khatta’ah & Khata: Missing the mark, but not a mere mistake, purposeful aiming at the wrong goal
  • Pesha: revolt against the appointed path; defiance of authority
  • ‘avon: iniquity or lack of integrity or moral evil
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What words in the Greek language are used for sin?

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  • Hamartia & hamartano: failing or missing the mark
  • Adika: unrighteousness, directly opposite of righteousness
  • Anomia: lawlessness or transgressing the law (boundary being crossed)
  • Poneros: moral evil; demons and wicked men
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What is the general or more precise question of total depravity/inability?

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  • “to what extent does sin affect humanity”
  • Historic theology would hold the mankind is sinful throughout the entirety of his being
  • However, others would hold that mankind has some resident good in him
  • More precise: to what extent does sin affect mankind’s ability to reconcile with a Holy God
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What is the aspect of Federal Headship of total depravity/inability?

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  • Sin come into the world through one man (Rom 5:12)
  • In Adam all die (1 Cor 15:22)
84
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What is sin in reference to? What are the alternative views against total depravity/inability?

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  • Sin is in reference to God and His law (which is the effusion of God’s character) we sin when we transgress God’s law
  • Pelagianism & semi-pelagianism
  • Pelagianism: some good in humanity by which they can achieve reconciliation to God on their own

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