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Exam #2 Flashcards

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Cosmological Argument

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Everything created must be created by a cause.

God is the first cause.

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Ontological Argument

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The existence of God follows necessarily from the idea of God.

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Teleological Argument

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Order is taken as a token of design and God is the source of that design.

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Can revelation stand alone as proof?

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Reason can only show that God exists. Divine authority is the only ground for believing in God. Faith in God is not based on evidence but is revelation. Believe that is a logically prior to believe in.

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Theism

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God is above all and at the same time in all. Creation is Ex-Nihilo. God is a supernatural being.

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Names For God

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Elohim
Adonai
El Shaddai 
Yahweh 
Pater
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Elohim

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Strong and mighty one.

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Adonai

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Almighty ruler.

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El Shaddai

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Possessing all power in heaven and earth.

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Yahweh

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Stresses covenant faithfulness. Proper name par excellence.

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Predicates

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In Absolute Reality we have our ground.
In Infinite Efficiency we have adequate cause.
In Perfect Personality we have sufficient reason.

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The Problem of Evil

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God exists.
God is omnipotent.
God is omniscient.
God is omnibenevolent. 
God created the world.
The world contains evil.
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Free-Will Defense

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Moral evil is a result of man’s misuse of free will.

Natural evil is the result of God’s penalty of man’s disobedience.

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Deductive Problem of Evil

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Existence of evil contradicts essential Christian beliefs, therefore God must not exist.

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Inductive Problem of Evil

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Evil provides evidence that there is no God.

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Man’s Personality vs. God’s Personality

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Man - limited knowledge, limited intelligence, moral responsibility.

God - omniscient, moral perfection, omnipotent.

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Human Nature vs. Divine Nature

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Human - ignorance, temporal, changeable, corporeal.

Divine Nature - eternal, unchangeable, Spirit.

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Absolute Attributes

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Spirituality 
Aseity 
Unity
Infinity
Eternity
Immensity
Immutability
Perfection
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Spirituality

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God is a substantial being all his own and distinct from the world.

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Aseity

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God is self subsistent in that he is independent of everything else.

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Unity

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God is singular. God is free from division into parts.

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Infinity

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God is free from all limitations.

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Eternity

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God is elevated above time and possesses the whole of his existence in one indivisible present.

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Immutability

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God is devoid of all change.

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Perfection

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Perfection which consummated and harmonizes all of his other perfections.

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Immensity

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God transcends all spatial limitations but is present in every point space with his whole being.

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The Trinity

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It is not specifically stated but found in serious study of Scripture.
In this one divine being there are three persons.
Each person has different operations.
Essence is not divided it is equal for all three.
Sun is up ascribed divine names and attributes.
Holy Spirit is given designations that are proper to personality and characteristics of a person.

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Yom

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Hebrew word for day.
Never means an indefinite period of time.

Suggested to mean 24 hour day, revelation all day, and a geologic stage.

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Olam

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Eternity, indefinite period of time.

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Theories of Creation

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Literal Six Day
Poetic Account
Day-Gap Theory

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Literal Six Day Theory

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24-hour days.

Scoffield

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Poetic Account

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Poetic balance in the activity.
Days are days of revelation to Moses.
Kline

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Day-Gap Theory

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Geological eras come between days of creation.
Days are not consecutive.
Days can be 24 hours or indefinite periods of time.
Young

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