Exam 2 Match Questions Flashcards
Liberation:
A ransom is something which achieves freedom for a person who is held in captivity
Payment:
A ransom is a sum of money which is paid in order to achieve someone’s liberation
Someone to whom the ransom is paid:
A ransom is usually paid to a person’s captor
Agnosticism:
It is impossible to know if there is a God
Atheism:
There is no God
Dualism:
Two supreme opposite gods – good and evil
Deism:
God created the world and then left it on its own
Young earth:
All living things were created simultaneously
Old earth:
Substantial time between creation of the universe and emergence of life on earth
Intelligent design:
Life shows a complexity which makes it impossible to explain its origins in any other way than by intelligent design
Theistic evolution:
To see creation as an on-going process
Cosmology:
The Doctrine of Creation
Anthropology:
The Doctrine of Humanity
Soteriology:
The Doctrine of Salvation
Eschatology:
The Doctrine of the Last Things
The sovereignty of God:
The image of God is a reminder of the authority of God over humanity
The correspondence to God:
A reference to the correspondence between human reason and the rationality of God
Image and relationality:
The image of God is about the capacity to relate to God
Image and storytelling:
Humanity tells stories and “is made of stories”; the image of God “is imprinted” in the stories that humanity creates
The Prophetic Dimension:
: Moses
The Priestly Dimension:
Melchizedek
The Royal Dimension:
David
Atheism:
There is no God; therefore, there is no creation.
Agnosticism:
It is impossible to know if there is God.
Deism (long)
There is God who created the world and then left it on its own.
Pantheism
God is all and all is God; in a way, God and creation coincide.
Panentheism:
All is in God, who permeates everything created, but also transcends/extends beyond creation
Dualism:
There are two supreme opposing powers or gods – good and evil.
Justification:
‘to make someone righteous’ or pronouncing someone not guilty; God’s work in transitioning the repentant person from a state of sin to that of grace through Jesus Christ
Redemption:
‘the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt’, the act of being saved from sin and death through Jesus Christ
Regeneration:
New birth
