Final Flashcards
Any study that answers the question, “What does the whole Bible teach us today?” about any given topic
Systematic Theology
The doctrine that God always acts in accordance with what is right and that he is himself the final standard of what is right.
Righteousness
With respect to man: The ability to make willing choices that have real effects (ability to make choices not determined by God.) Gods free will includes all things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to his nature.
Free Will
IIncludes everthing that He must will according to His own nature.(Himself, to be, who He is, who He wants to be)
Necessary Willl
Hidden decress by which He governs the universe and determines everything that will happen.
Secret Will
Declared will concerning what we should do or what God commands us to do. Commands or “precepts” for our moral conduct, sometimes called God’s will of precepts or Will or command
Revealed Will
God’s exercise of power over His creation
Sovereignty
God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintining the properties with which he created them; (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do; and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes
God’s Providence
A secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life to us. Born again; It must come BEFOREwe respond to effective calling in saving grace. We play no active role. Totally a work of the Holy Spirit.
Regeneration
An instantaneous legal act of God in which He 1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us, and 2) declares us to be righteous in His sight.
Justification
Our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sin and place our trust in Christ for salvation (“turning”)
Conversion
S hrstygrly dottoe got din, s trnouvinh og iy, snf s dinvrtr vommiymrny yo gotdskr iy snf eslk in onrfirnvr yo Vhtidy.
Repentence
To manifest the active presence of God in the world, and especially in the church
Work Dof the Holy Spirit
An event subsequent to conversion in which a believer experiences a fresh infilling with the Holy Spirit that may result in a variety of consequences, including greater love for God, greater victory over sin, greater power for ministry and sometimes the receiving of new spiritual gifts
Filled with the Holy Spirit
The state of consciously dwelling in an atmosphere of God’s manifested presence.
In the Holy Spirit
Days of Forming
Day 1: Light and darkness separated
Day 2: Sky and waters separated
Day 3: Dry land and seas separated
Days of Filling
Day 4: Sun, moon and stars (light in heaven)
Day 5: Fish and Birds
Day 6: Animals and Man
Why was man created
God created us for His own glory. Scripture tells us that we were created to glorify God, indicating that we are important to God himself.
Human make-up in view of trichotomy
Body: Man, what you see
Soul: Mind, emotion, soul/heart
Spirit: eternal Spirit that resides inside you, regenerating God from within
Examples of Common Grace
1) Physical -food, clothing, nature
2) Intellectual -all people have knowledge of God
3) Moral -God puts restraints on conduct; conscience; inward sense of right & wrong
4) Creative -artistic and musical areas
5) Societal -relationships, organizations and structures; family; human government
6) Religious -when we seek good for unbelievers it is consistent with God’s own practice of granting sunshine and rain on the just and unjust (Matt 5:45)
Doctrinal Significance of Ressurection
1) Ensures our Regeneration
2) Ensures our Justification
3) Ensures that we will receive perfect ressurection bodies as well.
The common Protestant view that the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper symbolize the body and blood of Christ, rather than change into or somehow containe the body and blood of Christ.
Symbolic Presence
The Activity of glorifying God in His presence withour voices and hearts.
Worship
Apostle (Not matching; write it out)
A recognized office of the early church. Apostles are in several ways the New Testament counterpart to the Old Testament Prophet and as such had the authority to write words of Scripture.
A central component of the “baptistic” view of baptism which holds that only those who have given reasonable evidence of believing in Christ should be baptized.
Believable Profession of Faith
The view that baptism is appropriately administered only to those who give a believable profession of faith in Jesus Christ.
Believer’s Baptism
The mode of baptism in the New Testament in which the person is put completely under the water and then brought back up again.
Immersion
A term commonly used to refer to the Lord’s Supper
Communion
Another term for the Lord’s Supper
Eucharist
A phrase descriptive of the Reformed view of the Lord’s Supper that regards Christ as spiritually present in a special way as we partake of the bread and wine.
Spiritual Presence
