Final Flashcards
What is the origin of evil?
The temptation
What does the tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolize?
The fundamental issue of humanity.
To eat the fruit is to declare what against God?
Rejecting creatureness and declaring independence from God.
What three relationships did the fall affect?
The relationship between God, others & self.
After the fall what happens to man’s relationship to self?
The “exalted I” displaces God. Ego stops us from experiencing authentic selfhood and we become slaves to egocentricity.
What now is the universal way humanity relates and interacts with his world?
Egoism
After the fall what happens to man’s relationship to others?
Loss of authority as serving.
What happens to humanity’s relationship with God?
Try to hide from Him. When we renounce our creatureliness, we lose the only basis we have for relationship with Christ, which is creator-creature.
What does egocentricity result in?
ACTUAL SINS
How does man fair in his role as vice-regent, tilling of the earth, creating culture, when left to his own resources?
Produces civilizations that are a twisted mockery
Discuss the ongoing result of the fall and ongoing creation.
Cultural self-destruction. Man volitionally rejects covenant relationship; becomes a sinner unable to establish right relationship with God, self and others, becomes something other than what was intended for him by God.
When humanity lost its “servant-ship” to God what else did they lose?
Lordship
What is the “abode” of the dead like according to Jesus before His resurrection and ascension?
Sheol/Hell
Why is it not possible to see the account of the rich man and the beggar as a parable?
Jesus used proper names
How did the “abode” of the dead change after Jesus’ ascension?
Now to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ. Meaning that the dead in Christ will go straight up to heaven where Christ resides.
