Final Exam Flashcards
In the work of the Trinity regarding salvation, we can say that the Father purposed redemption, the Son secures it, and the Spirit applies it (True/False)
TRUE
What is the consequence of pursuing a theological knowledge of God for its own sake?
Pride / Conceit / Arrogance
“__________ is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God”
Meditation
One can know a great deal about godliness without much knowledge of God (True / False)
TRUE
To prove what effects the knowledge of God has on man, Packer turns our attention to the life of Ezekiel as an example (True / False )
FALSE
(Daniel)
According to Packer’s example of the OT prophet, we can say that the effect of knowing God will be evident in these four ways
- They have great Energy for God
- They have great Thoughts of God
- They have great Boldness for God
- They have great Contentment in God
What were we made for?
To know God
“I’m the the good shepherd and know my sheep … My sheep hear my voice, and know them…” is found in what chapter of John’s gospel?
10
What OT writing prophet said, “but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me …”?
JEREMIAH
Give two of the four activities of knowing God that Packer mentions in his third chapter
- Listening & applying God’s word
- Noting God’s nature & character
- Accepting His instructions and obeying His commands
- Recognizing & rejoicing in His love for us
Write out Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please him,
for whoever would draw near to God
must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who seek him.
Heb 11:6 (ESV)
The second commandment deals more with the object of our worship rather than the manner of our worship (True / False)
FALSE
Give the two ways that Packer indicates that images dishonor God
- Obscure His glory
- Convey false ideas about God
It is appropriate to formulate mental images of God as long as one does not manufacture that image into a physical object (True / False)
FALSE
The mind that takes up with images is a mind that has not yet learned to love and attend to God’s Word. (True / False)
TRUE
Match the following phrases with what they tell us about the Divine Word:
a. The Word’s Eternity -
b. The Word’s Deity -
c. The Word’s Animating -
d. The Word’s Personality -
e. The word Incarnate -
f. The Word Creating -
g. The Words’ Revealing -
__ “And the Word was God”
__ “In the beginning was the Word”
__ “The Word became flesh”
__ “In him was life”
__ “And that life was the light of men”
__ “Through him al things were made”
__ “And the Word was with God”
a. The Word’s Eternity - “In the beginning was the Word”
b. The Word’s Deity - “And the Word was God”
c. The Word’s Animating - “Through him all things were made”
d. The Word’s Personality - “And the Word was with God”
e. The word Incarnate - “The Word became flesh”
f. The Word Creating - “In him was life”
g. The Words’ Revealing - “And that life was the light of men”
When the bible proclaims Jesus as the Son of God, the statement is meant as an assertion of his distinct personal deity (True / False)
TRUE
According to Packer, the proper view of the Kenosis is that the Son of God emptied Himself of what?
- The laying aside of glory
- A voluntary restraint of power
- The acceptance of suffering & death
What does the Latin word TRINITAS mean?
Threeness
The Holy Spirit is sent by the Son but not directly by the Father (True / False)
FALSE
To the apostles, the Spirit testified by revealing and inspiring; to the rest of us, he testifies by ____________
ILLUMINATING
Write out 2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with you all.
Write out the definition of the doctrine of the Trinity from the Athanasian Creed
We worship one God in trinity,
and trinity in unity;
neither confounding the persons
nor dividing the substance
Packer provided six (6) aspects of God that are immutable - Name three (3) of those six:
- Life
- Character
- Truth
- Ways
- Purposes
- Son
Our word majesty come from Latin and it means
GREATNESS
What are the two steps one must take in order to get the right idea of God’s greatness?
- don’t make Him small
- Compare with greater powers
Wisdom is the practical side of moral goodness (True / False)
TRUE
God’s wisdom has pledged itself to keep a fallen world happy (True / False)
FALSE
What is the great lesson that God’s wisdom concentrated on teaching Abraham?
Living in God’s presence
What are the two categories of God’s attributes that theologians have established
- Communicable
- Incomunicable
Write out Hebrews 1:1-2
Long ago, at many times and in many ways,
God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,
whom he appointed the heir of all things,
through whom also he created the world.
God speaks both to determine our environment and to engage our minds and hearts (True / False)
TRUE
Torah (the Law & Instruction of God in the OT) has a threefold character. List those three characters.
- Law
- Promise
- Testimony
What marked the inauguration of God’s fellowship with human beings
God speaking to man
Truth in the Bible is a quality of persons and of propositions equally (True / False)
Paraphrase: According to the Bible, the idea of truth is equally relevant to both people and the statements they make.
FALSE
Wisdom is the practical side of moral goodness (True / False)
TRUE
“God is love” is not the complete truth about God so far as the Bible is concerned (True / False)
TRUE
“God is love” is the complete truth about God so far as the Christian is concerned (True / False)
TRUE
What are the two other statements made of the Apostle John that must be considered in order to avoid misunderstanding the issue that God in love?
- God is Spirit
- God is Light
God’s love is an exercise of his ______ toward individual sinners whereby, having identified himself with their _______, he has give his Son to be their Savior, and now brings them to know and enjoy him in a _______ relationships.
goodness
welfare
covenant
What are two of the four crucial truths which the doctrine of grace presupposes?
- The spiritual importance of man
- The sovereign freedom of God
- The moral ill-desert of man
- The retributive justice of God
Love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure - what point in the debate regarding grace is this statement addressing?
That the doctrines of grace tend to encourage moral laxity
Write out Exodus 3:14-15
God said to Moses,
“I AM WHO I AM.”
And he said,
“Say this to the people of Israel:
‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
God also said to Moses,
“Say this to the people of Israel:
‘
The LORD,
the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.
’
This is my name forever,
and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
What is Dynamism
The belief in the power of charms and amulets
What is Fetishism
(A refinement of dynamism) The belief that a powerful spirit inhabits some material object
What is Animism
The belief in nature spirits - many of them. Inhabit streams, springs, trees, waterfalls, and mountains.
What is Polytheism
The belief in many gods (antonym of monotheism)
What is Henotheism
The belief in one primary god among many other gods. (Ex. Greeks believed in Zeus)
What is Dualism
The belief that matter and spirit compose the eternal principal of the universe primarily **expressed in matter being evil and spirit being good
What is Pantheism
The belief that all that exists is a manifestation of a single impersonal substance or principle
What is Deism
The belief in the existence of one Creator-God, who is wholly transcendent, having no present relation with creation
What is Monotheism
The belief in one Supreme Being, personal and ethical, above the wold (transcendent) as Creator yet imminent in the world as its preserver and ruler (ex. Judaism, Muslims, Christians)
What is Theism
The belief in one God who is self-revealing in miracles, Scripture, and in Jesus Christ
Arguments for Monotheism
- The coherence of the material universe into a single system of cause and effect
- The coherence of all authentic abstract truths in a single system
- A system of ethical ideas
- The nature of religious devotion
Faulty view that Monotheism began with prophets (True/False)
TRUE
Scripture is Monotheistic from beginning to end (True/False)
TRUE
What is Tritheism (three gods)
The polytheistic concept that God is in reality three gods, being three separate individuals. (ex. beliefs of Jehovah Witnesses, Jews)
p. 15 (binder)
What is Monarchianism
The view that Gos is ultimately one:
- wholly and perfectly one
- Jesus Christ is God, wholly and perfectly God
- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are titles pertaining to the one God, not descriptions of distinct individuals
- Jesus is seen as the one name for these titles
p. 15 (binder)
What is Dynamic Monarchianism
The Father is the only true God with Jesus Christ being a mere man who was anointed with supernatural power form God – called the Holy Spirit by others
p. 15 (binder)
What is Patripassion Monarchianism (Modalism)
Considers God as basically one who variously present Himself in Scripture in the role of the Father OR the role of the son, OR the role of the of the Holy Sprit
p. 15 (binder)
What is Sabellianism
The belief that Christ’s divine nature was the Father and his human nature was the “Son”
p. 15 (binder)
What is Arianism
The belief that the Father alone is God while Jesus is somewhere between God and the created universe and was therefor preexisted but not divine
p. 15 (binder)
Meaning of EL
- The most basic name of God
- Means “Power” or “great Hero”
p. 25 (binder)
Meaning of ELOHIM
- Used 2,550 times in the OT
- Plural form, plural grammatical relations but singular in meaning
- A god, God, the God with singular
- Plural of fullness and abundance
p. 25 & 26 (binder)
Meaning of ELOAH
- Is a development of the root el or a derived plural form elohim and used 55 times.
- Usually used in poetry (40 times)
p. 26 (binder)
Meaning of EL SHADDAI
- God Almighty
- “Shaddai” in hebrew - Powerful
p. 26-27 (binder)
Meaning of EL ELYON
- The Most Hight God
- Used in confessions
p. 27 (binder)
Meaning of YAHWEH
- First revealed to Moses
- “To Be” - most likely meaning
- “I AM THAT I AM” in KJV
p. 27-28 (binder)
Meaning of YAHWEH SABAOTH
- Meaning Lord of Hosts
The emphasis on divine judgement is primary confined to the Old Testament (True / False) - q5
FALSE
The majority of themes taken up by the prophets deal with the coming Messiah rather than the wrath of God (True / False) - q5
FALSE
Give two of the four characteristics of the Judge in Scripture - q5
- Judges with wisdom and justice
- Punisher
- With Authority
The concept of retribution means that God will see that each person soon or later receives what is deserved (True / False) - q5
TRUE
The final proof that God is a perfect moral Being is the fact that He has committed Himself to judge the world (True / False) - q5
TRUE