Final Exam

Question 1

What does the Bible signify for theology?

Answer 1

That your epistemology stool should stand upon the word of God, and should be based off of the Bible, not this world

Question 2

Describe leg 1 both when good, and when not. Use examples

Answer 2

Spiritual
Good example (Gifts of the Spirit)
Bad Example (Demonic Worship)

Question 3

Describe leg 2 both when good, and when not. Use examples

Answer 3

Rationale
Good Example (David not killing King Saul because he learned to respect authority)
Bad Example (The Israelites worshiping an Idol at Mount Sinai because they took what they learned from Egypt instead of God.)

Question 4

Describe leg 3 both when good, and when not. Use examples

Answer 4

Traditional
Good example (Marriage between a man and a woman, the family structure that God intended)
Bad Example (When the Biblical form of marriage is thrown out the window leaving single mothers, homosexual marriages, and broken homes.)

Question 5

What dos the seat part of the stool represent for our understanding of systematic theology?

Answer 5

Epistemology- The study of how we acquire knowledge

Question 6

What are some of the categories represented in the compass?

Answer 6

God, Man, Truth, Social Order, Church, Science, Arts Media, Law, Ethics, Relationship, Philosophy, Community, Labor, State, History, Family.

Question 7

How is both our methodology and understanding in all areas correctly informed by the stool? List examples showing the good when we get it right, and bad when we get it wrong.

Answer 7

7. Our methodology and understanding in these areas are informed by the stool because our worldview is based off of Spiritual, Rationale, and Traditional experiences that are based off of the Bible.

Question 8

What is the first view of inspiration?

Answer 8

Natural Inspiration: This is when humans are inspired by natural things, kind of like how a painter can be inspired by a mountain, a writer can be inspired be things that are natural as well. The example in the slide is poetry, and that is based on natural things like nature itself, love, loss, joy, and pain.

Question 9

What is the second view of inspiration?

Answer 9

Spiritual Illumination: This is when the writer is inspired from the spiritual, or God. These can include the writers of the Bible or prophets both in the Bible and not in the bible, but true prophecies. Spiritual illumination requires God for it to be right, because if it is spiritual and not based on God it is demonic. Spiritual Illumination is one of the ways with Verbal inspiration that we got our Bible.

Question 10

What is the third view of inspiration?

Answer 10

Partial Illumination: This view believes that part of the bible is inspired by God but other parts that are “non-spiritual” aren’t. This basically would make part of the Bible a history book and not the word of God, which can cause you to not believe in every aspect of the word of God, especially the aspects that are not “spiritual” like the law.

Question 11

What is the fourth view of inspiration?

Answer 11

Conceptual Inspiration: These people believe that God gave people concepts that were inspired but not words and details, that the author was in charge of writing that. This is simply wrong. The Bible states that we should not live on bread alone but by every word of God. If you believe in conceptual inspiration, this verse would bring a flaw to the text. You would also have the temptation to say “oh this is mans words so he must have made a mistake here” there should not be that temptation whatsoever, and that is why God preserved his word, not mans word, and that everything written is inspired by Him.

Question 12

What is the fifth view of inspiration?

Answer 12

Verbal Inspiration: Verbal inspiration is how the Bible was written. It is where God inspired the writers of the Bible to actually write the Bible word for word, including details. This view leaves no questions for errors, because if you have a god with errors, you don’t know what to believe and can not know anything for sure. God was very intentional in every detail of His word and made it so we can fully trust in him. Proverbs 3:5 says to trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. If the Bible was not inspired by God then you can’t even trust this verse.

Question 13

What is the sixth view of inspiration?

Answer 13

Divine Dictation: This belief would be writers writing down word for word what God audibly spoke as he was speaking. There are passages in scripture that are word for word what God said, also you have the words that Jesus spoke, but the entire bible was not written this way, the word does not have to be audibly spoken to be inspired, that belief would destroy any belief of the supernatural aspects of God.

Question 14

Which view of inspiration does scripture endorse?

Answer 14

Verbal Inspiration

Question 15

What is the first view of inerrancy?

Answer 15

Absolute Inerrancy: This view is where all matters in the Bible are true. Every word, every piece of history and spiritual experience, and every scientific statement in the Bible is true. This is what we believe, and have to believe if we wholly want to trust in God and believe his word without confusion. “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints” 1 Corinthians 14:33.

Question 16

What is the second view of inerrancy?

Answer 16

Full Inerrancy: This belief says that the Bible is completely true, but it is not aimed towards the scientific or historical points but theological and spiritual facts. They have the Bible being completely true right, however, the bible is full of history including the Exodus, The flood, and Creation. The bible is very intentional in recording the history of the church, and the Israelites. If you shed light to the historical and scientific view you get views that say that creation took thousands of years, or that only a small amount of Israelites fled Egypt, or a non-worldwide flood.

Question 17

What is the third view of inerrancy?

Answer 17

Limited Inerrancy: This view doesn’t even believe that the entire Bible is correct. They believe that the theological or spiritual is true, but not scientific or historical matters. This allows evolution to be believed and is a very liberal viewpoint. If you don’t believe in the history of the Bible you can make it whatever you want, to fit whatever you want, and you can lose truths because of this viewpoint.

Question 18

Which view of inerrancy does scripture endorse?

Answer 18

Absolute Inerrancy

Question 19

What is the first view of translation theories?

Answer 19

Literal: Literal translation is a word for word translation that is the most accurate way to translate the Bible. This allows you not to have to deal people putting their own theology into the text. Though these are harder to read sometimes, they are a lot more accurate. The Literal translation is definitely the best translation there is to read.

Question 20

What is the second view of translation theories?

Answer 20

Dynamic Equivalent Translations: This is where you translate the text based off of thought and not word for word. This leaves room for much more error because the translators can have different thoughts than what the word is actually saying. Translating based on thoughts also allows a harder interpretation for the reader because you can interpret the thought wrong because it is not a literal translation.

Question 21

What is the third view of translation theories?

Answer 21

Paraphrases: Paraphrasing is the Joel Olsteen of interpreting text. This translation is based more on being easier for the reader and allows a lot of errors because the author can put whatever he wants into the text. Joel Olsteen likes to preach things that are not in the word or leave out truths that are essential to salvation. This is the same concept for paraphrasing.

Question 22

Which view of translation theories is biblical and connects with inspiration and inerrancy?

Answer 22

Literal Translation
Verbal Inspiration, Absolute Inerrancy, and Literal Translation all connect because it does not denote the word of God and shows that every inspired word that God gave the writer, was written perfectly by the writers, which goes on to translating the Bible literally because that is how it is intended to be read.

Question 23

Discuss the Historical grammatical concept of hermeneutics. Include view of scripture, role of reader/interpreter, affects for methodology or interpreting text.

Answer 23

The Bible is the word of God. (Historical meaning the text is a witness to history). This has a verbal inspiration outlook, with absolute inerrancy, and a literal interpretation of the text.

Question 24

Discuss the historical critical concepts of hermeneutics? Include view of scripture, role of reader/interpreter, affects for methodology or interpreting text. Include view of scripture, role of reader/interpreter, affects for methodology or interpreting text.

Answer 24

The Bible “contains” the word of God. (“Historical” means the text is a product of the historical process.) (They assumed the word of God was there, but it was “mixed up” with other words that were a part of this historic process.) Believes in partial illumination, full inerrancy, and dynamic equivalent.

Question 25

Discuss the postmodern concept of hermeneutics?
Include view of scripture, role of reader/interpreter, affects for methodology or interpreting text. Include view of scripture, role of reader/interpreter, affects for methodology or interpreting text.

Answer 25

The Bible is merely a human document
(there is no word of God in it at all) (simply a reflection of the religious experiences of individuals and communities). Doesn’t believe in inspiration, inerrancy, and therefore translations can be whatever they want it to be.