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Grudem - Chapter 15 Flashcards

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What is the doctrine of creation?

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God created the entire universe out of nothing; it was originally very good; and he created it to glorify himself.

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What is the term used to describe God’s Creation of the earth out of nothing?

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Ex Nihilo.

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What other aspect of Creation did God make besides the physical earth?

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The Spiritual Universe.

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What two people did God directly create?

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Adam and Eve.

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How did God give Adam life?

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By breathing the breath of life into the nostrils of Adam.

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How did God give Eve life?

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By taking a rib from the body of Adam.

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What do God’s means of creation demonstrate about mankind?

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That they are different and higher from animals.

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What does man posses that animals do not?

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The Imago Dei.

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What aspect of dimension did God create?

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Time.

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What was God’s existence before the world?

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Not an existence in an unending extension of time. Rather God exists that is difficult for use to imagine.

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What did the Son and the Holy Spirit do in Creation?

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The Son is the one from whom all Creation is brought about.

The Holy Spirit is picture as completing, filing, and giving life to God’s creation. (Breath of Life)

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What is Creation’s Relationship With God?

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It is always distinct from God Yet Always Dependent on God.

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Define God’s transcendence.

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God is not a part of His Creation but is greater than His Creation.

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Define God’s immanence. (Immanent)

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God is not an abstract deity but active involved in His Creation.

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Define materialism.

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It rejects the existence of God and says that the material universe is all that there is.

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Define pantheism.

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The idea that the whole universe is either God or a part of God.

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What aspects of God’s character does pantheism deny?

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1) God’s Distinction.
2) God’s Unchanging Nature.
3) God is no longer Holy.

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Define dualism.

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The idea that both God and the material universe have existed eternally side by side. There are two ultimate forces in the universe, God and matter.

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Give an example of dualism in modern times.

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The “Force” in Star Wars

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Define deism.

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An idea that holds that God created the universe and is far greater than the universe to the extent that God is not now directly involved in creation.

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Why did God create the Universe?

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To show his glory.

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What does Creation show us about God?

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1) His Great Power

2) His Wisdom

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Did God create the Universe because he needed the Universe?

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No, it was because he wanted to take delight in what He had created. To believe otherwise denies the independence of God.

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What was the character of the Universe God Created?

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It Was “Very Good”

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What is the material state of God’s creation today?

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Still good even though men can be sinful.

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Define the relationship between Christianity and Science.

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1) When All the Facts Are Rightly Understood, There Will Be “No Final Conflict” Between Scripture and Natural Science.
2) Some Theories About Creation Seem Clearly Inconsistent With the Teachings of Scripture.

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Where is there room for disagreement among Christians in regards to Creation?

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1) The possibility God created a “grown-up” universe.
2) There is a possibility of a break between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 or between 1:2 and 1:3.
3) There is a possibility of a long day in Genesis 1.
4) There is a possibility that the flood affected the geological data.
5) The use of the word “kinds” in Genesis 1 may be quite broad.
6) There is a possibility of the death of animals before the Fall.
7) Where the Hebrew word bara is not used there is the possibility of sequence from previously existing things.

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List Theories of Creation in Conflict in Scripture.

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1) Secular Theories - Evolution & Big Bang Theory
2) Theistic Evolution
3) Darwinian Theory of Evolution
4) Gap Theory

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Why is the Secular Theory of Creation flawed?

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God is not responsible for bringing Creation into being which directly contradicts Scripture.

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What is the Secular Theory of Creation?

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Origin of the Universe is a “Big Bang”.

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What is the theory of Theistic Evolution?

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That living things evolved by God guided the process so the result would be exactly what he wanted it to be.

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When do Theistic Evolutionists say God intervened in Creation?

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1) The Creation of Matter at the Beginning
2) The Creation of the Simplest Lifeform
3) The Creation of Man.

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List the objections to Theistic Evolution.

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1) The Clear Teaching of Scripture That There is Purposefulness in God’s Work Contradicts the Randomness demanded by Evolutionary Theory.
2) Scripture pictures God’s creative word as being an immediate response not millions of years.
3) According to their kinds implies that God made many different types of plants and animals as opposed to one type.
4) God’s present and active role in creating or forming every living thing is hard to reconcile with the hands-off approach taken by Theistic Evolution.
5) The special creation of Adam and Eve.
6) There are scientific problems with evolutionary theory.

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How should one respond to the argument that Genesis 1 & 2 does not intend to portray Adam and Eve as literal individuals?

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1) The historical narrative in Genesis continues without a break into the historical material of Abraham.
2) Romans affirms the existence of one man.

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What are the two connotations of the term evolution?

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1) Macroevolution

2) Microevolution

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Define Microevolution.

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Small developments within a species that everyone agrees exist.

37
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Define Macroevolution.

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Nonliving substance gave rise to living substance and all other extinct and existent ant organisms.

38
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What are the Current Challenges to Evolution?

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1) The amount of genetic variation that can be produced is rather small and limited.
2) The survival of the fittest logic is simply a tautology that states the animals with the most offspring have the most offspring.
3) Complex mutations occurring over thousands of generations are nonsensical since the organ has to be functional in whole.
4) The fossil record contains no intermediate stages to fill the gaps of evolution.
5) The relationship between molecular structures of living organisms does not imply common ancestry.
6) How life begins in the first place. Spontaneous generation is a problem.

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What are the two characteristics of the fossil record that are inconsistent with the notion of gradual change throughout multiple generations?

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1) Status. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth.
2) Sudden Appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually but it appears fully formed and all at once.

40
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What are the destructive influences of evolutionary theory in modern thought?

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1) There is no importance to human life.
2) There are no moral absolutes
3) The weak should be killed not protected
4) Earlier generations have to wisdom to share.
5) Animal Rights

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What is Gap Theory?

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The belief that there is a gap of millions of years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

42
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What does Gap Theory postulate about Genesis 1:3 through 2:3?

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It is a second creation of the earth.

43
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What Scripture does Gap Theory rely on for its validity?

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The words Tohu and Bohu to describe areas in Jeremiah and Isaiah that experience God’s judgement.

44
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What arguments refute Gap Theory?

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1) There is no argument in Scripture that explicitly talks about an earlier creation.
2) God beheld his Creation as good. If there was a second Creation, then God would have a difficult time declaring a rebellion good.
3) Everything in the earth was made during the six days of Creation. Gap Theory contradicts this.
4) Postulates that God Failed to Create good creation the First Time which goes against God’s nature.

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What are earlier matters that need to be addressed before discussing the age of the earth?

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1) God created the universe out of nothing.
2) Creation is distinct from God and dependent on God
3) God created the universe to show His glory.
4) The universe God created was very good.
5) There will be no final conflict between Scripture and Science.
6) Secular theories deny God as Creator including Darwinian evolution.
7) The creation of the angelic world
8) The creation of man in the image of God.

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What two positions are there in regards to the Age of the Earth?

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Old Earth and Young Earth Positions.

47
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What is the state of Genealogies in the Bible?

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There are Gaps in them.

48
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When is a baseline acceptable date for the existence of man on earth?

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10,000 B.C.

49
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Did Animals die before the Fall?

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It is impossible to know but it is certainly a possibility.

50
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Were Dinosaurs around during the Creation?

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Yes in both the Young and Old Earth view.

51
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What are the Old Earth Arguments for a non-24 hour day in Creation?

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1) The word used to describe day (yom) is used to describe a longer period of time.
2) The number of events in the sixth day stipulate a time longer than twenty-four hours.
3) No phrase “evening and morning” the Seventh Day.

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What are some of the objections to the Old Earth Argument?

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1) The Bible makes clear when the word for day does not refer to a 24-Hour day.
2) the Bible could have used different terms to describe that time if it was not a 24-Hour Day.

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What are the New Earth arguments for a 24-Hour day Creation?

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1) The phrase “evening and morning” in succession indicate a literal twenty-four hours.
2) The third day cannot be too long between the third and fourth day since plants need sunlight for life.
3) The Ten Commandments use the word day as a 24-Hour period when describing creation.
4) The term days with another term added onto it is always literal everywhere else in the Bible
5) Men and women exist from the beginning of Creation and not billions of years ago.

54
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What is the validity of both Old Earth and New Earth Theories?

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Both are valid.

55
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What are the two Old Earth Theories of Creation?

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1) Day-Age View.

2) Literary Framework View.

56
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Describe the Day-Age View.

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The Days of Creation span ages.

57
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What are the difficulties of the Day-Age Theory?

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1) The sequence of events in Genesis 1 does not correspond exactly to the current scientific understanding.
2) The disconnect between the The Third and Fourth Day Doesn’t Make Sense.

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How do Day-Age Theorists reconcile the Third and Fourth Days?

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By saying the two were not necessarily in sequence.

59
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Describe the Literary Framework view.

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God gives a framework of Creation but not specific days. It’s a sequence but not a literal chronology.

60
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What are the arguments in favor of disregarding chronology in the Genesis 1 account?

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1) Neat Correspondence Between the Pairs of Days
2) Avoids Conflict With Modern Science
3) It remedies Genesis 1 and 2 about the sequence of Creation.
4) Gen 2:4 advocates non-literal 24-Hour days.

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What are the arguments against the Literary Framework Theory?

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1) The correspondence between the days of Creation is not nearly as exact as supposed.
2) Convenience should not be the sole reason to accept a theory.
3) There’s no conflict by those who do not take the theory between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
4) Genesis 2:5 does not really say that plants were not present on the earth.
5) Genesis 1 suggests a chronology that Literary Framework theory denies.
6) A sequence of days is also implied in God’s command to human beings to imitate his pattern of work plus rest.

62
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List the Young Earth Theories of Creation.

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1) Mature Creationism

2) Flood Geology

63
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Define Mature Creationism.

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The world had an appearance of age from the very start of Creation.

64
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What is a common objection is raised in regard to Mature Creationism?

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God represents himself as a receiver by creating the earth old.

65
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What are the credible explanations Creationists have to the fossil records?

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1) Current dating methods are incorrect.

2) Its correct and the world is millions of years old.

66
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Define Flood Geology.

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The flood altered the face of the earth and caused geological anomalies.

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