Lesson 1 Flashcards
Explain how Christ’s proctological and eschatological claims can show the importance of a class on the issues of origins.
Christ said that he created the world in 6 literal days, and that he is coming again. Evolution said that death came into the world before sin, which the bible says that sin is the wages of sin is death. If death is not the wages of sin then Jesus death on the cross is meaningless and saves no one.
Show from two Bible texts what Scripture teaches about the relationship between sin and death.
a. Romans 5:12,14 says that Sin came into the world through man.
b. Romans 8:20-21 even the origin of animal death is traced to human sin.
- What is the implication on calvary in accepting long ages for the formation of the geological column?
a. Key implication: Death must not appear in the geological column before human sin if the cross is to be meaningful.
b. Calvary saves because Jesus death on the cross was the wages of sin for us. Isaiah 53:12 says he bore the sin of many. 1 Corinthians 15:3 says that he died for our sin. Evolution says death was many years before humans and sin.
- Explain how the global flood (rainbow) can account for the geological column in the earth’s crust and how this preserves what Jesus did on the cross. This is the rainbow connection.
a. If the sentiments were laid down rapidly in the world wide flood you would have level columns, this would mean that what the Bible says is true that man came into the world, and then sin.
- Know Isaiah 8:20 and its significance for Bible interpretation.
a. Isaiah 8:20 says, “To the law and to the testimony if they do not speak according to this word it is because there is no light in them.” This means that scripture provides its own context. You need to have a plain reading of scripture unless it indicates otherwise. Scripture should interpret scripture and it is it’s own authority.
- Prominent hermeneutical approach used by the fathers.
a. They were influenced by the Alexandrian school they moved heavily on allegorical interpretations. That things in the text are not what they seem on the surface. The reader must find the deeper meaning.
- Identify and explain Wellhausen’s significance in relation to higher criticism and approximate time he was active.
a. In the 18th and 19th Centuries Wellhausen brought on the rise of higher criticism. He denied miracles or the supernatural. He denies the supernatural origin of the text. He denies the authorship of a text against the Bible’s own witness. He denies the historical context of the text against the text’s own witness. He denies much of the historical veracity of the text.
- Identify and explain the five hermeneutical approaches to the Bible.
a. Orthodox Evangelical – The bible is the infallible will of God.
b. Liberal – takes a scientific look at the Bible.
c. Fundamentalist – Word for word inspiration.
d. Neo Orthodox – The Bible is not the word of God, but merely a spiritual story.
e. Neo-evangelical (Neo reformed, young evangelical, and younger evangelicals) They want to trust the bible and science together.
- Discuss the recent trends in hermeneutics.
a. The three recent trends in hermeneutics is Orthodox Evangelical which says that the Bible is the infallible word of God. It supports thought inspiration and that it can be scientifically and biblical true at the same time.
b. Liberal approach says look at the Bible scientifically
c. Neo-Evangelical (Neo reformed, young evangelical, and younger evangelicals) Says that they we need to have the Bible and science work together. But when there is an apparent discrepancy to trust science.
- Identify and explain the three basic hermeneutical categories for biblical interpretation.
a. Orthodox- Conservative interpretation
b. Neo Orthodox (Evangelical) – Reinterprets scripture to work with science.
c. Liberal – The Bible writers meant what they said but they didn’t know what they were talking about.
- List two or three names by which the most recent evangelical movement is known.
a. Warfield, Hodgens, Clark Enoch, Norman Giesler,
- Identify the historical Adventist Hermeneutical position.
a. The Adventist church held the orthodox view.
- Does Ellen White know about the higher critical method? If show what did she think of it?
a. She knew about and rejected the higher critical method.
- Describe the historical pattern in Theological Seminaries that started with an orthodox hermeneutical position.
a. The seminaries that started with an Orthodox approach would eventually move to a neo-orthodox and then Liberal approach. We see this happen to Princeton, Westminster, Fuller, and Dallas Theological Seminaries.
- Explain the JEDP source theory and identify its proponent.
a. Julius Wellhausen was one of the first scholars to suggest an alternative authorship for the Bible. He saw it was inspired by humans and not by God.
- What are the Hebrew words for “Shrub” and “plant” of the field in Genesis 2:5? Are they also found in Genesis 1? Where else are they found in scripture?
a. Shrub of the field is “siah hassadhe” and Plant of the field is “esev hassadhe” in Hebrew. Siah Hassadhe is found in Genesis 2:5, Genesis 21:15, and Job 30:4,7 it is desert plants, thorny plants found in common in Israel. “Esev Hassadhe” is grain plants found in Genesis 2:5 and Genesis 3:18 they are food associated with the fall that Adam had to eat. We see that these two words are not found in Genesis 1 in a perfect world. Genesis 2 is setting up the framework and the transition to Chapter 3 and the fall of Man.
- What is the importance of this finding (question #2)?
a. The importance of the different words found in Genesis 2 rather than Genesis 1 because it is forshadowing the fall of man in Genesis 3.
- What four things were “not yet” in Genesis 2?
a. There are four things not yet thorny plants, wheat grain, hard work, rain in Genesis 2.
- Identify the two different kinds of man described in Genesis 2 (see verses 5 and 7). Explain in what sense each man is different from the other man.
a. One man would have to work from the sweat of his brow and have to provide for his own needs. The second man would be God breathed and god would provide for all his needs.
