Midterm Flashcards
What are the three legs of the Epistemological stool?
Spirit, Traditional, Rational
Show how it is faulty to try to build knowledge of God, even when based on the Bible, using just one or two of the epistemological legs.
You don’t get the full truth.
Tradition-teaching, preaching, singing.
Rational-what we do with our minds
Spiritual-what God can do by His Spirit
To practice sound biblical hermeneutics how must we view the OT?
OT -> NT -> X2-4 centuryX
How does not approaching the OT with sound biblical hermeneutics affect christology for most today?
If you don’t have an understanding of the OT, you won’t understand NT.
How does not approaching the OT with sound biblical hermeneutics affect christology for most today?
If you don’t have an understanding of the NT (Christ), you won’t understand Jesus name Baptism.
How does not approaching the OT with sound biblical hermeneutics affect pneumatology for most today?
Not understanding the OT, you won’t have an understanding of the Holy Spirit.
What is the wrong methodological approach of most churches today demonstrated in their view of Luke-Acts?
They don’t see it as a pattern.
How does correct biblical hermeneutics inform the practice of the “historical Church”?
Is it first century? If it’s not, then it’s wrong.
What is drawn from the book of Acts that must speak to correct epistemology?
Acts is the only historical book in the NT. Not taking an epistemological approach when reading what the Spirit taught.
What is the necessary biblical understanding of how Christians must evaluate any experience?
Does it line up with the Word of God?
What are a growing number of non-apostolic scholars admitting regarding the typical trinitarian’s hermeneutical and methodological approaches to Scripture?
It’s incorrect.
Name and discuss 6 different views of inspiration and find an example of each in writings, articles, podcast, preaching, etc…
Natural Inspiration- Human authors inspired like a poet.
Spiritual Illumination- Human authors inspired same way God inspires Christians today.
Partial Inspiration- Parts of the Bible are inspired especially in spiritual matter. However, historical, scientific or other non-spiritual matters aren’t.
Conceptual Inspiration- God inspired authors with general concepts, but left words and details to the author.
Verbal Inspiration- God inspired authors with each word
Divine Dictation- Authors just took dictation for God as he spoke. “Thus saith the Lord”
Name and discuss the three views of inerrancy and find an example of each.
Absolute- Every detail
Full- Not correct in science or history
Limited- True in spiritual, but not in history or science.
Discuss a couple of examples of how detailed the oversight of inerrancy is, which is demonstrated in the methodology of the NT utilized by Jesus and Paul.
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Define biblical inspiration.
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