Quiz #2 Flashcards
Apologetic
Defense of the Faith
Moral Argument for the existence of God
- People have a sense of right and wrong (universal)
- This sense is built into the structure of the universe
- The best explanation is that there is a mind behind the universe
Law of Human Nature
- Just as all bodies are governed by their law of gravitation or not
- Called this because people thought it was known by everyone
- law abt right and wrong, that humans can choose to disobey
Theism
- Personal monothesism
- Good Will
- Impersonal force
Atheism
Justice in the universe
Pantheism
God is all
Dualism
Good is equal and opposite of evil
Free will Defense
- Beings that exist that can act in ways that are moral or immortal
- Watered down christans (Dylan)
Greater Good
The better a being is, the worse it can be
God
- Has attributes
Attributes
Things that are true and characteristic of God
incommunicable attributes
- Only things God has humans don’t have
- Ex: Eternal
communicable attributes
- what humans have
- ex. love
Trinity
God as three people
1. Father
2. Son (Jesus)
3. Holy Spirit
Metaphor
Figurative language, its symbolic
Images of God in the Psalms
P95: King- a great one
P95:Rock of our salvation
P96: Shepherd
P95: Creator/Shaper
Paul
- The missionary letter writer who’s letters are the earliest texts in the new testament
- Slave of Jesus Christ
- Was called to be an apostle
- Roman Citizen
Apostle
“One who is sent”
Missionary/Evangelist
Jewish Christian
Jewish believer of Jesus
Gentile Christian
Non-jewish believer of Jesus
Apocalypticism
the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one’s own lifetime
Romans
-letter to Romans
-written by Paul
-intended to provide direction, guidance, and encouragement for Christian believers
House Church
People who gather for worship in private places like their homes together
Justification
not guily
Faith
believing
Wrath
to be saved from punishment
Adam
- Sin is due to him (og sin)
- Stands at head of old creation
Union with Christ
- Filled with the holy spirit
- Enables a new way of living (Like Jesus)
- Do lawful things out of love
- Love your neighbor as yourself
The law (Of Moses and the Torah)
rules to live by
The will
- Dylan: Living according to God’s will you are doing what God wants
- Chat: what God wants to happen in the world and in people’s lives
Redemption
- Law and Prophets
- Covenant (Israel)
- Jesus atonement/crucified: Son of God/resurrection
Body
- Organs that house our soul
Soul
- What makes us us
- Goes to heaven
Neoplantionism
- Conciousness is prior to materiality “onto logically prior”
- All existance stems from a unitary higher principle (The One, the God)
Augustines Neoplatonism
divine transcendence
divine immateriality
ontological hierarchy (God, soul, body)
intelligible and sensible realms
evil as privatio
Conversion
Change of life; dying away of old self and coming way of new self
