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Sem 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Around how many OT verses state God is absolutely one?

A

Around 3,000

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2
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Where must all revelation about God start?
Why must it start there?
Where is the source?

A
  1. From God’s self revelation
  2. Because we are fallen
  3. In the bible
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3
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How do our approaches to the OT reveal our conscious or unconscious attitude to God’s revelation?

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Oneness people respect the OT and prove we take the process of God’s self-revelation seriously

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4
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Explain how Gen 1:26 is not about a trinity.

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Shows he’s talking to the Angels, majestic plurally.

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5
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How do you explain the “God” or “Elohim” in Gen 1:1 is not a proof of the trinity?

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It is a uni-plural noun with singular modifiers

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6
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When “Elohim” is used of God what is it always accompanied by?

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Singular verbs or modifiers

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When scripture says Moses, Samuel, and all of the individual judges of Israel are called “Elohim” what does that prove regarding God?

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It means they cannot be a trinity and neither can God

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How does the inspired NT translation of the inspired OT verses calling God, Elohim, prove that God is absolutely numerically one?

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NT Elohim is always translated God in the singular, never plural

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What are the two things represented in Daniel 7 and Rev 5? What’s missing?

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  1. The eternal God
  2. The man Jesus
  3. Third person of the trinity is missing-Holy Ghost
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10
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How do you prove Rev 5 is not about persons in a so called trinity?

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No Trinitarian would say that Jesus would be called a Lion who will be a slain lamb standing with seven eyes and horns

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11
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How does the bible show in another passage Dan 7 and Rev 5 are not separate persons?

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In Rev 1 we see a blended picture of the son of man and the ancient of days in Christ

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Explain why Isaiah 6:3 repeating “Holy holy holy, Lord God Almighty” does not prove a trinity.

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No superlative and it’s just repetition like “O earth earth earth”

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13
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Did the oneness message disappear after the fourth century and slowly make a come back in the 19th century?

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No. It’s always existed

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According to Tertullian’s writing “Against Praxeus” what was the dominant belief still in the 2nd century and what was the minority view?

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Dominate- Oneness

Minority- Trinitarian

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15
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What two things does Father/Son language in the NT show?

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What God did as humanity and what he did as deity.

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16
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How did God make the world by the son?

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Created the world with Christ in view

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17
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Prove Jesus is not having a conversation with another person in the trinity on the cross by showing what he is quoting.

A

Psalm 22

18
Q

What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?

A

Through this suffering he will reign

19
Q

What are the two major questions you ask almost all “passages of distinction” that prove the distinction is about the human/divine relationship not persons in the trinity?

A

Where is the missing Holy Spirit?

Can this be about a coequal trinity?

20
Q

Prove that Jesus’ prayers cannot be about a trinity explaining why the essence of the doctrine of the trinity would be violated?

A

God can’t pray to God or one isn’t coequal

21
Q

At his baptism what three roles is Jesus stepping into?

A

Prophet, priest and King

22
Q

Show why it was important for Jesus as a man to be baptized and anointed and include a statement from Christ himself as to point of doing this.

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He is doing it to fulfill all righteousness- The OT commands a priest to be washed and like all prophets, priests and kings he had to be anointed.

23
Q

What two images are represented in Philippians 2:5-11?

A

Adam and the suffering servant

24
Q

What role did Jesus have to fulfill and what would have violated it?

A

Suffering servant

25
Q

How does Phil 2:5-11 show the language of exaltation is about the man Jesus and refute the doctrine of co-equality?

A

He’s exalted above the father and the spirit

26
Q

What two witnesses does Jesus say testify if the truthfulness of his ministry and using the OT show why this can’t be a trinity.

A

It’s the perfect man Jesus and the working of the eternal spirit working through him.

27
Q

Wha is the best way to reach a Trinitarian?

A

Show them Jesus the father and the spirit are all the same spirit, who’s in Christ.

28
Q

List scripture to explain whether Jesus is in the godhead or is the godhead in Jesus?

A

Col 2:9

29
Q

How does the “Trinitarian shield” help us in witnessing by moving us to a more specific starting point of conversation?

A

By not proving Jesus is God and there is only one God, but showing Jesus the father in the spirit are the eternal spirit

30
Q

Refute using scripture that he son is not the father incarnate.

A

Isaiah 9:6

31
Q

Refute using scripture that the Holy Spirit is not Jesus

A

Romans 8:9-10

32
Q

Refute using scripture that the father is not the holt spirit.

A

Eph 4:4-6

33
Q

When did the trinity become fully developed in history and what two things from class did we show this prove about the doctrine?

A

381 AD
Not in the NT
It was developed by man

34
Q

The council of Constantinople

A

Finally FULL developed doctrine of the trinity

35
Q

Post-Apostolic Age

A

Language much like the NT

36
Q

Greek Apologists

A

Jesus is not coequal with the father and the spirit is even a lesser rank

37
Q

Old Catholic Age

A

The coin the term trinity and the ideas of one Hod or 3 persons are circulating although r some still say 2

38
Q

The Council of Nices

A

Finally son is eternal- but the spirit isn’t seen as a person fully created yet

39
Q

2 Corinthians 3:17

A

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty

40
Q

1 Timothy 2:5

A

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man of Christ Jesus

41
Q

James 2:19

A

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the Devils also believe and tremble.

42
Q

John 20:28

A

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God

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