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Short Essay Flashcards

1
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  1. Where must all revelation about God start?
    Why must it start there?
    Where is that source?
A

From God’s self-revelation
Because we are fallen
In the Bible

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  1. Around How many OT verse state that God is absolutley numerically one?
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Around 3,000

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  1. What is the faulty approach or “lens” that Trinitarians bring to the NT? What does it do to the OT revelation of God?
A

2-4 century philosophy > NT > OT cross it out

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  1. What is the better approach or “lens” that oneness people being to the NT? What does it do the later philosophy?
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OT > NT > 2-4 century philosophy cross it out

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  1. How does our approach to the OT reveal our conscious or unconscious attitude to God’s revelation?
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Oneness people respect the OT and prove they take God’s process of self-revelation seriously

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  1. Explain how Genesis 1:26 is not about a trinity
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He’s talking to the angels. Job 38:4-7 they were present at creation. 1 Kings 22:19-22 He talked to and requested their opinion before

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  1. How do you explain the “God” or “elohim” in Genesis 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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  1. When “elohim” is used of God what is it always accompanied by?
A

Singular verbs or modifiers

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  1. If “elohim” is used on more than one false god what is it always accompanied by?
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Plural verbs or modifiers

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  1. When Scripture says Moses (Ex 7:1), Samuel (1 Sam 28:13-14), and all of the individual judges of Israel (Psalm 82:6) are called “elohim” what does this prove regarding God?
A

They can’t be a trinity and neither can God

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  1. How does the inspired NT translation of the inspired OT verse calling God “elohim” prove that God is absolutely numerically one?
A

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

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  1. What are the two things represented in Daniel 7 and Revelation 5?
    What’s missing?
A

The eternal God in the man Jesus

So called third person in the trinity

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  1. How do you prove Revelation 5 is not about persons in a so called trinity?
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No Trinitarian would say Jesus will be called a lion and yet actually be a slain lamb standing with seven eyes and even horns.

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  1. How does the Bible show in another passage that Daniel 7 and Revelation 5 are not separate persons?
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In Revelation 1 we see a blended picture of the son of man and ancient of days in Christ

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  1. Explain why Isaiah 6:3 repeating “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty…” does not prove a trinity
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No superlative in Hebrew is uses repetition instead. Such as “oh earth, earth, eath”

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  1. Did the Oneness message disappear after the fourth century and slowly make a come back in the 19th century?
A

No, it always existed

17
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  1. According to Tertullian’s writing “Against Praxeus” what was the dominant belief still in the 2nd century and what was the minority veiw?
A

Majority belief was Oneness. Minority view was Trinitarian

18
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  1. What two things does “Father/Son” language in the NT show?
A

What God did as humanity and as deity

19
Q
  1. How did God make the world by the Son?
A

Created the world with Christ in view

20
Q
  1. Prove Jesus is not having a conversation with another person in the trinity on the cross by sowing what He is quoting
A

Quoting Psalm 22

21
Q
  1. What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?
A

He will reign

22
Q
  1. 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 trinty?
A

Where is the missing Holy Spirit?

Can this be about a coequal trinity?

23
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  1. Prove that Jesus’ prayers cannot be about a trinity explaining why the essence of the doctrine of the trinity would be violated
A

Coequal God can’t pray to God or one isn’t He is no longer coequal.

24
Q
  1. At His baptism what three roles is Jesus stepping into?
A

Prophet, Priest, and King

24
Q
  1. 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.
A

To fulfill all righteousness as the OT commands. As Priest He was to be washed and like all Prophets, Priest, and Kings He was to be anointed.

25
Q
  1. What two images are represented in Philippians 2:5-11
A

Adam and suffering servant

26
Q
  1. What role did Jesus have to fulfill and what would have violated it?
A

Suffering servant.

To make Himself of any reputation

27
Q
  1. How does Philippians 2:5-11 show the language of exaltation is about the man Jesus and refute the doctrine of coequality?
A

He would’ve been exalted higher than ever before above the Father and the Spirit.

28
Q
  1. What two witnesses does Jesus say testify of the truthfulness of His ministry?
A

Perfect man Jesus and the working of the eternal Spirit through Him.

29
Q
  1. What is the best way to reach a trinitarian?
A

Show them that Jesus, the Father, and the Spirit are all the same Spirit.

30
Q
  1. 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’s only one God, but showing Jesus, the Father, and the Spirit are all the same Spirit.

31
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40.When did the Trinity become fully developed in history and what two things from class did we show this prove about the doctrine.

A

It was finally finished in 31 A.D. and
It proves its not in the NT
It was developed by men

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