Systematic final Flashcards
What are the ramifications of your view of anthropology and what concrete things in culture does it affect?
Our view of politics, our view of the value of human life, use of resources, self-confidence, self-worth, etc .
What is the biblical paradigm of the hierarchy of creation and what are the contrasting notions of this in our culture?
Paradigm = God / Man / Everything Else
OR
Humanism (evolution - we are a cosmic accident - we have no more rights to resources than any other creature or living thing - like environmentalists)
Does the Bible teach soul sleep?
No. To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord. Lazarus the begger.
Are we a Trichotomy or Dichotomy according to Scripture?
We are a Dichotomy. We are body and spirit. The immaterial side is one.
Explain the 2 extremes that dualism leads to in the Church and what dangers there are around them.
Dualism - The body is evil and the spirit is good.
Extremes - Hedonism - your body doesn’t matter, its going to be destroyed and replaced anyway - do whatever you want, partake in any pleasures - just worship in your spirit. Agnostic Hedonism OR - Deny the body because its evil - like monks - don’t enjoy any pleasures of the body.
What is the Divine-human relationship predicated on?
Free Will.
What is the origin of evil?
Free Will.
What does the tree of the knowledge of good & evil symbolize?
To be Autonomous and reject the basis of relationship with God (obedience - let God rule us).
To eat the fruit is to declare what against God?
To declare freedom from God, independence - which is truly bondage in sin.
What 3 relationships did the fall affect?
God-Man Man-Others Man-Himself
After the fall what happens to Man’s relationship to self?
We no longer experience authentic selfhood - we enslaved to egocentricity - we try to be self governed and we don’t experience God’s intended relationship.
What is now the universal way humanity relates to and interacts with his world?
Egoism.
After the fall what happens to Man’s relationship to others?
The Exhausted I - Tyranny, manipulation, control. No longer God’s intended relationship between men, husband and wife, etc.
After the fall what happens to humanity’s relationship with God?
Man becomes a sinner - no longer right relationship with God - estrangement with god. Man chose independence from God and the relationship of obedience was broken.
What does egocentricity results in?
People are for themselves - only. They step on others for self gain. We prefer ourselves, and disregard others.
How does Man fair in his role as vice-regent, tilling of the earth, creating culture, when left to his own resources?
TBD
Discuss the ongoing result of the fall and ongoing creation.
Evil Invades Good. Humans want freedom from God - which creates bondage to sin.
When humanity lost its “servant-ship” to God what else did they lose?
TBD
Refute
TOTAL INABILITY
Ephesians 2:8 “For by Grace you are saved through Faith…”
* Isaiah 1:18 “Oh, Come let us reason together..”
Refute
UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you are saved through faith…”
Refute
LIMITED ATONEMENT
Isaiah 53:6: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us ALL.”
Refute
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE
Acts 7:51: “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always RESIST the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.”
Resist
PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
Hebrews 7:25: “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
What is the logical conclusion of Calvinism?
The logical conclusion of Calvinism is that God is an unfair respecter of persons who chooses people to salvation, not according to any standard that He established, but arbitrarily. This strikes at the love and justice of God, contradicts the fact that Christ gave his life for ALL, and rejects man’s responsibility to choose and love his Creator.
