Systematic final

Question 1

What are the ramifications of your view of anthropology and what concrete things in culture does it affect?

Answer 1

Our view of politics, our view of the value of human life, use of resources, self-confidence, self-worth, etc .

Question 2

What is the biblical paradigm of the hierarchy of creation and what are the contrasting notions of this in our culture?

Answer 2

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)

Question 3

Does the Bible teach soul sleep?

Answer 3

No. To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord. Lazarus the begger.

Question 4

Are we a Trichotomy or Dichotomy according to Scripture?

Answer 4

We are a Dichotomy. We are body and spirit. The immaterial side is one.

Question 5

Explain the 2 extremes that dualism leads to in the Church and what dangers there are around them.

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

What is the Divine-human relationship predicated on?

Answer 6

Free Will.

Question 7

What is the origin of evil?

Answer 7

Free Will.

Question 8

What does the tree of the knowledge of good & evil symbolize?

Answer 8

To be Autonomous and reject the basis of relationship with God (obedience - let God rule us).

Question 9

To eat the fruit is to declare what against God?

Answer 9

To declare freedom from God, independence - which is truly bondage in sin.

Question 10

What 3 relationships did the fall affect?

Answer 10

God-Man Man-Others Man-Himself

Question 11

After the fall what happens to Man’s relationship to self?

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

What is now the universal way humanity relates to and interacts with his world?

Answer 12

Egoism.

Question 13

After the fall what happens to Man’s relationship to others?

Answer 13

The Exhausted I - Tyranny, manipulation, control. No longer God’s intended relationship between men, husband and wife, etc.

Question 14

After the fall what happens to humanity’s relationship with God?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What does egocentricity results in?

Answer 15

People are for themselves - only. They step on others for self gain. We prefer ourselves, and disregard others.

Question 16

How does Man fair in his role as vice-regent, tilling of the earth, creating culture, when left to his own resources?

Answer 16

TBD

Question 17

Discuss the ongoing result of the fall and ongoing creation.

Answer 17

Evil Invades Good. Humans want freedom from God - which creates bondage to sin.

Question 18

When humanity lost its “servant-ship” to God what else did they lose?

Answer 18

TBD

Question 19

Refute

TOTAL INABILITY

Answer 19

Ephesians 2:8 “For by Grace you are saved through Faith…”

* Isaiah 1:18 “Oh, Come let us reason together..”

Question 20

Refute

UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION

Answer 20

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you are saved through faith…”

Question 21

Refute

LIMITED ATONEMENT

Answer 21

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.”

Question 22

Refute

IRRESISTIBLE GRACE

Answer 22

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.”

Question 23

Resist

PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

Answer 23

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.”

Question 24

What is the logical conclusion of Calvinism?

Answer 24

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.