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T221 Test 1 Flashcards

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Messiah

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Jesus is God’s “Anointed” (consensus)

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Son of Man

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Jesus is the human being given all power and authority in heaven and
on earth, as seen in Dan 7:14 (consensus)

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Son of God

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Jesus is the Son of God the Father, the “exact imprint of God’s very
being” (Heb 1:3) (consensus)

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Homoousios

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Jesus is “of the same substance” with the Father (consensus)

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Immutability

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God does not change. Christans disagree about what it would mean for God to “change,” and whether or not he does so (diversity)

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Impassibility

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God cannot sufer or be disturbed in his emotions (diversity)

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Apollinarianism

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According to Apollinaris (c.310-c.390), Jesus is less than fully human,
because the immaterial part of Jesus, his mind or soul, is replaced by the divine Logos (Greek for
“Word”) (aberrant)

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Eutychianism

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According to Eutyches (c.380-c.456), Jesus’ humanity is absorbed by
his divinity like a drop in the ocean. It is overwhelmed or overpowered by his divinity (aberrant)

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Nestorianism

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According to Nestorius (c.386-c.450), Jesus is both divine and human
but these two natures are separate from each other, such that only the divine Son performs
miracles (not the human Jesus) and only the human Jesus sufers and dies (not the divine Son) (aberrant)

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Theotokos

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Mary can truly be called the “mother of God” in giving birth to Jesus,
because the one she gives birth to is God in human flesh (consensus) Affirmed at council in Ephasus 431

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Two natures

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Jesus fully partcipates in two natures, humanity and divinity; he is
fully human and fully divine. Affirmed at the council of Chalcedon in 451 (consensus)

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Hypostatic Union

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The union of divinity and humanity in Jesus makes up only one
hypostasis (Greek for “being” or “thing”). There are not two “things” (hypostases) associated
with each other, the divine Son and the human Jesus, as Nestorius argued (consensus)

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Communication of attributes

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Because of the divine Word becoming human in Jesus, this human person can do things only God can do, like raise the dead and save us from our sins; likewise, because this human person is the divine Word, God now does things only humanity can do, like get hungry or sick and die on a cross (consensus)

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Particularly

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God does not become humanity-in-general, but a partcular human
being, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus has partcular characteristcs: he is male, Jewish, speaks Aramaic, lived in the frst century, and so on (consensus)

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Apollinaris

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Part of Jesus’ humanity is replaced by the divine word (aberrant)

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Docetism

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Jesus only appeared to be human (aberrant)

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Paticularity

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Jesus was a particular human withs race, gender, and location (consensus)

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18
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Historical Jesus Vs Christ of faith is what kind of destinction

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Nestorian

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Ebionites

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the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that the absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality (aberrant)

Jesus was the Jewish messiah, but not God

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Supersessionism

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God’s new covenent supercedes any and all of his covenents to the People of Israel

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Marcionism

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Rejection of the Old Testament and most of the New Testament for being “too jewish” (aberrant)

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22
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True or False: The whole Bible is about Jesus

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True!

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23
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Trinity and Christology are commonly referred to as

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“Twin Mysteries”

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24
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What does dyothelitism refer to

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literally: Two Wills. Referes to the divine and human wills within Jesus

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25
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How many times does Jesus predict his death and resurrection?

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Three!

26
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Jesus is the new…

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Moses, Adam, Elijah, Issac, HIgh preist (Aaron)

27
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Salvation is from…

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From the Father, in Christ, by the Spirit!

28
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What is the basic order we are saved in

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Predestination - Calling - Faith - Christian life - Glorification

29
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Soteriology

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The technocal term for Christian teaching about how Jesus saves us

30
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Contrition

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Sorrow for our sin (consensus)

31
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Repentance

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Rejecting sin in order to turn to God (consensus).

32
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Justification

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For the sake of Jesus Christ our righteousness and his death on the cross, we are judged righteous, forgiven, justified (consensus)

33
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Imputed righteouessness

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We are accounted righteouessness, or righteousness is imputed to us, because of Jesus Christ’s righteousness, not our own (diversity)

34
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Sanctification

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Through Chirst’s work we are also made holy as we then follow him in a life of discipleship (consensus)

35
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Works righteousness

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We earn our salvation by doing good works (aberrant)

36
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Anthiomianism

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Because we are justified through Christ we do need to do good works; we can do whatever we want, including sin. The term comes from the Greek “against” (anti) and “the law” (nomos). (aberrant)

37
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Final redemption

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The completion of God’s work of salvation at the end when Christ returns (consensus)

38
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Calvinism

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An understanding of the process of human salvation that prioritizes God’s work of grace over and against our sinful human agency; he alone saves us (diversity)

39
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Arminianism

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An understanding of the process of human salvation that emphasizes a person’s ability to choose or refuse God’s grace once it is offered to them. We work together, or cooperate, with grace in our salvation (diversity)

40
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Prevenient grace

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God’s grace comes before anything we do; it meets us while we are still sinners. (consensus) Calvinists argue we cannot resist this grace; Arminians argue that we can (diversity)

41
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Monergism

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God “alone” (monos) “works” (energei) in saving us from sin (diversity)

42
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Synergism

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We “work together with” (sunergei) God ni salvation by cooperating with the grace offered us (diversity)

43
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Atonement

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Christ Reconciles us to God through his saving work (consensus)

44
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Deification

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God not only restores us to what we were, but makes us like himself in salvation (diversity)

45
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Christus Victor

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In Jesus’ death and resurrection, he is victorious over the powers of sin, death, the devil and hell. (diversity)

46
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Satisfaction

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In dying for us, Jesus Satisfies God’s Justice (and/or) wrath in its condemnation of human sinfulness (diversity)

47
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Substitute

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In dying on the cross, Jesus takes our place and dies on our behalf, for us (consensus).

48
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Forensic View

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We are guilty in God’s courtroom because of our sin; Jesus offers to take our punishment; therefore, we are acquitted by God (diversity)

49
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Moral Exemplar

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The love Christ shows us on the cross inspires us to love in return. Taken on its
own it is aberrant; as part of a larger picture, it is part of the biblical, Christian consensus

50
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True or False… Jesus is the fulfilment of the promises to Israel

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True

51
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True or False… Salvation is from the Jews

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True (john 4:24)

52
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When was the destruction of the temple

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70 AD

53
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When did Israel receive land and state

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1948

54
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When was Jesus Born?

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~4 AD

55
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What is the difference between objective and subjective salvation

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Objective: The actions and work of Jesus
Subjective: How we experience salvation

56
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How did Jesus rise from the dead

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Immediate action by God through the power of the Holy Spirit

57
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Jesus our deliverer

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exodus!!

58
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Jesus our Redeemer

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Buys us back from slaver

59
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Jesus our Ransome

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Jesus’ blood is the price for our life

60
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Unconditional Election

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We are chosen without condition by God

61
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Reconciliation

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We have peace with God “in Christ”

62
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Regeneration

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We are born again by dying with Christ and experience sanctification

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