Test 1 (sections 1-5) Flashcards
What is a family?
A grouping of individuals who are affecting each other intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and psychologically
What does “intellectually” mean?
Provident a stable environment where individuals can think and learn and where mental achievement is developed and welcomed (an milieu of life long learners)
What does “emotionally” mean?
The home needs to be a place where calm and peace exist; family relationships must be free of abuse in all its forms
What is the greatest gift parents can give their children?
A relationship where mom loves dad and dad loves mom
What does “spiritually” mean?
The home should be a place where spiritual growth is prioritized and practiced: God centered worldview vs. man centered world view
According to C. McDonald what is the first line of defense against the encroaching tide of secular humanism
The Christian home
What does “physically” mean?
The home should be a place where physical fitness / wellness is valued
What does “psychologically” mean?
The home should be a safe place where the soul of each individual person can flourish (cognitive, behavioral, and emotional)
What is the best book dealing with issues of the soul?
The Bible
What is the first pillar of marriage and family?
Humanity is a divine creation
What does it mean that Humanity is a Divine Creation?
- Men and women were created by God (Genesis 1:26-27)
- Man was created distinct from the animal kingdom
What does it mean that man was created by God in His image?
That we are the imago Dei — fundamental biblical doctrine
How do we know we are distinct from the animal kingdom?
- We are made in God’s image and animals are not
- We have rational thought and animals do not
What is the theological meaning of the imago Dei?
We are congenitally, emotionally, volitionally like God, and therefor morally responsible for our actions
How are we constitutionally like God?
We have a mind, emotions,m and will so we have to be held responsible for them
How are we functionally like God?
We have the same functions to act, tend, and care for what God gives us
Was the result of the fall in Gen 3 the defacement or easement of the imago Dei?
Just the defacement; it did not take away the ability the think, emote, or do what God would have us do it just tainted our desire to do it
What is the practical meaning of the imago Dei?
It is the value of the humanity
What is the second pillar of marriage and family?
Humanity has 3 primary responsibilities
What is humanities 3 primary responsibilities stated in the 2nd pillar of marriage?
- To have dominion (Gen 1:26)
- To replenish the earth (Gen 1:28)
- To subdue the earth (Gen 1:28)
What is the third Pillar of marriage and family?
Marriage is a divine institution
What is the divine origin of marriage?
1 Corinthians 7:10
What is the divine order for marriage? (Pecking order)
1 Corinthians 11:3
List of 12 things I wish I knew Before I got Married?
- That being in love is not enough
- Romantic love has 2 stages
- That the saying “like mother like daughter” and visa versa is real
- How to solve disagreements without arguing
- Apologizing is a sign of strength
- Forgiveness is not a feeling
- Toilets are not self cleaning
- That we need a plan for handling money
- That mutual sexual fulfillment is not automatic
- That I was marrying into a family
- That spirituality is to to be equated with “going to church”
- That personality profoundly influences behavior