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Test #3 Flashcards

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Ecclesiology

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A word about the church

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The New Testament Church - Biblical images

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The people of God, A servant people, the body of Christ, the community of the Spirit

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Biblical Images - The people of God

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Those people chosen by God for covenant relationship with himself.
- “I will be your God, and you will be my people (covenant formula)”
- Those people chosen by God for a special relationship and a special task (spreading Gospel)

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Biblical Images - A servant people

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  • God sets the Israelites free so that they can serve him
  • Jesus himself came to serve his people by giving his life (Mark 10:45)
  • Christians need to recognize that the Christian life is a life of service, even costly service.
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Biblical Images - The body of Christ

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  • Those people who are unitied to each other as one body, with one head (Jesus), one spirit (the HS), and one father (God the Father)
  • 1 Corinthians 12 - the church is like a human body, which has many different parts, but each is important for accomplishing a shared tasks
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Biblical Images - the Community of the spirit

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  • The church are those people who anticipates God’s future through the power of the HS
    - They have seen God’s future
    - They live accordingly to God’s future
    1. Strangers are welcome
    2. Divisions are healed
    3. Power is used for the good of others
    4. The weak and oppressed are valued and raised up
    - The church isn’t the Kingdom of God but it should point to the Kingdom of God
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Marks of the Church

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What makes the Church the Church (Holy, Catholic, Apostolic)

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Marks of the Church - Holy

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Grounded in the holiness of Christ, accessed through the HS. The church is a community of forgiven sinners, the Church should be moving towards the holiness of Jesus (becoming more like Jesus), and they mess up, they are willing to repent and ask for forgiveness

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Marks of the Church - Catholic

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The church is universal/united. (but….the church is divided!) It’s for the whole world (geographical catholicity), is for the whole of humanity (anthropological catholicity), declarers the whole gospel for the whole remedy of sin (evangelical and soteriological catholicity), the church extends through the whole of time (Chronological catholicity)

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The Great Schism

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1054 AD. The Catholic church divided according to leadership and geography. The western church under the Bishop of Rome, is now called the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern Church, under the bishop of Constantinople became the Eastern Orthodox Church

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16th Century - Protestant Reformation

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Various theological leaders wanted to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but instead were kicked out and formed Christian churched of their own - Protestant churches. (Martin Luther, John Calvin - Protestant movement divided even further [Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Reformed, Quaker, Mennonite, Assembly of God, Non-denom., etc])

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Marks of the Church - Apostolic

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is based on the teaching to the apostles. Jesus gave right and true revelation of himself to his apostle, and they passed that along to the Church (apostolic authority). In the early years of the Church, leaders who could tace their spiritual lineage back to an apostle who has apostolic authority -their teaching was considered trustworthy.

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Tasks of the Church

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Worship God, edify and educate believers, missions to the world

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Spiritual Gifts

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The HS gives special gifts/abilities to believers so that they can do and be what the church is supposed to do and be.

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Spiritual Gifts (Conclusions)

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Spiritual gifts are the basis for the church
Spiritual gifts are the basis for the Priesthood of all believers
Spiritual gifts are the basis for roles in the church

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Sacraments – 2 definitions

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  1. A sacrament is an outward, visible sign (material reality) of an inward, invisible grace (God’s real work on our behalf)
  2. An ordinance is an act which Christ ordained and therefore, which we practice us a sign of out obedience
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Baptism – 2 views

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Infant and Believers baptism

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Infant Baptism

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Based on the idea that God makes Covenants w/ whole communities (communal covenants). At birth, at confession of faith, emphasizes God’s work for us. (Communities could mean families such as Abraham and all his descendants)

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Believers Baptism

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The idea that baptism follows a confession of faith in Jesus Christ

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The Lord’s Supper

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Participating in the community of God’s people, the covenant meal

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The Lord’s Supp. - Transubstantation

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Roman Catholic view, was formalized at the Council of Trent. When the priest consecrates the elements (bread and wine) a real change takes place. The bread becomes the flesh of Christ and wine becomes the blood of Christ.

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Transubstantiation - accidents (philosophical basis)

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Aristotle said this. a thing’s outward, physical appearance (think of senses)

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Transubstantiation - substance (philosophical basis)

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Aristotle said this. A thing’s essential being, a thing’s substance never changes and it is from its substance that a thing derives its identity.

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The Lord’s Supp - Consubstantiation

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Lutheran view. The flesh and blood of Christ are “in, with, and under” the bread ad wine. The bread and wine have joined to Christ’s flesh and blood but does not literally turn into his flesh and blood. (Iron and fire, the iron has been heated, or joined, by, or with, fire) Luther disagrees w/ the Catholic use of Greek philosophy and therefore disagrees that the bread’s substance changes. A person who partakes of the supper w/ faith, really is untied to Christ’s flesh and blood. But apart from faith, it’s just bread and wine. REAL PRESENCE - YES Luther

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The Lord’s Supp - Dynamic Presence

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Reformed view (John Calvin). Christ is spiritually present in the Lord’s Supper, but he is not physically present. REAL PRESENCE - YES. (Look over notes)

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The Lord’s Supp - Memorial View

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Radical Reformed (Ulrich Zwingli). The bread nad wine are merely signs. They are not seals. The bread and win point to Jesus’s death and resurrection, but they are simply reminders of this past event. Nothing unique is happening in the Lord’s Supper itself. It is like a living sermon. REAL PRESENCE - NO

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Eschatology

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A word about God’s future

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The Importance of Land in the OT

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Relationship between God and Israel. God is a land-giver - land allows his people to flourish. Provides food, shelter, and safety and is the place where God meets his people. God gives land to his people. God gives the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve, God gives the whole world to Noah and his descendants. God promises to give Abraham and his descendants the Land of Canaan. Gives Moses and the people of Israel Canaan. God brings exiles home, etc, etc

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God’s future in the NT - Jesus

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Jesus promises to return to Earth, promises to reward the faith - the Earth itself (“The meek will inherit the earth”) - the earth will be renewed and restored, Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus tells us that Jesus is opposed to death and he’s saddened by it and he is able to reverse it, Jesus himself was raised from the dead

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God’s future in the NT - Paul

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Free at last - Romans 8 - Paul is talking about the freedom creation itself will experience when Jesus returns. Because humans are bad stewards, the crested world is in bondage to decay. ANALOGY - A woman in labor is suffering, but the suffering will end in new life. Resurrection - that when Jesus returns he will raise his people from the dead. Spiritual bodies - in the resurrection, God’s people will be perfectly filled with and guided by the HS

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God’s future in the NT - Peter

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Assures them that Jesus IS coming back. Compares the return of Christ to Noah’s flood (just like in Noah’s day the earth was destroyed by a flood, so when Jesus returns, the earth will be destroyed by fire. The earth will be cleansed or purified by fire, “Fire” often refers to God’s presence), the return of Christ will cleanse and purify the earth.

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God’s future in the NT - John

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Has a vision of God’s future, Jesus’ return to earth and make it his eternal home, he restores and renews the earth itself, he raises God’s people from the dead, he destroys death and everything that goes along with it, River of Life which has the Tree of Life on either side- bears its fruit one a month and the fruit is for everyone.

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Heaven (8 things)

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  1. Invisible Reality
  2. Heaven as God’s home
  3. A world at war
  4. The world of the dead
  5. Impacting life on earth
  6. God’s store-cupboard
  7. To be cleansed
  8. Heaven on Earth
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Heaven as God’s home

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Its the place where God dwells

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A world at war

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other spiritual beings (angels) also dwelt in heaven and some angels are in rebellion against God (demons) and some angels serve God

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The world of the dead

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this is the place where spirit/soul of a person goes after the person has died. The dead wait in heaven

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Impacting life on Earth

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what happens in heaven affects life on earth - positively and negatively

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God’s store-cupboard

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heaven is God’s workshop for the future. Jesus is at work for us in heaven preparing our future

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To be cleansed

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heaven, too, will be cleansed of sin and the powers of sin

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Heaven on Earth

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when Jesus returns, heaven and earth (the spiritual and the physical) will be perfectly joined and united. This is already begun now - Jesus has sent the HS

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Intermediate State

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the time between when a person dies and when Jesus comes back (to earth). It is spent in heaven

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Sheol

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the place of the dead (the grave). God makes an eternal covenant with Israel

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Hades

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Hades is a waiting room, Greek word for the world of the dead, “Heaven.” Hades is is heaven, but there’s more to heaven than just hades. (layover flight). A place where those who have not trusted in Jesus wait

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Paradise

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place where dead are, but they are w/ Jesus

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Biblical Language

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God’s future is grounded in Christ’s resurrection and return. God’s future involves all of creation. Two things we can realize from this are that our current situation does not have the last word and our current situation matters to God.

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Parousia

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Arrival or coming (advent). A word used to talk about when an important person (Roman Emperor) would visit a town or region.

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Resurrection

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When Jesus returns, he will raise his people from the dead. In the resurrection we will be glorified – we’ll have ew power for life.

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Final Judgement

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When Jesus returns, he will bring judgement on sin and death. Hell will be created for Satan and his demons and those who continue to reject Christ.

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Eternal Life

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Characterized by right relationship with God (perfect trust, love, and obedience), each other (respect, dignity, kindness, and service), and the created world (work and care; stewardship.)

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Eshatological Ethics

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if this future is real, what does that mean for how we live now? We should have praise for God, justice for humanity and the earth

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Spiritual bodies

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in the resurrection, God’s people will be perfectly filled with and guided by the HS

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