Test 4 - Chapters 13-16 Flashcards
All things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to His nature.
Free Will
Those things that God must will according to His own nature.
Necessary will
Gods declared will concerning what we should do or what God commands us to do.
Revealed will
God’s hidden decrees by which He governs the universe and determines everything that will happen.
Secret will
God’s exercise of power over His creation
Soverignty
The false teaching that Jesus lived as an ordinary man until his baptism, at which time God “adopted” him as his “Son” and conferred on him supernatural powers; this teaching thus denies jesus pre-existence and divine nature.
Adoptionism
The erroneous doctrine that denies the full diety of the Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit
Arianism
The heretical teaching that holds that God is not really three distinct persons but only one person who appears to people in different “modes” at different times.
Modalism
Another term for modalism
Modalistic monarchism
A phrase that describes the members of the Trinity as eternally equal in being or existence.
Ontological equality
The heretical teaching that the Son was inferior or “subordinate” in being than God the Father
Subordinationsim
The belief that there are three gods.
Tritheism
An “old earth” theory of creation that view the days of Genesis 1 as extremely long “ages” of time.
Day-age theory
The view that God created the universe but is not now directly involved in the creation.
Deism
The idea that both God and the material universe have eternally existed side-by-side as two ultimate forces in the universe. It implies that there is an eternal conflict between God and the evil aspects of the material universe.
Dualism
The idea that between Genesis 1;1 and 1:2 is a gap of millions of years during which God judged an earlier creation, making it “without form and void” and necessitating a second creation depicted in Genesis 1:3-2:3
Gap-theory
The view that the material universe is all that exists.
Materialism
The idea that the whole universe is God or part of God
Pantheism
The theory that God used the process of evolution to bring about all of the life forms on earth
Theistic evolution
A theory of creation that view the earth as relatively young, perhaps as young as 10,000 or 20,000 years old.
Young earth theory
A theological tradition that seeks to preserve the free choices of human beings and denies Gods providential control over the details of all events.
Arminianism
A theological tradition named after the 16th century French reformer John Calvin, that emphasizes the soverignty of God in all things, mans inability to do spiritual good before God, and the glory of God as the highest end of all that occurs.
Calvinism
Choices made according to our free will
Free choice
All things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to his nature.
Free will
The doctrine that God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he 1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; 2) Cooperates with created things in every action directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do 3)directs them to fulfill his purpose
Providence
Another term for the theological tradition known as Calvinism
Reformed
The properties and actions of created things that bring about events in the world
Secondary cause
Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will or compulsion against our will
Voluntary choices
Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will.
Willing choices
