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Theology Exam 2 Flashcards

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(Worldview)
Everything is “god” and thus everything is divine

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Monism

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(Worldview)
The spirit is pure, however all material is evil

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Dualism

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(Worldview)
All things are being one, reality is an illusion

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Pantheism

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(Worldview)
God is present, but not active within His world

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Deism

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(Worldview)
The human mind is the measure of all things

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(Secular) Humanism

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(Theological Term)
God is actively governing and guiding His world and will act against nature at times to do it

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Supernaturalism

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(Theological Term)
God provided the world with built-in natural system which does not need miracles

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Providentialism

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(Theological Term)
God is 100% involved in His world, and humans with science are also 100% involved

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Noncompetitive Agency

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(Theological Term)
God is sovereign and just in His ways which must be reconciled with evil in His world

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Theodicy

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(Theological Term)
God’s seemingly contradictive ways must be held together to understand His purposes

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Creative Tension

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(Term)
The top-down act of God making His person/purposes known to the world of humans

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Revelation

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(Term)
The words of Scripture that are “breathed-out” by God and then recorded by human authors

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Inspiration

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(Term)
The view that the words of Scripture are without factual errors in the original autographs

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Inerrancy

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(Term)
The conviction that the Bible is without falsehood, will never fail, and is hence totally reliable

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Infallibility

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(Term)
The Spirit’s inner guidance that enables the believer to understand/interpret the Bible

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Illumination

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(Term)
The rule by which God’s Spirit has directed the early Church to standardize the sixty-six books

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Canonicity

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(Bible Reference Content)
All Scripture is God-breathed so its source is totally trustworthy, and can equip us to do right

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2 Timothy 3:16

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(Bible Reference Content)
The spirit used human agents whom He guided and enabled to write exactly what He wanted

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2 Peter 1:21

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(Bible Reference Content)
Only the Holy Spirit knows God’s thoughts, so He can also help us understand God’s Word

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1 Corinthians 2:12

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(Bible Reference Content)
God’s saving Grace came to us through Jesus, and it also trains us to live godly in this world

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Titus 2:11

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(Bible Reference Content)
The Spirit’s power in believers is there to fulfill God’s plan so He can do for us beyond our asking

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Ephesians 3:20

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(Bible Reference Content)
God’s Word is protected from all deceit, and we are warned not to add to or subtract from it

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Revelation 22:18

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(Theologian)
Known as the defender of the Apostolic faith and a unifier of the Church

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Irenaeus

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(Theologian)
Gnostic heretic rejected the OT God, he unbiblically believed He created an evil world

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Marcion

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(Theologian)
Mission preacher that believed God is Lord over all creation yet active in His World

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Lottie Moon

26
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(Theologian)
Reformer outlined 3 concentric circles by which God’s Word is increasingly mediated

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Martin Luther

27
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(Theologian)
Scholar that stood against a natural theology that we can know God by reason

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Karl Barth

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(Theologian)
Teacher who believes God still speaks through visions, not authoritative as the Bible

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Chris Gnanakan

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(Theory of Inspiration)
The 66 books of the Bible are an insightful product of gifted writers and still inspire us

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Intuition

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(Theory of Inspiration)
Biblical authors had a high degree of inner spiritual perception to shed light on God’s will

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Illumination

31
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(Theory of Inspiration)
The thoughts or concepts were God’s, but the words expressed were of human writers

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Dynamic

32
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(Theory of Inspiration)
God selected the exact original words He desired that His Spirit ensures humans wrote

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Verbal

33
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(Theory of Inspiration)
God spoke the Bible’s words and human writers mechanically recorded like secretaries

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Dictation

34
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Sacred Scripture book of Hinduism

One of the oldest, longest of all sacred scriptures
Defines Hindu spirituality

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Verdas

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Sacred Scripture book of Buddhism

Encouraged faith in god-nature in human beings

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Lotus Sutra

36
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Sacred Scripture book of Judaism

Commentaries by expert teacher on the divinely revealed Law for Jewish people

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Mishnah

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Sacred Scripture book of Islam

Collection of saying & activities of Islam’s founding prophet that’s normative

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Hadith

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(Scripture Book)
Biased version of the Bible that incorporates its unique teachings to modify sacred Scriptures

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New World Translation

39
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(Scripture Book)
A collection of founder’s prophetic revelation that all followers deem as sacred

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Doctrine and Covenants

40
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(Which religion?)
There is no Creator-creature divide, yet divine manifestation may visit the earth

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Hinduism

41
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(Which religion?)
There is no “god”, the goal of the human soul is to empty itself and escape earth

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Buddhism

42
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(Which religion?)
There is one sovereign Creator who providentially (by chance) responds to human needs

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Judaism

43
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(Which religion?)
Fully submits to the absolute will of the earth’s Creator and Judge

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Islam

44
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(Which religion?)
Only one name for the transcendent Creator who will judge the world

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Jehovah Witnesses

45
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(Which religion?)
The Father God was once a man who created the earth from preexistent matter

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Mormonism

46
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(View of Creation)
God made the world and all life forms in some 6000 years as the Bible literally teaches

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Young-earth creationism

47
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(View of Creation)
God made the earth billions of years ago but humanity more recently as science shows

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Old-earth creationism

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(View of Creation)
God progressively created the Earth and superintends humanity represented by Adam

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Evolutionary Creation

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