Theology Proper Flashcards
What 5 topics fall under Theology Proper?
Rational arguments for God’s existence, attributes of God, the Names of God, the trinity, and God’s plan.
Name 4 philosophical arguments for the existence of God.
Cosmological, teleological, ontological, and moral arguments.
Name 4 of God’s Incommunicable attributes.
Self-existence, Immutability, Infinity, Unity.
Name 5 of God’s communicable attributes.
Spiritual, intellectual, moral, sovereign, and powerful.
Name 8 of God’s names that start with “Y” and what they mean.
Yahweh, Yahweh Shalom (Yahweh is peace); Yahweh Maccaddeshem (Yahweh who is present); Yahweh Raah (Yahweh my Shepherd); Yahweh Shammah (Yahweh who is present); Yahweh Rapha (Yahweh who heals); Yahweh Elohim (Yahweh, the mighty one); and Yeshuah (Jesus; God saves)
Give 11 of God’s names that don’t start with “Y” and what they mean.
Elohim (Yahweh, the mighty one); Adonai (Lord or Master); El Olam (The mighty one, eternal); El Elyon (The most high mighty one); El Roi (The mighty one who sees); El Shaddai ( Almighty God); Christos (Christ; Messiah, Anointed one); Kurios (Lord); Soter(Savior), Abba(Father), and Theos (God).
What does the doctrine of the Trinity affirm?
It affirms that one God exists eternally in three indistinguishiable persons (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit). There are not three gods (tritheism) nor one God who manifests himself in three different modes (modalism).
Give two verses that prove Jesus is divine.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Titus 2:13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Give two verses that prove the Holy Spirit is God.
Matthew 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land? Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!”
What is the plan or decree of God according to the Westminster Shorter Catechism?
“The decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.”
What are infralapsarians and what are supralapsarians?
Infralapsarians think God decreed first to create , then to permit the fall, then to save some and condemn others, to provide a redeemer, etc.
Supralapsarians first decreed to save the elect and condemn the non-elect, and then to create the elect and non-elect, and then to permit the fall and finally to provide a redeemer.
