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Theology Proper Flashcards

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How can we know God?

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  • Unbelievers: “because God has shown it to them” (Rom 1:19)
  • Believers: “No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Matt 11:27)
  • We can never fully know God: “his greatness is unsearchable” (Ps 145:3)
  • But we can know him truly (not exhaustively, but we can know true things about him) (Jn 17:17)
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Communicable and Incommunicable

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No attribute will ever be fully communicable or incommunicable (“God’s thoughts are higher than ours” Isa 55:9). It’s better to say that communicable are more shared with us and incommunicable are less shared with us.

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Theology Proper

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  • A religious belief system about God or ultimate reality
  • Ordered, systematic study or interpretation of Christian faith and experience of God based on God’s divine self-revelation
  • Applies these truths to human experience
  • The doctrine of God, upon which every essential Christian teaching is dependent for its validity.
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Names of God in Scripture

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In a broad sense, God’s “name” is equal to all that the Bible and creation tell us about God.

  • From creation: a lamb (Isa 53:7), lion, eagle, sun, morning star, fire, etc
  • Human experience: husband (Isa 54:5), father, bridegroom, physician
  • Having parts of the body: God’s face (Ex 30), eyes, heart, mouth, nose
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What is God?

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An incorporeal (spirit without body), personal being; the source of all moral obligation, and the greatest conceivable being existent (Isaiah 6:1-8)
o Transcendence - an independence from creation, not subject to the laws of creation - (Gen 1)
o Immanent - God is actively involved in creation. (Matt. 1:23 - Immanuel, “God with us” in Christ)

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Trinity

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God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God (1 essence, 3 persons- Nicea 325, Constantinople 381)

  • One God: Deut 6:4
  • Father and son as persons: 1 Cor 8:6
  • HS: Ananias lying Acts 5:3
  • Trinity: Jesus’ baptism Matt 3:16-17
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Perichoresis

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  • Greek term used to describe the triune relationship between each person of the Godhead- a co-indwelling, co-inhering, and mutual interpenetration.
  • It allows the individuality of the persons to be maintained, while insisting that each person shares in the life of the other two.
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Modalism

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(Sabellianism) God is one person who appears in different modes
- dealt with at Nicea

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Monarchianism

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Attempt to safeguard monotheism and unity of the godhead by denying the personal reality of the Son and the Spirit as separate from the Father. Two forms:

  • Adoptionism: (dynamic monarchism) Jesus was adopted as God’s Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension (John 1:1)
  • Unitarianism: (anti-trinitarianism) starts with Arian denial of the doctrine of the Trinity (thus asserting that the Father begat the Son at a point in time so that the Son is not eternal). Modern Unitarians generally speak of Jesus as an ethical ideal, a great moral teacher or even a messenger from God. But in Unitarian thought Jesus cannot be the eternal Son of the eternal Father, because God is one, not three persons (Deut. 6:4)
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Arianism

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Because God is one, Jesus could not have also been truly God.
-Arius condemned as heretical at Nicaea (John 17:3 - And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent)

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Importance of studying the attributes of God

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  • A study of God’s attributes is key to the rest of evangelical theology
  • We cannot recognize false “gods” without knowing the true God
  • To beware of false prophets (Matt. 7:15),
  • To test the spirits (1 John 4:1)
  • To watch out for the doctrines of demons (1 Tim. 4:1).
  • For defending the faith (Phil. 1:7; 1 Peter 3:15; Jude 3)
  • For understanding ourselves and humankind, since we are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27)
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Attributes Describing God’s Being (Communicable)

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i. Spirituality – God is not made of matter, has no parts or dimensions (Jn 4:24 “God is Spirit”)
ii. Invisibility – God’s total essence, all of his spiritual being, will never be able to be seen by us, yet he shows himself to us through visible, created things

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Mental Attributes (Communicable)

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—Knowledge (omniscience): God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible (past, present, and future) in one simple eternal act (1 John 3:20 “he knows everything”).
—Faithfulness: God will always do what he has said and fulfill what he has promised (Num. 23:19).

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Moral Attributes (Communicable)

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—Grace: God’s kindness toward those who deserve only punishment (Rom. 9:15).
—Holiness: God is separated from sin and devoted to seeking his own honor (Lev 19:2).
—Peace (order): In God’s being and actions he is separate from all confusion and disorder, yet he is continually active in innumerable well-ordered, fully controlled, simultaneous actions (1 Cor. 14:33).

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Attributes of Purpose (Communicable)

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i. Will – he approves and determines to bring about every action necessary for the existence and activity of himself and all creation

Luke 22:24 - Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

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“Summary” Attributes (Communicable)

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i. Perfection – Matt. 5:48 - You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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Name the incommunicable attributes

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  • Independence (aseity): God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy (Acts 17:24)
  • Unchangeableness (immutability): God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet he acts and feels emotions in response to different situations (Num 23:19)
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God’s Sovereignty

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As the sovereign king over his kingdom, God has supreme power and authority over all of creation. Psalm 103:19 - The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

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Human Responsibility

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Humans exercise choice and make real decisions regarding the events of their lives. Psalm 2:2 - The kings of the earth set themselvs, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed

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Determinism

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Any theory that sees all events, including human behavior, as the necessary result of prior causes. Naturalistic determinism sees all events as part of an inflexible and unalterable chain of cause and effect in the physical universe. Theological determinism sees all events as being directly caused by God. All events that happen are pre-ordained, or predestined to happen, by a monotheistic deity, or that they are destined to occur given its omniscience.

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Compatibilism (aka reformed view of providence)

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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 (preservation Heb 1:3); (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do (concurrence Eph 1:11); and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes (government Dan 4:35)

Within God’s providence humans are still responsible and their actions make a difference (John 16:24).

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Foreknowledge

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A biblical term (πρόγνωσις) that literally means “to know in advance.” Some theologians view foreknowledge as referring to God’s selective choice of individuals or groups of people with whom to enter into a loving relationship. Foreknowledge understood in this sense is more than simply knowing events in advance of their happening (although this may be included) because the Scriptures seem to use the term in a more relational than chronological sense. Thus the foreknowledge of God involves God’s favorable disposition to certain people, even before they existed. (Acts 2:23 - this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God)

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Open Theism

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the view that God chose to create a world that included free agents, and thus a world where possibilities are real. The future is pre-settled, to whatever degree God wants to pre-settle it and to whatever degree the inevitable consequences of the choices of created agents have pre-settled it. But the future is also open to whatever degree agents are free to resolve possibilities into actualities by their own choices. (Ex 32 - and the Lord relented)

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Theodicy

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  • The study that focuses on why God allows good and evil in the world
  • A response to the problem of evil in the world
  • Attempts to logically, relevantly, and consistently defend God as omnipotent, all-loving, and just, despite the reality of evil
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False responses to theodicy

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a. SADISM: God is an all-evil God who likes to hurt and torture people (James 1:17)
b. ILLUSIONISM: All evil is illusory and not real, thus even the most objectionable parts of life are good parts of God’s plan
c. DUALISM:
i. The idea that good and evil are equal/opposing forces
ii. God isn’t good or sovereign over all
iii. Good vs. evil are in contention with each other and equaled out against one another
d. FINITE GODISM: God is incapable of intervening and human evil rules the day; God can’t help.
e. ATHEISM: God does not exist

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Solutions to theodicy

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  • Theonomy—God is law! Man is man and God is God, we shouldn’t question God. God is the law and don’t ask or question (Job 40; Rom. 9:14-16)
  • Free will Theism—God gave man free will and when man chose to disobey evil come into being (Gen. 1-3)
  • Soul-building—we are incomplete and our souls are being developed through suffering (Jas. 1:12-13; Rom. 5:3-5; 1 Pet. 1:6-9, 4:12-13, Irenaeus)
  • Greater Good—God allows evil because it helps to achieve the greater good (Jesus, Job, Joseph —> Gen. 50:15-21)
  • The Secret of God – Deut 29 secret things belong to God.
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God will punish evil

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Rom 3:25 “This was to show God’s righteousness because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins”

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