Things I get wrong Flashcards
Resurrection
Matt 28:1-20
Ascension (promise to send HS)
Luke 24:50-51
Acts 1:9-11
(John 14:16)
Sabellianism
modalism (Christ’s baptism Matt 3:16)
Dynamic monarchianism
adoptionism (Jn 1:1)
Verse that we will be resurrected
1 Cor 15:20-23
Penal Substitution
The view that Christ in his death bore the just penalty of God for our sins as a substitute for us
• 1 Pet 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed”
Redemption
Christ’s saving work viewed as an act of “buying back” sinners out of their bondage to sin and to Satan through the payment of a ransom
• Mark 10:45 “and give his life as a ransom for many”
Reconciliation
To overcome our separation from God, we needed someone to provide reconciliation and thereby bring us back into fellowship with God.
• 2 Cor 5:18-19 God “through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself”
Propitiation
To remove us from the wrath of God that we deserved, Christ died as a propitiation for our sins.
• 1 John 4:10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins”
Sacrifice
To pay the penalty of death that we deserved because of our sins, Christ died as a sacrifice for us.
• Heb 9:26 “He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself”
Assurance
The internal sense we may have based upon certain evidences in our lives that we are truly “born again” and will persevere as Christians until the end of our lives (perseverance)
Rom 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God
(1) Do I have trust in Christ for salvation? (Heb 3:14 “We share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end”)
(2) Evidence of regenerating work of HS in my life? (Gal 5:22)
(3) Long term pattern of growth? (2 Pet 1:8 “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing…”)
Conversion
Our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation
• Acts 20:21 Paul testified “both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Prevenient grace
prevenient grace is the grace God gives a sinner to enable him to exercise the faith on the basis of which he is regenerated.
Rom 8:30 “and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.”
grace
God’s goodness toward those who deserve only punishment
Rom 3:24
mercy
God’s goodness toward those in misery and distress.
Ps 103:8 “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love”
Incommunicable
- 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 (“nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything” Acts 17:25)
- 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)
Compatibalism
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); (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do (concurrence); and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes (government) (Heb. 1:3; Eph. 1:11; Dan. 4:35).
Within God’s providence humans are still responsible and their actions make a difference (John 16:24).
Open Theism
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)
Foreknowledge
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)
Theodicy
- 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
Solutions to Theodicy
- 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.
Pantheism
God is the universe and the universe is God - there is only one reality - certain forms of Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Christian Science, and most New Age religions
Illumination of the HS
The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in believers to interpret, understand, and obey the Scriptures
1 Cor. 2:12 - Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
HS’s work in unbelievers
John 16:8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment
