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Unit 3 Flashcards

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Atonement

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“at-one-ment” - Christ’s atoning work restores our “at one” relationship with God

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Christus Victor

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atonement model focused on Christ’s cosmic triumph over sin and death

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Imputed righteousness

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God imputes Christ’s righteousness to us. It is credited to us so we are seen as righteous.

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Justification

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God’s work in forgiving us sinners and making us right with God.

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Monergistic

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Literally: working alone, this term refers to God as the only actor in salvation

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Prevenient Grace

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A gift of grace from God that comes before us, preceding anything we do.

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Repentance

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turning away from sin and toward God

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Sanctification

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a gift of grace from God. God’s work in making us godly, holy, and like Christ.

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Satisfaction

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atonement model focused on Christ’s taking our place to pay the price of sin

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Soteriology

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the doctrine of treating matters of salvation

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Synergistic

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Literally: working together, this terms refers to God working together with human beings in the process of salvation.

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List and explain the Remonstrant Articles of Arminian doctrine in your own words

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Prevenient Grace
Conditional Election
Unlimited Atonement
Resistible Grace
Blessed Assurance

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List and explain the five points of Calvinist doctrine agreed upon at the Synod of Dort

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Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saint

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What are three examples of evidence for the historical truth of Jesus’ resurrection?

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Empty tomb
Women witnesses
Multiple Accounts

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What was Jesus’ body like after the resurrection?

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Glorified body

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You need to be able to explain each of the atonement theories we discussed in class

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Substitution & Satisfaction
Cristus Victor

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Describe the four parts, or movements, of salvation: beginnings, justification, sanctification, and final redemption

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B- repenting
J- Imputed righteousness
S- gods work in making us more like God
FR- final victory over sin

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Anthropomorphize

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to form God in our own image instead of remembering it is the other way around

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Holiness

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shown in divine righteousness
the standard of goodness, justice, and truthfulness

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Pentecost

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the Holy Spirit coming, giving people gifts, and starting the church

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Pneumatology

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doctrine of the Holy Spirit

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How does C.S. Lewis explain the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

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23
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How did the Holy Spirit bring equality?

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Everyone had access to the Holy Spirit

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What does it mean that the Holy Spirit is “parakletos

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It is an intercessor, advocate, comforter

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Explain prevenient grace, justifying grace, and sanctifying grace

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PG - innately in everybody
JG - grace that justifies
SC - grace that sanctifies

26
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What are the characteristics of spiritual gifts?

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Given by the Spirit
For the common good
For the mission

27
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Explain the Means of Grace, and give examples of Works of Mercy and Works of Piety

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Ways God works invisibly within us, strengthening and confirming our faith so our lives are pervaded by grace and we are made increasingly holy.
Piety -> for ourself
Mercy -> for others

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Apostolic

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a mark of the church indicating that the church is the same church as that of the apostles

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Catholic

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this term implies both universality and wholeness. Used of the church universal throughout the whole world and of all time

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Consubstantiation

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view of the Lord’s Supper (associated with Luther) in which Christ is truly present in and with the bread

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Marks of the church

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When it is faithful, the church will embody these visible indicators. According to the Nicene creed, there are 4, unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolic

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Means of grace

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a tangible thing that God gave us in order to connect with Him and others in a unique way

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Mixed body

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the claim that, this side of heaven, the church will always have both righteous and unrighteous persons, and that the work of separating them is God’s, not ours

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Ordinances

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view of the sacraments (associated with Zwingli) as primarily symbolic and done out of obedience

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Priesthood of all believers

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protestant emphasis which limits sacraments to church practices that truly belong to all Christians

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Sacrament

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a visible sign of spiritual grace

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List and explain the two biblical images of the Church. Describe what each means

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Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:27)
Bride of Christ (Rev. 21:9)
Pillar and Foundation of Truth (1 Tim 3:15)

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List and explain the four marks of the church

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unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolic.

39
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What are the three features of sacraments?

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Tangible
Communal
God has made promises about them

40
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List the 7 Catholic sacraments

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Baptism
Eucharists (Lord’s Supper)
Reconciliation
Confirmation
Reconciliation
Marriage
Ordination
Anointing the sick

41
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What are some arguments in favor of infant baptism?

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Parallel to circumcision, the NT model of baptizing whole families

42
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Make an argument in favor of believer baptism

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new testament model of baptizing people who have made a profession of faith

43
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Explain transubstantiation, consubstantiation, spiritual presence, and the memorial view of Communion. Who practices it? What realities are present?

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Eschatological reservation

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Acting in the knowledge that something is always reserved for the not-yet purposes

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Eschatological tension

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the double aspect of last things, which are both already and not yet

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Eschatology

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the doctrine concerning “last things” heaven, hell, death, judgment, the second coming of Christ, and the Kingdom of God

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General resurrection

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we, like Jesus, will be raised to new life in a new creation

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Intermediate state

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the life of the soul in the between an individual’s death and the day of resurrection

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Parousia

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literally being in our presence. Used to refer to the second coming of Christ.

50
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Purgatory

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positing a postmortem process in which God purges all that remains of sin, often over a period of time, for those who have died in Christ but are not yet Holy

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Realized eschatology

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acting as though God’s purposes have, in fact, been fully accomplished in the present, thereby forfeiting future hope and discounting the fullness of the kingdom which has not yet been revealed

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Resurrection

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the distinctive and definitive Christian belief concerning the afterlife that humans will be transformed as whole persons, body and soul together

53
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What does Jones mean by living between the already and the not yet?

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Living in between Jesus already saving us on the cross and His second coming

54
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What are the three theories for what happens in the interim state between death and Parousia?

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Soul Sleep
Purgatory
Paradise

55
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What do we know about our post-resurrection bodies based on Jesus’ resurrection?

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they will be glorified bodies

56
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Prevenient Grace

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Available to all people

57
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Conditional Election

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In God’s foreknowledge knows who will respond to prevenient grace and who won’t

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Unlimited Atonement

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Christ died for ALL humanity, not just a few

59
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Resistible Grace

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Humans are able to choose or not chose God

60
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Blessed Assurance

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We are able with the Holy Spirit to walk down that path of righteousness

61
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The 2 Protestant sacraments

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Baptism
Eucharist (Lord’s Supper)

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