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Biblical Perspectives Final Flashcards

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A common phrase that
gets used in doctrinal
statements refers to the
Bible as

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the final rule for Faith and practice

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Acts 17:16-34

Specifically Acts 17:31

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Resurrection

Speaks of the ressurection of Christ, Paul doesn’t speak to prove what he says is true

Shows how the church is to wittness and how it can influence culture, church is a wittness to resurrection

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What is a Zeitgeist?

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Each era has its unique spirit that sets it apart.

Zeit , meaning “time,” and Geist, meaning “spirit” or “ghost.”

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What makes a culture

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formally articulated and processed beleifs

unarticulated assumptions

social and physical dimensions of life (institutions, symbols, customs, practices)

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Cultural Narratives

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the people Paul was attempting to reach

assumed that the best a human can do is to make up gods to serve there needs

we dont create Him to meet our needsm he created us, we find in Him the answer to our core needs as people.

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Ethical obligation

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Ethical obligation can only be understood in light of God’s engagement with humanity in Jesus Christ

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Believed primal sin of humanity was to seek to have knowledge of good and evil apart from relationship with God.

The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.. the knowledge of good and evil is there fore seperation from God.

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Humanity and God

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Every human is created by God and therefore exists in realtionship to Him, be it good or bad

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Itches

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5 “itches” every human longs to have scrated

subverted and fulfilled in Christ

understanding them can help us connect the culture to the gospel while preaching the gospel to our hearts as well

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The 5 Magnetic points

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Totality: a way to connect
Norm: a way to live
Deliverance: a way out
Destiny: a way to control
Higher Power: a way beyond

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Magnetic points as questions

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How are you trying to make deeper connections in life?

Describe your basic philosophy of living.

Is there anything you are presently trying to escape?

How do you attempt to control your environment?

What is your concept of “a power beyond yourself”?

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What is anthropology?

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study of the orgigin and development of human societies and cultures.

culture is the learned behavior of people, including languages, belief systems, social strucutes, institutions, and matieral goods

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The Trinity

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There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead, there are three co-eternal and co-equal Persons, the same in nature but distinct in their roles.

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Herman Bavinck

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robust calvinist doctrine and deep piety

wrote reformed Dogmatics

emphasis on lordship of christ over every area of life

God’s soverignty and common grace

  1. grace doesn’t stand antithetical to nature, restores nature
  2. imitiaon fo christ, not simply pietistic theme , propels us into society to imitatie christ in every aspect of our lives
  3. gospel is peral of great price
  4. gospel empraces the whole of human existence

a faith the grasps thees, will necissarily be a faith applited to every area of life.

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The contemporary church and the trinity

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[the contemporary church’s lack of trinitarian awareness] does not bode well for its theological ethics and its engagement in the public square.

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How is ethics possible

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“Ethics is only possible because we are [in Christ], objectively speaking, and because in regenerating us the [Spirit] has, subjectively speaking, opened our eyes to perceive the truth about just ice and shalom so that we might be transformed.”

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(look back a this one) What does it mean to be trinitarian?

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A theological system based on reflection on the historical actions of Jesus of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit as recorded in Scripture.

A self - consciously comprehensive, unified, and synthetic approach to
theology . (Acknowledging that which is patriological, christological, and pneumatological)

A doctrine of God which insists that God is both transcendentally and immanently a personal, acting, relational , and self -giving being.

A formulation of the divine-human relationship which stresses that both divine revelation as well as human faith, prayer, and worship involve divine action and are ensconced in grace.

A communitarian approach to ordering human relationship in the church and in society as a mirror or icon of divine life.

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What does Transcendent and Immanent mean

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Transcendent - means God is outside of humanity’s full experience, perception or grasp

Immanence - He is knowable, perceivable or graspable

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What should the trinatiran outlook be?

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“Trinitarian means that an ontology [(an outlook) of love] is at the center of the universe and that God is for humanity and creation.”

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Satan’s ‘take’

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“But in listening to and believing Satan’s ‘take’ on the
world, which was lies, they made God out to be a liar, rebelled against His authority and grasped at independence.”

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Our eternal identity in Christ

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Ephesians 1:3-14

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a dangerous sense of identity

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  • one that can change
  • one based on tribe (gender identity)
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Humanism

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“An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.”

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hermeneutics of inclusion and hermeneutics of discipleship

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inclusion has trumped discipleships, which are grounded in the consistent witness of Holy Scripture.

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__ intends to form people ___
the Scripture morally with respect to both character and action
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at a deep subconscious level how are people made
people know they have been created for close communion with another - and they seek to find it in romantic relationships
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what does the presence of genders reaveal about the image of God
the same in nature, but distinct in their roles
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how is the image of God resorted to its fullest expression
1 Tim. 2:3-4
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Three main ideas about what scripture means by "the image of God"
the structural view the functional view the relational view
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The Structural view
“ The structural view refers to cerebral, self-reflexive, emotional, and volitional [capacities] to freedom and creativity, all of which are part of the human person.”
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The Functional view
“ The functional aspect builds on the structural aspect , or the capacity of the human image bearer for the creativity , self - reflection, and order that are involved in [work]. The structural aspect is what enables the work and the evaluation of goodness of the work.”
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The Relational view
“ The imago is relational in the sense that it is established by the initiative of God and in covenantal relationship with him, and in the sense that [relationally] that is within the Godhead is also embedded in the first humans .”
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Thanatophobia
fear of death (thanatos - god of death, phobos - fear) death anxiety
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deliverance
a rescue from bondage or danger Deliverance in the Bible is the acts of God whereby He resuces His people form peril
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temporal deliverance
in NT God is always the subject and his people the object - of deliverance in OT serve as symbolic representations of the spiritual deliverance from sin, avaiblae only thorugh christ. He ovvers deliverance from mankind;s greatest peril - sin, evil, death, and judgement
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What does this world fail to understand about the purpose of sexual intimacy?
His Glory - 1 Cor. 10:31 Procreation - Gen. 1:28 Pleasure - SOS 4:11 Intimacy - Gen. 2:24
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the human apart from christ
the human apart from christ is spirtually dead, and sin has distroed every aspect of human think and feeling and doing.
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The relational imapct of the fall
Alienation/distancing between God and man Alienation/distancing between human and human Alienation/distancing between self itself
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progression of Western thought
1. know yourself 2. be yourself 3. define yourself
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The bible says about homosexuality
distinguishes between homosexual behavior and homosexual inclination or attraction difference between active sin and pasive conditon of being tempted
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family a form of divinely institued governemnt
Ephesians 6:1-4
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believers salvation
1. you are saved (justification) 2. you are being saved (sanctification) 3. you are going to be saved (glorification)
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what do humans innatly sense
innate sense of comfort from acknowledgeing higher power, but excel at suppresing and substituting the truth about God replace HIm with other authorities
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4 praticual steps to fruituful engagement
encourages emotional intelligence 1. enetering - stepping inot world and listening to story 2. exploring - searching elements of grace and idols attached to them 3. exposing - showing ideols as destructive frauds 4. evangelizing - showing off gospel fo christ and subversive fulfillment
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greatest form of idolatry
pleasures of consumption, exposes longing of souls for deeper-level connection obsession with sex is a sign we thirst something deeper
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what do poets reveal
cultural longings paul uses poetry of the time, uses "pop culure"
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Covenant marriage and the Trinity
oneness - sexual intamcy, ecclesial entity two, united as one, sharing common union with Jesus
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The totality blueprint
We are created by God We are created in God’s image We are created from the earth We are created for relationships We are created with a purpose”
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how have we gone rogue
We’ve decided to follow our own script and make our own rules. But we can never escape our need for a standard and a sense of accountability, even if it’s only to ourselves. It’s hard-wired into us.”
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what happens when we try to make something finite fill the place only god can
“If we try to make something finite fill the place that only God can fill, we will try to extract an unrealistic level of meaning from that idol. When it does not work, it invites us to try harder. It should not surprise us in a deeply idolatrous society that books on co-dependency and addiction form a growth industry. People feel enslaved to substances, to unwanted behavior, and to each other.”
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what does Jesus say to thomas in John 14:5-7
"i am the way, and the truth, and the life
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Jesus as the good shepherd
“As our good shepherd, Jesus’ control over our lives is neither impersonal nor tyrannical. Our obedience to him is not akin to throwing our hands up and submitting to fate. Instead, we obey in the context of a relationship of love.”
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how does paul counteract common reasons for licentiousness
all things are lawful for me, but no all things are helpful. all things are lawful for me, buil i will not b dominated by anything 1 corinthians 6:12
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how does peter expose the lie of "freedom" apart from christ
they promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption for whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved 2 peter 2:19
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(DO THIS LATER) inderdependence between church and state
interdependence between church and state… That is a relationship not only in which each retains its own identity and governing autonomy but also in which there can be mutual exchange of perspective. Interdependence allows for some two-way communication whilst still acknowledging the boundaries.”
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Church postures
Disengagement – Separatistic. Avoidant. Cooperation – In pursuit of the common good Co-optation – Indiscriminate adoption of cultural norms Confrontation – Direct opposition
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human equaility and universal rights
non existent prior to dominace of judeo-christianity natural assumption was strong and privalage has moral authority universal truths based in sex race or social status, evils ingrained pre chirstain world views
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Biblical Principles for personal finaces
1. worship humbly 2. earn diligently 3. give generously 4. spend carefully 5. eliminate debt methodically 6. invest thoughtfully 7. prepare intentionally 8. rest confidently
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media bias
everyone's biased, that okay. hidden media bias misleads and manipulates and divides
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the authority of scripture
all words in scripture are gods words in such a way that to disbeleive or disobey nay word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God
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might some new fact ever contradict the Bible
imposible, the fact must be false
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our view of scripture impacts our understanding of jesus
christ is the clue to all that is. we donot worship a thing or an it, but a someone someone who is maximally absolute and maximally personal,, transcendent and immanent, we worship one who has reached doen to us in grace, the Word made flesh
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what does Jesus do
Jesus suberisively fulfills each magnetic points
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