Adoptionism
The view that Christ is only a man who is “adopted” by God
A broader category for Arianism
Antinomianism
once someone is saved there is no place for following God’s law. There is no place for God’s law.
Apollinarianism
-The Logos assumed a body that had a basic life-giving soul, but not a higher spiritual and rational soul (nous/mind). It is a partial human nature.
Arianism
There is only one God who is eternal and uncreated.
The Son preexists but is NOT coeternal with the Father.
Unity of will and activity between Father and Son but not the same substance/essence.
-“There was once when the Son was not”
-Christ is only the highest creature created.
Arminianism
By God’s universal prevenient grace, the human will is restored and can choose God. One can be saved.
God’s grace is resistible. Act 7:51 The Spirit can be thwarted.
Only acts of the Libertarian Free Will are considered meaningfully free. Grace must be able to be rejected or it is coercive.
Assurance
The preserving power of God in Christ through the Spirit grounds the believer’s hope and comfort in salvation. Rom 8:15; Eph 1:13
It is not a stage of salvation, but it is the subjective certainty, through faith, union with Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit that Christ’s death and life continued work are ours.
Grounds of assurance:
-Infallibility of the promises of God
-Inward Evidences of Grace and Salvation
-The indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The outwards means of assurance is the “ordinary means”
Christ’s Two States
humiliation- Christ takes our flesh from the virgin and then lives a life of sinlessness. Then he dies (depth of his humiliation)
Exaltation - he rises from the dead and ascends to reign over the world (his session) This work continues throughout your entire life.
Two proof texts: Luke 24:26; Acts 2:14-36
Christ must first accomplish salvation and then apply it.
Christology
The study of the person and work of Christ. It involves the teaching of
1. the eternal Son/Word,
2. his deity and his relation to the Father/Spirit.
3. his temporal mission, as it pertains to the incarnation and redemption of humanity.
“Communicato Idiomatum”
The communication of attributes speaking of one nature using attributions of the other because the person bears all attributes of the natures.
(However remember that Christ has two natures that are united in his single person. The person possesses all the attributes of each nature- but no attribute is transferred from one nature to the other)
Covenant of Grace
The manifestation of the Covenant of Redemption in time as the ordained mean of restoring the fallen creature and completing God’s goal for creation.
Christ is the mediator (2 Cor 1:20) and the New Adam who redeems humanity (1 Tim 2:5).
Covenant of Redemption
This covenant grounds salvation in the Triune God’s freedom, will, and grace. It occurs through the mediation of Jesus and for his glory. It involves Christ’s eternal appointment to become incarnate to redeem and become the head of his adopted siblings.
Covenant of Works
The first covenant made with man wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.
He was forbidden to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, lest he die.
It was a covenant with Adam as a representative for all man.
Divine Decrees
Internal act of the divine will by which he determines from eternity freely with absolute certainty, those matters which shall happen in time.
God’s sovereignty is expressed in the decree. He sees and knows all to the very end.
Docetism
The error that views Jesus as only having a divine nature.
A broader category for Apollinarianism.
Effectual Calling
The manifestation in time of God’s elective decree. It transforms our hearts and enlightens our minds. It renews our wills and draws us to Christ Jesus. The application of salvation accomplished through the work of the Spirit. We are united with Christ so that we might have faith and repent. Those who are effectually called are determined by God. The purpose is new life in the Church.
2 Tim 1:9-10
Eternal Procession/Temporal Mission
Eternal Processions: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are eternally One in essence but distinct in personhood. This is shown in eternal relations- the Father is unbegotten, the Son begotten of the Father, the Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son.
Temporal Missions: The acts in time of God the Father sending the Son and the Spirit, enacting the Triune God’s will for salvation and manifesting divine nature.
The temporal missions reveal the external processions.
Eutychianism
The human and divine natures mix to create a new nature (a God-man nature)
In this view, the incarnation is a Jesus smoothie
This would mean that Jesus neither shares our nature nor shares God’s nature. Makes Him nowhere near a mediator.
“Extra Calvinisticum”
Even while Jesus is in the manger he is the Logos and he maintains the universe. He is extra carnem (beyond the flesh) during his earthly ministry and perpetually.
Divine Foreknowledge
Models of foreknowledge: Passive vision (God knows the future because it will happen)
Middle Knowledge (knowledge of future contingency based on human willing)
Divine Decrees (the decrees are the medium from which God knows things)
Four states of the will
- Innocence before the fall
- Total depravity and bondage of the will after the fall
- Restored will in regeneration
- Will perfected in glorification
Glorification
The end and consummation of salvation is the glorification of the saints.
The complete reversal of the Fall in the human creature through Christ by the Spirit unto the Glory of God.
God’s glory will be fully manifest through union with Christ in redeemed humanity to all creation for the Glory of God
Aspects of glorified state:
-Glorified body
-Perfect holiness in God’s presence
-Perfect love for God in the heart
-New Heavens and New Earth
-Experiencing the Beautific Vision through Christ via the Spirit.
Grace
Divine Grace: the Triune God’s disposition of unmerited favor towards his creatures from which he acts for the creature’s good and his glory.
Creational Grace: God’s loving relation to his creation and humanity before the Fall establishing its order towards his glory.
Common Grace: God’s loving and merciful relation towards the whole of the created order and humanity after the Fall.
Special Grace- God’s unmerited favor to the elect to redeem them in Jesus Christ via the Holy Spirit.
Hamartiology
The study of sin and its origion, nature, spread, and scope. It deals with questions considering how it is passed down and its effects.
Homoousios
“Of the same substance”
