Chapell Meeks 2 A - Theology: Intro Rb

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What Is Meant By "Systematic Theology?"

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arranging the teaching of Scripture in a coherent fashion, expressing it in a contemporary form, and relating it to issues of practical Christian concern.

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What Is The "Reformed Faith?" (Explain As To A New Christian.)

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A particular approach to understanding God and the Bible through stressing what the Bible stresses:
1) the need of man
2) the grace of God
3) the absolute sovereignty of God
4) the centrality of the Bible to all of life
5) Covenantal doctrine of Scripture
6) Sufficiency of the work of Christ
7) Effectual work of the Holy Spirit

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Systematic Theology: God

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His being, Attributes and Works

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Systematic Theology: Humanity

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Imago Dei, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration

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Systematic Theology: Person & Work of Christ

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Person, States, and Office

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Systematic Theology: Person & Work of Holy Spirit (pneumatology)

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Person, Work

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Systematic Theology: Church (ecclesiology)

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Includes the means of Grace

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Systematic Theology: Last Things (eschatology)

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The Last Things

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Systematic Theology: Scripture

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God has revealed himself authoritatively through His Word

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Systematic Theology: Salvation

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Application and the Work of Redemption

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What are some divisions of Systematic Theology?

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1) God 2) Humanity 3) Person and Work of Christ 4) Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 5) Salvation 6) Church 7) Last Things (Eschatology) 8) Scripture

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Total Depravity

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Humans begin life with all aspects of their nature corrupted by the effects of sin. Total depravity is spiritual inability to reach God for all our capacities and faculties are overturned in the corruption of sin. Through the fall, every part of man has been corrupted by the effects so that man is not able to restore his relationship with God. God must restore relationship if man is to enter into fellowship with God.

Romans 3:10-18 - None is righteous, no, not one…. Cited from Ps. 14 & 53
Gen. 6:5 (God’s assessment in the days of Noah)

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Unconditional Election

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God’s choice of certain persons to salvation, is not dependent upon any foreseen virtue or faith on their part.

Rom. 9:11-13: God’s purpose in election…. Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated…
***. 3:4-5: saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy…

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Limited Atonement, Particular Redemption

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Christ’s atoning death was effectual only for the elect. Christ came to save those the Father had given Him. All those Christ died for, God will draw to Himself. Sufficient for all, effectual for the elect.

John 6:37,39: All that the Father gives to me will come to me….
John 10:14-15: Good Shepherd… I know my own, my sheep know me….

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Irresistible Grace

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Those whom God has chosen for eternal life will come to faith and thus to salvation. The elect come to faith by the Spirit’s effectual call. Grace changes your nature giving you the ability to choose Him.

John 6:37: All that the Father gives to me will come to me….
10:26-27: you don’t believe because you’re not my sheep… my sheep here and come…
Acts 13:48: “as many as were appointed to eternal life believed…”

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Perseverance of the Saints

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Those who are genuine believers will be preserved in their faith to the end. By God’s grace and perseverance, those who genuinely come to trust in Christ, despite their weaknesses, are preserved in the faith till the end.

Jn 10:28-29 I give them eternal life… they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand… [nor] out of the Father’s hand.
Rom. 8:28-37: All things work together for good for those…. we are more than conquerors
Phil. 1:6: He who began a good work… will be faithful to complete it….

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List The “Five Points Of Calvinism.” Where Did They Come From?

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1) Total Depravity 2) Unconditional Election 3) Limited Atonement 4) Irresistible Grace 5) Perseverance of the Saints

They are a summary of the Synod of Dort; in response to the (5) Remonstrance's of Jacob Arminius.

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What is Covenant Theology?

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Covenant Theology is a way of understanding how God relates to mankind. In OT days, covenants were relationships between kings and his people. God chose to use that relationship/covenant to show how He relates to His people, only much more based on grace.
Covenant theology believes that God has always dealt with His people in a similar way, both in the Old Testament and the New. The only way they have gotten to be in relationship is because He graciously chose to favor them with His presence. God’s people have always been saved by grace through faith in the hopes that God would deliver them from the punishment they deserved.

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Why is Covenant Theology Important?

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Covenant theology maintains the unity and continuity of the Old and New Testaments and the way God relates to His people in each.

Covenant theology recognizes God's sovereignty over of history as an outworking of His loving grace.

Continuity of:
1) the Covenant of Grace – one and the same way of salvation in both the Old and New Testaments, despite different outward requirements.
2) the People of God – One covenant of Grace between God and man, there is one continuous people of God (the church) in the Old and New Testaments.
3) the Covenant Signs – Baptism is the sign of the covenant in the New Testament, just as circumcision was the sign of the covenant in the Old Testament.
4) Households – Whole households are included in God’s redemptive covenant.