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35 Cards in this Set
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Objective Faith |
- Represented as an image in your mind as the Holy Bible
- Source of where our faith comes from |
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Subjective Faith |
- Trust in a person’s heart
- A real faith inside of us - Three parts of fides viva - Personal experience related to our lives |
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Logos & Logos |
Why is the Bible called Logos? Why is Jesus Christ called Logos? - The concept of logos means to reveal something else or to reveal something behind it - Scripture: Jesus |
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Monergism v.s Synergism: Which One Is Biblical and Why? |
- Difference: Monergism is one power, one energy Synergism is two or more powers or energies - Why? That is what scripture teaches - Eph. 2:8-9 |
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Where Does Saving Faith Come From? |
- “The Holy Spirit working through the word of Christ.” - Since we are dead in our trespasses of sin we are helpless so God sends the Holy Spirit through the word of God to help create faith within us. |
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Define Repentance. How Is It Lived Out Per 5 C's. Must Be In Order!
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- Repentance: “metanoia”- to change your mind (Greek) - Conviction - Confession - Consecration |
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Holy Spirit: Who Is He? |
God |
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Conversion: How? Who's Work? |
- Conversion must happen to inherit heaven, eternal life, and salvation.
- It happens by the work of the Holy Spirit, through the Word and the Sacrament. |
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I & II: What Is Faith? |
- True faith is the work and the gift of God. Trying to stay away from the concept that faith is your decision.
- Faith is a spiritual organ created by God, (analog: heart, created by God) - Does the work like a biological heart does, this does not mean that we are not born with faith. |
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Justification & Sanctification: Whose Work? |
- Both the work of God |
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Spiritual Gifts |
- Every Christian has at least one special gift or office, or role compared to “Fruits”
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Fruits of the Spirit |
- Available to all Christians - Every single fruit |
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Metanoia |
- Greek - To change your mind- Repentance |
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Faith As Gift |
- Faith is a gift |
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- Faith is simply believing in the existence of God? : False - It does not just believe in God, even the demons believe in that, it is more “fides viva” |
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III & IIII: What Is Faith? |
- True faith is the work and the gift of God.
- Trying to stay away from the concept that faith is your decision. - Faith is a spiritual organ created by God, (analog: heart, created by God)- Does the work like a biological heart does, this does not mean that we are not born with faith. |
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I & II: Object of Faith |
- Jesus is the object in which faith holds on to
- Faith has trust but it has to hold onto something that holds onto that concept aka. Jesus Christ - What is my subjective faith holding onto? Jesus Christ |
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Fideism |
- “Faith in Faith” |
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Regeneration and Born Again |
- Understand that they are complementary
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Material Freedom and Formal Freedom |
- Formal: Everyday experience, the choices you make, psychological freedom - Material: Goes beyond formal, no we discuss the ability to choose God, if we are dead in our trespasses and sins - Do we have the ability to choose God? ~No - WE DO NOT HAVE MATERIAL FREEDOM (It is in the spiritual realm) |
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Sanctification |
- Bondage of the Will
- Is Sanctification and instantaneous thing or life long thing that continues to grow and develop? - Know what sanctification means in the narrow sense/represents our growing relationship with God. Does sanctification mean we no longer have a sinful nature? No. Justification comes first. The means of grace are still necessary for sanctification. How do we see it? Good works, prayer, worship, love, forgiveness |
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Good Works |
- When it comes to Good works they are not necessary for salvation
- However, good works are still necessary in the life of the believer |
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Adiaphora |
- Things that are not written down in the Bible, - God (Bible) neither commands nor prohibits - We are free to do so, but does not necessarily mean you should. |
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Christian's Cross |
- Every Christian has one - Deny ourselves take up our cross and follow Jesus |
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The Struggle |
- Christians have a struggle because of our sinful nature and the born again spirit are always clashing.
- Normal life of the Christian is a struggle. |
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Simul Iustus Et Peccator |
- Translation: Simultaneously justified and a sinner |
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Means of Grace? |
- It is a bridge that connects us to Jesus Christ - Forms of the Word of God coming to us. |
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3 Aspects of Sacrament In The Narrow Sense |
- Commanded by Christ.
- Christ connects it to forgiveness of sins. - It unites a person to Christ. - Physical element or elements connected to The Word. |
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Baptism |
- What is in the water? Contains the Word of God |
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Church |
- Ways the church is described: Body of Christ, Bride of Christ, Holy Temple - Attributes: One/Unified, Holy, Apostolic - Marks: Word and Sacraments, - Invisible: No one can look into the heart of faith -Visible: People gather around the truth and sacrament |
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Diagram From God to Us and Explain |
- How do we connect with God? ~He comes to us through the Bible, the water hits our head, the bread and the wine, actual physical things that display how God gives us his grace. We can receive the word many ways it is not just one, he wants to connect with us, and He wants to be found. Creates faith in us by sending the Holy Spirit who works through the word to make us spiritually alive. There are five means. Romans 10:17- Consequently faith is heard by the message and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
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Agree For Infant Baptism |
- Babies should be baptized because 1. They are included in the words “all nations” (Matthew 28:18-20) the word all nations in Greek is “ethnos= all people” 2. Psalm 51:5 “Surely I was sinful at Birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” spiritual condition. 3. Faith is described as a trust in the heart. Psalm 22:9 “I trusted in you even at my mother’s breast.” Even while he was just a baby he still had faith. *Luke 1: The baby leaped in his mother’s womb when in the presence of Jesus Christ.
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4 "Mathematical Formulas" That Represent 4 Major Views of Christendom As What The Lord's Supper/ Holy Communion Is |
1. Roman Catholic: Bread+Wine/ Body+Blood, transubstantiation, and then it equals Body+Blood with Bread+Wine crossed out, equals two
2. Protestant One: Bread+Wine/ Body+Blood, symbolized/ memorial, and then cross out Body+Blood, equals two 3. Protestant Two: Bread+Wine/ Body+Blood, heavenly spiritual union, then put quotations around “Body”+”Blood”, in the church service 2 if spiritually then 4 but have to qualify for four 4. Lutheran Bread+Wine/Body+Blood, no changes, equals four. |
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Compare & Contrast 2 Kingdoms |
Left: Power, Government, Citizen of a Nation on Earth, Romans 13, The Christian is a citizen of both Kingdoms
Right: Grace, Church, Citizen of the Kingdom of God, John 18 |
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THE GRAPH |
The Graph |
