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23 Cards in this Set
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Dr. Stimple's guidelines
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Scripture is primary. Though it does not tell us everything, it tells us something about everything.
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No animal ancestry? 'Nephesh haya'
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Gen 1:21, 24, 30 all living creatures are 'nephesh haya'. Gen 2:7 man becomes for the first time 'nephesh haya'.
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Dichotomous
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Berkof- 'realistic dualism,' psychosomatic union. Human body and soul.
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Biblical Evidence for a human soul.
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Matt 10:28 'do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
James 2:26 "For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead." |
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Origin of soul?
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Creationism: soul is created by a divine act of God. (Dominate Ref view). Traducianism: soul naturally 'begun' during conception. ANSWER: organic mix of the two
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Image of God: Heidelberg 6
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Heidelberg 6 " □ God created man good, 1and after His own image, in 2true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him and live with Him in eternal happiness to glorify and praise Him
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Image of God: What does the image consist
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Wide sense: human capacity which excel animals- morality, rationality, intellectual. Narrow: correct use of these capacities.
Bavinck: Man is image, does not bear it. |
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What was lost in fall?
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Loss of the correct use of human capacities. Loss of pure fellowship.
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Royal Courtroom view of Gen 1:26 'let us'
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The whole royal court. C.f. Isaiah 6:8 God says " "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"
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Sacraments Prelapsarian?
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1) Tree of Life. 2) Garden Paradise as Priestly temple. 3) Sabbath ordinance
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Fact: Covenant
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Covenant: commitment with divine sanctions (Kline). All God's interactions with humans is through a covenantal context.
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4 Big conclusions about Covenant of Works
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1) Adam would have attainted the eschatalogical life through perfect, personal obedience. 2) Language of Faith/Grace b/f fall is unacceptable. 3) Unfortunate dichotomy of the filiol and the forensic. 4) Adam's 'merit' would merely be his owe for fulfilling the requirements of the Covenant.
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Original Sin:
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Heidelberg 7 & 9. conceived and born in sin. Imputation of sin, conveyed corruption.
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Guilt ?
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the accountability and liability to punishment. (this is imputed from Adam, and Forgiven in Christ.)
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Corruption
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the perversion of out nature, orienting us to sin
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Imputation of Sin
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judical reckoning, or liability of sin to someone
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Immediate Imputation
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Adam's sin directly imputed as Guilt. Rom 5:15 1sin=many dead & v17, both immediate. Analogy: Father imputes X's rightouesness immediate. Heidelberg 7 'conceived and born in sin'
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Mediate
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Adam's sin is imputed b/c we are born corrupt. i.e we are corrupt, then receive sin.
Critique: 1) Christ's impuation is immedate to us.2) Analogy failure. |
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Conveyance of Corruption
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DVD: inherit guilt and corruption (inter-connected contra Murray)
our corruption is conveyed as a necessary/logical consequence of our imputed guilt. |
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Heidelberg 91: What are good works?
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Only those which proceed from a true faith, are performed according to the law of God, and to His glory; and not such as are founded on our imaginations, or the institutions of men.
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How Depraved is Man?
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There are not different degrees of depravity, it is Total. There is different degrees to which the depravity is manifested.
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Scriptures for Total Depravity
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Gen 6:5 'every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually' Gen 8:21 'intention of man's heart is evil from his youth' Rom 3:10-18, Eph 2:1-3
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Is a Christian totally depraved?
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Yes, forgiven of our guilt, but we are still corrupt. No, the HS is sanctifying us and fixing our corruption.
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