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24 Cards in this Set
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What did Augustine think about God creating the world? (in regards to time)
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In an unknowable amount of time symbolized by six days.
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What is the author of creation is most interested in conveying?
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Establishing the structure of a new world view; laying out who God is, and what the created order is in relation to him.
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Knowing your doctrine of creation is important because...
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It entails a corresponding eschtology; it shapes our conception of salvation itself.
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How would you describe God's relation to evil?
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God has allowed it for a specific time, and for particular purposes that are only partially clear to us.
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What must you add to these propositions in order for them to be true:
1-God is absolutly sovereign 2-God is good and kind to all he has created. 3-Suffering exists |
God has created humans to be able to make decisions, therefore allowing us to sin and bring evil into the world
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True or False:
Human beings were intended originally for a life of leisure, but one of the consequences of the fall is the necessity to work for one's bread |
False
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True or False:
Marriage is an accommodation to sinful humanity after the fall. |
False
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True or False:
Neitzsche's observation that man is possessed of a 'will of power' shows that man is in fact simply part of the system of nature like other animals |
False
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True or False:
Notions of morality in humans are simply societal constructs, in the same way table manners are |
False
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True or False:
The moral impulse in man is actually tied to a whole host of personal preferences, which vary from age to age and culture to culture |
False
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how do you answer to Charles Baudelaine when he said 'if there is a God then he much be the devil'?
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Man is not now what he always was; he has changed himself and is now abnormal.
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what does the book of Job show us about suffering?
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That it does not constitute grounds for questioning the character of God
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Why didn't Ivan Karamazov believe in God?
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The idea of the workd which depended on suffering of even one innocent creature was not a world he thought worth having; and if God did, so much the worse for God.
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What is an appropriate response to encountering suffering as a Christian?
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Weep with the sufferers as did Jesus as Lazarus' tomb
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Is jesus human, divine, both.
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Jesus has two natures-divine and human
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What is more important-jesus's work or person?
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They must be understood in light of eachother.
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Why is Jesus significant for Christianity?
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His incarnation, the joining of two natures, brought together God and Humanity, effecting their reconciliation.
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Sin is something that...
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that is present in every aspect of our lives.
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adam's sin affects us by...
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consigning us to spiritual death, even though we weren't actaully present and had no say in the matter
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What is the Objective theory of atonement?
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~God based.
~ Emphasizes sacfrafice, justification and vicarious suffering. |
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~satisfaction theory
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anslem of canterbury's six points
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~Penal Substitution
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sacrifice satisfies God's requirement of justice. Punishment we deserve is put on Chirst instead of us
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~moral gov theory
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viewed as loving creator and father instead of wrathful judge, takes law and justice seriously
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Pelagious vs. Augustine controversy
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Augustine- divine grace and solely on God's mercy.
-Grace as a gift not a reward Pelagious- good works is involved and the idea of divine grace is played down. |
