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32 Cards in this Set
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Five views of origin of man
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naturalistic evolution, fiat creationism, deistic evolution, theistic evolution, progressive creationism
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Naturalistic evolution holds
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an attempt to account for all forms of life by means of the imminent processes of nature. Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process.
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Fiat creationism holds
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God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.
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Deistic evolution holds
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the view that God planned the creative process and that He used evolution to accomplish His ends, removing himself from the process.( ‘creator emeritus’)
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Theistic evolution holds
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Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including man's creation.
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Progressive creationism holds
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At various points in time God created new creatures without using previously existing life. Accepts microevolution but rejects macroevolution.
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Two significant issues/questions regarding the origin of man
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1) the status of Adam and Eve 2) was man created from a previously existing creature
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Questions about the status of Adam and Eve
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are chiefly questions about whether they were historic or symbolic
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Questions about from what material man was created
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questions about whether they were created from dust or from previous creature
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Five parts of systematic synthesis of the image of God in man
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Substantive, Relational, Functional, Jesus as Image, 4 stage redemptive historical
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4 stage redemptive historical view of image
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image was perfect at creation, perverted at the fall, progressively renewed in Christ, and perfected in the eternal state.
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According to Peterson and Erikson, image should be thought of as
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primarily structural.
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Bible’s teaching of the image of God in man
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Gen 1:26-28 fact of image, Gen 9:6 and James 3 show fallen man still bears image. NT principal verses Col 3 and Eph 4 tells of people being renewed in God’s image.
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Restoration of the image of God seen in
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Col 3:9-10 and Eph 4:22-24
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Three HISTORICAL views of the image of God in man
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substantive (structural,) relational, functional.
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Substantive view of image
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human beings in our very substance, our structure, our makeup, are made in the image of God apart from our functions, roles, and relationships. Held by Thomas Aquinas.
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Relational view of image
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image is not found in who we are, but the image is found in our dealings with others, in our relating to God and fellow human beings. The prime component of the image is love. Held by Emil Brunner.
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Functional view of image
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we are not made in the image of God, but rather we bear the image of God in our roles and functions in life. The chief example of the image is dominion. Held by Leonard Verduin.
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Amplification of substantive view
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includes not only our rationality but our morality (Romans 2 law of God written on hearts.)
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Verses that speak of Christ as the image of God
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2 Cor. 4:4, Col 1:15
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Discussions of the constitutional nature of man has to do with
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how many parts we have.
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How many views on the constitutional nature of man?
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Four, but three really because the fourth is an adjustment of the second (Holistic view is adjustment of Dichotomy view)
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Monism holds
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that human beings are indivisible and the various parts of humanity of which Scripture speaks are different ways of referring to the totality of our being. There is no such thing as a separable soul. We do not have an immaterial part. This is the view of modern philosophy and, in that modern theology follows closely modern philosophy, it is the view of modern theology as well.
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Dichotomy holds
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we are made up of two parts. Charles Hodge and Louis Berkoff are proponents for dichotomy. We are composed of two parts: a material part, the body, and an immaterial one, the soul or spirit.
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Trichotomy holds
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that the immaterial part of man should be divided into soul and spirit as separate parts.
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Trichotomy’s three parts
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a physical body, a soul which "is the seat of the affections, desires, emotions and will of man," and, third, a spirit "which knows and is capable of God-consciousness and communication with God."
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Proof tests for trichotomy
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1 Thessalonians 5:23 and Hebrews 4:12
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Holistic dualism also called
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conditional unity, Psychosomatic unity
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Holistic unity holds
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that the normal state of human beings is as materialized unitary beings. It is normal to have a body. This unity is altered at death where the immaterial part of mankind lives on while the material part decomposes. This disembodied intermediate state is incomplete or abnormal.
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Constitutional nature: When we came from our Creator's hand
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Adam and Eve were body and soul together and as we live now, we live in the body and as we will live on the last day and thereafter, we will be resurrected holistic human beings. An intermediate state means that status in between our life now in the body and the resurrection of the dead.
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Dying is described variously as
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a departure of the soul and sometimes as a departure of the spirit.
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We do have material and immaterial parts but
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our unity is most important. The UNION of body and soul is normal. Scripture does teach the existence of an intermediate state in which our immaterial part lives an incorporeal, which means "without the body," existence. However, this state is temporary and incomplete. Our final state will be eternal life as unified persons with glorified bodies on a new earth underneath a new heaven.
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