Intro To Theology Exam 2

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Define Theology Proper

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The doctrine of God

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What are the 6 theistic theologies?

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Theism
Atheism
Agnosticism
Polytheism
Henotheism
Pantheism

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Define Theism

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belief in some sort of deity

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Define Atheism

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belief NO God

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Define Agnosticism

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Unsure, don't know

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Polytheism

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Many gods

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Henotheism

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Many gods, but one supreme God

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Pantheism

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God is present in everyone; God is in everything and everything is God

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The two dimensions of God's Holiness

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Separation and dedication

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What is separation (in holiness)?

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God is perfect and we are not.

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What is dedication?

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Consecration for a purpose

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What are the two categories of God's attributes?

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Incommunicable and Communicable

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Define Incommunicable

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Attributes that are only possessed by God

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Communicable

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Attributes which God shares with or "communicates" to us

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What are God's incommunicable attributes?

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Unity
Eternality
Omnipresent
Immutability

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What are God's communicable attributes?

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Spiritual
Omnipotence
Omniscience
Love
Grace
Mercy

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Define Process Theology

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God is an impersonal being who is subject to evolutionary change and development.

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What is anthropomorphism?

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Ascribing human attributes to a being that is not human

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Define God's spiritual attribute

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God is spirit or incorporeal

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Define God's omnipotence

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All powerful; God can do whatever is consistent with His nature and character

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Define God's omniscience

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All knowing

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Define God's grace

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His unmerited favor; Grace looks to our guilt and gives us what we don't deserve

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Define God's mercy

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Mercy shows kindness and concern for someone in need; looks to our condition and doesn't give us what we do deserve

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What is the biblical teaching of the Trinity?

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1. There is ONE God
2. There are 3 persons
3. Each is fully God

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What is Modalism?

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Denies the three persons in the Godhead in favor of one person; they are not distinct persons, but modes

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Oneness Pentecostalism

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the denial of 3 persons in the Godhead; Jesus is all three

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Jehovah's Witness/Charles T. Russel

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Jesus is a created being, but not God; He is mighty God, but not Almighty God

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Why is knowing about arguments to the Trinity important?

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Denies the way God reveals Himself;
Denies the mediatoral role of Christ;
Denies the propitiatory nature of Christ's death

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What influences what?

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Philosophy influences theology

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What are the teachings of Gnosticism?

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Dualism, Demiurge, Docetism, The Hidden Gospels, Marcionism

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What is Gnosticism?

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A teaching about salvation; teachers were "anointed" with knowledge

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Define Dualism

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Physical is evil; spiritual is good

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Define Demiurge

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the evil God who created the physical world

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Define Docetism

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denial of the incarnation; Jesus was a phantom

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Marcionism

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Jehovah of the OT was the evil demiurge; NT God was the God of love; Law is evil; Focus on Pauline grace

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What are the beliefs of Naturalism

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Nature is all there is; Matter is eternal; Time and chance; close universe

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What are the opposing world views?

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Gnosticism, Naturalism, Evolution, Nihilism

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What are the beliefs of Nihilism?

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God is dead, Nothingness, Loss of value and purpose, relativism

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What is Syncretism?

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The blending of unchristian ideas with Christian theology

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What is the result of syncretism?

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Unchristian ideas that sound Christian

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Who founded New Thought?

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Phineas Quimby, Mary Baker Eddy

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What did Phineas Quimby believe?

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Mesmerism as a way of healing

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Who founded Christian Science?

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Mary Baker Eddy

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What is New Thought?

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A mind-healing movement; Divine is in all things; Power of the mind to heal

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Teaching of New Thought

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Ultimate reality is spiritual;
God is impersonal and in everything;
Illness is a matter of the mind;
Power comes by knowing the Laws of the metaphysical world

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What did E. W. Kenyon do?

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He fused New Thought and Christianity

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Who founded Word-Faith Theology?

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Kenneth Hagin, Sr.

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What are the Problems of Word-Faith Theology?

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Deifying Man;
Identification with Christ,
you are all little gods;
altering the atonement;
the power of positive confession

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What is the Sanctity of LIfe?

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Uniqueness in Humanity; created in the image of God

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Three key questions of the pre born?

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What does is mean to be human? When does life begin? What is the status of the preborn?

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Biblical Arguments for the preborn

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Unborn are called children;
unborn protected by same punishment;
unborn created by God as all humanity;
Unborn described by personal pronouns;
Unborn known personally by God;
Unborn are called by God

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Genetic Arguments for preborn

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At conception, the fertilized ovum is 100% human with all genetic information; all physical characteristics contained within the genetic code; Sex of the child determined at conception; From conception to birth there is no new genetic information

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Modern Biomedical Challenges to the preborn

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Abortion, embryonic stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering and cloning

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Philosophical and economic Factors of death and dying

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devaluation of life;
growing desire to control death;
emphasis on personal autonomy;
rising medical costs

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Defense of euthanasia

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appeal to autonomy;
it is compassionate;
no moral distinction between killing and letting go;
shows respect for human dignity

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Against euthanasia

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God is sovereign over life and death
Autonomy is not absolute
Killing is morally wrong
Violates the sanctity of life
Compassion gives emphasis to palliative core

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What is sexual immorality

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Broad term that covers all sexually immoral behaviors

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What is the Biblical definition of sexual immorality?

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Any behavior that distorts God's original plan and is called sin

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Forbidden behaviors

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Adultery
Lust
Pornography
Premarital sex
Homosexuality

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What is the Biblical principle of sexual immorality?

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It is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should avoid all sexual immorality