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54 Cards in this Set
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Post Modernism
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- Objectivity is impossible
- All knowledge is perspective - Every perspective is equal |
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Religious Pluralism
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There is no one true religion.
Christianity is just one religion among many. Jesus is just one savior among many. |
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Response to religious pluralism
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Live compelling lives
Expose the implications Expose the contradiction Expose the reduced form of Christianity that pluralism affirms. |
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Bipartite Morality of Moral Relativism and Sexuality
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Sexual behavior is moral as long as it does not harm others. It is not because of a moral absolute, but because of a utilitarian mindset. This is an expression of the "humanist limitation"
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Deeper Humanism
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Even without Christian belief, deeper humanism considers the harmful effects of having sex outside of marriage.
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What does a sexual partner become in the ideology of moral relativism
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They become a means to an end.
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What sex becomes if there is no relationship
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The reason and goal for the relationship.
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Biblical view of Sexuality
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- Two image bearers completing God's image
- Living parable of God and the Trinity - Casual sex cannot exist in that reality. |
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Significance of the ascension
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The Curse is declared by the cross, and the Resurrection and Ascension declares the vindication of Jesus.
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The relationship of Pentecost to the Old Testament
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Fulfills a prophecy in Joel: Spirit poured on all flesh, and...
Ezekiel: Removal of a heart of stone Jeremiah: Law on the heart Reversal of Babel. |
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Newness of the Spirit through the Spirit
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New heart and outpouring of the spirit fulfilling Old Testament prophecies.
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The circumstance of Saul prior to his conversion
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He thought what he was doing was entirely right. He was persecuting people.
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Significance of Paul's conversion
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Saul was in a very high position as a pharisee, and would have been sacrificing a lot to become a Christian. It makes it very difficult to understand why he would become a Christian other than a work of the spirit, proving God's work and not false history.
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Pauls Conversion change
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- He realizes Jesus is messiah
- No longer saved by the law - The people of the church are the true people of God, not the Jews. - Gentiles can now be accepted. |
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Peter and Cornelius
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Cornelius was a "god-fearing" gentile. Peter's vision made the gentiles included.
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Circumstances surrounding Paul's first missionary journey
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Paul had to travel a lot due to pressure from becoming a Christian.
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Acts 15 council
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The council consisted of Peter, Barnabas, Paul and James the brother of Jesus. They considered the OT and found that gentiles could be included and that circumcision wasn't necessary.
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Shekinah Glory
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God ascending on Israel from the clouds.
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Paul's arrest
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The Jews began to stone Paul in the temple because they said he was speaking against Jews. A Roman centurion rescued him, and he was put in prison. He was then whisked away and tried in Rome because he was a Roman citizen and would have been killed if he stayed in Israel.
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Judaizers
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They believed people could only become Christians by becoming Jews, getting circumcised, and living under the law. This is incorrect because salvation is by grace.
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Function of the law
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- Added because of transgressions until the seed came
- **a tutor until Christ. |
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Appeal in Galatians as Christians being "Abraham's Seed"
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- Abraham was a justified by faith just as we are.
- Abraham was promised that salvation would come through his seed... which ended up being Jesus. |
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What has replaced the law
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Christ has replaced the law and taken the curse.
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How Paul argues his case for Jesus as the replacement to the Law in Galatians
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- Christ is the new covenant (and is a grant covenant)
- To add anything to a grant covenant makes it obsolete. |
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Justify (according to Paul in Romans)
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to be or be made righteous.
Jewish view: conforming to the law Paul's view: Christ's atoning death. |
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Atonement (according to Paul in Romans)
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The reconciling of God's love and justice.
Atonement makes right the unholiness of humanity. Jews: sacrifice Paul: Jesus' sinless life. |
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Redemption (according to Paul in Romans)
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Paying the necessary price to set someone free
The paying of the price is not to Satan but to Christ's own righteousness. |
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Pauls argument regarding those who have never heard.
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Everyone is under condemnation because they have been exposed to General revelation.
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Faith
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The natural response to a grant covenant.
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Two views of faith in Calvinism
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1. Faith is the result of regeneration.
2. Grace irresistibly generates faith. |
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Acceptable Armenianism's view of faith
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God's prevenient grace convicts and enables to respond in faith.
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Paul's two heads of humanity
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Adam: Brought death and sin into the world.
Christ: Brought forgiveness and regeneration into the world. |
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Baptism
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Being baptized into Christ's death and brought up in his resurrection.
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Implications of Baptism (Romans 6)
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Salvation is not emotions based, once we have been baptized with Christ, it is not dependent upon us.
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What does Paul mean by "mystery of God" in Ephesians
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He is referring to Christ's supreme authority over all creation and peoples.
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How is Christ's supreme authority made evident on earth.
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Unity in the church because we are all under Christ's reign.
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What was the Imperial Cult?
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Domitian was forcing emperor worship.
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What was the significance of the vision of the risen Christ in Revelation.
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It harkened back to Daniel and encouraged them that the "Ancient of Days" had defeated the antichrists. It meant to encourage the readers.
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How did the the Christians alter the apocalyptic imagery?
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They made the "Son of Man" look like the "Ancient of Days" to signify that Christ had been raised.
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Significance of "The Woman" and why she is being persecuted.
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She is the people of God or the church.
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Why does John refer to Rome as "Babylon"
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1. Babylon was the epitome of the Jewish oppressor
2. He would have been killed for straight up accusing Rome. |
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General Local of the seven churches addressed in Revelation.
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Asia Minor
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Premillenialist view of the millennium
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We have not yet reached the millennium. Someday Jesus will come back and reign with the saints and then will come the final age of judgement.
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Amillenialist view of the millennium
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Millennium just means a really long time. We are already in the reign of Christ which started after Christ's death and resurrection.
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Preterist
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Belief that Revelation was only meant for the Jewish Christians of the time and is thus obsolete to Christians today.
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The extreme futurist approach
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All prophecies have to do with the time of tribulation.
- Church gets raptured - Babylon: Rome rising again - False Prophets: Bad church leaders leading us astray. |
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Moderate futurist approach
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They foreshadow things to come
Babylon: Rome for them, a government like Rome for us. Falso Prophets: Imperial cult for them, religion linked to government for us. |
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Normative verses prescriptive
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The challenge to interpreting Acts. What was simply historical recollection, and what was prescribed church behavior.
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Summary narratives
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What Luke does three times in describing the church as
1. Sharing of goods 2. characterized by fellowship. |
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Gnosticism
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The belief that the physical world should be rejected and the spiritual world should be embraced.
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Nero redivivus
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Belief that Nero would come back from the dead
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Christ Pantokrator
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Depiction of the most High God. Christ raised to this in Revelation.
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Parousia
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Second coming of Christ.
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Wall of Seperation
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Between the Jews and the Gentiles.
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