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41 Cards in this Set
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Describe and respond to the following heresy: Appollinariansim
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The Divine Logos took place of human soul - Christ was "almost man."
Jesus was a Composition of Human and Divine. Condemned by the Council of Constantinople (381). RESPONSE: Hebrews 2:17 Jesus was truly human because he was made like us in "all things." |
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Describe and respond to the following heresy: Nestorianism
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Jesus was a naturally good man upheld by the Logos and rewarded (basically a Pelagian concept of self-determining power of man). At ascension, fullness of Godhead given to him.
Jesus was a human converted into the divine. Condemned by Council of Ephesus (431). RESPONSE: John 1:1-14, The Word (which is God and created all things) became flesh - fully God with true human nature (see Hebrews 2:17). |
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Describe and respond to the following heresy: Eutychianism or Monophysitism
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Jesus had one divine nature clothed in humanity. He was "essentially divine." The human nature was swallowed by the divine to create a new third natures - a tertium quid.
(Composition) Condemned by Council of Chalcedon (451). RESPONSE: Jesus took true body - Hebrews 2:17 and Phil. 2 |
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Describe and respond to the following heresy: Monothelietism
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Jesus had two natures but only one will.
Condemned by Council of Constantinople (681). |
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Describe and respond to the following heresy: Kenosis Theory
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Incarnation involved abandonment, self-divestiture, self-restriction of divine attributes.
RESPONSE: Jesus' "Emptying" is defined in Phil.2 by "taking to Himself the nature of a servant" - He added to Himself, which means that He veiled His glory/deity. |
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What are 9 theories of the resurrection?
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1. swoon theory
2. spirit theory (not bodily) 3. vision theory (hallucinated) 4. Legend/Myth theory 5. stolen body 6. wrong tomb 7. deliberate lie 8. mistaken identity 9 twin theory |
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What are 8 theories of Atonement and a main proponent of each?
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1. Ransom: paid Satan's claim - Origen, Augustine
2. Universal Reconciliation - Barth 3. Moral Influence: set example of love, sacrifice for truth, but denies sin, inability, and expiation - Bushnell 4. Dramatic: defeated Satan, released people (Aulen) 5. Governmental: exhibited God's displeasure against sin, but denies substitution/satisfaction and makes God guilty of punishing innocent - Grotius 6. Mystical: delivered from weakness/sickness of sin by union with Christ, but breaking of sin's power is "fruit" - Scotus & Schleiermacher 7. Satisfaction: satisfied dishonor to God, but denies imputation of guilt - Anselm 8. Penal Substitution: satisfied divine justice by bearing imputed guilt, Proven: Isaiah 53 Colossians 1:15-22 - Luther, Calvin |
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What are 3 characteristic texts for Jesus' suffering and death?
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Isaiah 52:13-53
2 Cor 5:18-21 Heb 9-10 |
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What are 4 key places God promises an Offspring?
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1. To Adam & Eve (Gen.3)
2. To Abraham 3. In Egypt (Exodus) 4. With David |
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What are 4 characteristic texts with regards to Christ as the Incarnate Son?
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John 1:1-8
Phil. 2:5-11 Col. 1:15-20 Heb. 1:1-3 |
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What are 3 affirmations found in John1:1-14?
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eternal existence
eternal relationship eternal identity |
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What are 3 key phrases found in Philippians 2?
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Incarnation
Humiliation Exaltation |
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What are 4 aspects of Christ's incarnation found in Philippians 2?
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deity
humanity humility & obedience Lordship |
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What are 7 attributes of Christ found in Hebrews 1?
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1. Heir
2. Creator 3. Exact imprint of God 4. sustainer 5. redeemer 6. intercessor 7. Superior Son |
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What is the key text with regards to Christ's humanity?
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Hebrews 2:17
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What are the Key texts with regards to the virgin birth?
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Matt. 1:18-25
Luke 1:26-38 |
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List the names of Jesus, including the meanings and sources of each.
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1) Jesus: "Savior" - His personal name .
2) Christ: "Anointed One" - Greek version of Messiah . 3) Son of Man: Title emphasizing His humanity (used over 40x by Jesus Himself) - from Daniel 7:13 4) Son of God: applied in several senses . a. Messianic Office . b. Trinitarian personhood . c. Nativistic sense (born of the Holy Spirit) . d. Ethico-religious sense (people of God are "sons" of God). 5) Lord: applied in several senses . a. equivalent to Jehovah . b. rendering of Hebrew Adonai . c. respectful address/authority . |
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What are 4 human characteristics that affirm the humanity of Jesus?
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1. Hunger & Thirst
2. Weariness 3. Pain 4. Sorrow |
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Who is the only Redeemer of the God's elect?
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The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.
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How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
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Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her yet without sin.
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What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
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Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priestn, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
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How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
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Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
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How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
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Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, to reconcile us to God; and in making continual intercession for us.
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How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
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Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling an defending us, and in retraining and conquering all his and our enemies.
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Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
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Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.
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Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?
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Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.
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With whom was the covenant of grace made?
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The covenant of grace was made with Christ as the second Adam, and in Him with all the elect as His seed.
(Gal. 3:16 & Isaiah 53:10-11) |
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Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?
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The only Mediator of the covenant of grace is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, of one substance and equal with the Father, in the fullness of time became man, and so was and continues to be God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever.
(John 1:1-14) |
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How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
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Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to Himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance, and born of her, yet without sin.
(Hebrews 2:17; 4:15; 7:26) |
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Why must the Mediator be truly human (righteous) and God?
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God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others. Only Christ (as the Son of God) by the power of His divinity can bear the weight of God's anger in His humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
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How does Christ's resurrection benefit us?
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First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, so that He might make us share in the righteousness He won for us by His death.
Second, by His power we too are already now resurrected to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection. |
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Explain the extra-calvinisticum:
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Christ is truly human and truly God. In His human nature Christ is not now on earth; but in His divinity, majesty, grace, and Spirit He is not absent from us for a moment.
His two natures are not separated because divinity is not limited and is present everywhere. It is evident that Christ's divinity is surely beyond the bounds of the humanity He has taken on, but at the same time His divinity is in and remains personally united to His humanity. |
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Evidences of the humanity of Christ
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he was incarnate, he had human weaknesses, emotions, experiences, and a human relationship with God the Father – and he was made perfect through suffering.
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Systematic categories of Christology
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pre-existence, incarnation, conception/virgin birth, deity, humanity, unity
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What is meant by the "hypothetical necessity" of the atonement?
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God could have saved in another way (other than through Christ), but this way brings the most glory to God.
HOWEVER: No other way would properly remove man's sin or satisfy God's justice. |
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What is meant by the "antecedent absolute necessity" of the atonement?
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God MUST redeem some of mankind in order to preserve his own honor.
HOWEVER: God was not compelled to save anyone. |
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What is meant by the "consequent absolute necessity" of the atonement?
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God did not need to redeem any man... However, having chosen to redeem - He must redeem by sending the incarnate Son of God to die in the place of God's elect.
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What is expiation?
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Expiation is the removal and covering of sin.
NOTE: This term is correctly used to describe the removal of our sin by Christ, but not as a replacement of propitiation as the translation of hilaskesthai. |
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What is propitiation?
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The removal of the wrath of God by Christ's work on the cross.
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What is reconciliation?
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The change in relationship between God and man from that of enmity to peace.
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What is redemption?
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The process by which sinful humans are "bought back" from the bondage of sin into relationship with God through the gracious payment of Jesus' death.
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