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What is Historical Theology?
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study of how Christians in different periods have understood various theological topics
(How church has done theology throughout history) |
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What is Philosophical Theology?
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- Studying theological topics without use of the Bible, but using tools and methods of philosophical reasoning
- what can be known about God from observing the universe |
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What is Apologetics?
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Providing a defense of the truthfulness of the Christian faith for the purpose of convincing unbelievers
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What is Biblical Theology?
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Gives special attention to the teachings of individual authors and selections of Scripture and to the place of teaching in the historical development of Scripture
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What is Systematic Theology?
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Study that answers the question, "what does the whole Bible teach us today?"
focus on the collection and then the summary of the teaching of all the Biblical passages on a particular subject |
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What is Doctrine?
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- What the whole Bible teaches today about some particular topic
- the result of systematic theology |
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The world does not know God through (blank)
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Wisdom
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How does the world know about God?
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He reveals Himself
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Will we ever fully know God?
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No
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Will we as Christians be able to know God truly? Why?
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Yes, Scripture tells us who God is, not what He is like
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What is God's will?
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that attribute of God whereby he approves and determines to bring about every action necessary for the existence and activity of himself and all creation
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Is it God's will that Christian's suffer?
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Yes....1 Peter says for it is better to suffer for doing right, if that be God's will, than for doing wrong.
Don't need to reference, just helps:) |
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What is God's Necessary Will?
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- Includes everything that he must will according to his own nature
- He wills Himself |
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What is God's Free Will?
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-Includes all things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to his nature
-ex. creation of the universe and all decisions relating to the details of that creation |
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What is God's Freedom?
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- That attribute whereby He does whatever He pleases
- God is not restrained by anything external to himself and that He is free god o whatever He wishes to do |
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What is God's Omnipotence?
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- God is able to do all His holy will
- Omni "all" potens "powerful" - God cannot will or do anything that would deny His own character |
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What is God's perfection?
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God's perfection means that God completely possesses all excellent qualities and lack no part of any qualities that would be desirable for him
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What is God's Blessedness?
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Means that God delights in Himself and in all that reflects His character
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What is God's Beauty?
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That attribute of God whereby He is the sum of all desirable qualities
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How is the Trinity mentioned in the OT?
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it is implicitly mentioned
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God is three (blank), each are (blank) from each other and each is fully (blank)
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persons, distinct, God
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How are the members of the Trinity distinct from each other?
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how they relate to each other and their creation
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What is the Cosmological Argument?
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- the fact that every known thing in the universe has a cause
- the universe itself must also have a cause and the cause of such a great universe can only be God |
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What is Teleological Argument?
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Focuses on the evidence of harmony, order, and design in the universe and argues that its design gives evidence of an intelligent purpose
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What is Ontological Argument?
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Begins with the idea of God, who is defined as being "greater than which nothing can be imagined". It then argues that the characteristic of existence must belong to such a being, since it is greater to exist than not exist
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What is Moral Argument?
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Moral arguments argue that there is a universal moral law and that such a moral law requires a law giver.
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What is Exegesis?
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Drawing the correct meaning from a passage of Scirpture
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What does YIHWEH mean?
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I will be/am with you
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What does EHYH ASHER EHYH mean?
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I am who I am
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What does YAHWEH mean?
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LORD
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What does ADONI mean?
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Lord
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What three things do we need to know that relate to envy?
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1. Material
2. For things that aren't mine 3. Always sinful |
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Is Jealousy personal or material?
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Personal
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Is Jealousy always sinful?
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No
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What are the three aspects for grounds of jealousy?
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1. Lover
2. Beloved - unfaithfulness 3. Rival |
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What two things do we need to know about zeal?
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1. General
2. Not always sinful |
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What is Tritheism?
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3 Gods = 3 Natures
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What is Modalism?
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- 1 God = No distinction of persons
- 1 God that acts in different ways to different circumstances - Works in different modes |
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If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:31-32
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People are saved and sanctifies through God's truth
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Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
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People are saved and sanctifies through God's truth
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If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth. 1 Timothy 3:15
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A primary responsibility of the church is to know, preserve, and defend the truth of God in its comprehensive understanding
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For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. Acts 20:7
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A primary responsibility of the church is to know, preserve, and defend the truth of God in its comprehensive understanding
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As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming. Ephesians 4:14
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A primary responsibility of the church is to know, preserve, and defend the truth of God in its comprehensive understanding
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What is Practical Theology?
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- The study of how to best apply theological truths to the life of the Church and the world.
- Ex: Christian Education, counseling, evangelism, missions, church administration, worship |
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What is Prolegomena?
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Method and Foundation
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Christians myst be able to distinguish between the core of our beliefs and more peripheral issues.
What is: 1. Absolutes 2. Convictions 3. Opinions 4. Questions |
1. Trinity, Return of Christ
2. Baptism, View of Millennium 3. Worship Style, Timing of the Tribulation 4. When angels were created, date of Christ's return |
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God reveals Himself through which 6 ways?
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Words, Attributes, Actions, Images, Titles, Names
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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145:3
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Incomprehensibility of God
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Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” Job 26:14
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Incomprehensibility of God
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What are four reasons for God's incomprehensibility?
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1. God is Infinite and were are finite
2. The perfect unity of God's attributes 3. The noetic (of the mind) effects of sin 4. God keeps secrets |
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What is the Knowability of God?
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While we can never fully know God, we can know God truly, personally and sufficiently
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And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. Hebrews 8:11-12 |
Knowability of God
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8
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Knowability of God
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Avoid the error of the (Blank) Theory of God's attributes which considers them independently of one another
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Petal
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What are the five Incommunicable attributes?
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1. Independence (self-existece, self-sufficiency)
2. Unchangeableness 3. Eternity 4. Omnipresence 5. Unity (Simplicity) |
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What does God is Infinity mean?
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God is free from all qualitative limitations
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What does God is Transcendence mean?
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God is absolutely and uniquely distinct from and superior to everything in creation
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What does God is Spirituality mean?
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God is not made of matter, has no parts of dimensions
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What does Omnicience mean?
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God fully knows himself and all rings, actual and possible, past, present and future, in one simple eternal act
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What does Mercy mean?
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God's kindness toward those in misery and distress
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God's attribute of Grace means...
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God's kindness toward those who deserve only punishment
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God's attribute of Omnipotence means...
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God is able to do all his holy will
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God's attribute of Sovereignty means...
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God has absolute rule over creation as King and total control and determination over all that happens
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2
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Independence
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The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. Acts 17:24-25
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Independence
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I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. Psalm 50:9-12
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Independence
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Who has first given to me, that I should repay him Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. Job 41:11
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Independence
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Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable. Job 36:26
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Eternity
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I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Rev 1:8
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Eternity or Omnipotence
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I AM WHO I AM, Ex 3:14
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Eternity
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Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord. Jer 23:23-24
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Omnipresence
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What does Omnipresence mean?
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God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at everywhere with his whole being, yet He acts differently in different places
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 1 Kings 8:27
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Omnipresence
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Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be," declares the Lord. Isaiah 66:1-2
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Omnipresence
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The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for
“‘In him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:24-25 |
Omnipresence
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This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5
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God's Moral Holiness
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Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Psalm 115:3
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Omnipotence
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remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ Isaiah 46:9-10 |
Omnipotence
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The Almighty (Shaddai) is beyond our reach and exalted in power. Job 40:2; slam 91:1
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Omnipotence
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The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Psalm 24:8
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Omnipotence
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All power in Heaven and on earth has been given to me. Matt 28:18
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Omnipotence
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The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. Psalm 24:1
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Sovereignty
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...his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will... Dan 4:34-35
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Sovereignty
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In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. Eph 1:11
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Sovereignty
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.Matt 10:29
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Sovereignty
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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:13-15
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Sovereignty
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The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
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Wrath
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Or do you presume on hthe riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? Rom 2:4
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Wrath
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What does EL SHADDAI mean?
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God Almighty
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