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Gnostic
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A dualistic religious movement that clearly emerged in the second century. It drew on Jewish, Christian, and pagan sources and presented salvation as spiritual elements being Christ's real incarnation and the "salvation of the Flesh" he effected. They rejected the tradition and scriptures of mainline Christianity, claiming a privileged knowledge of God and our human density from secret tradition and revelations.
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Apollinarianism
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Coming from a bishop of Laodicea, Apollinarius. Intent on defending Christ's full divinity against the Arians, he undercut his full humanity by holding that Christ had no spirit or rational soul, this being replaced by the divine Logos.
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Arianism
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Derived from Arius-Asserted that God's Son did not always exist and consequently was not divine by nature but only the first among creatures.
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Monophysitism
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Refused to accept the teaching of the Council of Chalcedon that in Christ there is "one of person in two natures". They varied about their definition.
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Nestorianism
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Heresy condemned at the Council of Ephesus that in Christ there are two different persons, one human and the other divine, who are separate subjects linked by a manifest union of love.
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Deistic
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Stresses the role of reason in religion and rejected revelation, miracles, and any providential involvement in nature and human history. Denies any special divine activity in the world.
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Modalism-Modalists
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Those who so stress the unity of "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" that they deny any personal distinction within God; they understand the three divine names to refer merely to the modes, or manners, in which the monopersonal God acts and revealed.
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Adoptionists
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All those in the ancient world and in modern times who hold that Christ was a mere man who was adopted by God at the baptism or the resurrection.
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Monarchians
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Those who stressed the one principle in God, sometimes to the point of denying any personal distinction within the divinity. Heresy!
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Subordinationists
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Those who assigned an inferior status to the Son and the Holy Spirit as being "under" and derived from the Father. Heresy!
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Tritheism
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The belief in three separate gods who choose to exist and function together. Heresy!
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Unitarians
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This who accept only one divine person.
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Pantheistic View
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There is a "divine spark" in all good humans; in Jesus, this was the supreme example of this divine indwelling.
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Docetism
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Jesus, being divine, did not have a real and material body (for the divine could no be joined to the material); in a ghost-like way, He merely appeared to be human.
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Naive Piety
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X's human mental and moral experience was radically different from our own, and was, in effect, only an appearance put on for the purpose of acting the part of a man. Thus, being God, He knew everything perfectly without learning , and did not share the natural knowledge of His time. He seemed to learn by asking questions. So also, being God, He could not really be tempted by evil; this was only an appearance.
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Incomprehensible
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That which puts God as the absolute mystery beyond the reach of human understanding.
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Ineffable
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God's being unutterable mysterious and, despite divine names ultimately unnamable.
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Omniscient
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All knowing
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Almighty
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God's power and majesty are limitless
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Omnipotent
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God can do all things which are not by definition contradictory or without meaning. (Square-circle, God cannot make)
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Omnipresent
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Since God is pure Spirit, He does not have a material form. Thus, He is not restricted to this place or that by the limitations that are inseparable from matter. As a result, God is without spatial or temporal limitations. He is truly present to all.
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Changeless
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Since God is perfect, He is both eternal and without change.
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Transcendent
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God is radically different from all the changing things he has made. "It is He who made us; we are His" As a result, God is exalted far above the universe, for it exists only at His bidding. He is infinite and not even the whole of His creation can contain Him. "Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You".
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Holy
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To say God is Holy is to make reference to His absolute perfection.
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Hypostatic Union
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The union between full divinity and humanity I one (divine) person of Jesus Christ, which occurred when "the Word became flesh"
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Incarnation
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The belief that for the salvation of the world, the Son of God, while remaining fully divine, became truly and fully human.
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Logos
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And Johannine thought that Logos is the pre-existing divine Word through whom "all things were made" and who "became flesh and dwelt among us". Christological title.
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Heresy
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Came to mean a baptized person's willingful and persistent dissent from orthodox doctrines of faith.
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Consubstantial
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Also called homoousious: refers to Christ meaning "of the same substance" Christ is of the same substance as the Father.
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Jesus
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Means in Hebrew: "God saves"
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Hermeneutics
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The theory and practice of understanding and interpreting texts, biblical or otherwise. Similar but different that exegesis-Interpreting the meaning of sacred texts, usually biblical texts.
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Eschatological
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Branch of systematic theology which studies God's final kingdom as expressed by its OT preparation (the messianic hopes), the preaching of Jesus, and the teaching of the NT church. Denotes that future directness of our entire present existence.
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Faith
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The objective, revealed truth believed in our the subjective, personal commitment to God. It is made possible through the help of the Holy Spirit, faith is a free, reasonable, and total response through which we confess the truth about the divine self-disclosure definitively made in Christ, obediently commit ourselves, and entrust our future to God.
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Basic Faith
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Adressed to the value, worthwhileness of life and meaningfulness of existence.
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Religious Faith
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Addressed to God who is imminent and transcendent as well as being the ground, the foundation, and ultimate horizon of basic faith
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What is the fundamental difference between God and all which is "non-God"?
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The distinction is between "Creator" and "Created"
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What is Jesus the same to, in His Divinity and in His humanity?
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In His Divinity, same nature as the Father; in His humanity, same nature as mankind.
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What are the nine symbols of the Holy Spirit?
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1. Water
2. Anointing 3. Fire 4. Cloud and light 5. Seal 6. The Hand 7. The Finger 8. The Dove |
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Substance
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Designates the divine being in its unity
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Person
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Designates the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit in the real distinction among them. There are three Persons in the one Substance (or nature) of God
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Consubstantial
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Of one and the same substance or essence
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Economic Trinity
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The Trinity as active and revealed in the plan for creating and saving human being and their world
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Essence
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The indispensable properties that together characterize whatever exists and that are needed for its existence
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Filioque
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"And from the Son" a word added to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed that affirms the Holy Spirit "proceeds" from the Father and the Son
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Generation
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The origin from a living being of another living being that share the same nature; numerically the same nature in the case of God's Son and generically the same in the case of human offspring.
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Homoousious
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Of one and the same substance or essence
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Hypostasis
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That which "stand under" an individual being, a person in the case of being a rational nature.
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Immanence
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God's presence everywhere and in everything
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Immanent Trinity
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The radically mysterious existence together of the three divine persons in their eternal life.
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Logos-Word
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Either the interior word of thought or the exterior word of speech.
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Nature
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The essential properties that characterize some individual living being and that are expressed in its activity
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Procession
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The derivation of the Holy Spirit from the Father (who is not derived from another divine person) through (who derives from the Father through generation)
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Spiration
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The "breathing" or procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father through the Son
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What are four Basic Truths in the Church's teaching concerning the Trinity.
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1. There are Three Persons
2. Each is wholly Himself. 3. The Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God 4. They are not three Gods, but one God |
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Duet to Sanctifying Grace, Adam and Eve enjoyed which four gifts from God?
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1. Freedom from irregular desire
2. Bodily immortality 3. Freedom from Suffering 4. Knowledge of natural and supernatural truths infused by God |
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Concerning this scriptures, according to the Biblical Commission of 1909, what are the literal historicity of three essential things that cannot be denied?
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1. That the first man received a command from God to test his obedience
2. That through the temptation of the devil who took the form of a serpent he transgressed the Divine commandment 3. That our First Parents were deprived of their original condition of innocence |
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Incarnate
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A theological term which means literally "in the flesh". This is a reference to the Son of God's being joined to human nature (i.e. taking to Himself a human nature, body, and soul). Jesus is thus "God-Man"
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Purpose of the Incarnation
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Christ came in the world to save all men, to redeem them from their sins. And for the Glory of God
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Redemption Objectively
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Is the work of the Redeemer
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Redemption Subjectively
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Is the realization of the Redemption in individual men (justification)
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What does Redemption signify?
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The freeing of men from the tyranny of sin and its attendant evils (servitude to the devil and death). As such it is called redemption (ransoming int he narrower sense)
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Where does the possibility of the Redemption through Christ's atonement and through His merits derives from?
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From His Divine-human constitution, in virtue of which He is the mediator between God and mankind
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What are Jesus' three roles?
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Priest, Prophet, King
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What are Jesus' tittles?
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1. Jesus
2. Prophet 3. The Christ 4. The Son of Man 5. The Lord 6. Divine Son 7. Word of God |
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Jesus
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Name given to Him in infancy; speaks to us of Him as a man among men.
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Jesus as Prophet
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He reminded people of the Old Testament prophets in that the Spirit of the Lord enabled them to declare a word form God with authority. In particular, they were amazed at His power to heal, and to cast our demons. As a result He was hailed as a prophet
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The Christ
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This Greek word in the New Testament equivalent of the Hebrew word "Messiah", both words meaning "the anointed one".
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Son of Man
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Used for the expected Jewish Messiah; Jesus Himself regularly referred to Himself.
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The Lord
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In the New Testament, it carried implications that went beyond Messiah. It communicated that Jesus has done for us that which God alone can do.
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Divine Son
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Doctrinal conviction of the New Testament; Saving the union with God in Christ; the reality of Jesus as being divine
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Word of God
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Alternate way the New Testament spoke of the divinity of Jesus; Greek meaning for "word" or logos, are many; Basically, Jesus is the ultimate revelation to mankind of ALL that God wishes
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Kenosis
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The person of our Lord is the divine Son, who has fully, truly, and permanently united with Himself genuine human nature, like ours except for sin, yet without either the divine nature ceasing to be divine, or the human nature ceasing to be human. Thus in the one person called Jesus of Nazareth (who is both human and divine), God unite Himself with the human race, and conquered the guilt and power of sin
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Communication Idiomatum
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Communication Properties; the union of human and divine into one genuine human; divine person is intimate and absolute in which is said of the human or the divine in Jesus may truly be said of the whole person
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Epiphany
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In the West, it celebrates the coming of the magi and the revelation of Christ to the gentiles
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What are the gifts from the Magi
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Gold, frankincense, and Myrrh
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What are the proclamation of the Kingdom of God?
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1. Everyone is called to enter the kingdom
2. The kingdom belongs to the poor and the lowly, which means those who have accepted in with humble hearts 3. Jesus invitation sinners to the table of the kingdom 4. Jesus' invitation to enter His kingdom comes in the forms of parables, a characteristic feature of His teaching. |
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Transfiguration
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Foretaste of the Kingdom; Jesus disclosed His glory to James, Peter, and John; the glory glowed through his body; gave foretaste of Christ's coming; He will change our lowly body to be like His glorious body.
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What are the eight Beatitudes?
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1. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom in heaven
2. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land 3. Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted 4. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill 5. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy 6. Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God 7. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God 8. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. |
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Who killed Christ, historically?
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The Romans at the instigation of the Jewish authorities
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Who killed Christ, theologically?
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Christ was killed as a result of the sins of all mankind.
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Hades
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the world of the departed, the grave where the dead await the resurrection
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Gehenna
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the place of punishment for those impenitent before death (the damned)
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The Resurrection was the work of whom?
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The Holy Trinity
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Christ's Resurrection
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Object of faith that transcended intervention of God Himself in creation and history. The three divine persons act as one and manifest their own proper characteristics.
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What is the essential doctrine of the resurrection?
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Is the three days after His death, Christ as raised from the dead, never more to die agin. It is not enough to sate that the essential meaning of Christ's resurrection was the reversal of His death; it was much more that that.
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Why is the resurrection seen as a "sign to the faith"?
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Resurrection was granted to men and women who believed, whose faith was crushed by the devastating spectacle of their Lord's accursed death, yet whose hearts still cried out to believe because they were moved to love.
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Why is the Resurrection sees as a "pledge of Eternal Life"?
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God is good and reasonable in his dealing with men; there must be, beyond this life, an eternal life with God; the degree of faith is confirmed by the resurrection and raised to confident hope which comforts man in darkness and bereavement. The supreme case in point is God raising Christ form the dead
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Know how to draw the diagram of the Trinity
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1. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are God.
2. The Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit. 3. The Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit. 4. The Holy Spirit is not the Father nor the Son |
