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14 Cards in this Set
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God's love |
- very source of our identity as beloved children of God in which our call as prophets flows from |
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Words |
- are powerful, kind of possessing psychic energy, they can either destroy or build up persons or relationships |
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Written, spoken |
2 forms of communication |
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Informative |
- provides truth about ourselves, other people, world - reveal who we are by the kind of language we usually use |
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Formative |
means to shape us and our character as a person |
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Transformative |
transforms person into better versions of themselves |
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informative, formative, transformative |
as a formative force, language is? |
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Informative, Appellative, Expressive |
Functions of the written word of God |
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Logos |
- Word in Greek - new testament |
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Dabar |
- Word in Hebrew - God's revelation through the prophets - God's laws - Old testament |
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Dabar (Jews) |
- more than the spoken word - a thing, an affair, an event, an action |
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life giving, creative, fruitful, power to heal, make things happen |
Power of dabar in old testament |
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True |
Dabar is a relational concept |
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living and active |
God's words in both old and new testaments are? |
