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41 Cards in this Set
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What are the attributes of God
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Definition: “Those distinguishing characteristics of the divine nature which are inseparable from the idea of God”
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Possible Division of Divine Attributes
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Incommunicable and Communicable; Natural and Moral
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God’s Relationship to His Creation
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Transcendent - Isaiah 6 (Distinct from and independent of creation; superior to creation);
Immanent - Jer 23 (present among his creation; actively sustaining his creation) |
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God’s Uniqueness
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He is Incomparable - The Lord is One (Deut 6); Who is Like You? (Ex 15); None Like You (Psalm 86)
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Some Attributes of God
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Attributes of infinity (Eternal, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient) immutability
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Council of Nicea/Nicene
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A.D. 325 A council to deliberate especially on the doctrine of the trinity and Christology; key participants Arius & Athanasius; reaffirmed: Constantinople A.D. 381
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Accomodation
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God communicated in ways adjusted to limited human capacity
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Filioque
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Phrase to say the Holy Spirit proceeds from both Father and Son in the trinity – debated between East and West (A.D. 1054).
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Creation
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describes the beginning and origin of all things
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Providence
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describes how God: Sustains and preserves the created world (general providence); guides the universe toward its goal through acting (special providence); for most this includes all things (meticulous providence).
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Five Views of Creation –
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1) Naturalistic Evolution; 2)Theistic Evolution; 3) Gap Theory; 4) Progressive Creationism:; 5) Direct Creationism;
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Naturalistic Evolution:
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Evolution w/o God
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Theistic Evolution:
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God used mechanism of evolution;
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Gap Theory:
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There is a gap between Gen 1:1 & 1:2;
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Progressive Creationism:
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God created directly, but over long time;
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Direct Creationism;
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God created directly, in recent past.
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Bible/Theology vs. Nature/Science
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They are both interpretations so they cancel each other out.
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Biblical Creation Theology (consistent w/ all theistic creation theories) -
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God Created Ex Nihilo (“Out of Nothing”) Heb 11; God’s Creation was All-Inclusive Isaiah 44; Creation has a purpose Ps 19; Creation entails God’s continued work!; Implies providence; Evil was not part of creation (Gen 1 ); Humanity is capstone of creation
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Preservation
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God is actively involved in maintaining the existence and function of His creation
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Governance
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God guides the creation so that it fulfills his plan for it
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Calvinism -
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God plans and controls all
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Arminianism -
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God plans all and controls some (several ways to say this)
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Openness -
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God plans some and controls some
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Middle Knowledge (Molinism)
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God’s plan takes into account free decisions through middle knowledge; God foreknows free acts because he creates the world in which those free acts take place
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Univocal
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having the same meaning throughout their various uses.
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Equivocal
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when terms carry different meanings.
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Analogical
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the use of analogy, in which it is recognized that humans can understand characteristics of God, albeit on a much smaller scale.
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Univocal
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having the same meaning throughout their various uses.
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Jehovah
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the special and significant name by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6)
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Names of God
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Elohim (God); Adonai (Lord, Master); Theos (God); Kurios (Lord).
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The End
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The End
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Trinitarian Heresies
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Adoptionism; Modalism/Sabellianism; Arianism
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Adoptionism
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A view of Jesus Christ that sees Hm as a human who was adopted or chosen by God to be elevated being God's divine son or member of the trnity
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Modal/Sablellianism
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A view fo the trinity considered by the early church, as heritical. It was believed that the one God was revealed at different times in different ways and thus has three manners (modes) of appearance rather than being one God in three persons.
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Arianism
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That Jesus is the hightest created being but does not sharethe same substance as God the Father
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Theodicy
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Defense of God's justice and goodness in light of suffering and evil
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Free-Will
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Sin rising out of free-will
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Soul Building
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God permits evil for human development
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Best of all possible worlds
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evil and pain contrast with good and pleasure
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Warfare
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not specific for each evil
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Mystery/Eschatological
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evil inexplicable at this time
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