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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. |
Ge 1:1-3 |
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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” |
Ge 1:26-27 |
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Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” |
Ex 3:13-14 |
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“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. |
Ex 20:2-3 |
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God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind.Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? |
Nu 23:19 |
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Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?” He replied, “Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.[a]” |
Jdg 13:17-18 |
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“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven,cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! |
1Ki 8:27 |
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The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. |
Ps 19:1-4 |
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Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. |
Ps 90:2 |
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You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. |
Ps 139:1-4 |
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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! |
Ps 139:15-17 |
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” |
Isa 6:1-3 |
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I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its settingpeople may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. |
Isa 45:5-7 |
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I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ |
Isa 46:10 |
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“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. |
Jer 23:23-24 |
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Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate,slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. |
Joel 2:13 |
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Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? |
Hab 1:13 |
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“I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. |
Mal 3:6 |
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“Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. In the past, he let all nations go their own way. Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.” Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from sacrificing to them. |
Ac 14:15-18 |
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“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earthand does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. |
Ac 17:24-25 |
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(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) |
Ro 2:14-15 |
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Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! |
Ro 11:33 |
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In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, |
Eph 1:11 |
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which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen. |
1Ti 6:15-16 |
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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. |
1 Jn 4:16 |
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and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:“Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty.Just and true are your ways, King of the nations.Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to your name?For you alone are holy.All nations will come and worship before you,for your righteous acts have been revealed.” |
Rev 15:3-4 |
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Adonai |
"LORD". Used 449 in Scripture. 315 w/ YHWH. as a name of the God of the Hebrews during prayer recitation. Servant/Master kind of connotation. |
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Apophatic Theology |
Throughout history occasionally theologians have deduced that because God is so great we cannot say anything about what he is like. Allthat can be said concerns what God is not. "Negative theology" |
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Apostles' Creed |
Earliest version came around AD 190. Grew into a doctrinal confession standard for orthodoxy. Came several centuries after Nicene Creed. Most widespread of the confessions. Centered on the father, son, and holy spirit. |
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Augustinian Theodicy |
God created free personal agents (angels, humanity), able to make real moral choices,including to love and obey God or to turn away |
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Big Questions? |
Why is there somehting instead of nothing? |
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Three Major Categories of Answers |
Atheism: There is no God (therefore,something has always existed). Pantheism:God is everything and everything is God. Theism:An infinite, personal God created the universeout of absolute nothing. |
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Carson’s 5 Biblical Aspects of Divine Love |
1. The Peculiar Love of the Father for the Son...and the Son for the Father. 2. God’s Providential Love Over All He Has Made. 3. God’s Salvific Stance Toward His Fallen World. 4. God’s Particular Effective Selecting Love Toward the Elect. 5. God’s Conditional Love Toward Believers. |
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7 Classical Arguments for God (Theism) |
Cosmological Teleological Argument Anthropological Moral Ontological Universal Religious Experience Pascals Wager |
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Cosomlogical Argument |
The universe is an extraordinary effect that necessitates an adequate cause, the first and ultimate cause being an intelligent Creator. Everything that has a beginning of it existence has a cause of its existence. The universe has a beginning of its existence. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. |
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Teleological Argument |
Universe inherently has intelligent orderly design. |
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Anthropological Argument |
The innate attributes of humanity reflect a personal Creator. Intellect, rationality, language, personal volition, free choice, human emotions, creativity, hope, belief in afterlife, relationally, love (beyond genes). |
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Moral |
Moral motions (conscience) of human beings reflect a Moral Absolute, a transcendent personal creator. Universal sense something is wrong: if we say something is crooked, we presume that something is straight. Human conscience demonstrates an ethical Creator. |
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Ontological (A Priori, presupposed serves as conceptual web) |
Anselm: The largely universal concept of the Greatest Perfect Being requires such a Being exists. Charles Ryrie: Human beings have an idea of a Perfect Being. Since God is the greatest Being who can be thought of, He cannot be conceived as not existing. |
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Universal Religious Experience |
Until 20th century, humankind always in every culture has believed in the supernatural with religious beliefs and ideals, including afterlife and final justice. Collective human exp cannot be ignored as rational evidence for God. |
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Pascals Wager |
Either God is or He is not (and) you MUST wager. If both are neutral and equal - sacrifice in life and eternal bliss is BETTER, than bliss in life and eternal hell. |
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Incommunicable attributes |
Those characteristics that God does not share (or communicate) with finite humanity (e.g., triune, omnipresence, Perfect, Immutable, Self-Sufficient, Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipotent). "What He Is". Nature/Essence |
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Communicable Attributes |
Are those with which we can more directly identify (e.g., true, good, faithful, love, justice). "Who He Is". Person/Character |
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Deism |
The belief that understands God as distant, in that God created the universe but then left it to run its course on its own, following certain “laws of nature” that God had built into the universe. (wind up the clock and let it run). Notable Diest: Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Toland, Kant, Jefferson, Franklin |
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Transcendence |
In a special sense, God is present exclusively to himself,the glorious reality of the ontological Trinity (Jn 17:5). |
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Heavenly presence. |
God is said to be exalted in heaven on a throne amidst seraphim and a myriad of angels |
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Immanent presence |
God is present in all creation, sustaining, ordering, revealing (Ps 19:1-6; Isa 40:25-26). |
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Perceivable presence. |
God inhabits the Tabernacle and Temple; God’s presence is said dwell at Zion and in the Holy Land |
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Visible presence. |
Exceptional revelatory appearances include theophanies, the Shekinah glory, and other physical manifestations in history |
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Personally incarnate. |
The eternal Son is incarnate in Jesus Christ, assuming human nature—first on earth |
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Intimate presence. |
God indwells the regenerate believer as his individual temple |
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Corporately present. |
God indwells the church as his collective temple |
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Effectively present. |
Our Lord’s special power, filling and fullness enables believers and the church to worship and to do his will |
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Future reign. |
God will dwell with man in the New Jerusalem |
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Immanent Trinity |
The Godhead in itself apart from allcreation: the relations of the Father, Sonand Holy Spirit in and with themselves(opera ad intra) . Sometimes called theontological Trinity. God as immanent tohimself alone. Immanent Trinity - God in Himself. Immanent to Himself alone. |
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Economic Trinity |
A view of the Trinity that focuses on theoperations (or functions) of the Father, Sonand Holy Spirit in creation and salvationhistory (opera ad extra). How God has "spent" Himself or poured out Himself to the world...how He has revealed. |
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Elohim |
"God". “thepowerfulones,”“themosthighones”;usedforGod,gods(pagandeities),angels,powerfulhuman. sometimes considered a “plural of majesty,” others suggest the term is a “plural of intensity”. Used 2600 times. |
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Eternality (two understandings) |
Everlastingness - largely understood God’s eternality as everlastingness—his existence in eternity past and future. Outside of time - Augustine reasoned that if God is the Creator of time and space, then God himself must exist outside of any dimension of time. God exists outside the dimension of time. |
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Feminist Theism |
God is not male and may be female: 1. Rejectionist (Non-Christian) Feminism: Hostile to Christianity. Christianity as promoting an oppressive patriarchal structure. 2. Reformist (Liberation) Feminism: While resenting traditional chauvinism in Christendom, these find human liberation a central theme. 3. Loyalist (Evangelical) Feminism: Affirming authority of Scripture, these theologians scatter between egalitarian and complementarian positions. Differences relate to use of inclusive language about God and gender equality. And issues of equality of functions and roles in conjugal, familial, ecclesial, and societal relationships. |
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Holiness (Divine) |
God is declared holy more than 600 times, far more than He’s declared “love”. Complete otherness. |
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Illustrations of Trinity, Usefulness? |
Recognize the inadequacy of visual aids, illustration, symbols, and images. Yet it is through these means that we can know anything at all about the infinite God. illustrations of the Trinity may be beneficial, but these never adequately capture the transcendent mystery of the tripersonal God. |
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Impassibility (Divine) |
God is “without…passions” (i.e.,emotions), therefore God is im-passionate or impassible |
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Moromon View of God |
Veiled Polytheism. Mormonism’s hierarchies of gods is akin to the ancient paganpantheons of gods and to various forms of modern Spiritism. Men can become gods themeselves. |
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Names of God: The significance of names |
Elohim, Adonai, YHWH. A primary means of our Lord’s self-‐revelation is found in the names, titles, and descriptions God Himself assumes and makes known to us. 1. Reveals God’s person 2. Represents God’s person 3.Therefore God’s name is sacred |
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Nicene Creed |
AD 385. Became the universal theological cornerstone of virtually all subsequent Christian faith. |
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Omnipotence |
All powerful, soverign. |
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Omniscience |
All knowing |
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Open Theism |
God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional upon our actions. Though omniscient, God does not know what we will freely do in the future. That assert that God is not finally sovereign. |
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Free Will-Theism |
Free will theism asserts that God enters into a “give-and-take” relationship with humanity and freely risks his sovereignty by giving humans a substantial measure of freedom. |
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Concept of God |
Teilhard understood God as the divine force of evolution drawing the material universe through three states: (1) biological life (biogenesis); (2) human self-conscious thought (noogenesis);and (3) spiritual oneness with God (Christogenesis). The Omega Point of history, then, will be a complete hypostatic union of God with all creation; the universe will become God’s body. |
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Problem of Evil and Basic Response |
1) Neither God nor Evil Exists. 2) Evil exists but God doesn't - Atheism 3) God Exists but Evil Does Not: Pantheism 4) God Exists and Evil Exists: Theism |
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Process Theism |
Alfred North Whitehead - a dipolar God who is integrally involved in the endless process of the world through two natures: the “primordial,” transcendent nature, wherein lies God’s timeless perfection of character, and the “consequent,” immanent nature, by which God is part of the changing cosmic process. |
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Tetragrammaton (YHWH) |
(Four Letters), the sacred name YHWH is translated “LORD”, or “Jehovah.” Most think YHWH is rooted in the verb “to be, become” indicating existence or development, perhaps “He Is”; it is the standard verb for “to be” in biblical Aramaic. |
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Trinity - Def (verbatim) |
“The one true God eternally exists asthree persons—Father, Son and HolySpirit—one in nature, equal in glory,and distinct in relations.” |
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World Religions Pie Chart (major religion population percentages) |
Monotheism 59% Pantheism 27% Secularism 11.3% |
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Nicene Creed |
AD 325. First official declaration of the Christian doctrine. This concise statement of faith was as faithful as possible to the teaching of the apostles and "built up stronly out of all the Scriptures." |
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Simplicity |
By saying that God is simple, traditional theology means that thereis a harmony within the divine nature rather than dichotomies, tensions or contradictions(e.g., love vs. holiness). We may divide up things to understand God, but in reality God is coherent. |
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Divine Oneness |
Divine oneness defends the “inseparable operations” of the Godhead: Godhas a single mind, will, and activity. This is not just harmony of the Persons, rather nearabsolute identity. This diminishes the personal dynamism of the Father, Son,and Spirit visible in the New Testament. |
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Sources of the Trinity |
-Jesus Christ: Evidence from History -The Bible: God’s Verbal Self-revelation -Experience: My Threefold Relationship with God -Tradition: The Church’s Experience, Biblical Interpretation, and Theological Clarity |
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Divine Mystery |
God exists immeasurablybeyond our capacity to grasp his utter splendor. Even though we do have revelation as to who God is, He is mysterious. So to affirm certain things about God does not mean that we comprehend the infinitefullness of the triune God. |
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Revelation |
TheScriptures themselves include numerous positive descriptions about God—that is,revelation infused through human authors yet “from above”— precisely so that we may know him and speak of him. God has given us words and even names by which todescribe him. |
