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60 Cards in this Set
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Define Theology Proper
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The doctrine of God
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What are the 6 theistic theologies?
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Theism
Atheism Agnosticism Polytheism Henotheism Pantheism |
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Define Theism
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belief in some sort of deity
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Define Atheism
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belief NO God
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Define Agnosticism
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Unsure, don't know
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Polytheism
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Many gods
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Henotheism
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Many gods, but one supreme God
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Pantheism
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God is present in everyone; God is in everything and everything is God
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The two dimensions of God's Holiness
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Separation and dedication
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What is separation (in holiness)?
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God is perfect and we are not.
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What is dedication?
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Consecration for a purpose
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What are the two categories of God's attributes?
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Incommunicable and Communicable
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Define Incommunicable
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Attributes that are only possessed by God
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Communicable
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Attributes which God shares with or "communicates" to us
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What are God's incommunicable attributes?
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Unity
Eternality Omnipresent Immutability |
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What are God's communicable attributes?
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Spiritual
Omnipotence Omniscience Love Grace Mercy |
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Define Process Theology
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God is an impersonal being who is subject to evolutionary change and development.
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What is anthropomorphism?
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Ascribing human attributes to a being that is not human
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Define God's spiritual attribute
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God is spirit or incorporeal
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Define God's omnipotence
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All powerful; God can do whatever is consistent with His nature and character
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Define God's omniscience
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All knowing
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Define God's grace
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His unmerited favor; Grace looks to our guilt and gives us what we don't deserve
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Define God's mercy
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Mercy shows kindness and concern for someone in need; looks to our condition and doesn't give us what we do deserve
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What is the biblical teaching of the Trinity?
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1. There is ONE God
2. There are 3 persons 3. Each is fully God |
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What is Modalism?
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Denies the three persons in the Godhead in favor of one person; they are not distinct persons, but modes
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Oneness Pentecostalism
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the denial of 3 persons in the Godhead; Jesus is all three
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Jehovah's Witness/Charles T. Russel
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Jesus is a created being, but not God; He is mighty God, but not Almighty God
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Why is knowing about arguments to the Trinity important?
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Denies the way God reveals Himself;
Denies the mediatoral role of Christ; Denies the propitiatory nature of Christ's death |
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What influences what?
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Philosophy influences theology
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What are the teachings of Gnosticism?
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Dualism, Demiurge, Docetism, The Hidden Gospels, Marcionism
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What is Gnosticism?
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A teaching about salvation; teachers were "anointed" with knowledge
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Define Dualism
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Physical is evil; spiritual is good
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Define Demiurge
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the evil God who created the physical world
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Define Docetism
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denial of the incarnation; Jesus was a phantom
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Marcionism
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Jehovah of the OT was the evil demiurge; NT God was the God of love; Law is evil; Focus on Pauline grace
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What are the beliefs of Naturalism
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Nature is all there is; Matter is eternal; Time and chance; close universe
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What are the opposing world views?
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Gnosticism, Naturalism, Evolution, Nihilism
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What are the beliefs of Nihilism?
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God is dead, Nothingness, Loss of value and purpose, relativism
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What is Syncretism?
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The blending of unchristian ideas with Christian theology
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What is the result of syncretism?
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Unchristian ideas that sound Christian
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Who founded New Thought?
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Phineas Quimby, Mary Baker Eddy
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What did Phineas Quimby believe?
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Mesmerism as a way of healing
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Who founded Christian Science?
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Mary Baker Eddy
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What is New Thought?
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A mind-healing movement; Divine is in all things; Power of the mind to heal
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Teaching of New Thought
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Ultimate reality is spiritual;
God is impersonal and in everything; Illness is a matter of the mind; Power comes by knowing the Laws of the metaphysical world |
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What did E. W. Kenyon do?
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He fused New Thought and Christianity
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Who founded Word-Faith Theology?
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Kenneth Hagin, Sr.
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What are the Problems of Word-Faith Theology?
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Deifying Man;
Identification with Christ, you are all little gods; altering the atonement; the power of positive confession |
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What is the Sanctity of LIfe?
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Uniqueness in Humanity; created in the image of God
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Three key questions of the pre born?
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What does is mean to be human? When does life begin? What is the status of the preborn?
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Biblical Arguments for the preborn
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Unborn are called children;
unborn protected by same punishment; unborn created by God as all humanity; Unborn described by personal pronouns; Unborn known personally by God; Unborn are called by God |
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Genetic Arguments for preborn
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At conception, the fertilized ovum is 100% human with all genetic information; all physical characteristics contained within the genetic code; Sex of the child determined at conception; From conception to birth there is no new genetic information
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Modern Biomedical Challenges to the preborn
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Abortion, embryonic stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering and cloning
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Philosophical and economic Factors of death and dying
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devaluation of life;
growing desire to control death; emphasis on personal autonomy; rising medical costs |
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Defense of euthanasia
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appeal to autonomy;
it is compassionate; no moral distinction between killing and letting go; shows respect for human dignity |
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Against euthanasia
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God is sovereign over life and death
Autonomy is not absolute Killing is morally wrong Violates the sanctity of life Compassion gives emphasis to palliative core |
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What is sexual immorality
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Broad term that covers all sexually immoral behaviors
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What is the Biblical definition of sexual immorality?
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Any behavior that distorts God's original plan and is called sin
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Forbidden behaviors
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Adultery
Lust Pornography Premarital sex Homosexuality |
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What is the Biblical principle of sexual immorality?
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It is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should avoid all sexual immorality
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