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Bible Doctrine 1: Exam 1

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Times of the Gentiles

Accomplishments of Faith

Latin American Liberation Theology

Word of God being damaged

Jeremiah 36:22-24

Requirements of knowing theology

Presupposition of the inspiration of the Bible
Faith
Recognition of human limitations- finiteness
Disciplined mind
Knowledge of the original languages
Holy affection for God
Enlightening influence of the Holy Spirit
Patient and tireless study

Categories of Systematic theology

Bibliology
Theology proper
Angelology
Christology
Pneumatology
Anthropology
Harmatology
Soteriology
Ecclesiology
Eschatology

The study of the Bible

Theology Proper

The study of the doctrine of God

The study of angels

The study of Christ

The study of the Holy Spirit

The study of mankind

The study of sin

The study of salvation

The study of the church

The study of the end times

Historical theology

A study of the doctrines from the time of the apostles to the present

Biblical theology

Exegetical in nature, looking at a group of material and observing what teachings that portion/section/passage addresses

Systematic theology

Systematizing theological truths into an orderly and coherent whole

Practical theology

The step after systematic; applying to daily life or life of the church

Emphasis on him reasoning and experience; Bible is fallible; adapts Christianity to modern world; removes distinction between natural and supernatural

Bible is not God's revelation of himself but witnesses about God; Christ is focal point of God's revelation; events in scripture are stories with a higher meaning, whether they occurred or not is irrelevant; God is transcendent and not with us; sharp distinction between man and God- man can only fellowship with God through blind leap of faith. (Barth, Bultmann, Bonhoeffer)

Secular theology

God cannot be proven to exist; the Bible is a myth; Christianity's purpose is to solve the worlds problems through science (education) and technology

Liberation theology

Any theological system whereby oppressed are freed from bondage (specifically South American). Bible is interpreted as relates to oppression of masses; God primarily is concerned with oppressed; church is to identify w/and liberate oppressed; salvation/ reconciliation is gained by joining cause of liberation. (Bonhoeffer and South American thinking)

New Age theology

All is one; all is god; humanity is god; change in consciousness-releasing your mind; all religions are one; cosmic evolutionary optimism.
God: a force, impersonal, is all things
Jesus Christ: god-spirit in man
Man: is god, reincarnation
Salvation: from disharmony
Faith: in human potential

Theologies of Success

Self-esteem- positive self-image, son is negative self-image, salvation is exchange of negative self-image for positive one
Theology of Prosperity- Every Christian should be free of illness, poverty, etc., Christ bore all our ills (Isaiah 53:4-5), believer can become wealthy by following cycle of prosperity, anything not usual is from demonic oppression (Copeland, Hagin)

Modernism- Cultural/philosophical view; believes in absolute truth, searches for answers to life, sees distinction between right wrong; believes life's answers found through objective inquiry and study.
Postmodernism- rejects absolute truth and holds that what we know is shaped by culture and emotions; "Truth "is communal (good for my community), but not universal (necessary and correct for all the world)

Certain parts of the Bible are more inspired than other parts

The words are not inspired but the thoughts behind the words are inspired

Those passages which deal with moral or salvation issues are inspired. Those passages which deal with history or science or not inspired

Dictation theory

Inspiration is given by direct dictation

Intuition theory

Inspiration is not the product of God but is the product of the gifted talents of man

Illumination theory

The Holy Spirit does not give the authors the words or thoughts but simply increases their ability to sense spiritual matters

God's words were given through men superintended by the Holy Spirit so that the writings are without error, or authoritative, and have a divine trustworthiness

The act of God whereby he ordains the life in the situations of the writers in order to make them ready to record what he wants written

The work of the Holy Spirit whereby saved me and is convinced of the truthfulness of the written word of God

The placement by God of a particular book which he has inspired with in the Bible

Information disclosed by God about himself
General revelation-and unredemptive and unspecific disclosure of God in the universe that cannot be properly correlated without the aid of special revelation
Special revelation-" God's manifestation of himself to particular persons at definite times and places, enabling those persons to enter into a redemptive relationship with him"- Erickson

Self-attestation

The Bible claims authority for itself based upon its divine author. One does not credit authority to scripture for it already contains it.

Scripture is clear and can be understood by anyone

Scripture is complete in adequate, everything God's people need, and complete for his revelatory purposes

Science of interpretation

Whole and complete

Learning or instruction

" by the term infallible as applied to the Bible, we mean simply that the scripture possesses and indefectible authority.... It can never feel and it's judgments and statements. All that it teaches is of unimpeachable, absolute authority, and cannot be contravened, contradicted, or gainsaid. Scriptures unfailing, incapable of proving false, erroneous, or mistaken." -Young

The word of God in the original manuscripts is without error. " by this we mean that the Scriptures possess the quality of freedom from error. There exempt from the liability to mistake, incapable of error. In all their teachings they are in perfect accord with the truth." -Young

Explanation of Inerrancy

- Inerrancy allows for variety of style
-Inerrancy allows for a variety of details and explaining the same event
-Inerrancy does not demand verbatim reporting of events
- Inerrancy allows for departure from standard forms of grammar
- Inerrancy allows for problem passages
- Inerrancy demand account does not teach error or contradiction

Dangers in denying inerrancy

- if we deny and errancy, a serious moral problem confronts us: maybe imitate God and intentionally lie in small matters also?
- if inerrant see is denied, we begin to wonder if we can really trust God and anything he says
- if we deny inerrancy, we sensually make our own human minds a higher standard of truth then God's word itself
- if we do nine errancy, then we must also say that the Bible is wrong not only in minor details, but in some of it's doctrines as well

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