Theology 201 Test 2
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- Mediate
- Bring together for reconciliation.
- Justice
- The due reward or punishment of an act.
- Jehovah
- Alternative pronunciation for the name of God, Yahweh.
- Preservation
- God sovereignly, by a continuous agency, maintains in existence all things which He has made.
- Theophany
- A manifestation of God.
- Acts 5:3-4
- 3But Peter said, "Ananias, why has (A)Satan filled your heart to lie (B)to the Holy Spirit and to (C)keep back some of the price of the land? 4"While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but (D)to God."
- James 1:17
- 17Every good thing given and every perfect gift is (A)from above, coming down from (B)the Father of lights, (C)with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
- John 10:30
- 30"(A)I and the Father are one."
- Matthew 6:32
- 32"For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for (A)your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
- 31Whether, then, you eat or drink or (A)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- Ex nililo
- Latin, "out of nothing". Used to describe the bibilical account of creation.
- Theos
- Naturalism
- The belief that all of human experience can be described through natural law. It asserts that biological evolution is true and that there are no supernatural realities.
- Providence
- The continuous activity of God whereby He makes all the events of the physical, mental and moral realms work out His purpose.
- Omnipotence
- An attribute of God alone. It is the quality of having all power (Psalm 115:3). He can do all things that do not conflict with His holy nature. God has the power to do anything He wants to.
- Immediate creation
- That which was made out of nothing.
- All verses dealing with the trinity.
- John 1:1,14, 10:30, 14:16, Titus 2:13, Mathew 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Acts 5:3-4
- Arguments dealing with the existence of God.
- The Teleological, Moral, Cosmological, Probability and Ontological arguements
- The theory of Concurrence
- Though God's will is not the only force in the universe, without his concurrence no force or person can continue to exist or to act.
- Fatalism
- The idea that all things are predetermined to occur and that there is no ability of the person to alter the predetermined plan of God in any event. This is not the correct biblical view. The Bible teaches us that we can influence God with our prayers (James 5:16). How this influence is worked out by God who knows all things from eternity is something apparently unexplainable in Christianity.
- John 1:1
- 1(A)In the beginning was (B)the Word, and the Word was (C)with God, and (D)the Word was God.
- John 1:14
- 14And (A)the Word (B)became flesh, and (C)dwelt among us, and (D)we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of (E)grace and (F)truth.
- Titus 2:13
- 13looking for the blessed hope and the (A)appearing of the glory of (B)our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
- John 14:16
- 16"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another (A)Helper, that He may be with you forever;
- Mathew 3:16-17
- 16After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and (A)he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, 17and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "(B)This is [a]My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased."
- Mediate creation
- The making of things out of material already created.