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| from Creation) Rom. 1:19f. |
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| from Moral law) Rom. 2:12-15 |
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Originating Cause Form:
1) Every event has a cause.
2) The universe had a beginning.
3) Therefore, the universe has a cause |
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| Two Cosmological arguements |
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Originating Cause(Horizontal)
Continuing Cause(Vertical) |
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1)Every dependent being has a cause.
2)The universe consists of dependent beings.
3)Therefore, the universe has a cause (right now). |
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1) Design implies a designer.
2) The universe manifests design.
3) Therefore, the universe has a designer. |
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1) Moral law implies a Moral law Giver.
2) There is a moral law.
3) Therefore, there is a Moral Law Giver. |
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1) A necessary being is by definition one that cannot not exist.
2) But what cannot not exist, must exist
3) Therefore, a necessary being must exist. |
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| A Vertical Cosmological Argument |
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1.Something undeniably exists.
2.Nothing cannot cause something.
3.Something eternally and necessarily exists.
4.I am not eternal and necessary.
5.Whatever is not eternal and necessary needs a cause.
6.Therefore there is an eternal and necessary cause of my existence.
7.But I am a personal, moral, and intelligent being.
8.But only a personal, moral, and intelligent being can create a personal, moral, and intelligent being.
9.Therefore, a personal, moral, intelligent, eternal, and necessary being exists (=God). |
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| How do you know this God is the God of the Bible? |
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| 1. God is personal since he created personal beings.2. God is powerfulsince He created the whole universe.3. God is intelligentsince He created intelligent beings.4. God is moraland good since He created good creatures.5. God is a necessarybeing (cannot not exist) or has no beginning or end (eternal).a. God is unchangingsince he cannot come to be.b. God isinfinitesince he cannot not be and is therefore omnipresent.6.God is Yahweh(Ex 3:14): “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’" |
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| How do you know this God is the God of the Bible? |
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| 6. God is Yahweh(Ex 3:14):Personal–Gen 1:26; 2 Cor. 6:18All Powerful–Gen. 1:1; Mt 19:26All knowing (Intelligent) –Ps. 147:5; Rom. 11:33All good–Ps. 86:5; Lk18:19Eternal(Necessary)–Ps. 90:2; Heb 1:2Unchanging-Mal. 3:6; Heb 6:18Infinite(Omnipresent)–1 Kn. 8:27; Col. 1:177. There can be only oneBeingthat is personal, all powerful, all knowing, all-good, eternal, unchanging, and infinite. |
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Locus of Biblical
Inspiration – Verbal |
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1.Verbal means in the words
2.Scripture is not the idea or writer but written Word (Gk. grapha) 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 3:16.
3.Jeremiah 26:2 “Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word |
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Extent of Biblical
Inspiration – Plenary |
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1.Plenary means extends to every part of the words and all they teach or imply.
2.What Inspiration Guarantees:
a.Truth of all the Bible teaches, implies or entails (spiritually or factually) 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21.
b.John 14:26 “The counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said. . . . He [Holy Spirit] will guide you into all truth.” |
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Extent of Biblical
Inspiration – Plenary |
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1.Plenary means extends to every part of the words and all they teach or imply.
2.What Inspiration Guarantees:
a.Truth of all the Bible teaches, implies or entails (spiritually or factually) 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21.
b.John 14:26 “The counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said. . . . He [Holy Spirit] will guide you into all truth.” |
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Extent of Biblical
Inspiration – Plenary
3.What Inspiration does not guarantee |
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a. That every part of a story is conveying a truth rather than a point it is illustrating (Lk 18:2)
b. Nor everything said in the Bible is true rather than only what is taught (Gen 3:4)
c. Nor that no exaggerations (or hyperboles) can be used (Col. 1:23)
d. Nor all statements about God and creation are purely literal (Heb. 4:13; Job 38:7)
e. Nor all factual assertions are technically precise (as opposed to round numbers (2 Chron 4:2) |
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Degree of Biblical
Inspiration – Equal |
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The truth may vary in importance but not in degrees
a. “Christ arose”is more important than “Jezebel died.”
b.But both statements are equally true.
2. All propositions are equally true or false.
a. There are degrees of certainty about a truth claim.
b. There are no degrees of truth. |
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Jesus affirmed the Old
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–Reliability –Matt. 26:54
–Finality –Matt. 4:4, 7, 10
–Sufficiency –Luke 16:31 |
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Jesus affirmed the Old
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–Authority –Matt. 22:43
–Reliability –Matt. 26:54
–Finality –Matt. 4:4, 7, 10
–Sufficiency –Luke 16:31 |
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—Bible contains
the word of God. |
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| Neo-Orthodoxy on the Bible |
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| Bible becomes the word of God. |
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| Neo-Evangelicals on the Bible |
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| Bible—Bible’s ideas or conceptsare the word of God. |
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| Orthodox)—Bible is the word of God. |
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By Illumination
(No
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many errors
often reliable but not inerrant |
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| The Inerrancy of the Bible |
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1)God cannot err.
2)The Bible is the Word of God.
3)Therefore, the Bible cannot err. |
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| The Bible explicitly (inductively) teaches that it is the Word of God. |
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–2 Tim. 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
–2 Pet. 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. |
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| The Inerrancy of the Bible |
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1)God cannot err.
2)The Bible is the Word of God.
3)Therefore, the Bible cannot err. |
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| The Bible explicitly (inductively) teaches that it is the Word of God. |
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–2 Tim. 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
–2 Pet. 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. |
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| Infallibility implies inerrancy, not the reverse. |
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1.Actuality is that which is(Potentiality is that which can be).
2.Pure Actuality is that which is (Existence) with no possibility to be anything other than it is. |
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| Biblical Basis (Pure Actuality) |
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God exists independently of everything else
1) Gen. 1:1 “In the beginning God”
2) Col. 1:17 “He is before all things” |
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| Theological Basis (Pure Actuality |
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a.From God's uncausality
1)God is the uncaused Cause of all that exists.
2)An uncaused Cause has no potential to not exists.
3)But what exists without any potential not to exists is Pure Existence.
b.From God's necessity
1)A Necessary Being cannot not exist.
2)What cannot not exists has no potential for non-existence.
3)But what exists with no potential not to exist is Pure Existence. |
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a.Simple means without parts, indivisible, absolutely one.
b.God is absolutely One.
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”Deut. 6:4
“There is no God but one”1 Cor. 8:4 |
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a.From Latin aseite, of oneself
b.Theologically: an independent existence, self-existent. |
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A.Literally: essential or indispensable
B.Theologically: God is
1. A Being whose existence is essential.
2. A Being whose non-existence is impossible.
3. A Being whose essence is to exist.
4. A Being whose essence and existence are identical. |
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God’s nature and will cannot change. It does not mean merely that God's purpose do not change (Heb. 6:17-18).
“God desiring . . . To show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purposes” |
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| Implications (Immutability) |
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a.God's will cannot change.
b.God's mind cannot change.
c.God's purpose cannot change.
d.Nothing a creature does can change God in any way.
e.God cannot break His unconditional promise. |
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| Theological Basis (Eternality) |
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1)God is Pure Actuality.
2)Pure Actuality has no potentiality.
3)Whatever is temporal has potentiality.
4)Hence, God is not temporal |
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a.Root meaning (im=not; passible=passion or suffering).
b.God's inability to undergo passion or suffering. |
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| Theological Basis (Impassibility) |
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1) Passion involves a desire for what is lacking.
2) But God lacks nothing (He is absolutely perfect).
3) So, God cannot have passion. |
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A.Literally: non-material.
B.Theologically: God is immaterial or pure Spirit.
1. Matter is defined as:
a. Traditionally: what has extension in space (having part outside of part).
b. Currently: physical energy (everything subject to the II Law of Thermodynamics).
2. Immaterial, then, is what has no extension, time, mass, physical energy, or physical force. |
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A.Literal meaning (im=not; ense=measure)
B.Definition God: is not measurable, unlimited in extension (=non-spatial).
1. God is not spatial.
2. God is not in space.
3. God is not limited by space.
a. He is present to it, but--
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1.Omnipotent (Omni=All; Potent=Power)
2.Meaning of Biblical Words
a. Meaning of Hebrew word shadday (shaddai)
1)Self-sufficient or almighty
2)“The Almighty”the “self-sufficient”One:
a) “the Destroyer”
b) “the God of the Mountains”(cf. Psa. 121:1-2);
c) “God of the breasts”(bountiful provider).
3)LXX (pantokrator) all powerful.
4)Latin Vulgate OT (omnipotens).
b. Meaning of Greek word “Almighty”(pantokrator) all powerful nine times (2 Cor. 6:18; Rev. 1:87; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7, 14; 19:15). |
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omni=all; science=know.
2.Meaning:
a. God is all-knowing.
b. God's knowledge is infinite (without limits).
c. God knows everything possible to know |
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Oneness
There is one and only one God.
a. Unity--There are not two or more gods.
b. Simplicity--There are not two or more parts in God
c. Tri-unity--There are three persons in the one God |
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2.What It Does Mean
a. God is a tri-unity.
b. God is a plurality within unity.
c. God is three Persons in one Nature (Essence).
d. God is three Whos in one What. |
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| bSome Good Illustrations of the Trinity |
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1) God is like a triangle.
2) God is like 13(1x1x1=1) (not1+1+1=3).
3) God is Love (Lover, Beloved, and Spirit of Love).
4) God is like the relation between my mind, ideas, and words.
5) (For Muslims): God is to Christ (His Word) what Allah is to the Qur’an. |
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A.Literally: To be in control of or in charge of.
B.Theologically:
1. God is in complete control of all things.
2. The Westminster Confession of Faithstates: “God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatever comes to pass”(Chap. III). |
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A.Literally: to be above, to be beyond
B.Theologically: God is above and beyond all creation.
1. Transcendence--God is beyondthe universe
2. Immanence--God is withinthe universe
C.Theismaffirms both transcendence and immanence.
1. Deism denies God's immanence.
2. Pantheism denies God's transcendence |
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A.Literal meaning: within or near.
B.Theologically: God is present or within the entire universe (see also omnipresence).
1. God as transcendent is beyond the universe (His farness from us) -Pantheists deny this.
2. God as immanent is within the universe (His nearness to us) -Deists deny this. |
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A.What Ineffable Does Mean
1. Literally: From Lt.ineffabilis; in = not + effabilis = incapable of being expressed).
2. Theologically:The transcendent characteristics of God that cannot be adequately expressed in human language.
B.What Ineffable Does not Mean
1. That we cannot understand God's attributes at all.
a. This is a self-defeating statement.
b. How can we know that we cannot know God.
2. That God cannot be expressed at all.
a. This too is self-defeating.
b. How can we express what can't be expressed. |
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| Holiness and Righteousness*Truthfulness*Goodness (love) |
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| Other Moral Characteristics (not intrinsic to His nature) |
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Theology Proper
Son is God |
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a) Jesus claimed to be Yahweh (Jehovah) (Jn 8:58)
b) Jesus claimed to be equal with God (Jn 5:18 cf. Mk 2:5f) |
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Father is God |
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a) “Father, God has set His seal.”(Jn 6:27)
b) “From God our Father”(Rom 1:7)
c)“God the Father”(Gal 1:1) |
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Theology Proper
Holy Spirit is God |
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Holy Spirit is synonymous with the name God
•Acts 5:3-4; 1 Cor 3:16; 6:19
b) Holy Spirit has attributes of Deity
•Omniscience 1 Cor 2:11;
•Omnipresence Ps 139:7;
•Holiness Eph 4:30;
•Truth Jn 16:13; life Rom 8:2. |
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| Historical-grammatical interpretation of Gen. 1-2. |
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Fiat Creation (Henry Morris): “Day”is 24 hour solar day.
a.144 hr creation week.
b.Young earth view: ca. 15,000 yrs.
2.Progressive Creation (Bernard Ramm): “Day”is a significant period of time.
a.Old-earth view: ca. 1.5-4.6 billion yrs.
b.Some old earth views accept 24 hour day |
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| Biblical Evidence for Long Days in Genesis |
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1.Yom often means long period of time.
2.Yom is used in the context for a summary of all the days which is longer than 24 hours (Gen. 1-2).
4.Hebrews (4:3-5) says God is still resting (7th day) which must be longer than 24 hrs. (minimally six thousand years).
5.Third day says “land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds”is a process that takes longer than a day and in most cases a month or more.
6.Sixth Day was longer than a solar day. |
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| biblical references to creation of man and woman as literal. |
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Matt 19:4 And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE
•1 Cor. 11:9 for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.
•1 Cor. |
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| Inseparable connection between creation and redemption |
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| Rom. 5:12, 14, 15 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many |
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| Inseparable connection between creation and ethics. |
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–Matt 19:4 And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE
–James 3:9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; |
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| 6.Inseparable connection between Adam and Christ |
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Heb 2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil
–1 Cor. 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL" The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. |
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| (ego eimi) "I AM" (cf. Ex 3:14) |
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| Messenger of the Lord is Yahweh |
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Ex. 3:2, 8, 14 “Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire”
b. Gen 18:1, 22 “Lord appeared to him” |
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| Messenger of the Lord is Yahweh |
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Ex. 3:2, 8, 14 “Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire”
b. Gen 18:1, 22 “Lord appeared to him” |
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Creator, John 1:1-3, and sustainer of creation, 1Cor 8:6
2.Eternality, John 8:58 “I tell you the truth,”Jesus answered, “Before Abraham was born, I am!”John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
3.Omnipresence, Matt. 18:20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
4.Omniscience John 2:25 He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
5.Omnipotence, Matt. 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
6.Immutable, Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
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denied diety
affirmed humanity |
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deinied diety
affirmed humanity
relation united |
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humanity dimminished
diety affirmed |
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affirmed diety and humanity
relation seperated |
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affirmed diety humanity
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Pneumatology
1.Titles: "Spirit of God", 1 Cor 2:11, Eph 4:4, 2 Cor 3:18.
2.Omniscience, 1 Cor 2:10-12, Rom 11:33.
3.Omnipotence, Job 33:4.
4.Omnipresence, Ps 139:7-10, Jn 14:17.
5.Eternality, Heb 9:14. |
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Pneumatology
•Baptizes (1 Cor 12:13)
•Indwelling (Jn 14:16)
•Sealing (2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:13-14)
•Filling (Eph 5:8) |
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| Tongues (1 Cor. 14:22; Mk 16:17).b)Healing (Mk 16:17; Acts 4:16; 5:12; 16).c)Exorcism (Mk 16:17; Mt 10:8; Acts 16:16-18).d)Ability to raise the dead (Mt 10:8; Acts 8:36-42; 20:7-12).e)Prophet –Giving revelation & foretelling (future) 2 Pet 1:21 |
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| Abiding Holy spirit Gifts |
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| Apostle –12 apostles with sign gifts or root sense of “one sent”(Acts 14:4)b)Prophet –forthtelling (proclaims truth already given/known) (Heb. 2:1)c)Evangelist –proclaim the gospel all should do the work (2 Tim 4:5) some have the special gift.d)Pastor/Teacher –grammatically connected (2 Tim 4:2-3; 4:12-13) |
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