Inspired Revelation
What are the four tools for accurately Faith
arranging a systematic theology? Language
History
1. Is present-day Christian faith in harmony with, and growing out of, that countiuous
faith of Christians found in the New Testament?
What four questions must we ask about
2. Is your concept of fath available to all individuals?
faith?
3. Is private faith based on objective faith?
4. Are the symbols of one's faith meaningful?
Human Understanding
Language
Ignorance of Scripture
What 6 factors can limit our theology?
Silence of God
The Nature of Science
Spiritual Blindness
What year was Jesus born? 4 BC
When was Christianity made Rome's National AD 313 - Constantine
Religion?
What is the Incarnation? God taking on human flesh and becoming a man.
Does the Bible state that Jesus was the Yes.
creator of the world?
Did Jesus claim to have supernatural origins? Yes
Who Baptized Jesus? John the Baptist
Did Jesus allow people to worship him? Yes
T/F Jesus Christ is the second member of the True
trinity, equal with the Father in nature and yet
submissive in duty.
T/F Christ was a single and undivided True
personality.
T/F Jesus claimed to be one with the Father. True
T/F Jesus claimed to have the ability to True
forgive sins.
T/F Jesus allowed people to worship him. True
T/F Jesus claimed to have omnipresence, True
omniscience and omnipotence.
What does the term "preexistence" mean? The existence of Christ before conception.
What does the term "eternality" mean when Jesus Christ has no beginning or end and is not limited by time.
referring to Christ?
T/F The fact that Christ allowed people to True
worship him shows that he thought that he
was divine.
What chapter of the New Testament does The first Chapter of John
the Author suggest contains the most names
of Jesus?
, Which of God's names do some scholars Jehovah
think that Jesus is claiming with his "I AM"
statements?
What is the term "only begotten" used to The relationship between the Father and Jesus.
describe about Jesus?
Why does the author think that the Gospel of It's used over 1200 times in the Old Testament to refer to the revelation or message of
John calls Jesus the "word"? God.
What would Jews think who heard Christ The Jews would think that He was calling Himself equal to God.
calling Himself the "Son of Man"?
What Old Testament authors spoke about Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah
Christ's future birth?
Why is it essential that Christ have been born Had Jesus had a human father, He would have inherited the sinful nature of man. With
of a virgin? human parents it would be impossible for Him to be the Son of God.
What are the two meanings for the word "virgin" or "young maid"
'almah'?
What does the author believe is the best Virgin
translation for the word 'almah' in Isaiah 7:14?
What does dual authorship mean? God and man were writing at the same time.
Leather. Also called vellum or parchments. They were soft animal skins sewn together
What was the Old Testament written on?
and rolled into a scroll.
What are the three divisions of the Old Moses, Prophets and Psalms
Testament?
What did the Psalms scroll contain? Psalms, Minor Prophets and historial books
The first form of what we call "books". They were made of papyrus and sewn together
What is a codex?
at the edges, forming a spine.
Where does the name "Bible" come from? From the Latin "ta biblia", meaning "the book".
Where does the term "scripture" come from? From the Latin "scriptus", meaning "the act of producing writing".
What are three ways the Bible can influence Conviction, convincing and conversion
its reader?
It is based on the person of Jesus Christ.
What three arguments form the basis for If man journalistically created Christ for fiction, why has he not been able to improve on
arguments from revelation? the idea of Christ?
The uniqueness of the message demands a unique avenue of communication
What empirical evidence sets Christianity Christianity is the only religion that gives fulfilled prophecy as one of its bases for
apart from other belief systems? credibility.
Name two sources that establish an early The Septuagint (the Greek translation of the OT) c. 285 BC and the Dead Sea Scrolls
date of scripture. (the Hebrew text was written and collected before Christ was born) before 4 BC.
Inspired guidance by the Holy Spirit
Inspired personality of the authors
What are the four qualities of inspiration?
Inspired words
Resulting in the inspired text
T/F Inspiration incorporates the personality True (inspired personality)
of the writer into the final product.
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