Dr. Reynolds Theology 2 Midterm
Sanctification
"holy" or bearing an actual likeness to God.
Ways in which Jesus revealed His consciousness of His Deity
-Human Body -Born -Grew Physically -Had a physical body -thought reasoned and felt
Erickson claims the Calvinist position on Perseverance is summed up in:
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Incarnation
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Justification
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Predestination
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Which is not an evidence of Jesus' humanity?
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Which is not true of sanctification?
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Which is the central theme of the atonement?
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Implications of Union with Christ
1. Accounted righteous 2. Now live in Christ's Strength 3. We will Suffer 4. We will reign with Christ
Implication of Jesus' humanity
1. Atoning death of Jesus can truly avail for us. 2. Jesus can sympathize with and intercede for us. 3. Jesus manifests the true nature of humanity. 4. Jesus can be our example. 5. God is not totally removed from the human race.
Historical departures from belief in the full Deity of Christ
1. Ebionism- Denied that Jesus was God and rejected the virgin birth. 2. Arianism- Only God the Father is uncreated and eternal.The Word is a created being, the Son is a totally different in the essence from the father. The Son is liable to change and even sin.
Benefits of Adoption
1. Forgiveness 2. Reconciliation 3. Liberty 4. Christian becomes the recipient of God's fatherly love, care and goodwill.
Implications of conversion and regeneration?
1. Human nature can only be altered by God. 2. No one can predict or control who will experience new birth. 3. Beg. of Christian life required recognition of one's own sinfulness and determination to abandon the self-centered way of life. 4. Saving faith requires correct belief regarding the Nature of God and what He has done. There also needs to be a commitment to God. 5. Conversion experiences can be radically different. 6. new birth is not felt when it occurs, but will produce a new sensitivity.
Implications of the central theme of the atonement?
1. Penal-substitution theory confirms the biblical teaching of total depravity of all humans. 2. God's nature is not one-sided, nor is there any tension between its different aspects. He is righteous and loving. 3. No other way of salvation but by grace through the death of Christ. 4. Security for believer in his relationship to God. His death is complete and permanent. 5. We must never take lightly our salvation.
Implications of the Deity of Christ
1. We can have real knowledge of God 2. Redemption is available to us 3. God and man have been reunited 4. Worship of Christ is appropriate
Conversion involves
ABC's
Universal Atonement
Christ died for all persons, but His atoning death becomes effective only when accepted by the individual.
Ebionism
Denied that Jesus was God. Rejected the virgin birth of Christ, maintaining that Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary in normal Fashion.
Early heresies regarding Jesus humanity
Docetism - Christology heavily influenced by basic Greek assumptions that the spirit is good, but the body is bad. (rt. dokeo- to seem or to appear) Apollinarianism - maintains that Jesus took on genuine humanity, but not the whole of human nature. Jesus was man physically, but not mentally.
The final stage of the process of salvation is termed
Glorification
Nestorianism
God can't have a mother, and no creature could've generated a member of the Godhead. Split the God-man into 2 distinct persons.
Regeneration
God's transformation of individual believers: His giving a new spiritual vitality and direction to their lives when they accept Christ.
What characterizes regeneration?
God's transformation of individual believers: His giving a new spiritual vitality and direction to their lives when they accept Christ.
Which book likens the work of Christ to the OT Day of Atonement?
Isaiah
Eutychianism
Jesus after His birth possessed only one nature that of God made flesh and become man. Rejected the idea of 2 natures as contrary to scripture.
Apollinarianism
Jesus took on genuine humanity, but not thet whole of human nature.
Ransom Theory of Atonement
Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. Ransom must have been paid to the evil one, for it was he who held us captive until the price was paid, for why would God pay ransom to himself?
One way in which O.T. salvation is different from N.T. is
Some theologians have stated that OT believers weren't regenerated b/c the Holy Spirit had not yet been give.
Perseverance
Will a person who becomes a christian always remain such?
The Word holy, as it relates to sanctification means?
bearing an actual likeness to God.
Satisfaction Theory of Atonement
emphasizes that Christ died to satisfy a principle in the very nature of God the Father. Sin is basically a failure to render God His due; we take from God what is rightfully His and dishonor Him. His honor can be put right again by punishing men or accepting satisfaction made on their behalf.
Moral-Influence Theory of Atonement
emphasizes the human nature of Christ and regards his death as an ex. of the love we are to show for God, the moral-influence theory sees Christs death as a demonstration of God's love.
Governmental Theory of Atonement
emphasizes the seriousness of sin. A mediating view where the atonement is regarded as satisfying the demands of justice and Christ's death is seen as a deterrent to sin by impressing on the sinner the gravity of what is involved in sin.
Glorification
life beyond will not merely be an extension of the current quality of life, but the perfecting of it.
Arianism
only God the Father is uncreated and eternal, all other parts are created beings. The Word must be created, and the Son is liable to change and even to sin.
Socinian Theory of Atonement
rejected the idea of vicarious satisfaction. Contended that Jesus' priestly role, the seat of which is in heaven, is coincident with his kingly office rather than distinct from it.
Docetism
spirit=good, body=bad. Jesus was more of an apparition than a human being, and Mary was only a vehicle for this ghost like being.
Propitiation
the act of appeasing God
Union with Christ means
the believer and Christ are "in" one another
