FBI Semester 1 Theology
1 John 5:7
"There are three...the Father, The Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these are three " - evidence of the Trinity.
Recognized
It was not until AD 1956, at the Council of Trent, that the Roman Catholic Church officially _________________ the Apocrypha in an attempt to strengthen their position, which had been grievously weakened by the great reformer Martin Luther.
5,300 25,000
there are over ____________ Ancient Greek manuscripts. Including the early versions, we have almost _________ ancient manuscripts.
William Tynsdale
Flooded England with 50,000 copies of his smuggled New Testaments. He put the Bible in the hands of the common man at a time when Catholic Emperor Charles V had made it a crime punishable by torture and death (being buried or burned alive) to do so.
Revelation 22:21
For nearly 20 centuries, Christians everywhere believed that when John wrote ____________ and wiped his pen, inspiration ceased.
2 Peter 1:21
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 28:19-20
Gives the command to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost - evidence of the Trinity.
The One True God is Faithful
God always keeps His promises.
Pictoral, personal.
God chose Hebrew because it is a ____________ language, speaking with vivid, bold metaphors which challenge and dramatize the story. Further, it is a ____________ language. It addresses itself to the heart and the emotions. It is a language that is felt rather than thought.
Free will
God has allowed for (but not arranged or caused in any way) sin to enter this universe because He allowed both men and angels to possess __________ __________.
The One True God is Wise
God has the ability to apply omniscience in such a way that He always chooses the highest good for the greatest number for the longest time and the most excellent means to accomplish that purpose. This has practical meaning for us in that we can trust His will to be far better than our will
"The One True God is Holy"
God is absolutely separate from and exhalted above all His creatures (and creations), and He is equally separate from all moral evil and sin.
The One a True a God is Omnipotent
God is all powerful. God can do anything that is consistent with His own nature. He cannot lie or sin
The One True God is Omniscient
God is all-knowing. He has always perfectly known all that can be known.
The One True God is Omnipresent
God is present everywhere with His whole being at the same time at all times.
The One True God is Merciful
Mercy is that eternal principle of God's nature which leads Him to seek the temporal good and eternal salvation of those who have opposed themselves to His will, even at the cost of infinite Self-sacrifice.
the facts involved in health, sanitation, and medical science in the Bible
Moses grew up in Egypt and was well acquainted with all the medical knowledge of his day. In all his writings, he never once referred to the false "cures" found in the Papyrus Ebers, but rather gave unbelievably accurate medical and sanitary regulations that were 3500 years ahead of their time.
King James version
Most beloved and popular English version of all time. Written to produce a non-sectarian Bible to unite the Christians of England. Stressed accuracy rather than a doctrinal viewpoint.
The One True a God is Imcomprehensible
No finite being can ever hope to even remotely grasp or begin to understand the infinite God.
Torah
The books of Genesis - Deuteronomy (The Law)
Hindu Vedas
while the Word of God is scientifically correct, in the sacred __________ _________ we read "The moon is 50,000 leagues higher than the sun and shines by its own light; night is caused by the suns setting behind a huge mountain several thousand feet high, located in the center of the earth; this world, flat and triangular is composed of 7 states- one of honey, another of sugar, a third of butter, and still another of wine, and the whole mass is carried on heads of elephants which in shaking produce earthquakes.
Hebrew
Almost all of the Old Testament was written in __________.
Three distinctions between the members of the Trinity.
The Father, Son and Spirit each have individual wills, locations and the pray to one another.
Quotes
Even if all manuscripts of the New Testsment were lost, the entire text could be recovered from _________ in the writings of the early church fathers; over 36,000 quotes in the first three centuries alone.
Dead Sea Scrolls
A collection of Old Testament manuscripts discovered in 1947 which date back to the second century BC.
Supernatural author
A wholey unified book such as the Bible could have only been written if a ______________ _________ were behind its writing.
Idolotrous
All attempts to really picture God (by graven images, drawn images, or even mental images) are always ______________.
Evidences for supernaturalism
All evidence for miracles, fulfilled Bible prophecies, the inspiration of Scripture,and the resurrection of Christ are ultimately evidences for the existence of God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
foundation
An eclectic critical text was prepared by a committee led by Wescott and Hort. This text was based upon Sinaiticus, Viticanus and Alexandrinus and a small number of other sources. This critical text is the ____________ of the Greek text underlying almost all new English and the language Bible versions today.
Ezra
By the year 300 BC (at the latest), all Old Testament books had been written, collected, revered, and recognized as official, Canonical books. It appears that _________ the prophet led the first recognized council and that both Haggai and Zechariah participated in this council. Thus, the finalization of the Old Testament Canon was led by three inspired prophets of God.
John Wycliffe
Called "The Morning Star of the Reformation", he was the first man to completely translate the entire Bible into the English language. This was the only complete English translation for 145 years
Personal evidence of supernaturalism
Changed lives - millions of persons, century after century, profess to the total life changing power of New Birth. Personal relationship - millions of believers can profess what love, joy, peace and sense of God's presence and providence a daily personal relationship with God brings them. Answered prayers - hundreds of millions of testimonies could be given of amazing supernatural and natural answers to specific prayers
Inspired
If the very words of Scripture are ___________, then the proper method of translation is to translate the very words themselves, insofar as each language makes this possible.
Predictive prophecy
One fourth of the Bible was __________ ________ when written and 1/2 of that has already been fulfilled
Three primary names of God
Elohim - God Jehovah - LORD also I Am and Yahweh) Adonai - Lord
The Verbal-Plenary Inspiration Position
Exactly what is meant by inspiration (God Breathed) is clearly defined in Matthew 4:4' "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth our of the mouth of God."
The One True God is Eternal
God is the one and only being who has existed for all of eternity past, who will exist for all eternity future, and who will actually exist outside of and beyond the realm of time, as the Creator, not the servant of time. God's eternal nature is different from that of His creatures who will exist forever, in that He has existed for all eternity and beyond even this, He does exist in all eternity. God does not exist within linear time. He exists above time.
The One True God is Immutable.
God is unchangable in His essence, character, attributes and purpose.
The One True God is Inscrutible
God is unquestionable in His inexplicable and mysterious ways.
Add
God warned in Revelation 22:18-19 not to _______ to His Word in the Bible.
The One True God is Self-Existant
God's existence is uncalled and arises from His own eternal nature. God simple exists because He exists. He is not dependent on any outside source for His thoughts, His power or His council. The answer to the question "Where did God come from?" Is God.
The One True God is Self-Sufficient
God's infinite Devine nature is so perfect that He has no spiritual, emotional, mental, relational, physical or material need outside of His own divine being. God's self sufficiency is related to His Devine self existence. God has never had and indeed can never have in the present, in eternity past nor in eternity future, a single need of any kind that is not entirely fulfilled within His own infinite and perfect being.
"The One True God is Just and Righteous
God's righteousness or justice in His perfect moral nature of always perfectly dealing rightly and justly with all that is holy and unholy, of justly punishing all evil and rewarding all good.
Errors
It must be understood that since the Bible is clearly revealed as God's Word, for one to claim that it contains __________ is to directly assault the character of God. One who tells lies is a liar and one who makes mistakes is infallible.
The One True God is Gracious
God's unmerited favor, goodness, and blessings manifested toward the undeserving. Grace is that which is given freely. It is His unmerited favor. The favor of God is not restricted to salvation itself. When God grants favor in life, the favor extends to every area of life
The One True God is Free
God's will and purpose are unlimited by any outside force and He is unrestrained in His will and plans, except by His own nature.
The One True God is Good
Goodness is the eternal principle of God's nature which leads Him to communicate of His own life and blessedness to those who are like Him in moral character. His goodness is what disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He takes pleasure in the happiness of his people.
The One True God is Light
He is both the source and strength of all illumination. This is true of not only the beams of energy radiating from the sun, but also the moral and spiritual rays of information and inspiration.
Prophet
It only took one false prophecy to make a false __________.
Jehovah
I AM, the Self-existent God, the Everloving One
Corrupt
If the Minority Texts are __________ or inferior, then so are all the modern translations based on these texts.
The Argument from Morals
If the universe and man were merely random chance arrangements of atoms and chemicals, then no morality could exist. Yet absolute morals do exist. It is admitted by those on both sides of the debate that there is no logical basis for any absolute morals if there is no Creator or God. Therefore we can only reject the existence of God if we are willing to reject the existence of all absolute morals.
Diocletian
In AD 303, Emperor __________ thought he had destroyed every hated Bible. After years of ruthless slaughter, he erected a column over a burned Bible. The title on the column read "Extinct is the Name of Christian." Twenty years later, Emperor Constantine asked for Bibles and win 24 hours, 50 were brought to him and Christianity was declared the official religion of Rome.
Doctrines
In Jude 1:3 "the faith" that was once delivered to the saints, refers to Christian Faith and ____________. The Greek tense literally speaks of "the faith which was once for all time never to be repeated again delivered to the saints."
Communicates
In stating that Revelation and Inspiration have ceased, it is important to note that this does not mean that the Holy Spirit no longer ____________ with the human heart.
predated
In the late 1800's the Greek text unquestionablly accepted by true churches since at least the 300's was challenged by those who argued that, since Codexes Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrinus _________ most of the then extant Greek manuscripts of the Standard or Majority Text, then they should be accepted as superior.
John 10:30
Jesus states "I and My Father are One." - evidence of the Trinity.
The Argument from Consciousness or mind
Mans mind, rationality and self consciousness could not arise by chance from mere molecules. Mans mind, soul and spirit could only have been created by a God who is Spirit; a God with mind, emotion, rationality, self-consciousness, self awareness and will
Adonai
Master - emphasizing God's authority
From Scripture to man's heart
One of the three ministries of the Holy Spirit concerning the Bible: Illumination: the Impartation of the message _______________________. This ministry is continuous and ongoing. This ministry is dependent upon the response of the human heart and is therefore not infallible or without the possibility of error.
From man to Scripture
One of the three ministries of the Holy Spirit concerning the Bible: Inspiration: the Impartation of the message ____________________. This ministry is complete and has ceased. It was perfect and without error.
From God to man
One of the three ministries of the Holy Spirit concerning the Bible: Revelation: the Impartation of the message _______________________. This ministry is complete and has ceased. It was perfect and without the possibility of error.
Distinction between Bible doctrine of God's omnipresence and Hindu and New Age heresy of pantheism.
Pantheism wrongly declares God is everything or that everything is God
3 John
Polycarp, Ignatius, & Iraneus, who were all associated with John the Apostle, included all but one of the NT books we have today ( ___________) in the very first written list of NT books, The Mutorian Canon.
Apocrypha
Reasons for rejecting the ____________: It was never included in the Old Testament canon by any recognized Jewish authorities such ad the Pharisees or the inspired prophet Ezra. Some books teach false doctrine, such as praying for the dead.
Spelling
Reprinting a of the KJV took place in 1629, 1638, 1762, and 1769. Changes were minor and only concerned such details as updating from Gothic to Roman typesetting, printing errors common with manual typesetting and updated ____________.
The Ontological Argument
Since the concept of a God is infinitely greater than man's finite mind, it cannot have come from mans finite mind and therefore must have been revealed by God himself. If we had imagined God, we would not have imagined the perfect God of the Bible, but one far less demanding, restrictive and hard to understand Man would have created God in his image or in the image of things man can see. Man could not, and would not, have ever imagined the infinite, holy, just and loving God of the Bible.
Comparison
Skeptics and false religions had long claimed that in the centuries of copying and recopying, the text of the Old Testament had sustained many mistakes and was completely unreliable. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls silenced the charge. A _______________ of these manuscripts with our oldest copies of the OT revealed that the copying process was incredibly and absolutely accurate.
John 5:18
States that to be Gods Son makes one equal with God - evidence of the Trinity.
El
Strong One
Hebrew 1:5-8
The Father commands the angels to worship the Son, and calls Him God & Lord. - evidence of the Trinity
El-Shaddai
The Almighty (the Oak), the All-Sufficient One, the Breasted One, our intimate nourished
Bible Doctrine of the Triune God
The Bible clearly teaches there is only one God. The Bible also teaches that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are each God. The Bible also teaches that these Three are distinct persons or personalities.
History
The Bible contains the oldest written _________ in existence
Languages
The Bible has been translated into more _______ than any other book.
10,000 135
The Bible has some ___________ fulfilled prophecies in the OT alone, and over _______ in Daniel, over 100 just about Babylon.
Political
The Bible is Indestructable in spite of __________ persecutions.
Indestructable
The Bible is _______________ in spite of intellectual persecutions.
Completed
The Bible is a ____________ book and therefore inspiration is a completed process.
Persecutions
The Bible is indestructible in spite of religious ______________. Most early Popes opposed the reading and translating of the Bible, ordering Bibles burned and Christians martyred.
Number
The Bible is the _________ one best seller of all time.
Hinduism
The Bible is the foundation of the modern scientific method. The scientific method could never have been born under the fatalism or the non-reality view of matter held by _____________ and Eastern Religion. The great fathers of the various fields of science were almost exclusively Christian.
First
The Bible was the _________ book ever printed.
Codex
The Bible was the first book ever put in ____________ (modern form) which was actually developed for the Bible.
Translated
The Bible was the first major book ever ________.
1000
The Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in a cave by a Jewish group known as the Essenes. They contain manuscripts from every Old Testament book except Esther and were __________ years older than any existing Old Testament manuscripts.
Conviction
The Holy Spirit communicates through His continuing ministries such as illumination, ___________, leading, and calling. These ministries are dependent upon the receptivity and sensitivity of the human heart for accuracy. They are therefore not guaranteed to be free from all errors in all cases.
Not dictated
The Holy Spirit moved on the personality of the writer and guided (____ _________) every word from error in such a way that every word of Scripture is both from God and from the human author and yet, none of the frailties or faults of the human writer are included.
Illumination
The Impartation of the Message From Scripture to Man's Heart Man understands and is enlightened by that which God has written. It is the method used by the Holy Spirit to shed divine light upon all seeking men as they look into the Word of God.
Revelation
The Impartation of the Message from God to man. Man perfectly hears what God wants written.
Inspiration
The Impartation of the Message from Man to Scripture. Man perfectly writes what God wants written.
Preservation
The Impartation of the Message from the Original Manuscripts to Today's Bible
1500
The KJV was based upon what had been the accepted Greek text for over 1200 years of Christian history. Assuming the church fathers were correct that this text was the preserved Word of God, the Majority Text reflected all _______ years of church history before the KJV was produced in 1611.
Jehovah-Jireh
The Lord will Provide
Standard Greek Text
The Majority Text was a body of over 5,500 Greek manuscripts. This was indusputedly the accepted ____________ ________ _________ for almost all Bibles from the 400's to the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Superseded
The New Testament __________ the Old Testament because it was the higher revelation of Christ and the Gospel, "the New a testament in My blood."
Elohim
The Strong One Who keeps His covenant
2000
The ________ year gap since anything has been added to Scripture is evidence that the message of God is complete.
Mutorian Canon
The __________ __________ (AD 70) is the earliest existing actual listing of New a testament books and includes 3 John.
Papyri
The ___________ are older than any of the manuscripts upon which the Minority Text was originally based. The majority of these consistently reveal that the Majority a Text (KJV) are both older and correct. Therefore the Majority Text now stands as both the majority of Greek text and the oldest extant text.
Minority Texts
The ____________ ____________ are a very small number of older manuscripts, some of which have since been discovered since the translation of the KJV. These texts were incomplete and have as much or more disagreement between themselves as they do with the Majority Text.
Incomplete
_____________ inspiration would mean that the Bible is not sufficient if the Scriptures are not complete, then the inspiration we have already received, the Bible, is not all we need to make Christians "perfect, thorouly furnished unto all good works."
The One True God is True
The attribute of the Divine nature of which God's being and God's knowledge eternally conform to each other. The child of God may may say "I speak the truth", but only God can say "I am the truth!" God is the ultimate and only source and standard of truth.
The One True God is Sovereign
The authority of God over all things is absolute. He is the sole ruler over all that exists. God is in control.
Older
The chief claim to superiority by the advocates of the Minority Text has always been that it relies on manuscripts which are ___________ and therefore supposedly closer to the originals than the manuscripts of the Majority Text.
Proof of the Bible's scientific accuracy
The earth is round. The earth is suspended in space. The stars are innumerable. There are mountains and canyons in the sea. There are springs and fountains in the sea. There are watery paths (ocean currents) in the seas. All living things produce after their own kind.
Greek
The entire New Testament was written in ________.
The Design or Teleological Argument
The existence of design implies a designer. The intelligent design, purpose and order of the universe indicates an intelligent designer.
The Argument from Mans Conscience and moral nature
The existence of mans conscience and moral nature demands a self-conscience and moral Maker. Though mans conscience is often weak or ignored and may even become seared, it nonetheless exists in all men and tells us we ought to do right. This implies a moral God who planted a moral nature within us.
The Innate Knowledge or Universal Belief Argument
The fact that mankind's innate knowledge of God's existence is a universal phenomena is evidence that the knowledge was placed in us by God himself.
Aramaic
The following exceptions appear in _________: Ezra 4:8 - 8:18, 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11 and Daniel 2:4 - 7:28
The One True God is Love
The manifested unconditional and unselfish concern of God, in emotion, volition and action for man's highest good.
Tri-Theism
The true Bible doctrine of the Trinity is denied by ________________. This heretical view of God teaches that the Trinity consists of three separate Gods. Many groups who reject the Trinity often falsely accuse or misunderstand those who believe in the Trinity as holding this position.
Cultists
The true Bible doctrine of the Trinity is denied by the ______________. There are many groups who claim to be Christians, yet deny the deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. This includes groups like Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, and Mormonism. There are also major world religions that believe in one God but reject the deity of Christ and the Trinity.
Oneness
The true Bible doctrine of the Trinity is denied by the ________________, Jesus Only, or Jesus Name Movement also known as Modalizm. These groups accept that God is one, but deny that he is three. They teach that the Faher, Son and Spirit are simple three roles by which one God reveals himself. This view is held by the United Pentacostal , the Apostolic Church and others who deny that God is three in any sense whatsoever.
333
There are over _______ fulfilled prophecies about Christ.
Trinity
There is one God who exists in a union of three individual and distinct personalities. They exist in a perfect unity as three co-equal and co-eternal persons.
Cosmological Argument
This argument is based on the law of cause and effect. If there is no God! Then the question must be asked "Where did everything come from?" An infinite creation demands an infinite cause, an all powerful, all knowing, uncaused first cause, or simply put, God. Just as the existence of a watch logically demands the existence of a watchmaker, the existence of creation demands the existence of a creator.
The Geneva Version
Translated by William Whittingham (brother in law of John Calvin) in Switzerland during the vicious persecution of Mary the Tudor. This version was important for many reasons. It was the first English Version to divide the text into verses. It was the first complete English version to omit the Apocrypha. It was the most loved Bible of the common people and went through over 160 editions. It was the Bible of John Bunyan, Shakespeare and the Pilgrams of the Mayflower.
47
Translation work of the KJV Bible was done by _______ scholars divided into 6 groups, working at Westminster, Cambridge and Oxford.
Preserved
Two distinct families of texts or text types had already come into existence by the AD 300's. Scholars are generally agreed that most corruptions of the text occurred during the first 100 years after the originals were written ( primarily produced purposefully by heretics like the Gnostics or Marcion). The Christian churches of these early centuries examined both of these text families and came to the firm conclusion that one should be rejected as corrupt while the other was the ______________ and pure Word of God, accurately reflecting the originals.
Long
Unity in the Bible Is acheived in spite of the ______ period of time involved in its writing.
Three
Unity in the Bible is acheived in spite of the _________ different languages in which it was written.
Writing.
Unity in the Bible is acheived in spite of the different types of time of __________.
Geographical
Unity in the Bible is achieved in spite of the different _______________ places where the Bible was written.
Authors Occupations
Unity in the Bible is achieved in spite of the many ___________ (some 40) and their various ___________ (approximately 19).
Styles
Unity in the Bible is achieved in spite of the many different ________of writing.
Topics
Unity in the Bible was acheived in spite of the hundreds of controversial ___________ covered.
Religious
Unity was acheived in the Bible in spite of the various _____________ backgrounds of the writers.
John 4:24
Verse that states "God is a Spirit"
Luke 24:39
Verse that states "a Spirit hath not flesh and bones "
Matthew 16:17
Verse that states that the Father "is not flesh and blood."
Muslim Quran
We read that Alexander the Great followed the setting sun and found that it went down into the waters of a muddy stream. It also repeats fanciful and scientifically ridiculous Stories from to time. Small sampling - the moon is larger than the Sun and shines by its own light. Mohammed cut it in half with a sword. filled with mythical characters like genies and many historical mistakes. Thought that Miriam the mother of Moses was the same person as marybthe mother of Jesus.
Mercy, Grace
_______ is God not giving us the punishment in hell that we deserve. _________is God giving us the favor and salvation in Heaven that we do not deserve.
Josiah Cyrus
___________ and ________ were prophesied by name centuries before their birth.
Majority Text
the KJV rests on the Greek texts compiled by Erasmus, also know as the Textus Receptus or Received Text. This is based upon the Traditional Text or the _____________ __________ of the New Testament.
Jehovah-Rapha
the Lord our Healer.
