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Understanding Theism through Systematic Theology

The Bible's divine and human characteristics, metaphors, and controversies explained in Systematic Theology for a comprehensive understanding using language that is easy to comprehend.

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Understanding Theism through Systematic Theology

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  1. Theism • There is a God. • He is active. • He is not silent.

  2. Systematic Theology The Scriptures

  3. 4. The Bible was written by the same people who believed that the earth was flat.

  4. The Scriptures • Inspired by God

  5. The Scriptures • Inspired by God • Given to men

  6. The Scriptures • Given to men

  7. The Scriptures • Given to men • Communicated to human beings

  8. The Scriptures • Given to men • Communicated to human beings • Communicated in a way that humans will understand (metaphors, anthropomorphisms, etc.)

  9. Two extremes in viewing the Scriptures:

  10. Denying or diminishing its divine characteristics while affirming its human traits.

  11. Denying or diminishing its divine characteristics while affirming its human traits. • Liberals

  12. Denying or diminishing its human traits while affirming its diving characteristics.

  13. Denying or diminishing its human traits while affirming its diving characteristics. • Fundamentalists

  14. Arianism is just as heretical as Docetism

  15. Arianism – denied the divinity of Christ • Docetism – denied the humanity of Christ

  16. Arianism

  17. Arianism • God is too pure to appear on earth

  18. Arianism • God is too pure to appear on earth • So, He created Christ

  19. Arianism • God is too pure to appear on earth • So, He created Christ • It denies that Jesus is of one essence, nature, or substance with God the Father

  20. Arianism • God is too pure to appear on earth • So, He created Christ • It denies that Jesus is of one essence, nature, or substance with God the Father • Condemned by the Council of Nicea in 325

  21. Docetism

  22. Docetism • Physical matter is sinful

  23. Docetism • Physical matter is sinful • Therefore, Jesus would not have become physical matter

  24. Docetism • Physical matter is sinful • Therefore, Jesus would not have become physical matter • Thus, He did not have a physical body (He just appeared to have one)

  25. Docetism • Physical matter is sinful • Therefore, Jesus would not have become physical matter • Thus, He did not have a physical body (He just appeared to have one) • Condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451

  26. The Bible is both Divine and Human

  27. The Human Characteristics of the Bible

  28. 1. The Bible has human authors.

  29. 1. The Bible has human authors. 2. The Bible has written in human languages.

  30. 1. The Bible has human authors. 2. The Bible has written in human languages. 3. The Bible has human literary styles.

  31. 1. The Bible has human authors. 2. The Bible has written in human languages. 3. The Bible has human literary styles. 4. The Bible uses different human literary forms.

  32. 1. The Bible has human authors. 2. The Bible has written in human languages. 3. The Bible has human literary styles. 4. The Bible uses different human literary forms. 5. The Bible reflects different human perspectives.

  33. 6. The Bible reflects different human thought patterns.

  34. 6. The Bible reflects different human thought patterns. 7. The Bible reveals human emotions.

  35. 6. The Bible reflects different human thought patterns. 7. The Bible reveals human emotions. 8. The Bible manifests specific human interests.

  36. 6. The Bible reflects different human thought patterns. 7. The Bible reveals human emotions. 8. The Bible manifests specific human interests. 9. The Bible expresses human culture.

  37. 10. The Bible utilizes other written human sources.

  38. Metaphors and Anthromorphisms

  39. 1. The Bible is like milk that nourishes us. …like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 1 Peter 2:2

  40. 2. The bible is like meat (solid food) that satisfies us. 13 For every one that useth milk isunskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5:13-14 (KJV)

  41. 3. The Bible is like water that washes us. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that

  42. He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. Ephesians 5:25-27

  43. 4. The Bible is like a fire that cleanses us. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer thatbreaketh the rock in pieces? Jeremiah 23:29 (KJV)

  44. 5. The Bible is like a hammer that shatters us. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer thatbreaketh the rock in pieces? Jeremiah 23:29 (KJV)

  45. 6. The Bible is like a sword that cuts deeply into us. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:13

  46. 7. The Bible is like is like a mirror to reflect ourselves to us. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what

  47. kind of personhe was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 1:23-25

  48. 8. The Bible is like is like a lamp to our feet Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

  49. A Case study: Various Confessions

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