Day Three- Lecture Flashcards
(17 cards)
“God’s Grandeur” Poem summary
we have smeared God’s world
Doctrine Of Creation
- Goodness of Creation
everything and all people are potentially redeemable
Doctrine Of Creation
- Intelligibility and Purpose of Creation
created things and their purpose came from the wisdom of God so they are purposive, in principle, and intelligible
Doctrine Of Creation
- Creation Ex Nihilo (out of nothing)
God created the heavens and the earth out of His own goodness, power, and love, out of His own enthusiasm using no pre-existing materials distinct from His own mind
Doctrine Of Creation
- Creation stands as God’s stamp of approval on embodied, physical life
the things of the mind and spirit are sometimes no better, even worse, than the things of the body. Christianity rejects those “boutique spiritualities” that scorn the messy, organic nature of physical life
Doctrine Of Creation
- Cultural Mandate
God affirms the goodness of work and marriage (multiple and fill the earth)
Doctrine Of Creation
- Imago Dei
Humans are made in the image of God. This separates humans from the rest of creation and means that personhood is not an achievement but a given. Same is true of our dignity
While we always remain creatures, in ways we are like our Creator
Imago Dei
-reason and spirituality
-relational impulse
-Dominion
Doctrine Of Creation
- The need to balance individual and corporate identities
we need to balance those and the distinct persons created for communion and a communion that honors personal differences
Doctrine Of Creation
- Creation places us in the scheme of thing
our place as creatures created in God’s image keeps us from both materialistic reduction and humanistic exaggeration
Creation Ordinances
Laws and institutions given to Adam and Eve before the fall
-procreation of offspring
-replenishing and subduing the earth
-dominion over creature
-work
-weekly Sabbath
-marriage
Doctrine of the Fall
glory meets tragedy, Satan still uses same lies to pull us away from God
Consequences of the fall
Broken relationships
-with God
-with ourselves
-with others
-with the world
Satan’s role in the fall and the corruption of the world
dishonesty- God is truth
seduction
accusation
(Satan can’t do these without our consent)
Evil
any spoiling of shalom
sin
culpable evil, any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature
Original Sin
a tendency of the whole race, for which we bear collective guilt. It is universal human bent toward sin
Note: sin existed prior to humanity’s fall- Satan’s fall came before our temptation, not in Eden but in the Spiritual realm
