Sem 2 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Around how many OT verses state God is absolutely one?
Around 3,000
Where must all revelation about God start?
Why must it start there?
Where is the source?
- From God’s self revelation
- Because we are fallen
- In the bible
How do our approaches to the OT reveal our conscious or unconscious attitude to God’s revelation?
Oneness people respect the OT and prove we take the process of God’s self-revelation seriously
Explain how Gen 1:26 is not about a trinity.
Shows he’s talking to the Angels, majestic plurally.
How do you explain the “God” or “Elohim” in Gen 1:1 is not a proof of the trinity?
It is a uni-plural noun with singular modifiers
When “Elohim” is used of God what is it always accompanied by?
Singular verbs or modifiers
When scripture says Moses, Samuel, and all of the individual judges of Israel are called “Elohim” what does that prove regarding God?
It means they cannot be a trinity and neither can God
How does the inspired NT translation of the inspired OT verses calling God, Elohim, prove that God is absolutely numerically one?
NT Elohim is always translated God in the singular, never plural
What are the two things represented in Daniel 7 and Rev 5? What’s missing?
- The eternal God
- The man Jesus
- Third person of the trinity is missing-Holy Ghost
How do you prove Rev 5 is not about persons in a so called trinity?
No Trinitarian would say that Jesus would be called a Lion who will be a slain lamb standing with seven eyes and horns
How does the bible show in another passage Dan 7 and Rev 5 are not separate persons?
In Rev 1 we see a blended picture of the son of man and the ancient of days in Christ
Explain why Isaiah 6:3 repeating “Holy holy holy, Lord God Almighty” does not prove a trinity.
No superlative and it’s just repetition like “O earth earth earth”
Did the oneness message disappear after the fourth century and slowly make a come back in the 19th century?
No. It’s always existed
According to Tertullian’s writing “Against Praxeus” what was the dominant belief still in the 2nd century and what was the minority view?
Dominate- Oneness
Minority- Trinitarian
What two things does Father/Son language in the NT show?
What God did as humanity and what he did as deity.
How did God make the world by the son?
Created the world with Christ in view
Prove Jesus is not having a conversation with another person in the trinity on the cross by showing what he is quoting.
Psalm 22
What is Jesus saying will happen through His suffering?
Through this suffering he will reign
What are the two major questions you ask almost all “passages of distinction” that prove the distinction is about the human/divine relationship not persons in the trinity?
Where is the missing Holy Spirit?
Can this be about a coequal trinity?
Prove that Jesus’ prayers cannot be about a trinity explaining why the essence of the doctrine of the trinity would be violated?
God can’t pray to God or one isn’t coequal
At his baptism what three roles is Jesus stepping into?
Prophet, priest and King
Show why it was important for Jesus as a man to be baptized and anointed and include a statement from Christ himself as to point of doing this.
He is doing it to fulfill all righteousness- The OT commands a priest to be washed and like all prophets, priests and kings he had to be anointed.
What two images are represented in Philippians 2:5-11?
Adam and the suffering servant
What role did Jesus have to fulfill and what would have violated it?
Suffering servant
