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Systematic Theology test 3
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- 1Question asked by people disillusioned by religionIf God exists and He is both good and powerful, then why does He allow bad things to happen?
- 2Two answers people have to why God allows bad things to happenhe isn't good, doesn't care or isn't powerful enough to stop it, OR God doesn't exist
- 3Problem that is created when you say God doesn't existI must still explain why evil exists, I must find another explanation ignore it or totally deny it ,
- 4Is there another belief out there that has a better explanation for suffering/evil?Atheism affirms evil but denies God
Pantheism affirms God but denies evil (Theism affirms God and evil with appears to be incompatible) - 5Theism says God cannot...produce sin, he is absolutely perfect and as such he cannot either perform or produce sin (debt. 32:4),
An absolutely flawless being cannot act in any way that is flawed; the world God made and everything in it was "very good" (gen. 1:31) - 6God cannot...promote sin, he cannot encourage sin; he is completely holy and cannot endorse sin in any way, God cannot entice us into sin
- 7God can...permit sin, in allowing sin to occur, he accomplishes his own higher purpose (crucifixion) gen. 50:20
- 8What is God's plan in allowing sin to continue temporarily?gives us freedom, permitting the potential for us to produce evil, gives us the same potential to surrender to what is good (Rom. 6:13), God can produce a Christ-like character by allowing sin (rom. 5:3-5) , God permits evil to produce spiritual growth (James 1:2-4)
- 9the origin of sin is found in...free will
- 10God gave us the power of choice, which isin itself is a good thing
- 11evil originated in...heaven before it did on earth
- 12evil was born in the...presence of God
- 13Lucifer's namegiven in Isaiah 14:12
- 14Lucifer and former angels sinformer angels follow satan's plans, a 3rd of them rebelled with Lucifer
- 153 basic logical possibilities regarding the nature of human free choicedeterminism, indeterminism, self determinism
- 16determinismthe view that all human actions are caused by another, not by ones self
- 17indeterminismthe position that human actions are not caused by any thing.
- 18self determinismdoctrine that human free actions are self caused that is caused by ones own will
- 19adams freedom involved...self determination
- 20why did adams freedom not involve determinismgod did not cause adam to sin, neither did satan cause adam to sin, neither forcing him to do it nor doing it for him
- 21what did adams freedom not involve indeterminismgod created adam without sin, there was no evil in adams nature that gave rise to sin
- 22why did adams freedom involve self determinationthere was nothing in heaven or on earth outside of adam that caused his sin- he must have caused it himself, this is the heart human freedom, the ability to be the efficient cause of ones own moral actions, acts which are forced are not free moral acts
- 23Adams freedom involveda choice regarding evil, it was a free choice in that adam was free to do evil, he had the power to obey or disobey
- 24the original humans were free tosin or not to sin
- 25God is free...he cannot sin
- 26heaven is a completion ofour freedom, not the negation of it
- 27the loss of the ability to do evil is notan evil of any kind but rather a profound good
- 28commissiondoing what we should not do
- 29omissionnot doing what we should do
- 30kinds of sinscommission, omission
- 31sinto miss, to lack
- 32trespassto cover up
- 33iniquitypervert, twist
- 34evilbad, harmful
- 35wickednessmorally wrong, ungodly
- 36summary- to sin is to change the way of God's good and right nature as well as...how he made the peace and rhythm of creation to flow in joy and praise towards him
- 37detestable sins in prov. 6:16-19 and 10 commandmentspride, deceit, murder, plotting evil, quickness to do wrong, false testimony, troublemaking
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