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Flashcards by Thomas Woodcock, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Thomas Woodcock
over 2 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are three sources of authority that Christians can use? | the bible, the church and Jesus |
| What is propositional revelation? | Propositional revelation is that the bible is the word of God revealed to humans |
| What are some reasons why the bible should NOT be taken literally? | No evidence, outdated and incorrect ideas, morally wrong, lots of contradictions |
| What are some reasons why the bible should be taken literally? | we don't have the authority to interpret it, means by which we get into heaven, Sola scriptura and sola fide |
| What is divine command theory? | DCT is the idea that we must do what God says because it is said by god |
| What is the Euthyphro Dilemma? | The Euthyphro dilemma says why should we do what god says, is it because he says to be right or because he knows it to be right |
| What is verbal inspiration? | Verbal inspiration is the idea that every word in the bible is from God |
| 2 Timothy 3:16? | All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness |
| What is sola scriptura? | scripture alone |
| Which books did Martin Luther remove from the bible? | The wisdom books, they are more philosophical |
| What is hard authority? | Hard authority is the status of law |
| What are some problems with the literalist approach? | contradictions translation and copying errors outdated, death for most things immoral |
| What are conservative Christians? | conservative Christians wish to conserve the truths in the bible such as Roman Catholics |
| What is divine inspiration? | Scripture was written down under inspiration from God |
| What is Propositional revelation? | God revealed truth and facts about himself to the authors who wrote it down, so it needs interpreting what is from God and what is from the author |
| What does the idea of propositional revelation take into account? | the author's intention, culture and circumstance |
| What is apostolic succession? | the idea that the successors to Peter have divine authority to interpret the bible |
| Where does the idea of apostolic succession come from and what does it do? | Gives the power of interpretation of scripture in Matthew 28 18-20 |
| What is an example of Apostolic succession? | Augustine interpreting Genesis to get the idea of original sin |
| What do Neo-orthodox Christians reject about the bible? | They reject the inerrancy of the bible as they recognise the historical inaccuracies and contradictions |
| What does Barth think about the bible? | That it is Gods attempt to reach us and other religions are humanities attempt the reach god |
| What is soft authority? | a source of knowledge |
| How did God reveal himself for Barth? | through Jesus, not scripture, we can experience god through scripture |
| What do Quakers believe about the bible? | that it is not the word of God but a very inspirational book, but not the only one so they look to others to guide them in life |
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