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Propositional Revelation
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- 1What is propositional revelation?God directly revealing truths about his nature
- 2What theory of knowledge does propositional knowledge refer to and why?correspondence theory as it refers to knowing something is so.
- 3What is propositional knowledge considered to have?a truth value, it can be true or false or somewhere in between
- 4What did God reveal when he revealed himself to the writers of scripture>truths and facts about himself
- 5How would a propositional revelatory view of the bible describe the content of it?as ineffable
- 6What religion is based on pure propositional revelation?Islam
- 7Who dictated the Qur'an?Angel Jibril to Muhammed
- 8How would we describe this revelation? Why?mechanical, prophet receives message, texts are read without cultural/historical analysis
e.g. the clothes Mohammed wear in 7th century must be worn now - 9What is required for scripture to be divinely inspired?a propositional approach
- 10What denomination of Christianity says the text comes directly from God?Evangelical Fundamentalist believers
- 11What is an example of obvious literal revelation?God revealing himself to Moses and literally being given a copy of the five books of the law and the two stone tablets with ten commandments on
- 12In what sense is scripture then inspired? Why?Divinely as it comes directly from God, it is inerrant
- 13What do we call this?Verbal plenary inspiration; God inspires text and prevent human error. Supposed to be read in cultural context, open to error in copies of documents but not original
- 14How can Matthew's Gospel pose a problem to the idea of verbal plenary inspiration?contains allusions to Jewish Culture, giving the strong impression not only was he Jewish himself but also expected his readers to be
- 15How can Luke's Gospel pose a problem to the idea of verbal plenary inspiration?stops to explain aspects of Judaism, in case his readers are unfamiliar. He explains why Jesus' parents were in Jerusalem (for passover)
- 16How can Mark's Gospel pose a problem to the idea of verbal plenary inspiration?is often considered to be written in poor greek compared to the others, which doesn't suggest that God dictated the story
- 17How can JOhn's Gospel pose a problem to the idea of verbal plenary inspiration?has much more mystical theological flavour to it, perhaps indicating that the writer of John was more influenced by first-century philosophy than other evangelists were
- 18How is propositional revelation flawed by God's nature?if God is understood as eternal, non-physical and transcendent, how can he act within time to inspire scripture?
- 19How is propositional revelation flawed by free will?Can Moses continue to have free will? IF God reveals himself then Moses has no choice but to do God's will, because he is now certain of his existence
- 20How is propositional revelation flawed by our experience of God?how do we 'see' or 'hear' a non-corporeal being? How can scripture be physically given to us from a being of God's nature?
- 21How is propositional revelation flawed by religious languageif a propositional approach is maintained & scripture is believed to reveal 'facts' about God, still remains limits of human language to describe an eternal God
- 22How is propositional revelation flawed by religious experience?scripture are divinely inspired because the believer/writer has had an experience of the divine and has been inspired to write. God plays a more passive role over scripture. Partially overcomes the problem of free will and interactionism as are inspired by their experience, but is dependent on the validity of religious experience
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- Revelation Flashcards on Propositional Revelation , created by Zoe Bone on 17/01/2017.
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