assessment
loving god with all your mind - answers✔✔christian education
queen - beginning of all wisdom - answers✔✔theology is the _____ of all sciences, source of all
knowledge
god of order - answers✔✔the god of the bible is a creator not for confusion or chaos
consistent and coherent, therefore credible - answers✔✔god's nature is what?
consistent, should not contradict each other - answers✔✔theology systematically should be
what?
what we believe and how we behave is so different that people don't believe what we believe -
answers✔✔credibility gap
- the discipleship of the mind is to think, act, and be like jesus
- more and more conformed to the image of jesus - answers✔✔christian theology thinks deeply
as it reflects on christ
- "I believe in order that I may understand"
,- Science reasons - seeing is believing!
- Theology submits - believing is seeing!
- Oh, taste and see, the lord is good!
- Theology is faith seeking understanding - answers✔✔Anslem of Canterbury (1033-1109)
- Theology is about life
- Believing is seeing
- What is the nature of theology (Toward a viable definition)
- The necessity for doctrine (For god, others, and your sake)
- How to proceed to do theology, how to study theology (method) (4 sources of theology (4
main))
- Can you identify different starting points? (The starting points for its study)
- 3 steps to develop a proper technique - answers✔✔Doing theology is vital - why?
who is he and what he has done - answers✔✔the study of god
teachings that stand the tests of time - answers✔✔truth claims
how do we know what we do is true? - answers✔✔question of authority
- good news
- evangelical truth: god has spoken, it is written - answers✔✔how must we respond to
revelatory truth?
he creates-redeems; rules-judges - answers✔✔god relates to us
transforms me, effects others, glorifies god - answers✔✔truth
, goal of theology is to ultimately know and glorify god forever - answers✔✔to know god, to
know truth, to know yourself as it relates to others
- heb 11:6
- how do i seek and please god? i must believe to receive
- one must first believe and seek to know and please god - answers✔✔to rightly know/relate to
god, we need faith
- john 8:32
- Truths sets us free from sin, self, and social immorality
- If it feels good to me, does it make it right? - NO - answers✔✔develop personal convictions
from encountering god
- 1 john 2:18
- The antidote for heresy is sound (healthy) doctrine
- Is our security in ourselves, the secular, or the sacred? - answers✔✔Help detect counterfeits
and social immorality
- biblical
- systematic
- contextual
- contemporary
- practical
- spiritual - answers✔✔doing theology right - five to thrive (+1)
- it's content is true because god said it