Biblical Doctrines- What the Bible says that our beliefs ought to be.

Other influences-

• philosophy, logic, reasoning
• personal feelings and intuitions
• personal observations and experiences

Categories of Biblical Doctrines:

• Introductory matters

• God (Theology)

• Christ (Christology)

• The Holy Spirit (Pneumatology)

• Angels (Angelology)

• Man (Anthropology)

• Sin (Harmateology)

• Salvation (Soteriology)
• The Church (Ecclesology)
• End Times (Eschatology)

Revelation

• Hidden things made known

• a historian did not need revelation

• God communicating info to us
• Not everything in the Bible is revealed
• Personal recollection
• Research of a Bible writer
• But much of is Bible is revealed

Why is Revelation Necessary?

1. -purpose of God

we were created for this

2. -the transcendence of God
3. -the sin of Man

• to keep the lines of communication open
• to provide truth vs. lies
• to explain the plan of salvation

Different types of Revelation

- provides an objective standard

- It gives the message a finality that is befitting its absolute authority

Scope-

Plenary inspiration = full inspiration

II Tim. 3:16, II Pet. 1:20-21, I Tim. 5:18, Lk. 10:7, II Pet. 3:15-16

The Holy Spirit guarantees the total reliability of the Scriptures

Jn. 15:26-27, Ps. 119:151, Pr. 30:5-6, Jn. 17:17, Jn. 10:35, Mt 19:4-5

Infallibility- Incapable of error

Inerrancy - Absence of error

The Bible is not only inerrant, but also infallible

Scope of Inspiration

1. messenger ?2 Peter 1:21
2. message ? 2 Timothy 3:16
3. doctrinal to history

Universal

• Noah vs. Flood?Luke 17:26-27
• Lots wife?Luke 17:28-32
• Jonah?Matt. 9:39-40
• Adam & Eve?Matt 19:4-5

Attacks of inspiration-

• Verbal inspiration-every word of the Bible
• God does not supply every word, but he guarded them
• Mechanical Dictation
• General Supervision

Mode/Process

What matters is the fact not process

The product not the mode.

Holy Spirit

John 15:26

16:13

Absolute Authority ? the Bible is a source of Authority

• take it as God?s word- 1 Thes. 2:13
• this scriptures judges- Hebrews 4:12
• Thy word is Truth- John 17:17
• Scripture cannot be broken? John 10:35

Innerant History

Inerrant Prophecy

Is. 1:24

God can?t lie

Major Premise-every word of God is without error

Minor premise-Bible is Gods word (2 Timothy 3:46)inspiration Mark 7:32, Romans 3:2, 9:6

Liberals- 1. Limited Innerancy (Doctrinal) Historical

2. Functional Innerancy

Once we give into a little, there is no logical stopping point

Apostasy is the final result.

Gods Attributes

• God?s infinite qualities (belong to only God)
• God?s moral qualities (for us as well)

Infinite qualities

• Eternity
• Omniscience
• Omnipotence
• Omnipresence

These incommunicable qualities-

1. Belong exclusively to deity (there will always be a difference between the creator and the creatures)
2. Cannot be attained by creatures
3. Cannot be transmitted between deity and creature

God?s moral qualities

These emphasize that God always acts in a righteous manner.

The nature of his being holy

Ontological/ethical-everything He does

Propitiation- An offering that takes away wrath.

God is spirit (Jn 2:24)

God is spoken of invisible (1 Tim 6:16)

Moses' experiences-

• Didn?t see God in any "form" but hearing things (Deut. 4:12)
• Saw a radiance and heard God describe his inner attributes (Ex 33:18-23, 34:6-7)
• Moses learned God is an unseen God. Hebrews 11:27

Holiness, Justice, Love, Mercy, and Grace, Patience, Wisdom, Faithfulness

These are communicable qualities.

Creature-Creator Distinction

• Creatures can never attain Infinite (incommunicable) qualities of God.
• Creatures can never become deity

Biblical command to imitate God apparently refers to the moral qualities of God.

Wrong ideas of Gods nature.

• That man could become a God eternal progression
• New age idea- man evolves toward deity
• That Jesus was a man who was transformed into the deity of God.

Biblical Descriptions of God

Anthropomorphism

Theophany

Carved images of God (Idols)

are improper because they are demeaning to God Romans 1:23,25

God the Creator

Ex Nihilo- out of nothing

Basic Truths about creation

1. Gen. 1:1, Col. 1:15,16 God created everything
2. Hebrews 11:3, Romans 2:17 God created everything from nothing
3. Creation Involves the Godhead trinity John 1:1-3 1 Cor. 8:6

So What?

• God has right rule Isaiah 45:9-10
• God can establish His rules
• God can punish His creatures when they have broken His rules
• God has the right to expect people to worship him. Ps. 33:6-9, Rom. 1:25
• God has a right to require creatures to give back to Him Ps. 24:1-2, 1 Chronicles 9

As stewards, we are managers rather than owners 1 Cor.9:3

God the ruler- God actively cares for and the world

Deism- He created, then left

Naturalism- Big Bang, evolution

God manners stability of Nature Gal. 1:17

"in Him all things hold together " gravity- Acts 14:17

Determines when life should end

The question of free will- Psalms 103:19

If man does have free will, how can God be in charge?

• Attempts to weaken God's claim to control
• Deist (God doesn't care, He's not watching)

• Attempts to weaken mans free-will
• Calvin & Agustine (God for-ordained and pre-destined everything that happens)

How it works-

• Permission
• Deterrence
• Influence

Permission and deterrence

• God either allows or blocks man from doing what he has chosen to do. Psalm 33:10-11
• Deterrence doesn?t mean a free will decision cannot be made only that the execution of that decision is not allowed.

Ways God can affect free will

• Manipulating weather Job 38:22-23
• No needed resources
• Injury or sickness James 4:15

Deterrence

• Man can deter the activity of the other men
• Permission of deterrence are often used in human
• How God might deter person from executing free will decisions

Influence

• Influence is not free will
• God puts things before a man to persuade him to choose to do what got him to do
• Persuasion him to freely make that decision
• Man does this influence as well

A key distinction between mankind and notice

Providence and prayer

• Prayer requests- 1 Peter 3:10-12 Mt. 6:25-33
• Personal needs, political concerns, Everything- Matt. 6:11, 1 Tim. 2:1-2, Phil. 4:8
• Thanksgiving- 1 Tim 6:17 James 1:17, Psalms 115:5-9

Its inappropriate to attribute to Gods blessing for luck (Proverbs 16:33)

The management of Nature

• Permission
• Deterrence
• Causation

Examples

• God either allows a thing to operate as it normally would or he uses his power to block its natural activity

• Causation God uses his power to make a thing do what God wants it to do contrary to what would have naturally happened

Phil. 1:27

Kenosisa emptied himself

Christology

Doctrine of Christ

Deity of Christ

The New Testament clearly affirm Christ deity

• The Word was God- John 1:1-3
• John 20:28-31- Thomas addressed Christ as "my God"
• Phil 2:6- of God's nature
• Col. 2:9- He had Qualities of God

Jesus Testimony of himself

• Claimed equal status with God- John 5:17-18
• Claimed to be the Son of God
• Claimed to possess powers that belongs exclusively to God

Incarnation of Christ

Carnal "flesh" John 1:14

Incarnation- that which is normally immaterial taking on a fleshly form

Theologically-The Son of God taking on a human nature

He was fully divine and fully human Col. 2:9

Hebrews 2:14, 4:15

Humanity of God

• Fully human-Heb. 2:14-17
• It is an antichrist hereby to deny that the son of God took on a full human nature

Indicators of humanity

Luke 2:40 2:52, Matthew 4:2, 21:18, Matt. 8:24, 4:6 Heb. 4:15 Phil. 23:46

• Jesus grew physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually
• Became thirsty
• Became tired and sleepy
• Faced temptation to sin
• Died a real physical death

Why is His humanity important?

• By being fully human Christ can be for us a moral conduct or code- Gen. 3:15-Heb. 2:17

• One of God condition for the Messiah was that He loved a real human nature.

ProtoEvangelium ? first promise of the gospel

• Seed of woman ? Gen. 3:15

Incarnation Restrictions upon Christ divine nature

• He did not cease to be God when He became a man.- Col. 2:9
• He choose not to use special powers of his divine nature so that he could live on human terms
• Choose to veil His glory- John 17:15, John 14:5
• He lived in a human body
• Not using his power of omnipotence through is incarnal period

• Not using his power of omnipresence where he lives within the human body
• Not using his power of omniscience throughout the incarnation period

• Not using power of eternity. He died on the cross.
• Not using power of authority. He subject himself to authority of lover, God, parents.
• He emptied himself-Phil. 2:7
• Still fully divine-Col. 2:9, Matthew 26:53

Erroneous Ideas about the incarnation

• That Jesus Christ was not really human

• Docestism Christ only had a human appearance? Tokew, dokeo, (d o k e w ) seem appear

• Apollinarianism- Son of God, only had a human body

• That Jesus Christ was not really divine.
• Adoptionism-Human Jesus was given a special position
• Arianism-Human Jesus was a special creation
• Ethical Divinity-Human Jesus passed a special spirituality

The Purpose of Christ Death

• His justice demands punishment for sin
• Gods grace prompted him to seek a way to remove this penalty from mankind

Christianity differs from other cultures and religious

Luther- "A problem fit for God"

Substituionary Atonement

• Atonement- suffering the penalty you deserve from God because you have sinned.
• Substitioning-asking someone else in your place

God treated Christ as if he were a sinner to the human so that He can now treat sinners as if they were righteous

Isaiah 53:4-6, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Peter 2:24

Proleptic ? to look ahead; all the sins that are forgiven are paid for by Christ.

How calvary works

• The substitute had to be a human Heb. 2:14,17, 10:4
• The substitute had to be innocent Heb. 7:26,27
• The substitute had to have an eternal quality so that his sacrifice could have an infinite- Heb. 7:23-25

Biblical pictures of Christ death

• sacrifice
• redemption- 1 Peter 1:18-19

• propitiation ? an offering that takes away wrath (not in the NIV)

Sin- Harmartia

Dead-

-Trespass/Transgression Eph. 2:1

-Paraptoma- Boundary

Sin=missing the mark

No absolutes-everything is relative 1 John 1:5

1 John 2:9

sin did not start with God

God permitted sin

• Job 34:10 God would not do wrong

• Isaiah 6:3 Holy God
• Duet. 32:4 perfection of God
• Psalm 92:15
• James 1:13 God cannot be tempted nor does his tempt

Where did sin come from?

Beginning of sin

Fall of Satan, 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6, Matthew 25:41, Romans 5:21

Pride is Satan?s problem- 1 Tim. 3:6

Resist the devil- James 4:7

Luke 10- War- Satan has been blocked from a "Job" experience- Revelation 12

Adam

Was possible for Adam not to sin

Was not impossible for him to sin

What is the relationship between Adam's sin and ours

original sin? Rom. 5:21

Eph. 17 one Lord, one Earth, one baptism

We have no problem with God over the sin of Adam, but our own personal sin.

We need personal grace must be consciously chosen.

Original Grace-

• Everybody gets original grace
• Grace has effected everybody
• We have no problem with God over the sin of Adam, but our own personal sin.
• Personal grace must be conscientiously chosen

1. Sin makes us sick
2. Sin makes us guilty and separates us from God

1. Sin makes us sick-

• Spiritual sickness can be described as:

• Corruption
• Weakness (peer pressure)
• Depravity (seared conscience)
• Sinfulness

• The sickness is called death- Eph 2:1, I Tim. 5:6, Jude 12

• Both our nature and our deeds

• Results of sickness
• Harder to resist temptation- Eccl. 1:18 grief in wisdom
• Heat gets hardened toward God
• Undertow- we are in the grip of the power of sin.

2. Our sin makes us guilty

• Sin is lawlessness or transgression 1 Jn. 3:4
• Subject to the Law's penalty- Hell
• A legal problem- Ezekiel 18:4

3. Who's sin makes us guilty

• Ours or Adam's

• Ps. 67:12- Recompense
• Rom. 14:12 Account of himself
• 2 Cor. 5:10- according to what he has done

4. Sin & Death

• God made man a living being- Gen. 2:7
• God intended man to live forever
• The wages of sin is death- Rom. 6:23

5. Types of Death

• Physical- James 2:26, Jn. 19:30
• Spiritual- Eph. 2:1-5, Col. 2:13, Is. 59:2
• Eternal- Matt. 10:28, Rev. 20:14-16, 21:8

6. What Death really is

• Penalty
• Enemy- Heb. 2:14-15, I Cor. 15:25-26
• A defeated enemy- Rev. 1:17-18

Righteousness- Satisfying all of the requirements of the law. Gal. 3:10, James 2:10, Is. 61:10, Phil. 3:9

Grace

1. Unmerited favor
2. God's Riches At Christ's Expense
3. A gift that makes glad -shalom

• The spirit of giving- brings joy and gladness- Rom. 6:23
• An Attitude of God- Titus 2:11, Ps. 103:8, Micah 7:18
• A way of Salvation- Jn.1:17, Gal 5:4, Rom. 6:14

The Way of Law

• Keep the commandments, escape the penalty
• Break the commandments, suffer the penalty
• This is fair

Every person is born under the law- Gal. 4:12

If you keep the law perfectly, you will be saved; but you must keep ALL of the law- one sin and all is lost.

The Way of Grace

• Keep the law, suffer the penalty (Christ)
• Break the law, escape the penalty
• More then fair!- II Cor. 5:21, Lk. 18:11-14

1. For our guilt problem, God provided Justification
2. For our sickness problem God provided Sanctification

• A legal term- Declared "Not Guilty"
• God treats us "Just as if I never sinned"
• Sin is actually punished
• We trust Christ to have paid the debt that we owe because of sin.
• Our sins have been paid for, atoned, propitiated by Christ's death on the cross. Rom. 5:9, 3:26

God is the Justifier- Rom. 3:26

God is just- Deut. 32:4, Heb. 12:29

God is Love- I Jn. 4:8, 2Pet. 3:9, I Tim 2:4

A new life

Sin brings death- Christ brings life

• We die to sin- Rom 6:1-2
• Raised to walk in new life- Rom. 6:3-7

• Resurrection Eph. 2:5, Titus 3:5

Made Alive

• We are a new creation- II Cor 5:17, Eph. 2:10
• When does the transformation take place?
• In Christian baptism- Acts 2:38
• One baptism- I Cor. 12:13, Eph. 4:4, Col. 2:12

The State and Process of becoming holy

Hagios- holy

Hagioi- saints, holy ones

Hagiosmos- sanctification

Set apart, a change of states (from life to death)- when we are immersed

The process of becoming holy is what we do with the rest of our Christian walk- good works

• The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

-Wind, Breath, Spirit

What is the nature of the Holy Spirit?

1. Person
2. Force, Power of God

• A Divine person of the Godhead, not an impersonal power.

• He gives commands (Acts 2:38)

• He makes decisions (Acts 15:28)

• He intercedes with God (Rom. 8:26)

• He can be grieved (Eph 4:30)

• The Holy Spirit is a divine person

• Omniscience (1 Cor. 2:10-11)

• He can be blasphemed (Matt.31-32)

• He is referred to by the name of God (Acts 5:3-4)

• The work of the Holy Spirit

• Creation and providence (Gen. 1:12, Job 33:4)

• Revelation and inspiration (Jn. 15:26-27, 1 Pet.1:21)

• Salvation (Rom. 8:9-14, Titus 3:5)

• Convicting sinners of sin

• Helping believers to become Holy

• Sanctification (Matt. 3:11)

• Helps us break the bad habits of sin (Eph. 4:4-6)

• The gifts of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38)

• Equipping believers for service

• Non-miraculous gifts

1. Service gifts (Rom. 12:6-8, 1Pet. 4:11)