Salvation Study Guide Mid-Term Fall 99

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SALVATION STUDY GUIDE MID-TERM FALL 99

What is an OT text regarding the heart’s condition?
What is a NT text?
Why does one use defense mechanisms?
When would we use them when reading the Bible?
What are three ways to approach scripture?
What is exegesis about?
What is biblical theology about?
What is systematic theology about?
What is the time reference for each?
What is te Language of each?
What is the result for each?
What the unit of study for each?
What is the Field of study for each?
What is the level of study for each?
What agency is being examined in each?
What are the 27 fundamentals considered in light of these?
Are any or all methods valid?
What is God’s intention?
Can we have derived authority? How?
Does the Bible contain all truth?
Why/why not?
How is God’s intention expressed?
What’s the only what the human intention can be informed?
What’s one example we can use? (As mentioned by Paulien)
What does later revelation do?
What rule must be followed to do legitimate Bible study in light of extended meanings?
Why didn’t our SDA pioneers have to do exegesis?
Why do we have to do exegesis?
Why didn’t Paul have to do exegesis?
What is the answer to self deception?
What is a disadvantage to reading the Bible in our native language?
In the Bible, what specifically is history?
With this in mind, what is the Bible also about?
In the OT, what is worship?
What are some OT texts pointing to this mentioned in class?
What does this do with God’s power?
What does it mean to have a history?
What happens when we say “yes” to Jesus? / Jer. 17:9
Rev. 3:17
So as to deceive ourselves about reality so we can avoid feeling bad about ourselves
When something hits close to home
Exegesis, Biblical theology, Systematic Theology
Finding out what the Bible writer is trying to say
Finding our what the Bible writer believed i.e., What belief system is behind what’s written?
Finding out what I should believe i.e., What is God’s will for me?
Exegesis Biblical Theology Systematic Theol.
1st cent 1st cent 20th cent
Biblical Biblical Philosophical
Unchanging Unchanging Changing
Passage Theme Theme
Everything Selections Selections
Descriptive Both Normative
Human Both Divine
Systematic Theology
Yes
Ultimate authority-He has the right to tell us what to do
Yes, if the perception is that we are speaking for God
No
Because there are certain issues that it doesn’t cover
Thru human author’s intention
By earlier revelation (the past), not later revelation
EGW can interpret Paul, but he cannot interpret EGW
It may expose extended meanings, i.e., Daniel —> Rev.
Extended meanings will not contradict the plain meaning of the original text
Because of the direct link to God thru EGW
Because we don’t have a living voice
Because he was inspired
Self criticism
That we bring our history into the words we read - that’s why we need to learn Greek
God’s actions in time/His people
What God does, not just what He says
Telling and retelling what God did
Ps 111:4; 78:1-15; 66:3-6
It brings it to us today
That there is a sense of identification, good or bad
We have a new history
What did the Israelites do with their history?
What is the purpose of law?
What can happen to law without relationship?
What’s a simple definition of a covenant?
Where in the Bible is a great example of God’s covenant with His people?
Why does history exist?
What is the ground for our obedience to God?
Where in OT do we see the challenge of relationship with regard to the covenant?
Was this corporate or individual?
Where is the blessing in the covenant?
What was law to the Hebrew?
What “makes right” with pagan gods?
What about our God?
What does Deut 26:3-10 say about Hebrew history?
What do Psalms and Proverbs do with the covenant?
What Bible character is an example of why you can’t always individualize the covenant?
What was the high point of creation?
Why was this written?
What are the three relationships Adam had?
What three kinds of relationships are there and what are their characteristics?
What role does the creation story play in history?
What was Israel supposed to do with this history?
What also began at creation too?
What two texts in Genesis explicitly point the beginning of the relationship and how we have ended up?
What were the natural consequences of sin right when it happened in light of the three relationships Adam had?
What were the applied consequences of sin after God spoke to them in light of the three relationships Adam had?
What is the ultimate penalty of sin?
What are the 3 main themes after the fall?
What is the primary example of the undoing of creation?
What is an example of God’s restoring grace?
What is an example of God’s twofold judgement?
Whatwhwha / They were captured by the positive events in their history
This needs to be answered by properly understanding the relationship
Can become abusive
A contract between two parties
Ps. 105:5-10
Because of God’s choice to submit to rules and regulations
That He has submitted to obedience also in His covenant
Deut. 30:15-20
Corporate
Fulfilling your side of the bargain
A relationship and sense of knowing who they were dealing with
Might makes right
Right makes right—law is higher than power & brings a sense of safety
They were bound to rehearse what God had done for them
They individualize it
Job—because even if you do everything right, one can still suffer
The creation of humans
To show how we are made
God, others, earth
Mentor - to give
Disciple - to receive
Equal - the same
It’s the beginning of history
Tell other nations that all nations have one God as Creator
The covenant—the relationship
Gen. 1:27 & 6:5
1-Fear 2-Bickering 3-Decay
1-Exile 2-Pain 3-Thorns
Death
1-Sin results in the undoing of creation
2-God’s grace restores creation
3-God’s judgements are positive & negative
The same Hebrew language of water separation and its reversal during the flood (pre-creation chaos)
The same Hebrew language of Adam’s fall with fruit and Noah’s fall with fruit of the vine
Positive-God made clothing & separated them from Satan
Negative-exile
What is a practical result when the table of nations is listed in Gen. 11?
Why does the promise of Gen 12:1-3 hinge the whole Pentateuch?
What 3 promises are in this passage?
What does God promise these things?
How is there a view of eschatology in the OT in light of the NT?
How was Abraham really a man of faith?
How was his life a life of frustration?
What is significant about all the patriarchal ancestresses?
Why might have Lot really been in the land?
How might have Abraham took it upon himself to be a blessing to nations?
How did Abraham die?
What is the focus in Genesis?
What might westerners see as the most significant point in the story of Joseph?
What might Asians see?
What was the purpose of the story of Joseph?
What was that plan?
Why is the Exodus story so foundational to understanding salvation?
What are some examples of words?
Where does the word usage of freedom come from?
What do we seem to do with the NT words?
What are 2 purposes of the plagues?
What is the main purpose of Leviticus?
What is unique about the Israelite festivals?
Where does the first law of Deut come from? (remember, Deuteronomy means “second law”)
What is the purpose of this book?
What does this say about God?
Which book(s) of the Pentateuch relate to the blessing of Gen. 12 and the relationship of Gen 17?
Which one is about the nations and posterity?
Which ones are about the land?
Where in the Bible do we read about Israel’s settlement after the Pentateuch?
What do historians call this?
Here, how is history judged?
What part of Deut is this a sort of illustration of?
Why would 1 & 2 Chronicles parallel Gen. thru Kings? (3 reasons) / A world under curse with a lack of blessing has one restored in Abram
Because God is stating ahead of time what He will do
1-land 2-being a great nation 3-blessing
A restoration of the 3 relationships Adam had
It points back to primeval history and ahead to restoration
Because none of these promises were fulfilled while he lived
The agent of restoration (Sarah, Isaac) was constantly threatened
They were all baron and had children late in age
Because Abraham didn’t really think he would have children, so he would be heir
By bargaining with God about Sodom
In hope, not reality
Posterity
That he didn’t sin with Potifer’s wife
That he took care of his family during the famine
To show that God had a plan in sending Israel to Egypt
To have abundant food, thus population growth
Because many theological words in the NT are used directly from this experience
Redeem, deliver, ransom, slavery
The language of Exodus
Rebaptize them without the context of the original meaning
To separate Israel from Egypt & to crown God as King
How to maintain the relationship began with structure
They recalled history
Leviticus
Regulation of living in the land (as opposed to in the desert like in Lev.)
That He doesn’t have to change for His laws to apply to fresh circumstances
Exodus & Leviticus
Genesis
Numbers & Deuteronomy
Joshua to 2 Kings
Deuteronomic history
By the Law
Chapters 5-11
1) It’s a call to repentance so we can learn from mistakes
2) Full benefit is gained from experience and mistakes
3)
Why is the OT an incomplete book?
What does the OT examine?
What is its purpose?
What are the five steps to the cycle of Israel’s history during the judges?
What is the one remaining constant during this time?
Was it God’s will for Israel to have a king?
How might them getting a king be seen?
How is Israel represented to God after this?
What is the major disadvantage to having a king?
What’s a good example of this?
What does the interaction become?
Examples?
What was God’s ideal for the nation then?
What was God’s judgment of the monarchy?
What is the ultimate curse for a nation?
What is the ultimate curse for a person?
For the Greek mind what is the opposite of truth?
Likewise, what is the sum total of something?
What about the Hebrew mind?
Of what mind is the Bible?
So what must be done for exegesis?
What will studying the Bible do?
What is needed in getting to know God?
What kind of consistency does God have?
Is God’s consistency complete in every detail? Explain
How is God not limited to previous patterns?
What’s an example of human’s flawed view of consistency from Jesus time?
How was Israel consistent?
What language does God use to describe the present?
Why does He do this?
How is every non-Christian person living in OT times?
Between the Exodus and Exile, how was the Exodus played out many times?
What Bible writers wrote about the Exile with the Exodus in mind?
From these writings, how is God talking about the future?
What was the reality of deliverance for Israel? / 3) To encourage people who are on a pathway w/us
Because Eden is not restored
Whether Israel has kept covenant with God
Its a call to repentance and total commitment to God
1) They are faithful under the judge
2) Apostasy after the judge
3) From apostasy comes oppression
4) Cry for deliverance
5) Yahweh sends another judge
God is faithful
No
As a “plan b”
Thru a king
One person can shift the whole nation
Daniel suffering for a king, though no mistakes are recorded
Between king and prophet
Saul - Samuel
David - Nathan
Isaiah - Hezekiah
To have a prophet-king
Sabbatical years of the land while people in exile as decreed from Lev. 26:27-28, 33-35
Exile
Death
False
100%
The opposite of truth could still be truth & if it adds up to 200%, so what?
It is of a Hebrew mind
Get into the Hebrew mind
Get us into a Hebraic way of thinking
His help
Creative not identical
No, He is not mindless
As He is creative - antitypes often transcend types
Scholars missed Him because they were in their pattern of consistency
By continually being unfaithful
The language of the past
Because language gathers all previous knowledge together
They haven’t seen and experienced the Messiah yet
By God being faithful and the people remaining unfaithful
Jeremiah, Isaiah, Hosea, Micah and especially Amos
By using the language of the past
It could only be seen by the eyes of faith
What makes Jesus a new creation?
What is explicit biblical evidence of this?
In Luke 1:35, where is there a look back at creation?
Where can we read about Jesus being human as humans were intended to be?
How did Jesus fulfill the 3 relationships Adam was supposed to have?
If Jesus is Adam, then what is the church?
How do Eve as the church and literal Eve from Genesis relate?
Where did Jesus pass the test in the wilderness where Adam failed?
How did Jesus redeem the consequences of Adam’s sin?
According to Romans 5 what do we get from Adam? From Jesus?
Where is some explicit evidence of Jesus as Son of Abraham?
How many sons did Abraham have?
How does Hebrews 11:17-19 see the death and resurrection of Jesus?
What else happened after this story of Isaac that is related to Jesus?
What are some parallels of when Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac and Jesus?
What are some parallels of the Exodus and Jesus?
What are some parallels of Moses and Jesus?
What are parallels of Jesus as the new Israel in Matthew? / He is the counterpart to original creation
John 1:1 - en arche
In the word for “overshadowed” in Gen. 1:2
Col 1:15
1) By becoming subject to His Father as a human
2) Having relationship w/others as Adam should have
3) By being in control of the earth - its Master
Eve
The church was created from blood and water of Christ’s side (rib) and so was Eve created from Adam’s rib
Appetite
By thorns, sweat, nakedness and death
Death, condemnation
Life, acceptance
Matt. 1:1
8
As a rerun of Isaac on the alter
Abraham sent his servant to get a bride for Isaac & Jesus after His resurrection sent the H. S. to gather His bride, the church
The use of the Greek words mono gneis - used only Gen 22 (LXX), Heb. 11 and Jn 3:16
The third day seeing Moriah/Jesus raised
Isaac carried wood
Isaac and Abraham were united together
He was laid on the wood
Greek word in Lk 9:31 for “departure” is same as word for Exodus
Israel went down in the water and were free on the other side as Jesus went down in death and was raised free
The Lord’s supper=Passover=Cross
Baptism=Cross=Exodus
The attempt on their lives as infants
Jesus could be face to face with God, but Moses could see only back side - both in physical presence
40 day fast, then gave law on mountain
Appointed 70 elders
Both glorified on mountain
Water from the rock cf Jn 7:37-38
Serpent in the wilderness lifted up cf. Jn 3:14
Five sermons in Matt./five books of Torah
He is the firstborn (Ex. 4:22-23)
Brought up out of Egypt
Passes thru the water
40 days (years) in the wilderness
What are some parallels of Jesus as new Israel in Deut?
What are some parallels of curse from outside of Dt 28?
What did He do in relation to the curses of the covenant?
How is Jesus’s name significant to Him being the new Joshua?
What happened at the Transfiguration that is parallel to Joshua?
How is Jesus the redeemer of the Monarchy?
How is Jesus greater than the Temple?
For the NT, where is the sanctuary?
What does Jesus do in relation to the monarchy?
What are some parallels of Jesus and David?
What is an explicit statement regarding Jesus and Solomon?
What are some parallels with Solomon and Jesus?
How are Elijah and John the Baptist related?
How are Elisha and Jesus related? (As compared to Elijah and John the Baptist)
What are 7 miracles Elisha did also found in John that Jesus did? (Text is not referred to, only miracle)
Why is Paul often difficult to understand?
What is an explicit text naming Jesus as the Redeemer of the exile? / Law given on the mountain
5000 fed in wilderness
Jesus reaped the consequences from ch 28
Smitten before enemies
Adulterous wife
Mocked
Hunger
Thirst
Nakedness
Trembling heart
Earthquake
Cut off from people
Hung on a tree (the curse of)
He exhausted all the consequences of the broken relationship
His Hebrew name is Joshua
Moses “passed the baton” of leadership to Joshua and Moses also does the same to Jesus regarding the Law, i.e.,
the law to the gospel
He is the Son of David
He is the shekinah glory
Wherever Jesus is
He replaces it
Born in Bethlehem
Their father a very old man (possible reference to Ancient of Days” in Daniel)
Began ministry by encountering a giant (temptation)