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Basic Theology
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What Does Theology Mean?
Theos Greek for God Logos Greek for word
can mean a word about Theo Logos A Word
About God - the Study of God Thinking Gods
thoughts after him (by Paul Feinberg)
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Define God?
God is a Spirit, who is infinite, eternal, and
unchanging, in his being, wisdom, power,
holiness, justice, and goodness. - Taken from the
Westminster Shorter Catechism
God is a Spirit, who is infinite, eternal, and
unchanging, in his being, wisdom, power,
holiness, justice, and goodness.
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How can we begin the study of God? How can we
get a grasp of who He is? How can we break Him
down to make him manageable?
We have to have some sort of system so our
minds can make some sort of sense out of who He
is. One classic system used we call Systematic
Theology (arranging our ideas about God into an
orderly system)
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There are some dangers in categorizing (or
systematizing) God.
We easily forget that God cannot be fully grasped
He is incomprehensible
We forget about the UNITY of God the fact that
God is not a bunch of parts put into a whole, but
is one God (his love and his justice are
absolutely perfect and one never overpowers the
other)
We lose sight of the Holiness of God he is
completely set apart or completely other some
speak of the otherness of God. We have to use
created things to talk about the creator and we
get into trouble quickly.
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Common ways to systematize the Study of God.
Biblical Theology Starts with Genesis and goes
through Revelation and through each book, we
learn more about who God is.
Historical Theology We start with the early
Church and see what their thoughts were about
the character and nature of God and how certain
theological beliefs came to be over time.
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Systematic Theology Studying God by looking at
the different aspects of His character
separately. (What are some different areas of
Theology? Understand that under each heading
are many subheadings)
Different Areas of Systematic Theology Bibliology
Angelology Anthropology Hamartiology
(sin) Christology Soteriology
(salvation) Pneumatology (Holy Spirit) Ecclesiolo
gy (church) Eschatology (end times) Theology
Proper
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Theology Proper Who is God what are all his
attributes? How can we divide Gods character
into different parts to get a handle on Him?
Benevolence (kindness) Eternal Forbearance
(patience) Freedom Goodness Grace Holiness
Immutability Inifinity Love Mercy Omnipr
esenceOmnipotence Omniscience Righteousness
Self-Existent Self-Sufficient Simplicity Spirit
Sovereignty Truth Unity
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COMMUNICABLE INCOMMUNICABLE
Benevolence Forbearance Goodness Grace Love Mercy
Righteousness Truth
Eternal Immutability Inifinity OmnipresenceOmnip
otence Omniscience Self-Existent Self-Sufficient S
overeignty
BOTH? Spirit Simplicity Freedom Holiness
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Theology So What?
Hopefully this overview will give you pegs to
hang some ideas on as you come across them in
life (devotions, Church, Youth Group,
conversation, etc) Realize how much we dont know
about God be amazed Desire to know God better
(rightly) especially as you spend time in Gods
Word Realize that the more we know Him the
better we will be able to worship Him and the
better well live. (example Jews Talmud)
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It doesnt matter so much where you are, but in
what direction you are heading.
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I hope these slides help you in some way (feel
free to delete this slide). Feel free to contact
me for any reason. I have some handouts and extra
info for some of the slides that I did not
include. There are also a few notes at the
bottom of some slides, but not as much as I
should have. If you have some great ideas or
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