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INSTE I:2 FYM Week 8
Man and sin
Question | Answer |
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2 views on man's origination | Evolution and Biblical creation |
Evolution | Matter: Product of time & chance; Life: arisen from primitive forms; Creation of Man: more developed and complex form of life |
Biblical Creation | Matter: Created by God; Life: God spoke it; Creation of Man: God formed him & breathed life into him |
Theory of creation is not anti-scientific | It is anti-evoluntionistic, not anti-scientific. Evolution is a theory, as is creation. Both require faith. |
Man is made in the image of God (fundamental elements of His personality) | Intellect, conscience, moral decision-making, premonition of/desire for immortatility, abstract thinking, creativity |
Dichotomist | Body/Human Nature is compromised of 2 parts: Body and soul |
Trichotomist | Body/Human Nature is compromised of 3 parts: Body, soul, and spirit |
Soul | Man is conscience of himself |
Spirit | Man is conscience of God |
Flesh (2 meanings in the NT) | Humanness; carnality/depravation of man (figuratively) |
Sin according to John Wesley | Voluntary transgression of a known law |
Westminster Creed defination of sin | Sin is a failure to conform to the moral law of God |
Biblical phrases to describe sin | 'Miss the mark'; Deviation from the straight path; Failure of integrity; Rebellion; Perversity/distortation of nature; Transgression of the law |
Spiritual Death | Separation from communion with God. |
Genesis 1:27 | So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. |
Man is made in the image of God, this means | that like his Creator, he has a personality |
The image of God in the human personality (in man) | Intellect; conscience; ability to make moral decisions; permonition of & desire for immortality; ability to think abstractly; creativity |
Why does human life have such value? | We are created in God's image |
Immediate divine creation theory | God creates a new soul at every conception. Body is created by parents. |
Pre-existence theory | The soul pre-exists the body and that as it passes throug various incarnations, it becomes stained by sin |
Procreation | The human race was created in Adam; every human derives from his/her parents both body and soul through the process of procreation. |
The Bible explains the origin of evil and sin in man in | Genesis 3 |
Sin | Disobedience, rebellion, pervisty of nature |
Not a consequence of the fall of Adam & Eve | The loss of the image of God |
Nature of sin | Depravity, missing the mark, going off the moral path, immorality, rebellion, failure of integrity, pervisity/distortation of nature |
Sin comes from | our human nature |
Is it possible to live w/o sinning? | No, but the H.S. help/strengthens us. Heb. 10:29 |