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a term for a supporting passage
What is a proof text?
Reading one’s own ideas back into the text of Scripture.
What is eisegesis?
Twisting God’s grace to excuse one’s lawless disregard of God’s requirements for moral living.
What is license?
Christology
What are doctrines about Jesus?
Adhering rigidly to external regulations of human tradition in order to achieve a “higher standing” with God.
What is legalism?
Preoccupied with one biblical truth and ignores the others.
What is a hobbyhorse?
The application of the Bible's principles to a situation with proper motives.
What is wisdom?
A set of authoritative beliefs.
What is doctrine?
What are doctrines about the Bible?
a methodically organized way of studying God’s Word according to topical categories
What is systematic theology?
Prioritizing 'what works' over 'what is true and right'
What is pragmatism?
The error of supporting a conclusion by taking a biblical passage out of context.
What is prooftexting?
Selecting all relevant data by fitting it together; rightly ordering all Bible knowledge on a given topic and coming to a conclusion about what the Bible teaches.
What is doctrinal harmonization?
What are doctrines about end times?
The study of how the big story of the Bible unfolds.
What is biblical theology?
a ploy of presenting one thing and then actually offering something different (e.g. asserting that something is based on a biblical principle when it’s really just based on human opinion).
A person selects only the passages (when harmonizing) that are most advantageous to supporting his/her conclusions and ignores passages that would change or tweak the conclusion.
What is limited data?
What are false conclusions?
Soteriology
What are doctrines about salvation?
the philosophical view that truth, knowledge, or morality are not absolute, but depend on the person, culture, or historical context.
What is relativism?
Two things listed as claims for reasons why one may refuse to study doctrine.
What is divides and deadens?
Two reasons listed as why one should study doctrine even if it's difficult
What is defines and directs?
A person may misuse correct data to draw conclusions that do not follow the data from the data or may refuse to accept the implications of the correct data.
What is incoherent analysis of data?
Pneumatology
What are doctrines about the Holy Spirit?
Gather the biblical data.
Organize that data.
Harmonize the data into a doctrinal conclusion.
Relate multiple doctrinal conclusions to one another.
What are the steps of forming doctrinal conclusions?