Terms to Remember
The loves or inclinations (formed by your values) that direct your soul (mind, will, and emotions)
What are Affections
knowing and loving God
Why you should be motivated to study doctrine
Why people ought to be motivated to study and learn doctrine well
When done properly, this leads to warm devotion to Christ and aid practical living.
Learning doctrine
Name one classroom expectation
What is be where you're supposed to be ( or the other three)
False teaching so severe that if someone knowingly and willingly follows it, he cannot be considered a genuine follower of Christ.
What is heresy
God is the source of wisdom, my fear and love of Him must motivate me to know and love Him more by studying the Scriptures
How my relationship with God affects my understanding of the Bible
Why people are (often) not motivated to study doctrine
A reverence for God, grounded in a love that respects Him.
What is Fear of the Lord
This ancient text contains 66 books, 37 in its first section and 27 in its second section
What is the Bible
Those who cause division in the body of Christ, usually by trying to recruit followers for belief systems that contradict the most basic and important teachings of Scripture
What is a heretic
two problems that occur when people fail to harmonize scripture properly
What are people may fall prey to heresies or hobbyhorses
This restores peoples' motivation to study doctrine.
What is the gospel/the illumination of the Holy Spirit
Reading the Bible to learn what it actually says, instead of reading your own thoughts into the Bible
What is exegesis
Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Davidic...
What are Biblical covenants
a topic a person has an unhealthy preoccupation with resulting in an overemphasis that ignores other factors
what is a hobbyhorse
False data (a particular passage has been misinterpreted)
selective data (only a few relevant passages have been considered to the neglect of other passages)
incorrectly ordered data (data is put together incorrectly, either the conclusion doesn't follow from the data or the conclusion directly contradicts a clear teaching of Scripture.
What are the potential pitfalls of doctrinal studies
Provide one example of a doctrinal belief that ought to direct worldview living
What is the Creation Mandate: I should work hard and take care of the planet
Stewardship: manage everything well as if it's God's because it is
The study of ancient manuscripts and how we get our Bible
What is textual criticism
selecting all relevant data and fitting it together; rightly ordering all Bible knowledge on a given topic and coming to a conclusion about what the Bible teaches.
What is harmonization (doctrinal)
The Hebrew word for "hear" or"listen"