1Three assumptions of THE 214
-There is a God
-God as Creator
-God has a purpose for humanity
2What purpose were we created for?
Participation in the Divine Life
3Relationship
Created IN and FOR it
4Sharing in God's creation
Procreation
6Genesis 2
Naming - establishing a thing's essence
7God's intention in creating us (4 things)
Relationship with...
-Him
-Each other
-Ourselves
-Nature (the created world)
8Intimacy
Created in love and to love others
9God asks for...
TRUST and OBEDIENCE - free will is the demand of love
10Made in image and likeness of God
Intellect -> Mind -> Seeks TRUTH
Will -> Heart/Desire -> Seeks GOODNESS
11Only creature God willed into being for his own sake
Human beings
12Preternatural gifts
Original holiness (union with God) and original justice (goodness naturally desired)
13Tree Adam and Eve couldn't eat from
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
14Consequences of Original Sin
Mind/intellect to know truth - clouded, gullible
Will/desire for goodness - greed, lust, self
15God the Father always sees humanity thru what lens?
Jesus the Son
16In our nature to act in ____ and ____
Truth and goodness
17Stages of holiness
1. Purgative
2. Illuminative
3. Unitive stage
18Escalation of sin
From disobedience to fratercide
19Salvation history chart
Adam (single fam) -> Noah (extended fam) -> Abraham (tribe) -> Moses (nation/tabernacle) -> David (kingdom/temple) -> All humanity -> Christ establishes CHURCH
20Genesis 3:15
Promise of redeemer as community (all children)
21Two key themes from Abraham
BELIEF AND OBEDIENCE
22Sinai Covenant
Formation of people of God into nation -> prefigures formation of Church
23Solomon's temple includes both ____ and _____ in the outer courts
Jews and Gentiles
24Which parent did the Jewish lineage come from?
The mother
25Church
“To call forth a people”, “to call Kyrios (Lord)”
26Assembly
“Gahal” (Hebrew) -> “ecclesia” (Latin) -> “ekkalein” (Greek)
27Church
Kyriake – Greek -> “place for gathering” - belongs to the Lord: Lord’s house
Kirch (German) - Church
28Continuity of God
Progression all through, gradual growing + closeness thru salvation history
29Church's missio
1. Bring salvation to world
2. Benefit his followers
30Mission of Christ
Reveal who God is
31Yahweh
Awesome, almighty Name above all names
32Christ's Works of Power – reveal God’s Love and Mercy
-Forgive sin
-Raises dead to (only God) - restoring life
-Feeds multitudes (Moses)
-Physical healings (power over demons)
-Water into wine
-Nature miracles
33Ultimate act of redemption and reconciliation, blood ratification of Covenant
Death on Cross